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In the same vein, I'm surprised that Invaders annual (his last comic) isn't a $50 bronze book all day in the common F/VF mid-highish grades, let alone better. But I think patience and box rummaging can still yield NM at $10 or maybe even less. It's far from his best, but it's his last, it's GA heroes in a war scene, and it's clearly signed.
There's a thread in General about the need or lack thereof for LCS's these days, and I think this belies the real point: the Internet lets you search for most anything, but a good, old school store owner is a comics history teacher. I learned so much over the years talking to shop owners, especially Bruce Conklin (retired, Octobercountry, New Paltz, NY) and the late Vic Bertini (Iron Vic's, Poughkeepsie, NY; no longer there).
OP, I think this gets at your original point. If newer collectors don't appreciate the genre's history, one's collecting passion often takes one back just as far as their personal nostalgia.
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Sorry; Pat and I were posting at the same time, I guess!
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Oh, I realize...it's all good...and appreciated! Thank you all for welcoming me.
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Guys, it just got here! Let it enjoy this good home for a while before it moves to another....but I promise to remember....
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Thank you, guys! The LCS's owner's wife was covering today, and she even decided to take a picture because she would miss it. Hadda grab it.
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I've been trying to grab both of these in the last few months to no avail as yet. Surely we'll see Wrecking Club in the Marvel Cinematic/TV universe soon. If you like Wrecking Crew, I'd recommend Iron Fist 12 too, Claremont & Byrne with Iron Fist and Cap team up!
Grap, and flip it quick cause absolute garbage doesnt sell high for long.
What DREK
People love arse-kicking fights and destruction and these guys are involved in a ton of them with Marvel's A-list. I've been flipping these for years and get a nice profit when properly labeled as first appearances and put on my wall.
I've loved those issues since I bought them off the racks! The Hulk's entrance into that story is hysterical!
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Could use some help for the following and if anyone needs any parts I only have a few books below.
These are books I need a cover for:
All Select 3
Blonde Phantom 21
Captain America comics 76
Exciting Comics 39
Journey into Mystery 83
MMC 46
MMC 45
MMC 42
MMC 40
MMC 39
MMC 35
MMC 30
MMC 20
Sub-Mariner 8
Sub-Mariner 13
Sub-Mariner 38
Plastic Man 1
Real Life Comics 3
Young Allies 3
These I need a coverless copy for:
Adv.comics 95
Adv. comics 97
MMC 79
Available for anyone who needs parts:
Young allies 8 coverless miss. Pages
Mystic 9 coverless miss CF
USA Comics 6 coverless miss last pg(I think)
I've got a coverless Adventure 95. PM me; we'll figure it out.
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Finally completed my run in 2016 with a trade for #1 (and a spare #4). Gave up a stack of 18 books from Gold to Bronze, probably highlighted by an ASM 129. But I am complete. It is my all-time favorite title, and I will read it straight through before ever parting with it.
My favorite story arcs in addition to the obvious classics are the Korvac saga, the Count Nefaria trilogy, and the long Masters of Evil storyline that culminated in #275, off the top of my head.
Avengers #4 is probably my favorite book, and the last one I will part with, along with Flash 123, if I can help it. To me, they symbolize everything I have loved about comics with the melding of the golden age history into the silver and thus the rise to prominence of continuity.
Feels good to complete a run, doesn't it? I'm not sure if I have a complete run of anything...except maybe Eagle Comics from 1945...it was two issues...
It does, but I found that for myself I had to keep it selective or my head would explode. I started working on every damn mid-size bronze run out there and damn near went insane from SVTU, Freedom Fighters, Prez, Champions, Stalker, Secret Society of Super Villains, etc.
Remaining sets now are just Avengers (mind you, I mean only 1-402), Iron Man (same thing, original run, 1-332), Defenders (1-152) and the entire Marvel Godzilla run from childhood, mostly because Herb Trimpe and Dan Green autographed the whole thing for me when I was a teenager.
Everything else got read once more and dealt off in trade. But I'm off-topic, sorry!
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GOLD CONNECTIONS
in Golden Age Comic Books
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I did that twice lately, too, frozentundraguy. I say it gives us do-overs down the road on our covers that didn't connect properly. (Actually, I like do-overs on everybody's stuff whenever it fits; I just the stuff we get to see due to this thread!)