The Less Blob

I've liked this cover, but is it getting into potential "classic cover" territory? I guess it is all subjective

Thor 339s for everyone!

I am looking for a show where clueless dealers like in the "adventures in the dollar box thread" put out piles of $20-$100 books for $1-$2 each and I somehow snag them before anyone else does. Is this that kind of show? Have you been hitting capacity? What happens if you are person 76? Do you wait outside for an hour?

sex catwoman too, but only from one artist

Yeah, I might have messed up including mags, because between the warren books, the skywald's, the curtis mags, savage sword and, heck, some Mad Magazines and even Cracked, there are dozens if not hundreds of killer covers

yeah, we'll probably get a lot of mags here, I was lamenting on the magazine page how mag classic covers are ignored

They have to have someone absolutely stunning playing the part though. like Monica Bellucci 20 years ago hot.

it is a great show. i watch it with my 9 year old. he loves it. my wife hears stuff from the other room and she is like "what???????" I do think they're going to get in trouble (if they haven't already) for some of the ethnic jokes though. Her band of sidekicks are frigging perfect. I love Bane (not a sidekick, but regularly featured). It's kind of South Park in that it is just an endless stream of seemingly random insane stuff.

Not THAT ignored: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dc-Super-stars-Of-Magic-11-Zatanna-App-/353273624132?hash=item5240bfb644%3Ag%3AxTMAAOSwKIhfrKNK&nma=true&si=BZbpsjZvXBDBh7scMVfgI%2BAabNw%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 She is big in the justice league dark cartoons that I have now been watching on HBO Max (wonder woman 84 did accomplish something, we figured out how to upload that app!)

That's a good one. A minor key, semi, as her first solo book, but one that was ignored for a long time as I got several out of dollar boxes

And this Rampaging Hulk 9 should be there too, I don't know why I love it so much, it's weird (Rampaging Hulk and Deadly Hands had a lot of great painted covers as did many Marvel mags, hard to nominate them all):

OK, copper probably deserves this too, but I'll start with Bronze. Not in the title, but Wonder Woman 199 is probably in that boat, though it is not hugely expensive. Superman 223 is there. Action 419 (but that has a 1st appearance in it). Wow, Mr. Adams seems to be cornering the classic cover market. I am looking for some not so obvious ones, but I'll start out with a sort of obvious one.... Well, I'll take an easy out as horror is loaded with these. Hardly an under the radaar book, but you can find it priced reasonably, DC Super Spectcular 4, with a classic Wrightson cover:

what is wrong with her arms??

All the Noble Causes 3 seem expensive right now, but looking at completed sales on ebay they are not really THAT much more than what I sold araw 9.0-9.2 copy for like 9 or 10 years ago, which was like $25-$30 when invincible 1 was wayyyyyy cheaper than now. What did #1 cost back then?

seriously, do we need a deranged joker, a sexy wonder woman or an MJ/black cat cheesecake shot for something to be deemed sufficiently classic???

I wouldn't bother. The market grossly undervalues this book. Look how many nice copies sold for under $20. It is criminal: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=rampaging+hulk+9&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&rt=nc&LH_Sold=1&LH_Complete=1 I'd wait. Why doesn't the "I'll pay $200 for a classic cover for a non-key book" pay attention to these magazines??? Mind you, how are ant man and wasp holding that up? Does the story explain? And is Thor really balancing it on his shoulder?

ahhh, ok, I thought you were freaking out about 1 box of magazines, you have 18 boxes to hide from your wife. I get it, that is more substantial. moving to a real house in brooklyn (back when a regular person could afford one) from a 1 manhattan 1 bedroom did wonders for my hoarding.

Are newstands vs. direct on the darkhorse issues from the mid 90s a big deal?

I pretty much bought every issue in nice shape from the marvel run in any dollar box for at least a decade. I don't know if I have 600 though. Maybe 300. Unfortunately, as I did not know which Dark Horse ones mattered, I bought less of those.

I posted it on page 19 of the adventures in the dollar box thread along with the Black Adam.. was pontificating then and now about slabbing it... you reacted then and now.....

I was not allowed an entire closet either. My recollection is that I had the floor 3-4 deep with longies, and two or three high. Then I had my clothing hanging. And on the shelves above I somehow crammed I don't know how many boxes. 5-6,000 comics might be high. But I had some short boxes under a table in the foyer too that always had a table cloth over it so you couldn't see the boxes. My wife allowed me to keep a hoard, but it had to be out of sight. Anyway, buy what you enjoy. I could just never resist these late 60s - 70s/early 80s magazines at the right price.

"Curiously three years later, in 1994, the issue was reprinted once again, this time with small print run to the North American direct market" ... not that curious. 377 was the beginning of a nice Peter David / Dale Keown / Frank, etc. run for several years where Hulk was smart. I guess he started getting angry and dumb again around 425?

there's plenty of stuff I fished out of those boxes that is worth what I paid for them. maybe less. i am coming to that conclusion as I try to organize my collection. My purchases at shows are usually better thought out winners than my compulsive purchases at my local shop trying to fish out the best 15 books in the bargain bin for my $10.

I find it amazing it wound up in my shop's 15 for $10 box, along with the Black Adam 1 variant. I have little doubt he had them out for whatever the original price was, $10 or whatever, and when they did not sell after a few months he just said "F-it" and tossed them in the blow out box.

I apparently have a nice collection of Rampaging Hulks I forgot I owned. I know I would pick them up, but I seem to have forgot how many I did.