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8 minutes ago, comiconxion said:

Question for the group - how valuable/desirable at the TMNT Ultimate Collection Slipcased collections that IDW published a few years back?  I think only 25 were made of the 1st collection (volumes 1-3) and a similar amount of the 2nd collection (volumes 4-6)?  Do Turtles collectors care?  

Follow-up... should that collected edition from Mirage in, like, 2009 (?) still commanding silly prices?

Agree... congrats, but where are the pics?

I've been sitting on a #1 for a long time... I can't believe he hasn't hit the big screen yet and made these explode. Great set regardless!

Wow... I hadn't noticed... #3 was always the must-have for me... ever since I read Nocenti's DD run and the Hearts of Darkness OGN.

Glad I finally picked one up a couple of years ago... not beautiful, but I'm just glad to have it

He doesn't even show up until halfway through his own book... and then he doesn't even have any skin on!

Just updating... moved 4 to a good home!

If anyone else is looking for singles, hmu

I don't love this, but I just placed my pre-orders for this month and was very intrigued by her new Demon Days series... really looking forward to it!

Prices on these just keep going up... there's no way I'm going to ever be able to complete this set with the way things are going, so I'm going to go back to working on Daredevil. (If you've got a #7 9.0 or #111 9.8, holler at me!) I'd like to sell these as a lot, but if there is no interest in a week or so I'll look at breaking them up and going individual.

Books will be shipped from Charlotte, NC within 1 business day

No listings in GPA for the four SS's, so I just used the Universal values for those. Total "last sales" value according to GPA as of today (Jan 21):
Asking  for the lot including shipping and insurance to the lower 48 via FedEx ground in a CGC shipping box. (Happy to work with you if you're outside of that)

Jan 28: I've had a a couple of requests for a few specific issues... I will update the price for the remaining lot as soon as requests are sorted, but please feel free to hit me up.  My initial asking was, basically, 10% below last GPA... 

Zelle, Venmo, Cash, Check, Cash app, or Paypal all work for me.

No returns as these are all CGC graded and will be sent insured.

Lot includes:

Michealangelo #1

Donatello #1

3 (CGC 8.5 - WHITE)

5 - SOLD

6 - SS Eastman - SOLD

7

8

10

12 - SOLD

17 - SOLD

23 - ON HOLD

25 - ON HOLD

26 - SS Veitch - ON HOLD

27 - ON HOLD

30

32

33

34

35

37 - ON HOLD

41

44

45 - SOLD

47 - SS Dooney - SOLD

59 - SS Eastman - SOLD

Woah... just saw in GPA a $12k sale for an 8.5... anyone know where that was? Is that an outlier, or is DD really finally getting as hot as he deserves to be?

2 minutes ago, followtheleader said:

Onslaught junk.  But they tried to come back to it being Bishop when they did that terrible Hope/Cable story not too long ago.

Patrick

So was that it? I remember waiting for the payoff to that storyline for a long time too... I stopped reading for a few years and came back around #350, which is where I think they were still blaming Gambit? Man... that was so long ago... (Going upstairs to see if I still have 350... couldn't Rogue touch people back then?)

Just visited this page for the first time in a while. Still amazed by the talent here... amazed and jealous! Keep it coming!!

Not the best example, but still dope... Motter's Mister X is always so visually stimulating... (also maybe this is a semi-key)

1 minute ago, Brock said:

This was a great series, though IIRC the DC issues were reprints of an earlier indie title.

Hmmm... I know there was a sequel from Slave Labor, but I thought these were original? (The SL books were still good, but I really liked the DC books much better!) ((Or DC reprints?))

Russell did some sweet work on those Elric books from Pacific too... (I only have the first series scanned, but plenty of great work!)

I loved those Sam Kieth covers too...

Loved this little series, and I think this is the best cover. 

2 hours ago, dem1138 said:

Its funny to think back on how regional finding books was.  I was in suburban Philly and I bought the first Albedo #2 I ever saw at a show and Im not sure I recall seeing one again for quite some time.  There were a fair amount of cons in Philly back then, especially considering what a fringe hobby comic book collecting was in the mid-80s.  But I always imagined NYC was the mecca where if you lived in that city, no matter what book you were looking for, you were going to find a copy without much of a struggle.  

Was Stan based on the West Coast back then too? Where was T&I based?

3 hours ago, Spider-Variant said:

Thanks guys.  I really had fun with this issue.  

The story isnt bad, but I think had I read it directly off the stands and not through back issue, it would be more fondly remembered by me.

That's what I'm afraid of... and also how I feel about Catcher in the Rye.

But at least Catcher in the Rye fits in my standard bookcase!

1 hour ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

I went to correct loled  to liked ...... as I meant to type liked your post......

 

 

 

 

 

 

And this is what I ended up with

 

 

That's what I saw too for a split second when I loaded the page... weird

I think they tried to make it seem like Gambit... but then didn't it end up being Professor X turning into Onslaught?

2 hours ago, Spider-Variant said:

If the Trivia Question were "Where did Spider-Man first Kick Superman's A**?", then the answer would be outside the NY Coliseum (or maybe if you were a diehard DC fan you would say, it's a trick question, it never happened) on Columbus Circle in Manhattan.

At first, I didn't think I would really be into digging into Ross's references for the Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man Treasury.  Yeah, the Empire State Building, but that's kind of easy.  But the more I dug into it, the more I enjoyed it.  Yesterday, I put up the USS Maine Monument from this issue.  Today, let's look at what Ross portrayed when Spidey first met Superman.

The gang and Clark Kent's crew were attending the World News Convention in the New York Coliseum, when they first interacted.  How do we know that?  Well, page 30 tell us (I did all my research finding these places, then actually read the story and said, oh, it's right there in black and white).  Bedlam erupts as Superman disappears Lois and MJ.  Not standing for it, Peter changes to Spidey and rushes to the roof, where he encounters the Man of Steel for the first time.

Ross depicts a good outside shot of the Coliseum later in the issue, which is my first reference.  My photograph shows this view from the USS Maine Monument.  I assumed Spidey knocked him further in those pics yesterday, but hell, he is Superman.

I didn't find many references to the interior of the NY Coliseum, but the escalators Ross drew were spot on.  

My next reference is of Columbus Circle itself, and you can see Ross really wanted to get it correct.  This montage shows the relationship of the action as it would translate to real life.

The building with a GW on it is the Gulf Western Building.  It was originally the headquarters for the Gulf Western company.  It's been changed today.

The cool building Spider-Man gets knocked through is now the Museum of Arts and Design, and was a real museum back in the day.  The building itself was simply called 2 Columbus Circle and has been modernized as well.

Lastly, Ross throws in an apartment building, 240 Central Park South, it add to the location.  It's little stuff like this that makes Ross the best.

I still have to do the Spider-Man stuff from the front of the book, but the Spider-Man vs Superman battle was a lot of fun to track down.

If I could push the "like" button on these posts more than once, I would!

I still really need to read this book!

4 hours ago, GM8 said:

Big jump. A little context for previous 9.2's:

The last one sold was a purple label on 9/20/20 for $15.5K on ebay. Previous copies sold for $11.5K and $9K of blue labels back on 11/20/19 and 8/20/19 respectively.

Not sure how I missed that PLOD as that's still what I'm sitting on. That's the first PLOD comp in a long long time. Thanks!

4 hours ago, boomtown said:

For the original uncropped version from Marvel UK

What DD story is this? Is it a reprint?

8 hours ago, the blob said:

I like this one with the Neal Adams nod (ok, artisitically it isn't that great, it is clever, WWT has some nifty covers)
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Yeah, I thought this thread would be a whole bunch of these...

With a smattering of HoM

I just finished season 9 of Dallas...spoiler alert, it's a freaking dream?? I didn't know that going in... what an annoying waste!

I also didn't know that about the final episode of Newhart when I saw it, but that one was actually pretty awesome. Never saw St. Elsewhere, but... snow globe or whatever. I guess there's also that season of Roseanne...

So are there any long running comic stories that pulled this trope at the end? I can't even think of any specific minor arcs that did it ATM, but I feel like I've definitely come across them... (One More Day is all that comes to mind even though it's not exactly the same... and that was awful.)

1 hour ago, comiconxion said:

Remembering back to 1986/87, we had dealers in the DC area charging $200 for Albedo #2 back then.  At the time, there wasn't a lot of recognition of the different printings of #0 and #1 (except for the "Yellow" #0 which was selling for $800 if you could find one).  At the time, I think #0's were selling between $35-50 for 3rd and 2nd printings.  1st printings you didn't see very often, but imagine they were going for $125-150.  #1's were going for $60-100 from what I remember.  So, even back then, people were valuing the #2 a bit more, but occasionally you'd find them in boxes for cheaper as the price guides weren't keeping up with the market.  

#3's were plentiful as the print run on those jumped to 10,000 with that issue (from 2,000 on issues #2).  American Comics (the mail order company) had bought out the inventory of those.  At one point, I remember they were blowing them out for $.20/copy because they had so many.  Crazy to see the prices on them today.

Ah... American Comics!

The closest store I had growing up was over an hour away, so I did a lot of orders through them. I loved getting those orders and still have a couple boxes kicking around here almost 30 years later.

I certainly didn't know anything about b&w indies back then. It was all McFarlane, Lee, Larson, Marvel, and Image until I finally got my license...

I really appreciate the DH over sized hardcover collections too. Would like to be able to have the whole story in that format, but it's not quite complete, right? I haven't looked in a while... 

War Child is the first I ever read due to that badass Biz cover on #1. For a long time that's all I knew of Grendel... but Hunter is the shiz, and I'd love to see his story adapted. Seems like it'd be a fairly cost-friendly story to make too...

But either way... don't need it on TV for it to still be great! I should really upgrade my 1-3 before that happens though...