SuperBird

By Crom! For $20 I'll take it:

It's an interesting story.....unfortunately, I made a promise to the seller, but I couldn't resist posting it.........what's your take on #45, it seems a tough one as well It is. Generally, #43-52 are all pretty tough...

"recent"? wow. awesome books!

Great book Mark...on my wantlist too! GE and now I just added it, and the whole series, to mine!

I'm almost 100% certain it is.

I know this is technically a double post, but it definitely goes in this thread as well:

Nice copy of a tough book!

The last floppy comic I will ever purchase: JUN080209 ALL STAR SUPERMAN #12 $2.99

WHAT IS BEST IN LIFE? CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES... SEE THEM DRIVEN BEFORE YOU... AND WIN MULTIPLE CONAN PAGES FOR $20 EACH. http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryRoom.asp?GSub=52898 Just panel pages (apart from that mind-bendingly awesome splash page!) but these are the comics I grew up reading, with my favorite villain featured in all.

sweet!

Tracey, that is awesome!

The art did drop off in the 160-175 range, I agree. Once the Semieks and Isherwood team started, the art was phenomenal. 175-200 featured the Devourer of Souls storyline, which was, IIRC, the longest single Conan story. Whole thing had a kind of Dungeons and Dragons feel to it, which I loved at the time. Roy Thomas did not exclusively adapt REH stories, but the original ones he did were in keeping with the original pulps.

I thought Conan 175-205 was some of the best stuff, actually.

very cool!

Yes It is easy to get wrapped around the axle on the slabbing issue and think that other collectors would certainly want copies of whatever issue slabbed. Simply because "we", or "most", "many", "some" of us would. The truth is that their are collectors out there, who have zero desire to let anyone handle their books. And the thought of wrapping, shipping and letting strangers handle and critique their books is not on their radar screen. Some of these folks are known, others may have finished their buying in the 70's, 80's, etc.. and moved on to other collectibles. But those books are there. Stored safely away. Is their a glut of 27's hidden away. I doubt it, but 38's, in my opinion, were not considered that scarce 30 years ago. I would say that only a small percentage of comics, and Golden Age comics, are slabbed. Most dealers and collectors are not interested in slabbing- you don't need to be 70 years old! I personally crack almost all slabbed book I buy, with some rare exceptions.

Detective 38 is very common. I personally have over 3000 of them. :b

stunning wings book

great books, guys. That Planet 61 IS a beauty!

wow. great start!

he only posted a scan of the first page, so it seemed as though the book was coverless

some recent pick ups:

5.5, white pages (sorry for the crappy scan, by scanner doesn't do slabs)

maybe my all-time best eBay snag. beat but complete, for $30:

wow, crazy nice book!

thanks, guys! It's weird, it's one of those things where the book was really way ahead of it's time. It came out pre-Dark Knight, and was heavily hyped. And then nobody could make sense of it, and it died on the vine. It was just too different. Personally, I think it's every bit as good as Dark Knight and 300, as far as Frank Miller books go. It's a mix of Lone Wolf and Cub, cyberpunk, and Moebius. It would make a great movie, I think, though it's currently in development hell..