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    The Creeps: In the Warren tradition w/many original Warren artists and writers

    in Comic Magazines

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    9 hours ago, Stevemmg said:

    Probably as disappointed as I was as mentioned in the post four above you. :baiting:

    Yeah, I read your post and thought 9.0-9.2 would be ok. Sadly, these were quite a bit below that.

    They did get back to me and are replacing the beat up copies.  Said all orders are inspected while being boxed up, so it must have happened during shipping. It didn't look like it to me, but we'll see how the next batch looks upon arrival.

    Good place to start collecting Iron Man

    in Bronze Age Comic Books

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    55 minutes ago, d_russ84 said:

    That would make it starting at Copper and working back towards Bronze and uo to modern. Maybe start with the O'Neil run.

    Iron Man was a pretty rough read through the Silver and Bronze age. Really, the David Michelinie / Romita Jr /Bob Layton run that started around #116 was the Golden Age for Iron Man. If you do want to dip into the Bronze Age, I have a real fondness for the picture frame run from around #42-50, as that was when I started collecting Iron Man.

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    Comic 'lost and found' stories...

    in Comics General

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    5 hours ago, OtherEric said:

    The other example is less directly relevant but, I think, more heartwarming.  About 15 years ago I had to sell some books to pay the rent; and for better or worse I wound up giving up almost all of my EC's, keeping only three.  The one I should have also kept was the first EC I ever owned, though, even though it was in distinctly low grade.  About a decade later, I was going through boxes at Emerald City Comic Con, and I stumbled across the book again... it was beat up enough that I recognized it as mine.  It was a different dealer than the one from the store I sold it to, even if it was still in the same general geographic area.  Super happy to have it back:

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    In a similar story, back in the early 1970's, as a young child, my mom would take me up to the local Mall to buy comics from a small local seller. One week he had a Silver Surfer #1 that I really wanted, but my mom said it was too much, we would come back in a couple of weeks and get it for my Birthday. A couple of weeks later we show up and the guy is gone, packed up, never to be seen again, along with my Silver Surfer #1 :pullhair:.

    Flash forward to 1999, around 27 years later, I see a want ad from a guy selling a large lot of comics. I call and set up an appointment to go take a look 3 days later. The next morning I get a call from the seller telling me he has a really pushy buyer that is set to come see it that afternoon, if I wanted anything I would need to get there by then. Anyway, me and the guy show up about the same time and get along pretty good. We decide to split the collection (so as not to get in a bidding war) and as he's looking through some stuff I start talking with the owner, who had little knowledge of comics or of what he actually had. It turns out, he was the son of the guy that used to sell me books when I was 10 years old. The books had been packed up for decades sitting in his dads garage. When his dad passed they were moved to the sons storage unit and he was finally getting around to selling them.

    It was quite the accumulation of books from the late 1960s/early 1970s, along with quite a bit of the early Marvelmania toys and some original art. And yeah, there were 2 Silver Surfer #1 sitting in the stack of books also. Not sure which one I had claimed so I ended up with both when we divided the books up.

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    Copper's Heating/Selling Well on Ebay

    in Copper Age Comic Books

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    On 12/29/2020 at 3:09 AM, Hey Kids, Comics! said:

    Same for Star-Lord. Mag is much more than Marvel Spotlight 6. 

    And Man-Thing. And White Tiger.

    But not Legion of Monsters. Or any Star Wars book. 

    I always felt that the difference was that "Legion of Monsters" was the cover title on the magazines used for a bunch of individual horror stories, featuring whatever stories of solo characters they used. While in the comic appearance it represented the team of monsters in their first appearance together.

    Marvel Magazines, which ones are collectible and/or hard to find?

    in Comic Magazines

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    26 minutes ago, Jayman said:

    Just the cover stories for each issue were reprinted (in b/w) in these mags from Supernatural Thrillers. The rest are reprints from other BA Marvel horror comics and original stories. Can’t say why the cover art was redone but I’m not complaining. The IT cover is by Gray Morrow and the Invisible Man by Dan Adkins.

    Yeah, they are nice, it's just odd, I always wondered if Steranko had a "one time use" clause in his contract. For years I actually thought that Invisible Man painting was by Steranko, until I noticed the Adkins sig. I didn't recognize the Morrow cover, but now that you mentioned it, I can see the Morrow style in it.

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    Marvel Magazines, which ones are collectible and/or hard to find?

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    1 hour ago, Jayman said:

    These used to be very common back in the day. To the point I always passed on them. I picked them up eventually during a slow buying spree years ago. Are they still pretty common or getting harder to find?

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    Are these just black and white reprintings of the Supernatural Thrillers comics that came out a few years earlier? Also, interesting that they would pay other artists to recreate the Steranko covers as paintings rather than just use the superior Steranko covers (or have him paint them) that were used on the Supernatural Thriller books.

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    My First Slabs

    in Copper Age Comic Books

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    I had a stack of that ASM 298 at one time. After 299 came out I started buying up all the copies of 298 I could find. My local comic retailer mentioned the book to get was ASM 300, I laughed and told him McFarlanes 1st issue was the one to have. I probably had 50 of them at one point, and 1 ASM 300 :facepalm:.

    Savage She Hulk #1 going to hang on to these levels?

    in Bronze Age Comic Books

    Posted · Edited by boomtown

    On 12/8/2020 at 10:59 AM, www.alexgross.com said:

    disagree in that deadpool, cable and carnage are super dark and cool looking, and appealed to a large chunk of boys who grew up reading comics. she-hulk on the other hand was simply taking an existing character who doesnt even have a cool costume and making a lady version. no one cared in the 80s. and now there are far more compelling female heroes in comics and film. she-hulk seems unlikely to grab the kids in the way that harley and spidergwen have. 

    People may be underestimating a She-Hulk show. Wasn't she the original "break the 4th wall" character (before Deadpool) in her Sensational She-Hulk series by Byrne. If the Disney series plays off that, it could find a market with the new collector crowd that like that (stuff) .

    Moderns that are heating up on ebay!

    in Modern Age Comic Books

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    5 hours ago, Corona smith said:

    I believe it’s also all previews of upcoming books which definitely takes away from it as well. 

    Yeah, I agree, it's just a cameo but people do collect them (esp. in todays market). While it is a preview, it is presented in new stories, not just previewing material that will appear in the books release. It also had, among others, the 1st appearance of the 616 Ultimates and Robert Maverick's (Red Hulk) 1st cameo.

    Mighty World of Marvel.

    in Bronze Age Comic Books

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    34 minutes ago, batmiesta said:

    I never realised these were done by BWS. 

    Yeah, him and Steve Parkhouse did quite a few for both Fantastic and Terrific. There are multiple lists out there but most are incomplete as Smith doesn't really post them on his list of professional credits. He was really hit or miss on a bunch of these, the Thor really kind of showed his developing style, while Yagg the Slayer and Blob look kind of rough. It looks like he was 17 or 18 when he cranked most of these out. The Chameleon one looks more like the work Parkhouse was doing back then but it was on one of the lists I found so I included it. 

    Mighty World of Marvel.

    in Bronze Age Comic Books

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    31 minutes ago, OtherEric said:

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    I'm in the US also.

    I would pick up the occasional UK imprint every now and then and became interested in completing a set of Mighty World of Marvel. Prices from the US retailers was going to cost me an arm and leg so I started watching the Ebay UK site. After winning a handful of auctions for cheap, I realized that the shipping was going to eat me up. So then I started ordering large bulk lots from the UK. I've completed my Mighty World of Marvel set and started focusing on the FANTASTIC and TERRIFIC runs from the 1960s. I had almost put together complete sets when I came across a guy selling the complete runs from a single collector. Now I almost have 2 complete sets! Always on the lookout on Ebay UK for the huge lots.

    The Fantastic/Terrific books used terrible quality staples and it's almost impossible to find these things without some type of rust accumulation. It really bothered me for awhile, but after talking with some collectors in the UK, they say that the vast majority are like that. It's taken me back to when I collected to collect, not overly worried about high grade books only. It's a lot of fun!