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1 hour ago, Badlands said:

Whiz Comics #99, 1948. I don't collect old Fawcett's, but local Marketplace pickup for $35, why not. Cover has wear but the pages are beautiful off white. 

Nice find! That's a great price. I would've paid that all day.

31 minutes ago, OtherEric said:

Maybe not the earliest graphic novel, but the earliest collected editions I'm aware of:

I have the old testament version and didn't even think of posting it here. I think these are so cool. These were some thick comics for back then. This also reminds me of another collection that I should post. 

Just now, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

I showed some of these earlier that were some of my under copies, but got these back from CGC today.

Dang, nice grades on those!

I didn't know they grade trades. How thick are those cases?

On 3/1/2021 at 4:59 PM, BrooksR said:

I don’t know if this counts, but I got this from the sears catalog in the 80’s 

Yes! That definitely counts! That is so awesome! I've never seen that book before. 

2 hours ago, chromium said:

Well I loved the first mini series (House of Glass), but to be honest, each following mini series was more of the same. Curse of Crows was fine as well, but Fox Children dropped of in quality, and then Flesh and Fame became a chore to get through. So much so that I didn't even start on the next one...Maybe it was my fault by reading them all back to back, but on the other hand a few years ago I read Avengers 1-500 in order over the course of a few months and that didn't drag at all

 

That's kind of the impression I was getting for some reason, that they would drag. I'll check out the first couple series though. Thanks for the info. 

Well, I've finally finished Hickmans run on avengers and everything that was tied into it. Finished it with Secret Wars (Secret Wars was actually the series that got me back into reading comics regularly on a weekly basis so it was cool to go back and read everything that led up to it so I knew what was going on). After finishing that I've only kept up with the Guardians books (none of the spinoffs though, just main title) that leads up to Infinity Wars. I just started reading through Infinity Countdown and it's tie-ins this past week. I've (almost) been keeping up with my reading one vintage comic from my collection a day, some of the highlights are the Planet and Wings Comics (obviously, you can't really beat fiction house when it comes to vintage/ golden) and I've also been reading The Defenders. Started with around issue 50 or so and have been reading since there. The Defenders is just plain old good marvel fun. I recommend it if you're looking for something not too serious and not too in depth to read.

2/8/21 - 2/28/21

-Defenders(1972) #47, 55-65, 68-69 (16)
-Wolverine: Black, White, Blood #3
-Fantastic Four #29
-Daredevil #27
-King in Black: #4,Thunderbolts #2, Black Panther #1, Planet of the Symbiotes #2, Symbiote Spiderman #4, Return of the Valkyries #3 (6)
-Black Cat #3
-Morbius: Bond of Blood #1
-Strange Academy #1
-S.W.O.R.D. #2-3 (2)
-Amazing Spider-Man #59
-Magneto # 18-19 (2)
-Secret Wars #1-9 (9)
-Guardians of Knowhere #1-4 (4)
-Guardians of the Galaxy (2015) 1-19 (19)
-All New Guardians of the Galaxy (2017) #1-12, 146-150 (17)
-Savage Avengers #18
-Miles Morales: Spider-Man #23
-Siege: Spider-Man 
-Thor #12
- Infinity Countdown: 1-3, Adam Warlock, Prime, (5)
-Dr. Strange (2018) #3
-Wolverine #10
-Marvel Voices: Legacy #1
-Marvel Team-Up (1980) #93

-Future State: Dark Detective #3, #4 (2)
-Batman/Catwoman #3
-Batman: White Knight presents Harley Quinn #5
-Batman: Black and White #3
-Mystery in Space (1960) #61
-Strange Adventures (1951) #10

-Young Hellboy: The Hidden Land #1
-Spawn #315
-Redemption #1
-Two Moon #1
-Fightin' Marines (1951) #2
-Judo Joe (1953) #3
-Planet Comics (1952) #66
-Wings Comics (1943) #29
-Airboy Comics (1947) vol.4 #7,(1948) vol.5 #3, (1949) vol.6 #5, #10(4)
-The Lone Ranger (1949) #14
-Sparkling Stars (1946) #15
-Jack Armstrong (1948) #3
-Justice Traps the Guilty (1951) #22

-Avengers World: The Complete Collection #21-22 (2)
-Avengers: Time Runs Out Vol. 2-4 (15)
-B.P.R.D. King of Fear (5)

TOTAL: 140
2021 TOTAL: 466

Looks like I'm well on my way to completing the 1000 books in a year challenge. Think i might up it to 2000.

I'll post some pics of my favorites later this afternoon/evening when I'm back home.

1 hour ago, chromium said:

Well February is done and dusted, so here's what I read the last 28 days

 

February 194 comics read

Black Adam Endless Winter special
Black Cat 1
Black of Heart 1
Black Panther Visions of Wakanda (16 comics)
Black Panther & The Agents of Wakanda 1-6
Black Widow 4
Blade Runner 2019 12
Blade Runner 2029 1
Bleed them Dry 5
Chu 5
Champions 3
Colonel Weird - Cosmagog 1-3
Conan the Barbarian 16-17
Daredevil 24-25
Dark Knights Death Metal last stories 1
Dead Body Road - Bad Blood 6
Dead Day 5
Department of Truth 2-4
DIE!namite 3
Disaster Inc. 5
Doctor Doom 9-10
Falcon and Winter Soldier 25
Fantastic Four Antithesis 4
Fantastic Four Road Trip 1
Fantastic Four 26-27
Fishkill 3-4
Fire Power 6
Green Arrow Year 1 Deluxe Ed. (7 comics)
Guardians of the Galaxy 9
Happy Hour 2
Hellboy and the BPRD - Her fatal hour & The Sending
Home Sick Pilots 1
I walk with Monsters 1
Ice Cream Man 21-22
Immortal Hulk 40-41
Injustice - Year Zero 11-13
Iron Maiden Legacy of the Beast 4-5
Iron Man 4
John Constantine Hellblazer 12
Juggernaut 3
Justice League Dark 28-29
Killing Red Sonja 05
King in Black Namor 5
Knock em dead 1
Locke & Key - ...In Pale Battalions Go 3
Locke & Key Sandman Hell & Gone (2 comics)
Lost Solders 4-5
M.O.D.O.K. - Head Games 1
Maestro 4-5
Miles to go 3
Miskatonic 2
Nailbiter Returns7-8
Oblivion song 29
Outcast 47
Post Americana 4
Piecemeal (2 comics)
Postal Night Shift
Purple Heart 1-2
Red Mother 11
Red Sonja 22
Red Sonja, Price of Blood 1
Redneck 29
Resident Alien - Your Ride's Here 1-2
ROM - Dire Wraiths 1-3
Rorschach 2-3
S.W.O.R.D. 1
Second Coming - Only Begotten Son 1
Shang-Chi 3-4
Sir Edward Grey Withfinder - Reign of Darkness 1-6
Star Trek Year Five 17
Star Wars - Bounty Hunters 7-8
Star Wars - Darth Vader 8
Star Wars 9
Stillwater 3-4
Suicide Squad 11
Sweet Tooth - The Return 2
Taskmaster 02
That Texas Blood 6
The Batman's Grave 12
The Boys - Dear Becky 7-8
The Cimmerian - Frost Giant's Daughter 1
The Devils Red Bride 2-3
The Goon 12
The Last God 10-11
The Stars of history Marilyn Monroe (4 comics)
The Union 1
The Vain 3
The Witcher House of Glass 1-5
The Witcher Curse of Crows 1-5
The Witcher Fox Children 1-5
The Witcher of Flesh and Fame 1-5
Touching Evil - The Curse escapes (10 comics)
US Agent 2
We Live 2
X-Factor Madrox Multiple choice 1-5
X-O Manowar 2-3
You Look Like Death - Tales from the Umbrella Academy 3-4

 

329 comics read in 2021

 

How are the Witcher series? I keep seeing them around and want to give them a try but haven't really heard anything about them.

A couple others. I just bought both of these recently. Love the covers on these, they both scream 90s, especially with the embossed silver foil on the Silver Surfer.

12 hours ago, AmazingComics413 said:

That Auto/sketch is amazing! Did you get that signed yourself?

23 hours ago, sfcityduck said:

It is the "Four Immigrants Manga" a graphic novel about the Japanese immigrant experience in America that has a strong argument to being the first true original graphic novel in what we know as the contemporary style.  The subject matter is the same as that plowed by Eisner in his graphic novels about the Jewish immigrant experience.  Published out of the San Francisco in 1931, the intended audience was Japanese-Americans as you had to be able to speak both English and Japanese to read it.  Very rare, but Fred Schodt got a lot of press in the late 90s for his translation (he only translated the Japanese language word baloons for his book, which are in perfect English, as contrasted to the broken English as heard by Japanese immigrants when the US born characters talk).  Here's some pics:

Here's what Fred's translation looks like (the printed English was originally in Japanese):

 

 

Thats very interesting. Im gonna have to try to track down a translated copy.

1 minute ago, sfcityduck said:

My oldest graphic novel (and I mean true graphic novel, not strip reprints or woodcuts or wordless novel) dates to 1931.  But, these books from when I was a kid are what you want to see:

Those are pretty cool! Ive seen the batman one before but have never come across that Superman one. 

I would also love to see that GN from 1931!

Today I think I'm gonna go with some Wolverine books. This first one was given to me from a friend several years ago. I really love the cover to this one.

Wolverine Battles The Incredible Hulk, 1st printing, 1989. Collects Incredible Hulk 180-181.

This second book was given to me by the same friend at the same time.

The Uncanny X-Men: Days of Future Past, 1st printing, 1989. Collects Uncanny X-Men 141-142

This next TPB is probably my favorite out of my collection. This is a Canadian reprint of the 1st app of Wolverine, also the first time Wolverine was printed in a Canadian comic book, so iguess you could say this is his first Canadian app. I found this at a swapmeet a few years ago for $2.

The Incredible Hulk, Les Editions, 1978. Collects a couple pages out of Hulk #1 (Hulk's origin), 147, 180-181.

15 hours ago, Ken Aldred said:

They’re superb.

Great reads, incredible artwork.

Classic western series.

Awesome, Ill add it to the list of stuff to read then. Looks like something that'll be right up my alley. Thanks!

8 hours ago, Garystar said:

I have the other three in this series by ideals publishing corps;

I also have Spider-man and Hulk in hardback by another publisher, Children’s Press;

Does anyone know if Fantastic Four and/or Captain America exist in hard back? I searched for many years on eBay but eventually gave up actively looking. 

Those Ideals are very cool. I've never seen those hardcovers by childrens press before. Thanks for sharing!

4 hours ago, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

I have to use some of my under copies and signed platinum as the others are currently at CGC for grading. 

Oh man, that Blind Justice trade is awesome. And it looks like its still sealed? I have a regular edition of the Death of Superman trade that's signed by Jerry Ordway. Those platinums are so cool.

3 hours ago, Garystar said:

This one collects newspaper strips;

I love this book. I had it in my collection at one point. It was another one of those that got lost over time. Dont know where it ended up.

I'm loving seeing all these Firesides and other good stuff posted so far, today I'm gonna post some of my Batman books.

This first one was given to me by a friend of mine in like 3rd or 4th grade.

Batman: Tales of the Demon: Warner Edition - 1st printing. Collects Batman (1940-2011) #232, 235, 240, 242-244; Detective Comics (1937-2011) #411, 485, 489-490; and DC Special Series (1977-1981) #15.

This next one I wouldn't consider older, but I think it belongs on this list. I found this copy at a swapmeet not too long ago for $5, right before it exploded in value.

Batman: Ego, 1st Printing Prestige Format, 2000

This is one of the books that i saw on the shelf when it came out and went home and figured out how to make enough money to buy it. Mowed quite a few lawns for this one.

Batman: The Long Halloween 1st Printing, Hardcover. 1998. Collects Batman: The Long Halloween 1-12

This is another that's not really that old, but I grew up on Kelley Jones' Batman and I was a huge fan of his vampire trilogy. This is the only 1st edition of the 3 that I still own. Red Rain and Bloodstorm got lost somewhere over time.

Batman: Crimson Mist, 1st Printing, Hardcover, 1999

That's all I have for Batman that's scanned right now.

Here's another book I had to mow some lawns for. I bought this and then we left for a camping trip for the weekend right after. Most of that trip was spent in the tent reading this over and over.

Venom Returns, 1st Printing, 1993. Collects ASM 330-333, 344-347, and Annual #25. 

And last but not least, Carnage. This trade was my first introduction to carnage. I was already a huge Venom fan so when i saw this i was all over it. I couldn't wrap my mind around how they allowed such a violent character into Spider-Man comics (the torn up guy on his shattered desk, shoving that lady into a marble wall, throwing a frickin' baby out a window!) and i ate it up. Is that bad? Lol

Spider-Man: Carnage, 1st Printing, 1993. Collects the introduction (6 pages of story) to Cletus Kasady from Amazing Spider-Man (1963-1998 1st Series) #344-345 and 359-360 and collects Amazing Spider-Man (1963-1998 1st Series) #361-363 (in their entirety).

11 hours ago, Pontoon said:

Oh Man, all of your Firesides are so nice. Actually saw a couple that I've never seen before that I'm going to need to be on the watch for. Thanks for sharing, I loved looking through that impressive collection!

7 hours ago, mr_highgrade said:

Bought these Hard Covers here on the boards back in the day.

 

Those hardcovers!! I haven't run across too many FS hardcovers. That Mighty Marvel Team-Up Thrillers I've never seen before either. That's been added to the list! Thank you for sharing!

2 hours ago, Ken Aldred said:

Love those Moebius books. Ive never read that series, is it any good? Thank you for sharing!

2 hours ago, mrc said:

Such a cool cover. I might be a lil envious of your signed Hulk FS too. Thank you for sharing!

I bought this one at a Borders when it came out with my allowance. You can see its been well read.

Spider-Man Vs Doctor Doom, 1995

Went digging through a $2 box today and pulled some gems out of there.

World of Wakanda #1

30 Days of Night Annual 2005 Retailer Incentive

Birds of Prey #69 (Just thought it was a cool Huntress cover)

Sweet Avengers #4 cover swipe

MTG: Dakkon Blackblade unopened with card. I was surprised to see that this comic/card goes for some decent money. Around $30-$40 for the card alone and $50-$75 for the comic/card unopened.

Came across this gem the other day

From Airboy Comics vol.6 #5

2 hours ago, comicginger1789 said:

Of course store stamps count! Love to see old store stamps or heck even ones that are still around but were stamped eons ago!

Same here, I especially love finding old store business cards that have been stashed away in a comic as well.

Came across a store stamp on a book I picked up today. (Do back covers count as well?) I know I have more to share, I just gotta dig through some boxes and find them. 

Looks like Comics & Comix, Irving St. I can't make out anything below since it's stamped over black. I tried looking it up but didn't get any results. I did however find a store in San Francisco called Amazing Fantasy and that address is 650 Irving St, so maybe it's the same location/store, just changed names.