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Picked up this haul yesterday at a local swap meet. Most of everything here was $2-3 each, a few that were $5 (Saga7, MP21, Defenders27). I think i made out pretty well. I think my favorites have got to be the Saga #7 (low print run), Hellboy signed by Maleev, the Inhumans issues and Marvel Premier 21 (1st app. Misty Knight).

Breaking in my new scanner with this Kirby silver age sci-fi goodness. Book is in pretty solid condition. Major defect is the crease on lower right front cover which goes through to the first 2 pages. Pages are all present and supple, no brittleness whatsoever and are tightly attached to the staples. Thanks for any help!

Found some golden age westerns at an antique shop today. I figured $6.95 each for some GA was a good enough deal for me to pick them up. The Hoot Gibson issue also features some Wally Wood art.

Here are the next few posts from the DC App where I was keeping track of the books read this year.

From Sept. 22:

Haven’t had much reading time in the past 2 weeks but here’s what I’ve got.
Batman: The Dark Knight (2011) Vol. 1 (9)
Batman: Night of the Owls TPB (14)
Amazing Spider-Man 48
Web of Venom: Wraith 1
Death Metal: Trinity Crisis 1
Joker/ Harley: Criminal Insanity 5
Batman 99
Fearless Dawn Meets Hellboy 1
Detective Comics 1027
Star Wars: Rise of Kylo Ren 3-4
X-Men 1-3
Excalibur 1-6
Marauders 1-2
Fallen Angels 1-4
X-Force 1-3
New Mutants 1-4

Total: 55
2020 Total: 773

From Oct. 13:

B.P.R.D. 1946-1948 Omnibus (16)
Witchfinder Omnibus vol.1 (16)
Baltimore Omnibus vol. 1 + 2 (35)
Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea (1)
Dark Knights :Deathmetal: Speed Metal, Multiverse’s End (2)
Rock & Roll Biographies: Sublime 1
Marvels X #5
Batman/Joker: War Zone 1
Spawn #9-10 (2)
The Goon #12
Venom #28
Batman: Three Jokers #2
Superman #25
Immortal Hulk: The Threshing Place #1
Alien: Original Screenplay #3
Thor #8
Marvels Snapshot: Spider-Man
Amazing Spider-Man #49/850
Legend of the Swamp Thing: Halloween Spectacular #1
Batman #100
Walking Dead Deluxe #1
Wolverine #6
Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology #1

Total: 88
2020 Total: 861

From Nov. 5 :

Detective Comics 1028-1029 (2)
Strange Adventures 6
Dark Knights: Death Metal 4
" ": Robin King 1
" ": Rise of the New God 1
Justice League 54-55 (2)
Rorschach 1
Batman 101
Batman: White Knight Harley Quinn 1
Batman: Three Jokers 3

Captain America 24
Amazing Spider-Man 50,51, 50.LR (3)
Marvels X 6
Venom 29
Web of Venom: Empyre’s End 1
Wolverine: Black, White & Blood 1
Daredevil (2019) 1-14 (14)
X-Men 5-6 (2)
Marauders 5-6 (2)
Empyre 1

Spawn 311
Hellboy & the B.P.R.D.: The Return of Effie Kolb 1-2 (2)
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: Madame Satan 1
Alien: Original Screenplay 4

The Visitor: How and Why He Stayed TPB (5)
Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1956 (5)
" ":The Best of Vargu & Others TPB (5)
Rise of the Black Flame TPB (5)
Abe Sapien: The Drowning & Other Stories (16)
Hellboy: Seed of Destruction TPB (4)
Hellboy: Wake the Devil TPB (5)
Hellboy: Library Edition vol.2 (10)
Hellboy: Library Edition vol.3 (9)

Total: 109
2020 Total: 970

Thanks everyone for your replies! 

9 hours ago, 1950's war comics said:

VF 

nice comic for $4 considering a new modern cost nearly as much

Yea, my thoughts exactly. No way I was leaving it behind.

My third post over on the DCU app didn't come til a few months after my last one. I had just lost a very close friend so I was going through some pretty major grief and then with the pandemic starting to really rear its ugly head at the time, my priorities wasn't really focused on keeping track of what I was reading. But here we go with the 3rd post of the comics I've read in 2020...

Posted: September 8th

Its been awhile since I’ve updated, but here’s what I’ve read the past few months, I’m sure I’ll be forgetting some.
-The first 21 issues in the Knightquest series(21)
-Superman: Red Son Book 1
-Batman 676
-Batman: Turning Points 1-4 (4)
-Batman: Gordon’s Law 1
-Batman: Kings of Fear 1-6 (6)
-Batman: Gotham Knights 37
-Superman (1986) 204-209 (6)
-1st 5 issues in the Brightest Day series (5)
-Catwoman (1988) 1-3 (3)
-Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight 44, 168, 192-193 (Snow is so good so far, highly recommend it to any Freeze fans that haven’t read it yet.) 207-211 (9)
-Fantastic Four: Grimm Noir
-Annihilation: Conquest- Wraith 1-4 (4)
-Avengers of the Wasteland 1-2 (2)
-Star Wars: Darth Maul 1-5 (5)
-Star Wars: Rise of Kylo Ren 1-2 (2)
-Deadline (2002) 1-4 (4)
-Miles Morales:The End 1
-Ravenscroft 1
-Spider-Man FCBD 2020 1
-Incoming 1
-Batman 75-78 (4)
-Curse of the White Knight 8
-DCeased Dead Planet 1
-Daphne Byrne 4-6 (3)
-Detective Comics 1021-1026 (6)
-Batgirl 47-48 (2)
-Batman: Three Jokers 1
-Catwoman 80th Ann 1
-Dark Knights: Death Metal 1-3, Legends of the Dark Knights 1, Guidebook 1 (5)
-Joker 80th ann 1
-Strange Adventures 1-5 (5)
-Adventureman 1
-Alien: Original Screenplay 1-2 (2)
-AvP: Thicker than Blood 1-2 (2)
-Amazing Spider-Man 43-47 (5)
-ASM: Sins Rising 1
-Chu 1
-Decorum 1
-The Goon 9-11 (3)
-The Last God 1
-Marvels X 4
-Mercy 1
-Spawn 306-309 (4)
-Spider-woman 1
-Thor 4-6 (3)
-Negan lives 1
-Wolverine 2-4 (3)
-Venom 25-27 (3)
-Cruel Summer (9)
-Pulp
-Criminal Volumes 2-7 (23)
-The Fade Out vol. 1 (4)
-Baltimore Omnibus vol 1+2 (44)
Total: 225
2020 total: 718

2nd post from the DCU app where I've been keeping track of my comics read in 2020. This was posted May 17th.

Adding on the trade paperbacks that I’ve read so far this year. (Number of issues in parenthesis)
-Justice League Odyssey Vol. 1 (5) + 2 (7)
-Batman: Death and the Maidens (9)
-Batman: Moench + Jones vol. 2 (17)
-Batman: Earth One (1)
-Batman by Ed Brubaker vol.1 (13) + 2 (10)
-Batman: The Man Who Laughs (4)
-Batman: Arkham Reborn (6)
-Batman: New Gotham vol. 1 (8)
-Batman: Gates of Gotham (8)
-Kingdom Come (4)
-Birds of Prey: Huntress (6)
-Harleen book 3 (1)
-Joker/Harley 1-3 (3)
-Superman: Year One 1-3 (3)
-Joker: Killer Smile 1-3 (3)
-Wonder Woman: Dead Earth 1-2 (2)
-Spider-Man: Kraven’s Last Hunt (6)
-Amazing Spider-Man: Soul of the Hunter (1)
-Amazing Spider-Man (2018) Hunted (12)
-Avengers: Brian M.B. Complete collection vol. 1 (19) +3 (14)
-Avengers World: Next World (7)
-Avengers: The Initiative The Complete Collection vol. 2 (16)
-Secret Invasion (8)
-Captain America: Marvel Knights vol. 2 (17)
-Daredevil Ultimate Collection vol. 3 (19)
-Black Panther (2005) Complete Collection vol. 1 (20) vol. 2 (17)
-Iron Man: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. Complete Collection vol. 2 (19)
-Heroes for Hire (2012) Complete Collection (18)
-X-Men: Children of the Atom (6)
-Fantastic Four (2010) (6)
-Bad Weekend (1)
-My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies (1)

Total:324
2020 Total: 493

Back with a nice, high grade copy of MTU 12. I picked this up a few months ago for $4. No issues on the inside. The major defects are on the front cover and those are in the angled pictures, just a few very minor creases around the staples and LLFC.

Thanks for any input!

I personally don't own any SS slabs, but I wanted to share some of my favorite autographed books with everyone here (hopefully thats not frowned upon). These first two I would consider acquired signature grails of mine, there's not many more signatures i feel like I need in my collection after these two. The first is Marvels #1 signed by Alex Ross and Kurt Busiek, COA by Dynamite Forces and  serial #d 479/2500. Alex Ross was one of my favorites as a kid. I don't know how many hours I spent flipping through the pages of Marvels and Kingdom Come as a child in absolute awe over his work. 

This 2nd book is a Clayface 1-Shot drawn by Kelley Jones with a big, beautiful sig of his on the front cover. Jones was also one of my favorite artists when I was younger. I grew up on his Batman run and when I was a little older (10-13) I was obsessed with his horror stuff (the Batman Vampire trilogy, The Hammer, Deadman, Aliens: Hive), pretty much anything gory he did I consumed. I think his style really shaped my taste in horror overall. I've got a few more books to share but I think ill keep it to these two for now. Thanks for looking and hopefully you enjoyed them as much as I do.

46 minutes ago, gadzukes said:

Hypothetically speaking...... what if you took some "age appropriate" staples and threaded them thru the holes?

I think it would get a 7.0 Blue label

Like this...... I see a 7.0 green label or a 5.0 blue label.

This is not a valuable comic so luckily it's not a huge dilemma.  What if this was a Hulk 181 though?  Yikes, what to do?

Yea, I wasn't looking to get it graded or anything so I wasnt very worried about it, just more interested on how something like that would affect a grade since I've never come across any other books with this issue.

If this was a Hulk 181, then it would definitely be an Ebay 1/1 worth tons more money.

Hello, today I've got a nice copy of ASM 45 up for your grading expertise. Book looks great at first glance but upon closer inspection there's a few color breaking ticks here and there. Interior has no issues, pages are probably OW/W, lay flat and are tight to the staples. Thanks for any input!

So this copy has a staple error that I haven't seen on any other books. At least not in my experience, I'm sure its probably a common error. Looks like the book was not properly aligned when it was stapled. The book has no staples at all, but there are staple holes in the front cover about 3/4 inch from the spine. They only go through half the book. I'm wondering what kind of affect this would have on the grade if it does have any. Thanks for any input.

42 minutes ago, Qalyar said:

That DHP10 is pretty nice, and definitely worth better than a buck! That Ironjaw #4 is fun to see; Atlas tried pretty hard to break into the majors, but didn't quite pull it off. I'd hoped that Ardden Entertainment's revival of the brand in 2010 (?) would take, since smaller publishers are a little better positioned now than they were in the 70s, but it seems it wasn't in the cards this time, either.

And there was a time when I would have made fun of people for actually buying copies of Dazzer #1, but the book has done fairly well for itself after all. Also, I have a good friend who picked up a stack of about 15 of that thing one day a few years back (when it really was still pretty much a dollar bin book everywhere)... all of which turned out to be the page 24/25 error edition. Because of course they were.

Wow, talk about some luck. The Ironjaw is so cool. I love the artwork by Pablo Marcus. You can tell he was a fan of Barry Windsor Smith.

3 minutes ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

Man oh man not really a

but a coulda shoulda 

there was at least VF + couple years back, if not NM,  at the local used bookstore that I passed on

Congrats on the find!

I know the feeling. I've got a few experiences that I kick myself over for not picking a book up when it was cheaper.

I've been on a Hellboy/ Mignola-verse kick lately. Been reading through his HB and related novels. Just finished "Emerald Hell" a couple weeks ago and finished "Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire" before that. Last week I got through "Joe Golem and the Drowning City" and now I'm about a quarter of the way through "An Assortment of Horrors ". When I'm not in the mood to read a novel and need some pictures to look at, I've been slowly making my way through "The Art of Pulp Horror" by Stephen Jones. Really cool book about the history of horror pulps starting with penny dreadfuls in the early 1800s, then the Pulps we all know and love, Weird Tales, The Shadow, Doc Savage, Argosy, etc..., and then comics and the cheesy slasher/exploitation paperbacks of the 60s-80s and all the way to horror books that are published today. I highly recommend it to anyone here who's a fan of horror.

My adventures digging through 50 cent to $2 boxes this past week. I think the best score is the Dark Horse Presents 10, 1st app of The Mask, and in pretty good condition too.

First photo, DHP10 and Ironjaw 4 were a dollar, the rest 50c. The second photo everything was a dollar each.

Thank you everyone for your input so far!

Not much going on with this copy, I just have a hard time grading these higher grade comics. This copy has a few very slight creases here and there (all pictured), and I don't know how many are allowed before it starts to get lower than the NM grades. Interior is flawless, white pages that lay flat, no staple issues, cut outs, etc...

Thanks!

Thanks everyone for the tips! Much appreciated! 

Hello everyone! So I've got a book here whos kind of throwing me for a loop. At first glance the books looks great, no tears, creases, paper loss, chipping, etc.. but looking closer there's a few flaws that are giving me a hard time, mainly because I don't know how the combination of them would affect the grade. First, there's writing up in the logo box, then its got staining on both the FC and BC, and the bottom staple is popped. Any feedback on these issue and what they would make the book grade would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Today, for your grading expertise, I have both a copy of ASM 361 and ASM 361 2nd Print. (Sorry if this is not allowed, I figured I'd put both in one post instead of making 2 separate posts) Any help and thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Both books are pretty much flawless, the only major things I can see are 2 small, non color breaking spine ticks on the 1st print near both staples.

Thanks for looking!