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You asked about selling this collection over a year ago, and received essentially the same advice.
Were you expecting different answers this time around? Did you attempt to sell any of the books over the course of the past 18 months?
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They're both superb runs of comics. The last time I checked (a long time ago), the pricey ones are Bats 232 & 251 and 'Tec 400...
- ADAMANTIUM and Knightsofold
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On 11/24/2018 at 6:34 PM, vaillant said:
I don’t have my US run at hand now but… Here’s where I read them (and Omega, 2001, Nova, Deathlok and the Guardians of the Galaxy as well – all were backup features in the italian edition).
Magazine sized beauties…
I still have to complete the italian series (29 issues in total) – the last ones are tough, even more in grade.
#1 and #2 contained stickers.Very cool! Would love to see the stickers...
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- Junkdrawer and Gnasher
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Looks like this might be the one with the Three Stooges story (NOTE: Image in link is NSFW!):
https://www.abebooks.com/ORIGINAL-DIRTY-COMICS-Number-II-Publisher/8815504113/bd
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Does "Londinium" count...?
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Batman really got around...
- Get Marwood & I and Senormac
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Other than his accountant, who the hell cares what Bill Maher says or thinks about anything?
- Steviehuv66, Azkaban and Darkowl
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In my experience, they don't respond to e-mails. Glad to hear you got somebody on the phone...!
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Not a surprise, of course, but still very sad.
Stan was a larger-than-life personality who nevertheless made comics feel personal and intimate: losing him is like losing a beloved & kooky old uncle you thought would always be around...the kind of older guy who gave you a corny nickname, and who always had time to joke around with the kids and tell a few funny stories about the old days.
This sums it all up very neatly for me:
QuoteThe shared template of Kirby’s art style (which continued even after Kirby left for DC in 1970) and Lee’s themes and dialogue went a long way toward unifying the Marvel line — but if that were not enough, Lee’s own persona bound the various series together through his direct address to the reader on letters pages, in the Stan’s Soapbox column and in the numerous footnotes and asides in the comics. Lee was able to have it both ways: He was a cornball who made fun of his own corniness, a carnival barker who parodied carnival barkers and a father figure who never grew up. He conjured the vision of a House of Ideas where the Marvel Bullpen lived and worked. Readers knew Marvel creators by nicknames, as if they were old friends or family members. Fans competed for no-prizes, which mocked their own worthlessness, and joined the Merry Marvel Marching Society, a parody of fan clubs. It was a tone that fit the campy 1960s perfectly. Lee’s self-aware combination of hyperbole and irony meant that older readers need not be embarrassed by the bombastic iconography and overripe melodrama that dominated superhero comics. We were all, reader and creator, in on the joke.
Read the whole thing here:
http://www.tcj.com/stan-lee-1922-2018/
- comicnoir, Sweet Lou 14, Unca Ben and 5 others
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13 minutes ago, Brandon Shepherd said:
I don’t recall if I set any goals or not for 2018 but I did find my Holy Grail early in the year.
I sold some books to make it happen. I hope to scale back in 2019 in terms of buying. How’d everybody else do?
Very cool!
Would love to hear the story of why this book was so important to you. Was it to complete a high-grade slabbed set, or was there a more personal reason?
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ANYTHING written by Rick Remender...
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I was VERY pleased to find these colorful, late-period, & apparently "un-circulated" mid-to-high grade Charlton reprint titles (lotsa Ditko!!!) from a single source:
- ADAMANTIUM and Gnasher
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Fall weekend haul from a road-trip the wife and I made to PA to visit our kid in college:
• Great reading, and damn near a complete set...
Some nifty 3D St. Johns from the early 1950s...
• And, finally, some $1 - $4 apiece Silver and Bronze Age...
Still LOTS of fun stuff out there on the cheap, folks...and especially if you're not "key-obsessed", love it for what it is, and ain't all that picky about grade...!
- badback83, Bearcatcoach and ADAMANTIUM
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1 hour ago, tv horror said:
Aha! You're quite right how about this one Captain Sinbad (1963) starring Guy Williams, the villain is indestructable because his heart is locked in a tower and of course it is guarded by a giant claw fist.
That's a fun movie and a cool book...beautifully illustrated in high style by the great Russ Manning!
http://hairygreeneyeball2.blogspot.com/2009/11/russ-mannings-captain-sindbad.html
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Btw...where does it say "1979" in the auction listing? Apologies if I'm missing something. Thanks!
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3 hours ago, James J Johnson said:
Even on their site it's too small and indistinct, the picture not enlargeable enough to make out any details of the signature to assess its authenticity...
...which is precisely why an item like this should NEVER be bid on for any amount over-and-above what the unsigned litho itself is worth (= not very much), unless the potential buyer can view it in person, and either doesn't give a damn and can afford to take a chance or is also a preeminent authority on signature authentication.
There are really only two outcomes at the (extremely broad) estimated hammer price for this thing: it's either the genuine article, or a very expensive and very colorful piece of toilet paper.
Caveat emptor...
- nocutename and kav
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50 minutes ago, Senormac said: great thread !!
I'll say!
In terms of "house styles", Swan was in some sense DC's superior predecessor to Marvel's Buscema brothers, all rolled up into a singular non-Kirby influenced titan -- i.e., a reliable journeyman at first, and then a master craftsman who eventually became THE definitive artist for the first and best of National's only two truly great properties.
Swan's expert storytelling (heavily influenced, in my view at least, by Reed Crandall), lithe women, nuanced facial expressions, and (yes, it really does matter) draftsman-like backgrounds were so smooth and natural that it was terribly easy, and also a terrible mistake, not to notice them.
Take heed, modern artists: Swan made the fantastic look plausible and the everyday look real. Wow.
So, naturally, DC put him out to pasture. What a damned, dirty shame...
- kav, Gnasher, ComicConnoisseur and 1 other
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2 hours ago, Jaylam said:
One of my favorite Superman covers from the Silver Age wasn't even drawn by Swan. Can you guess which one? Hint: Infantino and Anderson.
This would have been an awesome post in a thread titled "Post Your Favorite Covers NOT Drawn by Curt Swan"...
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1 hour ago, Brian48 said:
I had never heard of them nor seen them for sale back in the day. I did come across these two a couple of years ago in a dollar bin. Thought they were pretty cool, especially the early Byrne stuff in Doomsday+1, so I picked them up.
Thanks for sharing these.
Very cool...another "blow out" price sticker on the Monster Hunters! Is it 8 or 6 for a dollar?
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That's a fun movie and a cool book...beautifully illustrated in high style by the great Russ Manning!
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I think that comic books in the 1970s were produced by the gazillions on huge printing presses, and that quality control was not always a top priority...