StingerMcK Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Did you know the All Star #12 was restored? Yup, purple doesn't scare me. Got these yesterday: Beauts Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud cloddie Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Plus a little Herb goodness... (That #182 is undergraded. It is flawless.) Now those are sweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockMyAmadeus Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 And the crown jewels of the set.... (Ok, so the story behind this one goes like this: Starlin did everything on the book except edit it and letter it. -script, pencils, inks, colors, Starlin did it all. But in the credits on the title page, there are....other people...listed there. Why...? I'll let you figure it out. I asked Starlin if he could do this one for me, and he said "ok, but just this ONE, I won't be making a habit of this!" One was fine...it's not a 9.8, but it's close enough.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockMyAmadeus Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Little story on the Strange Tales/Warlocks. When I first started collecting, I didn't know anything about Starlin. But then, Silver Surfer, and then, Infinity Gauntlet, which was the huge #1 crossover of 1991. Huge. So, by the time I A. had any money, and B. got around to it, all these Starlin books from the 70's were all $20-$30-$40 EACH. Ugh! Fast forward to 1999...the comic market sucks, everyone's forgotten about Starlin again, and all these Warlocks that didn't sell are now back to reasonable prices. Well, on eBay, Lange's Sports apparently bought a collection with multiple copies of all of these books...and started listing them....and I started bidding on them...and they sold for $3, $4, $5 each...but I was only willing to buy the "NM- or lower" copies, because the NM, NM+, and NM/M copies were selling for $10, $15, $30 or so. All of the Starlins you see, with the exception of the #11s (and I think one of those was, too) I bought from them in the years 1999-2001. All of them..every one of them...was not graded better than NM-. In fact, many of them were VFs and VF-s (the #179 was a F/VF.) Now, granted, I pressed these...but there's only so much you can do if the raw book has no potential. A Todd Lange 2000 "VF-" turned into a 9.6. A F/VF became a 9.4. Back then, it was simply magic, and if I hadn't been so cheap, I would have had a lot more 9.8s. Those were the days.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockMyAmadeus Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 And last, for now, one of my most treasured sets...slowly but surely, finishing them off...one...by one...by one... (one of one!) (one of one!) (one of one!) (I cannot stop slabbing this book. There are 5 9.8 SS, and I own 4 of them!) (The ONLY Batman cover Totleben ever did!) (one of one!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockMyAmadeus Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Of course, many, many thanks to Sharpcomix and Richie, without whom, none of this would have happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hog Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 So... much... Stan... Lee... True...but at least he wrote most of them, and worked on all of them except Spidey #121. And MSH18 which he openly said he had nothing to do with... He is literally going to sign everything before he dies.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockMyAmadeus Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 So... much... Stan... Lee... True...but at least he wrote most of them, and worked on all of them except Spidey #121. And MSH18 which he openly said he had nothing to do with... ...he was still EIC at the time, and he IS 92, so he may not remember... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hog Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 So... much... Stan... Lee... True...but at least he wrote most of them, and worked on all of them except Spidey #121. And MSH18 which he openly said he had nothing to do with... ...he was still EIC at the time, and he IS 92, so he may not remember... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockMyAmadeus Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 So... much... Stan... Lee... True...but at least he wrote most of them, and worked on all of them except Spidey #121. And MSH18 which he openly said he had nothing to do with... ...he was still EIC at the time, and he IS 92, so he may not remember... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hog Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 (edited) My bad Edited March 22, 2015 by Mr. Hog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockMyAmadeus Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Hey...can we not poop all over Stan when someone's showing off books...? There are other places for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hog Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Hey...can we not poop all over Stan when someone's showing off books...? There are other places for that. Too true. I'm really sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loiselle313 Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujobyte Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 Wow Rock you've been busy, nice books! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermster Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omaha-CGC-Comics Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeypost Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Not bad for a book listed as VF/NM by a reputable dealer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-Collector Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Not bad for a book listed as VF/NM by a reputable dealer. Send me a pm with the dealers name Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wall-Crawler Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Was hoping for a little better on a couple of them but pretty much what I was expecting and generally pleased. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...