This Week in Your Bronze Age Collection!! 35 35

[MAR1979]

Back this past week after it's one year sojourn for pressing and grading. Had very minor ripple on back, no idea if it would have affected the grade or not.

A September 1996 $10 mail purchase from Motor City. Back then I sometimes ordered from Michael by mail, and if I did not agree with the grade I'd return at a con for credit on in person purchases.

Love that original Nova helmet

 

Edited September 21, 2022 by MAR1979

[The Man Without Beer]

After many upgrades over the past couple years, I finally was able to work my way up to this one. 

[MAR1979]

On 9/18/2022 at 10:54 AM, MAR1979 said:

Back this past week after it's one year sojourn for pressing and grading. Had very minor ripple on back, no idea if it would have affected the grade or not.

A September 1996 $10 purchase from Motor City. Back then I sometimes ordered from Michael by mail, and if I did not agree with the grade I'd return at a con for credit on in person purchases.

Love that original Nova helmet

 

Same as Nova background mentioned in my last post, the only difference is the purchase price of this one in 1996 was $12. It can't be seen on this scan, but the amount of gloss on this copy is incredible.

IMHO a Classic Cover and Schomberg homage by Romita

Edited September 18, 2022 by MAR1979

[Sweet Lou 14]

On 9/18/2022 at 11:23 AM, The Man Without Beer said:

After many upgrades over the past couple years, I finally was able to work my way up to this one. 

Great pickup!  I have a 9.6 and have flirted with the idea of getting a 9.8, but the prices shot up and were also pretty volatile.  Hope you got a good deal!

[The Man Without Beer]

On 9/18/2022 at 4:16 PM, Sweet Lou 14 said:

Great pickup!  I have a 9.6 and have flirted with the idea of getting a 9.8, but the prices shot up and were also pretty volatile.  Hope you got a good deal!

I did just when the prices dropped. Had a pay plan so just picked it up after done with that. It is creeping up now for this book. Strong spec that Bullseye is showing up in the MCU.

[Frisco Larson]

A copy of THIS issue was the first batch of comics I ever bought!

[MAR1979]

On 9/18/2022 at 7:31 PM, Frisco Larson said:

A copy of THIS issue was the first batch of comics I ever bought!

 

Love those 20,25,30,35 cent Marvel Tales. As kid I used to picked them up in discount bins. It's how I first read Spidey books before my time.

 

 

[MAR1979]

On 9/18/2022 at 7:20 PM, The Man Without Beer said:

I did just when the prices dropped. Had a pay plan so just picked it up after done with that. It is creeping up now for this book. Strong spec that Bullseye is showing up in the MCU.

Wasn't he featured on Season 3 of Daredevil? 

Edited September 19, 2022 by MAR1979

[The Man Without Beer]

On 9/18/2022 at 8:44 PM, MAR1979 said:

Wasn't he featured on Season 3 of Daredevil? 

Yes and no. They were developing the character but he never donned Bullseye suit. Plus the ending showed him receiving his adamantium spine after the fight with Kingpin 

[Straw-Man]

another upgraded squarebound!

[rakehell]

Winkled this out of a little pile of random stuff -

I never knew it had an adaptation of 'Who Goes There?' by John W. Campbell inside -

Does anyone know if this is the first comic adaptation of this story? The Thing looks...ummm...interesting -

This panel is veeerrry Carpenter-esque, I think, even though Starstream predates the Carpenter 'Thing' by 4 years -

 

[Straw-Man]

never even knew about this squarebound 'til a little tour of mike's amazing comics site last week.   kinda cool.

[Sweet Lou 14]

On 9/21/2022 at 9:13 PM, Straw-Man said:

never even knew about this squarebound 'til a little tour of mike's amazing comics site last week.   kinda cool.

Never seen a Queen-Size Special before!  Now where was that thread where people were getting tied up in knots about what counts as an annual?

[Straw-Man]

On 9/21/2022 at 8:18 PM, Sweet Lou 14 said:

Never seen a Queen-Size Special before!  Now where was that thread where people were getting tied up in knots about what counts as an annual?

that's over in silver!  it would qualify.

[MattTheDuck]

Isn't there a Millie the Model Queen-Size annual?

[Macedoniagreece]

Coming straight from Greece. The extremely scarce to rare EL Greko- the Greek Superman comics from the 70s. 

El Greko has the "E" (Epsilon) on his chest which stands for Greek. " The Fist of the Greek " on the right cover.

Edited September 22, 2022 by Macedoniagreece

[dover]

I went to a store in San Diego and found these fun books.

 

[mintcomics1]

On 9/18/2022 at 8:43 PM, MAR1979 said:

Love those 20,25,30,35 cent Marvel Tales. As kid I used to picked them up in discount bins. It's how I first read Spidey books before my time.

 

 

Those Bronze era Marvel Tales are some of the coolest Spidey covers. You can enjoy high grade art without depleting your wallet.

[ThothAmon]

[Straw-Man]

not a bronze collector by nature, not a d.c. collector by nature, but a classic cover is a classic cover.