FoggyNelson Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 On 9/5/2019 at 10:39 PM, Brandon Shepherd said: No! I must not look at this thread any longer! I will be tempted to search for beauties like these and spend money!! Must resist... Me too , thread is burning a hole in my pocket🤔🤔🎉🎉🎉😃 Brandon Shepherd 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post millercpa Posted September 8, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted September 8, 2019 I stumbled across this book while traveling this past week. Couldn't resist such a nice raw copy. Classic cover. batmiesta, oakman29, OtherEric and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post shiverbones Posted September 10, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted September 10, 2019 One of my favorite marvel mag covers, and a strong vf batmiesta, bounty_coder, The Lions Den and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiverbones Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 On 9/8/2019 at 9:39 AM, millercpa said: I stumbled across this book while traveling this past week. Couldn't resist such a nice raw copy. Classic cover. Beauty! I wish rocket wasn’t in there so I could get an affordable copy Stevemmg and deadleg 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoggyNelson Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 2 hours ago, shiverbones said: Beauty! I wish rocket wasn’t in there so I could get an affordable copy Who is rocket and how does it affect the price.? ComicConnoisseur and 1950's war comics 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiverbones Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 1st rocket raccoon in that one FoggyNelson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batmiesta Posted September 10, 2019 Author Share Posted September 10, 2019 2 hours ago, shiverbones said: Beauty! I wish rocket wasn’t in there so I could get an affordable copy Yeah! The only reason I would buy that book is for the cover, but not at the prices being asked now. shiverbones 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batmiesta Posted September 10, 2019 Author Share Posted September 10, 2019 2 hours ago, shiverbones said: One of my favorite marvel mag covers, and a strong vf Nice centering on that copy. Stevemmg and shiverbones 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoggyNelson Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 9 minutes ago, shiverbones said: 1st rocket raccoon in that one Thanks I did not know that👍 1950's war comics and shiverbones 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevemmg Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 (edited) I generally disagree with the claim by so many that it’s the first “Rocket Raccoon” myself. Much like the Conan “tryout” in Chamber of Darkness 4, the character Rocky Raccoon in this mag is clearly based on the Beatles song character. He’s got a British accent for crying out loud. Close, but no cigar. That being said, I LOVE this cover and the content. And you’re right, dang those high prices. Wow on that copy! Hard to find such great cover centering, and looks like the color strike is awesome. Edited September 11, 2019 by Stevemmg The Lions Den and Randall Dowling 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiverbones Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 8 hours ago, Stevemmg said: I generally disagree with the claim by so many that it’s the first “Rocket Raccoon” myself. Much like the Conan “tryout” in Chamber of Darkness 4, the character Rocky Raccoon in this mag is clearly based on the Beatles song character. He’s got a British accent for crying out loud. Close, but no cigar. That being said, I LOVE this cover and the content. And you’re right, dang those high prices. Wow on that copy! Hard to find such great cover centering, and looks like the color strike is awesome. I agree, if only everyone else did FoggyNelson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Less Blob Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 16 hours ago, Stevemmg said: I generally disagree with the claim by so many that it’s the first “Rocket Raccoon” myself. Much like the Conan “tryout” in Chamber of Darkness 4, the character Rocky Raccoon in this mag is clearly based on the Beatles song character. He’s got a British accent for crying out loud. Close, but no cigar. That being said, I LOVE this cover and the content. And you’re right, dang those high prices. Wow on that copy! Hard to find such great cover centering, and looks like the color strike is awesome. He is a cigar smoking wise cracking racoon in space who carries an oversize gun around with him. "Oh, and in case there is any doubt that the “Rocky” who showed up in Marvel Preview is the actual Rocket Raccoon who will appear in the movies, in an afterward to his Rocket Raccoon #1 in 1985, Bill Mantlo does specifically state that Rocky and Rocket are the same character. So there you have it, True Believers, the first appearances and origin of Rocket Raccoon." https://bamsmackpow.com/2014/08/08/first-appearances-rocket-raccoon-retro-review/ So, we now know that Rocket Racoon is immortal, or time travels, or can dimension jump to Earth 7614, as Preview 7 takes place 10,000 years in the future Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N e r V Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 25 minutes ago, the blob said: He is a cigar smoking wise cracking racoon in space who carries an oversize gun around with him. "Oh, and in case there is any doubt that the “Rocky” who showed up in Marvel Preview is the actual Rocket Raccoon who will appear in the movies, in an afterward to his Rocket Raccoon #1 in 1985, Bill Mantlo does specifically state that Rocky and Rocket are the same character. So there you have it, True Believers, the first appearances and origin of Rocket Raccoon." https://bamsmackpow.com/2014/08/08/first-appearances-rocket-raccoon-retro-review/ So, we now know that Rocket Racoon is immortal, or time travels, or can dimension jump to Earth 7614, as Preview 7 takes place 10,000 years in the future 17 hours ago, Stevemmg said: I generally disagree with the claim by so many that it’s the first “Rocket Raccoon” myself. Much like the Conan “tryout” in Chamber of Darkness 4, the character Rocky Raccoon in this mag is clearly based on the Beatles song character. He’s got a British accent for crying out loud. Close, but no cigar. That being said, I LOVE this cover and the content. And you’re right, dang those high prices. Wow on that copy! Hard to find such great cover centering, and looks like the color strike is awesome. Deadpool is clearly far, far away in his current incarnation from his first appearances. Even his movie appearances mirror that difference from first to last. I consider the first Rocket appearance closer to the Ant-Man from Tales to Astonish #27 to the later version rather than Chamber of Darkness #4 and Conan. In that case (Chamber Of Darkness #4) Marvel was floating a “one shot” try out knowing Conan was coming up and no intention of continuing that one appearance barbarian character. Rocket was more of an appearance that lead to more appearances and later the character evolved (like Deadpool) in the process. There have been a number of first appearances of characters that changed dramatically over time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiverbones Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 That is a valid point too, the way I feel about it, if I cared about rocket, I would want it. Semantics and first app grey areas be damned, but I don’t, so it’s too expensive for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevemmg Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 I really enjoy the quality discussion on the boards. Good points and food for thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N e r V Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 On 9/11/2019 at 9:19 PM, shiverbones said: That is a valid point too, the way I feel about it, if I cared about rocket, I would want it. Semantics and first app grey areas be damned, but I don’t, so it’s too expensive for me 20 hours ago, Stevemmg said: I really enjoy the quality discussion on the boards. Good points and food for thought. One of the more interesting conversations I had was a number of years ago with the late Len Wein. I believe it started with how the Wolverine had come about in Hulk and then later included in the new X-Men and the many changes to the character in both appearance and personality after his introduction. We brought up the Beast who Stan completely altered his personality early on in the original X-Men. He goes from a Ben Grimm type to Reed Richards type rather quickly. Black Widow was in there. More current and often strange changes like the origins of Psylocke who began as a white girl in a non US Marvel comic or my favorite for the sheer amount of twists and turns was Mockingbird. Check out her Wikipedia entry sometime if you’re not familiar with her background. The point being that a great many characters in comics were ever changing in both appearance and in personality based on the time period and who was writing them. I do think it’s pretty cool from a historical perspective in comics that various writers would pick out characters from other writers and use or build upon them in new ways. Sometimes these characters were nothing more than throwaways or pretty minor players that someone else decided to run with. Anyway that’s my take. Yes, there are any number of first or early appearances of characters in comics that little resemble what they became later. The Lions Den and bounty_coder 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N e r V Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 FYI, here’s my lowly CGC 8.5 that I’m perfectly fine with. Rocket has never complained once to me to upgrade him... bounty_coder and The Lions Den 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Brandon Shepherd Posted September 15, 2019 Share Posted September 15, 2019 OMG, data collection is real! ThothAmon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...