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The Absolute Hardest to Find 80's books.
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juggernaut

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Collecting all comics from Jan 1980 to Dec 1989 is a monumental task. Good luck because you are going to need it.

 

What would you say if I told you the Marvel was complete, and I'm a couple of books from a complete DC as well...?

 

Plus all of Eclipse, Paciic, First, Mirage, Eternity, Aircel, Caliber, and Epic?

 

Wow. I couldn't even fathom the number of comics that would be. Kudos to you because I know that must have taken a decade or more to a mass such a collection.

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Moebius 1/2, published by Graphitti Designs in the late 80s is a pretty tough book. I've seen two copies come up on eBay over several years, and there's currently one $100+ copy for sale on Amazon.

 

(The "1/2" is a play on the numbering of the Marvel/Epic/Dark Horse series of Moebius graphic novels published in the late 80s/early 90s. Epic published #1-9, Dark Horse published #0.)

 

Although not as rare as the comics being talked about here, the Marvel/Epic Moebius series has a few other tough books.

 

Moebius 7

Moebius 9

Blueberry 5 End of the Trail

Lt. Blueberry the Iron Horse

Lt. Blueberry Steel Fingers

Lt. Blueberry General Golden Mane

Marshall Blueberry: the Lost Dutchman's Mine

 

Some of the Marvel Conan GNs were hard to find, but I haven't gone looking for them in a while.

 

 

 

I've got these two:

 

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RockMyAmadeus

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Collecting all comics from Jan 1980 to Dec 1989 is a monumental task. Good luck because you are going to need it.

 

What would you say if I told you the Marvel was complete, and I'm a couple of books from a complete DC as well...?

 

Plus all of Eclipse, Paciic, First, Mirage, Eternity, Aircel, Caliber, and Epic?

 

Wow. I couldn't even fathom the number of comics that would be. Kudos to you because I know that must have taken a decade or more to a mass such a collection.

 

Since 1990.

 

;)

 

(I'm actually missing a few oddballs from each company. Comico is pretty full except Robotech, but I'm missing large swaths of Blackthorne [though they didn't publish much.] I have nearly zero Archies, which is going to be the really tough set to build. But yearh, Marvel & DC are both within about 100 books of being complete.)

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how complete for the marvel & dc? does it include all the CANADIAN PRICE VARIANTS????? there are a few dc variants that are not known to most people even the variant collectors. i'll share those later.

 

good luck on the archies and charltons. i might be able to help you with a few charltons and some of the superhero archies but other than that the best guy for that kind of stuff is doug at comic world. i wouldnt want to try to complete those companies, i dont plan on living that long.

 

 

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Wow, that is outstanding Kirby work for the period. Very interesting indeed. Going to have to remember to look up the inker on that later.

 

heres a great book. i think it's under valued and overlooked, like all the superhero stuff they did.

 

what more could you ask for??? NEW Kirby Cover and reprint of Simon & Kirby's Double Life Of Private Strong #1

 

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its not the best inked kirby job. it's weird cause buckler has been accused of being a kirby rip off and it didnt really work to well. i'm not sure why he didnt use michael thibodeaux which was his inker at the time. i would have loved it if mike royer had inked it. to me he was kirby's best inker.

 

the more i look at the cover it looks like the shield has been drawn by someone else. anyone else notice that or am i seeing things.

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I wanted to congratulate our own Tom (topnotchman) for what should be a nice score after the dust is settled and he's sold this little gem.

 

Any guesses to the final price? I'd say it should break $500, however, I just about crapped my pants when I first saw the listing last night. I rumaged through the longbox of stuff I picked up at Earl Shaw's booth, only to find I did score a copy of this book, although I doubt its any better then 9.2/9.4.

 

Copper age books are doing just fine, thank you. :headbang:

 

 

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I wanted to congratulate our own Tom (topnotchman) for what should be a nice score after the dust is settled and he's sold this little gem.

 

Any guesses to the final price? I'd say it should break $500, however, I just about crapped my pants when I first saw the listing last night. I rumaged through the longbox of stuff I picked up at Earl Shaw's booth, only to find I did score a copy of this book, although I doubt its any better then 9.2/9.4.

 

Copper age books are doing just fine, thank you. :headbang:

 

How appropriate that a bunch of cash is on the cover. :headbang:
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I wanted to congratulate our own Tom (topnotchman) for what should be a nice score after the dust is settled and he's sold this little gem.

 

Any guesses to the final price? I'd say it should break $500, however, I just about crapped my pants when I first saw the listing last night. I rumaged through the longbox of stuff I picked up at Earl Shaw's booth, only to find I did score a copy of this book, although I doubt its any better then 9.2/9.4.

 

Copper age books are doing just fine, thank you. :headbang:

 

 

:o amazing how a copper-age Marvel book - and of a (relatively) mainstream title - should be so rare.. did it have a particularly low print run?

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heres the last one. i guess you could say its kind of hard to find.

 

There was someone last year looking for this book to complete their set, and they made it very clear how difficult it had been to track issues 3-4.

 

:applause:

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I wanted to congratulate our own Tom (topnotchman) for what should be a nice score after the dust is settled and he's sold this little gem.

 

Any guesses to the final price? I'd say it should break $500, however, I just about crapped my pants when I first saw the listing last night. I rumaged through the longbox of stuff I picked up at Earl Shaw's booth, only to find I did score a copy of this book, although I doubt its any better then 9.2/9.4.

 

Copper age books are doing just fine, thank you. :headbang:

 

 

:o amazing how a copper-age Marvel book - and of a (relatively) mainstream title - should be so rare.. did it have a particularly low print run?

 

Yeah, it's pretty tough. There was a gap of nearly 7 year between issue #31 and #32...and then another 9 month gap for #33.

 

Why Marvel decided to do this, when it hadn't been done with other Marvel books in years, is anyone's guess. They probably would have sold more if they'd just made it a "One Shot" #1.

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shadow play was only in whitman 2 packs with shroud of mystery. shadow play, i'd say is about 5x more 'scarce'. i have about 10 copies of shroud of mystery and 2-3 copies of shadow play. i'm thinking that shroud of mystery was produced before shadow play. the reason i say that is first the rarity of shadow play and that fact that shroud of mystery is available in 2 different 2 packs(scanned below), the last reason is the price of the 2 packs. the shroud of mystery/jungle twins 2 pack is $1.19 while the shroud of mystery/shadow play 2 pack is ¢.99. but what do i know.

 

a related story to all of this is whitman created a second issue of, i think, shroud of mystery. it featured steve ditko art. the ditko cover was auctioned years ago at heritage. i cant find the scans and i dont know what it sold for.

 

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heres the last one. i guess you could say its kind of hard to find.

 

There was someone last year looking for this book to complete their set, and they made it very clear how difficult it had been to track issues 3-4.

 

:applause:

 

i got real lucky on this one. i found it by accident in my collection. i wasnt going to keep it till i noticed what it was.

 

maybe i might get it graded and sell it.

 

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