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[shiverbones]

I have had about 8 to 10 of those and NEVER had a copy that had the whole bat & the whole number perfectly centered like that! Congrats!!!

[shrunkenhead]

Ya'll can take me to task for pulling the trigger on this and overpaying, but I love this book and wanted a HG example:

 

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...ADME:B:EOT:US:3

 

Can't believe OS still lists this one-shot at $5. That's just silly.

[jbud73]

Ya'll can take me to task for pulling the trigger on this and overpaying, but I love this book and wanted a HG example:

 

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...ADME:B:EOT:US:3

 

Can't believe OS still lists this one-shot at $5. That's just silly.

 

I won't take you to task, but you should have PM'd me first.

[shrunkenhead]

[october]

That's a sweet cover, never seen it before.

 

wantlist +1

[jbud73]

Ya, I'm a big fan of Bolland, Kaluta, Rogers and Englehart. The mini-hoard grows by 1-2 a year. It is a lot tougher than you think though, with the black cover and getting bounced around in the quarter bins. Plus this book is almost 25 years old.

[shrunkenhead]

Agreed, it is a tough, underrated, and undervalued book that's been doomed to the quarter bin shuffle for too long. I think that this one gets unnoticed a lot because it's from '81, thus technically not "bronze" horror. That's not a characterization of the bronze age that I share (i.e that it distinctly and definitely ends in 1979), but there you go.

 

Reynold Jay also had one of these in 9.8 for about 90 bucks plus shipping, but I couldn't bring myself to pull the trigger on that one. CGC'd 9.6 with white pages is good enough for a nonfinicky collector like myself, har har.

 

BTW, Anybody ever read that issue of DC Comics Presents with the Superman/Xanadu team-up? Any good? I think it's issue 65, but could be wrong. I've been meaning to pick up a reader of that on ebay for awhile now...

[shiverbones]

I read that book in 1981 so i have always had a soft spot for it. I don't think its so crazy a price. It is technically Bronze now though in the overstreet defination of bronze, which i do actually think makes more sense then ending it with 1979.

[shrunkenhead]

Thanks for the vote of confidence on my newest purchase, shiver.

 

Truth be told, I don't really pay much attention at all to dates when determining what "age" a comic should be in. I mean, I do use some vague parameters, but to me bronze horror as a distinctive feel...and that feel could come from 1967, or 1985. It depends.

 

To me, Alan Moore's first year on Swamp Thing is more "bronze" than half the Marvel horrorbooks of the seventies. I guess I'm more interested in collecting a certain look, mood, story, and tradition than I am in collecting according to dates...

[tkg2627]

HOS # 88 Oakland Copy

 

Edited November 24, 2004 by tkg2627

[sterlingcomics]

[BachelorOfComix]

[sterlingcomics]

 

[BachelorOfComix]

 

[PovertyRow]

 

Et tu, Sterling? And I always thought your were an upright guy, far beyond snoozing at something one has acquired, the way the faux-trauxll fauxks do!!!.

[tkg2627]

 

Et tu, Sterling? And I always thought your were an upright guy, far beyond snoozing at something one has acquired, the way the faux-trauxll fauxks do!!!.

It's OK. He won't be snoozing when I get my HOMs slabbed by CGC.

[greggy]

 

Et tu, Sterling? And I always thought your were an upright guy, far beyond snoozing at something one has acquired, the way the faux-trauxll fauxks do!!!.

It's OK. He won't be snoozing when I get my HOMs slabbed by CGC.

[sterlingcomics]

It's OK. He won't be snoozing when I get my HOMs slabbed by CGC.

 

Doesn't matter if you're not selling

 

Honestly, I'm pissed. Just got news that a couple of books are coming back restored.

 

Pov, you're right. Just had to strike back. My apologies to all the big wigs with nice books.

[sterlingcomics]

BOC, you haven't been potty-trained yet?

[shiverbones]

 

239 pages into it and the multiple snoozing begins.......

 

what books are restored BTW?