Post Your Top 3 Personal Comic Book Acquisitions of 2011!

[Norrin_Radd]

I only bought a few comics this year. Glad to add these three to my collection.

 

 

[Drummy]

Here are my three best sequential new FF's for my 1-200 run:

 

 

 

 

Thanks for looking -- and superb stuff from the other posters! Wow!

 

Dan

[smithdatura]

 

 

What a great book! Love that cover - very cool GA blend of the fantastic and horrific.

[Waylander]

Superman #1

 

My ultimate grail !!

 

 

Sorry SeanFingh, you were DA MAN, but here's a Grail (thumbs u

[seanfingh]

 

No offense taken. Superman #1 is such an amazing book. I got a really good look at one in Chicago. There was a guy that was passing his around like a doobie.

[AGGIEZ]

Comic book and comic book related acquisitions...my top 3

 

And picked up my second Heshka!

 

 

I love the artwork! What are the dimensions? You should post your first one as well...

 

 

Thanks. Here's a link to my first Heshka.... Startling Comics 49

 

 

They are both about 14.5 x 19"

 

 

 

[Davenport]

Just curious what I'm looking at. "Warlord of Mars" sporting a Breyfogle 'Tec 590 cover?

 

It's pegging the Coolometer, whatever it is. Love that red treatment.

[Comics-n-ERB]

3 is so hard........

 

First, the last John Carter cover of The Funnies needed for my collection

 

 

I've always wanted a copy of this book, finally I do

 

 

Last I'm going to have to go with this one, had a nice copy years ago and let it go. Never forgave myself.

 

[drbanner]

 

That's a killer 7.5!

[chrisco37]

 

That's a killer 7.5!

 

That book is all kinds of awesome.

[maloney414]

Comic book related stuff: I commissioned a bunch of sketch covers this year, got some Charlie Adlard WD sketches, and bought a page of OA from Charles Paul Wilson III (The Stuff of Legend).

 

strait comic book acquisitions this year:

 

#1 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1

 

Picked this up at SDCC this year.

 

#2 Cerebus The Aardvark #1

 

Not high grade, but presents better in person.

 

#3 The Tick Special Edition #1

 

Not sure how many other Tick fans are here...

 

 

 

[Transplant]

 

Not sure how many other Tick fans are here...

 

 

Sweet book.

[Wrightson fan]

You guys are killing me with the "awesome book assault". I have only purchased one book in the past two years. Maybe I can participate in the 2012 Aquisitions thread.

 

Great books everyone.

[seanfingh]

 

That's a killer 7.5!

 

That book is all kinds of awesome.

 

Reason #1 why the Golden Age was awesome: Sub-Mariner is shooting the Torch with a gun attached to a canister of "anti-flame fluid."

[thehumantorch]

I was pretty scattered this year. Picked up tons of odds and ends and very few

big purchases.

 

Hulk 623 cover

 

 

[MR SigS]

[font:Comic Sans MS]Got the AV#4 from The Resurrection ----Got the ASM#2 from BillC ----------Got the X-Men back around '90-'92,

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------but slabbed it this year [/font]

 

 

[JazzMan]

I picked up a number of nice books this year but I think it might be these three (who's counting?) that are my favorites.

 

 

 

 

 

These books are just ridiculous!

[Theagenes]

Tip Top 1 - First comic book appearance of Tazan from 1936. This is a personal grail for me and getting a decent looking mid grade copy was a big bonus, not to mention finding a 75 year old book with OW pages..

 

 

 

 

Hi-Spot Comics 2 - Most of you have probably never even heard of this comic which isn't surprising given it's scarcity. It's one of the toughest ERB-related comics (after Funnies 36) and almost never comes up for sale. It took me four years of active searching to find a GD copy and another four to finally upgrade to this VG.

 

 

 

Fantasy Fan vol. 1 no. 7 (Mar 1934)- This last acquisition is a fanzine rather than a comic book, but it is so cool I have to include it. The Fantasy Fan was the first fanzine dedicated to weird fiction and fantasy, and usually had contributions from some of the biggest names in early fandom like Forrest J. Ackerman, Julie Schwartz, Mort Weisinger, and others, as well as professionals like H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, August Derleth, and Robert Bloch. This issue is the grail of the Fantasy Fan run and contains the first publication of the Conan story "The Frost Giant's Daughter." Weird Tales had rejected it so REH changed Conan's name to "Amra" and the title to "Gods of the North" and gave it to The Fantasy Fan. The original print run was only about 60 copies and very few of these fragile booklets survive---this is likely one of the best copies in existence. This is likely the rarest of all Conan publications:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Blind Owl]

Tip Top 1 - First comic book appearance of Tazan from 1936. This is a personal grail for me and getting a decent looking mid grade copy was a big bonus, not to mention finding a 75 year old book with OW pages..

 

 

 

They are all three nice Jeff, but for me this one is more up my alley, and a nice copy to boot. Congrats!!!!

[davidhartnyc-migration]

My favorites this year have been well read and loved...you can tell by the low grades!

 

Flash #123: I've been looking for this issue a long time and finally got it this year!

 

 

Tales From the Crypt #32: I know the book is jacked up, but I got it signed by Jack Davis.

 

 

Next is a toss up between Showcase #14 & Wonder Woman 108. It took FOREVER to find WW 108...