Comic book collecting with a foreign variant focus 19 19

[lscomics]

This just in from Argentina...

 

what number is?...

It's #239. (thumbs u

[Kenners]

From Italy, Capitan America 77 .. or really West Coast Avengers 50-52. Its got a card-stock cover, with a couple of nasty bends in it (top-right and bot-left) so I probably wont CGC it (but then again, I just might) ..

 

[vaillant]

@Kenners: With a little patience, I’m sure a better copy can be found.

Yes, those cardboard covers were not so good, although if well handled they vere very nice. By that time, however, I already stopped collecting in italian and went for the original editions.

[Kenners]

@Kenners: With a little patience, I’m sure a better copy can be found.

Yes, those cardboard covers were not so good, although if well handled they vere very nice. By that time, however, I already stopped collecting in italian and went for the original editions.

 

Thanks for the info. The above only cost me €1 on eBay, so I'm not too dissatisfied

[TheLiamSturgess]

I love the Italian Editions because they actually hold up very well with light handling, whereas the flimsy magazines the UK put out bend and fold like crazy.

 

My Italian 298 is an easy 9.4.

 

The Spanish Forum books aren't bad as far as quality goes either.

[lscomics]

From Italy, Capitan America 77 .. or really West Coast Avengers 50-52. Its got a card-stock cover, with a couple of nasty bends in it (top-right and bot-left) so I probably wont CGC it (but then again, I just might) ..

 

Cool. (thumbs u

[Silver Surfer]

Picked these up just because:

[vaillant]

@Kenners: With a little patience, I’m sure a better copy can be found.

Yes, those cardboard covers were not so good, although if well handled they vere very nice. By that time, however, I already stopped collecting in italian and went for the original editions.

 

Thanks for the info. The above only cost me €1 on eBay, so I'm not too dissatisfied

 

Said this, you’ve very likely paid more for shipping than for the book.

 

@Liaton: Corno editions have been the best, in terms of paper/binding/printing, etc. Unfortunately, being in the heyday of the Marvel age in Italy, translations were occasionally either full of mistakes or poor, with an alternation of the good with the bad. Star Comics edition were very good in terms of adaptation, translation, etc. but initially very poor graphically speaking (and with the cardboard covers). Marvel Italia picked up where Star Comics left, and since then translation have become often very accurate in their vocabulary, but culturally poor and done sometimes in a "stiff" italian, without the spontaneous quality dialogues should have, if you understand what I mean.

It’s ironic, since certain important runs or series of the past which are being reprinted get often a worse treatment than the modern material which qualitatively wouldn’t require such a care.

[lscomics]

Picked these up just because:

Nice haul.

[marmat]

[Kenners]

Said this, you’ve very likely paid more for shipping than for the book.

 

I paid €4 for shipping, so I don't think I did too badly for €5 overall, with shipping from Italy

[vaillant]

Said this, you’ve very likely paid more for shipping than for the book.

 

I paid €4 for shipping, so I don't think I did too badly for €5 overall, with shipping from Italy

 

Surely not, I was just saying in these cases shipping costs have an enormous weight on the final price. When I purchase from the US, I try always to add books or something to combine shipping.

[lscomics]

Just got these in today.

 

[Chespirito]

Just got these in today.

 

 

Awesome!!! The Dutch Bat 224 is my favorite from the lot!

[lscomics]

These just came in today.

 

[vaillant]

I have posted these in the Centaurs thread (in Golden Age). They are possibly the very first editions of american comic books. Digest sized, ugly, 8 pages (yes, eight) and came out very likely slightly after the war. Full explanation in the Centaur thread, here: http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5983056#Post5983056

 

 

[Chespirito]

Can't say I've ever seen anything like that before....

[Silver Surfer]

[Erik B]

Here is one I wanted to show you:

 

 

This is Thor #140 Italian version (Panini comics) variant cover signed by Gabriele Dell'Otto.

 

This is one of the best Thor cover I see!

[marmat]

MOAR!!!!!!

 

Edited September 7, 2012 by marmat