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[gyro-1]

May be don't look for china books look for Hong Kong books ?

 

[revat]

May be don't look for china books look for Hong Kong books ?

 

I'd be good w those too. Do they exist for marvel or dc?

[TheLiamSturgess]

Not that I've seen, but to be honest, I believe they exist. I think the failure we've seen so far is because of the language barrier that noone has been able to successfully overcome.

[Chespirito]

Chinese Batman......Oh...this old thing....?

 

 

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/RAREST-CHINESE-BATMAN-COMIC-SCARCE-/290953426353?pt=Asian_Antiques&hash=item43be2cf5b1

 

 

 

[Chespirito]

Spidey ..yeah, its out there, somewhere....

 

 

Hong Kong Spider-man by deross67

 

 

[lscomics]

Spidey ..yeah, its out there, somewhere....

 

 

Hong Kong Spider-man by deross67

 

Chinese ASM #149?

[spidercrazy]

Spidey ..yeah, its out there, somewhere....

 

 

Hong Kong Spider-man by deross67

 

 

That is really cool. Also out there somewhere are these three:

[revat]

Nice Chinese stuff! Any chance they were 'official' marvel or dc or related to American stories?

[lscomics]

Nice Chinese stuff! Any chance they were 'official' marvel or dc or related to American stories?

Unfortunately there's no way to really tell from the pics provided. Having one in hand would be very helpful in figuring that out, I've never seen any of them in person though.

[vaillant]

Usually the chinese stuff is unauthorized.

If you scroll back in the pages of this thread, I made a on-the-fly investigation on the japanese 1970s editions, which inversely are fully authorized (and there is even a volume with the #129, using the cover of #135).

[lscomics]

I've got a little time to kill this morning so here's a few updated group shots.

 

Adventure Comics 381

 

Superboy 143

 

Superboy 146

 

Superboy 155

 

Superboy 160

 

Superboy 175

 

Superman 234

[Chespirito]

Superman 234

 

I love the differences on these, very nice bro!

[lscomics]

Superman 234

 

I love the differences on these, very nice bro!

I agree. Some of them are slight and might not even be noticeable without the others next to each other to compare .

[Hado]

Here are my two so far:

 

[lscomics]

Here are my two so far:

 

[rjpb]

Those Arabic editions are doubly cool as they are largely free of word balloons and text blocks.

[Hado]

These came today, sorry about the double post in TW in your collection thread.

 

Greek Spider-Woman #6, with a great back cover

 

Greek Spider-Woman #8

 

When I opened these I was disappointed there appeared to be tape on the #6, but after looking closer, its printed on where they covered up the UPC box with their own info

 

 

The masthead is also neat where you can see where they covered up the original font

 

[lscomics]

Just got these in today thanks to Matt (Define999).

 

Goodwill Bookstore Avengers 96

 

Group shot

 

National Bookstore Green Lantern 89

 

Not a group shot but how about two consecutive Filipino editions?

 

National Bookstore House of Secrets 103

 

Another group shot

[howardhallis]

A big thank you to creedpatton for tracking down these amazing books from Brazil:

 

[TheLiamSturgess]

Very cool, didn't know those existed!