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[Raze]

Picked this up at a LCS for their book club.

wasn’t able to meet for it, but I really enjoyed the book.

[Courageous Cat]

did house of mystery omnibus have a version where #208 was the cover art?

[D2]

On 5/6/2023 at 9:34 PM, Raze said:

Picked this up at a LCS for their book club.

wasn’t able to meet for it, but I really enjoyed the book.

Is it good? I really struggle with wrestling and DWJ for some reason loves it, and it plays a theme in a lot of his latest work. I didn’t enjoy Beta Ray Bill because of it. 
Can non wrestling fans enjoy this?

[bronze_rules]

On 5/6/2023 at 10:15 PM, Courageous Cat said:

did house of mystery omnibus have a version where #208 was the cover art?

No . It was going to be and they switched to ugly covers. It was on essentials however.

[Raze]

On 5/7/2023 at 12:06 PM, D2 said:

Is it good? I really struggle with wrestling and DWJ for some reason loves it, and it plays a theme in a lot of his latest work. I didn’t enjoy Beta Ray Bill because of it. 
Can non wrestling fans enjoy this?

I dont watch wrestling, last time I watched was early 2000s because I had nothing to do?.
 

I really enjoyed the book. I wish I was able to have gone to the LCS to see what others thought. It had some fun action sequences funny wrestling names. Anybody could enjoy it I think even if you’re not a wrestling fan like I am. I am a fan of Daniel, Warren Johnson. I think he captures action really well.

[Courageous Cat]

On 5/7/2023 at 2:36 PM, bronze_rules said:

No . It was going to be and they switched to ugly covers. It was on essentials however.

so, I tried to cancel my order from DCBS and thought you'd be interested in the response 

 

 

[bronze_rules]

On 5/8/2023 at 3:14 PM, Courageous Cat said:

so, I tried to cancel my order from DCBS and thought you'd be interested in the response 

 

 

Weird, I saw this... Buy House Of Mystery: The Bronze Age Omnibus Vol. 2- Various, Books | Sanity 

showing NOT FINAL COVER. But, the only one I've seen is this

Let us know if you get it. I'd prefer yours.

Edited May 9, 2023 by bronze_rules

[Courageous Cat]

On 5/8/2023 at 11:26 PM, bronze_rules said:

Weird, I saw this... Buy House Of Mystery: The Bronze Age Omnibus Vol. 2- Various, Books | Sanity 

showing NOT FINAL COVER. But, the only one I've seen is this

Let us know if you get it. I'd prefer yours.

100% agree!
 

got 2 emails saying this cover is correct. We’ll see. I’ll let u know

[F For Fake]

On 5/8/2023 at 11:26 PM, bronze_rules said:

Weird, I saw this... Buy House Of Mystery: The Bronze Age Omnibus Vol. 2- Various, Books | Sanity 

showing NOT FINAL COVER. But, the only one I've seen is this

Let us know if you get it. I'd prefer yours.

I'll check mine when I get home tonight, pretty sure this is the cover they went with, but I could be wrong. Haven't taken it off the shelf since I read it and that's been a year or more ago. Will try to remember to verify tonight!

[theCapraAegagrus]

On 5/8/2023 at 6:14 PM, Courageous Cat said:

so, I tried to cancel my order from DCBS and thought you'd be interested in the response 

 

 

As far as #1 goes, it makes sense to me. IST gave me the same type of response once, mentioning that it would greatly confuse their fulfillment process. I initiated a return after it (whatever the book was) arrived, instead. Getting nearly a 50% discount makes up for their process being limited, IMO. I know that not everyone will agree with that. I worked in Customer Service before, so I'll accommodate as much as reasonably possible.

[Courageous Cat]

On 5/9/2023 at 8:37 AM, F For Fake said:

I'll check mine when I get home tonight, pretty sure this is the cover they went with, but I could be wrong. Haven't taken it off the shelf since I read it and that's been a year or more ago. Will try to remember to verify tonight!

I’d appreciate it 👍

[F For Fake]

@Courageous Cat sorry my friend, wish I had better news for ya.

Also, this gives me an opportunity to once again complain about DC switching trade dress halfway through the run. Drives me bonkers! 

[Courageous Cat]

On 5/9/2023 at 7:41 PM, F For Fake said:

@Courageous Cat sorry my friend, wish I had better news for ya.

Also, this gives me an opportunity to once again complain about DC switching trade dress halfway through the run. Drives me bonkers! 

Yikes! Blatantly lying to me about a silly book doesn’t make me feel confident in ordering from this company in the future. I’ll send it back once they decide to get off their arse and ship it, which they have yet to do according to the website. Thank u for taking time out of your day 4 me. Think I’ll call them tomorrow and give ‘em what for

Edited May 10, 2023 by Courageous Cat

[theCapraAegagrus]

On 5/9/2023 at 7:41 PM, F For Fake said:

...gives me an opportunity to once again complain about DC switching trade dress halfway through the run. Drives me bonkers!

I hate it sooooooo much.

[F For Fake]

On 5/10/2023 at 6:45 AM, theCapraAegagrus said:

I hate it sooooooo much.

It makes no sense at all. It's not like these were going to be long-running volumes. Just finish up the series with the old design, and apply the new one to some new title. Maddening.

[F For Fake]

These arrived yesterday. I bought the first editions at a 2nd and Charles a few years ago for less than $100 for the set. At the time they were already OOP, and prices were starting to climb. I bought two sets, one for myself, and one to sell. Instantly sold the first set for about $250. Then I read the keeper set, and really loved the story. Eventually, prices went even nuttier, and I couldn't ignore it, so I sold my "keeper" set for about $500. I was happy with the money, and justified it by telling myself there was no way I'd be rereading that series soon, and yet...I kinda regretted selling them. This has been a REALLY cool story.

So, I had to wait a couple of years, but I was confident Marvel would eventually reissue them, and here they are. Huzzah! My new "keeper" set. Now I wish they'd reissue the Avengers World Complete Collection TPB, as that really is a must-have companion to these books. Not sure when I'll ever get around to reading these again, but they're not going anywhere this time.

[Raze]

Picked this up from a recent sales thread here on the boards!

[F For Fake]

Got my Hamiltonbook.com shipment yesterday, which reminded me that I never posted about their latest drop over here!

As I've talked about before, I am a longtime buyer from Hamilton Books, a family run media company. Most of their business comes from mail order catalogs, but several years ago they launched their website, and they became one of the best spots to hit up for discounted/close-out DVD's, Blu-Rays and books. I really started shopping there because of Blu Ray, had no idea about their comic deals.

Anyway, they don't have a consistent inventory, it all just depends on what their buyer (who is also the owner of the company) can get in stock from publishers at close-out prices. So, stock is hit or miss, but a couple of weeks ago they had a great drop of DC omni's.

Lots of good prices here. They already sold out of the Batman Golden Age Volume 3 at $29.99 (I jumped on it as I saw the stock numbers dwindling) but it looks like they have at least a couple/few dozen left of some other nice books, most notably Bronze Age Swamp Thing (a $80-$100 seller on eBay, for $49.99), Bronze Age Doom Patrol, Batman Golden Age Vol 4, Batgirl Bronze Age, etc. Mostly $100-$150 books priced at $35-$50. 

Shipping is a flat $4.

Now, I need to place another order soon, so don't buy them all up before I get my chance!

https://www.hamiltonbook.com/products/search?listing_sort=10&limit=100&q=omnibus&power_search=Start%2BSearch&pf[1]=1&_=1684419499959&cat_id=GN

 

[Dave2739]

Just saw this interesting news

https://www.cbr.com/hasbro-rom-returns-marvel-omnibus/

[DeadOne]

On 5/22/2023 at 5:19 PM, Dave2739 said:

Just saw this interesting news

https://www.cbr.com/hasbro-rom-returns-marvel-omnibus/

That's great news.