Pyromaniac Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Great slabs here! Anyone have this ns in a graded 9.8? Been looking for awhile. Morganmi and ADAMANTIUM 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morganmi Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 3 hours ago, Pyromaniac said: Great slabs here! Anyone have this ns in a graded 9.8? Been looking for awhile. Just looked and mines a direct. Only Post 200 UXM newstands I have are these and they are ungraded. Pyromaniac and mec3437 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mec3437 Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 12 hours ago, Pyromaniac said: Great slabs here! Anyone have this ns in a graded 9.8? Been looking for awhile. I'll check when I get home. I know I have a 9.8, but pretty sure it is direct. I have a few more raw copies, so there may be a newsstand 9.8 candidate in there. Pyromaniac 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyweaknesskryptonite Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 Foreign newsstand All of these newsstand are also signed by John Byrne Sorry about the directs just didn't want to dig to take just a picture of the newsstand. Spider-man is a Mark Jeweler's And of course my collection of 2nd print newsstands. mec3437 and Morganmi 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Qalyar Posted July 29, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 29, 2020 I suppose these are technically Modern, not Copper. The series began in 1991, but these final issues are 1992 releases. Still, these feel a lot more like Copper Age comics than Modern ones. Certainly, they're not the same sort of beast as the late-year Modern newsstands. Pirates of Dark Water was an interesting, well-crafted little cartoon (with a pretty A-list voice cast to boot) that was probably before its time. It also might have been a little too well-crafted, since it ran consistently over budget and missed several production deadlines. As a result, it didn't get consistent airings and was cancelled well before the completion of its main storyline. The final eight episodes were produced in haste as a direct-to-syndication second season and are perhaps a little lower quality than the ones before. Regardless, the show had a pretty devoted fan following at the time (and a pretty devoted cult following now), and so in 1991 Marvel released a 6-issue comic book adaptation of the first episodes (which had originally aired separately as sort of a cartoon mini-series). It also sold well, and so Marvel prepared 3 additional issues, with a story unique to the comics. The series in general is pretty good, and offers some fun trivial. All 9 issues were scripted by Dwight Jon Zimmerman; after the 90s comic industry collapse, he made a new career for himself as an award-winning military history author (including The Vietnam War and Saga of the Sioux; he was also a co-author with Bill O'Reilly of Lincoln's Last Days). Meanwhile, the covers for the first 6 books were done by Bruce Zick, followed by Rob Davis for the next two (styled after the cartoon). And then there's the final issue, with a fantastic Charles Vess (probably quite familiar to Spider-Man fans) cover that doesn't look like anything else the franchise ever produced. But is nevertheless my favorite piece in the whole 9-issue run. I think Vess is a pretty significantly under-rated artist in general. In any case, as was common for 90s Marvel material, all 9 issues exist in both direct market and newsstand variants, and I was happy to pick up these 3. Stacking them this way hides the fact that this copy of #7 is quite the beater, but I bought these for the #9, easily the hardest of the series to find in newsstand. This one probably won't ever be slabbed (unless some studio reboots the cartoon and these randomly become hot books someday), but would live happily in the 8.5/9.0 range (what looks like a stain at UR is just the terrible lighting I had present!). Morganmi, HighVoltage, Jasonmorris1000000 and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mec3437 Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 @Pyromaniac I just checked. All I have are direct editions. Sorry. Good luck with the search. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyromaniac Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 5 minutes ago, mec3437 said: @Pyromaniac I just checked. All I have are direct editions. Sorry. Good luck with the search. Thanks for looking! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spawnfreak Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 2 hours ago, Qalyar said: I suppose these are technically Modern, not Copper. The series began in 1991, but these final issues are 1992 releases. Still, these feel a lot more like Copper Age comics than Modern ones. Certainly, they're not the same sort of beast as the late-year Modern newsstands. Pirates of Dark Water was an interesting, well-crafted little cartoon (with a pretty A-list voice cast to boot) that was probably before its time. It also might have been a little too well-crafted, since it ran consistently over budget and missed several production deadlines. As a result, it didn't get consistent airings and was cancelled well before the completion of its main storyline. The final eight episodes were produced in haste as a direct-to-syndication second season and are perhaps a little lower quality than the ones before. Regardless, the show had a pretty devoted fan following at the time (and a pretty devoted cult following now), and so in 1991 Marvel released a 6-issue comic book adaptation of the first episodes (which had originally aired separately as sort of a cartoon mini-series). It also sold well, and so Marvel prepared 3 additional issues, with a story unique to the comics. The series in general is pretty good, and offers some fun trivial. All 9 issues were scripted by Dwight Jon Zimmerman; after the 90s comic industry collapse, he made a new career for himself as an award-winning military history author (including The Vietnam War and Saga of the Sioux; he was also a co-author with Bill O'Reilly of Lincoln's Last Days). Meanwhile, the covers for the first 6 books were done by Bruce Zick, followed by Rob Davis for the next two (styled after the cartoon). And then there's the final issue, with a fantastic Charles Vess (probably quite familiar to Spider-Man fans) cover that doesn't look like anything else the franchise ever produced. But is nevertheless my favorite piece in the whole 9-issue run. I think Vess is a pretty significantly under-rated artist in general. In any case, as was common for 90s Marvel material, all 9 issues exist in both direct market and newsstand variants, and I was happy to pick up these 3. Stacking them this way hides the fact that this copy of #7 is quite the beater, but I bought these for the #9, easily the hardest of the series to find in newsstand. This one probably won't ever be slabbed (unless some studio reboots the cartoon and these randomly become hot books someday), but would live happily in the 8.5/9.0 range (what looks like a stain at UR is just the terrible lighting I had present!). Have this if you're interested. Not perfect, but cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasonmorris1000000 Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 ADAMANTIUM, mec3437, onlyweaknesskryptonite and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ares Posted August 17, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 17, 2020 Going through my collection re-bagging books that I want to resell to thin out my collection and I came across this one mec3437, Jasonmorris1000000, divad and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dmac538 Posted August 18, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 18, 2020 Here a few that i have. valiantman, onlyweaknesskryptonite, Jasonmorris1000000 and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingDonut Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 Hello beautiful. Found this in backstock in a box. mec3437, Morganmi, ADAMANTIUM and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ramrod44 Posted August 20, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 20, 2020 Some recent additions I've yet to post in this thread: Dmac538, valiantman, Jasonmorris1000000 and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyweaknesskryptonite Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 1 hour ago, ramrod44 said: Some recent additions I've yet to post in this thread: CPV and a Mark Jeweler's! Congratulations! ramrod44 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jesse-Lee Posted August 24, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 24, 2020 Just got this one... Jasonmorris1000000, Morganmi, mec3437 and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mec3437 Posted August 29, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 29, 2020 onlyweaknesskryptonite, divad, astrometric and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesse-Lee Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 A few new additions (a couple of these are maybe technically modern? They still "feel" copper to me): ADAMANTIUM and mec3437 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revat Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 13 hours ago, Jesse-Lee said: A few new additions (a couple of these are maybe technically modern? They still "feel" copper to me): All copper ADAMANTIUM and Jesse-Lee 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazyboy Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 7 hours ago, revat said: All copper Carnage is not Copper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyweaknesskryptonite Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 19 minutes ago, Lazyboy said: Carnage is not Copper. If you ask Swarmi he would call it GOLD! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
