JollyComics Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Your wife annoyed you for 17+ years. Wished she knew this was going to be a treasure. Fun story! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehumantorch Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 I'm enjoying this thread. Please continue. newshane and EastEnd1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd1 Posted January 24 Author Share Posted January 24 On 1/24/2024 at 11:42 AM, JollyComics said: Your wife annoyed you for 17+ years. Wished she knew this was going to be a treasure. Fun story! Thank you... have to say she's actually been really good with my collection. She's surprisingly been very protective of it over the years, even more than I am. We used to antique a lot and whenever she stumbled across comics, she was sure to drag me over. 99% of the time it was pure junk, but she did have a couple of good finds. We're empty nesters now though and she is definitely on a purging binge... which I'm on board with too. We have built up so much clutter over the years! ADAMANTIUM, ernster, speedcake and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axelrod Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 I give this thread a Having a pile of unopened boxes sitting in one's closet for years is very much in my wheelhouse. EastEnd1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JollyComics Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 On 1/24/2024 at 11:15 AM, EastEnd1 said: Thank you... have to say she's actually been really good with my collection. She's surprisingly been very protective of it over the years, even more than I am. We used to antique a lot and whenever she stumbled across comics, she was sure to drag me over. 99% of the time it was pure junk, but she did have a couple of good finds. We're empty nesters now though and she is definitely on a purging binge... which I'm on board with too. We have built up so much clutter over the years! I am going to be 60 soon. I am yet an empty nester but within two years. We will be!!! My wife is a good finder in the antique and vintage dollhouses. the authority and EastEnd1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newshane Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 Love this! EastEnd1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd1 Posted January 25 Author Share Posted January 25 (edited) Good morning Folks... the next box is from January 2001... once again a Spidey was on top with a pretty neat John Romita Jr cover... Edited January 25 by EastEnd1 BA773, Legion HQ and ADAMANTIUM 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd1 Posted January 25 Author Share Posted January 25 Now this is one great Avengers cover by Steve Epting featuring a crucified Captain America! Not sure if I was clued into this cover when I ordered it... I was also buying pretty much anything written by Kurt Busiek at the time... BA773, thehumantorch and the authority 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd1 Posted January 25 Author Share Posted January 25 I was also buying pretty much anything written by Garth Ennis who set a new bar for violence and realism in his stories. This Tim Bradstreet cover matched up perfectly... the authority and BA773 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post EastEnd1 Posted January 25 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 25 You've got to love those Millennium Edition books... the most important comics in history reprinted and packaged so nicely. Here's Batman #1... it got a 9.8 without being pressed... gradejunky, speedcake, Ken Aldred and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeeksAreMyPeeps Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 Did you order many Image books around that time? Any chance you have a Walking Dead or Invincible #1? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd1 Posted January 26 Author Share Posted January 26 On 1/25/2024 at 6:42 PM, GeeksAreMyPeeps said: Did you order many Image books around that time? Any chance you have a Walking Dead or Invincible #1? I did. There was a period after Image first exploded on the scene where I was ordering every Image #1, usually in multiples. After a while though there were too many of them. The Westfield catalogs would give you a small synopsis of the story and sometimes even have art samples. Westfield would often recommend certain new titles too. I used all that to decide which #1s to order and whether to order in multiples. I'm a huge horror fan and when Walking Dead got hot, I actually went and pulled that box. I knew I'd ordered at least one copy (since it was about zombies) but was hoping I'd ordered multiples. Alas, when I went through the box there was only one. But I took it and put it in my permanent collection. Still have it raw... if I can track it down, I'll post it. I remember opening a few boxes after that too looking for subsequent issues... I'd ordered #2 and #3 and then stopped. Since I wasn't reading comics anymore, I really didn't know what was good or not until I caught up with the word of mouth. I know I started ordering Walking Dead again at some point and never missed another issue. Invincibles #1 I never went back to see if I had. Hopefully I'd made the Kirkman connection with the catalog and it's sitting in one of those boxes. We'll find out! Azkaban and BA773 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd1 Posted January 26 Author Share Posted January 26 As I mentioned, I'm a big horror fan. This terrific Batman skeleton cover by Scott McDaniel reminds me of some of those great pre-code horror covers I love so much... BA773 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd1 Posted January 26 Author Share Posted January 26 Here's another Dark Horse / DC collaboration... this time its the Justice League taking on Predators! ADAMANTIUM and BA773 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post EastEnd1 Posted January 26 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 26 (edited) Now this is an interesting one... When I was ordering I was always on the lookout for the next Bone or TMNT... new breakthrough characters or creators from small publishers. Most of the time I missed the target with my pre-orders but occasionally I got it right. Even with the misses though, I often came across some great small publisher material that most comic shops wouldn't even bother carrying. Again, because I was pre-ordering, I rarely missed any comic that sounded interesting. This is an example of that. My guess is I was attracted to the cover art and/or story synopsis in the catalog (or maybe it was recommended by Westfield?). But I did a little research when I came across this one in the box and it turns out it was a Xeric award winner. I gave it a quick read and have to say, the Farel Dalrymple story about a young urban kid that finds discarded angel wings is very touching and imaginative... definitely worth a read if you can track it down. Edited January 26 by EastEnd1 thehumantorch, gradejunky, BA773 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd1 Posted January 26 Author Share Posted January 26 Fabulous George Perez cover on this Spawn... BA773 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougC Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 Love this adventure! hoping we some some high number X-Men V2 issues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd1 Posted January 26 Author Share Posted January 26 On 1/26/2024 at 11:13 AM, DougC said: Love this adventure! hoping we some some high number X-Men V2 issues Thank you! The first X-Men comic I ever bought was #125 in 1978. I distinctly remember this cause my best friend and I (both comic book readers) stumbled across our first comic shop in the neighborhood, Richie's Comic Den, then. And when we walked in, we saw all these old comic books on the walls with "crazy" prices of $5 or $10 dollars. Neither of us had any idea that comics could be worth money then. Anyway, a bunch of those wall books were X-Men... and my friend was giddy that he saw an X-Men #94 on the wall, a comic he had, for a whopping $15! (He still has it btw.) We couldn't afford those wall books but we each had the $.40 to buy the current issue which was #125. It was great... we'd stumbled right into the Chris Claremont Phoenix saga and all that fabulous John Byrne art! Immediately made us X-Men fans and I didn't miss another issue for a VERY long time. But to answer your question, I definitely started buying the Vol 2 X-Men series... how far I went with it I'm not sure. But it's very possible I finished the series. I canceled my Westfield subscription somewhere around 2012. Azkaban, DougC, BA773 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyweaknesskryptonite Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 BA773 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post EastEnd1 Posted January 27 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 27 On 1/25/2024 at 6:42 PM, GeeksAreMyPeeps said: Did you order many Image books around that time? Any chance you have a Walking Dead or Invincible #1? So I wasn't able to track down the Walking Dead #1... I unfortunately don't have the most organized system and I think its sitting in a random box cause I just pulled it out of it's Westfield box one day... but I did find the #2 and #3... Azkaban, ADAMANTIUM, Vfactor1 and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
