NoChance Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 Thank you for sharing. Saw you mentioned Scooby-Doo. Any coming up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd1 Posted March 13 Author Share Posted March 13 On 3/13/2024 at 2:53 PM, NoChance said: Thank you for sharing. Saw you mentioned Scooby-Doo. Any coming up? I haven't come across any Scooby-Doos yet, but if there were any new Scooby -Doo series that came out during the period I wasn't opening boxes, I definitely would have ordered at least the first issues. Scooby-Doo takes me right back to my grammar school days and would have been very nostalgic for me. Will keep an eye out and post any I come across! NoChance 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd1 Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 I'm still waiting for another order of books to come back from CGC, but what I think I'm going to do is skip ahead of those boxes and just start showing the latest group of boxes I've opened with the books just in their raw "out of the box" condition. Some of them will ultimately be sent in for grading, and I'll re-post those books down the road when they're graded. I'll also post a lot more books from each box as I've come to learn that there are a lot of varied tastes in the modern age and one thing I was pretty good at when I was ordering was variety... my interests were all over the place, and all genres and publishers wound up in the boxes. So hopefully there should be something coming for everyone. And if you do have very specific collecting tastes, maybe some of these "other" books I'll be posting will catch your interest and get you thinking about trying something different. The modern age was/is definitely very rich in diverse material! mrwoogieman, BA773 and F For Fake 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd1 Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 I'm going to jump into the box from May 2000 now. This was one of the rare boxes that actually did arrive pretty damaged... bad crunches on two corners, one of which split wide open! This box I did open at the time to check on the books in case I had to return any damaged ones. But amazingly enough, all the books were fine! Kudos to styrofoam peanuts! So I just taped up the bad corner and put the box in storage with the rest of them... until now... ADAMANTIUM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd1 Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 So the book right on top was a Punisher Vol 3 #3, featuring a Daredevil guest appearance, and polybagged with a "Marvel Knights / Marvel Boy Genesis Edition" free comic. Another great Tim Bradstreet cover on this one, with a pretty cool skull in the background made out to appear as a large moon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd1 Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 Of course I have to take care of the X-Men fans... #381 came with a free Topps X-Men card. Mine turned out to be a Halle Berry Storm... ADAMANTIUM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd1 Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 Another wonderful George Perez Avengers cover on this one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd1 Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 That's a pretty solemn Black Bolt on the cover of issue 1 of this Inhumans limited series... BA773 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd1 Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 And here's another one of those great DC Millennium Edition reprints... this time All-Star Comics #3... the 1st appearance and origin of the Justice Society... crazyhips 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd1 Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 Think you guys know by now what a big fan I am of the Batman: Dark Victory limited series... here's #7... crazyhips 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd1 Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 And last one for tonight (more still to come from this box though) is this JSA #11. I stayed with this series for maybe it's entire run, much of which wasn't very attention grabbing. But this execution cover is definitely a stand out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd1 Posted March 17 Author Share Posted March 17 Orion #1 made it's appearance that month with Walt Simonson cover and art... BA773 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd1 Posted March 17 Author Share Posted March 17 Landmark numerical issues were almost always ordered... in this case Hitman #50. The Garth Ennis script made it an even easier book to order... crazyhips 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd1 Posted March 17 Author Share Posted March 17 I thought this Howard Porter cover on JLA #42 was pretty neat... talk about superheros in peril! BA773 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd1 Posted March 17 Author Share Posted March 17 Neil Gaiman's Sandman might be the best scripted comic series ever (though there's some work from fellow Brit Alan Moore that I think gives it a run). The character Lucifer was first introduced in issue #4. Apparently his look was modeled after David Bowie (though I'm not quite seeing that here). I do wish I'd ordered more than one copy of the first issue of Lucifer's own title though... think I'd ordered four Sandman #1s but dropped the ball here... crazyhips 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd1 Posted March 17 Author Share Posted March 17 Now that's what I call a face only a mother could love... though it does make one hell of a comic book cover. For those unfamiliar with the character, his name is "Arseface"... I think you can understand the reference (though his origin is quite tragic). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd1 Posted March 17 Author Share Posted March 17 Dark Horse hit the trifecta when they got the comic book rights to Aliens, Predator and the Terminator, three of the most popular film villains from 1980s horror/sci-fi. So how could you go wrong ordering a comic featuring all three! Interestingly, the film business would later mimic some of Dark Horse's team-ups... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd1 Posted March 17 Author Share Posted March 17 One more for the Spawn fans... newshane 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd1 Posted March 17 Author Share Posted March 17 And lastly, an Indie that I thought might have some potential from the Westfield catalog description... alas, it was not to be... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd1 Posted March 17 Author Share Posted March 17 That's it for this box... next up is April 2001! ADAMANTIUM and F For Fake 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
