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Collection Gone - Top Ten Reacquires?

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Flaming_Telepath

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Great idea for a thread, BTW. thumbsup2.gif

 

Top ten replacements, in no particular order, and why…

 

Avengers #66 – first comic I ever bought at the newsstand

 

X-Men #58 – best Neal Adams cover. Ever.

 

ASM #121 – the end of the age of my comic innocence

 

Avengers #52 – John Buscema in his prime, with a cover that always jumps out of any wall display

 

ASM #86 – the debut of the ‘new, improved Black Widow’, the sexiest woman in comics. Ever.

 

FF #57 – possibly the best FF/Doom/Surfer story written

 

Strange Tales #167 – tough call which of the ground-breaking Steranko issues to choose, but this gets the nod because of the iconic cover

 

TTA #100 – one the greatest battle issues ever, and one that I can vividly remember reading as a kid

 

Avengers #71 – great storyline and for a kid new to comics, all of these old characters seemed to be giants from out of time

 

TTA #58 – this book with its, quite frankly, weird cover and story, just about sums up the whole feel of the heyday of 60s Marvel

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WOXL

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Great first post!

 

Even though I have some much nicer comics now, the first books I would reacquire are the oddball ones that I cherish the most from my childhood. These books aren't much to speak of from a collecting point of view, but I would gladly pay the paltry sums to acquire them before moving on to heavy hitters. These are books that really make my collection mine.

 

Transformers #70

Transformers #75

Transformers #80

X-Men (1992) #1 Beast cover

X-Men (1992) #25

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi #1

Star Wars: Redemption #5

X-Men (1963) #50 (best comic cover ever!)

X-Men (1963) #14

Fell #1

 

 

-Nostalgic Bob

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joeypost

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Hulk #1-No explanation necessary

Hulk #103-Personal grail

Hulk #181-Again no explanation necessary.

Iron Man #55-Key first app. Thanos

X-Men #101-Key first app. Phoenix

Marvel Spotlight #2-Key first app. Werewolf by Night

Star Wars #1-I own the highest graded copy (census-and share it wth like 50 other 9.8's) with White pages

Thor #210-First comic I ever purchased off the spinning rack.

Avengers #110-Read this one 50 times while recovering from a broken cheek bone as a kid

Tales to Astonish #93-IMHO one of the best covers of the run.

 

And I will add #11 as

Werewolf by Night #32-First app. Moon Knight baby.

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Mask Comics 1 - my favorite cover

Dynamic Comics 8 - tough book with another favorite cover

Captain America 111 - Would want all 3 Steranko Caps, but I'll take this one for now

Tower of Shadows 1 - all-time great Steranko story

Silver Surfer 4 - favorite SA book

Voodoo 5 - great Farrell cover

Haunted Thrills 6 - one of my fav Farrell

Weird Mysteries 5 - one of my fav covers, great Wolverton story

Nick Fury 5 - I picked a random Steranko Nick Fury... any would do

Captain America Comics 74 - great cover, great story

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Schmakt

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neat question. smile.gif

 

I'd have to say...

 

1) Daredevil #1 - I worked HARD to get that collection together - definitely my first reacquire.

 

2) Sandman #1 - the Gaiman version - lots of memories wrapped up in this series

 

3) Grendel #1 - it's a tossup b/t this and Primer 2, but I think I like the story in #1 better, plus, it's all Grendel!

 

4) Local #3 - Not worth anything at all, but Brian Wood's one of my favorites, and Local #3 did an amazing job of fusing together two things that I really like - comics & music!

 

5) Nick Fury #1 - The #4 cover is probably more recognizable, but #1 is readable by itself. mmm... Steranko. smile.gif

 

6) Magnus: Robot Fighter #12 - The Valiant version. This story is self-contained enough to make it readable on its own. I loved the intro of Turok, and this issue was a great lead-in to Unity. All-in-all, it was really just a fun book.

 

7) Daredevil #7 - Red costume, Wally Wood... you all know. smile.gif

 

8) Marvel Spotlight #2 - First Werewolf, Mike Ploog art, and a really fun story to boot. Sweet!

 

9) Tomb of Dracula #1 - ToD was a great series... even before Wolfman came aboard, I really dug it. There are probably better issues, but #1 would definitely be on the replace list.

 

10) American Flagg #1 - Howard Chaykin at his best

 

Honorable Mentions would have been The Shadow #1 (Kaluta), Swamp Thing #1 (Wein/Wrightson), Judge Dredd #1 (Eagle Comics)... probably some others I'm forgetting... some Miller DD's, perhaps. And, if we used TPB's, Brian Wood's Channel Zero, definitely. Sandman's Season of Mists would probably make it too.

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Rodey

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No order:

 

Wolverine v2 #10

 

X-men #54 (my girlfriend bought me)

 

Human Fly #1 (1st comic I bought)

 

ASM #298

 

ASM #300

 

Avengers #196

 

ASM #238 (1st "valuable" comic I found for $1.00)

 

X-men 121

 

Thor #225 (Cuz Arex would kill me)

 

X-men #21 (b-day present)

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Norrin_Radd

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Some of my favorite comics from my collection are somewhat irreplaceable. So I couldn't really reacquire them.

 

Two GA Joker covers from an original owner collection and five pre-production Crossgen comics that I haven't seen anywhere else.

 

To round it out to ten, here are three other favorites that are replaceable.

 

Adventure 433 CGC 9.6

Digital Webbing Presents #5 signed by Eric Powell

Marvel Spotlight 2 CGC 9.0 (from Steve Sibra)

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CDaBruce

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I'm giving this thread a bumpit.gif. It was helping me to know what forumites collected what. So here is the restated premise:

 

Your collection is gone, for good. What are the top ten comics that you would reacquire? Remember, if it was a one of a kind, that particular copy can't be replaced (pedigree, childhood copy, etc.).

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Sid

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Conan the barbarian #23 ( 1st app. Red Sonja - obsession begins )

Conan the barbarian #24 ( 1st full app. Red Sonja )

Marvel Feature #1 ( pattern? )

Nickel Comics #1 ( the good life )

I Heart NY ( sentimental piece )

Cyblade/Shi #1 ( 1st app. Witchblade )

True Story Swear to God #1 ( irreplaceable gift )

Batman : Realworlds ( 1st book to make me upset )

Marvel Feature #3 ( irreplacable - was a gift from someone special )

Dream of Dawn #1/2 ( irreplacable - gift )

 

I have a pretty insignificant collection but obsession is good.

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trevorlsmith

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Amazing Adventures 11

Daredevil 131

Hero for Hire 1

Incredible Hulk 180

Iron Fist 14

Iron Man 55

Marvel Premiere 15

Special Marvel Edition 15

Tomb of Dracula 10

Werewolf By Night 32

 

Nothing to crazy here. Pretty bland actually as far as comics go. All bronze 1st appearances, but I had to leave a few off to keep it at ten. Oh, and a minimum grade of 9.4.

 

I had trouble narrowing it down to ten so I just chose my favorite time period (bronze), and then my ten favorite characters from that period that I have in cgc 9.4 or better.

 

I could do separate top tens for silver and copper, but I can't make an overall top ten with any real certainty.

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trevorlsmith

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My last post didn't feel complete so I'm cheating a bit.

 

Top 5 Silver Age:

Avengers 57

Captain America 117

Nick Fury 15

Strange Tales 135

Tales of Suspense 57

 

Top 5 Copper Age:

AMS 238

AMS 299

Avengers Annual 10

Daredevil 168

X-Men 266

 

Again, 1st appearances of favorite characters.

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brasseye

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Getting my top 10 books back, after all my copies going south...far too depressing to contemplate.

 

I'd just track down a complete run of Vertigo Sandman, and leave it at that.

 

ok...and maybe...because I know I'd crack on the above,

 

TTA#93

Surfer #4

FF #48-50

NF #1, #4

Avengers #57 (don't currently have one...but intending)

Strange Tales #135

Sandman #8 ..editorial variant. 9.6 just like the one I have now cloud9.gif

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