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bobkatt013 posted:It is going for 50+ online while I can get the issues for 10 bucks. Looks like I will have the issues for the first 6 issues then the trades for the rest. Hey, I live near a bunch of GREAT comic shops. If I can find one, would you pay cover price plus shipping? I'd be happy to look. (We're both talking about the O'Neil Question Vol. 1: Zen and Violence, correct?)
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bobkatt013 posted:Yes and yes I get most of my trades from the public library, so I'm always happy to visit these shops and buy a book once in a while. The only continuing series I'm purchasing (trades only) are Hawkguy, Fatale, and Saga, and possibly FF when the first volume comes out. I will let you know if I find a copy!
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bobkatt013 posted:Is there any cheap way to read Doctor Doom/Doctor Strange Triumph and Torment? Looking at it on ebay and amazon it is going for a ridiculous price.
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RevKrule posted:A lot of my recent prime shipped stuff (books and otherwise) has been in crummy padded envelopes. It's ok in most cases but with books, this is a bad way to ship. The last TPBs I bought from Amazon Prime (Hawkeye Vol. 1 and The Shade) showed up in padded envelopes that were far too large to provide any protection, and the covers were beaten to hell. I had to return each book TWICE before finally getting copies I could live with, although the ones I settled for still had minor corner damage to the covers. One even had a new thing -- a sticker that went over the book, from the top of the front cover to the top of the back cover, presumably to keep it from opening (in the flat padded envelope?!). It stuck to the tops of the pages and did not peel off cleanly, leaving horrible sticky residue on BOTH covers.
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bobkatt013 posted:It is going for 50+ online while I can get the issues for 10 bucks. Looks like I will have the issues for the first 6 issues then the trades for the rest. Hey bobkatt013, I called in a favor with a friend, so I should have a copy of the Question Vol. 1 TPB in my hands in a week or so. You still up for paying cover price plus shipping -- about $25 total? Shoot me an e-mail at saxman2 AT hotmail, if you would.
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redbackground posted:I came across a great find today--a big-rear end 1965 hardcover of Jules Feiffer's "The Great Comic Book Heroes" long-form essay and accompanying full-color Golden Age reproductions for a measly $4. I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but I can already tell it's going to be pretty schway. I owned that book for most of my life -- a former library copy my mom brought home from the school where she taught (since the librarian was going to deselect it!). It is really great, and when I was a kid in elementary school, diving into DC Who's Who and The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Deluxe Edition, I read it until I pretty much had it memorized.
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Today was a great day. A co-worker who retired last month bought everyone gifts before she left, and she got me a $15 gift certificate to our largest local chain of comic shops. I was debating between buying myself Saga Vol. 2 or Fatale Vol. 3 with it, or waiting around for Hawkeye Vol. 2, but today the shops were having a Buy One TPB, Get One Free sale for Independence Day. So I ended up getting Saga AND Fatale for less than a dollar out of my own pocket, AND they had Modern Masters: Mike Allred (my favorite artist) on their 75% off shelf, so I got that for another four bucks. I made out like a bandit!
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Does anyone else have a mismatched set of Sandman TPBs (and is as bothered about it as I am)? I've been trying to put together a matching set, and I'm getting closer little by little. Does anyone have matching volumes 5, 6, and/or 10 that might prefer the ones I have?   If so, e-mail me at saxman2 AT hotmail! Big Bad Voodoo Lou fucked around with this message at 16:47 on Aug 25, 2013 |
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Interesting they're coming out with a Catwoman by Brubaker volume 3, with the previously-uncollected #25-37. I have always been a fan and vocal proponent of his run of #1-24, with artists like Darwyn Cooke, Brad Rader, and Cameron Stewart, and own the original four TPBs that collected these issues. I don't know why DC never collected the rest (oh yeah, the monkeys in the Collected Editions Department), but are they actually any good? I know they went for more of a "house style" with artists like Paul Gulacy (which did not appeal to me as much), but did the overall quality of Brubaker's run continue?
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Aug 24, 2013 20:56
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Inkslinger posted:Usually I'm okay with creator-centric collections, but it's highly annoying that the JSA Omnibus starts with #6. That's like getting a DVD collection of a TV series that doesn't include the pilot episode setting everything up. So, just like Twin Peaks for a very, VERY long time.
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Uthor posted:Self porn! Nice photos, and nice Classics Optimus Prime! Would you sell or trade it for anything?
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Uthor posted:Oh, I doubt it's worth anything. I picked it up at Target or Walmart or something in 2006/2007 (it say's 2006 on the leg) when people were still excited for the movie. Probably paid like $15 for it. Not to be a pest, but e-mail me at saxman2 AT hotmail.com, and I'll try to make an offer that's worth your while!
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Rhyno posted:I was born without a torso you insensitive jerk. Table-Top Joe?
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obi_ant posted:So... I've read the 4 omnibuses that Brubaker and Benis wrote, picking up the Miller one when it comes out, is the HC by Mark Waid the next step to go?
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Oct 22, 2013 03:11
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sporklift posted:Careful. I started binding to get rid of my longboxes problem. Now I end up hunting down complete runs of floppies just for the thrill of tearing them up to get bound. But if you already own the issues and remove the double-sided ad pages (including back covers), you can get 25-30 issues bound in each volume, making it more economical than shopping for trades. Plus, these days, you won't get much for selling your singles.
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Oct 23, 2013 13:49
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Casyl posted:Just FYI, Amazon's 30% off a book coupon BOOKDEAL is valid on preorders, so if anyone was planning on getting an omnibus or anything else from Amazon this might be a good time to order. Note that the maximum possible discount is $10. Expires Dec. 1. Thank you! I didn't have anything in my Amazon wish list I was dying for right now, so I just preordered Fatale Vol. 4, which will be out in January.
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Sundowner posted:Managed to snag this on ebay for £2. The spine is still stiff so it hadn't even been read. Trouble is I don't have Volume One! I just couldn't let that deal go, so now I need to find a decent deal on Vol 1. Is that a TPB or a hardcover? I'm sure I could find you a matching Volume 1 locally (Florida), but probably not quite as cheap as that.
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pretend to care posted:This is awesome. Thanks a lot dude. How does the binding concept work? You take physical books and combine them into your own anthology of sorts? Exactly, except you send them out to the handful of professional binderies that specialize in that sort of thing. Our own redbackground is one of several BSS Goons who has bound a lot of comics, and I blogged about my binding experiences back in the day: http://bigbadvoodoolou.blogspot.com/2009/07/binding-comic-books-1-justice-league.html http://bigbadvoodoolou.blogspot.com/2009/10/binding-comic-books-2-starman-sandman.html
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My best friend was psyched to just find a hardcover copy of Morrison's JLA Volume 1, the hardcover Deluxe Edition, for cover price. Now we're both searching in vain to find him a Volume 2 hardcover, but the very few sources for it have it marked up into the $60 territory. Is there any possibility that DC will release an Omnibus of Morrison's JLA run anytime soon? It seems like a better deal than paying that much for the Volume 2 hardcover and then tracking down Volumes 3 and 4 around $25 each.
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You think that's bad? I thought I had them all almost a decade ago! But one of the biggest pet peeves in my own collection is almost having a matching set of these:  This print run is pretty easy to find in hardcover, but the trade paperbacks are surprisingly, annoyingly rare nowadays.
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I'm still trying to help my friend track down Morrison's JLA Volume 2 hardcover at a reasonable price, but that ain't happening.
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Metal Loaf posted:Does anyone have a list of the collections for Geoff Johns's original pre-N52 Superman run? I've heard it's pretty good and I'd like to give it a go at some point. I have the hardcover of Johns' Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes, if you want a good deal whenever you get to that one. E-mail me at saxman2 AT hotmail.com.
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I'll never forget that beautiful day a few years ago where Amazon mispriced a handful of Marvel Omnis and a few other high-end hardcovers at $15 each, including the Bendis DD Volume 2 and Brubaker DD Volumes 1 and 2. I just bought those three and Criminal OHC Volume 1, but I think other people stockpiled everything they could while it lasted.
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Space Fish posted:My favorite part of it was the reveal. IIRC, the firing gun of a post went something like, "Hey guys, search 'marvel omnibus' on Amazon real quick," and we were off to the races! That was me, I'm happy to say after all this time.
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Hey, I have a question about Marvel's Secret Invasion-related TPBs. My Secret Invasion TPB has a purple spine with the very stylized "Secret Invasion" title in a slanted yellow font. No big deal, it's a stand-alone volume. My New Avengers Volumes 8 and 9 TPBs are titled Secret Invasion Book 1 and Secret Invasion Book 2. Those just have normal black spines, matching the rest of my New Avengers TPBs with a normal yellow font. I recently picked up Mighty Avengers Volume 3, titled Secret Invasion Book 1, and it matches all of those as well. They look nice together, and I like matching spines. BUT, today I found Mighty Avengers Volume 4, titled Secret Invasion Book 2, at a used bookstore where I have store credit, and the spine was purple, with the slanted yellow font. And come to think of it, I've seen lots of other Secret Invasion tie-in TPBs at comic shops with the purple spines and slanted yellow font. What's the deal -- multiple print runs obviously, but which came first, and which are typically cheaper and easier to find? I wanted to buy that Mighty Avengers Volume 4, but it would have really bugged me that it didn't match Volume 3 at all. This really is a thing for me. I'm still hunting all over trying to find Sandman Volumes 6 and 10 that match the rest of mine (the print run where each volume had a different color of the rainbow along the spines), and if I ever end up with a fully-matching set, I know I'll be overcome with a sense of relief. Big Bad Voodoo Lou fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Oct 11, 2014 |
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Uthor posted:Marvel releases different versions for direct sale and regular retailers. They make the retail versions work better as stand alones while the direct sale books are designed to work together in big, long runs. Usually it's different spines, sometimes it's different covers, too.
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One of my local comic shops is having its 32nd Anniversary sale this weekend, in which you can buy any TPB or hardcover and get a second one for 32 cents. I think I'm going to treat myself to Superior Foes of Spider-Man Vol. 3 and Soule's She-Hulk Vol. 1.
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Rhyno posted:#22 and the Omni were both on the final order cutoff on Friday which means they are shipping in 3 weeks. They don't put them on the FOC unless the physical copies exist. Any word on the fourth and final TPB? Same time frame? Hopefully they won't pull a DC and make the loyal trade-waiters wait even longer.
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Amazon just delayed the fourth Hawkeye TPB until JUNE. That's insane!
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Uthor posted:lovely panorama. (Thanks for the Grendel mask, Big Bad Voodoo Lou!) You're so welcome, and thank you for my Optimus Prime! I love that little guy.
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Rhyno posted:I think I've asked before but where did you get the tiered platforms your figures are on? Spice racks I bought many years ago from Bed Bath and Beyond. They were white, so I spray-painted them black to blend in.
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Does anyone own the Geoff Johns Flash Omnibus volumes? How are they? I see I can get them for $50, $45, and $60 on Amazon, and I remember the few issues I read being pretty good. But I'm also thinking it might be a little cheaper to track down the individual issues if I can average about a buck each, and then get them bound. It would take longer and be a lot more effort, but I find that kind of thing fun, now that I'm hardly buying any comics or toys anymore. But most importantly, did his Flash run stay good, and is it worth owning for that kind of money?
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Rhyno posted:It's probably still cheaper to get the Omni's as the Captain Cold issue is close to $10 and the ZOOM issues are a bit pricey and can be harder to find. Awesome! I found the Captain Cold issue (#182) in a dollar bin yesterday and bought it because I love Cold on the show and always heard good things about that story. There were several other issues from his run there too. Not all of them, but at least a third, maybe half, and possibly more buried in other boxes. That's what got me thinking about it, this used bookstore warehouse that opens once in a while, with hundreds of longboxes of unsorted comics, all for a buck apiece. A patient enough man might be able to piece a complete run together. Uncle Boogeyman posted:it stays pretty consistently great all the way through Rogue War, which is the conclusion of his big Wally West run. i didn't read Flash: Rebirth or the Barry Allen stuff that came after but i didn't hear good things. I hated Rebirth and wasn't impressed by his Barry Allen run, aside from gorgeous art by Francis Manapul. I'd only be interested in collecting his 2000-2005 Wally West run, which is probably 60-something issues. Wheat Loaf posted:I think they might be starting up a TPB reprint series later this year. Good to know, thank you. But that means they'll sell for full price, and DC will stagger them out for years and possibly cancel them in the middle. I'm thinking either spring for the three Omnibus volumes or have fun hunting for the singles. Big Bad Voodoo Lou fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Apr 4, 2015 |
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Rhyno posted:Well you're at a good start. I just know I had a customer who wanted the full run and we couldn't piece it together for less than $200 a few years ago.I even checked Diamond for the Omnis so see if I could get you a good deal but they're out of 1 & 2. Thank you for checking, as always! $50 and $45 seem reasonable (the Amazon prices for 1 and 2), but I'm reading that the out of print Omnibus 3 had several pages printed out of order, which is already an annoyance. And all the TPBs are long since out of print and looking pricey. Amazon is also showing a Flash by Geoff Johns Book One TPB with the same contents as Omnibus 1, with a cover price of $40 and a preorder price of $29.49, which seems like a great deal if we get two more like it. But the listing says it's coming December 1st (way to move fast winning over the fans of your hot new show, guys!), and DC will probably either stagger out the next two volumes once per year or just lose interest and give up in the middle.
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tvb posted:I've looked both here and in SA Mart, but can't find a catch-all thread for TPB buy/sell/trade. (The one from the OP is long gone.) Is there still a place for that that I'm just missing, or do we not really do it anymore? I have my own Buy/Sell/Trade thread in SA-Mart that gets no attention whatsoever. If I start a new catch-all one, please post in it, so we can hopefully get some action going.
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I created that general Buy/Sell/Trade megathread here, and expanded it to include action figures and other collectibles that might appeal to the same people: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3715964 Granbar, in my experience, shipping internationally almost always works out to be more expensive than you'd expect, often negating any kind of good deal you might be getting. Your mileage may vary, of course.
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Rhyno posted:I picked up a nick & dent copy of the first volume of Bendis' GotG and I had forgotten how dire his version of Rocket was. Did McNiven design their uniforms during the Abnett/Lanning run? Because I really loved that look, especially Star-Lord's uniform and helmet. I was disappointed the movie didn't use those designs.
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