Today I got: Comics thread!

Tragic Angelus · Post by **Tragic Angelus** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 7:56 pm

We worked a Con today and I managed to grab a few issues:

Uncanny X-Men 31 (1st Cobalt Man), 34, 54 (1st Havok & Living Monolith)
Ms. Marvel 16 (1st/Cameo Mystique)
Iron Fist 15 (X-Men appearance after they defeat D'Ken first time in space)
Marvel Team-Up Annual 1: Spider-Man & the X-Men

As I'm wrapping up my Uncanny run, I'm going to try and get some key appearances by them in other MU books at the time in the mid/late 70s, hence the MTU and Iron Fist. I'd grabbed Ms. Marvel 17 thinking it was the first Mystique, when it was really just the first full one and she'd popped up in the issue before in a cameo so now I have both.

Tragic Angelus · Post by **Tragic Angelus** » Wed Mar 06, 2013 4:48 pm

Uncanny X-Men Annuals: 5, 6, 8, 9
New Mutants Annual 2 (First US appearance of Psylocke)
Mutant X 4
X-Force vol. 1 92-100 (Finishing off the John Francis Moore run)

Tragic Angelus · Post by **Tragic Angelus** » Wed Mar 06, 2013 4:49 pm

Uncanny X-Men Annuals: 5, 6, 8, 9
Mutant X 4
X-Force vol. 1 92-100 (Finishing off the John Francis Moore run)

Stocky Boy · Post by **Stocky Boy** » Wed Mar 06, 2013 5:49 pm

How many issues of Mutant X do you need Ed? I think I've got pretty much the whole series.

Tragic Angelus · Post by **Tragic Angelus** » Wed Mar 06, 2013 7:43 pm

I think I need four or five total now. The only reason I don't have them already is that I've spent more time looking for Uncanny back issues than any other books. I happened to see it and grabbed that one. It was a fun book that I remember enjoying. I hope it stands up when I decide to reread it.

XIII · Post by **XIII** » Thu Mar 07, 2013 1:36 pm

X-Force by John Francis Moore was great!

Tragic Angelus · Post by **Tragic Angelus** » Thu Mar 07, 2013 6:47 pm

I have his entire run now, I believe. From the time X-Force went 'on the road' so to speak and now up through 101. I enjoyed it much more than I expected to. I think I started reading right after he took over writing, and I always was somewhat interested in the premise of some teen/early 20s heroes heading out on the road to make their own, but since I didn't know most of them and was behind on it I never read it. Once I came across the start of that up through issue 91 I grabbed them. His team reminds me of the Titans team I like, in that they're the next generation of heroes, but the current generation isn't ready to hand over the title yet so they're stuck trying to figure out what to do.

Was the New Mutants title that ran for the last few years any good? I'm debating picking that up as well now.

Tragic Angelus · Post by **Tragic Angelus** » Mon Mar 25, 2013 12:50 pm

Gem City Comic Con Yesterday:

Uncanny X-Men 32, 37

Big sale at my shop the day before:

Atlantis Attacks Marvel Omnibus Hardcover (Atlantis Attacks & Serpent Crown stories all together)
Buffy: The Making of a Slayer Hardcover Collections

XIII · Post by **XIII** » Tue Mar 26, 2013 9:33 am

Atlantis Attacks Omnibus? So you are the one person who bought it! I was wondering...

jedispyder · Post by **jedispyder** » Tue Mar 26, 2013 9:39 am

Don't think I ever read that. Was reading the issues involved on Wikipedia and found this glorious gem:
Interlude: "New Mutants" #76 (return of Namor, consumption of tuna fish sandwiches and intro of monster summoning horn)

Lol, the sandwiches so important they had to include it in a list of issues involving the title.

I may have to check it out at some point. Sounds interesting, but it's one of those annual crossover stories that usually get plagued by editorial issues and writers/artists not synching together.

Tragic Angelus · Post by **Tragic Angelus** » Tue Mar 26, 2013 4:21 pm

I bought it for one reason: it was 70% off. So I got it for $23. My LCS has been taking major advantage of Marvel's TPB/HC sales, and ordering massive amounts of books, selling them around 25-60% off and still making a huge profit. I get the X-Tinction Agenda HC in a week or so for $10 because he'll still make profit on it. They're nice sales.

jedispyder · Post by **jedispyder** » Tue Mar 26, 2013 11:12 pm

Are you talking about the new $50 one? If so, could I get you to get me one? I'd love to get that! My retailer only gives a 20% discount of that stuff so I avoided it but really wanted it.

Tragic Angelus · Post by **Tragic Angelus** » Wed Mar 27, 2013 12:19 am

I don't know if it's new but the price sounds about right. He told me I could have it for that price since I know about the sales, and i'm not sure how many he ordered. I'll take a look when they come in. He has random sales all the time, selling trades from anywhere from 10-60% off if they're part of this deal Marvel has. Marvel has been selling trades ranging from 75 cents to $5 to retailers, letting them order as many as they can on certain books each week to each month. It's like a huge blowout on Marvel stock. At the con I went to recently a lot of dealers had those books and had them ranging from $5-10 for trades and hardcovers ranging from $15-50. They're still making a huge profit on books but it comes off as a huge savings to customers.

jedispyder · Post by **jedispyder** » Wed Mar 27, 2013 7:35 am

It's always fun when they want to clear out stock. A couple years ago DC did a similar thing, selling trades for dirt cheap just to get rid of them. I stocked up on some Superman and Batman trades for like $5 a piece.

jedispyder · Post by **jedispyder** » Wed Mar 27, 2013 11:40 am

Picked up X-Cutioner's Song HC for $10, must he the same type of deal you're talking about. I let my retailer know I'd get any other X-Men books of the same price.

Tragic Angelus · Post by **Tragic Angelus** » Wed Mar 27, 2013 1:06 pm

It is the same deal. Apparently that was in the last shipment and I missed it. It's a mix of decent reads and utterly horrible crap so you have to sift through all of it.

Mr Wallstreet · Post by **Mr Wallstreet** » Tue Apr 16, 2013 6:53 pm

New York Comic Book Market Place over the past weekend

Various issues of Irredeemable
Various issues of Incorruptible
Various issues of Wolverine
Miscellaneous issues of Batman Inc, Odyssey, And Birds of Prey
Near Mind first printing of The Killing Joke

Details of NYCBM will be forthcoming

XIII · Post by **XIII** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:16 pm

Sex and Violence by Palmiotti, Gray, Broxton and Santacruz

And as part as the Kickstarter rewards :
Creator-Owned Heroes #7 Darwyn Cooke variant cover, signed by Cooked.
A card deck, customized by Darwyn Cooke, which he had made specifically for the guests of his wedding.

Tragic Angelus · Post by **Tragic Angelus** » Tue Apr 30, 2013 4:27 pm

Picked these up a few weeks ago and forgot to post this:

Uncanny X-Men Annuals: 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20 (1996)

X-Men vs Fantastic Four 1-4

Picked these up Sunday at a regular Indianapolis show:

Uncanny X-Men Annuals 4, 18, 19 (1995) 22 (1998)

Mutant X 9, 18, Annual 1999

Day of Judgement 1-5

Inhumans (Marvel Knights by Jenkins and Lee) 1-12

All of the single issues I got for a $1 a piece, and since I regularly buy from the dealer he cut it down to $20 total. Not much off, but it helps out since he saves me older X-Men comics and cuts me deals on them quite a bit. I'm actually planning to buy an original God Loves, Man Kills and Marvel Graphic Novel 4 (first New Mutants) from the guy at some good prices.

Also got X-Statix Omnibus at a staggering $40. I have all of the singles but wanted to get rid of some by getting them in trade, and this is the single best way to do that with this series. Really looking forward to reading this again!

XIII · Post by **XIII** » Wed May 01, 2013 4:02 am

Day of Judgement rings a bell, is that a DC book?

Such a great deal on the X-Statix Omnibus! Congrats.