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sclingerman wrote:

I should've mentioned Frank Frazetta in my post. Joe Jusko's my favorite living artist after Frazetta died.
I'll probably take flak for this, but I never liked the mouths and body poses of some of Jack Kirby's work. I was reading an old Machine Man recently, and all the soldiers in this full-page panel had the same face. By contrast, in an old Ditko comic, every face in the background crowd was different.

That Shock Suspenstories # 16 is ART. Not a drawing, but ART! You're right about the lighting, shading, shadows.

Did anyone mention Dave Dorman?
(I would like some Jusko art. )
Late 70s isn't Kirby's best work. And he gets bonus points for the sheer volume of work.
Recent Ditko covers aren't awesome. They should probably count as Underground Comics because he's working so hard at keeping them out of mainstream outlets.

Thanks Gilgandra!

Sifting through my photobucket uploads of scans from my collection. Not sure where I got this, but it sure looks like Superman vs. Popeye.



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edited by Defiant1 on 3/1/2017

I don't collect Swamp Thing, so this is one of those things I'll find in my collection and think "I didn't know I owned that?!"



After originally making a typo above, I wondered how disgusting it would be to have a "Swamp Thong" comic.

jokerbangedquinn wrote:

Gilgandra wrote:

Several...Damn you are awesome.
I have one, I'm happy with that

+1, and mine is low grade.

I don't consider mine high grade. There are several reasons I end up with multiples.

1) I think it's a key book that's undervalued. If I can flip it for a profit, I can use that as leverage to get something more valuable that I really want even more.
2) I think it's good trade fodder for something I want even more. I traded a stack of duplicate comics from the 70's and 80's for my first Strange tales #110. I was almost flat broke at the time. I had one year where I was essentially unemployed and made less than $10,000 the whole year!
3) I'm trying to upgrade my copy. I think everyone wants the best copy that they can (or will willingly) afford. In 1982, I paid $125 for a copy of X-Men #1 through the mail. It was all I could afford. I was VERY displeased with the condition upon arrival... but it was all that I could afford and it was the only retailer that had one advertised for sale. Later in the year, I'd saved some money and my local comic shop picked up a similar condition copy and had it priced $100. I bought it with the hope to upgrade. I was hoping a retailer might be willing to do a 2 for 1 trade if they had a higher grade copy. A few months went by and I couldn't afford to date and collect comics. I dropped comics for a decade and put them in storage. By the time I got them out of storage I liked having 2 copies. It had really increased in value.

I was buying the 1st Shield in an attempt to upgrade my copy. I felt it was undervalued. Who knew they'd make a TV show about SHIELD and feature them in a string of Marvel movies? I felt it was undervalued, but maybe Marvel Studios helped me out a little unintentionally.

Defiant1

😀HA!

I am logging in all of my collection and cannot seem to find Wolverine '95 in the CPG database. Am I just missing it or does it need to be added to the database?

Here is a link to the specific issue I am trying to log:
https://www.amazon.com/Wolverine-95-NGarai-Marvel-Comics/dp/B000T6GUMW

I wonder if they'll ever put this guy in a movie...

Neat book:

Secrets Behind the Comics (1947)


I was a little annoyed after getting this because the retailer had a nicer copy for sale but he had it hidden until he sold this one with stains on the front cover. I would've bought the nicer copy. Things like that make me want to boycott a seller.

Fun & Games #1


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Defiant1 wrote:

I have some scattered issues of this series. I pick at collecting them when I see nice copies.

Foom #5


Foom #6


Foom #7


Foom #16


Foom #19


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The Foom books are nice. I have none, but wouldn't mind the issues with Steranko in them. Don't know much about the series really but love the covers.

Nice Gil. Might have to look for that Timm variant now that you pointed that out. Thanks!

I mistakenly added the wrong cover artist to the data base

Joe Prado
Ivan Reis
Marcelo Maiolo

This is on the Ryan Ottley Variant cover issue.

Ben

Early Texiera art..



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