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Black Francis 05-12-2015 12:12 PM

Goddamn, you must be knee deep in pussy with that collection bro

Have you ever showed pics of your entire collection? im curious to see it.
i had a friend who had a decent comic book collection him and his older brother had built up, he had a ton of Ghostrider comics that was his favorite character.

The Batlord 05-12-2015 02:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Black Francis (Post 1588735)
Goddamn, you must be knee deep in pussy with that collection bro

Have you ever showed pics of your entire collection? im curious to see it.
i had a friend who had a decent comic book collection him and his older brother had built up, he had a ton of Ghostrider comics that was his favorite character.

Most of my comics are digital, my physical collection only takes up about half a bookshelf of space at the moment -- those it is always growing. Comics are expensive.

Aux-In 05-12-2015 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1588461)
Plenty of people have bought a comic book before, but how many have actually special ordered them?

Do you remember the special editions and variants that Wizard used to offer? I got a lot of ace editions and "limited" copies that were autographed by the artists. There also used to be a monthly comic-book catalog that was put out by American Entertainment, a company that was (I believe, don't quote me) started by a college student at the time. They always had cool discounts and would give out free comics if you ordered such and such amount.

Took it for granted at the time, as both of them are now-defunct institutions. Especially with Wizard. Kind of thought they'd be around forever.

Trollheart 05-13-2015 05:34 AM

Time to use your power against you!
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i..._jn4Qk-glW86Wg

The Batlord 05-13-2015 08:34 AM

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Originally Posted by aux-in (Post 1588784)
Do you remember the special editions and variants that Wizard used to offer? I got a lot of ace editions and "limited" copies that were autographed by the artists. There also used to be a monthly comic-book catalog that was put out by American Entertainment, a company that was (I believe, don't quote me) started by a college student at the time. They always had cool discounts and would give out free comics if you ordered such and such amount.

Took it for granted at the time, as both of them are now-defunct institutions. Especially with Wizard. Kind of thought they'd be around forever.

I'm still too new to comic collecting to remember stuff from the past, but I'm guessing those were holdovers from the nineties, before the speculator bubble burst, and the industry almost collapsed.

Plankton 05-13-2015 09:23 AM

I've got a few comics that I've had for years that are kept by my brother who has about 50 of those special comic book boxes. I don't even remember what ones I have in that collection, but I'm pretty sure I remember one of them being a Strange Tales #3 or something like that. High value item for sure, but I'll never get it back since my brother's an *******.

Black Francis 05-13-2015 11:25 AM

I remember having these 2 comics as a kid

https://d1466nnw0ex81e.cloudfront.ne...600/873131.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...onderMan-1.jpg

I didn't have the 1st wonderman comic, i think i got volume 8 but i definitely had the 1st volume of Wildcats.
i remember cause an older kid swindled me out of it!

Aux-In 05-13-2015 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1588990)
I'm still too new to comic collecting to remember stuff from the past,

Interesting. The way you write about them, it would seem as if you've been collecting since you were a kid.

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1588990)
but I'm guessing those were holdovers from the nineties, before the speculator bubble burst, and the industry almost collapsed.

I haven't bought a comic book since about the early 2000s, although I used to pick up Wizard magazines for several years after that because the writing and humor was superb, and if you wanted to know prices, it was thee go-to source; they were a huge influence. Not sure what the industry-equivalent would be today. The collecting aspect was part of the fun.

Spoiler for Old-School Receipt:
Briefed through my old boxes and found this relic. 20 free comics with an order over a certain amount (don't remember). This was my last order through them, and this order had a ton of comics that were either back ordered or they had to send me a refund for because they didn't have them.

http://i1383.photobucket.com/albums/...ps4veexevp.jpg


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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1588764)
Most of my comics are digital, my physical collection only takes up about half a bookshelf of space at the moment -- those it is always growing. Comics are expensive.

Is digital the way the industry is headed?

Moss 05-13-2015 10:53 PM

Damn, my daughters were complaining that all female superheroes are just copies of men (Supergirl, batgirl) and I brought up that there was no such thing as Wonderman. Guess I was wrong.

The Batlord 05-14-2015 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Moss (Post 1589167)
Damn, my daughters were complaining that all female superheroes are just copies of men (Supergirl, batgirl) and I brought up that there was no such thing as Wonderman. Guess I was wrong.

In Wonderman's defense, he's from Marvel, not DC, and nobody cares about him.


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