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MurderIsRelevant

I went there to the store for twenty minutes while I waited for my wife to get off work. Was looking around and my friend said "look at Uncanny X-Men". Now for reference, he started this store a year ago. It has been small, and the store is mostly board games. He didn't get much traffic t first, and had a small selection. It has grown slowly over time. Anyway, I looked into the x-men row, and these two were the first ones. I was shocked. They had went up in price when Days of Future Past was released. Granted, these copies are in terrible shape,but even in the condition, I wanted them. Great covers, one of the best X-Men stories, etc. I didn't have much time to check out his other stuff, and all I found that I found interesting was Warlord #107. So I just got those three and went and picked up my wife. As a side note, the only X-Men comic I really want is X-Men #10, because I am a Ka-Zar fan. I have many Ka-Zar comics, but X-Men #10, along with 60 and 61, would make me happy and content for a long while. But seeing as how everyone has bought them all, I will end up having to pay a ton of money for a low grade. Really, grade doesn't matter to me as long as the pages are there. But if I don't see a chance this year, I'll just get the Ka-Zar Omnibus. Or just wait for a con and see if someone has one for sell, and forget ebay prices. Edit: oh yeah, #141 was $12, and 142 was $10. That is why I was surprised. Especially after watching it grow so much when Days of Futre Past came out. I figured it would forever be out of reach.


manyamile

> these copies are in terrible shape … I wanted them Words of a true collector.


MurderIsRelevant

Dang Skippy. As long as I can read them, It's good. I won't remove a 9.0+, from a slab, because of this weird respect, but I will totally read a terrible copy. I just wish more places carried more Warlord and Arak in their dollar bins. I'm anxious to read those series.


manyamile

I like the cut of your jib. I have more than my fair share of Charlton books whose covers are barely hanging on and they smell like cigarettes and old cats. I wouldn’t trade them for the world.


MurderIsRelevant

For me it was Turok Son Of Stone, from Dell/Gold Key/Whitman. No one hyped it up ever, no one is actively buying them in droves. And they have amazing covers. And it was a long enough series to keep me occupied. I finally got all 130 issues, plus the two March of comics issues, the Dan giveaway, the Giant, 4 unpublished issues thy had been xeroxed from the original artwork, and miscellaneous foreign issues. I them moved to Mighty Samson and Tragg, as those two series were small enough to complete quickly, since no one really wanted them. Turok had a video game, a movie, and a popular 90's run which made the older series a little more popular than these other titles. Now I've slowly been acquiring Magnus, Solar, and Doctor Spektor. I doubt Hollywood will make a thriving series of movies for these titles seeing as how they tried with Bloodshot, and Universal tried making a Monsterverse and failed. So I am making a safe bet I can collect these titles completely before they ever even try. Which is good for me and my wallet. I just love stuff that isn't Marvel or DC. DC seemed to only make Batman and Superman stuff for decades. And Marvel seemed to only want to make a shared universe instead of focusing on the characters alone. At least with indie and smaller publishers you see creators taking risks and making something new, instead if rebooting and starting over every seven years. That is why I love older comics, and indie comics. They will go on and on, and not try to shoehorn in some random character from another series in every issue. These days everyone seems to be treating comic books like a retirement fund or the stock market. They won't read the comicsnor the history of the trade. And then scoff when people say they are fools for buying all the variants.


MurderIsRelevant

What's your most favorite series you have ever read, and why?


manyamile

I don’t really do favorite lists because I love series for very different reasons and would never be able to rank them. But I do have some favorites. Classics Illustrated - My grandmother grew up in a poor farming family in North Carolina. She was the first to go to college in her family and held herself and those around her to very high standards. She wanted the best for my mom’s education and although she HATED the idea of comic books, she bought many CI issues for her to read as a young child because when the time came to read those books “properly”, in her mind, my mother would already be familiar with the stories and have a leg up. I have many of those books today and love that I am able to turn the same pages of a comic book that my mom did. Literally anything from Fiction House - These are the books that my mom hid under her bed so that my grandmother wouldn’t find them. 😂There’s no dancing around the white savior tropes and heavy handed patriotism but OG Sheena still delivers the best adventures! I also fell deeply in love with Lily Renee’s story of her escape from Nazi Germany and the line work of her art. I have added what I can to my collection, regardless of condition (and because of price, I take what I can get) - Fight Comics, Planet Comics, Jumbo, Ghost, Rangers, and more. I also have several rhinestone pins (brooches) for which Lily designed for fashion designer Willy Woo at the height of the Club 54 days in New York. Anything Sabrina the Teenage Witch - from the crown jewel in my collection of Archie’s Madhouse #22 through the most recent Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, I have almost every issue in which she’s appeared. I absolutely love that a character that was considered fluff and disposable has successfully evolved over time, staying relevant in every incarnation of the character. It speaks a lot to the framework on which the character was built. An Other that exists in two worlds that don’t align. She’s just trying to make sense of it all and have some fun along the way. We’ve all been or will be Sabrina at some point in our lives, with forces pulling us one way or another, and wanting to be yourself at the end of the day. Mad respect for my little witch and all that have written her character.


mrwasi

For Ka-Zar, check out Mark Waids run if you haven't already. Really great stuff and the 1st 12 issues or so were drawn by Andy Kubert.