Wednesday, the best day of the week, new comic book day. It is like your birthday in the middle of each week (well, one where you buy your own presents.)
We open things up to hear from you. A free for all.
The 166th edition of the open forum!
Merry Christmas all. Let’s here those Christmas goodies you got.
As always we also want to hear about your weekly pickups.
So, What were your pick ups?
What had disappeared off the shelves?
What was sitting on the shelves?
What back issue deals did you grab?
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Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone!
Hope it has been a good time!
My shop let me know last week that the books wouldn’t be coming in until today so they won’t be sorted and ready until later, so I’m going to get them tomorrow.
Today I’m still on vacation so it’s an Xbox day today I think 🙂
Tomorrow I will grab:
Action comics #994
Detective comics #971
Doomsday clock #2
Hawkman found #1
Image+ #5
Nightwing new order #5
Outcast #32
Redneck #8
Spiderman/Deadpool #25
Thanos #14
Amazing Spider-Man #793
Renew your vows #14
Flash #37
Dispicable Deadpool #291
Hellblazer #17
Happy New year everyone!!
Lol. Have been on vacation since Friday. At home though
Hope you all had a great Christmas. I haven’t been getting any comics in a while. But I did get a nice set of Superman Secret Identity #1-4. I heard it was a good story line. Haven’t read it yet. Also on a sad note, one of my LCS is closing down. They have a nice sale going on but after 10 years in the market, she decided to close. On the deals, I got Darth Vader #3 For $5, Danger Girl from image for $1, Realm #2&3 for $1 each, Apocalyptic girl by #1 writer El Torres for $1. I am going back sometime next week after the year since she will have the doors open till the end of January. Well hope you all have a great NEW YEAR!!
The is brother. I hope you had a good one as well.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone!
Pick-ups this week:
Thanos #14 (super excited to read this today!)
Punisher Platoon
Star Wars Storms of Crait
Redneck
Wonder Woman (Frison)
Doctor Strange #382 X2 (cover price)
Happy hunting!
Slow week at work due to holidays so using the time to get caught up on organizing and cataloging the collection. Been procrastinating on this for many, many, many months. Not much excitement at the LCS today so just picked up more long boxes and other supplies. Half way through this daunting project, but will be so happy to have it done.
I need to start tracking my books again in comicbookrealm.com
I just finished organizing my books. I now need to put them in a spread and have them on file. I sold a book on eBay and couldn’t remember what box I had it in. I took out my trusty notebook and BAM! Just like that I found it lol.
I use the league of comic geeks app. Ots got my pulls set up and you can scan upc codes to add to collection.
What’s the cost on that
Sent from my iPhone
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FREE
buuuut don’t know if I can export my database for safekeeping. There’s a pretty good chance that if they go my records go with them…. I should check their website.
Was it just me or was Hawkman Found waaaay too similar to Batman Lost?
LCS
Image + 5
Redneck 8
Doomsday Clock 2 reg cvr
Amazing Spider-man 793 reg cvr
Online
Action Comics Vol 2 #992 Cover A Regular Francis Manapul Cover
All-New Classic Archie Your Pal Archie #4 Cover B Variant Lex McClaine Cover
Amazing Age #4
Animosity Evolution #2
Betty & Veronica Vixens #1 Cover B Variant Robert Hack Cover
Black Panther Vol 6 #167 Cover B Variant Jenny Frison Connecting Cover
Clue #6 Cover C Variant Alan Robinson Cover
Comic Shop News #1594
Comic Shop News #1595
Dark Fang #1 Cover B Signed By Miles Gunter (Limit 1 Per Customer) NEXT WEEK @Midtown
Dept H #20
Die Kitty Die Hollywood Or Bust #4 Cover A Regular Dan Parent Cover
Dollface #11 Cover E Variant Collette Turner Pin-Up Cover
Doppelganger #1
Eleanor & The Egret #5
Fantomah #3
Flash Vol 5 #35 Cover B Variant Howard Porter Cover
Gasolina #3
Generation X Vol 2 #9
Giant Days 2017 Special #1
Glitterbomb Fame Game #3 Cover B Variant Vivian Ng Cover
Grimm Fairy Tales Presents Grimm Tales Of Terror Vol 3 #10 Cover B Daniel Leister
Imaginary Fiends #1
Jimmys Bastards #5
John Carpenters Tales Of Science Fiction Vortex #3 NEXT WEEK
Larks Killer #4 Cover B Variant Tony Fleecs Cover
Lilith Dark #4
Luke Cage #167 Cover A Regular Rahzzah Cover
Made Men #3
Pitiful Human-Lizard #16
Riverdale #8 Cover A Regular CW Betty Photo Cover
Saucer State #5 Cover B Variant Jeffrey Veregge Cover
Shadow Vol 7 #4 Cover A Regular Lee Weeks Cover
Sherlock Frankenstein And The Legion Of Evil #2 Cover B Variant Dean Ormston Cover
Spider-Man Deadpool #24
Star Wars Vol 4 #39 Cover B Variant John Tyler Christopher Action Figure Cover
Swordquest #5 Cover B Variant Jonathan Lau Cover
Thanos Vol 2 #13 Cover B Variant Jacen Burrows Lenticular Homage Cover
Thanos Vol 2 #14 Cover A Regular Geoff Shaw Cover
Underwinter A Field Of Feathers #2
Unsound #6
X-O Manowar Vol 4 #9 Cover A Regular Lewis Larosa Cover
Zombie Tramp Vol 2 #41 Cover E Variant Zoe Stanley Cover
Happy Holidays everyone!
Merry Christmas, fellow CHU readers. It was a slow day for me as only 1.5 stores, out of the 5 I usually visit, had any new Comics to sell. I did take advantage of some back issue sales though. Picked up a bunch of filler issues for my ASM run along with some Batman books from the Hush storyline, some Detective Black Mirror books (Jock Covers!) and a couple issues from V for Vendetta (I’m building an Alan Moore section for my PC). Here are my pick ups from today:
PC and readers
ASM #793
Thanos #13
Spider-Men II #5, Connect Variant
Batman #37A, held from last week
Aphra #15A, held from last week
Doomsday Clock #2A
Hawkman Found #1
Detective #971B
Dr. Strange #381 & #382
Batman Creature of the Night #2
Specs n Flips
Venom Along Came a Spider #3 & #4
Venom Dark Origins #1
Phoenix Resurrection #1D, artgerm
Thanos #13
Tremendous Trump #1
Batman White Knight #1B & #2B
Purchased a small 300 issue lot which included the following:
Booster Gold #1 (first Booster Gold)
Incredible Hulk #449 (first Thunderbolts)
Wonder Woman #90 (first Artemis)
Secret JSA Files & Origins #1 (first Kendra Saunders)
Tales of the Teen Titans #44 (first Nightwing)
DC Comics Presents #26 (first New Teen Titans)
Adam Legend of the Blue Marvel #1 (first Blue Marvel)
Ultimate X #1 variant (first Jimmy Hudson)
Kamandi #1 (first Kamandi)
Web of Spider-Man #36 (first Tombstone)
Flash #108 (first Savitar)
New X-Men #115 variant (first Negasonic Teenage Warhead)
New X-men #134 (first Quentin Quire aka Kid Omega)
X-Men #28 (first Banshee)
Showcase #75 (first Hawk and Dove)
a bunch of variants as well…super stoked!
Oh ya, forgot the CGC 9.2 Ultimate Fallout #4 (first Miles Morales)!
Have all those books but one and it’s the one I’ve been shopping for lately ALBM. Nice pick ups!
That is an awesome grab. Sounds like the collection was chock full of minor key books.
Ya, I needed most of them. The few I had already I will flip and try and make a good chunk of the money back I paid for them.
Got a 1989 Talking Freddy Krueger Doll in the box highlight of my week!
Is that the FX talking Freddy?
Nope, the FX was the other Freddy doll.
That’s an awesome pickup!
Awesome.
Do you have a opinion on this you have choice rick and Morty pocket like you stole it ultra rare variant or edge of spider verse greg land variant I sold already for 2,400. Which would you pick for long term pick up
Rick and Morty is hot and will see some growth. Marvel has big plans for Spider Gwen in comics and in outside media. They just trade marked Ghost Spider as they are moving away from the Spider Gwen moniker. Long term the Edge of Spiderverse could be the better.
Thanks so much for your opinion. I’ve been wracking my head trying to figure out which direction to go. While ago I bought two of the edge of spider verse land variants and both came back at 9.8 and one sold for 2400.
Last question for today . Any thoughts on Whitman DC or marvel variants? Been reading a lot about them lately . You’re the man Anthony. Thanks again
Whitman variants are neat. We used to avoid them like the plague when we were younger but putting together a set is now a cool concept.
Yea I started doing a bunch of research and getting into some older Disney stuff with their buy out of fox and seeing as how they should own all media someday and came across a few interesting articles on Whitman variants and how some are more rare than the 35 cent variants out there
Your right! When I was growing up in the mid to late seventies/early eighties I avoided the Whitman variants like crazy! I thought they were a cheap copy of the real deal!
Missed out on the foil Hawkman Found cover at my LCS, sounds like it is selling briskly so it might be a Wed. winner. Picked up everything else I wanted, though, so here’s the list:
DOOMSDAY CLOCK #2 (OF 12)
DOOMSDAY CLOCK #2 (OF 12) VAR ED
ACTION COMICS #994 VAR ED
BATGIRL #18 VAR ED
BATMAN BEYOND #15 VAR ED
BATMAN CREATURE OF THE NIGHT #2 (OF 4)
BLUE BEETLE #16 VAR ED
DEMON HELL IS EARTH #2 (OF 6)
DETECTIVE COMICS #971 VAR ED
FLASH #37 VAR ED
GOTHAM CITY GARAGE #6
HAL JORDAN AND THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS #35 VAR ED
HELLBLAZER #17 VAR ED
IMAGINARY FIENDS #2 (OF 6)
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #21 VAR ED
KAMANDI CHALLENGE #12 (OF 12)
KAMANDI CHALLENGE #12 (OF 12) GARCIA LOPEZ VAR ED
KAMANDI CHALLENGE #12 (OF 12) SOOK VAR ED
NIGHTWING THE NEW ORDER #5 (OF 6)
SUICIDE SQUAD #32 VAR ED
TEEN TITANS #15 VAR ED (SONS OF TOMORROW)
HAWKMAN FOUND #1 VAR ED
DARK NIGHTS METAL #1 DIRECTORS CUT
WONDER WOMAN #37 VAR ED
OUTCAST BY KIRKMAN & AZACETA #32
GOD COMPLEX #3
BONEHEAD #1
GASOLINA #4
REDNECK #8
SPIDER-MAN DEADPOOL #25 LEG
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #793 LEG
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN RENEW YOUR VOWS #14 LEG
MOON KNIGHT #190 LEG
PUNISHER PLATOON #4 (OF 6)
STAR WARS JEDI REPUBLIC MACE WINDU #5 (OF 5)
STAR WARS LAST JEDI STORMS OF CRAIT #1 (OF 1)
STAR WARS LAST JEDI STORMS OF CRAIT #1 (OF 1) ARTIST VAR
THANOS #14 LEG
X-MEN BLUE #18 LEG
TRUE BELIEVERS DEATH OF PHOENIX
TRUE BELIEVERS PHOENIX ORIGINS
TRUE BELIEVERS PHOENIX WHAT IF
Hope all had a Merry Christmas/Happy Holiday, and best wishes for a great New Year!
question… any thoughts on Rick and forty pocket like you stole it nerd block variant?
It’s way out of my price range. If you have it hold it, or if you see one cheap grab it.
I quit my nerd block subscription about 2 months before this was released. FML. lol…and all I got was this shitty t-shirt.
Rick and Morty is on the rise. That Nerd Block Variant is nice.
No in store pickups for me yesterday. Just a few online ones. One of my shop’s is closing on the 31st so I’m going to go by and see if I can get anything good. It’s a great shop I’ll miss them.
During boxing week, purchase of 70 mint DC and Marvel comics for $7.00 from hobby store that can afford to sell new comics at a financial loss in semi-annual sales.
Man. 10 cents each. Webuycomics.com will buy them at a minimum of .25 cents each. Need to offset shipping but you could sell them all day. Lol. Seriously, I stock up on sales like that.