I've been hearing rumors that there was a big surprise revelation in
the latest issue of Captain America. Can anyone confirm that and say
who the surprise was?
sam!
> If you never read it, how do you know all the pages are intact? It
could be
> a set of misprints or it could have pages missing. that has happened
before.
> Comics are for reading, go read them before you sell them. nobody
will know.
I also bought each book new as they were released and read the story.
The autographed books were purchased as a collector's set and
therefore were kept unread and in mint condition.
Mike
So what brings you back to your local shop?> NOthing.
Here in South Florida the local Comic Shop owners always seemed to hire annoying long-haired, tattooed, earinged, pot-head/druggie geek types to run their shops. Most of the time these druggies would sell out of the HOT issues because they did not order enough, so they would raise the price and sell some from the subscriber bags.
The only way to avoid it seemed to be to kiss thier ass and buy them pizza on Dleivery Days, which some collectors did. If you did not stand around and tell them how wonderful they were, they would always screw up your weekly Comic Book subscriptions by leaving out anything that was HOT.
So after a couple of years of consistenly missing the "rare" "HOT" issues at various local shops I stopped collecting comic books. It is a pain in the ass to have most of a series and then have to pay top dollar for the missing HOT issue that the comic-bookstore-geek did not put in the bag because he saved extras for his friend or sold it at a higher price, etc.
BTW, my personal fantasy would be a SWAT team whose job is to bust pot-heads at comic book stores and preferably beat them like rented mules on the way to jail after trashing the store and leaving the doors open for looters.
So AFAIAC, any Mom & Pop that hires geeks to run the store should go out of business. There is a reason people buy online, and it is not really much cheaper unless you only get your comics mailed monthly by Media Mail. Who wants to read the comic books a month after they are on the stands? The people that are tired of putting up with bad service and bad attitude at the local shops.
SPIDER-MAN 2 SUPER POSEABLE SPIDER-MAN
w/ Wall Mountable Display Base
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If you never read it, how do you know all the pages are intact? It could be
a set of misprints or it could have pages missing. that has happened before.
Comics are for reading, go read them before you sell them. nobody will know.
Hey...I'm selling off my 1993 autographed and numbered 14 book set of
Maximum Carnage comics. Near Mint to Mint condition. Never read, and
they come in Pro Guard sleeves. Check out the auction at...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewItem&category=70961&item=6534876031&rd=1
Thanks for looking.
Mike
From: "Hera Cleese" < Is it alright to post some of my hulk and other marvel
comics drawings i do here?>
With all due respect, feel free to post. When you say that you "dabble" I
hope you mean that you are pretty good?
I guess the images would be in the photo section? Presumably you have
lowered the amount of KBs it takes? In other words, you are posting quality
images with very low KBs?
Some folks who are new to posting images will post gigantic 1MB images
because they do not have PhotoShop or a similar Photo program! As long as
the images are around 200kb or less, that should be fine.
Thank you for your interest. I look forward to seeing your contributions.
Just wanted to say hi and see how everyone likes this group. As for
the subject of this group my favorite marvel character if the
incredible Hulk. I'm more into the mid 80 to early 2000 hulk my
favorite was when McFarlane anf Keown were drawing it. Is it alright
to post some of my hulk and other marvel comics drawings i do here? I
dabble in art but i'm no professional. But i do ok.
Thu May 19, 8:57 AM ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor and master impressionist Frank Gorshin,
best known for his maniacally menacing turn as the Riddler on the
1960s TV series "Batman," has died at age 72, his agent said.
The veteran entertainer, diagnosed with lung cancer in 2003 while
starring in a one-man Broadway show as comic legend George Burns,
died on Tuesday at a hospital in Burbank, California, his agent and
longtime friend Fred Wostbrock told Reuters.
Gorshin also had been suffering from emphysema and pneumonia,
Wostbrock said.
His wife of 48 years, Christina, was with him at the end, the agent
said.
Gorshin's death came two days before CBS was set to broadcast what
became his final performance, a guest appearance on the season finale
of the hit show "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."
Gorshin, a Pittsburgh native, got his start in television and film in
the 1950s and '60s, often playing bad guys. But he soon gained
attention as a gifted impressionist, doing comic imitations of such
stars as Kirk Douglas, Marlon Brando and Burt Lancaster on
the nightclub and TV variety show circuit.
One of his first big appearances, on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1964,
happened to coincide with the Beatles' famed first performance on
that program.
But Gorshin's biggest break came in 1966 when he was cast in the
recurring role of the Riddler, the cackling, fiendish arch enemy of
Batman on the ABC series based on the popular comic book hero.
Gorshin made a dozen appearances as the Riddler on "Batman," earning
an Emmy nomination for his work, and donned his green question mark-
patterned suit again for a big-screen movie based on the series.
Fellow actor Adam West, who starred as the title character
on "Batman," issued a statement saying his old on-screen foil "will
be missed. ... Frank made me laugh. He was a friend and a fascinating
character."
Looking back on his career in a 1996 Entertainment Weekly interview,
Gorshin voiced mixed feelings on his Riddler role.
"It afforded me a lot of things in the way of financial success and
recognition," he said. "But being known as the Riddler all this time,
there's always that feeling: 'Gee, I wish there was something else
they would recognize me for."'
Gorshin also is remembered by "Star Trek" fans for his memorable
guest performance on that show as Commissioner Bele, a half-black,
half-white alien who appeared in a favorite episode "Let That Be Your
Last Battlefield," a parable on race relations.
Decades later, Gorshin portrayed the late George Burns -- a star he
had never before included in his repertoire of impressions -- in the
Tony-nominated Broadway show "Say Goodnight, Gracie,"
Wostbrock said it was during that show's run that Gorshin was
diagnosed with cancer, but he remained with the production while
undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatments, never missing a
performance.
Reuters/VNU
THE BLACK PANTHER IS BACK AS HOLLYWOOD FILMMAKER REGINALD HUDLIN
("HOUSE PARTY, BOOMARANG") MAKES HIS COMIC WRITING DEBUT. HE'S JOINED
BY JOHN ROMITA JR. & KLAUS JANSON HANDLING THE ART, TO LAUNCH THIS HOT
NEW BLACK PANTHER SERIES SET IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA. THE BLACK
PANTHER'S ORIGIN IS RETOLD WITH SOCIAL SATIRE AND ALL-OUT ACTION! This
is the sold out, hard to find first printing, of the John Romita Jr.
cover. THIS BOOK IS UNREAD AND IN NEAR MINT CONDITION! IT COMES BAGGED
AND BOARDED.
This comic list for $5.00 in the May 2005 issue of Wizard. My auction
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Bid with confidence! Satisfaction guaranteed!
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UP FOR BID IS THE AVENGERS DISASSEMBLED #500, FIRST PRINTING, WRITTEN
BY BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS, PUBLISHED BY MARVEL COMICS. It begins with
the return of a team member thought dead - and by the time it's over,
everything you know about the AVENGERS will have changed! It's the
worst day in team history, as Earth's Mightiest Heroes try to deal
with the shocking tragedy around them.Who is behind this, and why?
Will it tear the team apart? Who will fall at the hands of the
Avenger's greatest enemy? Features the death Ant-Man (Scott Lang), and
Vision. THIS BOOK IS IN NEAR MINT CONDITION! IT COMES BAGGED AND
BOARDED.
The comic list for $5.50 in the May 2005 issue of Wizard. My auction
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Bid with confidence! Satisfaction guaranteed!
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Hey guys, Elektra is finally coming out on DVD on April 5th. Be
sure to pick yourself up a copy, because this was just a great
movie. I loved Daredevil, and think Elektra is even better. So be
sure to get your copy on the 5th. Later!
If you enjoy the characters of comic books, or like Star Wars, Buffy
& Angel, or other avenues of sci-fi and fantasy, then please come
check out:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/marvel_world/
We have weekly battles in which your vote determines the winner. We
also encourage discussion and debate amongst the members. Most
importantly, we try to have a good time. So please, stop in and
take a look around.
Thanks,
Jeff
Hello Marvel maniacs. I invite you to my new rp group, in this group
we will rp characters from both DC and Marvel Comics, here we will
all work as one team, in this group we are rping heroes and heroines,
villians and villanesses, there is no DC or Marvel label, so in here
we are equal, choose any character from any book company, post your
choice of character[s] and I'll reserve him or her for you. I hope to
see you there! DC and Marvel Forever!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DC_And_Marvel_Heroes_Roleplay/
PS:Supergirl and She-Hulk are taken.