Well, issue #2 is aunching on Tuesday, and I've been a busy man.
First, here's the first media interview I've done about The Crimebusters, so that's pretty exciting!
Secondly, I just finished the back cover for issue #2:
I've also received my first guest cover artwork! Heather Farrington is another indie creator with an Archie-esque style — her book Juvenile Diversion is a coming-of-age stroy aout a group of teens in the 1980's. I think she did a bang-up
Charlton Canadian Price Variants
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Here is a summary of all the Charlton Canadian Price Variants (CPVs) that I have captured hiding between the cover dates of September 1983 and July 1984 inclusive.
If you'd like to know more about them, please click the picture below and you'll be magically transported to the discussion thread in which we talk about them:
55 Charlton CPVs are currently confirmed to exist out of a total of 60 eligible US issues
Nothing crazy unique about this lot, although you don't often see them displayed with their 30-cent counterparts. I put the 30-cent variants in a separate post.
I have a bunch of variants, error issues, and signed FF comics scanned front and back on my website if you want check out any other stuff:
https://dekventures.com/FantasticFour/fantastic-four-v-1-variants-signed-reprints/
Nothing crazy unique about this lot, although you don't often see them displayed with their 25-cent counterparts. I put the 35-cent variants in a separate post.
I have a bunch of variants, error issues, and signed FF comics scanned front and back on my website if you want check out any other stuff:
https://dekventures.com/FantasticFour/fantastic-four-v-1-variants-signed-reprints/
Adventures and musings about Buying, Selling and setting up at Conventions and Shows
I participated in my first ever show last October. You can read about it here: http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=8903742#Post8903742
I was pleased with my sales, it was an excellent learning experience and most importantly, I had a great time. I must have did "ok" as I was invited back by the show organizers.
In my town, there use to be a larger two day
As curiosities go, this is one. The first comic below has an apparent print error. The top right corner of the comic, just above the issue number, is printed in yellow for no known reason. In the normal comic, posted below that, the area is printed correctly in red. This is not a one-off. This FF issue is very common so there are a ton of them listed on eBay at any given time. I have checked a few times (looked at maybe 200 comics) and have seen this identical error on just three other iss
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Thanks for visiting my Journal.
You will find posts here which summarise the latest position on the following 14 research strands:
Archie UK Price Variants
Charlton UK Price Variants
DC UK Price Variants
Dell UK Price Variants
Gold Key UK Price Variants
King UK Price Variants
Marvel UK Price Variants
Charlton Canadian Price Variants
Charlton 15c Price Variants
Marvel Australian Price Variants
Marvel L Mi
This was a crazy Marvel gimmick. “Atlantis Attacks”, was a maxi-series that arced over fourteen different Marvel Comic annuals in 1989. In addition, there were three regular issues that had tie-in stories for a total of seventeen comics. Did Marvel actually believe that anyone would be dumb enough to collect all of those comics just to read that story? … Uhh … Oops!
You can see the list and each comic scanned front and back at my nascent FF website:
https://dekventures.com/Fantasti
Howdy! I'm excited to share with you the link for the Kickstarter campaign for The Crimebusters #2, which will be live on January 28. And don't worry, if you missed #1, that's available as well.
Kickstarter has a groovy new feature called the "Notify me on launch" button. Click on that, and as soon as the project is live, you'll automatically receive an email notification the moment the project is live.
I'm super excited to share this issue with everyone. Thanks for all the support ov
“The Complete Fantastic Four” was a British (UK) weekly series that ran for thirty-seven issues (September, 1977 to June, 1978). It was a magazine-size comic with color covers and black and white interior pages, although the comic length was the standard 16-pages (8 wraps). The first two issues came with enclosed plastic models.
I posted the the first two issues (front and back and the toy) below. I have the full series scanned on my just starting FF web site if you want to check out any
This may be one of those things that is so rare that it has no value. So far, this is the only copy of this I have seen or heard of. This comic has three stories. "Torch vs Plantman"; "Search for Shanng"; and "Shoemaker's Strange Assistants". In the normal copy, the stories are placed in the book in that order. In this copy, the Shanng story is inserted first, then the Shoemaker story, with the Torch story last. Basically, the wraps were assembled in the wrong order at the bindery. Normal
New member here.
My opinion, reading current *storyline* comics isn't cheap. Back in the late eighties as a teenager I was looking forward to having a job so that I can buy comics and fast forward to now, I have a job but it's getting to the point that I can't afford to buy today's comics. I found myself thinking if I'm gonna spend a lot of money for only a few current comics then why not start reinvesting a.k.a slabbing the 34 years of comics that I have collected so far. I can rememb
BEWARE! The CLAWS of The CAT #1-4 - Social Justice with Good Art!
Beware the Claws of... The Cat! was a 1972 Comic Series that lasted 4 issues. It was a part of Stan Lee’s idea to expand readership to a female audience. Of course, today this would be seen as radical and liberal and social justice warrior activity and denounced as some declaration of war vs the male species.
In reality, then like now, Marvel was just looking for more suckers to buy the
I am just getting back full force to collecting since my new neck parts were added back in September. Basically my spinal cord was being crushed in my neck either from old injuries or old age. I had to have spinal fusion surgery on four vertebrae . I have two titanium rods and eight screws holding my neck together. Much less titanium than the Titanium man though. Normally they would use spacers but my body tried to fix the problem itself by growing new bone thus the rods. I was told I was very
Ever wonder how many Bronze-age comic books were cut-up and sacrificed to fill these stamp books? Thousands, no doubt. Series A was the famous Hulk killer since all of the Wolverine intro issues #180 (Cyclops stamp), #181 (Shanna stamp), and #182 (Golem stamp) were on the hit list. According to the resource listed at bottom, the Shanna stamp in this book came from Astonishing Tales #23 and not Incredible Hulk #181 (The Cheetah's back right leg was drawn in for that issue but not the Hulk issu
This issue had a lot to do with my decision to collect FF comics. As a child my mother would give me a dime so I could walk down to the drug store on the corner and buy a comic book. I still remember the day I bought this book because the price had changed to twelve cents and I only had that dime. The dude at the store would not cut me any slack so, instead of using the dime to get another comic, I trudged my way back home and hit mom up for another two cents and then went back to get it. On
Issue #110 of Strange Tales featured the first appearance of Doctor Strange tucked into a little story in the back of the comic. Issue #111 was his second appearance and #115 told us his origin story but it was not until Issue #117 that he actually got a mention on the cover.
I have the entire Torch series in Strange Tales (#101 - #134, plus Annual #2) scanned front and back on my website: https://dekventures.com/FantasticFour/fantastic-four-cross-over-misc-titles/
LAUGH COMICS #222 - Talk Dirty to Me!
As Archie got into the ’60s and 70’s, the amount of sexual innuendo obviously cooled - partly because of the Comics Code and partly because Archie Comics as a company brand, saw the wholesome family brand as a viable path to success.
They were RIGHT... it worked out great for them for decades - by the mid to late 60’s they were no longer leading in sales, but as an overall publisher, they were very strong.
But ever
A 34-year journey that is finally complete.
We all have that special comic book in our collection, the one which means a little more to us than the rest. For me, it is my Avengers #1. It has been in my collection since 1979 and with your permission, I'd like to tell its story here. But first, I need to give you a little background. In a lot of ways, I'm going to sound like an old-timer now -- mainly because I am -- so I apologize in advance for that, But I can't convey what the book means
or . . . How I came to love the UPC
Disclaimer: This journal won't be for everyone. I fully realize that what I am about to discuss here has nothing to do with how good or bad any particular comic book is. In fact, this discussion has nothing to do with the content of any comic at all. I realize that I am about to make an argument about a topic that most collectors won't care about -- and which will probably be seen by most as superficial and silly. Of course, let's admit that we all hav
Since everyone else apparently gets a journal, maybe I should claim some space too...
I'm just another schmo that has a lot to say about things that most nobody cares about.
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