Nothing this week. It's Carol's birthday and I'm trying to get her a nice Vanity chair or swivel stool. So, that's where the monet goes this week.
Give Carol our best. Only you should see what we're really like.
What I find in my LCS is that I begrudge paying the pennies for the new books more and more. I think getting advance orders might have weaned me off going into the shops. They had the collected Justice League of Detroit discounted at £90! Discounted! ($128 or 515 Venturan Walking Credits)
Low haul today. All the old stuff was Iron Man. Saw a guy with a box of what looked like his kids books, and one of them was a legion, but I've got two of them, so I didn't get it. 301 I think it was.
Damn you, you kids! Get off my lawn or I'm callin' tha cops!
I went back into the shop where I got my '80s haul. Just whatever more recent bits and pieces left. I also visited a shop I used to have an advance order with. it's now a rather uninviting toy shop with a much smaller comics selection. Mind you, it had it's uninviting moments when li'l thoth first visited it too.
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
I went by last week, not much time to look, Carol was with me. Didn't get anything because their card reader was down and I couldn't wait. I'll hit them this week if I can.
Damn you, you kids! Get off my lawn or I'm callin' tha cops!
Last week: Adventure 352 and Superboy "starring THE" Legion of Super-Heroes 198. Both very fun reads. And both starring the Fatal Five. Legiony Goodness!
Damn you, you kids! Get off my lawn or I'm callin' tha cops!
Last week: Adventure 352 and Superboy "starring THE" Legion of Super-Heroes 198. Both very fun reads. And both starring the Fatal Five. Legiony Goodness!
Thank ya, Ma'am. I was worried when the owner of the shop died and the new guys took over. I always start with the LCS (Legends in florence, SC) because I'm one of those goofy guys that believes in buying local before sending my hard earned monet out into the big bad world. Local folks have to eat, too. But the guys have done a lot with the store and they've learned, like Denny did, to watch out for old or really any Legion stuff for me. I don't always get it, because a lot of the time it's repeats for me. But to me, that's half the fun, never knowing what you are gonna find, or even IF you will find. Yeah, I could probably find them a lot faster on line, but there's no thrill to that for me. Like shootin fish in a barrel...where's the challenge? I'm a man dammit! I gotta seize that hill, slay that beast, find that really rare to me comic that I saw as a kid in the house ads but never had
Damn you, you kids! Get off my lawn or I'm callin' tha cops!
Low haul this week. Superboy starring the Legion of Super-Heroes #201. And since I've never had it before, it's new to me. As well, they put the TPB of The Curse in my pull for me. There were a couple of other Legion books, but I already had them so I left them for some other lucky hunter.
Damn you, you kids! Get off my lawn or I'm callin' tha cops!
Forgot to add silver age Justice League of America #'s 120 with Adam Strange and Kanjar Ro and 135 featuring the JSA and "Shazam's Squadron of Justice". And then there are the two Teen Titans original runs numbers 37 and 45.
Love my LCS.
Damn you, you kids! Get off my lawn or I'm callin' tha cops!
Trade paperback of The Curse which starts with Legion #297 and ends Darkside laughing when the "one child" is born. Validus was stolen away to become the monster of the Fatal Five. I picked it up for the Curse but wound up getting to read the conclusion to the Omen and Prophet storyline which I have never had. Found multiple copies of the first couple of issues of the storyline featuring Giffen's new art style, but never the conclusion.
The Legion seemed to have it's fair share of Universe level bad guys, from the Infinite Man to Omen.
Damn you, you kids! Get off my lawn or I'm callin' tha cops!
The one child thing sounds like it was the annual? The issues around that would be that peak Levitz/Giffen…
Look-It-Up-Lad tells me it's "Collecting LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #297-313 and LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES ANNUAL #2-3" So yeah, some of my favourites are in there.
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
Nothing new or old this week, though I did find an adventure comic with the legion in it...but it was $10. Waaaay outta my price range.
On the other hand, I gave my wife an organizationgazm when she found I had bought bags and boards and was organizing my collection. After having cleaned up around my current comics locker.
This man knows how to please a woman.
Damn you, you kids! Get off my lawn or I'm callin' tha cops!
Good job, rick Pleasing your wife and protecting your collection at the same time!
I once bought a few bags and boards at my LCS too. Just enough to protect the most prized issues in my collection, anyway. I found an LCS that sells back issues with individual boards and bags, so I didn't have to buy too many extras to cover the rest.