The first was a collection of the adventures of Marvel's Omega the Unknown. It had the 10 issues of his series, plus a two issues of his appearance in The Defenders. That is 12 comics for 2 bucks, They also had a Spider-man/Fantastic Four book that reprinted various titles they all appeared together in which I bought.
There is a Half Price Books store across the street from Lone Star, so I went over there. Their book selection sucked (for me anyways. I did pick up a Dominck Dunne book that collected his stories from Vanity Fair). They did have a pretty large selection of graphic novels though, so I picked up American Born Chinese and Frank Miller's Ronin, which oddly enough I had never read before.
The weird thing though, they were selling old copies of Previews there. I'm sure there is someone out there who wants them, but it was just so weird. "Man, what was being solicited in October of 2005?"
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The whole series, by one of Marvels best ever writers, plus the two issue wrap-up from a completely different series, years later lovingly appended, for $2 the lot?
This is the best deal of 2010!
Congratulations. I don't see it being beaten.
I thought I did well by getting the collected Omega for AUS$10.
:-(
Last year, I attended a 'comic book warehouse' sale in Brooklyn. It took nearly two hours by train & subway to get there, but I did. I brought with me a few comics I was looking to sell, and to see what they had. I was hoping at best to track down a few rare Beckett Comics issues of their Terminator run (no dice), but when I arrived, and checked in with the friend that had told me of the show, she pointed to somethin off to my left;
There, sitting on the shelf, still intact, was The Rocky Horror Picture Show Survival Kit. Intact. with all parts included (plus a promotional lipstick from the 2000 stage revival).
I had been searching for this item for years. It originally retailed for $20, came out in late 1990, and there was a limited run of them. I scoured Ebay & several other auction sites, but no one had one.
Were I a cartoon character, my eyes would have bugged out, my jaw dropped and the 'ah-ooooga' sound would have blared.
With some calm, friendly negotiation, I traded the Wolverine comics I had for the RHPS Kit.
I had it appraised. It's worth about $40. :D
By April, I was looking to put together extra scratch for my trip to ICON (my local sci-fi convention), and decided to part ways with my entire Batman:Legends of the Dark Knight collection. I bought a long box, reorganised the issues, even tossed in a few non-related limted series I had left for good measure.
The trip took the same 2 hours, and lugging that heavy long-box all the way there wore me out. I was hoping to get a good deal.
I didn't.
The guy who runs the warehouse event bought comics in bulk, and since he already had a full LotDK on hand, I only got about $20. Just enough to cover my travel expenses. :(
I haven't been back since.
So, in recent weeks, I got lots of stuff. For example, all of the Timely Comics specials that Marvel produced for the company's 70th anniversary: All Select Comics #1, All Winners Comics #1, Captain America Comics #1, Daring Mystery Comics #1, Human Torch Comics #1, Marvel Mystery Comics #1, Miss America Comics #1, Mystic Comics #1, Sub-Mariner Comics #1, USA Comics #1, and Young Allies Comics #1. Each had a new story showcasing a Golden Age character, plus one or two reprints from the era. At $3.99 each, I wouldn't even have considered them, but at 50 cents each, I could get them all.
I also got The Last Days of Animal Man miniseries; the Dominic Fortune miniseries; most of the last two year's worth of Superman titles -- Superman, Action Comics, Supergirl and The World of New Krypton maxiseries; and lots of strays -- Spider-Man Family #1, a Johnny Dynamite trade paperback, a few issues of Ultimate Avengers, the first and second issue of The Marvels Project, and more.
I also got a few issues of a comics Holy Grail for me: The Eye of Mongombo, a thoroughly goofy book published by Fantagraphics back in the day. It was meant to be a 10-issue series but was canceled with issue #7. It's like Indiana Jones as written and drawn by Basil Wolverton. We have a square-jawed, broad-shouldered hero, a university professor of archaeology, who has a horribly bad day at work: his arch nemesis, the department head, finds an excuse to fire him, and then an old antagonist shows up and works magic on him and turns him into a duck, and then the arch nemesis department head steals his treasure map and his Monkey's Paw, so the rest of the story is a chase to get those things back and somehow be restored to being a human, while all kinds of odd things happen.
I even found a copy of How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic, that book of political analysis that posits that Disney, through its comics published in Latin America, promoted capitalism to undermine Chile's socialist government. For only $2!
I give this my recommendation. I enjoyed it quite a bit.
I also got a few issues of a comics Holy Grail for me: The Eye of Mongombo, a thoroughly goofy book published by Fantagraphics back in the day. It was meant to be a 10-issue series but was canceled with issue #7. It's like Indiana Jones as written and drawn by Basil Wolverton.
Basil Wolverton? Wow, I would definitely be interested in that. Sounds very cool.
Mind you, The Eye of Mongombo wasn't actually written and drawn by Basil Wolvertion; it's just chock-full of something like his particular brand of zaniness.
I'd seen a story or two of Omega reprinted around the time they first came out, so I always wanted to see more of him. It was a long wait!
I only got to read it all this year. It's a nice little collection. The first ten issues are very ambitious and an attempt to do something very different with a superhero comic. Amazingly so for the time, really.
The back story about how it eventually turned out as it did is almost as interesting as Omega's story. Just google Gerber, Omega steven grant for that... An insight into how these comics were brought to us inyears gone by.
Here are some notes on the original series. They contain spoilers if you haven't yet read the relevant issues.
-Richard Rory was introduced in Man-Thing (first series) #2.(1) In the course of the issue he met a biker-chick named Ruth, and helped save her from her abusive boyfriend.
-The original Foolkiller appeared in Man-Thing ##3-4. Wikipedia has an article on the character that lists his antecedents. A film version of the Eustis novel was made in the 60s.
-In ##17-18 a morals crusader gets the people of a small town where Rory has settled to hold a book-burning. At the end of the story Rory leaves town and the woman's daughter asks to go with him. In a later issue we learn she is a minor and Rory has legally kidnapped her. Their relationship is Platonic but Rory is sent to jail for this (in #20, I think).
-Scott Edelman has some comments on his issue of Omega the Unknown here.
-Ruby Thursday was introduced during Gerber's The Defenders run. She joined a group of villains called the Headmen.
(1) Gerber had taken over the feature early in its run in Adventure into Fear. The GCD, which catalogues comics by their indicia titles, includes these issues in its Fear (Marvel, 1970) listing.
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