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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 17, 2020 19:15:54 GMT -5
It would be interesting to know how many comics sell at those venues. If I’m going on rides , I don't wanna carry comics around.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 18, 2020 1:39:53 GMT -5
That's a really cool shelf vendor unit! It looks like the Fantastic Four #1 reprint was popular.
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Post by rberman on Jan 18, 2020 7:52:12 GMT -5
That's a really cool shelf vendor unit! It looks like the Fantastic Four #1 reprint was popular. In contrast, here was the sales rack at the Marvel exhibit of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia last year.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 18, 2020 14:05:25 GMT -5
Gnaa, gnaa, gnaa! Oh well, at least they're just a lot of reprints... I have a there I said it: When Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos leap up, weapons vaguely aimed firing infinite rounds, hollering 'wah-hoo' etc., aren't they really really really easy targets? I haven't been in a war or anything, but doing that seems like poor tactics kind of for most armed conflict situations. I'm trying to read this two issue Agent 13/Fury thing and there is a scene pretty much like this... cigar glued to teeth, the bowler hat on that big guy... it definitely hurts the verisimilitude. It's like that dumb old surf movie with two guys having a long conversation riding the same wave, and 'Kahuna' has a flimsy straw hat that stays on and there's even a cigar. Also they are both totally dry. "Good lord, choke" bad.
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Post by Trevor on Jan 18, 2020 16:11:46 GMT -5
Wow, don’t check this thread for a week and miss a dozen pages. Only halfway caught up, but signing off and a quick comment on comic costs.
I understand that things have changed, and comics will never again cost a tenth of the minimum wage. Expenses changed, creators get paid decently now, whatever the reasons, the higher price is here to stay.
However, one can still buy comics fairly cheaply if you’re willing to wait a couple/few months after release. I can buy every Marvel, DC, Image, Dark Horse, Valiant, Boom, and IDW comic, and average maybe 70 cents a book. Bargain bins, collection pre-orders, and mostly digital sales and Humble bundles allow me to buy everything I’m interested in at 99 cents or much less per issue. Do I miss monthly single physical copies? Sure. But I’d rather read everything I want than only be able to afford a quarter of what I want.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 19, 2020 0:26:34 GMT -5
Gnaa, gnaa, gnaa! Oh well, at least they're just a lot of reprints... I have a there I said it: When Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos leap up, weapons vaguely aimed firing infinite rounds, hollering 'wah-hoo' etc., aren't they really really really easy targets? I haven't been in a war or anything, but doing that seems like poor tactics kind of for most armed conflict situations. I'm trying to read this two issue Agent 13/Fury thing and there is a scene pretty much like this... cigar glued to teeth, the bowler hat on that big guy... it definitely hurts the verisimilitude. It's like that dumb old surf movie with two guys having a long conversation riding the same wave, and 'Kahuna' has a flimsy straw hat that stays on and there's even a cigar. Also they are both totally dry. "Good lord, choke" bad. Which is why Kirby hated the series and got off it as soon as he could manage. He had been in a war and was plagued by nightmares. he was more in tune with DC's approach to war comics and he had done similar things, with the Mainline series, Foxhole. Kirby got to do a counterpoint to it, when he did The Losers, at DC. Those are far more realistic, even with the heightened drama. There, he had the soldiers using cover and setting up fields of fire and things like that. They used houseclearing tactics and the like. Here's an example from Our Fighting Forces #152... Notice the way Kirby has them move; they keep hunched down, use cover when available, they provide covering fire when someone moves. When Cloud runs into the Germans, on the roof, he starts blasting, to keep them off guard, while trying to get through the hole so the others can bring more weapons to bear. They fight desperately and don't play fair. It's kill or be killed. Kirby was a scout, in an infantry units (after his CO learned he was an artist and figured he could draw maps) and he saw a lot of close quarter fighting, in Europe. What he's drawing, with a certain dramatic license, is a lot closer to the reality than Fury & the Howlers. I love the Sgt Fury comics; but, they were far better when Gary friedrich, Dick Ayers and John Severin added more realism to them, vs when Stan wanted to do the same action formula as in the superhero books. The Losers is probably the closest thing to a Kirby wartime memoir, though he didn't like using someone else's characters and hated the title (no group of GIS, in his mind, were "losers").
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 19, 2020 1:07:54 GMT -5
Yeah, I read something someone linked to in a post on here about Kirby's memories of Europe in the service, he was really out there with Patton. I remember that story about him being pulled off to go to the Marlene Dietrich show, how crazy that must've seemed, and there were stories like that from Vietnam twenty-five years later. I did see some of the John Severin Sgt. Furys, it was basically a reprint comic in the late '70s and early '80s when I looked at some and they were reprinting some of his issues and they had better stories. DC had some silly stuff in Weird War Tales with the vampire, frankenstein and werewolf commandos...
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Post by impulse on Jan 19, 2020 8:57:11 GMT -5
It would be interesting to know how many comics sell at those venues. If I’m going on rides , I don't wanna carry comics around. I can't say for sure, but I imagine the folks who bought comics there were locals with season passes or something where going was no big deal. Come for a couple hours, hop on a coaster, buy some books and go home. Maybe the odd tourist bought some, too, but not sure how consistent those sales would have been. I would think Universal sold comics in the Marvel area more because people would expect them to be sold there and that it would look weird if they didn't moreso than it being a big revenue generator for them.
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Post by nerdygirl905 on Jan 19, 2020 11:36:26 GMT -5
I don’t know if this is the right thread for this, but several weeks ago (maybe two months?) I had a dream about the Duke of Deception, a C-list Wonder Woman villain getting his own 6-issue mini-series. And it was the Yellow Martian version, to boot. But now that I think of it, it would be a neat poke at the Silver Age if he did, with all the wacky stuff he had to do.
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Post by berkley on Jan 19, 2020 23:36:56 GMT -5
Perhaps this discussion has already run its course, but since it was taking up space in the Ditko/Kirby thread I'll say it here, where it,s more suitable:
"Artist's editions" should feature the un-inked pencils of the artist in question, or it isn't really an artist's edition it's (as Junkmonkey pointed out) an artists' edition.
There, I said it.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 20, 2020 9:10:03 GMT -5
I don’t know if this is the right thread for this, but several weeks ago (maybe two months?) I had a dream about the Duke of Deception, a C-list Wonder Woman villain getting his own 6-issue mini-series. And it was the Yellow Martian version, to boot. But now that I think of it, it would be a neat poke at the Silver Age if he did, with all the wacky stuff he had to do. Wow, Duke do Decepton is obscure , but I'm not a WW expert. Also, welcome to the forum !
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Post by nerdygirl905 on Jan 20, 2020 9:20:01 GMT -5
I don’t know if this is the right thread for this, but several weeks ago (maybe two months?) I had a dream about the Duke of Deception, a C-list Wonder Woman villain getting his own 6-issue mini-series. And it was the Yellow Martian version, to boot. But now that I think of it, it would be a neat poke at the Silver Age if he did, with all the wacky stuff he had to do. Wow, Duke of Deception is obscure, but I'm not a WW expert. Also, welcome to the forum ! Well, compared to her most well-known villains like Cheetah, Circe or Mars/Ares, he’s a bit obscure. More well-known than the Mouseman or the Blue Snowman but still that. Also, thanks!
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jan 20, 2020 9:27:42 GMT -5
I don’t know if this is the right thread for this, but several weeks ago (maybe two months?) I had a dream about the Duke of Deception, a C-list Wonder Woman villain getting his own 6-issue mini-series. And it was the Yellow Martian version, to boot. But now that I think of it, it would be a neat poke at the Silver Age if he did, with all the wacky stuff he had to do. Wow, Duke do Decepton is obscure , but I'm not a WW expert. Also, welcome to the forum ! Poor guy. He's been around for more than 75 years (real time) and all people call him is "obscure." I love, love, love Golden Age Wonder Woman and one of the reasons is that she really effective villains. Superman was fighting, like, the Archer and the Prankster while Wonder Woman was up against actual Gods.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 20, 2020 10:08:57 GMT -5
It goes to show that anything that is not constantly reinforced via appearances will fade from memory. There are young people today that never heard of the Beetles. Yikes !
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2020 10:11:42 GMT -5
I'm just hoping people remember Catman and Crazy Quilt, two villains I like!
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