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Another dealer show, I got 372 books for $120. My phone wasn't fully charged and it died about 3/4ths of the way thru the day, so I was "guessing" on more books than I was comfortable with. I found some books I was missing, but I got more doubles than I usually do. Here's what I got.

A couple issues of American Vampire.
Angela Queen of Hel 4. The new series which was already canceled.
Aquaman 40, 52. Just need issue 70 of the 90s Peter David series.
Atomic Robo 1, 3, 4, 6. From his first series. I was excited until I realized the first issue was a 2nd printing.
Batman Journey Into Knight 5, 6.
Battlebook: Rogue.
Black Hood 8. From the newest series.
Bone 39, 47, 48. Only 16 issues to go.
Boys 22-26, 28 and Butcher 2, 4. 12 more issues to go.
Buck Rogers 3.
Bullseye: Greatest Hits 4. Finally finished the mini.
Variant covers of Cable/X-Force and Captain America.
Doom Patrol 18-20 from the 2001 series.
Doop 3-5.
Drax 2. From the new series.
Executive Assassins. A and B covers of issues 2 thru 10.
Ex Machina 33, 34. Just need issue 36.
Fables 61.
Fallen Angel 11, 24. 15 to go.
Fatale 10, 13, 14.
Foolkiller: White Angels 4. Finally finished the second MAX series.
A Gen13 oneshot.
A couple issues of Ghost.
All New Ghost Rider 11. Finished the latest series.
A GIJoe handbook.
Grendel 22, 27-30, 32-36, 39. A bunch of the original Comico series.
Howling Commandos of SHIELD 3.
Illuminati 3.
A few old Dark Horse James Bond 007 series.
Knights of Pendragon 18. Finished the first MarvelUK run.
Legion of Monsters 2, 3. Still need issue 4.
Lone Ranger 5-15, 19
Losers 27, 28, 32. Just need 23-25.
Some old OHotMU issues.
Operation SIN 4. Finished the Agent Carter mini.
Some Planetary issues.
Almost 30 issues of Powers from 3 different series.
Punisher 8. I thought I was done with the Edmonson series. But I guess I still need issue 9.
REBELS 10.
A couple Red Sonja issues.
Red Wolf 2. From the new already canceled series.
Resurrection Man 22-26. Only 6 more issues to go.
Spidey 2. From the new series.
Spirit 1. From the new Dynamite series.
A Star Wars X-Wing issue.
A couple Steed and Peel issues.
Steel 27, 41, 51, Ann 2. Only 7 more to go.
Storm 9. Crap, I needed issue 8.
A bunch of Storm of Sorrows issues.
Thor 12. From the 2012 Aaron series.
Tomorrow Stories 1, 3-12. Almost the entire Alan Moore ABC series.
Tom Strong 2-7, 10, 12-20, 22-26, 29-34, 36. Almost the entire Alan Moore ABC series.
Tom Strong's Terrific Tales 1-9, 11, 12. Almost the entire Alan Moore ABC series.
Miles Morales 5. Only 3 more to go.
A couple Unwritten issues.
Venom SpaceKnight 3. From the new series.
X 3, 5-8.
X-Men Unlimited 26. FINALLY finished the series.
Zorro 1-3, 6-8.
I also got 22 various Secret Wars books. Only like 37 to go.

And almost 100 Nu52 issues.
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Some good nuggets in that batch. I remember humming and hawing about all those Alan Moore ABC titles. I decided to hedge my bets and only bought Top 10 at the time - I've still never ready any of it. I imagine I'll track it down in trade format some day.
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Top 10 is fantastic. I highly recommend it.

I only added the ABC stuff to my master list recently. I kept seeing issues here and there on my voyages and decided to research exactly what that imprint had produced and then put everything on my list. Sadly, I'm so far behind on reading any of it, I don't when I'll ever get around to it.
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Tom Strong was one of my faves from that venture. lots of fun. i should try to catch up on that.
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I'm glad I found almost a complete run, because every issue's cover was an homage to a different comic series with varying logos and what not. Had I not picked them all up almost at once, trying to find each issue independently would be 20x harder. Now I'm only five issues away.
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Went to an actual small convention yesterday with cosplayers and events and such. Not just the usual dealer show I usually hit up. Between 7 different booths, I got around 212 books and spent about $130. Most guys were charging $1 per book so my average cost-per-book was hire than normal. Here's what I got.

First Table

DCU Presents Superman: Secret Identity 2. DC started doing this thing a few years ago, releasing $8-10 thick reprints of earlier stories. They aren't t quite trades, but they're bigger than normal issues.
Fables 58. Man, filling this series in is slow going.
Elektra:Assassin 3-6. Over half the '86 mini series. Just need 2, 7, and 8.
Fallen Angel 1, 22, 23. From the IDW series. Between the different hails I made today, I'm only 8 issues away from finishing the run.
Fantastic Four 234, 238. I'm like a dozen issues away from having an uninterrupted run from 200 on up.
Gen13 European Vacation
GIJoe Future Noir 1
Grendel Devils Legacy 4.
Hitman 29, 30, 52. Just need 32 and I'll be finished. One more to go!
Savage Dragon 50
Superman Distant Fires and Superman Inc. Two Prestige Elseworld books.
Superman/Wonder Woman: Whom Gods Destroy 2, 3. Just need issue 1 of this 4 part Prestige series.
Action 494
Superman 271. An old issue of Supes that jumped out at me for some reason. There were a bunch of old Superman and Action books, but I was compelled to throw this one on my pile. When I got home, I looked at the indicia. It was the Jan 1974 issue of Superman. The month and year I was born. Kewl.
Tomorrow Stories Special 1.
Nu52 Firestorm 11.
Watchmen 2-12. Despite having a modest amount of water damage, making the pages stiff and crinkly, it's still pretty cool to have almost the entire original series. I've only ever read the TPB and never experienced the book the original way. The odds of finding an entire run in good condition for cheap is astronomical and obviously I'll keep my eyes peeled, but until then I'm quite pleased with this find. If anyone has any tips or suggestions to make the pages more pliable, I'm listening.

Second table I found two SW tie in books and finished the X-Men 92 series and the Ultron vs Zombies series. Also illuminati 3, which I failed to mark down last time and realized I have because it's on a list in a post above when I scrolled down or post this. Ugh. He also had a decent run of old PowerMan/Iron Fist books that I kinda regret not jumping on. Oh well, maybe next time.

Third table I got What If 39 where Thor fights Conan and Dazzler 6. I'm only 3 issues away from finishing Dazzler.

Fourth Table

Black Widow 10, 17. Four issues away from the recent Edmonson/Noto run.
Guardians of the Galaxy 58. FINISHED the 90s series FINALLY.
Magneto 13. Finished the recent Cullen Bunn series.
Miracleman 2. Just need 5 and 11 thru 15 of the new reprint series.
Thor Annual 2000.
And a bunch of Nu52 issues, mostly Convergence books.

Fifth Table
Fables 146
13 various Star Wars comics.
Stormwatch:Team Achilles 3-5, 22.
Über 9. Damn this series is good, but so difficult to find.
Wildsiderz 1
And 8 Nu52 books.

Sixth Table
Aquaman 19. Just need issue 70 and I'll be done.
Avengers Fairy Tales 1. One more to go for this mini.
Azrael 29, 32, 38. Just need issue 17.
DCU Presents Superman 3.
Brother Lono 1-3,5,6. A 100 Bullets spinoff.
Dr Spektor 4
Impulse: Bart Saves the Universe. A HTF Prestige oneshot.
KaZar 14-18, 34. Just five more issues from the 1980 series to go.
Miracleman:Family's Finest 1-6. The complete mini. Also, most of the covers were variants.
Miss Fury 2-5.
Official Index of the X-Men 2,3,6. Still need 1,5, and 7.
Secret Origins 28. Finished the series.
SHIELD Origins oneshot.
Spectre 24, Annual 1. From the '89 series.
A couple Ultimate Spidey issues.
A couple Who's Who issues.
Wonder Woman: Blue Amazon. A Prestige Elseworlds oneshot.
Wolverine 187 and Dark Wolverine 78. I am so very close to having every Wolverine book ever. 4 issues from his first series, four issues of the original Old Man Logan run I stupidly skipped, an annual and an issue of Origins, both of which have Deadpool and thus make them impossible to find cheap, 3 from the series right before he died, Some Canadian exclusive oneshot, a MAX issue, and 2 First Class issues.

Final Table
This is my usual guy where I buy a full longbox. Since I'd spent most of my money, I just did a cursory look through his boxes.

ABC A-Z Top 10 oneshot.
Boys 34. 11 issues to go.
Buck Rogers 6,9, 12. Finished the series.
Cap Who won't Wield the Shield oneshot.
Cap Sam Wilson 1. Cosplay variant cover.
Elektra Megazine 2.
Fallen Angel 30-33.
Glory 32
Grendel God and the Devil 1.
Hellcat 2
Savage Hulk 1 variant cover.
Legion Science Police 1.
Lone Ranger 1. Vol 2
Manhattan Projects 2-9, 14.
Infernal Man-Thing 1 variant cover.
New Eternals Apocalypse Now oneshot. I think I have every Eternals comic ever now.
4 more Nextwave issues.
Pantha 4.
Quantum and Woody 12. Might've already had this one.
REBELS'95 7. Two issues to go.
Savage Dragon 211.
SW2099 2. Which brings the remaining SW count to 34 issues.
Starman 4. Three issues to go.
Thor 15. From Jason Aaron's run.
Tomorrow Stories 2. I think I finished the series. The eclectic style of the covers makes it difficult to confirm.
Some Ultimate Spidey reprints.
Vision 1. Such a good book, I bought a second copy of issue 1.
Who's Who 9. Just need 15-18.
X-Men Worst X-Man Ever 1.
X-Statix 19. Just need issue 14.
and 21 Nu52 issues.


I think the next big haul will be the guy's annual garage sale. But honestly I don't know if there's enough stuff I can find to fill 3 long boxes to make it worth the trip.
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So, the intent was to go to my backup store and pick up a few issues that slipped by me, like Squirrel Girl and Uncanny X-Men, etc and I like to throw him business sometimes because he's a nice guy. But on a whim, I was like 'I haven't been to Tim's Corner in awhile, I wonder what he's up to' and drove across the river. It just so happened completely by coincidence, Tim was having a 3 for $1 sale and I walked out of his store with over 150 books, and a few recent books because even the new stuff was 1/2 price.
I eventually made it to the other place, but by then I only wanted/needed 3 or 4 books.

Anyway, here's what I hauled.

Angela Queen of Hel 3
Black Hood 4
Drax 2
Fatale 22
GIJoe vs TF 11. I can't remember where I actually dropped this, but after I realized that it was ending with issue 13, I should have just stuck it out.
Grendel 7. From the original Comico series.
Howling Commandos of SHIELD 3
All New Inhumans 4
Magnus 12. From the Dynamite maxi series. Just need 9 and 11.
Some Red Sonja issues.
Some Savage Dragon issues.
Solar Man of the Atom 1, 2, 6, 9, 11, 12. From the Dynamite maxi series. Just need 8 and 10.
Poe Dameron 2
Turok 2, 11, 12. From the Dynamite maxi series. Just need 8 and 10.
Bucky Barnes: Winter Soldier 7. Just need 4-6 now.
X 14.
SW 1602 1. Finished the Secret Wars mini.
SW Age of Apocalypse 2, 4, 5. Just need issue 1.
SW Armor Wars 3, 4. Still need that TRU 1/2 issue giveaway dammit.
SW Capt Marvel/Carol Corps 1. Finished the mini.
SW E for Extinction 3, 4. Finished.
SW Future Imperfect 5. Finished.
SW Hail Hydra 3, 4. Seeing a pattern here?
SW Infinity Gauntlet 3. Finished...
SW Marvel Zombies 4. Still need 1, 2.
SW Master of Kung Fu 1. Finished.
SW MODOK Assassin 4, 5. You guessed it--finished.
SW Squadron Supreme 2, 4. Still need issue 3.
SW Weirdworld 1-3. FINISHED.
SW Where Monsters Dwell 4. FINISHED!
SW X-Tinction Agenda 1. Annnnd FINISHED! Yup, by my count I've only got 11 SW books left to find.

The other 105 books were Nu52 stuff. Nu52 is my shorthand for anything published by DC after 2011, so it wasn't strictly ALL Nu52 stuff. But you get the gist.

Lastly the new books I found to fill the gaps in the most recent series were ANAD Avengers 6, Sam Wilson 8 and 9, Squirrel Girl 8, All New Wolverine 7, and Uncanny X-Men 8.

So, yay. A fortuitous impulse detour today.
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Instead of going to the annual garage sale, my GF and I are in St Louis for the weekend. I've taken the opportunity to hit up several comic shops. I stopped by 2 yesterday and got 36 books at one and 60 at the other. I'm gonna hit one more today and try for a fourth tomorrow on the way out of town.
I've already finished off five or six runs. I'll post my haul when I get back home.
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Is there any comic published in your lifetime that you don't own now? :lol:
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The list continues to shrink, yet grow more distinguished.

The third shop was a bust, so I went to a different one. Only found a dozen books there.
Gonna hit one, possibly two tomorrow.
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Today was a big zero. First shop was closed on Monday even though their website said open 11-5. The second was also closed, so didn't even bother. The third and fourth didn't have any back issue selection to speak of. I ended up getting the Bone Coda and a Team Mystic shirt for my daughter, just to have bought something. But I did go up in the St Louis Arch, so that was fun. So the majority of my haul came on that first day. Here's what I got.

Store 1

Azrael 17. FINISHED THE SERIES!
Black Axe 7. Finished the series.
Black Lightning 10, 12. From the '95 series.
Doom2099 27. Just need issue 41.
Jack of Fables 8, 14. Just need 12 and the final issue 50.
Fallen Angel 6 7 9 12 15 16 18 25 Reborn 1 3 and Return of the Son 1. Except for one issue of Reborn, I'm done with both the original DC run, and the IDW series and minis.
Green Lantern Corps Quarterly 6, 7. Finished the series.
Grendel 3-6, 11. Pretty close to finishing the original Comico run.
Hawkman 22, 23
Katana 7. Finished the Nu52 run.
Legion of Super Heroes 75.
Night Thrasher 18. Finished the 90s ongoing series.
Showcase '95 11. Finished the entire Showcase series from the 90s.
Spectre 43.
Steel 42, 45, 46, 50. Only 4 issues to go.


Second store

Bloodshot 7, 15-17, Annual 1, and Bloodshot/HARDCorps 0. From the new Valiant relaunch.
DangerGirl Renegade 1-4
DangerGirl Mayday 1
Dark Tower:Drawing of the Three:Lady of Shadows 2-4
NextMen 37-43. So, my phone died(which has my list on it) and I knew I needed one more issue of JBNM, so I grabbed a bunch. Turns out the one I need is 44. Ugh. At least, the ones I did get were all RI covers.
Some Lone Ranger issues.
Rocketeer Hollywood Horror 2-4
Rocketeer At War 2, 4
Hail Hydra 1. Three different variant covers of #1.
Planet Hulk 3 variant.
THUNDER Agents 5-8. Finished the newest IDW series.
Tomb Raider 14.
All New Ultimates 11. Finished the series.
And 20 issues of Nu52.

The third store I got 10 issues of Nu52 and some old Wizard issues, which for a quarter are fun to look thru and see what was going on that month.

I also picked up a copy of that free Batman Day issue at almost every shop I stopped in, as well as the Revolution freeb at a few of them.

I was kinda hoping for a bigger haul, considering the amount of driving and effort I put in. Of the several shops I went into, if you're ever in St Louis, I recommend the Fantasy Store at their main location in Maplewood(?). No less than 3 very enthusiastic employees helped us and chatted about books.
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Went into DiscReplay yesterday and found a couple dozen books.

Black Widow 8. Just need 2,3, and 13 from the Edmonson/Noto run.
Dr Mirage 3. From the new Valiant miniseries. Just need 1 and 5 now.
Fables 144 and Fairest 26.
Hitman 32. Finished the series.
Wolverine 4. Just need 5 and 9 from the series leading up to his death. And like 15 Wolverine books total.
And 18 Nu52 books. Although at this point I should just call them DC books because they dropped the Nu52.
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Another dealer show. Found 321 books from the main guy. It's getting harder to fill up a long box. I use to stuff them full of books and have some shoved in the sides and some on top and I'd still leave stuff behind. Now I get a box 4/5ths full, and then run back and grab runs of things I'm not super excited to have but figure I'll get around to buying them eventually just to have a "full" box. But here's what I got.

Amazing Spider-Girl 6-8. Still need most of this 30 issue follow up to DeFalco and Frenz's first series.
American Vampire 20, 26, and Cycle2 11.
Animal Man 63, 66, 82, 83. Just need 61, 88 and 89. Close!
Astro City Local Heroes 1-4.
Avengers Fairy Tales 3. Finished the mini.
Batman/Scarecrow 3D.
Trinity 3.
Bloodshot 10.
Black Knight 4, 5. Finished this very short lived ongoing. I'm pretty sure it was the first post-Secret Wars ongoing that got canned.
Black Terror 1, 3-5.
Catwoman Movie adaptation. Yeah, it looks as awful as the movie.
Darkness 4, 7, 79.
Darkness/Pitt 2.
Dark Tower Lady of Shadows 1.
D4VE2 1-4.
Dead of Night MAX 1. Might've already had this one.
Dejah Thoris 18.
DMZ 67.
Dr Spektor 3. Just need the first issue of this Dynamite series.
Dr Solar 3. Just need issue 5 of the Dark Horse series.
Doom2099 40,41, 43. Finished the series. Just need 2 Hulks, 1 Punisher, and 9 Spideys amd I'll have every 2099 book.
Exiles 1. A variant cover.
Fables 142.
Jack of Fables 12. Just need the series finale 50 and I'll be done.
Fanboys vs Zombies 2. A virgin variant cover.
Fatale 15, 16.
FightClub2 2, 3, 8.
Firebrand 6. Still need 7-10.
Ghost 20. Had a cool Cassaday cover.
Gotham Central 33. Six issues to go.
Green Arrow 92, 129. 17 more to go from the '87 run. Which became more difficult to find when the show started.
Some Grendel books.
Harbinger 9,10, 12-14, 16, 18, 19. I think I finished the recent Valiant revival. I think.
Howling Commandos 4 and 5. Just need issue 2.
Incredible Hulks 618. Finished this particular run of Hulk. After they went back to legacy numbering with 600, but before the Jason Aaron, and Mark Waid, and Gerry Duggan relaunch series. From issue 209 of the original series forward, I'm only missing like 7 Hulk issues now.
Hulk Smash 5. Still need 1 thru 4 of this mini.
Imperium 1-4.
Invincible 73-76, 87, 88, 90-92, 96-100, 102-106, 109, 113, 114, 116, 118, 122. One of those series I threw in the box to fill it.
Invisibles 3, 11, 12. From the first series. Six more to go.
Legion of Super Heroes 94.
James Bond: Vargr 2.
JLA/Hitman 2. Might've already had this one too.
Legenderry 7.
Legenderry:Green Hornet 1 variant cover.
Magnus 9, 11. Finished the Dynamite series.
A bunch of the Marvel Age and Marvel Advs series for kids.
Marvel Spotlight 4, 9-11. From the '79 series.
Super Hero Squad 4.
Massive 2, 3, 5-17.
Max Ride Ultimate Flight 3.
Miracleman 5. From the second new series, that seems to have suffered the same fate as the original series from the 80s. Unfinished.
NextWave 11, 12. I love NextWave. I probably have like three full runs of the series by now I just keep buying issues when I see them.
Ninjak 15.
Official Index X-Men 1, 5.
Planetary 23. Not a good quality copy. Still need four more issues.
7 issues of Power Pack from the various minis from a few years ago.
Powers 23, Powers Bureau 2-8, and Powers 1 from the newest relaunch.
Quantum and Woody Must Die 4. Finished the mini.
Some Red Sonja issues.
Red Wolf 2, 5, 6. Just need 3 and 4.
Resurrection Man 7, 11, 13-15. Finished the series.
Richard Dragon 2, 4, 6-17. In the unlikeliest find ever, I had the 75 series on my list just in case. Because when do you ever find 40 year old comics in bargain bins. And the pages are slightly yellowed, but they're in FN/NM condition. So I just need 1, 3, 5, and 18. Pretty cool.
SW Runaways 3 and Squadron Sinister 3. Finished both those minis and the remaining SW books I need is now eight. Nine if you count the TRU giveaway Armor Wars 1/2.
Solar 8. Just need issue 10 of the Dynamite series.
Spider-Girl 99. Only nine more issues to go.
Spider-Man Power and Responsibility 3. Just need issue 7. although this one is a bit dinged up, so I'll keep my eye out for a better copy.
Spirit 17. Just need issue 26 from the '07 DC series. Also 4 and 7 from the new Dynamite run.
Some random Star Wars issues.
Steed and Peel 5 virgin variant cover.
Stormwatch Team Achilles 10.
Superbly and the Ravers 18.
Teen Titans GO 8, 11.
Thief of Thieves 20, 30, 31.
Tomb Raider 1. The newest series.
Thor Deviants Saga 1. Just need issue 2.
Tom Strong 8, 9. Just need 27, 28, and 35.
Tom Strong and the Planet of Peril 6.
A couple TF issues.
Turok 10. Just need issue of of the Dynamite series.
Ultimate X-Men 29 and Cataclysm Spidey 3.
Unwritten 19-23, 28.
Some Vampirella issues.
We Stand on Guard 2-5. Ha, so the premise of this book is Canada and the US are at war?
Witchblade 129, 155, 160.
A couple Wolverine issues I already had.
X-Men Classic 54, 77, 95-99, 106. Only 10 more issues to go.
X-Men Legacy 18, 20. FINALLY finished this run starring Legion. I probably could've filled out the rest of the series five times over, I find these books all the time. Except for these two issues. Until now.
XOManowar 14, 15, 18-20, 23, 24.
And 54 DC books.
And a few old Wizard issues. One of them had a cool Spider-Man/Spawn cover drawn by J. Campbell. I think I read somewhere Marvel wasn't happy about that.

At a second table I got a 2-part prestige Elseworlds Batman mini, a 2-part prestige Elseworlds Catwoman mini, and the full 12 issue We Are Robin run for $20.


The next dealer show isn't until the weekend after Christmas I think.
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Tiny score today. Went to a shop across the river to buy some drawer boxes. They didn't have any. So I figured while I was there I'd pick up a couple books I missed Wednesday like Black Panther and Inhumans. Except they don't take credit cards for purchases under $15. Ha, says I and put the books back. (Except I didn't, I left em on the counter and walked out. Didn't even have my damn drawer boxes, hooligans).
But while I was over the border I decided to swing by Tim's and picked up 56 books from his 50 cent boxes. Sadly, he doesn't sell drawer boxes. Here's what I got.

Angela Queen of Hel 5. Four more to find.
Barb Wire 1, 5. Adam Hughes covers are treasures.
Bloodshot Last Stand. A oneshot between his first and second series from the 90s.
Bone 52.
Fatale 21.
Ghost 3, 6, 7. From the 2013 series.
A few Grendel books.
Hyperion 3.
Some Judge Dredd issues from the newest IDW ongoing.
Moon Knight 3. Variant cover from the newest series.
Shi 0.
Spidey 2099 7.
Squadron Supreme 8.
Star Lord 3.
Über 2, 20. I wish these were easier to find. This book is incredible.
Web Warriors 3.
Weirdworld 4. Finished this underrated and sadly short lived series.
X-Men92 5.
And 27 DC Nu52 books.
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Re: Big score........

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Despite now being close to two months behind on my reading(seriously. What is up with that?) I decided to go to the first dealer show of the new year and came home with 417 books stuffed into one long box. Bags and boards take up a lot of fucking room and the lack thereof on this trip made it an even more efficient trip. The box was close to full, so I went back and stuffed a bunch of Dark Horse Star Wars books in, figuring I'd get an extra 20-30 issues in there to make it full. Ended up getting almost an extra hundred issues packed in there. Yay me! Here's what I got.

Agent X 2,5,6,8. Just need issue 14 of this not-Deadpool series from 2003.
Some more American Vampire issues, including the Long Road to Hell one shot. Still need about 20 from the first series, five from the second, and most of the subsequent minis.
Angela Queenof Hel 2-4. Just need 6 and 7.
Atomic Robo 2!!!! Helll yeah! First printing of the first series. Now I only need first printing of the very first issue and I have them all. Been looking for this for a few years. The highlight of this box, fo sho.
Avengers Classic 8-12. Only needed issue 9 to Finish the Series, but I figured what the hey.
Avengers Assemble 9, 13. From the XD series.
Avengers 2 in1 6. A Marvel Adventures reprint series.
Avengers vs Infinity one shot. Might've already had this.
Batman Beyond 4,5. Just need 6-8 from the '11 series. Thank you to DC for putting the month and year on their covers. Fuck you, Marvel.
Batman Arkham City 3,5. Just need issue 4 of the prequel to the game mini.
Batman Jokers Apprentice and Batman Gallery. Couple one shots I might already have.
Underworld: Batman; Devil's Asylum. The last of a bunch of oneshots that tied into the 90s Underworld event. Found the rest of them ages ago, except the Batman one. Now I have them all. FINISHED.
BlackMask 1,2. First two of a three part prestige series. Nothing to do with Batman's foe.
Bloodhound 2,5,6,10. Finished the Series.
Bone 37.
Capt America White 2,3. Still need 4-6 of the Loeb/Sale mini.
All New Capt America:Fear Him 2. From the reprint of the digital first mini. Still need issue 1.
Capt America MCU guide. Handbooks for the movie/TV series now, I guess.
Creeper 3,5. From a Vertigo series from 2003. Wasn't on my list because technically it's called 'Beware the Creeper' and I didn't know it existed.
Daredevil Noir 4.
D4VE 5.
DC Presents 48,81.
DC Universe Online 1, 23. Just need 0 and 13.
Dead of Night Devilslayer 1-4. The complete MAX series.
DMZ 59. Still about twelve issues to go.
Dr Horrible 1. Apparently a prequel comic? Cool.
Dr Spektor 1. Finished the Dynamite mini.
Doom Patrol 15. Just need 16 and 17 of the 2001 series.
Doomsday.1 1. John Byrne's IDW relaunch of his 1970s dystopian series from DC.
Some Executive Assassin Iris issues.
Extreme Holiday Special. Rob Liefeld. Gawd, it looks horrible, I couldn't pass it up.
Fables 109,112,118,149.
Fatale 5,8.
4 Franklin Richards, Son of a Genius oneshots they put out between 2006 and 2010. Still need like 8 or 9 more.
Ghost Rider 42-45,47-49,51,53,59,60. From the original 70s run. In really good shape, too. If not for that Atomic Robo find, and a few other books, might've been the top haul this trip.
Some Grendel book.
Some Grimm Fairy Tales issues.
Groot 2,5. Just need 3 and 4.
Guardians of Infinity 7. Still need 4-6, and 8.
GunRunner 1,2,5. Still need issue 6 of this MarvelUK series.
Hit Girl 5. Ugh. Violence porn. Not sure why I got this. It's awful.
Howard the Duck 2,3. From a 2003 mini. Still need 1 and 4. Or maybe I don't. I might have these.
Howling Commandos 2. Finished the recent short lived ongoing.
Hulk 9,12. From the Jason Aaron series. Still need issue 6 from that series. And, I need that fucking impossible to find issue 8 with Wolverine from the 1999 relaunch, 2 of the Red Hulk issues, issue 8 from the Duggan run, and the previously mentioned issue 6, and I will have a complete run of Hulk from issue 208 onwards. So you can see why I'm reluctant to drop the Totally Awesome series.
4 issue of Invisibles. 17 issues to go from the three different series.
Some JLA books I might've already had.
Klaus 2,3. From Grant Morrison's Santa origin story where he's an axe wielding badass.
Lady Machanika 0.
Lady Zorro 3.
Legenderry Green Hornet 2-4. Finished the steampunk-ish mini.
Legion of Monsters:Werewolf by Night oneshot.
Legion of Superheroes 107. I swear I used to see huge runs of this book all the time, but now that I'm trying to fill it in, they're like fucking unicorns.
Legionnaires 78. Same goes for this companion series.
13 various Marvel Adventures issues.
Marvel Holiday Special 2007. I'm 80% sure I didn't have this one yet. The cover wasn't familiar.
Marvel Western:Western Legends. The last of the Marvel Western oneshots from 2008. FINISHED.
Masquerade 3. From the Dynamite mini.
Ms. Marvel 42. From Carol Danvers longest running ongoing to date; the 2005 series. FINISHED.
Nextwave 12. Goddamn I love this series.
Nightcrawler 6. From the very recent Claremont series. FINISHED.
Planetary 17,21. Only TWO more issues(and four obscure oneshots) to go!!
Penance 5. Finished the mini.
Plastic Man 1. From the Kyle Baker series.
Wolverine/Power Pack 3. Finished the mini. Still have 21 more PP issues from nine other series to go.
Powers. 30 different issues from four different series. And fuck, these things are hard to differentiate between the series.
Question 4.
Secret Wars; Age of Apocalypse 1, Marvel Zombies 1, Planet Hulk 5, SW2099 5, SpiderVerse 5, and Years of Future Past 5. Finished four more series and which reduces the number of issues I need to 2 for a COMPLETE Set Of Secret Wars tie ins. I need Zombies 2 and SpiderVerse 3. Oh, and that stupid Armor Wars 1/2 issue they gave away at TRU. So, 3 issues.
Solo: Brendan McCarthy.
Spider-Gwen 5.
Spidey Noir 1-4 and Noir II 1. If you remove Amazing from the equation(because finding the early issues of that series for cheap is fiscally impossible) I'm about 65-70 books away from having EVERY Spider-Man comic. I'm missing about 16 issues of early Spectacular, and 16 issues of Spider-Man Classics, which I'm kinda waiting to find all at once so I haven't really been looking too hard. But that leaves roughly 30-35 issues of everything else. Damn.
Amazing Spider-Girl 3,9,11,12.
Spider-Woman 2. The newest series where she's preggers. Might already have this one.
SuperDino 1,2.
A couple Superman oneshot I might already have.
Steed and Mrs Peel 0 and 5.
Star Wars. A buttload. 11 issues of the first DH ongoing. 7 issues of Empire. 3 issues of KotOR. 10 issues of Legacy. 2 issues of Rebellion. 19 issues of Republic. And 14 issues of various minis.
Also, from the new Marvel series; SW Kanan 3, 7-10, ObiWan/Anakin 4, and Chewbacca 4. So, yeah, a lot of SW books, which were literally the last things I grabbed.
Terror Inc MAX 1-3 and Terror Inc MAX II 4. Finished both of the MAX miniseries.
Some Transformers issues.
Ultimate Capt America 2. Finished the mini.
Ultimate X-Men 1. FINISHED the second post-Ultimatum series.
Ultimate Miles 7. Just need 1 and 9 from the last pre-Secret Wars series.
Unwritten 16,25,31.5,32,33.5,34,34.5,35,35.5. Holy shit, that's some annoying ass numbering. I'd say I'm missing eleven issues from the first series, and three from the second, but I have no idea how many of those ".5" issues there are.
A few Venom issues.
Witchblade 101.
Wolverines 16. Just need 17 and 18.
Wolverine First Class 11. Just need 15.
MU vs Wolverine 1. Just need issue 4. And that brings the total number of Wolverine books down to 18.
Classic X-Men 4.
Worst X-Men Ever 5.
Amd lastly, the usual gigantic batch of DC books, 111 or thereabouts.

Next show is in April.
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"Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?"
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