Buying collections: a Thread for discussions, bragging, recommendations, etc.

And Douglas OTM.

Pile One is magazines and softcovers:
- Science Fiction Review (circa 1978) - 23, 25, 28, 27, 31 (Reviews by Orson Scott Card, Interviews with Bova, Gordon R. Dickson, Niven, Poul
Anderson, LeGuin, Piers Anthony, Silverberg, Van Vogt, Bradbury, Cherryh)
- Third Rail (circa 1981) 1
- Kent Williams - Drawings and Monotypes
- Milo Manara - Click, Click 2, Click 3, www, Gullivera, Fatal Rendezvous (Hardcover)
- Jeffrey Jones - Age of Innocence, The Romantic Art of...
- Frank Frazetta - The FF Pillowbook
- Kyle Baker - Why I Hate Saturn
- Berni Wrightson - Frankenstein (1st Marvel ed.)
- Will Eisner - Last Day in Vietnam
- Chris Ware - Acme Novelty Library 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 (2 copies), 13 + Floyd Farland (1987, Eclipse)
- James Robinson / John Estes - Batman/Deadman (hardcover)
- Pat McGreal / Stephen John Phillips - Veils (hardcover)
- Dean Motter / Judith Dupre - The Heart of the Beast (hardcover)
- Denny O'Neil / Michael Kaluta - The 1941 Shadow (hardcover)
- Pat Mills / Simon Bisley - Slaine the Horned God 2, 3
- Randy DuBurke - Hunter's Heart 1-3
- Jay Stephens - The Land of Nod (1996, Black Eye) 1-3
- Jim Silke - Rascals in Paradise ('94, Dark Horse) 1-3
- Archer Prewitt - Sof' Boy 1, 2
- Steve Wiesmann - Yikes, The Lemon Kids, Champs
- Frank Miller / Simon Bisley - Bad Boy

And a dozen assorted other magazines and such.

- 52 1, 4,5,6
- 20/20 Vision 1-3
- Aliens: Alchemy (Arcudi/Corben) 1-3
- American Freak 1-5
- Angela (Gaiman) 1-3
- Animal Man 33-89 (Four good years of continuity)
- Aria 1-4
- Atomic City Tales 1-3
- The Authority (Ellis) 1, 2, 4-22
- Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham (Mignola) 1-3
- Batman: Manbat (Delano / Bolton) 1-3
- Batman: Nosferatu (Lofficier / McKeever)
- Black Orchid 1-6, 8-22
- Castle Waiting 1-7, ten or so assorted one shots from different companies... what is this book? Looks like Geary...
- City of Silence (Ellis) 1-3
- Concrete 1, 3, 4, 6
- Concrete: Strange Armor 1-5
- Concrete: Killer Smile 1-4
- Concrete: Fragile Creature 1-4
- Concrete: Think Like a Mountain 1-6
- Congo Bill 1-4
- Conjurors 1-3
- Counter Parts 1-3 (Petrucha/ Crain; anybody heard of this?)
- The Crow 1-3
- Daredevil: The Man Without Fear (Miller/Romita) 1-5
- Dark Horse Presents - About 40 issues, including most of the first run Concrete and Sin City)
- The Dead Boy Detective (Brubaker / Talbot) 1-4
- Dicks (Ennis / McCrea) 1-4
- Doom Patrol 65- 87

and about sixty or so other books I can't be bothered typing.

You don't want this, send it to me.


what is this book? Looks like Geary...

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http://www.fantagraphics.com/artist/medley/medley.html

http://www.studioolio.com/

So he kept the Morrison Doom Patrols and sold you the Pollack issues...?

Yeah Douglas, he kept pretty much all the morrison and moore for himself. This was just his culling pile; he had another twenty or so boxes of stuff that he's NOT getting rid of.

I'm reading alphabetically and I can tell you:
- 52 - Yeah, this isn't quite my thing.
- Animal Man 33-89 - Holy bejesus, this was HORRIBLE.
- Castle Waiting is pretty good!

Contents of other boxes:

- El Diablo 1-4 (Azzarello)
- Evil Eye 1-9 (Sala)
- Exit 1-5 (Kanan)
- Freaks Amour 1-3
- GiantKiller 1-6 + 1shot (Brereton)
- Gifts of the Night 1-4 (Chadwick/Bolton)
- Girl (Millian) 1-3
- Golgothika (by John Bergin... what is this crap?)
- Green Lantern - Legend of the Green Flame (Gaiman)
- Guns of the Dragon 1-4 (Truman)
- The Hacker Files 1-12
- Hard Looks (about six scattered issues)
- Hellblazer 146 - 166 (Azzarello)
- Hellblazer Bad Blood 1,2,4
- Herobear and the Kid 1-4
- The Horrorist 1-2 (Delano / Lloyd)
- House of Secrets 1-23
- Human Target 1-4 (Milligan)
- Hunter The Age of Magic 1-7
- Infinite Crisis 1-7
- Invaders from Mars 1-6
- Invisible People 1-3 (Eisner)
- Jenny Finn 1, 2 (Mignola)
- Jenny Sparks 1-5
- Jihad (Hellraiser/Nightbreed) 1, 2
- Jonah Hex - Riders of the Worm and such 1-5 (Lansdale/Truman)
- Jonah Hex - Two Gun Mojo 1-5 (Lansdale/Truman)
- Jonny Double (Azzarello) 1-4
- Judgement Day 1-4 (Moore, dumbest numbering system ever: Alpha, Omega, Three and Aftermath)
- Kabuki - Masks of the Noh 1-3
- Kabuki - Skin Deep 1-3
- Kabuki (Image) 1-9
- Kabuki (Caliber) 1, 2, 3, 5, 6
- Kabuki - Five one shots and galleries... anybody ever read this book? What is it?
- Kid Eternity 1-16
- Kingdom of the Wicked 1-4
- The Land of Nod ('97 Dark Horse) 1-4
- Leave it to Chance 1-12
- Legend of the Hawkman 1-3
- Liberty Meadows 1
- Lobo 1-4
- Lobo's Back 1-4
- Lobo - Three one shots
- Lone Ranger and Tonto (Lansdale/Truman) 1-4
- Lucifer - The Morningstar Option 1-3
- Lucifer 1-11, 13- 28
- Mage - The Hero Discovered (Image Reprints) 1- 8
- Mage - The Hero Defined 1- 15
- The Marquis 1-5 and prelude (Guy Davis)
- Martha Washington Goes TO War 1-5
- Martha Washington Saves the WOrld 1-3
- Happy Birthday MW and MW Stranded in Space

... and a wad of other things not worth noting. Still more to come.

I'm interested in this! Do you still have my email?

Kabuki - Five one shots and galleries... anybody ever read this book? What is it?

As the resident Kabuki expert, I'm not quite sure what collection it could be (Reflections perhaps?), but I'm pretty sure that it's pretentious tripe.

I believe at least one of the Judgment Day issues was actually ghostwritten by Warren Ellis. They're all pretty crappy, anyway.

llol teh funny :-D

(Judgment Day is a thousand times better than Fire From Heaven, and that's with the main series being a murder mystery unsolveable because Liefeld literally didn't bother to draw the clues into the panels.)

hey milly molly mandy

Leave It To Chance is cute - it's about a girl and a dragon doing fun adventurey stuff. Probably the best thing James Robinson's been attached to - that's right, Starman fangs.

Have fun trying to read Infinite Crissy!

I read Infinite Crisis. So, like Superboy is evil? What?
Geoff Johns needs help.

I would love to do this again if I could find an NYC type looking to dump their collection.

lol forks, when move i have a bunch of singles i want to get rid of. but diff stuff, mostly superhero.

would be happy with a quarter a book.

i'm aiming for about forty bucks for a delivered longbox; you around that point?

something like that, but it'd probably cost half that just to take over to ya in cab.

is it more or less a full longbox?

over a full longbox. i might just put it in storage, sorry forks.

that's cool too dude.

I may look into selling mine (about 5 longboxes, 60's/70's Marvel and 80s indie, incl. most of a complete run of Cerebus) when I hit some downtime next week.

Where you live?

Mississippi.
;_;

ahem?

in the market?

to buy, possibly.