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Inspired by the D/Ling threads, because the comics that I really, really want to find are proving frustratingly elusive.
I really want to get a run of the post-76 Green Lantern/Green Arrow run. From #90 through #123.
When I was a kid, I scored most of these in the quarter bins of the used bookstores my dad would cart me along to one Saturday a month. I'm pretty sure that these books didn't survive the several moves and mood swings of my teens, but I'd sure like to read them again, as I remember them as the BEST THING EVER (especially the Crumber/Dr. Ojo/Guy Gardner saga) (or when GA shaved his beard and killed the President).
Also, I would love to read again the World's Finest and Adventure DOLLAR COMICS anthology runs. I've found a few WFs in the current quarter bins, and there's great DITKO Creeper stuff that's so friggin' weird.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

Too damn much.

Actually, the one thing I'm looking for: STORAGE SPACE.

Also - Ragmop.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

Xombi.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Oh, yeah! Milestone Comics to thread!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

I'd really like to pick up the Giffen LOSH. And the Waid one.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Ooh, I'd like to reread the Giffen/Bierbaum LOSH, too. I bet I've still got the first 14 or so issues in my parents' garage. I should really go find out what I've still got there.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

The Samuel Delaney issue of Wonder Woman (#203, 1972-- though I've read there was more than one issue, I have no verification).

― Madolan, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

I've got it at home in the UK, but the Giffen/Bierbaum "Heckler" (a kind of less-meta Ambush Bug) is also well worth seeking out, iirc.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

The Heckler is absolutely great!. Giffen draws ALL the numbers entirely in the famous nine panel grid and every last one of them are packed with non stop ridiculous action.

― Amadeo (Amadeo G.), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I was quite gutted when it got cancelled on number 7. It's probably my favourite thing Giffen's done. (The issue with the blank-faced Zelig villain is pretty wonderful.)

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

i'd like to read some of cc beck's captain marvel - the one story i've read was pretty fantastic. i'm not sure i want to pay $40 a book for the dc archives reprints, tho.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

I had a load of paperback Batman and Superman digests when I was a kid, reprinting 70s stories, mostly. Some Michael Golden and Marshall Rogers Batman stories, for instance. But one Batman story was about Bats investigating a murder linked to his father, which ended with him fighting a villain whose mind was trapped in the body of a Gorilla, after he had unsuccessfully tried to transfer his mind into Batman's body. Sounds silly but it was quite spooky, has a great Batman vs Gorilla fight at the end and beautiful art. No idea who the artist was though it looked sort of Garcia-Lopez-ish to me.
Help...

― David N (David N.), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

David, looks like you're looking for Detective Comics #482, which looks like this: http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/87/400/87_4_0482.jpg

I think the story might be continued from #481. Jim Starlin wrote & drew, P. Craig Russell inked. It is indeed really spooky.

Me, I'm just looking for back issues of Sugar & Spike.

And I think I might even have them all in one form or another, but I'd love to see a collection of all the "Atomic Knights" stories from Strange Adventures, including the many-years-later conclusion to the story in DC Comics Presents.

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

DP7, after everything on this board about it the past few months. Some hazy memories are all i have. old LOSH, as the new series is fun.

― bucky wunderlick (bucky), Thursday, 8 September 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

Madolan, I have the 2nd of the two Delany issues of WW (The Grandee Caper), but I'm about to go on vacation and don't have time to scan it. I'll check in on this thread when I get back, around the 17th.

I don't want much — just Steve Englehart's complete works for Marvel in the 1970s.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 8 September 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

That is the one, Douglas. Thank you kindly.

― David N (David N.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

More Krazy Kat. I've only found one 50-or-so page scan of a dutch bootleg from the 70's or something.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 9 September 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

hundreds of pages in print though

― kit brash (kit brash), Friday, 9 September 2005 06:26 (twenty years ago)

yeah! I was flipping through the latest ones in print (with the pretty covers) in the only bookstore around that had them, but they went out of business! I've got em all wishlisted on amazon, but that's likely as close to them as I'll ever get.
If I was 13 again I'd go down to the library and put an interlibrary loan out on them, but now I don't have the energy for that kind of thing.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 9 September 2005 08:51 (twenty years ago)

Ten years of Sundays and three years (21-23) of dailies currently in print, more to come. Not at all hard to find...

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

yeah, KK is probably the easiest-to-get classic strip (apart from peanuts) at this stage. thimble theatre, now that's another story.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 10 September 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

Remainder stores worldwide have the near-complete Taschen Little Nemo in one volume, that's probably second after Peanuts.

― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 11 September 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

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