Interesting.
Sure, it moves for dealers, but I don’t know any dealer who’s ever been willing to buy that stuff except for a pittance and in a lot because it’s often so abundant and it clutters up inventory for a long time. Anyone looking to sell that type of material is probably better off on eBay.
:smack:
–Cliffy
Seeing a lot of guesses and ‘probably’s’. Has anyone here tried with success selling comics on eBay? I check out the auctions from time to time to see if it’s going to be worth my while to sell my mini collections (all in a set are from the same series and consecutive when possible), but most of the auctions are for single issues. As been said before (and I totally agree), singles are hard to sell.
I’ve not sold but I’ve bought about 60 lots of comics, probably about seven or eight hundred total issues. The chunks of half-dozen to a dozen issues are the ones I avoid because they very quickly get too expensive; I typically buy very large lots for twenty or thirty cents an issue.
–Cliffy
Max Carnage: Last fall, I sold my sets of Grim Jack (back-ups in Starslayer, issues 1-20 22-27 29-31 33-52), Jon Sable (1-31, 33-56) and Warlock (ST 178-181, Warlock 9-15) and got about $31 on E-bay, minus its fees, which I don’t remember. I was pretty happy as all the comics had been heavily read, the Grim Jack’s and Jon Sable’s hadn’t been stored in plastic bags, and some weren’t in very good shape. I figure I got more money than I would have from a store.
Phil would even take his hat off for that one, I imagine. I’m sure Dixie would be excited just the same.
It was Madison Jeffries. Jeffries could bend and control metal (his brother Lionel could do the same with organic material), so he created a big Thing-like robot body (actually, he modified the one Bochs had already built) for his wheelchair-bound friend Roger Bochs, who had no legs. Roger had the power to “phase” into metal, so in a sense he brought the robot (called “Box”) to life.
… and then we have Gasoline Alley, in which the characters age, have children, and the children age and have children. While it’s more often “heartwarming poignant” or “pleasant in a sweet sort of way” rather than funny, I always thought this was pretty darn cool.
Of course, some of the characters age faster than others, but we can overlook that…
Well, he doesn’t have any real super powers, but Frank “The Punisher” Castle was a sniper in Vietnam. In fact, there was a crossover between The Punisher and The 'Nam which explained the origin of the stylized skull that Castle wears on his chest:
Castle’s arch-nemesis, a Vietnamese sniper whom he eventually killed, wore a necklace of monkey skulls. The skull on the Punisher’s outfit is a stylized monkey skull.
(just in case you were wondering)
Sure! Marshal Law is the best and brightest of the San Futuro Police Department (aided ably by his partners Kiloton and later Razorhead), and, as New & Improved Scott mentioned, The Savage Dragon was also a cop. In fact, there was a two-issue crossover in which Dragon found himself in San Futuro fighting crime alongside the good Marshal!
What’s the deal with the Micronauts? I thought Marvel owned the rights to them, but I saw a promotion for a Micronauts series (with all the same characters) being published by Image.
Micronauts were a toy line made by Mattel( I believe) and Marvel was sold the right to publish comics featuring those characters.
I’m guessing the contract to hold those rights expired,and the toy company wanted to do another toyline featuring the 'nauts so they called Image.
1 Ressurection man- I dunno
I’m not at home and can’t get my Who’s Who, so the following may contain errors. I’m sure Fenris or another will correct any mistakes I make.
2-Immortal Man was a cro-magnon. He was fighting with an enemy when a meteor exploded between them. The strange meteor made one man truly immortal. He spread his evil through the ages and is now known as Vandal Savage. The other man took a strange jewel from the core of the meteor. He ages normally. But upon his death, he is instantly reincarnated with all his inteligence and experience intact. This is Immortal Man.
Both Vandal Savage and Immortal Man featured in The Forgotten Heroes.
I’m almost positive that the second guy you described is Ressurection man. (Vandal Savage eventually killed him in the D.C. 1 Million “event” and was then himself killed by The Martian Manhunter – all in the future though)
Well, it’s hard to tell seeing as their names would both be fitting, but Ressurection Man would make more sense.
Starbury: What the hell? Do Martians live forever?
I guess that J’ohn eventually had a son and it kept on going on up until that time OR J’ohn time travelled.
I think it was time travel,if I recall the one million event correctly.
A bit of background: in the 1 Million series, Savage comes up with this plan to kill Superman (Superman basically is able to keep himself from aging by living inside the Sun) using a bullet made of kryptonite. He also uses the Red Rockets (Russian super heros in Iron Man-like power suits) to blow up the city of Montevideo.
Basically, J’onn (J’ohn? however you spell it), Green Lantern and Huntress come up with a convoluted plan to defeat Vandal Savage and the main bad guy from One Million (it was an artificial sun, I forget what its called). Anyway, J’onn takes the Green Lantern’s ring at some point in the near future, goes to Mars and hides there until the year 1 million. He’s not exactly alive, he becomes kind of like a ghost…I realize I’m doing a bad job of explaining this.
Anyway, in the year 1 million, J’onn springs his trap on Vandal Savage, switching the kryptonite bullet with the green lantern ring (they’re both green, so I guess it was easy for Savage to be mistaken) and sending Savage back to Montevideo right before it was blown up.
The Resurrection Man/Immortal Man gets killed when Savage infects him with a virus. Basically, every time the Immortal Man gets resurrected, he is immediately killed by the virus.
As badly as I mangled this, it was probably one of the least confusing of Grant Morrison’s story lines in JLA.
It does sound wierd, Starbury, but thanx for the explanation.
It was actually te other way around. Devil’s Due pursued Mattel to get the rights to do a 'Nauts comic, which was then distributed by Image.
I’ve got a few issues of Ressurection Man. I don’t know his full origin. However, I have a JLA with Immortal Man telling his origin as well as the I issue of Who’s Who. IM is a red head.
Ressurection man does NOT reincarnate in an infant body. If killed, his body is dead for a time. Then, he comes back to life with a new super power(ala Multiple Man). His first name IIRC is Mitch. Mitch is either platinum blond or has prematurely white hair.
In DC 1 Million, RM had learned to change his power without dying.
It’s been awhile since I’ve read X-Men (a year or two… hopped back on when Claremont started writing again, and then he disappeared), but, is Shadowcat still alive?
<geek crush>
oh please
</geek crush>
And, has the nature of Wolverine’s claws (mutation or implantation) ever been FULLY determined? Is Logan is first or last name?
(If these have been answered, go ahead and smack me)
Yes, but Claremont f*cked Shadowcat up, badly.
Under Warren Ellis in Excalibur, Shadowcat grew up and was a young woman in her '20s and (cough) got intimate (cough) with another character (Peter Wisdom).
Then Claremont came back and poof she was like 15 again so she’s apparently been molested by a 30 year old guy. :rolleyes:
Check out the Warren Ellis back issues of Excalibur (roughly 80-100 give or take) and the 4 issue mini series Pryde and Wisdom for the best Kitty Pryde stories ever.
Since most writers don’t want to try to untangle that mess, she’s been sent off to college and is mostly being ignored.
They’ve pretty much said that Wolverine’s claws are a mutation (which is kinda stupid, IMHO). They still haven’t cleaned up the “Magneto: Gypsy or Jew” issue though, but since Magneto’s currently dead (I think. I’ve lost track) it doesn’t much matter
Fenris