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I just updated my offer with more slabs and something else...

OK here we go. I'll change it up if needed still looking through my stuff. Many options hopefully someone likes my offerings:

 

PLEASE PICK 1 OPTION - Ship anywhere in US for free, cover $10 for anywhere else.

 

OPTION #1 - SUPERMAN #28 - 1:25 STEAMPUNK VARIANT - CGC 9.8 W

 

 

OPTION #2 - DAREDEVIL #12 (2012) - CGC 9.8 W

 

 

OPTION #3 - VENOM: THE ENEMY WITHIN #2 - CGC 9.8 W - QUALIFIED (signed by Bob McLeod)

 

 

 

 

 

OPTION 4 - INCREDIBLE HULK #360 - CGC 9.6 W

 

 

OPTION #5 - TALES OF SUSPENSE - CGC 4.5 OWW (slab has 2 small cracks at top)

 

 

OPTION #6 - FANTASTIC FOUR 30-34

 

 

SCANS:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OPTION #7 - Batman lot: Batman From the 30's to the 70's HC, Batman 404-407, and Batman: Vengeance of Bane (The Batman HC is a little beat up but it is a great read for any Batman fan)

 

 

 

OPTION #8 - Joker lot: Justice League International Annual #2 - CGC 9.6 W, Batman: The Killing Joke (1st Print - 9.0/9.2 IMO), and Robin II: The Jokers Wild 1-4

 

 

 

 

 

AND

 

 

Choose 1 of the following new books along with any SLAB above (OPTIONS 1-5) or pick your own from Amazon up to a $15 value

 

 

 

Time to RAK 'em up!

Early bronze goodness New Gods #1

Shipping on me anywhere in the US.

Always wanted to read that, is it any good?

Sweet RAK!

I've wanted that for a while...I'm already RAKd out though

Time to RAK 'em up!

 

Early bronze goodness New Gods #1

 

Shipping on me anywhere in the US.

 

Very nice, would be pleased to own this! Thanks!

Got my RAK from Beige today. My first graded modern, sweet! Thank Mate!

 

 

 

 

 

Got 2 huge RAKs coming up. Who doesn't like a huge RAK

You are very welcome.

 

 

Very nice, would be pleased to own this! Thanks!

Always wanted to read that, is it any good?

If you mean the New Gods, "good" is a pretty much reductive way to put it…

Based on the cover - it's an epic for our times.

Some people think the Kirby fourth world stuff is goofy but the art is great and there's a certain energy to the stories that keeps you turning the pages

There’s nothing goofy about the Fourth World: it’s just a "not entirely accomplished" experiment. Given it was experimental in nature, you have titles – and even single stories – of varying quality.

New Gods is pretty much top notch, mostly from A to Z (or from #1 to #11 ), Mister Miracle is consistent, but less original, Jimmy Olsen the more "mainstream" (but positively weird), with the Forever People being the most discontinuous.

What makes it fascinating as a whole is that is a work based on the characters, rather than on the stories, and the "irresolvable" struggle between Orion and his evil father.

It's goofy. Kirby used quotations marks everywhere, making much of the dialogue nonsensical. He had hippies saying stuff like 'you're real gone, dad, like, freaksville'. He had Hispanics say stuff like 'el Diablo will kill him with mucho gusto'

Goofy

It probably sounds goofier to a native english ear, but the point is he set out to lay down an "epic for our times", which – at the time – were the early 1970s.

There is a stark contrast between many of the "larger than life" leading characters, and the common people, and also the young ones, counterculture, etc.

If you consider how the four titles are dialogued, they are dialogued differently. The Forever People is probably the title where he put less care in: the characters represent various instances of the counterculture (especially flower children and planetary utopias), but at the same time they are New Genesis people. The talk may be goofy, but Kirby was not the best at dialogues too – they offer an interesting "reflection" from the viewpoint of an experienced person of Kirby’s age over that time. I am just supposing you were referring mostly to the Forever People – I have not read most of these in a while (say, 20 years or so… ).

Quotation marks…

Don't get me wrong -I love em. I'm re-reading my Kirbys as we speak.

If you haven't read em in 20 years you should.

I find the recycled dialogue in all the modern X Men ripoff books to be intolerable....

Kirby didn't recycle anything-he forged new stuff. Some people say Kamandi was a planet of the apes ripoff but the DIALOGUE was NOTHING like planet of the apes.

Quotation marks…

In one issue of Kamandi he called robot cops " "Pseudo-cops" "...which technically means they were REAL cops.....He'd say stuff like

Get that "gun" over here, you "creeps", before I give you "50 lashes"...

wtf?