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<\/p>\nJust before lunchtime on Sunday, I got a call from my friend at MR Book stall. The RTC Crossroads exhibition has now moved to a place near Paradise Circle, and quite a bit of new books had come in. I went there in the evening and picked up Batman: A Death in the Family<\/i> for 40 Rs, bwahahahaha. And it turned out to be a first printing, at that. Also found a copy of Batman: Strange Apparitions<\/i>, a reprint of the classic Steve Englehart-Marshall Rogers-Walt Simonson run of the 1970’s for 100 Rs.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, a colleague returned from the States, carrying with him four issues of Fables. Issues 5,6,8 and 9, and that brings me closer to completing my Fables run. I had picked up the first five issues at Bookworm for 20 Rs each, and issues 6-46, missing a couple of issues, for 31$ off ebay. These four issues my colleague brought, I had picked up seperately along with 2 Charlie Adlard original art pages – one of them from Marvel’s Hellfire Club<\/i>, and the other from DC’s The Establishment<\/i>. Now I had seen scans of the pages when I bought them, but nothing had prepared me for the vibrant art. The black and white inks leap at you from the page – it’s so flawlessly done that quite a few people from my office who saw the pages were unable to believe that these were not “printed” material. I had picked up these pages for quite cheap really – 16$ for one, and 12$ for the other. Charlie Adlard, by the way, is the current artist on the hugely-popular zombie series The Walking Dead<\/i>. <\/p>\n
Recent eBay buys:<\/p>\n
1) Grant Morrison’s complete run on Doom Patrol<\/i> ( issues 19-63). I had stray issues of this, notably issues between 41 and 50. These will have to be disposed of, I guess.<\/p>\n
2) Planetary<\/i> 1-12<\/p>\n
3) Miracleman<\/i> 20-24, Miracleman Apocrypha<\/i> TPB, Volume 4 TPB. Mighty rare items.<\/p>\n
5) Quite a few of Will Eisner’s Spirit<\/i> magazines from the 1970’s, reprinting Eisner’s early work. The Spirit: The first 99 Dailies, a reprint book from 1977. A couple of other Spirit comics from 1988 and thereabouts.<\/p>\n
6) First edition softcover of Will Eisner’s book A Contract With God<\/i>. This was the book, by the way, which popularised the term “graphic novel”, and is generally considered to be the First graphic novel, which it’s not.<\/p>\n
7) American Flagg<\/i> 19-30 ( which includes the Alan Moore issues 21-27) and Howard Chaykin’s American Flagg<\/i> 1-12, which is volume two of the series. I had a few stray copies of American Flagg, notably issues 1, 2 and 10. This lot also had issue 5 and 11. Since the creator Howard Chaykin was involved only with the first 27 issues, I am not really too interested in the later stories.<\/p>\n
8) Quite a bit of TPBs and stray runs of good titles like Animal Man<\/i>, JLA<\/i>, New X-Men<\/i> (Yes, from the Grant Morrison run, heh heh).<\/p>\n
9) A limited edition of a book by Warren Ellis called Come in Alone<\/i>, signed and numbered by the writer, which is a series of writings on comic-books.<\/p>\n
10) Supreme Power<\/i> 1-18, by J Michael Straczynski and Gary Frank. <\/p>\n
In case you get the feeling that I am spending too much money, let me tell you that these buys were part of two lots which I picked up for quite cheap. 151 comics and 8 trade paperbacks for 103$, including US shipping. Besides, just picking up the Miracleman issues makes up for it all. ( I think I need to put up a seperate Miracleman post sometime.)<\/p>\n
Mega eBay misses:<\/p>\n
-Somebody bought Moore’s complete run on Supreme<\/i>, which is issues 41-56 and two issues of Supreme: The Return<\/i>, for FIFTEEN DOLLARS. I forgot to bid on it, even though I was watching the item. That lucky, lucky bastard.<\/p>\n
-Someone else bid on the Sandman Arabian Nights statue ( what am I doing watching statues, you ask. Nothing at all, just looking, guv’nor. I can look, can’t I?), which is 11 and a half inches tall, and has 7000 copies made, sculpted by Randy Bowen based on P Craig Russell’s classic Sandman design from issue 50. The auction ended at 19.99$, waaaaaaaaaah! Look at the statue, just look at it! I believe it retailed for 150$ or so, when it came out.<\/p>\n
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