Good call on Superior Spider-Man. I grew up reading Spider-Man, dropped out of comics, but when I started testing the waters again seeing an old character given a new twist was interesting. Also, amazing call-out for the Marvel Indiana Jones series! Growing up, I loved those books. Like you said, nothing but new Indiana Jones adventures which, to a kid growing up in the 80s, was the best thing ever. And probably still would be today.
I started collecting at about 10 years old, stopped around 14 (got into someone bad doo-doo)then lost them in the mix(so sad had some signed). Im 38 now getting back into it and i gotta say man GREAT CHANEL!! Subed for sure. Good luck in your hunting dude!🤙🏼
I like seeing other peoples collections. I'm always shown just how personal collecting is, we all collect for our own reasons, and have favorites for no other reasons than we like them. I like your vids.
Thank so much! I I’m very glad to hear you are enjoying the videos on the channel! I couldn’t agree more with you! Collecting is very personal. I always tell people to collect what they like and not what is worth mucho dinero. If you get what you like, you never lose! I appreciate you watching the video and reaching out to me. Hope to hear from you again soon! Cheers!
Thank you so much! I very much appreciate your comment! Thank you so much for subbing! Glad you enjoyed the video, and I hope to see you comment on the channel again :) Cheers my friend!!
Great vid! Long but enjoyable! I'm happy to say I have alot of these in my collection! And of course there's lots you showed I don't have. Nice copy of Hulk 181... I wish I could find that one.. And New Mutants 87... Can't find that one either. And I like how you said you had a tough time finding Batman 357... Cause I'm finding it hard to find as well.
Thanks for your positive comment! I appreciate it... yes sorry for the length of the video... I’m glad you enjoyed it nevertheless. Yeah, with a lot of these books you have to be patient to get a good deal... I waited literally almost 4 years to find a nice deal on 357... finally last fall, I was able to get it in a lot for a good price. Be patient and keep an eye out... eventually 181 and 357 will pop up for you.. thanks for watching and commenting :)
Ok, the thing about ASM 252 is that it very much is the first appearance of the black suit. What happened with Secret Wars was kinda weird. Heroes and villains all went missing one issue only to return the very next issue with stories of going to Battleworld/The Beyonder. Secret Wars told that story but it began the same month the heroes "returned", so for us at the time, we had to wait until the issues came out in Secret Wars to explain why Spider had a black suit and She Hulk took the Thing's place. Interesting times as a reader were the 80s. Kinda ticks me off finding out years later that Secret Wars was created solely to sell toys. To their credit, they did a bang up job on the story. I had long thought Secret Wars was Marvel's answer to DC's Crisis. But nope...they were trying to cash in on dc's Super Friends toy money instead. To be fair, there was and still is money to be made from licensed characters in toys.
Cool vid. Defenders 1st appearance is in Marvel Feature 1 I believe. You forgot to mention that Ghost Rider 1 also happens to be the 1st appearance of Son of Satan. Giant Size X-men 1 is also the 1st appearance of Thunderbird. Hulk 182 is technically the 3 appearance of Wolverine but only in cameo. Quick question though. Where did you get the info about Skull The Slayer 1 having a low print run?
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it. Also thanks for that info... yeah, I wasn’t sure about the defender 1st app. Thanks for that. As far as skull.. I don’t remember exactly.. I believe in the first issue Marv Wolfman wrote about his experience creating skull and I believe he mentioned something about not printing too many to test the waters. I would have to check it out again.. I remember reading or hearing about it from somewhere... thanks again
Damian’s been in the DC animated movies and he died a couple years ago in the comics so I’m sure both of those are big reasons why he’s popular now. He’s also in Supersons with Superman’s son and that’s a popular series out of Rebirth.
There are actually a few Spectacular Spider Man key issues. Obviously #1... Also 7 and 8 (early Morbius appearance), 27 (1st Frank Miller Daredevil), and 64 (1st Cloak and Dagger). Those are really the only issues worth having.
You didn't read the Crisis on Infinite Earths when it came-out. It wasn't just 12 issues, it crossed over to the full DC Universe. It was the most epic thing I've read up to that point in my life.
Love your channel. Good stuff. Ghost Rider #1 and Marvel Spotlight #5 are at the top of my wish-list, so I love seeing them pop up in videos like this.
Great video, I'd only add that you should do a little research on your "favorite" books so you know more about them. Nice diversity though, some great hidden gems in there (Skull The Slayer #1). (BTW, I'm NOT being mean, nasty or rude with my comment I'm only offering a critic that I think may help.)
You have one of my favorite comic book channels! I have most of the DC stuff you show. I was in my heyday collecting in the 80's and 90's so they were all bought 'new'! I haven't seen you mention anything about graded comics. Do you slab any of your favorite stuff?
Thanks so much! For your support! I’m so happy to hear that the channel is one of your favorites! The best part of youtube is connecting with the viewers for better or worse! I wish I was a littl older during the 80s and 90s. I feel that would have been an exciting time to be a collector. As for slabbing, to be honest, I don’t care much for it. I prefer the books raw because I like to be able to go back reread them or even simply look through them. One might say you can just look at a digital copy, but it’s not the same for me lol thanks again for watching and commenting!
Hey Geek with Dante D. Great video, I really enjoyed it. Just wondering if you could possibly help me out with something. Back in the 80s (way back in my childhood lol) I used to read a comic book series that had a boy in a cyber wheel chair who had some cool powers as well as being a genius I believe. He also had at least 2 or 3 other characters on his team per se. I know there was a woman and a man and an android/robot character. I do not believe it was from either DC or Marvel at the time. It just wasn’t their style. And the artwork was out of this world awesome for the 80s. I only got to collect 3 or 4 issues, then we moved to another state and couldn’t find anyone who sold that comic again. And we didn’t have Google back then lol. Sadly I lost track of those comic books and don’t know what I did with them. Just wonder if any of that might ring a bell and sounds familiar to you. It wasn’t Wizkid, it was more serious than that. Do you happen to know the title of the comic book I’m describing? Thanks.
Oh boy, I really wish I knew! I don’t read a lot of Indy comics unfortunately... I hope you find the book you are looking for. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Geekery with Dante D. Well thanks anyway. It was probably one of those short Indy comic series or something. Maybe I’ll come across it again someday. I just remember it had a great storyline and awesome artwork. But I never got to finish it lol. 👍
Ka-Zar is a copy of Tarzan. They did so well with Conan they decided to branch out with other literary characters but DC had the rights to Tarzan, so they brought back a golden age character that was in the same vein (jungle man) but made him so much cooler with the addition of dinosaurs and sabre-tooth cats. He also had a tribe of 'savages' that he fought with/for that had black and white men in it but the black men painted white stripes on themselves and the white guys painted black stripes on themselves because all member of the tribe were equal and didn't want to get into the whole black/white strife America had going in the 70s. Sort of a statement of the Civil Rights movement at the time.
X-Men #1 cheated to get those sales. There were like 4 or 5 that became one big scene if you lined them up. This was at the height of the speculator boom and it had worked really well with Spider-Man #1 and all its gotta have variants.
That’s true! These characters do get endlessly reimagine. The first appearances shouldn’t matter. I do like reading various interpretations of my favourite heroes though. Thanks for watching and commenting!
I enjoyed this video and your mish mash of titles and books. Where are your non-Marvel and DC favorite titles? Golden-age? What I like most about your videos is you rarely focus on big keys which are becoming so overrated among the community.
Hey there! I really appreciated this comment... thank you so much! I’m glad to hear from a person who can appreciate my lack of focus on big keys. I find that many videos on TH-cam focus on those big keys. It’s to the point where every collection video is focusing on the same keys lol As for the golden age.. I can afford any books that I really want for the golden age lol as for non marvel and DC, I don’t have a lot. Some Image, but I have mostly marvel and DC. Spawn is prob my fav. Non DC or marvel title. Thanks for watching and commenting!
I love Anarky ! Flag Smasher and Anarchy in the MCU are dope, too. Any leftist inspired comic characters are my jam. Pisses me off that they are villains bc let's face it, if these characters were projected into the real world then Batman would be even more of a complete fascist pig of a billionaire that he is, siding with bootlicking cops that protect the state's monopoly on violence and perpetuation of inequality within society. Socialismo o muerte !
Good call on Superior Spider-Man. I grew up reading Spider-Man, dropped out of comics, but when I started testing the waters again seeing an old character given a new twist was interesting. Also, amazing call-out for the Marvel Indiana Jones series! Growing up, I loved those books. Like you said, nothing but new Indiana Jones adventures which, to a kid growing up in the 80s, was the best thing ever. And probably still would be today.
Awesome collection!! Great video thanks for sharing your books.. need to add some of these in my collection to lol..
Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed it, and I’m glad I was able to help with helping you decide which books to add to the collection. Thanks for watching!!
I started collecting at about 10 years old, stopped around 14 (got into someone bad doo-doo)then lost them in the mix(so sad had some signed). Im 38 now getting back into it and i gotta say man GREAT CHANEL!! Subed for sure. Good luck in your hunting dude!🤙🏼
Thanks so much for your positive feedback! Happy collecting to you!
FYI.. Kull's 1st appearance is actually Conan 1. In Kull #1, we learn his origin and he becomes King Kull.
Awesome! Thanks for that info, it’s much appreciated! Thanks for watching!
Great video, thanks for the history lesson on all those great books.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video and the books. I appreciate you watching and commenting!
I like seeing other peoples collections. I'm always shown just how personal collecting is, we all collect for our own reasons, and have favorites for no other reasons than we like them. I like your vids.
Thank so much! I I’m very glad to hear you are enjoying the videos on the channel! I couldn’t agree more with you! Collecting is very personal. I always tell people to collect what they like and not what is worth mucho dinero. If you get what you like, you never lose! I appreciate you watching the video and reaching out to me. Hope to hear from you again soon! Cheers!
Awesome buddy!!! Great intro and great books!
Just subbed ya
Thank you so much! I very much appreciate your comment! Thank you so much for subbing! Glad you enjoyed the video, and I hope to see you comment on the channel again :) Cheers my friend!!
Great vid! Long but enjoyable! I'm happy to say I have alot of these in my collection! And of course there's lots you showed I don't have. Nice copy of Hulk 181... I wish I could find that one.. And New Mutants 87... Can't find that one either. And I like how you said you had a tough time finding Batman 357... Cause I'm finding it hard to find as well.
Thanks for your positive comment! I appreciate it... yes sorry for the length of the video... I’m glad you enjoyed it nevertheless. Yeah, with a lot of these books you have to be patient to get a good deal... I waited literally almost 4 years to find a nice deal on 357... finally last fall, I was able to get it in a lot for a good price. Be patient and keep an eye out... eventually 181 and 357 will pop up for you.. thanks for watching and commenting :)
Great upload I love those Bronze Age issues and you have some belters there !
Thanks so much! I’m glad you like the video and the books. Thanks for watching!
Some great books from the vault Great collection!
Thanks for you kind words! I appreciate it!! Thank you for watching and commenting!
Ok, the thing about ASM 252 is that it very much is the first appearance of the black suit. What happened with Secret Wars was kinda weird. Heroes and villains all went missing one issue only to return the very next issue with stories of going to Battleworld/The Beyonder. Secret Wars told that story but it began the same month the heroes "returned", so for us at the time, we had to wait until the issues came out in Secret Wars to explain why Spider had a black suit and She Hulk took the Thing's place. Interesting times as a reader were the 80s. Kinda ticks me off finding out years later that Secret Wars was created solely to sell toys. To their credit, they did a bang up job on the story. I had long thought Secret Wars was Marvel's answer to DC's Crisis. But nope...they were trying to cash in on dc's Super Friends toy money instead. To be fair, there was and still is money to be made from licensed characters in toys.
Great books! I have about 80% of them.. very similar taste.
Great minds think alike lol
Thanks for sharing...great books
Cool vid. Defenders 1st appearance is in Marvel Feature 1 I believe. You forgot to mention that Ghost Rider 1 also happens to be the 1st appearance of Son of Satan. Giant Size X-men 1 is also the 1st appearance of Thunderbird. Hulk 182 is technically the 3 appearance of Wolverine but only in cameo. Quick question though. Where did you get the info about Skull The Slayer 1 having a low print run?
ComicBook Ninja I believe defenders first appeared in a Namor book actually
You could be right actually but they did not call themselves the Defenders.
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it. Also thanks for that info... yeah, I wasn’t sure about the defender 1st app. Thanks for that. As far as skull.. I don’t remember exactly.. I believe in the first issue Marv Wolfman wrote about his experience creating skull and I believe he mentioned something about not printing too many to test the waters. I would have to check it out again.. I remember reading or hearing about it from somewhere... thanks again
Damian’s been in the DC animated movies and he died a couple years ago in the comics so I’m sure both of those are big reasons why he’s popular now. He’s also in Supersons with Superman’s son and that’s a popular series out of Rebirth.
Agreed! I still remember when he died in Batman Inc... of course he is back now lol
There are actually a few Spectacular Spider Man key issues. Obviously #1... Also 7 and 8 (early Morbius appearance), 27 (1st Frank Miller Daredevil), and 64 (1st Cloak and Dagger). Those are really the only issues worth having.
This is a really sweet collection. Out of curiosity, do you also own ASM 298 and Kraven's Last Hunt?
Yes I do and thanks for the compliments!
Mohawk Storm is my favorite X-Men. I lamented the recent death of Bloodstorm.
omg. i had Batman 307 when i was a kid! it came in those 3-packs by Whitman.
Lol ha ha I know... I have both editions... great isssue
You didn't read the Crisis on Infinite Earths when it came-out. It wasn't just 12 issues, it crossed over to the full DC Universe. It was the most epic thing I've read up to that point in my life.
Yes..: I’m going to have to reread it at some point once I know more about DC..
Really awesome Spiderman issues. Gotta love Ghost Rider #1.
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed! Yes, ghost rider one is awesome :) thanks for watching and commenting... Cheers!
Love your channel. Good stuff. Ghost Rider #1 and Marvel Spotlight #5 are at the top of my wish-list, so I love seeing them pop up in videos like this.
Great video, I'd only add that you should do a little research on your "favorite" books so you know more about them. Nice diversity though, some great hidden gems in there (Skull The Slayer #1). (BTW, I'm NOT being mean, nasty or rude with my comment I'm only offering a critic that I think may help.)
No problem my friend! I appreciate constructive criticism. Thanks for watching and commenting!
awesome books
Black mask is also in the Batman Arkham knight Red hood DLC
You have one of my favorite comic book channels! I have most of the DC stuff you show. I was in my heyday collecting in the 80's and 90's so they were all bought 'new'! I haven't seen you mention anything about graded comics. Do you slab any of your favorite stuff?
Thanks so much! For your support! I’m so happy to hear that the channel is one of your favorites! The best part of youtube is connecting with the viewers for better or worse! I wish I was a littl older during the 80s and 90s. I feel that would have been an exciting time to be a collector. As for slabbing, to be honest, I don’t care much for it. I prefer the books raw because I like to be able to go back reread them or even simply look through them. One might say you can just look at a digital copy, but it’s not the same for me lol thanks again for watching and commenting!
I have moon night 1 but it has a different cover but it is the same book I believe
Oh wow, I didn’t know there was another cover, will have to check it out, thanks!
Geekery with Dante D. I actually checked it and it's the fist of khonshu version but there is a reprint of the original
I love the video. However, the Defenders first appearance is in Marvel Feature #1 from December 1971.
Thank you so much! Thanks for the info... I wasn’t too sure, I should have looked it up lol thanks again!
Hey Geek with Dante D. Great video, I really enjoyed it. Just wondering if you could possibly help me out with something. Back in the 80s (way back in my childhood lol) I used to read a comic book series that had a boy in a cyber wheel chair who had some cool powers as well as being a genius I believe. He also had at least 2 or 3 other characters on his team per se. I know there was a woman and a man and an android/robot character. I do not believe it was from either DC or Marvel at the time. It just wasn’t their style. And the artwork was out of this world awesome for the 80s. I only got to collect 3 or 4 issues, then we moved to another state and couldn’t find anyone who sold that comic again. And we didn’t have Google back then lol. Sadly I lost track of those comic books and don’t know what I did with them. Just wonder if any of that might ring a bell and sounds familiar to you. It wasn’t Wizkid, it was more serious than that. Do you happen to know the title of the comic book I’m describing? Thanks.
Oh boy, I really wish I knew! I don’t read a lot of Indy comics unfortunately... I hope you find the book you are looking for. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Geekery with Dante D. Well thanks anyway. It was probably one of those short Indy comic series or something. Maybe I’ll come across it again someday. I just remember it had a great storyline and awesome artwork. But I never got to finish it lol. 👍
Nice Giant Size X-Men
....Hulk 182, 3rd app of Wolverine (technically, although I'm sure you know that)
Yup! Lol and thank you!
Fun fact: Morbius is misspelled on the cover of Amazing Spider-Man #102.
Ha ha, wow I actually didn’t even notice. Thanks for that cool tidbit!
Dude did u bist out a impression of comic book guy from the Simpsons 😂
Ka-Zar is a copy of Tarzan. They did so well with Conan they decided to branch out with other literary characters but DC had the rights to Tarzan, so they brought back a golden age character that was in the same vein (jungle man) but made him so much cooler with the addition of dinosaurs and sabre-tooth cats. He also had a tribe of 'savages' that he fought with/for that had black and white men in it but the black men painted white stripes on themselves and the white guys painted black stripes on themselves because all member of the tribe were equal and didn't want to get into the whole black/white strife America had going in the 70s. Sort of a statement of the Civil Rights movement at the time.
Yes, I love Ka-Zar! I actually remember that tribe with the black and white stripes! I thought that was a cool addition for sure!
well it would be a lie if i said i am not jealous
Lol thanks!! Glad you like the books in the video!
X-Men #1 cheated to get those sales. There were like 4 or 5 that became one big scene if you lined them up. This was at the height of the speculator boom and it had worked really well with Spider-Man #1 and all its gotta have variants.
Yup! I agree they cheated totally! As XForce did with its trading cards and Spider-Man did with those silver gold and platinum covers lol
U had me till ciao bro lol
Lol I stopped saying that in videos. I was just getting started back then ha ba
@@Dante19883 just breaking balls brother love the videos tho, can't ever go wrong talking comics
Why do first appearances mean anything when they can just retcon it 30 years later to have that character being an impostor
That’s true! These characters do get endlessly reimagine. The first appearances shouldn’t matter. I do like reading various interpretations of my favourite heroes though. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Hey I love your videos! :)
Thank you so much! I really appreciate your positive feedback and all your support! Cheers my friend!
I enjoyed this video and your mish mash of titles and books. Where are your non-Marvel and DC favorite titles? Golden-age? What I like most about your videos is you rarely focus on big keys which are becoming so overrated among the community.
Hey there! I really appreciated this comment... thank you so much! I’m glad to hear from a person who can appreciate my lack of focus on big keys. I find that many videos on TH-cam focus on those big keys. It’s to the point where every collection video is focusing on the same keys lol As for the golden age.. I can afford any books that I really want for the golden age lol as for non marvel and DC, I don’t have a lot. Some Image, but I have mostly marvel and DC. Spawn is prob my fav. Non DC or marvel title. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Sigh. I bought Hulk 181 when I was 7 years old. Worn out and thrown away many years ago.
Ouch! I’m so sorry to hear that!
I'll give you 400,000,000,000 for all of it
PayPal that cash and their all yours lol
Damian killed Dick in injustice so maybe that’s why
Oh yes, that’s right! Thanks! :)
I love Anarky !
Flag Smasher and Anarchy in the MCU are dope, too. Any leftist inspired comic characters are my jam. Pisses me off that they are villains bc let's face it, if these characters were projected into the real world then Batman would be even more of a complete fascist pig of a billionaire that he is, siding with bootlicking cops that protect the state's monopoly on violence and perpetuation of inequality within society. Socialismo o muerte !
Lol