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Post by redshade on Feb 11, 2019 2:46:27 GMT
Some very cool comics there Kromak!! I like that Captain #2 with the bikers!!! Redshade, thanks for the referral. I did email him about it and let's just say that he was of no help. Sorry that he was of no help. I have heard that he has become something of a grumpy old man. If the art work was sent over from the US then I remember that a lot of Marvel Artists whilst not copying Kirby were told by Stan to do it in "Kirby Style". I'm 30 years out of date now but the artwork on that pinup that we are referring could be Romita or Buscema or even Byrne?
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Post by Ken on Feb 14, 2019 18:52:08 GMT
I've had sooooooooo many books recently, it's going to take me a while to post .. so I'm just going to be really random about it and post the odd one here and there.
Here's a very familiar cover .. complete with Brazilian rat-chew ..
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Post by kromak on Feb 15, 2019 19:32:01 GMT
I've had sooooooooo many books recently, it's going to take me a while to post .. so I'm just going to be really random about it and post the odd one here and there.
Here's a very familiar cover .. complete with Brazilian rat-chew ..
I know what it's like. My old Hamster used to do that to a lot of my old Disney Comic Books! P.S: If possible, post as much as you can Ken!
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Post by Ken on Feb 17, 2019 14:50:44 GMT
I know what it's like. My old Hamster used to do that to a lot of my old Disney Comic Books! P.S: If possible, post as much as you can Ken! Thanks! Will do.
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Post by Ken on Feb 17, 2019 14:57:47 GMT
Here's the first 10 issues in the Bloch Capitao America run. I now have every one, except #18 ..
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Post by Ken on Feb 17, 2019 19:15:37 GMT
Here's the balance of the Bloch's, minus #18 ..
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Post by kromak on Feb 18, 2019 13:50:40 GMT
Sweet buy Ken. They seem all in mid or high grade, most even in high grade! I am really impressed that you found all in that condition. I would expect something like 40% in low grade, others 40% in mid grade and only the rest in high grade!
And one cannot do anything else but to wonder with the highly questionable colors and translations that Bloch used!
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Post by Ken on Feb 18, 2019 22:54:16 GMT
Thanks, Kromak. Yes, I'd say they were high grade too. I bought them from someone who bought them from a seller who bought each issue when they came out and stored them very carefully. Issue #18 had already been sold (and I already had about 5 issues from the series already), but I took a gamble and bought the rest (including the ones I already had). I'm glad that I did, as they were all a much better grade than what I already had. Sometimes, luck happens .. and those colours! .. weird choices .. but I love them. You can always tell 'a Bloch'
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Post by Ken on Feb 18, 2019 22:59:21 GMT
.. and the final book to complete my Australian Avengers Yaffa run arrived today .. and its a doozy! ..
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Post by Ken on Feb 19, 2019 21:35:18 GMT
I'm also just a couple of books short of owning the complete Capitao America e Homem de Ferro run from Brazil. Most of the run arrived last week (I already owned a bucketload of 'em). Here's a smattering ..
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Post by kromak on Feb 20, 2019 17:56:33 GMT
Ah the Legendary Capitão Z n°0, third volume, distributed in Shell's gas stations all over the country. First Iron man's and silver age Cap appearance in Brazil! Superb addition. The others also are looking great, specially the Australian and a couple of the Brazilian's that are in quite good shape!
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Post by Ken on Feb 20, 2019 18:11:28 GMT
Yes, indeedy! Cheers
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Post by kromak on Mar 30, 2019 22:11:57 GMT
More Arrived. Some repeated stuff, but repeated stuff in higher grade is always welcome! Two of fans favorite. Herois da TV ("TV heroes"), second series and a Superaventuras Marvel ("Marvel's Super Adventures"). Herois da TV. I would say that these two together with Grandes Herois Marvel (Marvel's Great Heroes)) are probably the three favorite super heroes comic books among most of the fans. Many have as the ultimate goals to complete these three series and Abril's Captain America, Hulk and Spider-man. These six for the dorsal spine of old super heroe comic book collecting, perhaps together with Abril's Superman and possibly with the olders runs of Abril's Batman. Superaventuras marvel started in 1982 with Miller's Daredevil, Doctor Strange, Black Panther, Conan, Sonja among others. From issue 14, started to receive Claremont's X-men that was with RGE publisher. With time, also received Punisher, Simonson's Thor that was on Herois da TV, Engelhart's Fantastic Four that previously was in Homem-Aranha, Silver Surfer third series (specially Jim Starlim run), modern Ghost Rider, etc... It was cancelled in the beginning of 1997, having some of his characters transferred to the new Magazine "Marvel 97. Daredevil was definitely its main character, having all or nearly all of Miller's and Nocenti's runs published on it. One of the last thing related to Daredevil was that crazy run where Daredevil seemed to be schizophrenic and had multiple personalities, using several of his uniforms. X-Men probably was side by side with Daredevil in importance, but since Abril created a comic book only for them in 1988, they are number two. Conan is a candidate for number three, but since Abril started its owwn Savage's sword, can't be higher than that. Heroes da TV started in 1979, 15 days after Abril's Cap. It started with Kirby's Thor, Iron Fist, Master of Kung Fu and Silver Surfer. Issue number two introduced many new readers to Captain Marvel, that I believe wasn't published since 1969 or 1970 by Gep publisher. Also introduced them to Ghost Rider, that wasn't published since 197X by. This issue also was responsible for the start of the Champions and Ms Marvell stories. Issue number four also published the middle of Cap's Cosmic cube arc that started in Capitão 4 and finished in Capitão 5. Other issues published some of Cap's adventures from Tales of Suspense. In number 8 the number of pages went of 132 to 100. Number 11 was the first appearance of Thanos in Brazil in Cap Marvel story. Many more characters would came. Dazzler started on issue 35, number 36 was the start of Conan's adventures (as was of the reduction to 84 pages, with is the "normal" average number of most of super-heroes comic books published by Abril), avengers started in issue 34 with Avengers 57 content, Warlock made his debut in number 37. The comic book would suffer one more reduction in the number of pages in edition 101 to 68 pags. The last edition was the 112. The time has come for the X-men to have a comic book of their own and Herois da TV was likely with declining sales (hence the recent reduction to 68 pages). The end of perhaps the most celebrated Marvel title had come at last. I would say that Iron Man and Thor disputed the the place of the most relevant character of the title, for being there from the start until close to the end. Brazilian Annual Batman had a total of five editions, going from 1991 to 1995. I think these Batman are among the first "annual" that received this name in Brazil. Historically, our annual editions were called of "Almanaque" or Almanac in English. I purchased numbers 4 and 5 when I was a kid, and now with this number three and the number one that I also acquired (will post photo of it soon) I am only left with number 2 to close the run! diesel near me location
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Post by kromak on Apr 3, 2019 14:21:20 GMT
Continuing the last batch. the cover from the other side of Batman Annual n°3 N°1: More Cap's in nice shape:
In my previous post I mentioned that Grandes Herois Marvel (Marvel's Great Heroes) is among the top three among many Brazilian collectors. It's different title compared to both Herois da TV and Superaventuras Marvel for two reasons. 1) because it wasn't a monthly magazine. In the beginning, it did not even have a defined periodicity. First issue was September from 1983, n°2 from November, n°3 from February, n°4 from June, and so on. From issue n°8 of June of 1985, it became quarterly and so proceeded until it's (first) end in issue n° 66 in December of 1999. 2) The content. No more a fixed number of stories (usually four for the 84pags editions) and without a more or less fixed group of characters. For instance, the first issue brought Avengers Annual n°7 and Marvel Two-in-one Annual n°2. So yes, more Thanos. I had one of these and lost it, probably when moving on many years ago (and now it's expensive!). However number two have one Spider-Man Marvel Team Up, another Marvel Team Up this time with Fantastic Four, a Luke Cage story and a Marvel Treasure Edition story! So absolutely no relation with the content of the previous edition. Number three brought the origins of Master of Kung Fu, Silver Surfer, Iron Fist and a fairly important Thor story. All these were already printed by Abril before. So basically, it was a a magazine were the people on Abril publisher choose whatever they deemed as cool. Many times, important stories, as number n°7 with the end of Dark Phoenix arc. Number n°8 has the encounter between X-Men and New Titans, n° 10 made a resume of Vison's life until that point, from origin to marriage. However many times this "cool" things were quite irrelevant from a chronology's pov. Or any pov I guess. I mean, Marvel Team up stories? Around number 50 it started to dedicate a lot of the issues to mutant stories (after all, we are in the middle of the 90's) There would be two attempts to come back to the glory days. The first in 2000, lasted only six editions (it became monthly), two dedicated to Busiek/Perez avengers run. The second, between 2000-2001 (started in the following month) lasted 16 issues. No more digest size. Now with USA's dimensions, but with 164 pages, thick cover and magazine like paper. It was time for luxury. And it had a prize. Its price was about 6.5% of that time period minimum wage! It worked so well that they lost Marvel's publishing rights in the end of 2001 (and soon after DC's rights) Some editions that I acquired:
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Post by Jesse on Apr 3, 2019 21:26:32 GMT
Great stuff Kromak!!!! I especially like seeing Captain America comics. In this case, I like how several of them feature an X-men story on the cover also. And I really appreciate the history information!!! Very cool stuff!!! Thanks for sharing!!
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Post by Jesse on Apr 4, 2019 16:45:16 GMT
I got something that I think is pretty cool today. It is a fanmade German translation of the Prensa El Sorprendente Hombre Arana #128. The Prensa edition is an original, non-canon Spider-man story. In it, Peter Parker marries Gwen!!! The original Prensa edition is hard to find and expensive when you do find it. But over in Germany, the story goes that a couple hardcore Spidey fans got their hands on one and translated it into German. I am fortunate, that either one of those guys, or someone close to them, offered them for sale in a Facebook group I belong to. They just finished translating a second comic and I plan on getting that one as well. I'm not a huge Spidey fan, but all the Prensa non-canon Spidey comics interest me tremendously!!!! The artwork is excellent and I want to translate the German into English so I can read the story. This is an oversized comic, about treasury sized. I hope some of you find this intriguing.
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Post by kromak on Apr 4, 2019 21:32:41 GMT
I got something that I think is pretty cool today. It is a fanmade German translation of the Prensa El Sorprendente Hombre Arana #128. The Prensa edition is an original, non-canon Spider-man story. In it, Peter Parker marries Gwen!!! The original Prensa edition is hard to find and expensive when you do find it. But over in Germany, the story goes that a couple hardcore Spidey fans got their hands on one and translated it into German. I am fortunate, that either one of those guys, or someone close to them, offered them for sale in a Facebook group I belong to. They just finished translating a second comic and I plan on getting that one as well. I'm not a huge Spidey fan, but all the Prensa non-canon Spidey comics interest me tremendously!!!! The artwork is excellent and I want to translate the German into English so I can read the story. This is an oversized comic, about treasury sized. I hope some of you find this intriguing. Thanks Jesse. Cool book, I also ready the posts about it in FCC group. How do you plan to translate it?
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Post by Jesse on Apr 4, 2019 22:38:02 GMT
I actually just got done scanning each page in. Now, I'm going to have to type everything into Google translate and go from there. So, it'll be a translation of a translation. LOL!!! I know Google translate isn't 100% accurate, but I figure that if I can get the idea of what is being said, I can rewrite it to sound normal. I don't want to change anything too major as far as dialogue, just make it more readable. The German translation has white word balloons while the copied pages are yellow. If I get ambitious, I'm thinking about cleaning that up also. Here's a sample page. I haven't done anything to it yet, no cropping, color touch or translating. It's 28 pages total. Not counting the covers and ads, there are 23 pages of story and an introduction. I expect it will take a few weeks.
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Post by kromak on Apr 6, 2019 19:33:36 GMT
Yes it's going a nice amount of work! The white balloons really seems out of place. I would pick up a couple of dialogs and test with different translators such Bing, the Google one and others to see which looks more accurate overall.
I can provide some assistance if you like. I like to study languages so it would be interesting for me.
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Post by SGT Comics on Apr 7, 2019 3:44:53 GMT
Just picked up a Japanese copy of Deadpool: Dead Head Redemption!
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Post by Jesse on Apr 9, 2019 20:29:17 GMT
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Post by kromak on Apr 10, 2019 20:33:32 GMT
Cool acquisitions Jesse. I have one of these Distri editions. I Have to go after the others sooner or latter. What is cool about these editions is that its size is intermediate between the digest size and the US. Another cool stuff is the high quality paper inside it, especially taking into account that it's a 80's book. There is also Hulk and Thor from Distri (with only four numbers if I am not mistaken).
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Post by Jesse on Apr 10, 2019 21:25:45 GMT
Kromak, I just checked on Grand Comics Database and it appears that Distri only put out three titles. "O Espectacular Homem-Aranha" (Spider-man) went for ten issues. "O Incrível Hulk" and "O Poderoso Thor" each went for 4 issues. So that makes 18 comics to collect their entire publication history!!!! That's if GCD is correct (which it generally is). That might be a cool thing to chase!! And I totally agree on the paper quality!!!
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Post by kromak on May 5, 2019 18:13:31 GMT
A couple more that arrived: In the end of the 80s, Abril publisher decided to experiment with the limited series format. It wasn't something consolidated in Brazil. For instance, Secret Wars was release on that format, but Crises on the Infinite Earth was not (was spread across all the DC monthly titles). However in 1988 they decided to try with an unusual content. Unusual because the above content isn't anything special, wasn't released in limited series in the US, just in the normal editions. Although I cannot be 100% sure, I believe they were successful, specially the X-men. In the next decade, releasing content in that format would became usual stuff, including more stuff that was released in monthly titles in the US, and these two likely were part of the reason. Now, when the Brazil version of the Wizard Magazine was launched in 1996, there was a popularity list where voters chosen their preferred Comic books that were then ranked into a top 10 list as. And guess which characters were always in the first positions? Well, look by yourself. And which one is the most popular X-Men? Not only with the stories from Wolverine monthly title, but also with Simonson's couple X-Factor, Claremont's Excalibur, Nick Fury from I don't remember who (modern stuff) some Marvel Comics Presents stories to fill gaps. Plus some random stuff from What if and many more. When I started collecting super-heroes in middle 90s, one could easily infer that they were the champions of selling. Four monthly titles (X-men, Fabulosos X-men (Fabulous X-men, in US format), Wolverine and Fator-X (With X-Force, X-Man and cable content. ) Not to mention countless several special editions and limited series with them.
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Post by Jesse on May 5, 2019 18:59:31 GMT
Kromak, that is some great stuff!!! I especially like the X-men angle. I find it endlessly interesting what countries do differently from the US in terms of marketing, production, distribution or, in this case, storylines. For them to design their own limited series is ingenious!!! I can see how comics from the 70's to the 90's can lend themselves to doing that. Very often, a storyline went for 4-6 issues. Then the endless tie-ins began. One of things I hated was when a Cap story was continued in an Avengers issue, or vice versa!!! I don't know if foreign publishers did this, but I could see them taking a tie-in like that and making it a separate mini series. Very cool subject that I may have to research further.
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Post by Ken on May 6, 2019 13:36:02 GMT
Nice books!
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Post by SGT Comics on May 6, 2019 16:44:05 GMT
Kromak, have you considered joining the Grand Comics Database ( www.comics.org/ )? There is a great shortage of info on Brazilian comics there!
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Post by kromak on May 12, 2019 18:41:43 GMT
Kromak, have you considered joining the Grand Comics Database ( www.comics.org/ )? There is a great shortage of info on Brazilian comics there! I am little bit short of time, but yes, I do intend to do something there.
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Post by Jesse on May 14, 2019 12:13:06 GMT
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