 Welcome to my channel and welcome to another comic book video. And just to let you know, we're live streaming this at the same time as well. And what I plan to do for this live stream is to do a live stream of us just listing stuff on eBay. I was going to go through my collection, put some stuff on eBay to sell to get a revenue stream coming in so I can buy some equipment and do an upgraded system so we can create more content and whatnot, right? As well as putting on some of my mermaid comics on eBay because people were asking me where they can get some of those comics and they're hard to find, right? Putting them on eBay and whatnot. I wasn't organized enough to do that. So what I was able to do for this stream is I have some stacks of stuff here I want to show you. I want to show you what I've been reading for the last few months. And if you recall, we put out videos before where basically right now I'm just going through reader copies, dollar or less comics I've been buying either in the dollar bins on eBay or like sale $1 stuff reprints that some publishers have been putting out, right? So we put out a couple of videos at least of what I've been reading, what kind of mode I've been in regards to reading comic books. And I'm still in that mode. So I'm just reading random comics. And what we're going to do is I'm going to here's the stack. Here's the stack. Okay, I'm going to show you speedy goes Alice wise what I've been reading. Okay, I also brought out the comics that I picked up this week. So I'm going to show you what I've been pulling this week. And I have last weeks as well. And I have a box with some other weeks just in the last month or a couple of months, just filling up a short box, right? So I have some of the more recent comics that I'm pulling. I have a stack of comics that are the stack of comics that are my to read list, right? Which are basically $1 stuff, same as what I've shown you here. I have one toy here that I want to show you. I don't usually buy toys, toys, but I have one toy here that I like to show you. And people have been asking me how I make decisions of what to buy and what not. And usually it's just scanning the racks. And that's what I do every week. I go there, I get my pull list and I scan the racks to see what catches my eye. And depending on my budget, sometimes I don't buy anything. Sometimes if I'm on really tight budget, I just pick up my pull list and I don't even go to the racks. So I'm not even tempted to buy anything, really, right? If I'm on a very tight budget. But if I have a little bit of budget, I go and scan the racks. And I also go through the catalogs that is sent out to comic book stores on a monthly basis by DC Marvel, as well as the distributor, the monopoly control distributor, where other independent, not the big two publishers are listing their products, okay? And I go through the catalogs, just browsing. And if I see anything, I rip out the pages and I go, you know, if I think I have the money, I have the budget at the end of the month, you have to give your orders every month. I tell them, you know, I go there and I go through them again and I say, can you order this for me, this for me, this for me, okay? That's what we've got planned for today. That's my grand intro to this video, okay? Aside from that, we have chat going. So I might, you know, go on tangents and start answering some questions and whatnot if there's chat questions coming up. But what I'd like to do is just show you what I've been reading so far, okay? And it's, again, it's a stack this big. I don't know, this is like probably two or three months of just random readings, right? Never do a list, okay? Take a look at this. And this is sort of in order. They're basically in order of what I've read, right? So I have the stack sitting in a corner in my space, right? And I have another stack, which is like, it's already maxed out to the top. It's like huge, right? So I have the stack sitting there. As soon as I finish one comic and I just add to the stack and it slowly grows, right? So the order that we're going to go through it is what I've read most recently, okay? And what's been going on is Marvel has been putting out stuff that are basically sort of reprints of things that they have printed in the past, right? And they reintroduced Conan the Barbarian, right? And as you know, I love Conan. Conan, Savage Sword of Conan is one of my favorite series of all time. Amazing comic books, right? And because they were doing a push because they got the rights back from Dark Horse for Conan the Barbarian or Conan, right? What they were doing is reprinting $1 issues for some of the key titles. And this one was fantastic. This one, let me show you this one. This one blew me away. You know, I'm reading it and the artist's very and the writer's very for each one. This one is, who did this one? This one is by James C. Osley and John Bushima that the artwork for, right? But for example, at the end of this, I hadn't read this original, right? At the end of this, we get the first appearance, I believe it's the first appearance, okay, of the devourer of souls. And this character is phenomenal. Really, I wasn't expecting it. I don't know if this is the first appearance or not. I haven't looked it up online because I believe there's a time where he dies as well, where I might have read a dying issue of him as well. But I remember reading this character in Savage Sword of Conan and I've read the story with him, like at least three times, three or four times, where he partners up with Conan as well. Initially, he tries to kill out when he partners up with Conan. They go after wizards and stuff like that. So these are the type of issues, comics that Marvel has been reprinting. And DC Comics did it for a while and Valiant is just about to start. It's been appearing in some of the previous order forms, right? Hey, Chichou, I was wondering, so I'm just going to flip through, let you see what I've been reading like that. And I'm going to read some of the comics that are being posted during the live. Hey, Chichou, I was wondering if you are interested in buying my pre and post... No, brother. The conversations. That is brother. But if you have pre and post Silver Age comics, now those would be. There's some fantastic comics there. This was hilarious. This one. We're Savage Sword of Conan. Where Conan gets transported, teleported into the future. Nice issue. It was a fun issue. I want whatever diet Conan was on. Conan, Robert E. Howard, I guess, that's the diet he was on. He created an amazing character. But Conan is mainly meat. And some of it raw, right? This one slipped in there. This one was hanging around and just flipped through it, right? Eggs and oatmeal, my friend. And my quinoa gains, our man. And this is, so those were the conas. And I have a whole bunch of other conas that I got to read, right? And they were doing a huge push for Luke Cage for season two on Netflix that was coming out. Like a power man. Thanks, Index. Taking care of business. Personally, I'd tie them out for life. Eggs and oatmeal is fantastic gains at home. And oatmeal, preferably with fresh fruit, right? And one thing that was going on, there's a lot of Avengers of Fantastic Four because we're doing a push for Fantastic Four series being released as well, right? So I've been reading a lot of the Fantastic Four as well. A lot of Kirby stuff. As well as they were doing a push for What If. So a lot of What If dollar ones. Spider-Man. This was fun. And I always, every first weekend in May, first Saturday in May, is free comic book day. So during free comic book day, I pick up random stuff. And just read through them. This was good. Aaron, Jason Aaron's Thor, right? I haven't read the original series. I have some of the issues, I believe. I might have bought a money bay pretty cheap. I don't know, I can't remember. Batman is always there. Man is always there. This was weird. Let me show you this. This was crazy weird. Exclusive subscribers edition. Real-life superhero comics, right? To learn more. And it was people dressed up in cosplay. Fantastic Four is a Marvel comic. And it was just people dressed up in cosplay and with word bubbles. It was just weird. I wish the story that was being told was better. But they weren't. It was just interesting. OK. Just interesting. So a lot of Fantastic Four. And Ant-Man and Wasp movie was coming out, so Marvel was pushing these guys. This was a fun niche wedding. This was good. This was the first appearance of Iron Fress reprint, of course, right? It was a good read. I liked it. First time main thing and the thing. Meet each other. The thing is, I swear, the thing is old school. Are there valiant? One of the questions index is asking, are there valiant reprints like this? Valiant is just in the previews. They're starting to release $1 issues. OK. I've seen it in this previews in the most recent one for March. And I believe it was present in the previous two months as well. So valiant is going to start releasing them as well, which is cool, which is what's needed. Image does as well, but they haven't released one for a while now, the $1 issues. And I was reading all the image ones as well. So it's a great deal for a dollar, right? This was a fun read. Good read. I didn't pick this up when it was first coming out. Nice. Thank you, top fiver. Nice. And I wasn't picking this up. I didn't pick this up. I remember picking up on the racks, flippering it, going, oh, the artwork's cool. But I was in budget. So I was limited on what I was buying and I put it back. I should have bought it. It's going for a fair bit of price now. Halblazer, and those were the Halloween special comics that they came out. This one, Halblazer, always worth reading. Always worth reading. Punisher Max. This is a great Punisher series. Garth Genesis, Punisher Max. I've read some of it. Fantastic. True Bleers, Fantastic Four. I think I've read all the Fantastic Four stuff. Fun reads. Lady Mechanica, I love the artwork. The world, the universe they've built? Not bad. Pretty good. I don't follow the series, but I've read some of these random alphanons. It hasn't grabbed me, but I can appreciate it. Steampunk, basically. Okay. Very cool Steampunk. Hello, Fast Car. How are you doing? Like, the artwork's really good. Take a look at this. Let me put this stack down. All right, take a look at that. The artwork's fantastic for it. Makes me think of a day of that aesthetic, yeah. Hi, can you, hi, can you shout? No, I'm sorry. I don't do any shout outs anymore. People were coming in and giving names that were meant something else, so I stopped doing it. Punisher Ward Journal. Nice series. I read this series pretty deep. Somewhat, anyway. I don't remember much of it, but it was fun. Artwork looks amazing for Lady Mechanica, really. And who's the artist for it? It's the people that, it's their own creation. Oh, there we go. Da, da, da, da. Created by Joe Benetz. Penciled by Joe Benetz and Martin Montel. Story by Joe Benetz and M.M. Chin. Okay? I mean, look at this. Beautiful artwork. Beautiful coloring, right? Fantastic, really. It's very nice, very nice. This was, I like this one. Here, let me show you why. This is a Superior Spinal Man Doc Ock taken over Peter Parker's body, right? And this is the last panel? No, it wasn't the last panel. Oh, yeah. It must be here. I think it was this one. Oh, maybe it wasn't this one. It's where Peter Parker punches Black Hat. Was it this one or a different one? It might be a different one. Okay? It was fun. But this was good. Artwork was good. Okay? And it was a fun story. I got a few more search-taking vinyl pieces recently. Empty walls, multi-colored, seven-inch. Nice. For $11. And it's elected that symphony album for $60. Wow, that thing's going expensive, hey? Also, I love the two romance comic readings. You put those, yeah, those romance comic readings. Man, I was gonna spend more time adding more information in the edits. It was just becoming too much, right? The romance comics were fantastic. I'm glad you liked. I'm glad you like Fast Car. There's some of my favorite videos to make those readings. I'm gonna release the Gene Kelly interview solo tomorrow, just the 16 minutes of it. This was fun. What if Craven had killed Spider-Man, right? Fun read, fun read. Who did the story for it? Roy Thomas, no. Story and Pencils by Richard Howell. Inks by Mary Severn. It was a fun read. Craven dancing over Spider-Man. It's grave, right, basically. $60 was a fair price for it to be honest. Wow, cool. They usually go for 80. It's pretty rare, wow. I gotta get into album collecting, right? Yeah, that interview was definitely cool. I was watching it last night, nice, nice. Gene Kelly and I watched the Shadow Dance from that movie. The Gene Kelly was in the 1944 movie. That Shadow Dance. Once you hear that, his story behind it, it was amazing. It was amazing watching it. Legion, Legion. I can't wait for the last season of Legion to start. Legion series has been phenomenal. One of the best comic book adaptations into film, TV, or movies ever. Phenomenal. The Infinity Gauntlets. What a silver surfer had the Infinity Gauntlet. Good read. The vinyl grading system is a lot more simple than comic book, comic grading. I bet it is. The comic grading is insane. It's ridiculous. Really, it's ridiculous. Like, I just grade on what I think it is. I don't think I grade it according to what the grading companies grade them at. First appearance of Punisher. Reprint, of course, from Amazing Spider-Man 121. 129. This was good. The artwork for it, I believe, was pretty cool. It was fun artwork. Bubbly, bubbly artwork. The story dark, heavy. But vinyl grading usually goes poor, fair, good. Good plus, very good, very good plus. Near mint and mint. Oh, it's almost like the comic book rating. That's a couple of variations, but that's the standard, cool. Punisher. The first Punisher series, the mini series. This was fun. The covers were fantastic for these. The artwork, not bad. Like the dead, great album, great album. Here's the rest of what I've been reading. So I don't know how many comics that is. That's just my, what I've been reading for two, three months, maybe longer, since the last comic book reading thing that we put out. This was not bad. Another Daredevil reprint. Branagh is a block. How are you doing? Welcome to another live stream. Alias, First Appearance of Jessica. Oh no, not the First Appearance of Jessica Jones. First Appearance of Jessica Jones. One of my favorite. I was glad to get the Symphony live album of it. Luke Cage, we did the reading of this one, right? First Appearance of Luke Cage. Good read. I picked up the $1 as well because I wanted it in my reading pile. Just in case, you know, people come if they want to read comics, I just look through that, I ask them, you know, what do you, what do you want to read? What type of comic do you like? And they tell me something and I pull a stack out of the stacks that I've already read and I go, tuk, tuk, tuk, tuk, tuk, here, try this, try this, try this, try this. So we've already done a reading on this. It was a great read, great read. Awesome, glad to have you, Branagh. This was fun. I have this original series, mini series. Kitty Pratt and Wolverine. I feel like a system that I was mentioned on every stream. Probably. I grabbed their level number one reprint as well and we've done a reading of this as well and it was a fantastic reading, right? When I had it in the frame, right? We have a video of this framing their level number one and we also have a video of reading their number one and we read it after taking it out of the frame, right? Fantastic read, important book. One of my favorite videos of yours, the their number one, is it their number one reading? Yeah, it was a great read, really. It was a fantastic read, right? Their level should be valued higher than what it is. It should be valued at the same level as Spider-Man and Fantastic Four, okay? Maybe not Spider-Man, Fantastic Four. Second, I don't know, I love their level. Fantastic Four. This was not bad. Marvel Knights, their level and defenders. It was okay from what I remember. This was a while ago. This was the last one in the pile, right? So I read this like three months ago maybe, three, four months ago, I don't know. The movie didn't do any favors. No, it didn't. The movie would have been like, I'm done watching that guy's movies, nasty. No one liked it. Though it's soundtrack shot the band into fame, did it? Ever essence, did it? I liked, in the their level movie, Bullseye was amazing. Bullseye was crazy fun, crazy fun. So initially when I watched the first their level movie, I liked it because of Bullseye. He did a, when he did the boop in the airplane with the old lady talking, phenomenal, right? Ben Aff, oh my God. Do you have any and own a most prized comic book, one that you value more than any other in your collection? Tough fiver. Is there a comic book that I value more than any other in my collection? My EC Comics. I've, if you've looked at my videos, there's some videos where you see EC Comics frame. They're all from 1952 and they're horror and science fiction comics. My EC Comics, even though they're not the most expensive, those are the ones that I value a lot. My early valiance as well, I love those, right? But my EC Comics, I value a lot and I promise myself one day, when I have enough funds, I'm gonna try to get a complete EC collection. Let me show you what I have lined up to read. You're gonna watch, oh for sure I'm gonna watch the New Avengers movie. Immortal Hulk on the bandwagon with Immortal Hulk and this is the best defense, the Immortal Hulk, right? I didn't pick this up when it first came out but my comic book store got it on sale for a dollar. They just put it up on the racks for a dollar and I pick up a lot of books like that, right? So I picked this up, it's on my pile to read, okay? So I'll be reading this. In another comic book haul or comic book discussion we had, I showed you guys and I read you guys one page from Magnus Rohr. Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo. Let me catch these, these are slippery, some of these are in bags, right? Good thing they're the dollar stuff. Let me put this guy here, one of the bags, we don't need this one. Bring out these guys, let me put these guys here. Oh, this, this, this. When you put them in bags, they're way more slippery, right? So let me put these guys here, okay, let's do this. Let me read this. Woof. Do the EC go for a premium generally? The flash is the best EC here. The ECs, if they're in mid-condition, there isn't too many in mid-condition, if they're in really good condition, they go, they go for pring, pring price. The lower in mid-grades are pretty cheap as far as I'm concerned. And as far as I'm concerned, if I had the funds, I'd be going out there and buying as many as I could. That's, that's my personal take. Batman nerd, Batman is awesome. I've had a heart attack if my records fell, I know. These are the beauty of all this, these are all the dollar ones. So these are all my reading coffees, right? Mostly because of the other characters and his stories. Yeah, the Batman, the reason Batman is so cherished and so loved, it's not because of Batman. Batman's very one-dimensional. It's because of the Batman's foes, right? The evil characters in the Batman books are what make the Batman comic book, right? Batman is very, he's a detective, right? Very regimental, he's not very dynamic. He does, you know, well, he is dynamic, I guess, but he has a personal demon and that's who Batman is. All the other villains in the Batman books, they're all ADD, they're crazy, right? They're some of the best evil characters, okay? Actual favorite superhero. Actual favorite superhero, Spider-Man is amazing. Daredevil is amazing. Bloodshot is amazing. Eternal Warrior is amazing. Exo is amazing. Archer and Armstrong are amazing. Rai is absolutely amazing. Magnus Robot Fighter is amazing. So in a previous video, we did a reading of, one-page reading of Magnus Robot Fighter number 13. This is a series that came out in the early 1990s, right? And I said, oh, you know, I found that one in the dollar bin. It was a great, great Magnus read and I have this one already, but it's buried somewhere in my boxes. So I wanted to continue the story and I found this in the dollar bin so I picked this up again or picked another copy from my reader copy, right? Let me show you these guys. Let me put these guys over here so they don't go flipping down. I love Alfred too. Add a couple of the robins. Yeah, the robins are fun. The robins are fun. Oh, let me put this in order, this guy. Now, these ones I picked up, I've only read a couple of issues of this series crossed, but I found them in dollar bin and this is crossed 100 and it's by Alan Moore and it's crossed number 100, crossed 100, number two and number two and number four. So I picked these out for a dollar to give them a read, okay? This is for mature readers. Do not get this if you don't like blood, gore, just nastiness, okay? It's not a series that I read, but I figured why not? Okay, in the dollar bin. The normals, I didn't pick this up when I first came out and this is from Aftershock. I don't believe I picked that up, I might have, but I didn't read it. So I'm gonna give it a read. This is the first full appearance of Joker's daughter and it was in dollar bin. So I picked it up, give it a read. I think I've read this. I'm pretty sure I've read this, but I thought I'd have it in a reading pile just in case someone's interested. Okay, backwards, again, Aftershock, dollar, Magnus is really old. I have some in my collecting from the 60s, awesome. Love, Magnus, Robot Fighter, Solar, Torok. They're from Gold Key, right? I believe. Wacky, Raceland. I saw this and I didn't pick it up, but it was on sale for a dollar in the dollar bins, right? Why not? This is number two and here's number one. Some people say Batman can beat Black Panther. I would say, yeah, yeah, Batman has beaten Superman. So given time, if he has time to prepare, Batman can beat anyone. He's like the eternal warrior for Valium. Given time to prepare, the eternal warrior will be able to beat anyone because he's very strategic and does the plannings, right? This is the one. Superior Spider-Man, number 20. I think this is the one where he punches, I'm gonna crack this open. Black Cat in the face, I think. If he does, I'm gonna show it to you. Let's do a quick flip. That cross 100 looks pretty cool. The cross 100 is serious business. If you're okay with really unnecessary tool gore, then you might be into it. Here's, and cross 100 is supposed to be really good. I've read some crossed before. I haven't read the Alan Moore stuff, so I picked this up just to get a feel for it, but I've heard cross is supposed to be, why Alan Moore's supposed to be good. Here's the page. Spider-Man punches, let me bring this up closer. I like that, that was good. I have the first appearance of Black Cat, first and second appearance of Black Cat. Tink, how are you doing? If you base an entire thing on who has beaten who, there's a fan theory that Squirrel Girl is the most powerful character in the Marvel Universe. Think I remember seeing that somewhere. Yeah, someone told me about that. I didn't know about that. And it was actually one of my students told me about that. And they said, oh, Squirrel Girl has beaten Thanos with the Infinity Gauntlet. I said, what? And he goes, well, Squirrel Girl, what they do? Now, I didn't notice, I don't read Squirrel Girl. I don't know too much of Squirrel Girl, but my student really liked it. And he said, basically the way it works is they don't show how Squirrel Girl beats them. They just show Squirrel Girl going into the fight and in the next page, they show Squirrel Girl, tri-enfant, right? Which I think is cool, it's fun. Conan the Barbarian. I think this is the first appearance. I think so anyway. We're gonna do a reading of Conan the Barbarian number one, but they put out a $1 issue for it. True believers, print, reprint, right? I have to pick it up, I have to pick it up, right? But we're gonna read the original that I have. We're not gonna read the reprint. We're gonna read the original. We have to, we have to. Because they put out a new series, Savage Sword of Conan and Conan the Barbarian because Marvel got it right. Spider-Man and Miss Marvel doing a push for the Miss Marvel movie, right? So they're releasing a lot of $1 issues. So if you wanna read some, historic, some, oh yeah, this was, this one we already looked at. This was the Hulk, fell down on the piles. We're gonna put it together. But here's one. This is Avengers reprint of Avengers number 10. I have it, it's the first appearance of Rogue. Okay, it's a good read. I read it way, way back in the day, but I don't remember it at all. So I'm gonna read it again. It's my, to read list, Avengers. And if you're into wanting to get some comics, you don't know what to read or what not, and you don't wanna spend the money, then go to your comic book retailer just before a movie comes out or a few weeks before a movie comes out. Right now for Marvel anyway, what they're doing is they're releasing $1 issues promoting a character either because they're releasing a movie or they're releasing comic book series, right? So that's one way to read some of the key historic issues. Captain Marvel. I haven't read, maybe I've read like one or two of the Captain Marvel comics before. I haven't read the rest. So I'm looking forward to reading these. And I don't have these in my collection. I know I don't. I wasn't, I don't think I have anyway. If I did, it's just random buys. I wasn't collecting Marvel. What do you call it? Miss Marvel or Captain Marvel. This I picked up, but I didn't read. Port of Earth and the artwork looks phenomenal for it. Okay. I picked it up because it's sci-fi and whatnot. I wanna crack it open. I wanna show you the artwork for it if I remember correctly anyway. But I picked it up from the dollar bin. I paid full price when it came out, but I picked that up in the dollar bin because I wanna read it and I didn't get a chance to read it. And it's like a mint copy, right? Here's the cover. Looks beautiful. It's from Image Comics. Like the artwork looks fantastic for it. Just alien sci-fi, dark feel to it. I like this kind of, this kind of artwork. So I'm gonna give it a read. I've heard good things about this series. I think it's, I don't know if it's finished or not. I followed it for a few issues. I had it as my poll list and then I took it off. Captain Marvel again. Decree, Skrull War. Fantastic universe, right? So those are what I've been reading and the pile that I have as my two-read list, right? So let me show you what I picked up this week. What I picked up last week, some of it anyway. This week I've really reduced. There's weeks where I'm only getting one comic book or two comic books. This week I ended up getting a fair bit. I went in, scanned the racks, right? And I added a couple of things to my poll list. There's a lot that came out this week. There's a lot that came out. Okay, here, let me show you these. Now what I've, what's happened is I've ran out of boards, just regular size, silvery sized boards. So I haven't been able to bag and board all of them properly for this week's rack anyway. Okay, so I have them in golden each bags and boards and they're open because I wanna switch them up as soon as I get my boards. But I picked up dark red from Aftershock. Okay, let me put these guys here that way. Organize things, put them down properly. Okay, so dark red from Aftershock. Okay, this is a zombie thing. I haven't read it yet. And I picked up two copies, right? My budget this week was a little higher. So I picked up a couple copies. And that's what I do, do with comic books. Sometimes if I have to budget, if I see something that I think is interesting is worth, it might increase in value a little bit. I buy an extra copy or a couple extra copies or something like this, right? And I've done this before collecting for whatever, 25 years or so. And then you sometimes flip them, make a little extra money, support your hobby, right? Invisible Kingdom, Willow Wilson Christian Ward. It's not on my pull list. I just picked it up off the racks. Again, there's a lot of amazing sci-fi being put out. So I'm trying to keep track of it, okay? Rise number one from Skelth Comics. I do try to pick up Skelth Comics books. I think they're doing some amazing work. And they're really good as independent publishers. Okay, more mature. I've added Immortal Hulk to my pull list, okay? These ones that you just saw from this week, I just pulled off the racks, right? Immortal Hulk is on my pull list, okay? I didn't jump on it right away. So I got a chase or I'm buying second prints or whatever it is, right? But for the last couple of months through three months, I've been picking it up. And I went back and I picked up some of the first prints of the earlier ones. But this is Immortal Hulk number 15, Alex Ross cover. I believe this is Alex Ross as well. It must be the same art style. I read a little bit of it, it's fantastic. And here's the variant cover for number 15. This cover is amazing. Fantastic cover, really. What an amazing cover. This is one of the best Hulk covers I've ever seen. Fantastic, like, look at that, right? I like that a lot. I picked up three. To do. That's one of the reasons I don't scan the racks if my budget is very, very low, okay? But what a beautiful cover. Let me take it out of the bag. I show it to you without the glare, okay? Alex Ross's art is some of my favorite, yeah. That Joker in Heart of the artwork is so good, the one that they're dancing. A spot of teeth with a black background. I wish I had the original with that. I don't have that one. I don't like everything Alex Ross puts out. But some of the covers are just phenomenal. And what I find with Alex Ross is some of his covers are missing the life. Yeah, with Joker in the black tux, yeah. Amazing cover, spot of the amazing cover. I don't have, I don't have. Take a look. But this one has serious motion to it. It's a beautiful cover. Really, Hulk, pure. It's not about his face, it's about his, the way he moves, right? And by all accounts, a lot of people, I loved Dave Kewin, Cowan, Hulk, where he made them beautiful and put them out. Back in the 90s, it was a great run. It was different. But by many people's account, this Immortal Hulk is the best Hulk series that's ever been put out, right? Hey, come on, get in there. Okay, let's put the board in first and then we put the comic. That's the way we usually go. So much easier to do than with the board and the comic together. Here's some more there on my pull list. Okay, and again, the rest of these are all on my pull list. Monstrous, picking it up, picking it up. And I'm picking up the singles, but I'm not reading the singles. I'm waiting for the trades to come out and I'm reading the trades, right? So I'm trade waiting the series to read, but I'm picking up the singles. It has to be done. It's one of the greatest series ever put out. Fantastic, very unique. Amazing artwork, hardcore storytelling, universe building. I'm also picking up Venom. It's on my pull list, okay. I've read some of the issues. I'm not staying up with it, but I've read some of the issues. Great series, great series. Do you own the legendary Schmigel comic with the four smugglers? I don't know that one, Matt. I'm picking up all the valiance. This week was good. Ex-O-Mad of War, really underrated company. Toyoharada, number one, the life of death of Toyoharada. And these are all the pre-order editions. I've asked my colleague, what is the pre-order edition of Toyoharada? Pre-order editions. I've asked my comic bookshop to put the pre-order editions in my box to pick up. Incursion number two. And supposedly the Bloodshot movie is due to be released in 2020. Can't wait, can't wait. Wow, wow, wow. I wonder. I wonder, right? I wonder. That was this week. This was a heavy week for me. I've really cut back in the last four months or so. Here's some stuff. It's either from last week or in the last couple of weeks anyway. Beautiful cover. Amazing Spider-Man. I believe it's amazing Spider-Man anyway. This came out for the February. I think for Valentine's or a few weeks later. So this is in the last month or so. Okay. Venom number 11. The previous to the other one. And this is the Watchman variant. Cool cover. Punchline I've been picking up. I haven't read it yet. I don't know how far I'm gonna continue with it. Yeah, the Spider-Man, Mary Jane, one is cute. I'm assuming you mean that one. Game on home, mom. Deadly class. I've only read a couple of issues way back when it first came out. I haven't read the rest, but I will at some point. And I've watched like three episodes of the series. The TV series has come out. Fantastic TV series. I'm gonna do a binge on it. Livewire number four. Immortal Hulk number 15. Oh, sorry, number 14. The previous one was number 15. So this is last month. Little bird. This one I think I picked up a couple of weeks ago. Beautiful artwork. Skimmed through it. Supergirl 28. Picked it up because of the cover. Beautiful cover. Really. Beautiful cover. Blotch shot. Spirit rising. Also, the Forgotten Queen number one. All that food talk before it got me hungry. Finally having some blueberry yogurt and granola. Nice. That's a good food. Blueberry yogurt and granola. Delicious. I might have some after we finish recording and streaming. Wasted space. I love the artwork for this. I skimmed through the first issue. First couple of issues when it first came out. I didn't read the whole thing. Supergirl's very. But this was a great series. I think this is the last issue. I think I took it off my pull list. I might not have. I think I've kept it on there. I just want to keep it going as far as long as I can. But if I'm not going to read it, if I don't start reading it soon, then I might take it off my pull list. I'm not sure how long it is. I think it's continuing series. You should do a cooking stream sometime again. Those are fun. I plan on that to write. We'll see if I can get it done sooner rather than later. So those are the comics I put out to show you so far, right? What I've been pulling. Now, I have some stuff in boxes, but let's jump over those. What I want to do is I want to show you how I go about adding things to my pull list or giving orders to my comic book store, right? And I'm going to show you what caught my attention. Let me show you this too. What caught my attention. For this month's order that you place in with the comic stores put in and then they get the order like, I guess books come in two months later. But during the last, I'm going to show you a toy that I bought that I especially ordered. And I ordered it through the catalog and I'll show you what the catalog is, right? And what I do is I skim through the catalog and I go through the split up between comic books and then toys and dolls and accessories, right? So sort of a flip catalog, right? And I flip through the comics first and I go through and I rip out pages and decide what I want, right? Or what I might get, okay? And I go through the toys as well, but I never order any toys. I don't buy any toys, okay? I have some toys in my boxes and stuff that I've collected over the years that we use, but I never, I haven't bought a toy for a long time, right? Except for this. I picked this up about a year and a half ago. It's the Green Little Conan movie already. Yeah, Hollywood needs the Green Little Conan movie already agreed. They just put one out, I think a couple of years ago, but it wasn't very good. I watched like 15 minutes. I had to stop. Only for our nonsense. So this is the point and just on that note, top five are Hollywood needs the Green Little Conan movie already, right? This toy I ordered because the TV series came out which I loved. It was half animation, half live action. So you had animation characters interacting with live action and I loved it. It was fantastic, okay? I think they put out eight episodes or 13 episodes, 13 episodes, I believe. And I binged it and I watched it twice, right? But I knew it was gonna be canceled and this was coming, this came out when the show was airing. So I ordered it, right? Because I wanted to have it, okay? And it's Son of Zorn. This is the only toy I've bought in the last two decades. Okay? And it's basically the TV premise was he's like a cartoon character from a world called, I forget where the world is. They give a name to this world, this island. And he gets into a relationship with a human being, this woman. And then they're separated and they have a son together and he comes and lives with the human beings. And he's a Conan type of character. It's basically like seriously, it's like a Conan character but ridiculously over the top. And just humor galore. So I bought this because I wanted it, okay? And he gets a job in an office. Here's the back of it. That's one out of a lot of toy purchase. It is, it is. In like two decades. This is the only toy purchase I've made, right? It's too bad they canceled the series. It was a great series, great series. Unfortunate, I'm unfortunate, so unfortunate, so unfortunate they canceled it. Okay. As far as ordering comic books, let me show you how I go about ordering comic books. Or looking through and checking out what's coming, right? There is basically sort of catalogs. One that DC Comics puts out, right? And they send out to retailers. The distributor sends out to retailers and they place orders of what they want according to what's listed here, right? So I go through those and Marvel does the same thing. Okay. They put out a catalog with the books that they're putting out and retailers have to go through that and order it. And for me, if I have, you know, if you get a box, a pull list with this comic shop that I have a pull list with, they allow you to pick these up for free. Okay. Otherwise they're either free or they charge you like $2 or whatnot. Okay. And the main one is something called Previews, which is this thing. Previews that Diamond Distributed puts out every month. Give it to their retailers and it's a catalog of comic books listed based on the different companies. There are, you know, what the companies are putting out and DC Comics used to be in here and Marvel Comics many moons ago used to be in here, but they separated, right? So DC puts out their own catalog, Marvel puts on their own catalog and everybody else is in here. Valiant, Image, Dark Horse, Aftershock, whoever it might be, right? And they have like, you know, they list like stuff like this, right? You know, they have the comic book, the description, the price, and they have a number, okay? That you fill out, you say how many stuff you need. Now, my comic book store allows me to grab, you know, these things one a month and just go through it and tell them, you know, what I want. And here's Boom, you know, Boom does the same thing. And the smaller publishers, you know, they have little panels here, let me show you. They don't get as much space, right? So we're dead Sonya. Like, you know, they have smaller space in here, right? Where they list stuff. You have to pay extra to have big pages and whatnot. And, you know, here's some other indies, right? So I go through this catalog. It's fun to do, really. It's fun to do. I go through it and I look at the covers and, you know, if something catches my eye, I read the description, I read to see who the artists are. And I go to certain companies that are listed here because I read everything that they're putting out and if I like something, you know, I note it and what I do is I usually tear out the pages and I use them as bookmarks. And I, you know, at the end of the month, if I, you know, I relook over what, you know, I tore out what caught my attention and I go to my comic book retailer. And if I can afford it, I have to budget. I tell them, hey, listen, I like to order this or I like to order this. So for this previews, which is, here, let me mark, put this out. And on the other side, it's sort of a flip thing. So, you know, one side, let me show you. One side is comic books. And then on the other side, you read it this way. It's toys and, you know, let me show you. You know, they have the toys listed and, you know, figurines and just different things listed. That's where I found the Zorn stuff, right? But let me show you as far as the comic book goes. This is for the March, 2019. These are the ones that I tore out that I might get put on my pull list. Just order it, right? This is from Vault Comics. Nathan Gooden and Tim Daniel. And it's, she said, destroy, okay? So this looked interesting. You know, the order I think I have to put it in this week if I decide to take it, you know, order this, put it on my pull list. I might do it, maybe, okay? Here's another one that caught my attention. John Carprinter's Tale of Science Fiction, Surviving Nuclear Attack, right? This thing looked interesting. It's got a little write up down here, what it is. I don't, you know, I don't think my budget allows ordering that one. But we see. And some of these things, like, take a look, they have multiple things listed, right? So sometimes I tear it out and I try to figure out what it is that I wanted to order from that. For this one, what I want to tell my comic book retailer is Alterna Comics basically releases comic books that are $1.50 or $0.99. And I've picked up a fair bit of Alterna in the past. I've added to my pull list. I took it off my pull list because diamond distributors, the comic shop wouldn't be ordering too many, but diamond distributors would send them two copies and both copies of whatever they sent would be damaged. So diamond comics is not handling these smaller publishers, their comic books well. So one time I even had to send the comic back. I said, listen, I can't buy this. The cover was torn, right? And the retailer was like, yeah, of course, this is horrendous. So they sent it back, they ordered another copy and the other copy came in and that was even torn. So I was like, man, very unfortunate that we live in a society where comic books are in the hands of a small, well, relatively small corporation that controls the flow of all the comic books. So if they don't, if the comic book company is not in the good light of this monopoly distributor, if comics aren't handled properly, they don't care, right? Very unfortunate, but I'm going to go back to the retailer and tell them to add all of the alternate comics and alternate comics, there's going to be one, two, three, four, five more, five books they're putting out. It's enlisted in the March, 2019 catalog which it comes out two months later, okay? We see, we see. I tore these out of the DC catalog and the reason I tore these out is because I like the Wonder Woman covers. This is Wonder Woman number 70, okay? Number 70 and Wonder Woman number 71 and I don't have this on my pull list but I want to order these covers. This one looks amazing and this one. We'll see. They're going to have enough issues of that so there shouldn't be a problem grabbing it later. This one, I'm thinking about grabbing as well. Star Blazers, Space Battleship Yamota, 2199, Volume 1 trade paperback. Take a look. I used to watch this religiously when I was a kid, Star Blazers. I used to get up at 6 a.m. in the morning before school and watch it. What an amazing series and one day I'm going to sit down and do a full blown marathon on Star Blazers, maybe this year, okay? One of the greatest animated series ever to come out and I've only read a couple of issues of randoms of Star Blazers' manga. Which one was this one I wanted to get? Oh yeah, Terry Moore, okay? He's putting out a new series called Five Years and it's basically all his characters are going to appear in there. Motor Girl from Stranger In Paradise and Rachel Rising and Echo and stuff, right? So I might be ordering this. I might be picking this up, putting it on my playlist. Looks cool. And Terry Moore is amazing, okay? And I'm thinking about ordering this. Rick and Morty number 50 and there's a five. So this is Rick and Morty number 50 and I don't have Rick and Morty on my pull list but I want to order these five issues. All the covers make one splash page. They connect together, okay? So I might order this. Rick and Morty, one, two, three, four, five, right? And they're all the reprints of the first five issues and Rick and Morty number one, the early issues go for crazy amounts. Rick and Morty number one goes, sells for like $200, okay? And the one and 25 sells for like $1,000 because there weren't that many ordered. I'm pretty sure the orders are pretty high right now but I'm definitely going to be placing the order for this, I'm pretty sure. I think so. The reprint of Rick and Morty number one, two, three, four, five with connecting covers and have those up on a wall somewhere, Frank, possibly. Maybe I'll look at my budget, see if I can do it, okay? And I have, you know, I brought previews from the other. I have the previews from, you know, some of the other months as well, the previous months and, you know, the pages that I tore out that I was thinking of getting. Some I placed, very few. I'm not placing very many of them. So out of the, how many do we have here? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Out of these seven, I'm probably only going to be placing two of them with the retailer, two or three of them with the retailer, right? So I go through another filter of this thing, okay? That's what I wanted to show you guys. People have been asking me what I've been reading, what I've been collecting, what I'm pulling, if I have any recommendations. That's sort of the gist of what I've been doing with the comic books. Aside from some of the trades I've been flipping through and there's a couple of trades I've read, I should have worn that. I should have brought those out as well, but I didn't just to show you what I've been reading. But there's I think like three or four trades I've read, like either OmniBus or Collections that I've read while going through the books that I've showed you that I've read so far, right? So it's not just the floppy, it's the reading copies that I'm reading. I've also been reading some trades and stuff and I have some trades lined up to read as well. And I'll show you those as well as soon as I get into the next trade that we're gonna do. Okay, that's about it. I'm gonna go join chat in the live stream and answering the questions, talk about any of these books or whatever they wanna talk about. And we'll be back with another video, either comic book, ASMR map, cooking live stream or whatever it might be fairly soon. Okay, there's a few videos I've got lined up to do that we are getting done. And we've done some comic book readings right now. We did two love comic book readings that I've posted on and we're gonna take a segment of one of the readings with the Gene Kelly interview. I'm gonna load that on by itself. And there's one more comic book reading we've got lined up to do which is a war comic book on the golden age of comics by request, right? Aside from that, thanks for being here and I'll see you guys in the next video. Okay, bye for now.