 Hey guys, welcome back to Comic-EnTV the only place on YouTube. We're all geek culture collides. I'm Shannon and today on the show We're gonna be taking a look at Marvel Comics group the uncanny X-Men number 159 this comic book Holds a special place in my heart. This was the very first comic I ever bought over time It got removed from my collection So I went on eBay and tracked it down Not the exact Copy that I had but a better copy really Tracked it down the ebay seller listed it As the uncanny X-Men number 159 from 1982 with a Grading of 8.0 Uh, I won the bid The shipping was five dollars My bid was $2.74 my max bid was actually $10 but nobody else bid on it. So I got it now I also purchased the digital copy from on comicsology so that Rather than Going through each page. I'm I am going to open it up and Take a look at the condition and everything but rather than showing you guys each page and In detail and stuff I'm going to use the digital version to go over that for those of you who don't know This is when Storm Right there see her shadow there She got seduced by Dracula In order to become his bride This takes place before rogue joined the X-Men Because the issue before this The X-Men ended up battling rogue So But as you can see here, we got colossus nightcrawler wolverine Kitty pride and then Storm's shadow Uh in this issue Cyclops was Away he was visiting with his brother Havoc and His father Corsair who was planning on Going back into space with the star jammers Uh, they were there with I believe gene and polaris at the time Polaris and Havoc were a couple Uh This was before polaris knew she was magneto's daughter And Yeah, I mean Let's go ahead And open it up As you can see here The back 8.0 is what he's got written on there I almost don't want to open it because It's in such good condition, but I'm gonna try to be very very careful with this All right, there's the back some of the things you could mail away for or call away for back in the day very cool and It's got that vintage comic book smell Now I'm gonna lay this down. I'm gonna adjust the camera and I'll be right back And we're back I'm gonna try sorry about that guys. I had a phone call. I had to take um but anyway Let's take a look at this binding The binding is in really great shape There's a little bit of a ding right there on the corners but And on that corner In that corner But overall not bad. The color is still very vibrant Inside the comic. It's got that Real old school look going to it um the inner cover Has some uh Good color on it there's the Information if you guys want to pause and read that There we see Vampire storm That's all I'm gonna Open it and do let's go ahead and put it back in in the uh Plastic and we'll talk about it a little bit This is a really great condition comic. Uh, I'm really impressed so As I said, this was the first comic I ever added to my collection Something just drew me to it. Uh I didn't know much about the X-Men back then I had Couple of the little rubber figures that had the metal wire inside of them I had Wolverine and Nightcrawler But other than that, I didn't really know much about the X-Men. I didn't know how they got their powers I didn't know what a mutant was Visited a comic book shop. I believe and saw this and my mom said I could get one get a comic So I picked this up. I saw it had Nightcrawler on the cover and Wolverine I was like, all right, this this might be a good way to get introduced and find out what X-Men are This was also around the time when I believe in second grade There was a school fair or something like that book fair or whatever and they had some little buttons little pin-on buttons laying out and I saw one with colossus on it So I recognized him too from the button I didn't know who he was at the time or whatever, but I knew I saw him on a button. So I I figured hey these These guys must be you know pretty popular to have you know toys made of them Buttons and all kinds of stuff. So I took it home I read it. Actually, I think I might have got this in third grade, but I remembered seeing the pin From when I was in second grade But third or fourth grade somewhere around there and I really liked it. It really stuck in my mind storm being seduced by Dracula one scene I remember was Wolverine using his claws to try and make a cross to Send Dracula away And Dracula saying something along the lines of You fool that's not gonna work on me for you have to believe And he just like throws Wolverine away or something like that. It's been so long since I've read this But then night crawler he gets a couple sticks together and he says something along the lines of Uh Well, if that's the case then I believe and it really screws with Dracula, you know, he hisses and kind of fleas But yeah, this was my first introduction to X-Men. This was before I got this comic before the X-Men animated series came out Before I even got into comics really This was what introduced me to Marvel or to X-Men to Marvel Comics in particular The only thing I knew about Marvel Comics before was Spider-Man at the time. He was everywhere As you can see here Marvel entertainment A lot of there were a lot of shows on tv that had that were done by Marvel productions or Marvel entertainment that had the CGI Spider-Man over the logo that I always saw was really cool There's a comic book shop here in town Back in the day that had a big sign out front That had Superman and Spider-Man standing back to back with their arms crossed You know looking kind of macho But yeah, that's really All I really knew about Marvel was Spider-Man You know, he was everywhere. He had his own animated. He had his own cartoons spider Adventure Spider-Man back in the 80s and then Spider friends or Spider-Man and friends or what I can't remember the the actual name of it right off hand But The X-Men weren't on tv So If it wasn't on tv, I didn't really Have much of an idea about it, you know, I know about Superman Batman And Aquaman Green Lantern all that because at the time DC was on tv Constantly you had the superpowers. You had galactic guardians. You had the New adventures of Superman the new adventures of Batman and Robin You had the Superman Aquaman action hour All this But you didn't really the only Marvel stuff you had was Spider-Man Yeah, back in the 60s and 70s You had some stuff by filmation of you know, spider-man iron man Fantastic four and then you had the incredible Hulk live action tv series But that was that was it, you know, everyone knew about fantastic for From that cartoon Um, I didn't really know much about iron man I was kind of turned off at the time because he had a mustache and at that age Mustaches meant old He was an old guy Which I think is funny now because he wasn't really that old. He just looked old because of the mustache So it didn't really interest me then I see We go shopping and my mom set a price limit on what we could buy five dollars each So My brother and I got wolverine and nightcrawler of the little rubber rubber figures with the wire frames I think I got nightcrawler and he got wolverine, but I played with them more than he did And I would make up little back stories for them Since I didn't really know much about the X-Men didn't know anything about the X-Men I had wolverine getting Getting bitten by a radioactive wolverine or something like that And I'm not sure what I had Nightcrawler's origin story as but then When I found this comic it It introduced me to the world of mutants and it it really intrigued me And then on top of that it had vamp had to do with vampires back in the day vampires were were everywhere They were the they were the boogeyman of the day So it was really cool seeing these superheroes go up against Dracula And I I don't know what it was, but it just the cover really intrigued me It really stuck in my mind Uh the story stuck in my mind. I I just I don't know. I just really liked it. So anyway, this this video has gone on long enough Uh, I'm gonna go and end it there I'm really happy with this purchase from ebay. The seller was supersonic comics very very great Very good deal. I yeah, I would I would probably give it an 8.0 for the condition Yeah, you had to have some flaws in the corners, but everything else is pretty much mint So anyway supersonic if you're watching this Very happy with my purchase and to the rest of you if you haven't read this story Highly suggest if you don't want to find the physical comic It's on comics ology for 99 cents. You can't really beat that So check it out. It's uncanny x-men number 159 So anyway, hope you guys enjoyed the video. 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