 So, let me show you some of the comics that I have on my collection. Now, what I've done is go through some long boxes, grab some stacks, and I've brought out three short boxes that maybe we'll get a chance to go through them, right? And like I said in the previous video, I'm a comic book collector. I've been a comic book collector for a very long time. I've did a stint as an independent publisher, you know, did it even finishes on some pages, so we can make printing deadlines. And sometimes I go ballistic with collecting comic books. Sometimes, you know, I phase it down a little bit when other things need more attention than comic books. And, you know, I read a little bit or I go through, you know, boxes that I've had, some comic books that I've collected that I haven't read. And I go through my old collection and pull comics out and read them, right? Because, like most avid collectors, most aficionados, I've only read a certain percentage of my collection, not even close to 50%, maybe 30% of the comics, 30, pushing it 40% of the comics I read. So I have a huge, huge number of comics here that I could stop buying and read for a very long time. And it's always fun going through your collection and pulling out comics that you didn't know you had, right? You didn't remember you bought. And these are some of the comics. And some of these I've read, some of them, you know, I haven't read yet. This is one of the ones I haven't read yet. This is Mysteries and Explored Worlds. And I believe Steve Ditko. And as far as quality goes, this isn't a bad quality. But I think, if I remember correctly, I think the cover is detached. And this is classic. And for those of you who don't know Steve Ditko, he's a legend at par with Stanley. There's Deathlock, first appearance of Deathlock. Stonishing Tales number 25. And I actually have the whole set for this, the Deathlock set. I'm only missing one of them and I believe it's the origin issue. I can't remember. Okay. This one is one of my favorites. I just recently acquired this, grabbed the hold of this. But I've been a fan of John Constantine, Hellblazer Forever. And Alan Moore is Alan Moore, right? And this is the first appearance of John Constantine. For those of you who are following TV shows, that would be John Constantine. From here, he appeared in Swamp Thing a few more times. But then he was spun off into his own series called Hellblazer in, I think, 88. 1988 or so, late 1980s. And it is one of the most amazing series ever created in comic book history. It ran, I think it's one of the longest series comic books in history. And it's magnificent. If you're into horror and supernatural stuff and just amazing art and amazing storytelling, you know, go there and grab John Hellblazer number one and start reading. You won't be disappointed. This one, All Star Western, first appearance of, right? Now, this comic is it's rare in high grade. It's extremely rare in high grade and price tag for it is insane. This isn't an amazing grade because the cover is not sitting extremely nice, but it's not really missing any chunks out of it, right? So it's a nice little set or a nice little comic anyway. So this one is Strange Tales number 15, origin of Doctor Strange. And I believe that's the second appearance of Sandman, one of the foes of Spider-Man, right? Amazing Spider-Man. Pretty cover, I'll show you. Now we end up reading this one in the set that I put together. It's Jingle Jingle number 18 and I grabbed a few of these in a lot sale off eBay. No, actually I bought them individually, but they were shipped out a lot. And it's interesting there is one story in there from the anthologies anyway. We ended up reading two stories and two or three maybe from this one. And one of the stories is historically pretty interesting. Graphic music number one, I believe it's the first color appearance of Madman. And we did read The Cruces of the It in the series in the video that we put out, the first appearance of Madman. And this is Mike Alred, he's absolutely amazing. One of the most important comic book creators in the last, well, in our generation really. It's from the 1980s to till now. He's created a lot of stuff, worked with a lot of people. Mystic number six and we've taken a detailed look at this as well. Actually, this is the second copy I have. The other copy is right there. And we had to read through this and it's absolutely brilliant. Mystic number five, the issue preceding this one. And these are golden age of comics. These are two of my favorite comic books I have in my series, in my collection anyway. And these are EC Comics, The Annuals. And these are reprints, compilations of original EC stories. This is the one from 1952. And this is the one from 1953. And I'm a huge sci-fi guy. I love my sci-fi. I love my fantasy. But sci-fi, I think, more than anything. Because it pushes the limits of understanding as far as we're concerned. Anyway, human beings and what we can do and a lot of technology, I believe anyway. Straight out came out of science fiction. The Avengers annual number 10, First Appearance of the Road. And some of these I have multiple copies as being a collector as I am. That one I think I have, two or three. This one, I'm a huge Lobo guy. I love Lobo. Lobo is amazing. Lobo rocks. It's one of the best characters ever. And this is the first solo Lobo story. I believe so anyway. This is the first solo Lobo story. This is Omega Man, the series. It's Omega Man number 35, 37. And this thing's series, it's a superhero, I guess it's a superhero team. But it's sci-fi. It's on other planets. And it's an amazing actually read. There's a lot of different aliens involved in different worlds. Lots of traveling. So it's basically science fiction on level of Star Trek, but less humans and more aliens. And absolutely brilliant series. And Lobo made his first appearance in Omega Man number 3. And then followed up by number 5, number 9, 10, 11. I can't remember the numbers. And if you're interested in reading Lobo, the first thing you should check out with Lobo, if you're interested in Omega Man for sure, pick this up, 1980s. And he looks a little different than this than he does in future progressions. But Lobo, the last Zarnian artwork by Bisley, written by Griffin and Grant, I believe. I should have checked this out before I started talking about it. But Lobo, the last Zarnian, has a four-issue set. And it is one of the best stories ever told in comic books. It is absolutely brilliant. It will crack you up from page one until the last page. Lot of cool characters in it. And of course, Lobo paramilitary Christmas special, where the Easter Bunny hires Lobo to kill Santa Claus. Awesome. Secret Wars. First appearance of the Black Hostile to become Menom. Let's grab another snack. I like Speedball. One of the best series I ever read was New Warriors. The series that came out in early 1990s. And Speedball was one of the characters in it. And his power is amazing. He just makes kinetic balloons. He just bounces everywhere. It's awesome. It's fun. If you like Guardians of the Galaxy, this is a Novel Corp, right? I got a couple of copies of these in Speedball. Days of Future Past, the movies, right? X-Men, if you're a comic book collector, you have X-Men. Nothing else to be said about X-Men. Absolutely awesome. For decades, absolutely awesome. Chris Claremont, absolutely awesome. One of the most influential people. Writers in comic books. And if you've read X-Men, you've read Chris Claremont. And you've been influenced by Chris Claremont. His influence is, I don't even know if you can measure it, right? Harbinger number one. X-O Man of War number one. Now, these are valiant comics that came out in early 1990s. And valiant comics, they literally change the face of the comic book industry. Jim Shooter is a comic book god. He created a company that within two, three short years became the third top seller in the industry. That shook up the industry like no other. The reason he was able to do this was because he had an amazing team behind them. And he's an amazing writer and editor. He was responsible for creating some of the most important books for Marvel comics from the 60s and 70s, really, all the way up to the 80s. He had an amazing team. He had an amazing vision and he had an amazing story to tell. And I have everything valiant, unity and pre-unity and a little bit afterwards. After unity, unfortunately, Wall Street took over and the banker stepped in and they killed the goose that laid the golden egg, right? They got rid of Shooter. It was one of the saddest days in comic books. Comic book history, when that happened actually, that's when I got into publishing or a little bit before that. But the idea came to me a little bit before that. But when that happened, I got very pissed off. I started collecting less. It was seriously, for me, one of the saddest things to happen in comic books. And soon after that, I stopped buying comic books for a few years because I was so distraught. Because lawyers basically destroyed an amazing universe that was created. But anyway, I digress. Let me show you two other comics that I bought. Now, these are two of the most important characters in Marvel comics. Deadpool number, sorry, not Deadpool number. New England's number, 98. First appearance of Deadpool. And first appearance of either Gideon and Domino. I can't remember another first appearance as well. And I bought these off the racks. And I got a handful of these guys in mint, mint condition. With all the flak that Rob Layfield gets, he was extremely important. Really, the guy created some amazing stuff. I can understand some of the hate for him, but I can't understand the grudge against him. First appearance of Gambit. And I picked these up, well, this one. I picked up for two bucks and I grabbed a few of these in the back street boxes. And what do you call it? Silver Surfer number one. Creatures of the Id. We've read this. If you want to have a read through the first appearance of Madman by Mike Albert, you can. I just read it. It's awesome. I put out a video for it. And one of the most important characters from the Independence. From the modern age, I guess. This is 1990. Solar Man of the Atom number 10. Valiant comics. Brilliant, brilliant. Eternal Warrior and that one. X-Men. And I do have, I grabbed a short box with some X-Men and stuff in it. This just happens to be sitting by itself. X-Men number 62. Because more E.C. comics. More E.C. comics. E.C. comics, my God. Again, one of the most important companies to ever come out of comic books. And it was censorship that really destroyed E.C. comics. They were producing some amazing work and a book was published and people wrote articles saying that comic books were polluting children's minds and people freaked out as they do. Fear took over, media went rampant, fanatics came about and they introduced censorship. And a lot of amazing, amazing companies went under. Well, E.C. comics was one of them. Morph, but they were producing some amazing work and they had to stop words like horror and vampire and stuff were banned. Censorship, right? Brutal, brutal, brutal. Another one. Number 98. Cool. Now, here's a little tidbit regarding this. This is when you notice we're editing even, mistakes even go to Marvel comics and they print stuff with spelling mistakes in them. For those of you in the comic book industry or comic book collectors, I came across this on a forum where they spelled the name wrong. Not amazing Spider-Man, but if more of us, first full appearance of Venom, the black costume, right? Is Todd McFarlane. Start off with 298, 99, 300. Amazing Spider-Man. Okay. And he stayed with Amazing Spider-Man for, I think into the 20s. And that's what really made Todd McFarlane famous. Another new means. Green Goblin dies. I have some amazing Spider-Man. Some of the stuff is in really good shape, great shape. Okay. Some of the stuff in rough shape. But for me, as long as the stories are intact, I'm okay with it. Amazing Spider-Man, number 10. Now, the lowest Amazing Spider-Man I've had is number seven. Okay. And this one's a pretty good shape. It's got a little bit of, I'm not sure if you can see it. A little bit of ripples in it. Very minor. That's a good copy. But the lowest Amazing Spider-Man number wise I've had was number seven. And I ended up selling it, you know, because I like to support my hobby. And I like to flip things around and just rotate things, right? I bought these things. A huge run of Amazing Spider-Man on a half off comic sale in the early 1990s. And it went as low as Amazing Spider-Man number seven. And I picked them up half off for about anywhere between five to 12 bucks. And it was a run from number seven into, I don't know, it was a, there was some gaps in there, but from number seven up to about, you know, about a hundred with a few gaps, like about 40 books in that, in that number range. And I picked them up as half off. So anywhere from five, three, somewhere like two bucks half off to about $15 in the early 1990s. And the Amazing Spider-Man number seven I sold on eBay in 2002. That's when I first got on eBay. And I wanted to try it out and I was selling some other stuff as well. And I just figured I put Amazing Spider-Man up there and it sold. I can't remember what it sold for. I think sold for like 50 bucks at a time. And the person was ecstatic, very, very happy, right? More Amazing Spider-Man, Green Goblin. I like the Green Goblin. So I got some Green Goblin stuff in my collection, right? End of the Green Goblin. Where's this one that I can't remember? I haven't looked at these for a long time, right? Not a bad copy. Grab more. Let's grab more. And these were actually framed. These two together were in a frame before and I took that out. And I put in primer number two and number five. I think that's the frame that I took these out and put those ones in. It's time to rotate. This is the rarest comic I have in my collection. This one is Jackie Gleason number 12. From what I understand, I saw this on a forum or somewhere I saw this. I can't remember. They're supposedly only anywhere between 20 to 100 of these around. And I don't think there isn't any in mint condition. Not that I've seen anyway. And we actually end up reading through this. One of the videos that I put together when we're reading comic books is this one. We go through it. It's a fun little read. From early Silver Age, late Golden Age, I guess. It's 58, I believe, that came out. And it's the rarest comic I have in my collection. I like it. If you don't know Jackie Gleason, Jackie Gleason is amazing. I got introduced to him through the series that he had, the Black and White series, which was really funny. But he's also an amazing big bank conductor. He produced a lot of music. The Rampaging Hulk. These are big newsstand or magazine size. Look at these guys. You like Punisher? I still don't have the first appearance of Punisher Amazing Spider-Man 29. But I got these guys. First soul story, I believe. And Origin, the magazine stand. And these are really good copies. Oh my god. Love these. Now, this series is from British creators, Slain the Horned God. If you want to read, if you're a Conan fan, Conan the Barbarian, if you like medieval stuff and Celtic stuff, this is Pat Mills and Simon Bisley. And this came out. This compilation, they put it together. It was not a compilation. The original stories appeared in UK comics. I can't remember for life of me what they were. They appeared in Heavy Metal as well, but they appeared in UK comic anthologies. And they ended up putting the story together in a three issue set. And I actually have two sets of these because I'm a comic book collector. I'm not sure where the other number one is, but this is absolutely brilliant read. And the artwork in it is mind boggling. Simon Bisley or Bisley is my favorite artist of all time. One of the reasons is because he worked on Lobo the Massesarian. And that is seriously one of the most amazing stories in comic book history. So, so funny. And that made me a Lobo fan for life because that's Lobo being done right. Let's grab some more comics. This is the last stack before we get to the short boxes. And the short boxes maybe we'll go through fast. First Silver Age Appearance of Spectre. We actually actually reframed this. I took this out of Daredevil. I took it out of that frame and put in Daredevil number one. The first appearance of Daredevil. I like that. And you've got Kirby. I have the full set of this. Fantastic stuff. And Jack Kirby again. One of the greats, Steve Ditko. Same level as Stan Lee. But in my book I like Jack Kirby better. Stan Lee, well, don't trash talk anyone. No, it's Stan Lee's amazing. Really, the credits should be spread around Stan. Yes, Hulk in humans. Battles in humans. Shazam one and two. Now these are some stuff that I've recently acquired. Just go through. I'm going through a comic book phase right now. Once I start thinking about putting a series together for the language of mathematics and math in real life. I just got back at the buying comics, right? Well, buying more comics and reading through them. Men of War number one. One of the most amazing characters ever created. And as soon as I get my hands on the first two appearance of the tech, I will read them for you or to you. This is tick number one. I love this character. There was an animated series that came out in the 1990s. And a television show that came out in the 1990s. Which was fantastic. I don't know why the council did it. Oh, we got it. Super fun. Super fun. Mike Alvin. Creator of Madness. Graphic music. I just recently got these one. EC. Weird science fantasy. And hopefully we'll put together a reading session for EC Comics. Fantastic. Amazing stuff. If you're interested, this frame here is one of the first frames I put together as soon as I get my hands on these. And those were all EC Comics science fiction horror fantasy. And if I do end up rotating through those, we'll read those six. Okay. Or some of the stories within those six. Because I haven't read all of them. And I'm dying to read some of them now. I've gotten back into reading some golden age stuff. Primer number five. First appearance of Max. One of the most amazing characters created. He had an animated series in the 1990s. And this is the second copy I have. This is my reading copy. It's still a really nice copy. That's there right there. Primer number two, number five. Right. Should we graph short boxes? Let's go through short boxes quick. Look at everything through here. I don't know. Oh, this is my X-Men. Just some more recent and a little bit older X-Men stuff. When we get to some of the older stuff, I'll show it to you. This is the short box with the older X-Men titles. Adventures. Amazing adventures. Amazing adventures. These are all reprints. Okay. Amazing adventures. These are reprints. Here's some goodies. I like X-Men. I still don't have anything less than... Oh, actually I do have a copy of X-Men number eight. But I don't have anything less than 10. One day when I can afford it, I'll get X-Men number one and two and three and four. This set, this series. If there are any comic book collectors still watching this, I'll show you mine if you show me yours. What you guys got? Human artifact, really. This is human history. Art. One of the best places you could have invested. Funds. These ones back. Whenever you pull out comic books like this, I put them on top of each other. When I'm putting them back, I put them back in order again. This is one set that's sort of ordered. Not randoms. So you just put them, stack them on top of each other, the other way around. So it goes back into being in order. Lowest to biggest or biggest to the lowest. Whichever way you'd like to organize. Can you with the X-Men? Let's continue with the X-Men. Can't go wrong with X-Men. These are nice, pretty nice copies. Some of these, some are rough. Number 86. And I still haven't read all of these. I've read some, right? Number 88. Pretty nice copy. So that's the numbers. Actually no, I have another set. Might be here of more X-Men and low numbers. So I have a few more below 100. And these are going to the hundreds to above 100. 112. 124. 126. This one. X-Men number 132. This whole storyline is brilliant with the Hellfire Club. I think so anyway. I'm bad with names, so I might be getting confused of which stories or what. Um, I don't have the whole story set for this, but I've read in trades, right? And if you want to start reading, you don't have to grab floppies. You can just grab, grab trade paperbacks, right? And just read the trade paperbacks. Where are you going, Cyclope? I like Kitty Pride. I really started liking Kitty Pride and my crawler and Megan, really. Megan is another, it's a UK hero, I guess. I'm not sure if it was created in the UK. I think it was. But in Excalibur in the early 19, in late 1980s, early 1990s, that's when I really got into comic books, right? But the Excalibur series is absolutely fantastic. I believe it's Chris Claremont that started that fantastic read. More X-Men, number 134. Number 135, well, sorry, 145. So we're getting up there in the numbers. And when I was doing trade shows a couple of decades ago, I had the opportunity to buy, gotta put these back in order. I had the opportunity to buy the first appearance of Wolverine, but I ended up passing on it. Silly me, every collector has those moments, right? I was really into valiant, so I ended up using my funds to buy Harbinger number zeros. In hindsight, I should have bought a few Harbingers and bought the Incredible Hulk. But for some reason ended up buying like 10 copies of Harbinger number zero. Awesome stuff. I didn't, you know, it was a good decision. The hindsight, I should have bought the Incredible Hulk as well, but you know, I used the Harbingers to, I flipped some of them, bought more comic books, right? Stuff that I was filling in in my collection. X-Men number 50, keep right. This is the X-Men that I grew up with. And I know a lot of people grew up with them. Now this stuff is, I read most of the stuff in trades. This is just a collection I picked up. Someone was getting rid of the collection and this is seriously one of the best buys I've ever made. So these are, you know, there's a few missing in between. So these are all in the hundreds. They are very nice copies. Very nice copies. An amazing story is really well, as you can tell, this is one of a lot of movies. Like as far as any, anyone that knows anything about comic book industry or the Fischinados anyway, many of them will tell you that you could fire every writer in Hollywood or 90% of writers in Hollywood and just start making movies and shows straight out of the comic books, use the same angles, the same type of lighting, no offense to the comic book and not to the movie industry, of course. But these are full blown storyboards. Full blown. Everything's done, like the dialogue, the characters. You have to, you know, rewrite them a little bit for movies and shows, I guess. But I wish they would just take some of the stories straight out of this and do it. Well, they have for X-Men and Watchmen. Sorry, Alan Moore, but Watchmen movie was fantastic. Alan Moore, I don't think he's even seen it yet. And I understand why the industry is brutal. Personally, I think it's a crime giving them money. It should be a crime giving them money because they still, they prevent, let's continue with X-Men. And what I'll do, I might stop. Wow, let me show you these sets in a row. The one I dropped is number 70, 73. Great cover, amazing cover. Number 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 86. Life and death, that amazing story. Solo standalone. Okay, I don't want to recall anyway. Let's put these back in order. What we'll do is we'll grab one of the other short box, anything of interest in this one. Still left, and I try to put these in order again. So this is number 170, so I'm looking to see 169, I find 169. Pull out the rest in there. And that's about half the short box. Short box should hold in, you know, about 100, no, not 100, 200. Yeah, probably 100 something comics, 100 plus comics. So that's, oh yeah, another one. So it goes all the way to the fall of the mutants. Fall of the mutants, I gotta reread these guys. Let's put this back, and a little bit more actually. Cool. Okay, let's grab another short box, yeah? We have this short box here. And put this other one. I was first introduced to Turok through Valiant. Reading, and I've never read Turok before. Just randoms. Jimmy Olsen. And I started collecting Jimmy Olsen, some Jimmy Olsen anyway, because Dark Side. Well, this isn't Dark Side, but Dark Side comic isn't in these ones. Amazing Spider-Man. Again, this is a new collection I bought. There was this collection I bought because it had some comics, two comics specifically in it that I want. Oh, more than two comics. It was a collection of about 100 comics. It included all of these. I've read some of these before. Some of them are doubles of some stuff that I have. But I bought good, graded, good, good minus. Because I wanted to grab the Daredevil stuff, I need to fill in my Daredevil's. And it had the first appearance of Jonah X. I can't pronounce names, really. Number 10, we looked at that. And it had the origin issue of Dr. Strange, which I don't have strange tales. Here's some Daredevils. And I'm trying to fill my Daredevil collection. You know, I just recently got one. But I'm missing most of the ones below 10. Very good plus. Number 30. What's that one? Captain America. Falcon just became the new Captain America. I don't, I never really followed Captain America very much. Just because of the imagery presented with Captain America. But I finally bit the bullet and read some Captain America. And again, depending who's writing it, it's some great, great stories. And that's the big thing with comic books. The characters are amazing. But it's what the writers and the artists do with the characters. Right? So what have we got? Submariner. Action comics. Maybe I'll come closer to you guys. I'll flip through these. Action comic. Superman, Pal, Jimmy Olsen. And I do have the first appearances of Darkseid. Now this collection is all random. I do have a box somewhere where I have things in order. And at some point I'll go in and try to include, you know, put the daredevils where they belong. Some of the other ones I don't have boxes for or sets for. So I just leave them as randoms. So these ones, when I take them out, I don't put them back in order again because they're random. Right? So this is all just random stuff in here. Fantastic four. Thor. I was really happy to buy this collection. There's amazing Spider-Man's in here. Tails to Stonish in here. Just randoms. This is Spider-Man. Daredevil. Let's see if there's anything in here that we haven't taken a look at. More fantastic four. The world's finest. Big fat Superman. Some of this stuff is absolutely amazing, right? I love it. Look at all the kissing on this one. Forever people. And forever people, I do have the whole set of forever people. Kirby, oh my god. Amazing stuff. I never knew about the Creeper until a co-worker once said, you know, they found out I collect comic books. Well, co-worker from the 1990s and he said, oh, there's a character that I really like when I was a kid. You know, he had, you know, he had orange, green hair and red fur and yellow and green. He kept on explaining, explaining what this character was. And I was like, never heard of him. And then I looked it up and it was a Creeper. I still haven't read any Creeper yet, but I should at some point just to find out why he liked it. Some orange tails, 132. Fair, graded fair. And grading is, is pretty important. I think this comic book industry has gone a little bit too far. There's, it's too arbitrary, but knowing math and, you know, knowing that it's important to be as accurate as possible. I can see why they've done it. We have all this grading fine tune up to the decimals and stuff, but at some point it becomes arbitrary. So beyond, you know, incomplete, you know, good, fair, beyond the main number systems, categories, it becomes arbitrary to a certain degree. And, and I think it's gone a little bit too far. So, you know, a comic one person might grade it at a six. Someone else might come around long and grade it at, you know, 7.5, right? So there's a plus or minus 0.5 to 1, you know, ranking when it comes to grading comic books. So if you do collect comic books, my only recommendation is buy the grade you're happy with, right? If you want to upgrade, you can upgrade later. But, you know, everything doesn't have to be mint. And I personally don't have any comic books in my collection that have been put into slabs, graded and sealed up. I like going through my comics. I like reading them. I like feeling them. I like flipping them. I like going close and reading them, right? I don't like putting things in the vaults and sealing them up. I can understand, I can understand why people do them because you want to preserve, right? It's important to preserve history, preserve art. But for me, maybe after I've read something completely, I might start getting into it. I think the price is way too high for the money required to slab and seal things. I can buy more comics. So why wouldn't I buy more comics? And I buy them from people I trust or people who've been recommended. And that way I know I'm not being ripped off and I'm not getting things that aren't what they're supposed to be, right? I got one more box here. Let's go through that. And then that'll be it for this session anyway. Oh yeah, these are some recent comics that I've picked up. And some older stuff. This one is a reprint of Martin Luther King, Montgomery. I read this, cool story, I like history. And if there's an amazing documentary that you can't really, I think you can watch it online now, but I first came across it on the Pirate Bay. And the reason I downloaded and watched it was because one of the comments said that there was a reason why this documentary has been tied up with copyright claims for 20 plus years. It came out in, I believe, late 70s, early 80s. It's a 12 to 17, I watched it a while ago, 12 to 17 hour set long documentary on the civil rights movement. And it was mind boggling. It, this should be a history lesson. Here's a history course in high school that just sits you down and just shows you this documentary series. And for people to watch, because it was extremely enlightening for someone, I used to think I knew, but I didn't know, I didn't know. And it's called, oh my God, the name was the tip of my tongue. Can't believe I slipped my mind. Hit right here. Okay, and if you get a chance, download it. Watch it, the name of a song or something. Highly recommend it. These are some recent comics that I put up. I'm reading Dr. Mirage, a valiant fan. I think they have some amazing art and have some amazing stories. And it's brilliant. If you like good storytelling and amazing art, you're it. Dr. Mirage, Spectre, right. Exile, Harbinger, Rai is, wow, Rai is very good. Manifest Destiny, Hitch Comics, Dr. Mirage, Lobo, Lobo. Definitely reading Lobo, even the new Lobo. Lobo, for those of you that hate the new Lobo, let's see where they take it. And from one way you look at it is Lobo is more of a title than an individual. So who has the right to be Lobo, the main man or this new guy? Rai, Spectre, deadly class image, not bad. Those are some of the more recent stuff I'm reading. So I have a more recent box going. Now, I read a lot of Hellblazer, I read these ones and I'm looking forward to reading them. Now Hellblazer, the series is not, it's done, they ended it. They started a new series called Constantine. I'll wait until I finish reading all the books in Hellblazer before I pick up anything related to Constantine. And then this is stuff, older stuff on Constantine. Another series I came out in late 80s, early 90s, that's a must read. If you read comic books you have to read the series. Hellblazer is one deal and one is Sandman. This is Sandman number three to three, four, five. The artwork for this is Sam Keefe, the same guy that made the Max and he worked on a lot of Sandman and a lot of other comics he's done. He's worked for, I think he's drawn every major character and he's worked for most every company in the industry, the big ones. Anyway, I have some of the small ones that I independently published. That's actually, I believe primer number five is his first published work. Very underrated with fans. Wanted Golden Age, National about it. I just like collecting comics. Sometimes I love Lucy. Sometimes I grab things because I think that's cool. It's human history, right? Human artifacts, I believe this is Ditko, I can't remember who did this, but it's a main major player. I think one of the important artists, Dick Tracy. Really, I need to get some Dick Tracy. Space Cadet, Boy Comics, Golden Age. And these are, this was one of the main titles. That's Lockjaw. I haven't read any of these. I just know a little bit about them. Maybe we'll read them together, get smart TV series. A lot of TV series from the 1960s and 70s, they had their own comic books series. This one is in rough shape. The cover is detached, but want it again. This is, we'll read some of this later. They used for censorship to bring in censorship in the comic book industry. They used examples of some stuff that was printed here to try to prove that comic books polluted children's minds. There's a firestorm. He's in the Flash series. It's a killer frost. To be a live action villain. The Flash series. This one's Submariner annual. King size special number one. Invaders number one. 2001 Space Odyssey. I haven't read any of this, but I've heard it's supposed to be interesting. Hurricane number one. Skull Slayer number one. 140 and 139. We already saw this in the other box. Kitty bride. 49, 47, 39. This is counting down. This one counting up 38. Get me some more X-Men. Definitely haven't read this yet. Maybe we'll read this for some fun things. Oh. Daredevil. Marvel Superhero. King size special. Reprinting. Daredevil number one, I believe. From Daredevil number one. The origin of comics most fearless action hero. From Avengers number two. The origin. I don't like glasses on. I started wearing glasses this year. Original Avengers battle. The Bizarre Space Phantom. And then you got Namor. As a character anyway. They like collecting it. I'll lose these now. Submariner special number two. Of the original. King size annual. Not the number one. Actually I do have defenders number one somewhere. I totally forgot. Actually I have defenders number one all the way up. Almost a complete set from what I remember. That is back. And that's what I pulled out right now. Fun to go through. Fun to see what you got. I'm fun to post stuff out and read them. If you haven't read them or if you've read them. I read some comic books again and again. I think the comic book that I've read the most is The Lobo, The Last Zernian. The Four Issue, many series. Always brightens up my day. Always brightens up my day. So if you're interested in you know taking a look at how I frame comics. I got three videos out of how to frame comics. If you want to read through some comics. Apologies for my slow reading and reading the wrong words. And reading things backwards and pausing a lot. And what not. But if you want to read through some comic books with me. I've put out six videos of stories were read from six different anthologies. Golden, silver, bronze and modern age. Mix sort of a mix of stuff. One of what three of them were read Mystic number six from 1952. Basil Wolveston artwork and story I believe. Stanley actually edited this I believe. Yeah Mystic was Atlas. Stanley edited Mystic. Primer number two. Primer number five. We end up reading. We read Cruisers of the It number one. First appearance of the madman. We read Jackie Gleason number 12. Rare as comic I got in my collection. And we read Jingle number 12. Which should blow you away the last story anyway. Incredible stuff. Historically speaking. Anyway that's it. I hope you enjoy. I will be back. Hopefully I'll create more videos. We'll go through more collections. And get a chance to read more comics. And maybe frame a few more okay. And at some point we'll come back. Or I'll come back and use some of these videos. Some of this information. Some of the grading that we're going to do. We will do grading comics. I'm not a professional grader. I just grade them according to what I think they are. We'll use some of that stuff and price variations and fluctuations and collectability. And we'll start looking at the economics of comics. Were they a good investment? Are they a good investment? What happens when you start collecting art? Or when you start investing in something. And some of the things you have to think about. And some of the things you have to take care of. But we'll deal with that when the time comes. And that's it for now. I guess I'll see you guys in the next video. Bye for now.