 Hi everyone, this is Chih-Chih-Oh and welcome to another comic book haul video. And this video is sort of a follow-up to the previous comic book haul video where I mentioned that I'm sort of on a comic book budget right now. So we did a little mini comic book haul in the last comic book haul video where we ended up grabbing 10 comic books for like $14.50 Canadian, which was like $11 US or something. We ended up getting some amazing comic books there. One or two key issues I guess, and the rest were just fantastic comic books. I was very happy to have my collection, right? And I was sort of tracking some of the other comic books that this seller had on eBay. And he's a local seller, so I don't have to pay any shipping for when I buy these comic books. So I go to the store and pick up the comic books, right? And I was tracking some of these books, and basically what happened was after loading on the previous comic book haul video, I mentioned that I'm on a comic book budget, right? And someone that has been following my work, they sent me a message saying they love my comic book haul videos, and they send a little bit of funds my way to increase my comic book by, to increase the comic book haul that we have, right? So a huge thank you to Brian for sending those funds, supporting this work, for us to be able to get a bigger comic book haul, okay? Because this sort of went beyond my budget. So a huge chunk of this comic book haul that we're going to look at is thanks to Brian for sending those funds in this direction. And we ended up getting some amazing comic books, some fantastic books. A couple of key issues, a couple of issues that I've really wanted to have in my collection, actually more than a couple of issues that I really wanted to have in my collection. And the rest of these books were fantastic books, very happy to have them. And I'll just put this out there. Since it's been coming up, before we look at the comic book haul, right? I know that getting into comic book collecting can be expensive, right? It can be expensive, but you can definitely do it on a budget, okay? And a lot of people I've found that they chase a lot of hard books, and if you're chasing hard books, you're going to be paying a very premium price for those hard books, right? Now, that's sort of the name of the game, that's sort of what happens in the comic book industry. But please keep this in mind, if you're thinking about getting into the comic book collecting or whatnot, if you stop chasing hard books, what you'll find out is, you can get your hands on some amazing comic books for an amazing price. Because what you find out is, some of those hard books sell for ridiculous amounts of money. And then the next issue in the series, you can buy for a dollar, or very cheap relative to that hard book, right? And the next issue in the series would have the same writers, the same artists, featuring the same characters, continuing from a story that would have started from the previous issue, right? So you're getting an amazing comic book, right? That is in the series telling a grand story, sometimes epic stories that continue on for dozens of issues, right? And you're getting it for a song and a dance. Sometimes you can get it in a dollar bin, sometimes you can get it for less than a dollar, sometimes you can get a whole bunch of them for like two or three dollars, right? So if you're thinking about getting into the comic books, it can be an expensive hobby, okay? But it doesn't have to be. And for me, what I end up doing is, when I start collecting comic books, I look for amazing deals. I don't necessarily chase hot books, this is very, very rare that I chase hot books. I buy comic books for the love of comic books, and I don't necessarily read right away everything that I'm buying, not even close, right? In the past, I've mentioned this, when we started this comic book series of videos that we've been producing, which was I guess like five or six years ago, I believe even in the first comic book video that I put out, I mentioned that I would have, at that time, I would have probably read maybe anywhere between 30, 35% of my collection, right? Right now it's probably down to, because we've been in a lot of comic book calls, right now it's probably down to like 20, 25% of the comic books I've read in my collection, right? That means, if I go on a major budget or no budget where I don't have the funds to buy comic books, what I can do is go to my comic book collection and just pick up comic books that I haven't read, and read those, or re-read the comic books that I have in my collection, right? Like if I stop buying comic books right now, and if I kept on reading comic books every day, I probably have enough comic books to read for a decade, 10 years, right? So you're buying comic books not just because they're hot, if you're really into comic book collecting, you're buying comic books because they either have an amazing story to tell, you like the artist, you like the writers, you like the character, they happen to be from a genre, from a period that you find interesting, maybe the golden age of comics, silver, bronze, modern age, whatever period it might be, okay? I just wanted to mention that because this topic has come up a fair bit where comic book collecting happens to be very expensive, but just like anything else, whatever you do, it really depends on you what you want to make of it, okay? That's my intro to this. As far as this comic book haul, and again, thank you, Brian, for the support, for sending the extra funds so we could grab these books, okay? Because this comic book haul would not be as big as it is. It's only 18 bucks, right? But it wouldn't be as big as it is if it wasn't for Brian, for that help, for that support, okay? Now this comic book seller is a local seller, right? So there's no shipping costs involved. Fantastic. We're saving money. Now I go to his store and I pick up the books, right? And he had these comic books in this bag and you can tell, you know, initially it was going to be this much and then it ended up being this much and it ended up being this much, right? And then plus little tax involved because it is local. So it ended up costing about $100 Canadian, right? $94 plus some taxes. So $100 Canadian, which comes out to around $75 US, okay? Now we ended up getting 18 books for that, right? So $100 Canadian, 20 bucks, it ended up costing around $5 per book. And this comic book haul contains Golden Age, Silver Age, Bronze Age, Modern Age comics, okay? And Copper Age comics, okay? And what we're going to do is go through the books as I sort of, I took some notes, I took, I dug down into this, right? These were some books that I really wanted to grab because of their historical significance for me because I love the writers, I love the characters or because there's some books here that I love the covers. There's two of them that I really like the covers I've been trying to get my hands on, right? Actually, there's about five books here that I've been trying to get my hands on that we're able to get a fantastic price. So we got them in our collection, right? As far as the first book goes and what I'm going to do is I'm not going to, I'm just going to go through and do the books in this order that I've taken notes from, okay? Now the first book is The Invisibles by Grant Morrison, okay? And this is done written by Grant Morrison and the artwork is by Steve Yowell, okay? And the cover was done by Ryan Hughes. And this is considered to be the first major continuing series, comic book series that Grant Morrison has done. And it's basically for vertical comics, okay? It came out in 1994, okay? The vertical imprint is DC Comics. And this sort of came about from the British invasion of comic book artists, writers, or creators basically that came to the United States from the UK. And a lot of them were producing a lot of work for a comic book magazine in the UK called 2008, right? And Grant Morrison is one of them, Alan Moore is another one, Neil Gaiman is another one, there's a whole bunch of them that came out from the UK. And they started producing works for DC Comics in the 1980s and those books started becoming extremely popular. So DC Comics, what they ended up doing was putting out an imprint, sort of an umbrella where a lot of those writers and creators started creating their own mini series or continuing series under that imprint, right? And The Invisibles is one of those series. And this is considered to be the first sort of official full blown series that Grant Morrison controlled, right? Now, I've never read this series, okay? Looking forward to it. This has been optioned to become a TV series, okay? I don't know how far down the road it is or if it's ever gonna, you know, become a TV series, but it's been optioned and I'm glad I got my hands on this before the prices kicked up if it hits the, if it comes out, okay? We ended up grabbing this thing for 550 Canadian for 20 US, okay? This is special as well. The reason being is, I bought this close, you might have noticed, it's signed by Grant Morrison and he's got a little anarchy symbol drawn on there as well. And the notes that the person had written, the seller had written. He said, signed on the cover by Grant Morrison at San Diego Comic Con in 1994 and he mentions that he even drew a little anarchy symbol on there, okay? And if you know, if you follow some of the other comic book videos I put out, I had a little small comic book publishing company in the early 1990s, mid 1990s, and I was at the San Diego Comic Con either in 1994 or 1995, okay? And if I was there in 1994, this was signed and came out the time I was there. I might have been there in 1995, I'm not 100% sure, might have been 1993 as well. I can't remember. So 1994 plus or minus a year. So I'm happy to have this in my collection and at some point I'm going to try to get my hands on this whole series sometime in the future where I can afford it, right? Or pick up the collected works and read the collected works, okay? The next book that we got is, let me find it here, is this guy or this lady, okay? This is Shana the Shi Devil, number one, and this came out in 1973, okay? And it's the first appearance, oh sorry, 1972, and it's the first appearance of Shana the Shi Devil, okay? And it's graded at, very good plus, oh yeah, by the way, the Invisibles is graded at, graded at near mint minus, and the seller grades them fair, okay? He doesn't low ball them, he doesn't high ball them. It's basically the grade that he gives them, right? So the Invisibles was near mint minus, this is graded at very good plus, okay? And it's the first appearance of Shana the Shi Devil. Now this cover, beautiful cover, okay, is done by Jim Staranko, okay? And in the previous comic book haul, we grabbed two Nick Fury, Agent of Shield, the covers done by Jim Staranko as well, right? And he did the covers for issue number one and issue number two of this series, okay? The writing for this was done by Carol Sulig, okay? And there was some additional text added by Steve Gerber, Gerber, okay? And the pencils were done by George Tosca, okay? I'm reading my notes because I want to pronounce these names correctly, okay? And I found, I did a little digging, and I found a little write up here, I'd like to read for you, okay? Now some of these writer, the writer for this, Carol Sulig, S-E-U-L-I-N-G. She didn't do too many comic book writings, but the artist for this, George Tosca, he did some golden age books, he did Crime Does Not Bay, Captain Marvel, Iron Man. And the inks for this were done by Vince Coletta, okay? And he's done a fair bit of work, Vince Coletta, I believe anyway, and the letters were done by John Costanza, and John Costanza did a tremendous amount of work for Marvel comics and DC comics, he's been around for a long time, right? He worked with Jack Kirby a lot, he did the letters for New Gods, Mr. Miracle, Forever People, Conan the Barbarian, as well as doing the lettering for Alan Moore's Swap Thing. And if you've ever read Alan Moore's Swap Thing, I have it here, here's one of them, here's two of the sort of collections, the first begins of it. The lettering for it is absolutely, everything about it is absolutely brilliant, okay? But like, really, there's some pages here which are beautiful, just beautiful. Here, let me show you, right? Like, this is what we're talking about. So if you've never read Alan Moore's Swap Thing, highly recommend it, read it, okay? Like, I know this doesn't include the cover, but look at the splash page, right? So he did the lettering for this, for much of a flipping, trying to find some trippy lettering that he had on here, but I can't find any right now. But it is beautiful. Okay, it is beautiful. So there's some major, let me put this back. So there's some major people that worked on this, right? Here's the cover again. Let me show it to you. Now, keep this in mind, okay, this cover. Let me read you something that I came across when I was digging this up, Vince Coletti. I got some stuff for Vince Coletti, and Vince Coletti did a lot of the inks for Jack Kirby as well, okay? We'll skip that part. Let me read you this part. Shana the Shi Devil was introduced in one of a trio of Marvel comics aimed at a female audience alongside Night Nurse and Claws of the Cat. Now, Night Nurse, I have one issue of Night Nurse. They go for a premium price. People are chasing Night Nurse big time, right? And the seller had Night Nurse on his auction, and I couldn't get my hands on them. They were going, they're above my budget, right? So Night Nurse and Claws of the Cat, Marvel writer, editor, Roy Thomas. And Roy Thomas is huge. Recalled in 2007 that editor in chief, now we're going into quotes of what Roy Thomas wrote, editor in chief, Stan Lee. Had the idea, quote, had the idea, and I think the names for all three. He wanted to do some books that would have special appeal to girls. We were always looking for ways to expand our franchise. My idea dot dot dot was to try to get women to write them dot dot dot. I thought of my friend, Carol Sulin, who had done a bit of writing for her ex-husband, Phil, in conjunction with his comic cons. I approached her to do the Shadda book because I knew she liked jungle comics and adventure comics. I put Ross Anduro on as the Shadda artist, beginning with issue number two. So the issue number one was, the artist was George Tusca. Okay, so he did a lot of work for Golden Age books. Crime does not pay Marvel. Captain Marvel, Iron Man and stuff like this. But he only did the pencils for the first issue. The second issue is Ross Anduro on Shawna artist, beginning with issue number two. With Vinnie Coletta inking to make Ross's Shadda look attractive. So the idea was to make the female stars attractive. Sulin in 2010, and then encoding Roy Thomas and we're going to the article. I believe I grabbed this off Wiki. Sulin in 2010 recalled, my instructions were to make Shadda someone who would fit in with the times and also was prone to a little more violence than Sheena on the other jungle queen on the other jungle queens of the past. So that part I found interesting. I didn't know that when I bought the book. I bought the book specifically for the cover and because it's the first appearance of Shadda the she-double and we ended up grabbing this at a fantastic price of four dollars and three cents Canadian, three dollars and eight cents US. And beautiful, beautiful, right? Absolutely beautiful. The next, now this one is from the Golden Age of comics. Some of these books, not this series but some of the same themes of these books in my collection and they're sports comics. I don't collect too many sports comics but if I see things that are interesting, I try to get my hands on them and this was interesting. This is Mel Allen Sports Comics from 1950. It's issue number six but it's issue number two in the series. There was only two issues of this book, of this series put out. Okay, there is issue number five and issue number six which is issue number one and issue number two. And this is graded at good. So it's graded 2.0 out of 10. And I didn't know this. I looked it up when I was bidding on it. That's one of the reasons I sort of bid on this and we ended up getting this thing for five dollars and 11 cents Canadian, three dollars and 90 cents US. And Mel Allen, this guy here. I didn't know this because I don't know my baseball history but he was considered to be the voice of the Yankees. I'll read you a little bit here. In 1952 Allen was one of the first three celebrities spoofed in the just created mad satirical comic book. Okay. In the second issue, Allen, giant manager Leo Droche and hall of fame Yankee catcher Yogi Berra were all a character character in a baseball story. Right. So Mel Mad Magazine EC Comics did a little story with Mel in their book, sort of a spoof. Okay. Baseball story was called hex illustrated by Jack Davis. His likeness was also licensed by standard comics for two issue. Mel's sports comics. Right. Series between 1949 and 1950. So this came out in 1950. And I believe the first issue for the series came out in 1949. Okay. And a little write up here. Mel Allen was an American sportscaster best known for his long tenure as the primary play by play announcer for the New York Yankees during the peak period from 1940 1950s and 1960s. Right. So he was very well known. Okay. Glad to have this in my collection. I'll one day when I sort my comic books, it'll go into the sports comic books area. Right. So I'm assuming. So check this out. Lou Gellag. I don't even know how you were pronounced. Says G, G leg legs farewell to baseball by Mel Allen. Right. You got Danny Glover in Fistic fear for all a boxing story. You got pop meeker tells the story of Glenn Cunningham. And I don't know Glenn Cunningham. I don't know if he's a sprint runner or a marathon runner. And you got Dick Hardy in the mystery pitcher. Okay. And you got Mel Allen here. How about that? I guess that's one of the sayings he used to say. Right. That's cool. A little bit of comic book history or basically pop culture history. Right. Sports history right here. Fantastic for a song and a dance of $3.90 US. Fantastic. Fantastic. Here's another comic book we got because we got a great deal. I picked it up. I have this comic book in my collection. The first comic book haul we did. Okay. Way, way back a few years ago was a comic book haul where we grabbed a whole bunch of daredevil books like a hundred plus daredevil books. And one of them was this one. I believe daredevil number 13. Look at this. Look at this. And this guy is came out in 1966. Jack Kirby and John Romita. Okay. And we got this for $6.89 Canadian, $5.26 US. And it's graded at very good. And that is a very good price for daredevil number 13 at very good. Okay. The cover's Jack Kirby. The script is Stanley. The pencils, layouts is Jack Kirby. Okay. And John Romita did the finishes for this I believe. And he did the inks for this as well. And the lettering is Sam Rosen. Nice. Okay. And it's got the Kazar appearance as well. Okay. And Kazar connects up with Shana as well. The She-Devil. Okay. Because she appeared in the Kazar comic books as well. I believe Kazar might have appeared in the second series of Shana as well. Then there's Kazar right there and down there. See him? I believe it's part two of him. Cool. Glad to have this. And a very good is a great price for this. Okay. Fantastic price for this. And if you haven't watched the Netflix Daredevil series, watch it. It's very good. Very, very good. Okay. Everybody was very happy for that. As was I. As was I. I grabbed those comic book. The those books before the Netflix Daredevil series came on. Because I was sort of getting them in anticipation of the Daredevil series. Right. Here's a couple more books. Okay. Jack Kirby. Jack Kirby. Check this out. Check this out. Now this one I paid. These two books I sort of paid fair value for. I do have number one. Okay. This is the demon. Number two. And it came out in 1972. And this is great. It's very fine. And that's a good grade. It's a high grade for this. And it's written. The cover is by Jack Kirby. Let me do a little move over here. So I can read whatever in down. Okay. The cover is by Jack Kirby and Mike Rover. Okay. The script is by Jack Kirby. The pencils is by Jack Kirby. And the inks and letters are by Mike Royer. Royer. Sorry. Not Rover. Royer. And demon is an interesting character. The first appearance was in demon number one that I do have in my collection. And I have some of the demon books in my collection. But I don't think I have demon number two. And I don't have demon number two. I'm pretty sure about that. And we paid fair value for this. Some people will say we paid a pretty good price for this. This thing costs $12.71 Canadian. Which was $9.70 US. And I always, when I bid on eBay, I don't go $9. I go wacko numbers. I like randomness in it. So $12.71 Canadian. Okay. Fantastic. Happy to have this in my collection. And we also grabbed demon number 14. And again, Jack Kirby and Mike Royer. And this is graded at Fine. It came out in 1973. And it cost us $2.80, $0.89 Canadian. Which is $2.21 US. Fair value. Fair value. Dropping rhymes. The demon is. He, when he speaks, he speaks in rhymes. And there's a new sort of rebirth of demon that I've seen come up. I don't know if it's a one-shot or if it's going to be a continuing series or a sub mini series or if it was a spoof or whatnot. But they drew the demon as a wrapper. Which really fits in. To what the demon would be, right? Dropping rhymes, right? Lyricist. This book I've been tracking. I've been trying to get my hands on this book. And I have a little thing I want to read for you for this. This is Judo Jou, number one. And there was only three issue series that this came out. Judo Jou, number one, came out in August 1953, Golden Age of Comics. And it's graded at good, very good. So it's a lower grade, lower mid grade. People will say lower grade. So it's graded at 3.0. Good, very good. It's 3.0 out of 10. And as far as I know, this is the first comic book series to feature martial arts, Judo specifically. So as far as I know, I went on to a couple of forums asking the question. And I believe I read somewhere as well that this was the first martial arts comic book series. So it's a pretty key issue for me anyway as a collector. The first issue of a martial arts comic series. Pretty cool. Interesting. And I read up a little history on this. So let me read you that history part. I stumble on this thing, which was cool. The cover for this, the cover in art. Let me tell you why I see this. The cover in art are done by Paul W. Stodard. And the story is by Barney Kosnek. And what I'm about to read for you is regarding Barney Kosnek, the person that wrote this. And I grabbed this right up from a site called Worfskies. I'll provide the link in the description of this video. I can't pronounce that. Worfskies block spot. It's on a block spot. And the page is called A Page for Christian Martial Artists. The Christian martial artist is primarily a defender of the faithful. One who in time of crisis puts himself between God's flock and danger. And this blog is dedicated to those who voluntarily shoulder this burden. Okay, that's where I'm getting this writing from. I want to give credit where credit is due, because I found this very interesting. I didn't know this when this was on my radar. And that's one of the beautiful things about comic books and sort of being cultural artifacts of human history. There's a lot of history behind these comic books, behind the writers, behind the artists, the politics, the economics of it. Just everything about it, human history. And it's very cool digging down and finding some of that information. So I'm going to read a little bit here. Okay, so quote. I have written about Bernard J. Kosnek's book, American Combat Judo, which came out in 1994. American Combat Judo here, here, and here. So he's got links going to what he's written. So this guy, the writer, I'm going to interrupt my quotes a little bit, right? Bernard J. Kosnek, he put out a book called American Combat Judo in 1944. Today I'd like to give you a peek at some of the fascinating facts I've discovered about the author. Thank you very much for this, right? Kosnek came from Russian immigrants, immigrant stock, and gained prominence as a two-time Big Ten champion, intercollegiate wrestler for University of Illinois, 1932-1934. So he was champion, wrestling champion, 1932-1934. He later performed in professional wrestling exhibitions as Barney Kosnek. He was a professional wrestler, cool. Somewhere along the line, in addition to wrestling, he picked up some interesting instruction in Jujitsu and Savat. Savat, Savat, French foot fighting. His boxing experience may have come from his association with heavyweight boxer, Jack Dempsey. What? Right? During World War II, he served along Dempsey as an instructor in hand-to-hand combat for US Coast Guard. Together, they produced a manual of close quarters fighting for USCG, entitled How to Fight Tough, right? And he has another book called How to Fight Tough. So far he's put two books out on fighting. One of them was American Combat Judo in 1944, and the other one is How to Fight Tough. And I don't know what the date for this is. How to Fight Tough. Do I have the page up here? I don't have the date for this one, right? Oh, published in 1942. Published in 1942. So this is predating the comic book, right? The comic book which came out in 1953. Quote again. Published in 1942, then manual bears Dempsey's name as the author, along with sports writer Frank G. Mink. This makes sense because everyone knew his name as a heavyweight champ, even though the book contained no real boxing moves. The photos show Dempsey performing various grappling techniques on Kosnek, right? Cool. There's lots of pics. I looked this up and there's like 200 pics in one of these things, right? I surmised that Kosnek did most of the actual coaching for the volume while Dempsey supplied the name recognition. And Jack Dempsey was a heavyweight world champion boxer during the Golden Age of Comic Books, 1930s, 1940s, 1940s, 1950s. I believe 1930s, 1940s for like over a decade, right? In 1944, Kosnek saw his own American combat judo published. It represented a lot of martial arts found in how to fight tough plus much more, right? So there's another book, 1944. After the war, here's Judo Joe coming into play, right? So quote again. After the war, he collaborated with Paul W Staudard, which is an artist for this, to produce a comic book with the title Judo Joe. It lasted only three issues and each issue contained instructions in self-defense. Interestingly, the moves taught seemed to have come directly from American combat judo from 1944, right? Super cool. He's got a little bit more info here, but that's the part where Judo Joe comes into play, right? And that's this book here. Very cool. And if you want to have a read through this book, right? Because this is part of the public domain. There was another series that was put out for this in 1987. Different artists and writers, I believe, got together. And because this was part of the public domain, they put out a, you know, I think one issue on Judo Joe, right? A comic book, black and white comic book series, okay? And that came out in 1987. And this thing, if you want to have a read through this, because this is part of the public domain, there's a website where you can read thousands, I believe thousands of public domain comic books, which is called comicbookplus.com and plus is PLUS. So it's all spelled out one word and you can have a read through this book. It's, you know, the artwork is rough. I don't know if rough is the right word, but it's, it's very simple. It's not like some of the other artwork we've taken a look at, right? But it holds a great historical significance, okay? And we got this guy, did I tell you how much we got this guy for? We got this guy for $16.50 Canadian, which is $12.60 US, graded at good, very good, okay? That's a great deal. As far as I've been able to track down, okay? Very good deal. Very happy to have this. I'll try to track down the next two issues in it too and complete the, complete the series, right? Let me show you these books. There's two, three of them. Where's the other ones? There they are. Here's the other guys. Let me put these in order for you. These ones are related to the invisibles, okay? Not because they follow the same story, but because they have the same writer. If you know Grant Morrison's work, some people would consider this series to be the one that put him on the map. And for me, it is. This is when I came across Grant Morrison and I went, wow, wow, wow. This is Doom Patrol number 20 to number 25. Okay. Awesome. And Grant Morrison started on Doom Patrol with Doom Patrol number 19. And I have Doom Patrol number 19 and a few of the Grant Morrison Doom Patrols, but these ones we picked up because we got them at a great price through great comic books. And Doom Patrol has already made their first appearance as a TV series in Titans, right? Teen Titans. And supposedly they're coming out with their own series. So there's going to be a Doom Patrol series out there, which I'm very curious to find out if it's going to happen, or if it's for real, or how it's going to be portrayed, okay? This is a trippy series. Really. If you like sort of the brain twister, read this series. If you like characters which are just twisted, like weird, like crazy Jane, amazing. This series has one of the greatest villains of all time with Mr. Nobody that appeared in Doom Patrol number 26. And I try to get my hands on that, but some guy came along and kicked it up beyond my budget. I have that issue, so I wasn't willing to pay too high of price for it because people are chasing some of these books, but they're only chasing the key issues. They're not chasing the, I guess, non-key issues, but to me they're the key issues. This is the story, right? That's my little rant about Doom Patrol and people collecting just chasing key issues, right? This is Doom Patrol number 20, written by Grant Morrison, and the pencils on the cover is done by Richard Case, and the inks are done by Carlos Garzon, okay? And Carlos Garzon only did the inks for issue number 20. The rest of these books, the art work is done by, the pencils is done by Richard Case, and the inks are done by Scott Hannah, colors by Michael Wolfman, and the letters by John Workman, okay? Oh wow, Wolfman, Workman, cool. Here's issue number 20. We grabbed this guy for $2.25 Canadian, $1.72 US, and it's graded near mint minus. Good price. Good price. The rest of these, we picked up for a dollar Canadian, which is $0.75, $0.76 US, right? And it has Robot Man, Crazy Jane, okay? Some of the other characters appearing in here. Who are they? Negative Man, Elastic Woman, and Dr. Niles, okay? Which is the guy in, well, I don't know if he's in the wheelchair at the time or not. I read this a long time ago. This is issue number 21, okay? Graded at near mint minus, dollar Canadian. Awesome. Fantastic. Yeah, I guess he is in a wheelchair because that's areas, okay? Issue number 22, okay? Graded at very fine dollar. Really, it's got, this is some, it's got some crazy stuff. And if you want to know how wacko, how amazing the series is, I did a blog post before I even did comic book videos, okay? Back in 2010, 2011, 12, I don't know when it was. I did a blog post which I titled, let me bring out the title. This is issue number 23, okay? And it's graded at near mint, again, a dollar Canadian. Issue number 24, fantastic. This is great stories, great stories. Graded at near mint, a dollar Canadian, 75 cents US. Oh yeah, back then, boarded. And issue number 25, graded at near mint. Now, after issue number 25, for a few issues, the covers were being done by Simon Bisley. And as you know, I love Simon Bisley. Simon Bisley is phenomenal, right? Let me find the article that I wrote. I'll reach the title for this. And I take sort of images from Grant Morrison's Dune Control number 26 because that issue, number 26, is the first appearance of Mr. Nobody. It's like a villain, right? He's not a hero, I don't know. To me, he's anti-hero, right? But people would consider him to be a villain. And I took some pages of that, just the first appearance of Mr. Nobody, just to show you how brilliant an introduction or an origin story for a character can be. And I'll provide the link in the description of this video. And I titled that blog post, and I put that on 2013. So that's before we started doing comic book videos, right? And I have a handful of comic book articles that I wrote, right? There's Conan the Barbarian article and Barry Winn article. One of the couple of other articles and one of them is this one. And I titled it, The Beauty and Brilliant of Grant Morrison's Dune Patrol, Introducing Mr. Nobody, a savior, a monster, an act of sacrilege and dada. Because he puts a supervillain team together called Brotherhood. Brotherhood of Dada? I forget what it is. Mr. Nobody Dune Patrol. I read this, yeah, Brotherhood of Dada, right? And I have a little write-up and some quotes and stuff like this. And you can, and I sort of link it up to politics because I was doing a lot of political posts, a lot of political articles, economic articles, like Conan, the article I have on Conan links up with politics and economics. And this one links up with politics of what's been going on for the last couple of decades and stuff like this. But if you're not interested in that, you can just flip through that. And at the bottom, you see the pages where Mr. Nobody is being introduced. And as far as I'm concerned, it's one of the greatest introductions of any supervillain in comic book history. Absolutely brilliant. Really, I'm sort of pumping up Grant Morrison's Dune Patrol a lot because it deserves it. Like, I can't even underplay it. And I still haven't read his whole run on Dune Patrol yet. I've read about half of it, right? One day I'm going to sit down and read the whole thing. That is my, what's it called, bucket list or something? Read Grant Morrison's Dune Patrol and you can get the issues in near mid-condition for $1. Go into the dollar bin stores in your comic books. Look on eBay. You might be able to buy sets for like $5, right? For now, for now. You can tell I really like that series. The next comic book. This one I've been chasing. I've been trying to keep tracks on this, trying to get my hands on this. Kona and the Barbarian, right? As you know, we got Kona and the Barbarian number one and we're going to do a reading of Kona and the Barbarian. And we already have at least one video out of Roy Thomas talking about Kona and the Barbarian, right? And how they got the rights for Kona and the Barbarian and with Barry Windsor Smith doing the artwork and stuff like this. So I highly recommend if you want to know about Kona and the Barbarian, take a look at that video because it's got to write up of, I read basically what Roy Thomas has written. And we also, you know, with Savage sort of Kona because Savage sort of Kona to me is the greatest, the best Kona stories told in comic book format. I love Kona and the Barbarian, right? But Savage sort of Kona because it was a magazine format. It didn't have to abide by the comic book code, right? So there's a video out there of us flipping through the Savage sort of Kona collection, the covers that we have, and I read the comic code to you. I believe I put that video together, right? So I highly recommend that as well. But here's Kona and the Barbarian issue number 275, the last issue. And this thing fetches a premium price because this was the last issue. It came out in 1993, and this one is graded at very fine plus, okay? And the script, the writing is by Roy Thomas. The pencils is by Mike Dottry, and he's done a lot of work. The inks are by Ricardo Valagram, Alfredo Alcala, and Ernie Chan. And Ernie Chan is one of my favorite Kona artists there is. He did a lot of work for Savage sort of Kona, okay? The letters are by, again, John Costanza. He did a lettering for many, many books, right? For Marvel specifically. And he's got little notes that I've written here, continued in Savage sort of Kona to 18, the story here, right? And this was a giant size, and it's the last issue. And supposedly this has got a low print run. And it fetches a premium price on eBay, okay? It fetches a premium price everywhere. We ended up getting this for $5.50 Canadian, $4.20 US, okay? And it's a 68 page giant, okay? It's a 68 page issue, right? And the cover price was 315 Canadian. So we paid a little bit more in cover price, $2.50 US. We paid $4.20 US. Great price. Very happy to have this. I don't have the full Kona, the barbarian run. I have more Savage sort of Kona than Kona and the barbarian. But I have the Kona and the barbarian the earlier issues. And we will be doing a reading of this Kona. I'm not this one specifically, but Kona and the barbarian, number one with Barry Windsor-Smith artwork, okay? Fantastic, fantastic. This one I'm happy to get. And this links up to, I'll show you this one and another one right after it, okay? This is Superman's girlfriend, Lois Lane, giant size annual, number one, okay? It came out in 1962. It's graded at very good plus, right? Let me show you this. The full thing, right? Now the cover is by Kurt Schoffenberger, okay? And he did a lot of work in the Golden Age of Comics. I'll show you that, this guy here. Golden Age of Comics and Silver Age of Comics as well, right? He did a lot of work on Captain Marvel and the Marvel family and stuff like this. Now the script for this, there's a few different people that wrote for this, right? It's an annual, so it's a compilation of different stories here. Let me show you some of the stuff that you see here. So Lois Lane has all these characters, right? I haven't read this, I haven't flipped through it yet. Awesome, right? So fantastic, fantastic. Super cool, okay? Now the writers for this, Robert Bernstein. He did some work on E.C. Comics and he's done a lot of work on Superman and action comics and stuff like this. Jerry Coleman, he did a lot of work on Superman. Bill Finger, the co-creator of Batman, has pieces in this. Written and I think one of the stories, right? And the one I want to really mention is Otto Binder, right? Now Otto Binder, that name might be familiar to you if you've been following our comic book Readings, right? Because we did a reading of Weird Science Fantasy No. 28 from E.C. Comics from 1955, okay? And Joe, I believe Joe Orlando had written a piece, but also we read a piece that was written by Alphelstein, oh I can't pronounce the name, should we find it? Let me find it, let me make sure I pronounce these names correctly. Well Alphelstein, Science No. 28, let me see if I can find it in one go. There it is, oh no that's not it, it's the other one. So we did, we did a reading by, it was a script from E.C. Comics No. 28, published in 1955, Joe Orlando, okay? And we did a reading of Lost in Space by Otto Binder and we did a reading of a story called The Trial of Adam Link, okay? And that was written by Albert Feldstein and there's a little bit of story connecting Otto Binder that did, has written some pieces, has written one story in this, right? Now Otto Binder, him and his brother did a lot of writing, Otto Binder huge, he's written tremendous number of stories, right? During the golden age of comics and he did short stories and I believe he wrote all the way up to the silver age obviously because this goes up to 1962, right? So he's written works in the silver age of comics as well. Now the reading that we did with E.C. Comics No. 28, okay? The first story being Lost in Space, the script was Otto Binder. The second story was The Trial of Adam Link and that story is adapted from the sequel of iRobot written and it's a short story and that's the book I was looking for before we, like the day before yesterday before we're shooting this video. Yesterday I was looking in my collection trying to find the story I have, short story I have in sort of a thick book format of amazing stories. It's sort of a magazine format, sort of a thick anthology really of a whole bunch of different writers. It's the January 1939 printing issue of amazing stories which contains the story of iRobot, right? And that story was written by, let me see if I can pronounce this correctly, Ian O. Binder and Ian O. Binder is a pseudo name that Otto Binder and Earl Andrew Binder used, the brothers, when writing stories, some of the books, comic books, as well as short stories, because it was sort of taking the first letter, Earl, E, and the word and O, Ian O, okay, putting both their names together, the first letters sort of mixed together and printing stories under their name, right? So iRobot, Ian O. Binder, in Weird Science Fantasy 28 that we read with the trial out of Link, was a sequel to iRobot that Otto Binder had written in sort of a short story anthology of books. I just found out to be pretty fascinating and the number of stories that he had written is amazing of how prolific Otto Binder was in putting out books, okay, putting out stories. So very happy to have this in my collection. Now this thing was created at very good plus and it ended up costing us, and we got this sort of great deal and he had, I mean, he had an 80 dollar price tag on this, right? I guess he was selling on the back bins. He put it up to see how much it would go for. We got this thing for $11.50 Canadian, which is $8.78 US. Fantastic, fantastic, awesome, awesome, awesome, okay. Now let me show you this one. This one I've been chasing. I've been trying to get my hands on about a good price. We paid fair value for this. It didn't go at a good price. It went at a okay price, right? If I waited a little bit, might have been able to get at a better price, but maybe not, saving a couple of dollars here and there, right? Here's Action Comics 484, okay. From 1978, this is great at very fine plus, so it's high grade. That's the reason I went for this, right? And this is an earth two wedding of Superman and Lois Lane, okay. And it's the 40th anniversary issue. The pencils for this, okay, the cover pencils for this are done by Jose Luis Garcia Lopez, okay, and the inks are Dick Giardano, okay, and we've seen books by Dick Giardano before, okay. The script for this is by Cary Bates. The pencils, the story inside is done by Kurt Swan, and the inks are by Joe Gallia, okay. Superman takes a wife, right? Fantastic. I really wanted this issue. I've been tracking this issue, like Joe, Judo Joe, I've been tracking this one as well, St. Louis Conan, the Barbarian 275. I've been trying to get good deals on both of them, on all three of them, right? Happy to have this. And can you see what they both have in common? Let me show you this. In this one, the annual Lois Lane is dreaming, which came out, the annual came out, when did the annual come out? I forget, 1962, right? Lois Lane is dreaming about marrying Superman, and in 1978 Lois Lane does marry Superman, but it's in the Earth 2 universe where she marries Superman, right? Fantastic. And Earth 2, I don't look this up, I forget one Earth 2 was introduced, it's sort of part of a multiverse where there's different Earthas and all the heroes interact differently and they behave differently. Some have died, some have, you know, some of the villains are not the villains or the heroes or whatever it might be. The first appearance of Earth 2 is Flash number 123, which came out in 1962, 61, okay. The last two comics that we have are their action comics. Action comics number 368, and this thing came out in 1968, it's created a fine, very fine, okay. Ended up paying four, oh yeah, the other one that I mentioned, how much we paid for this one? How much did we pay for this one? We paid $8.06 Canadian, which came out to $6.15 US, and it's created very fine plus, that's not a bad deal, that's not a bad deal, okay. This one, action comics 368, fine, very fine, we ended up paying $4.25 Canadian, $3.24 US, okay. The script, ready for this? The script, auto binder, right, more auto binder, okay. The pencils is Ross Andruro, okay, and the inks is Mike Esposito, okay. That's for the first story. The first story is called The Unemployed Superman, and the story I read upon, I was like, Unemployed Superman, is basically alien beings have come to earth, and there's no more violence, no more villains, so superheroes aren't needed, so Superman's out of a job, right. I got a feeling the aliens are going to be evil, but I haven't read it yet, right. The second story is called Superman's Stand to Save Stand Hope, okay. And the script is Carl Bates, and the pencils is Kurt Schofenberger, which is one of the people that, well, he did the cover for this one, right, Lois Lane Annual, number one, and there was a fair bit of artists involved in this one. Should I read you some of the artists for this one? Some of the artists for this one, George Papp, Kurt Schofenberger, John Ford, Al Plastino, worked on this one as well. We should give credit to the artists as well, right. But this one, happy to have, right, happy to have. And it's great, fine, very fine, sort of mid-grade, higher mid-grade, okay. I don't have this one in my collection, action comics. There's a lot of action comics out there, right. We're up to a thousand plus issues of action comics. If you don't include, well no, I guess they included, they added up the numbering for the previous titles as well, right. The last book that we got was action comics number 351. And this one was graded fine, very fine again. And we ended up getting this one for $4 Canadian, $3.05 US. And one of the stories, Autobinder. Really, I became a fan of Autobinder when we read Weird Science Fantasy number 28, right. Especially Al, while Feinstein is amazing, right. The people that worked on EC Comics are absolutely amazing. And glad to see some of them have worked on action comics as well, which a lot of them did, right. They worked on a lot of different, and a lot of different publishers. So the story by, one of the stories by Autobinder, the pencils, the artwork by Wayne Boring, okay. Another story in this, ready, ready for this? Jerry Siegel, the co-creator for Superman, right. And the story that's by Jerry Siegel in this issue is a reprint of Superman's pal Jimmy Olson, that came out in 1954. And this guy came out in 1967. So 13 years later, they reprinted part of the story by Jerry Siegel in this one. And the art by, was by Kurt Swan and the inks by Stan K. Okay, fantastic, fantastic. Very happy to have this hall. Now I don't have any more bids up on anything else. I'm tracking some stuff. I'm always tracking stuff online, trying to see if I can get any amazing deals or whatnot. But if you're not buying in my part of the world and can, the shipping cost a lot, right. So if I'm not buying a lot from a lot of issues from someone else that's not local to me, then I try to get my hands on, try to do a major buy, that way the shipping cost is distributed across all the issues, right. So it doesn't come out, it doesn't kick up the price too high, right. So aside from just tracking some stuff, this is most likely going to be one of the, we probably won't do another comic book haul for a while until I build up my budget because I am trying to build up my budget. There's some stuff I'm trying to track from the golden age of comics specifically, trying to get my hands on. And I do have to have sort of a buffer, sort of a budget to be able to get my hands on those. But we'll see where that goes. Maybe we can get our hands on judo, number two, number three, right, complete that series. Okay. Thank you for watching. I hope you enjoyed this haul. Sorry if I went up on certain brands, I got pretty excited about getting this haul. And once I go, once I start doing research for comic books and once I start doing research for almost anything, if I find it interesting and it's sort of part of my life, I love that I have, I sort of go down a rabbit hole and sometimes I find myself spending a day or two days just reading up on history and where things have come from and what they are, right. Comic books is one thing I do this with. So I ended up finding some information. I left some on the table, right. I didn't take the nose for stuff. It's in my short-term memory and, you know, maybe we'll talk about some of the stuff in the future, right. But I wanted to share as much as I could with you guys because I know there are some comic book collectors that really appreciate what we cover here and some historians that like to put things into context as do I. I love to put the history of comic books into our history because it is our history, how things came to be in the stories being told, right. Like for example, the story that we did, the reading that we did for Weird Science Fantasy number 28 with the trial at Adam Link, that came out in 1955, right. Now that story, really, if you don't want to watch it in video format, I'm pretty sure you will be able to find it on comic book plus to read it. But that story, I'm going to give a little bit of spoiler here. So if you want to watch that video, please don't listen to the last minute on this video, right. But that story is about artificial intelligence, is about an android, right. Having to deal with mob mentality in our society and it incorporates sort of a lynching mentality in our society, as well as questioning what life is, as well as huge science fictions and the implications of artificial intelligence, right. Taking an android and putting them on trial. When I was reading that book, really, that story, while we were reading it and afterwards, right, I've gone back to this this story that we did. Afterwards, the story reminds me of a movie, I haven't read the book, but the movie I've watched with Gregory Peck, which is To Kill a Mockingbird, right. And it's an amazing movie to kill a mockingbird, the black and white movie that came out, the original movie. And it really gave me that feel of to kill a mockingbird. Amazing stories, right. Amazing stories being told in the golden age of comics in the 1930s, 40s, well 1940s and 50s, through some of the publishers that basically went bankrupt when censorship hit the industry, right. Fantastic human history, okay. I hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you guys in the next video. Bye for now.