 This is Chih-Chou. Welcome to my channel and welcome to a sort of a mini comic book haul. Okay, as you might know, I'm sort of on a major budget right now. So my comic book funds are at a minimum. So I'm not really too actively searching online to be able to buy comic books, right? But I am keeping track of a couple of sellers, what they're putting out and whatnot. One of them is in Ontario and another one is a local comic bookstore that on a semi-regular basis puts comics on their on their site to sell. Sometimes they put a lot, sometimes they put one or two. And just recently, they had a whole bunch of comics that they listed. And I was able to grab a handful, basically 10 of them for $1.20, $1.40, $1.00 to $2.00, $3.00 a pop, right? The total cost of the comic book haul was $14.66 Canadian. And that comes out to, we can do just a direct, what do you call it? Just use online just to see what the conversion is. So $14.66 Canadian comes out to $11.09 US comic book haul. So $1.10 US a pop because there's 10 comic books here and he is local. So I just want to pick it up so there is no shipping cost, right? And I was sort of, I was scavenging, right? And that's one thing you can do when you go to a comic book store, when you go into a dollar bin, you're sort of scavenging. Or when you're buying online, you can just scavenge, right? Especially if the person has a lot of expensive comics up. So people spend their money for the expensive stuff. So you can low ball, low ball, some of the other things, right? So I ended up grabbing these ones and there's a couple of... Well, they're all fantastic comics. I love them. Happy to have them in my collection. But there's one major key issue in here. OK, so let me crack this open. It's just in a paper bag, right? And I'll tell you what these comics are as we pull them out. I have a couple of bids. I should mourn a couple of bids on some of the other comics that he adds up. And if we end up getting them, fingers crossed, we'll follow this up with another mini comic book haul. OK, so let's pull these out. Let's check this out. Let me put these guys, let me group these. OK, check this out. Here, I'll give you... I'll show you these two guys first. OK, because they kick into the key one. Now, here it is. Check this out. I grabbed Amazing Spider-Man. Let me pull him up as well. What I ended up grabbing. I got Amazing Spider-Man. 330 in mint condition. OK, for $1 Canadian, which is basically 75 cents US. OK, and the artist for this is Eric Larson. This is two issues. I believe Todd McFarlane's last issue was Amazing Spider-Man. On Amazing Spider-Man around the first run that he did was 328, right? And then Eric Larson picked up as the main artist for Amazing Spider-Man after from 329, and this is 330. The second issue, I believe, that he was a main artist on. OK, so $1 for Amazing Spider-Man 330. Nice buy, mint condition. Pretty good. Bagged and boarded. We're had a new bag and board. Right. And I also picked up Amazing Spider-Man 331 by Eric Larson. Again, the artwork. I forget who the writer for this was. I have it bookmarked here. So the writer is David Michelini. And I don't know David Michelini. I don't know what else he's done, but Eric Larson is pretty big. OK. He, and again, this was $1.75 US bagged and boarded. Right. And his punisher appearances, obviously. Of course. So glad to have these. I actually don't know if I have these in my collection. I think I do. But for a dollar, you can't pass this up. Right. So that's two of them. And one of the main reasons I picked that up is because I picked up another book by Eric Larson. OK. Ready for this one? Let me tell you. OK. I'll show it to you first. And I'll tell you what I got it for. Right. Megaton, number two. OK. This is Eric Larson. There's a whole bunch of sort of anthology with different people on it. Let me read you who are the people that are working. Well, there's a whole bunch of people working on this. But the main one that I grabbed this for was because of Eric Larson's work. Right. And the script is by Eric Larson and Gary Carlson. Right. So Megaton, number two. Because this is the first appearance of the savage dragon. I believe it was called the dragon. I don't have this in my collection. It's also the first appearance or I believe is a cameo of Mega Man. OK. And this thing, let me tell you the condition is listed out. OK. And this guy's a good grader. He's, he actually, I found out when I picked up the book. He actually teaches a course at a local university on comic books. Our local university has a degree you can get on comic books. Right. And he teaches one of those courses. He's one of the main instigators or people in charge of the whole program. Right. So he's pretty good at grading comics. He knows his comic book history. He's been around for 35 years or something. This comic book store that he has. Right. So this book graded at very fine. Right. Very fine. Straight up. First appearance of Savage Dragon. First appearance of, well the information says anyway, the debut of Mighty Mask. So I'm assuming it's one page. OK. And I picked it up for a dollar Canadian. Right. So 75 cents US bagged and boarded. OK. Now, should we take a look at this? Because I haven't seen this. I haven't seen the first appearance of Savage Dragon. Savage Dragon is Eric Larson's sort of main character that he created. And it's the second longest, as far as I know, second longest series from Image Comics. Spawn being the first one. And Savage Dragon is the second one. OK. So let me crack this open. Because this is in very fine condition. I'm going to be pretty careful with this. OK. It's a black and white anthology. Nope. And let me show it to you. Nice. Ever seen anyone handle a dollar 75 cent thing so, so preciously? Fantastic. Let me give you a front cover. Very fine. Maybe I would give it very fine minus. I might be a little bit stricter on this, but no. Maybe very fine minus. I would give this an 8.8, which is very fine. This isn't the Savage Dragon. Savage Dragon one is the second one. But this is the type of comic we're talking about. OK. And this thing came out in 1985. Right. So it's a mid 80s independent comic book series. And I believe Eric Larson's Megaton. There it is. Vanguard Story by Gary Carlson. I believe that's the one with the Savage Dragon. So let me flip through this. Megaton is back. Awesome. Very happy to have these. As you know, I love these mid 80s, late 70s, 70s, 80s and 90s independent comic books. Two of the main, two of the comic books that we really started reading, doing readings for, one of the six first comic books that we ever read were Primer number two and number five, with the first appearance of, awesome, with the first appearance of, with the first appearance of Grendel and the Max. Right. And they're sort of the same style. Anthology. Where are we? Where are we? The Dragon. Awesome. Take a look at this. That's over. Here's the Savage Dragon. Take a look at this. I've never seen the first appearance of Savage Dragon. Oh my God. Don't do that. I'm getting too excited. No, it's OK. We didn't do any damage. The Dragon before. I believe we're not going to read it right now. I just want to show it to you. Here's Megaton. Look at the artwork. Absolutely beautiful. Right. And this isn't Eric Larson anymore. This is, I forget who it is. So that's the first cameo appearance of Savage Dragon. Right. Look at the panel. We're going to go to the end and see if we can find, let's flip through this. Let me see if I find anything else that is this Megaton's splash page is fantastic. Sorry. I pulled it away from you guys super fast. But beautiful. The artist is Clark Hallbeaker. But I love this type of style of artwork. Take a look. Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Like seriously. Nicely done. It's very reminiscent of the Crow. Right. Crow number one that we read very much. Wow. Wow. Wow. Okay. Megaton just hit my radar to pick up the whole series. Look at this. Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Now finding me an artist. Check out this. How do I find you? I don't know what the artist for this is. But it's cool. Very, very. May 80s indie. This is a different artist doing the work. Different story anthology, right? This is a different artist again. There's someone else. So we got a cameo. The first appearance of Savage Dragon. Referred to as Dragon, I believe. We got an artist that we didn't know existed. Take a look at this. This is like aliens. Take a look at that. There's a whole bunch of people in this anthology. So where is Mega Man? Coming soon with his record. Awesome. Let me check out the back cover. Check out the back cover. Mega Man was the first story, I believe. I didn't really follow Mega Man. Eric Larson's is... Mega Man appears in Eric Larson's Savage Dragon. I read a little bit of Savage Dragon. It's beautiful. Here's the cover again. I'm going to show you the first couple pages of Eric Larson's part work again. With Vanguard and Eric Larson. Yeah, that is it. At some point, I think we'll have a read through this. I like the Megaton. I might try to get my hands on Megaton number one. Yeah. Because that looks fantastic. Nice. A dollar. 75 cents US. Very happy to have this. Very happy to have this. There's a lot of first appearances. Cameo appearances and stuff that were made in comic books in the mid... In the 1980s. 1980s was a fantastic period for comic books. Really. And obviously, 1990s was extremely interesting. Extremely interesting. Let me show you these ones. It's a set. It's a set. What have we got? We have five issues of Sergio Aragonis. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that correctly. Grew the wanderer. Okay. This series ran for 120 issues. Okay. And the later issues were low print run. Because they were being canceled and stuff like this. Right? So the later issues are more expensive to get. Right? I was able to get from issue number 112 to 116. Right? And I got all of these for a dollar Canadian pop. Back then, boarded. So 75 cents US a pop. Right? And the seller had all the way up to 120 listed. But 120 went for a premium price. Not premium price. It was a fairly good deal. But above my budget anyway. So did 110, 111, and 117, 18, and 19. He also had those up as well. But they went for much more than a dollar. So if I was spending a dollar on these, I wasn't going to go crazy on the other ones. Right? So let me show you the covers. And Sergio Aragonis is known for Grew the wanderer. And he's been one of the main artists for Mad Magazine. Right? This is number 112. Beautiful. If you've never read Grew, read Grew. It is one of the awesomest characters ever created. Right? Very happy. Happy comic books. But it's hilarious. It is so funny. And that's his sidekick. This guy right here. And his sidekick is smarter than Sergio. The group. Right? The humorous slapstick. But it's also very intelligent. Right? Grew the wanderer is fantastic. One day I'm going to buy either singles of the whole series or the collection of the whole series and read the whole thing. Because it is fantastic. This one's 114. They're sort of sequential. I put them in order. Okay. Here's 115. And Grew made its first appearance in duck number one savage duck. Strange duck. Oh man. Duck tails? No, not duck tails. Something duck. Destroyer duck. Destroyer duck. I believe number one is the first appearance of Grew the wanderer. I don't have that in my collection. I will get it at some point. But as far as I'm concerned, Grew comics are pretty cheap. Number one goes for sort of a more premium price. Grew the wanderer number one. But destroyer duck number one I believe is the first appearance of Grew the wanderer. Okay. And this was 116. Fantastic. Now, the two most expensive comics I got in this haul. They were more than a dollar. Right? Anything more than a dollar would have been expensive. It ran out of what I got, right? These next two comics. Okay. And Grew the wanderer, these things came out in 1994. All the Grews came out in 1994. Megaton came out in 1985. Okay. Amazing Spider-Man 330 and 331 came out in 1990. Okay. These two comics were from the Silver Age. They came out in 1968. And they're Nick Fury, agent of SHIELD number six and number seven. I don't have these in my collection. Now, the reason I picked these up, because the colors of these... Well, because they're fantastic. From one understand, it's a fantastic series, right? I might have read one or two issues here and there. But I've never sat down and binged on it. Okay. But the covers for these are done by Jim Stranko. I want to pronounce this correctly. Jim Stranko. Okay. And both of these covers, the inside pages are not done by Jim. But the covers, these are, I believe, the last two covers. It could be the last two covers that he did for Nick Fury, agent of SHIELD. Okay. He did the pencils, the inside work for number one to four, I believe. He did the inside covers that I marked this. I did Strange Tales number 151 to 153. He did the work on Jack Kirby's Layoffs. That's what I said. Number 154 to 165, not 168. Odd number covers from 19, blah, blah, blah. And the Nick Fury, he did the inside work. The inside work from number one, two, three, and number five. And he did the covers for number four, six, and seven. Okay. Let me give you a nice close-up of this. Beautiful work. Beautiful work. And he's very important. One of the important artists from that period. There was a few of them, but he's very stylistic. And he did some work later on for movies. I believe for Raiders of the Lost Ark and Bram Stokes, Dracula, some stuff I read. Just beautiful covers. This one's really reminiscent of Salvador Dalié. That's the feel it gives us. Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. And that's the main reason I picked up these two. Oh yeah, let me tell you the prices on these. They were expensive relative to the other ones. 100, 100 and 200% more, 300% more. Number six, this one is graded at Very Good. Came out in 1968 and I paid 291 for this. 291 Canadian for this. Which comes out to a little bit over $2, 210 US. I can tell you exactly what it is. All I have to do is sort of go to eBay and change .ca to .com. And it does a conversion. So 219 US. Nick Fury, agent of SHIELD number six, graded at Very Good. And number seven, let me tell you what this one is too. This one I paid 325 Canadian, which comes out to 245 US, graded at Very Good. Stranco, Jim Stranco covers. Okay, that's my comic book haul. Total of $14.66 Canadian. Glad to have these in my collection. And the only ones I have in my collection, I'm pretty sure. But I'm not actually sure. That's why I grabbed them as well. And they were a great deal. It's the Amazing Spider-Man 330 and 331. Megaton I know I don't have. And I don't have these later issues of Grew. I do have, I might have number one, I doubt it. But I have, you know, some of the earlier issues of Grew the Wanderer, a fantastic series. And I read a lot of Grew through Mad Magazine, right? And we've got Nick Fury, agent of SHIELD, six and seven. That's it for now. If I end up picking up anymore, scrounge around, sort of try to get things at an amazing deal, right? To fit my budget and still satisfy my craving to increase my collection and get my hands on some amazing books. Wow, wow, wow. Wow, wow, wow. I'll definitely show you guys if I end up picking up anymore. Okay? Thanks for watching. And I'll see you guys, hopefully, in the next comic book haul video sooner rather than later. And definitely in the next video. Okay? Bye for now.