[Comics Stash contents!] My new hobby (as of early 2006) is buying weird boxes of independent comics from eBay for cheap and then getting scared of the contents. Since I never really bought comics before, the chances of me having anything in there are pretty low thus far! Here's what I got to date: --- Short box, May 2006, $23 plus postage - a really nice personal collection, including newer, alternate, indie stuff. # Wolff & Byrd Counselors of the Macabre #19, #20, #21, #22, #23, #24, #25, #26, #27, #28, #29 # Whiteout TPB, Rucka, Lieber # Whiteout: Melt TPB, Rucka, Lieber # Thieves & Kings Volume 1 TPB # Superman: Tales of the Bizarro World TPB # Planetary: All Over the World and Other Stories TPB (1-5) # Planetary #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13 # Planetary/Authority: Ruling the World # Tom Strong #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11 # Madman Comics #17, #18, #19, #20 aka: G-Men from Hell 1-4 # Top 10 #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10 # The Atomics #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13 # Spookgirl #1, #2, #3, #4 # Tomorrow Stories #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7 # America's Best Comics #1, 64-Page Giant # Jingle Belle’s All-Star Holiday Hullabaloo # Castle Waiting #1, #2, #3, #4 # Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #33 (Corben, 1990) # Thieves & Kings #25 # Captain Victory #1, #2 (Kirby reprints, 2000) # Solar Stella #1, J. Bone # Smith Brown Jones: Alient Accountant #1, #2, #3, #4 # Where's It At Sugar Kat? #1 # Sugar Buzz #7 # Twilight Zone #1 (Now Comics) # Oni Press Summer Vacation Super Color Fun Special (2000) # Gloomcookie #6 # Charm School: Magical Witch Girl Bunny #2, #3 # Myth of 8-Opus #1, #2, #3 # X-Force #116, #121, #122 # X-Statix #8, #9, #10 # New X-Men #114, #119, #120 # Catwoman #1, #2 (2002) # Marvel Knights Daredevil #16, #17, #18 # Marvel Knights Black Widow #1, #2, #3 # Marvel Knights Daredevil: Yellow #5 # Sugar Buzz: Live at Budokan TPB --- Long box, June 2006 - $9.99 + postage - they're a bit musty from a basement, but a bargain nonetheless, neat earlier alternative stuff. # Go-Man #1-#4 (Caliber Comics) # Dark Horse Presents #94 # The Nazz #1-#4 (DC) # Yummy Fur #19-#32 # The Robert Shapiro/Marcia Clark Story (First Amendment Publishing - OJ comic!) # The Bill Clinton/Gennifer Flowers Story (First Amendment Publishing, haw!) # Zoot #1-#2 (Fantagraphics) # Orbit #1 (Isaac Asimov stuff, Eclipse) # Weird Science #15 reprint (EC) # Concrete #9 (Dark Horse) # Gnatrat #100 # Normalman #4 (Aardvark Vanaheim) # Eclipse Monthly #1-#3 # Gen Of Hiroshima (Educomics, Japanese translated anti-nuclear comic!) # Scorpio Rose #1-#2 (Eclipse) # Doomsday Squad #1-#7 (Fantagraphics, reprinting John Byrne/Charlton '70s material) # The Black Diamond Effect #3 (horrific CG-ish comic) # Quack! #1-#6 (weird underground '70s thing with Dave Sim, Sergio Aragones, etc) # Stinz #1 (Fantagraphics) # Martha Washington Stranded In Space/Happy Birthday/Goes To War (#1-#5)/Saves The World (#1-#3)/Give Me Liberty (#1-#4) # A Decade Of Dark Horse #1 # Destroyer Duck #1-#7 (Steve Gerber's Howard The Duck spinoff with Jack Kirby (!)) # House Of Secrets #1-#5 (Vertigo) # Pete Friedrich's Gotcha! (Rip Off Press) # Slave Labor Stories #3 (Slave Labor) # Fire Sale (Rip Off Press) # Madame Xanadu (DC, 1981, with cool mini-poster!) # Superman - The Wedding Album (DC) # Skim Lizard #1 (Puppy Toss) # Tor Love Betty #1 (Eros/Monster - yep, Tor from Plan 9 vs. Bettie Page!) # Tor Johnson Hollywood Star #1 (Monster) # The Transmutation Of Ike Garuda #1 (Epic/Marvel) # All-Night Comics #1-#2 # The Girl Who Would Be Death #1-#4 (Vertigo) # Redfox #1-#20 (Harrier Comics, UK '80s stuff) # Gifts Of The Night #1-#4 (Vertigo) # Zell Sworddance #1 (Thoughts & Images) # Outlanders #1-#40 + Epilog + Special (Dark Horse) # Dalgoda #1-#8 + Flesh&Bones #1-#4 (Upshot) # Books Of Magic #1 (Vertigo) # The Endless Gallery (Vertigo) # Book Of Faerie: Auberon's Tale #1-#3 (Vertigo) # Book Of Faerie: Molly's Story #1-#4 (Vertigo) # The Dreaming #1-#9 (Vertigo) # Hellblazer/The Books Of Magic #1-#2 (Vertigo) # The Books Of Magic Annual #1-#3 (Vertigo) # The Books Of Magic #1-#70 (Vertigo - nice!) # Children's Crusade: Arcana The Books Of Magic/Black Orchid (Vertigo) # The Children's Crusade #1-#2 (Vertigo) # Plus a quantity of furry-styled comics (around 30) that I couldn't bear to keep around, and threw out, sorry rabbit in bikini fans! I also have a short box ($4.99 plus postage) from the same person with a load of issues of Marvel's Epic Illustrated magazine from the '80s, and quite a few other interesting oversized indies. -- Small TPB collection, $27 plus postage, October 2006 - some really good Vertigo trade paperbacks for a reasonable price, including lots of the weirder Grant Morrison stuff and Douglas Rushkoff's brand new Testament TPB - neeto! # Bite Club TPB (Howard Chaykin, Vertigo) # The Exterminators TPB (Kafka-esque Vertigo stuff!) # Testament Akedah Volume 1 TPB (Douglas Rushkoff, Vertigo) # Kid Eternity TPB (Grant Morrison) # Books of Magick Life During Wartime Book One TPB (more Vertigo!) # Vimanarama TPB (Grant Morrison again!) # Human Target Volumes #1 and 2 TPB (cultish Vertigo) # Sebastian O TPB (Grant Morrison) # Chiaroscuro The Private Lives of Leonardo da Vinci TPB (interesting early Vertigo) # Seaguy TPB (Grant Morrison) # Vertigo First Offenses TPB (Reprints #1's of Fables,Lucifer,Preacher and 2 more) # Vertigo First Taste TPB (Reprints #1's of 100 Bullets,DHCL,Y The Last Man and 3 more) -- Medium-sized box of Vertigo/alt.comics, $30 plus postage, October 2006 - arrived in _immaculate_ shape, and there's lots of good Eddie Campbell and non-TPB-compiled Vertigo stuff in here, so I'm delighted. # 1,001 Nights of Bacchus (Dark Horse Comics, Eddie Campbell) # Absolute Vertigo (Vertigo) # Astro City 1-2 (Homage) # Bacchus 1-7 + Color Special (Eddie Campbell Comics/Dark Horse) # Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight - Faces 1-3 # Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight - Watchtower 1-3 # Batman: Long Halloween 1-2 # Black Orchid #1,4 (Vertigo) # Books Of Magic #1,2 (Vertigo) # Chiaroscuro #1 of 10 (Vertigo) # Coventry #1 (Fantagraphics, Bill Willingham) # Dark Horse Presents #106 # Deadface #1-4 of 4 (Dark Horse, Eddie Campbell) # Death Gallery (Vertigo) # Death: The Time of Your Life #1-3 of 3 (Vertigo) # Doom Patrol #72 # Eddie Campbell's Alec in The Dance of Lifey Death (Dark Horse) # Eddie Campbell's Graffitti Kitchen (Tundra) # Egypt #1-7 to 7 (Vertigo, Peter Milligan) # Elektra Assassin #1-8 of 8 (Epic Comics, 1986) # Endless Gallery (Vertigo) # Face #11 (Vertigo) # Ghostdancing #1-6 of 6 (Vertigo, Jamie Delano) # Ghostship #1 (SLG) # Girl #2-3 (Vertigo) # Hermes versus the Eyeball Kid #2-3 of 3 (Dark Horse) # In the Days of the Ace Rock & Roll Club (Fantagraphics, Eddie Campbell) # Kingdom Come #2-4 of 4 # Mercy (Vertigo, JM DeMatteis) # Millenium Fever #1-2 of 4 (Vertigo) # Minimum Wage Vol. 2, #3-5 + Book One (Fantagraphics) # Optic Nerve #1-3 (Drawn & Quarterly, Adrian Tomine) # Radical Dreamer #2 # Rogan Gosh (Vertigo, Peter Milligan) # Sandman Mystery Theater #1-2, #21-24 # Shadows Fall #1-6 of 6 (Vertigo) # Strangers in Paradise #1-7 # Stray Bullets #1-6 # Superman's Metropolis TPB # Tank Girl: The Odyssey #1-2 of 4 (Vertigo) # The Extremist #1-4 of 4 (Vertigo, Peter Milligan) # The Invisibles #1-5 (Vertigo) # The Last One #1-6 of 6 (Vertigo) # Too Much Coffee Man #3 # Tug and Buster #1-2 # Vanitas - Painting, Drawings, and Ideas of Jon J Muth TPB # Vertigo Preview -- 4 separate short boxes from the same seller, July 2006 - $9.00, $9.00, $12.50, $17.16 plus postage - lots of early '90s superhero material, apparently from a out of business retailer? I rearranged these lots before I cataloged them, and am just listing more or less what I'm keeping. Some good stuff, but _much_ more superhero-y than my other purchases, and quite a few repetition/orphan/junk mini-TPB books. I'll probably ditch about half of these after reading them. Boxes 1-2 concatenated into the half-decent stuff # Black Orchid #1-#3 (Gaiman & McKean) # The War #1-#4 (Marvel) # X-Farce #1 (Eclipse, silly spoof) # The Punisher - G-Force # The Punisher - No Escape # The Punisher/Wolverine - African Saga # Superman - For Earth # Spider-Man Vs. Wolverine # Marvel Age 1992 Preview # Moon Knight - Divided We Fall # Robin III sealed 'Collector's Edition', including Cry Of The Huntress #4, same for #5 # Official Handbook Of The Marvel Universe #7,9,10,12,13,24,27,28,29,32,34 # Give Me Liberty #1 (Frank Miller) # The Groo Chronicles TPB Book 6 (Eclipse) # Captain Glory #1 (Kirby-ish, Topps Comics) # Lois & Clark TPB (compiling Supermans from 1986-1990 that 'inspired the TV series') # Iron Man 2020 # Nausicaa #1 (Miyazaki!) # My Name Is Chaos #1-#4 (DC) # !mpact Winter Special #1 # Marvel Age - about 15 issues from #75 to #125 (Marvel's in-house previews mag - interesting!) # Marvel Age 1992 Preview # Akira #1 (Otomo!) # Daredevil & The Punisher (classic Frank Miller) # Seven Block (Epic, interesting Chuck Dixon horror TPB) # Itchy & Scratchy #1 (Bongo Comics) # Sports Personalities Featuring Magic Johnson # Savage Dragon Vs. The Savage Megaton Man #1 (Image) # Lobo's Back #1 # Hook movie adaptation (great Charles Vess cover art) # Ms. Tree Quarterly #1 (DC, good hardboiled stuff) # Gilgamesh II #1,2,4 of 4 (DC, v. interesting Jim Starlin sci-fi) # Spider-Man - The Death Of Jean DeWolfe TPB (good Peter David whodunnit) # The Punisher - A Man Named Frank (good Wild West Punisher story) # The Many Deaths Of The Batman TPB # Images Of Shadowhawk #2 # Star Trek #5 (Marvel) # Nathaniel Dusk #3 (DC) # Batman/Green Arrow - The Poison Tomorrow # Batman #446-#448, #483, #485 # Official Marvel Index To The Avengers #3-#5 # Official Marvel Index To The X-Men #2 # Grey #2 (Manga, Tokuma Shoten/Viz) # Nausicaa #2 Part 1 (Miyazaki) # Open Space #1 (Interesting sci-fi anthology) # Kid Eternity #1 (Grant Morrison!) # In-Country NAM #1 (Vietnam comic) # Tender Love Stories #4 ("I love you, Jim Dixon, but Stephanie is the girl in your arms.") # Comics' Greatest World Week 1-4 (Some weird Dark Horse offshoot) # Star Trek: The Original Episode Guides #1-#2 (with awful portrait art, yay!) # Alf Volume 1 TPB (complete with ALF on the cover claiming he looks like Robert Redford) # The Daytona 500 Story (!) # The Destroyer TPB (Marvel) Boxes 3-4 concatenated into the half-decent stuff # Contemporary Bio-Graphics #1 - Stan Lee (awesomely bad unauthorized comic bio!) # New Kids On The Block - Summer Magic Tour Limited Edition (YES!) # Strikeforce Morituri: Electric Undertow #1-5 of 5 # Lots of dupes that I won't mention. # Batman & Dracula - Red Rain TPB # Judge Dredd - The Megazine #1 # Gotham By Gaslight - A Tale Of The Batman (Jack The Ripper! Mike Mignola!) # Marvel Index To The Avengers #7 # The Maxx #1-6,8,9 (Sam Keith - neat.) # What If... The Avengers Lost Operation Galactic Storm? (Nope, no idea either!) # Batman: Run, Riddler Run #1-3 of 3 # Lots more horrid early Image stuff. # Razorback: First Cut Preview (Clive Barker's line for Marvel.) # LOTS more horrid early Image stuff # Trencher #1-3 (great Keith Giffen art for Image.) # Barbie #1 (yay!) # Spider-Man, Punisher, Sabretooth: Designer Genes TPB (triple team-up!) # Beauty & The Beast: Triple Beauty # Miracleman #1 # Itchy & Scratchy #1 # Legends Of the Dark Knight #50 # Thundercats #9-10 # Legends Of The Dark Knight #6 # Marvel Age mixed issues #79-96 # Secret Origins TPB (Marvel) # 1963 #1-5 (Alan Moore, Image!) # Penguin Triumphant TPB # Fantastic Four #236 (20th Anniversary!) # Ectokid #1 # Savage Tales #2 (weird oversized Marvel mag from 1985) # Vertigo Preview # Savage Sword Of Conan #165 + Conan Saga #27, #29-30 # In-Country Nam #1, #3 # 1963 #1-5 (dupe copy) # Tomb Of Dracule #48 # The Eternals Annual #1 (1977, Jack Kirby) # Creatures On The Loose Featuring Thongor #26 (1973, trashed copy) # Marvel Age mixed issues #105-135 # Sports Superstars - Magic Johnson # Bartman #1 (Bongo Comics!) # Avengers Anniversary Magazine (oversized) # Marvel Holiday Special #1 (cheesy!) # Green Hornet #1-2 # Power Pack #1-39 mainly complete (about 25 issues worth?) # Eclipse Monthly #3 # Star Trek: Deep Space 9 #1 (woo!) # Nightcat #1 (some bizarre real-life pop star who was also a Marvel character thing from 1991?) # World Without A Superman TPB # Captain Harlock #1 -- Short box of indie randomness, December 2006, $19.99 - good deal, because it's difficult to find actual indie comics (Fantagraphics, etc) in box sales, for some reason. * Belly Button Comix #1 (Sophie Crumb) * BiPolar #1, 3, 4 * Blood Orange Volume 1, 2, 3, 4 * Boy in my Pocket (Dean Haspiel) * Brooklyn Dreams Volume 4 * Casefiles: Sam & Twitch #1-2 (Scott Morse) * Containment (Eric Red IDW series) #1-3 * Fade from Grace #1-5 (Beckett) * the Fall GN (Ed Brubaker) * Ganges Book 1 * Gloriana GN (Kevin Huizenga) * Girl #1 (DC Vertigo) * Independent Voices #2 (Linsner cover) * Jim Campbell's Krachmacher #1 * Kinetic #1-8 (DC Focus series) * Little Star (Andi Watson) #1-5 * Mnemovore (DC Vertigo) #1-6 * Nocturnals : The Dark Forever #1 Variant Cover * NYX (Marvel Comics) #1-3 Collected Edition, 6, 7 * Or Else #1 (Kevin Huizenga) * Owyly Free Comic Book Day Edition * Paris #1 (Andi Watson) * Palookaville 16, 17, 18 * Nowheresville TPB (Mark Ricketts) * Nullen und Einsen graphic novel by Micha Hirt * Sandman Presents Dead Boy Detectives #1-3 * Strangers in Paradise #7, 54 * Strange Day GN (Damon Hurd) * Stray Bullets #3 (David Lapham) * Solo: Darwyn Cooke * Solo: Michael Allred * Suburban Folklore #1-3 * Supreme Power: Nighthawk #1-3 (Marvel Comics) * Super F*ckers #1 (James Kochalka) * Super F*ckers #2 * Ted McKeever's Metropol Vol 1 #1 * Top Shelf Volume 1 #1 (Winter '95) * Top Shelf Spring 1996 + misc other mini-comics. ---- About 75 assorted Vertigo comics, January 2007 - $13.49. Very incomplete (lots of partials) but includes lots of rare/tricky to get, more titles. Angel and the Ape #1-Oct 01 & #2-Nov01 Jonny Double #1-Sep 98, #2-Oct 98, & #4-Dec 98 Tattered Banners #1-Nov 98, #2-Dec 98, #4-Feb 99 Grip #1-Jan 02, #2-Feb 02 Blood & Shadows - Books 1, 2, & 4 GangLand #1-Jun 98, #2-Jul 98, #3-Aug 98, & #4-Sep 98 Dead Enders #1-Mar 00, #2-Apr 00, #3-May 00, #4-Jun 00, #5-Jul 00& #6-Aug 00 Faultline #1-May 97, #2-Jun 97 Brave Old World #4-May00 London #1-Jan 03 & #2-Feb 03 Flinch #1-Jun 99, #2-Jul 99, #3-Aug 99, #4-Sep 99, & #11-Apr 00 Midnight Mass #1-Jun 02, #2-Jul 02, #5-Oct 02, & #6-Nov 02 Skin Graft #1-Jul 93, #2-Aug 93, & #4-Oct 93 Weird Western Tales #1-Apr 01 & #3-Jun 01 American Freaks #1-Feb 94, #3-Apr 94, #4-May 94, & 5-Jun 94 Blood + Water #1-May 03, #3-Jul 03, #4-Aug 03, & #5-Sep 03 4 Horseman #3-Apr 00 & #4-May 00 S.C.I. Spy #3-Jun 02 & #6-Sep 00 The Technopriests - Book 1: Initiation Man Hunter #1-Nov 94 The Black Lamb #3-Jan 97 Operation Bollock #2-Dec 01 The Originals- Special Ashcan Edition Generations #1 – Superman & Batman Gifts of the Night #4-May 99 Menz Insana Happydale – Devils In The Desert Toxic Gumbo 20-20 Visions #1-May 97 Heart Throb #1-Jan 99, #2-Feb 99, #3-Mar 99, & #4-Apr 99 Terminal City #1-Nov 97 Dragon Lance #2 War Story -Jan 02, Jan 03, & Apr 03 Armageddon, The Alien Agenda #3-Jan 92 The Giffin #6 Chain Gang #1-Jul 93 The System #2–Jun 96 --- 3 different boxes from an alphabetical indie comics collection, September 2006 - $10.00, $10.00, $10.00. Overall a good buy, needs some more cataloging though. # One box completely comprised of 165-ish Comico comics - I will keep this together just cos I feel like it's a nice collection. Highlights include lots of Mage (Matt Wagner), The Elementals (Bill Willingham), and Space Ghost and Sam & Max comics too. More details soon. # One box largely comprised of awful '80s and '90s indies - not much to save here! # One box with lots of good stuff from '80s indie Vortex Comics, including Howard Chaykin's ultra-dark, noir-ish Black Kiss and Dean Motter's Mister X, as well as lots of comics from DC's now defunct Helix sci-fi brand (where Transmetropolitan started!). Here's what I kept from boxes #2 and 3: Savage Henry #1, 3,4, 6, 7, 9 (Vortex Comics, Matt Howarth) Post Bros #4,6, 10, 14, 15,17 (Vortex, also Howarth, interesting) Vortex #12, 13, 14 Mister X comics x 15 (Vortex, Dean Motter, awesome design) Badlands #1 (Vortex) Stig's Inferno #3 (Vortex) Kaptain Keen & Company #1-6 (Vortex) Ultraman #1 of 3 (2 different covers) Legends Of Nascar misc comics x7 Luther Arkwright - ARKology + #9 (Bryan Talbot) Atomicow #1 (Vision) Black Kiss - First Printing #3/4, #6-7-89-10-11, Thick Black Kiss (incredi-sex-violent Howard Chaykin noir awesomeness) About 50 Helix/DC comics from the short-lived sci-fi imprint, including Cyberella (Chaykin), Gemini Blood, BrainBanx, Vermillion, The Black Lamb (Timothy Truman), Bloody Mary (Garth Ennis), and Transmetropolitan (Warren Ellis). Astro City #3 Dinosaurs mini-TPB x2 Rumic World: The Laughing Target House Of Frightenstein/Deep Dimension Of Horror/ Demon Dreams Of Dr. Drew/ Horror House (Horror House Publications) Flaming Carrot Stories #1 Reid Fleming World's Toughest Milkman #2,7 Nina's Classic Comics #1 (Dark Horse) Goddess #7 (Vertigo) Wolff & Byrd: Counselors Of The Macabre #1, 2,4,5,7,12, 13,14,15 Elf Trek #1-2 of 2 (UGH!) Midnight Surfer Special (Judge Dredd-related) Legends Of Kid Death & Fluffy #1 Escape Velocity #1+2 Manosaurs #0,#1 (As bad as it sounds!) The Skunk #1, Collection (Quite funny spoof superhero)