Comic Book Hauls - June 2016 (Part 2)

The second batch of my comic book orders from the US finally arrived this week. This batch is a mix of my purchases from eBay, my orders from Midtown Comics, and an exclusive from Legacy Comics. Be ready for a lot of Harley and WW books in this post.

Batman Rebirth (2016) #1

I got the Legacy Comics variant cover done by Stanley “Artgerm” Lau. I’m a huge fan of Artgerm’s art after stumbling upon his works over at DeviantArt. Since I don’t have any plans (yet) of getting a print from him I would have to settle for now in hunting down books with his covers.

Batman (2011 2nd Series) #47

This issue is part of last December’s variant theme over at DC comics. Issues come polybagged and readers were expected to get one of three different kinds of covers in each package: penciled, inked or fully colored variants. This issue’s variant covers were done by Alex Ross. Since my copy was part of a set sold in eBay it was already unbagged. It seems that the seller is not that interested in this penciled variant (or he may already have duplicates of this cover).

Harley Quinn (2000) #5

I remember a shop selling issues of Harley Quinn’s first ongoing series for cheap in a toy convention event that I attended years before. Now, it seems that all of the old books featuring Harley skyrocketed in price due to the popularity of her character so get copies of issues you want to add to your collection early since people will start snatching her issues up before the Suicide Squad movie gets released. I got lucky in eBay when I saw a cheap listing of issue #5 (retelling of Harley Quinn’s origin) bundled together with the Batman #47 variant that I posted above. Also, this is another win for me since I am also a fan of Dodson. Speaking about Dodson…

Wonder Woman (2006 3rd Series) #1, #2, #3, #4, and #5



I was supposed to only hunt for issues 1 and 5 due to their wonderful (pun intended) covers that were done by Terry Dodson but I saw cheap listing for these issues bundled together. Now I am tempted to hunt down the annual to complete the “Who is Wonder Woman?” storyline. My advice to other collectors - try to check out old issues done by the cover artist you want to collect for some great finds and deals. Don’t go directly to the variants that they’ve done.

Harley Quinn (2013) #7

DC Bombshells is a statue line released by DC Collectibles that re-imagined characters as icons inspired by the ‘40s and ‘50s look. This line expanded to variant covers of various DC Comics titles, licensed memorabilia such as art prints, t-shirts and mugs, and eventually an ongoing comic book series. The designs were created by Ant Lucia who also did all Bombshell variant covers for the month of June 2014. As much as I am a Harley Quinn fan I really could not stand her New 52 look as drawn by some artists, but I really dig this reimagined retro look of her.



Batman in Barcelona Dragons Knight (2009) #1

I really love self contained stories (as compared to collecting a miniseries). You get a great one shot story by Mark Waid about Batman solving a string of bizarre murders in Spain’s beautiful coastal city of Barcelona. The cover is done by Jim Lee - which is reminiscent to his much sought out “Batman standing on a gargoyle” 2nd printing variant cover of Batman #608, a plus point for me!

Wonder Woman Rebirth (2016) #1

This is my second Artgerm cover. Ordered this as soon as it was available in Midtown Comics (which led me to getting the other books in this post to make the most of the shipping cost). This cover would be perfect if they added a little bit of scenery in the background (as opposed to plain white background and the new DC logo for the Rebirth one shot variants).

Deathstroke (2014) #13

Third and final part of the “Suicide Mission” storyline. Got this issue to complete the set that I bought last FCBD. I really like the way Tyler Kirkham illustrates Harley Quinn in these issues (though he just did the cover art fori issue #13).

John Carter Warlord of Mars (2014) #1

I believe that collecting books with J. Scott Campbell covers should not be a costly endeavor. There are tons of incredible covers he had done outside Marvel and DC over the years which you are able to get for just the cover price. Going for his exclusive covers would put me way over my budget that I allot for comics. This is why I just hunt for his cheap variants and normal covers - like this one. This book has a great regular cover done by Campbell. It features a very sexy chained Dejah Thoris artwork with John Carter at the background. This is better than the retailer incentive variant which has only John in the cover.

Swords of Sorrow (2015 Dynamite) #1

What’s better than a scantily clad woman cover done by J. Scott Campbell? How about 4 scantily clad women in one cover! Sword of Sorrows seems to the the “ultimate team up” book for the bad ass women of Dynamite Comics - Vampirella, Dejah Thoris, Red Sonja, Kato, Jungle Girl. This 6 issue miniseries promises “a massive tale of battle, blades and bikinis” by Gail Simone which I tend to check out soon via trade. If you are interested, grab the “cosplay variant” of issue #3 which pays homage to this cover.