there ya go koshy...should tell you waht you need dude

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_School

killjoy32 wrote:there ya go koshy...should tell you waht you need dude

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_School

Ya know I was just razzen ya, right?  

Kosh Vorlontay wrote:I cannot believe everyone missed my mummy ref  

Sorry, Kosh...I thought it was so good that any comment by me would be piling on.

Man, this one got nickled and dimed to death:



http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... &rd=1&rd=1



KoP, did the wife not let you go to the local exotic dance bar or something    

Kosh Vorlontay wrote:Man, this one got nickled and dimed to death:


** expired/removed eBay auction **


KoP, did the wife not let you go to the local exotic dance bar or something    

Actually there is a very sane reason for the "nickle and diming".  I have been trying to win one of these for about a year now.  I have bid on 6 or 7 of them and always seem to get outbid at the last second even though I have put in what I thought was a pretty sensible proxy bid or my snipe fell a bit short.  Not wanting to lose this auction I decided to try a new tactic.  One of the things about specific buyers that annoys the hell out of me is bidding in very small increments until they meet the price of the highest bidder.  Why do people do that?  It doesnt make any sense to place small incremental bids....or does it?  From a common sense standpoint it really doesnt make sense.  Why waste time putting in numerous $1 incremental bids when you can just make one or two larger bids?



And then I realized that by putting in the smaller bids there was a chance that my doing so would also seriously annoy the shit out of anyone else that might have been bidding on the item and also send a message to them that I wanted the item badly enough and that they didnt stand a chance to win.



I dont know if my little experiment worked or not.  But I did win the auction.  Although I paid a bit more than I really wanted to, at least I wont have to worry about looking for another one.  And it helped that I was totally bored at work yesterday.  

Keith the Thief wrote:The issue he got with his toy was the first volume of a multi-volume set.

I'd like to get the rest of them for him, but I'm not sure how/where to start.

I know nothing about comics.

Plus, all I want are reprints.  I'm not interested in anything collectible.

Was the volume the length of a comic book or the length of a bunch of comic books?  If it's a single comic, then it and the other issues may still be available in a collected "Trade PaperBack" form.  If it's already a collection of comics, then you may be looking to collect all of the original run of Star Wars comics in TPB form ---  I forget how many issues covered the first movie and how many were original material from Marvel Comics.

Check your local comics store, which should have a sizable TPB or Graphic Novel section.  Or eBay/Half.Com for it . . .

Was it this: http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodi ... r=HS87504A

I looked at these figures/comic just this morning at a store.

ShaneG.

Keith the Thief wrote:I'm guessing some of you may be comic book fans, so perhaps you can help me out here ...

I recently bought my son a "Star Wars" toy, and included with it was a reprint of a "Star Wars" comic book that was quite obviously produced around the time of the original release of the first movie in 1977 (Now titled "Episode IV", of course).

(In fact, the comic includes some material that I know was actually cut from the original movie, like Luke and Biggs near the beginning of the story, etc)

The issue he got with his toy was the first volume of a multi-volume set.

I'd like to get the rest of them for him, but I'm not sure how/where to start.

I know nothing about comics.

Plus, all I want are reprints.  I'm not interested in anything collectible.

Thanks,
Keith

The entire Marvel Comics Star Wars run, including the movie comics, are available in TPB versions from Dark Horse.  I believe they are now out of print; however, they shouldn't be that hard to find.  They are pretty nice quality.

MikeB.

Plaag wrote:Was it this: http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodi ... r=HS87504A

I looked at these figures/comic just this morning at a store.

ShaneG.

Yes, that is it exactly.  Whichever toy we got for our son came with "Issue # 1" in above link.

Since I'm specifically looking for the issues pertaining to just the first movie, I'm wondering how to best identify them, especially if the TPB version is OOP.

Thanks,
Keith