Seriously, there is some ridiculous stuff in this collection. In fact, it's already been pretty well picked through, (in less than a week!) but here's what we've got right now:

 

TITLE	ISSUE #	GRADE	PRICE
Action Comics	304	GD-	$3.00
Action Comics	315	GD	$9.00
Batman	163	GD	$10.00
Doctor Strange	172	GD+	$5.00
Fantastic Four	61	GD+	$10.00
-Crystal Joins the Fantastic Four
Fantastic Four	81	GD	$6.00
Teen Titans	26	GD	$4.00
The Incredible Hulk	134	FN	$10.00
Thor	141	VG-	$12.00
Thor	164	VG+	$10.00
X-Men	13	VG+	$75.00
-2nd Appearance of the Juggernaut
X-Men	15	VF-	$150.00
-CGC Graded (7.0); Origin of Beast
X-Men	17	FN-	$50.00
X-Men	24	FN	$40.00
X-Men	25	FN	$45.00
X-Men	25	GD-	$10.00
X-Men	26	VF-	$75.00
X-Men	27	FN+	$65.00
X-Men	29	FN	$40.00
X-Men	31	FN+	$50.00
X-Men	32	VF+	$120.00
-CGC Graded (9.0)
X-Men	33	FN+	$50.00
-Dr. Strange Appearance
X-Men	34	VF-	$70.00
X-Men	35	VF-	$150.00
-Spider-Man Appearance
X-Men	36	VF+	$100.00
X-Men	39	FN-	$30.00
X-Men	40	FN-	$30.00
-Frankenstein Appearance
X-Men	43	GD+	$15.00
X-Men	44	FN-	$25.00
X-Men	46	VF	$70.00
X-Men	48	VF-	$60.00
X-Men	52	VF+	$75.00
X-Men	53	VF-	$50.00
-1st Barry Windsor-Smith Comic
X-Men	55	VF+	$75.00
X-Men	66	GD	$10.00
-Hulk Appearance
X-Men	109	VG+	$18.00
X-Men	110	VF	$30.00
X-Men	111	FN	$15.00
X-Men	112	VG-	$7.00
X-Men	113	VG	$10.00
X-Men	115	VG-	$8.00
X-Men	116	FN-	$12.00
X-Men	117	FN+	$20.00
-1st Appearance Shadow King

All-Flash #1

Oh, Bart Allen.  You weren't the Flash for very long, and your book was terrible for about half of that.  Fortunately, Marc Guggenheim salvaged that terrible first arc and turned Bart into a Flash who was actually pretty cool.

Then they killed him.

Fortunately, Wally West is back (thanks to the Lightning Saga in JLA and JSA) and ready to take back up the mantle of the Flash, with Mark Waid lending his writing talents to the project.  Wally's first order of business?  To beat the crap out of the people who killed Bart.  Hopefully the new (old?) Flash will hit the ground running, (HAR) and this All-Flash special will certainly be a good sign of what we can expect.

World War Hulk #2

Well, issue one was awesome.  My guess is that issue two will also be awesome.  According to the solicitation, Hulk fights the Avengers and the Fantastic Four.  In issue number two.  God bless whoever it was who decided that, hey, maybe the Hulk should punch the crap out of everything--and then they did that.  World War Hulk: X-Men #2 is also coming out this week, and it's also awesome.  Here's a minor spoiler about how awesome it is:

SPOILER ALERT

The Hulk breaks Colossus's arms.  While he's in his metal form.

Ultimate Spider-Man #111

This will be a landmark issue in many respects.  Firstly, it's the final issue of Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley's record-breaking run on Ultimate Spider-Man.  Secondly, it's the first issue penciled by Stuart Immonen.  And thirdly, it's a landmark issue that has Ultimate Spot, making it the lamest villain ever in a landmark issue as far as I can recall.  Seriously, Bendis, you couldn't throw in a Doctor Octopus appearance or something?  Maybe the Sinister Six?  I mean, really.

What are these "Mini-Masters" tournaments?

The answer is simplicity itself: they are tournaments where each player buys a pack and builds a deck with that one pack!  It's a fun, quick way to get a little extra bonus with a booster pack that you were probably going to buy any day!  If you win your first round game, you get another pack for free to play in the next round and the round after that.  The winner gets one pack for every two players, and the runner-up gets one pack for every four player.

That's a lot of free packs, for little pay-in!

ONCE AGAIN I RETURN TO OFFER HUGS TO ALL

THEY ARE A MORE THAN ADEQUATE REWARD TO ALL WHO COME TO FANBOY COMICS TO CHECK OUT THEIR EXCELLENT TYRSDAY SPECIALS

IN FACT ONE SHOULD COME EVERY WEEK TO RECEIVE A WARM, NON-SEXUAL EMBRACE AND ALSO CHECK OUT THE NEW SPECIALS

YES, IT APPEARS THAT THERE ARE NEW SPECIALS EVERY TUESDAY FOR GAMING PRODUCTS, BACK ISSUES, AND MERCHANDISE

HUGS ARE ALWAYS FREE UPON REQUEST THOUGH 

ALSO, IT WOULD SEEM THERE ARE DOLLAR BOXES THAT CHANGE EVERY WEEK

TRULY, AN EXCELLENT SPECIAL...AND AN EXCELLENT REASON FOR A HUG

FRIENDS OF FANBOY'S MYSPACE PAGE WILL HAVE BESTOWED UPON THEM A SNEAK PEEK OF THE SPECIALS

I DO NOT MYSELF HAVE A MYSPACE, BUT MY LIVEJOURNAL IS MORE THAN SUFFICIENT TO KEEP MY FRIENDS APPRAISED ON HUGS, AND HOW MANY THEY NEED TO GIVE ME BEFORE WE ENTER GLORIOUS BATTLE AND SATE OURSELVES UPON THE BLOOD OF OUR ENEMIES

(THE ANSWER IS: AT LEAST THREE)

(AND THEY MUST BE HELD FOR FIVE SECONDS)

$19.99

Back in 2002, a new writer named Brian K. Vaughan wrote a Marvel MAX series called The Hood.  Then he became incredibly popular and wrote other stuff, but nobody really seemed to care about the Hood.

Flash forward to now.  New Avengers is the most popular ongoing series in all of comics, and the villain they're soon going to face is one Parker Robbins.  Seeing as how some people might actually want to know who Parker Robbins is, Marvel decided to release a fancy-pants hardcover collection of Vaughan's acclaimed but ultimately ignored series.  I haven't personally read it, but it's by Brian K. Vaughan.  Odds are, it'll be good.  At the worst, it'll help you understand this whole New Avengers arc.

$19.99 Each

In case you can't tell from the picture, this series of Elseworlds action figures includes Batman and the Flash from JSA: The Liberty Files, Wonder Woman from Wonder Woman: Amazonia, and good and evil Supermans from The Dark Side.  I guess they all look pretty cool, too.  See, there's a picture of them, right there, to the right.  Maybe you will like the way they look?

$45.00

Well, just when I think I'm getting over my addiction to Games Workshop, they come out with a product that looks likely to drag me back in--and this time, to a game I don't even play!  Mighty Empires looks to be a cool, interesting campaign system with a lot of variety and replayability.  Of course, we'll have to see how the rules work, but even if they suck, the tiles alone are a cool enough idea to at least port to other miniatures games as a dynamic campaign map.  Hey, it's only $45.00 for the whole thing, too, which is cheaper than the actual Warhammer Fantasy rulebook.

$17.99

I think that we can all agree that the Wildstorm relaunch was, at best, a mixed success.  Well, not really.  It more or less sucked.  The books were of varying quality, and the good ones didn't come out on time--or at all.  However, there was a diamond in that terrible, overhyped, frequently-delayed rough: Stormwatch PHD.  (And also Welcome to Tranquility, but that's not what I'm writing about.) While Jim Lee was drawing every single window on each of the twenty skyscrapers in the background of WildC.A.T.S. issue 2 page 4 panel 3, and Grant Morrison was doing whatever the hell it is Grant Morrison does, Christos Gage and Doug Mahnke were quietly putting out not just one of the best book in the Wildstorm Universe, but one of the best books in all of comics.  Stormwatch is an intriguing, well-thought-out look at an organization devoted to stopping super-crime, and it even eases you into the convoluted Wildstorm continuity so new readers aren't lost.  My point is, you should check this book out if you haven't already.

It's not too late to get started!  Though you may be a week behind, you can play each other player in the league once each week, so if you can get a lot of games in you can easily catch up.  Not to mention boasts and stuff like that.  The best days to come by and play are Thursday at 6:00 PM and Sunday at 5:00 PM, but you can come in and play a league game at any time.  New players are always welcome! 

Here are the current standings as of Week 1:

	PLAYER	POINTS	FACTION
1	Davin Madden	10	Cygnar
2	Jackson Brantley	8	Skorne
3	Cyrus Marriner	6	Cryx
4	Wayne Turner	5	Khador
5	Nick Truelove	1	Khador
6	Tony “Defib” [LAST NAME]	1	Menoth
7	Joe Nguyen	1	Menoth
8	Preacher	0	Cygnar

The full league rules are available in the store. We're largely following the official league rules, but I have house ruled some stuff. The official rules document can be found at Privateer Press's Summer Rampage Site. The house rules document, along with a quick reference rules sheet, can be found here.

Here's a rundown of the main stuff we buy:

• Silver Age Superhero Comics - While recent comics are all pretty enjoyable, we really only want the Silver Age Superhero stuff. The Silver Age is generally going to be comics published on or before 1977. It can sometimes be hard to figure out the date a comic was published, so a good rule of thumb is that the cover price should be $0.35 or less. And while we have nothing against comics not about superheroes, the stuff we can sell is Silver Age Superheroes.
• Used Trade Paperbacks - If they're in decent condition, we'll probably pick them up. It's difficult to give any hard and fast guidelines for what we want, because it depends a lot on what we have in stock and what we can order.
• Yu-Gi-Oh and Magic Singles - We only buy rares, and I can give you even fewer guidelines about this. Mac is in charge of all of our singles sales, and he works on Thursday through Monday, so those are really the only days we can buy any cards.
• Used Roleplaying Games - We'll look at pretty much any roleplaying games. We don't usually buy stuff that is currently in print, but if you've got the time to stop by, it's worth a shot. We're always interested in classic Dungeons and Dragons books.
• Used Records - Thomas buys a lot of old jazz and blues records for his personal collection. Records are like CDs, except black and older. Kind of like the blues musicians Thomas likes!
• Vintage Paperbacks and Pulps - I don't know anything about these. We might buy them, though!

Be sure to call before you come by to make sure we're not too busy to look at your stuff! We can also set up an appointment. Just call (910) 452-7828 or email fanboycomics@bellsouth.net.

If you produce a comic, or have some art you'd like to submit, or have written a review or anything else that you'd like to see in the newsletter, we're totally cool with that! Just email editor@fanboycomics.biz, and we'll put your submission in the newsletter if it's appropriate! Heck, you can even send in plain old comments about the newsletter, the store, or one of our events and we might publish them! We're really accommodating, it would seem. Seriously, write some reviews. We'll hook you up with free review copies of comics. How cool is that?

1896 Pabst Beer Ad Reprint

This auction contains the rare vintage advertisement for Pabst Milwaukee Beer. This black and white ad is not a reproduction and was printed in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly from 1896. I think the artwork is by Binner Chi. It is in nice shape with only lite edge wear, slight tears at top, bottom, and left outside edges. It measures approx 11" X 8 1/4". Perfect for beer collectors and for framing! Don't miss out on this hard-to-find piece of history!

Avenger Paperback 1-3 Lot

This auction contains a vintage 3 book Lot of The Avenger Books, by Kenneth Robeson:

• #1 Justice, inc. was published by Paperback Library in 1972, 1st printing. This rare paperback is in (VG) condition with lite edge and corner wear and slight creasing along spine. Nice interior.
• #2 The Yellow Hoard was published by Paperback Library in 1972, 1st printing. This rare paperback is in (VG) condition with lite edge and corner wear and lite creasing on front cover. Nice interior!
  
• #3 The Sky Walker was published by Paperback Library in 1972. This paperback is in (VG+) condition with very lite edge and corner wear. Nice interior!

Event: TRADING CARD & COMIC SHOW

Dates: Saturday, August 18, 2007
Sunday, August 19, 2007

Times: 10:00 a.m. til 4:00 p.m.

Location: BB & T Auditorium (inside the McKeithan Center)
Cape Fear Community College - North Campus
Wilmington, NC
(visit www.cfcc.edu - click Campus Maps)

Vendors: 20 Tables

Admission: $5 - Ages 11 & Up
Free - Age 10 & Under

Guests: Peter Jurasik - Londo Mollari on Babylon 5
(Peter Jurasik has written a novel and recorded a musical CD. Many people remember him as Sid-the-Snitch opposite Dennis Franz on three seasons of Hill Street Blues. He also did two seasons on Dear John with Judd Hirsch.)

Donnell Woolford - Chicago Bears & NFL Pro Bowl ‘94
(Donnell Woolford, a two-time All American at Clemson, was a first round draft pick for the Chicago Bears in 1989. Donnell was a three-time All Madden Team member and was voted All Pro in 1993. In 1994 he earned a trip to the Pro-Bowl. He also played for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Carolina Panthers before retiring in the late 1990's.)

STORM Clark - American Gladiators
(STORM Clark is an accomplished Bodybuilder who performed on American Gladiators from 1991-93. STORM entered the Gladiator Arena in 1991 and used her background in personal training to bring down contenders in her favorite event Powerball. The former member of the Southern California Cheetahs also competed in the Live Tour of American Gladiators.)

Appearances by above athletes are subject to change without notice.

Information: Jim Smith - (910) 512-2914 & (910) 392-8550
Warren Kennedy - (910) 619-8950

If there is anything you're looking for that we stock or can special order, we can ship it to you.  We ship every Tuesday and if we have to special order the item it will take some extra time.  $15.00 minimum order.  We take Paypal, Money Orders, Checks and Credit Cards.  Paypal is preferred.  E-mail us.

As usual, a great many comic books have been pushed back to a later date. This news is so shocking that we are now developing a weekly section where we announce comic delays, so you can better know when your favorite books are coming out. Or when the next delay announcement will be, whatever. We'll also include other schedule announcements, like different products coming back in stock, second printings, and the like. But this is the comic industry, and we all know which type of announcment we will see the most.

Changed Release Dates

PRODUCT	OLD DATE	NEW DATE
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #5	08/01/07	07/25/07
JACK OF FABLES #13 (MR)	07/25/07	08/01/07
SUPERMAN #666 (NOTE PRICE)	07/25/07	08/08/07
TRIALS OF SHAZAM #8 (OF 12)	07/25/07	08/08/07
WITCHBLADE TAKERU MANGA NYCC VAR ED #1	12/31/19	07/25/07
BOMB QUEEN VOL 1 WOMAN OF MASS DESTRUCTION TP (MAY061724) (M	12/31/19	08/01/07
PVP #35 (NOTE PRICE)	07/25/07	08/01/07
BAKERS BABIES & KITTENS HC (C: 0-1-2)	12/31/19	08/08/07
CAPES VOL 1 TP PUNCHING THE CLOCK (C: 0-1-2)	12/31/19	08/08/07
CRIMELAND GN (C: 0-1-2)	07/25/07	08/08/07
GLISTER #1	07/25/07	08/08/07
GODLAND #20	07/25/07	08/08/07
INVINCIBLE #45	12/31/19	08/08/07
KILLING GIRL #1 (OF 5) (MR)	08/01/07	08/08/07
MADMAN ATOMIC COMICS #4	07/25/07	08/08/07
NOBLE CAUSES #31	12/31/19	08/08/07
PAUL JENKINS SUPER SUMMER SIDEKICK SPECTACULAR #2 (OF 2) (MR	07/25/07	08/08/07
SCRAP METTLE HC (C: 0-1-2)	12/31/19	08/08/07
SPAWN #171	08/15/07	08/08/07
STRANGE EMBRACE #3 (OF 8) (MR)	08/15/07	08/08/07
STRANGE GIRL #18	12/31/19	08/08/07
STRONGARM #5 (OF 5)	07/25/07	08/08/07
AMORY WARS #3 (OF 5)	08/29/07	08/15/07
BOMB QUEEN IV #1 (OF 4) (MR)	08/29/07	08/15/07
BRIT #1	08/29/07	08/15/07
NOBLE CAUSES VOL 7 POWERLESS TP (C: 0-1-2)	08/08/07	08/15/07
TELLOS COLOSSAL HC (C: 0-1-2)	12/31/19	08/15/07
CHEMIST #2 (MR)	09/26/07	08/22/07
DUST #2 (OF 2) (MR)	07/05/07	08/22/07
FELL #9	08/15/07	08/22/07
GUTSVILLE #2 (OF 6) (MR)	08/15/07	08/22/07
STRANGE EMBRACE #4 (OF 8) (MR)	08/08/07	08/29/07
MIGHTY AVENGERS #4 CWI	07/18/07	07/25/07
HALO UPRISING #1 (OF 4) (MR)	07/25/07	08/01/07
JACK KIRBYS GALACTIC BOUNTY HUNTERS #6	07/25/07	08/01/07
MARVEL SPOTLIGHT WORLD WAR HULK	07/25/07	08/01/07
MARVEL TAROT	07/25/07	08/01/07
POWERS #25 (MR)	07/25/07	08/01/07
SHE-HULK 2 #20	07/25/07	08/01/07
SPIDER-MAN FANTASTIC FOUR #4 (OF 4)	07/25/07	08/01/07
LAST FANTASTIC FOUR STORY	08/01/07	08/15/07
WHITE TIGER #6 (OF 6)	07/25/07	08/15/07
ONSLAUGHT REBORN #5 (OF 5)	08/15/07	09/12/07
STRANGERS IN PARADISE VOL 19 EVER AFTER TP	07/25/07	08/08/07

So, did you guys read Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness #4?  If so, did you see this completely uncalled for slam against our hometown?

Sure, that might look like a fairly innocent comic book panel, but wait until you see what happens when I add a series of unnecessarily complex callouts and zoom in on some stuff:

That's right.  Apparently S.H.I.E.L.D. thinks we're "expendable" here in Wilmington.  Oh, really?  Well, S.H.I.E.L.D., I hope you have fun trying to stop the Zombie apocalypse without any TERRIBLE DRIVERS or POOR CITY PLANNING.  Maybe when the zombies are walking across logically-arranged roads not choked with traffic while cars stop for them at the crosswalks, you'll wish that they had to somehow figure out how to turn left on College Road at rush hour without someone running them over.