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Wilbur and Carol Post with Mister Ed

20 hours ago, RockMyAmadeus said:

So you had to visit multiple newsstands? You weren't able to purchase all of these copies at a single vendor? Did you buy all available copies at each place? Were you ALLOWED to buy all available copies, or could you only buy 1 or 2 at each place?

Thanks!

There were several news stands I frequented and sometimes the books were not all in the best condition at one news stand. If I had to go to another news stand, it was not much of an effort because in Brooklyn they were at every train station and there were numerous stands along the main Avenues. There was never a problem buying multiple copies, although I got a few strange looks and comments occasionally about buying multiple copies of the same book. In my neighborhood in Brooklyn, new comics came in from the distributor on Tuesdays and Thursdays in bundles tied with string. The comics on the top and bottom of the bundles were generally not in the best condition due to how tightly tied they were. I got friendly with a couple of the owners  and they would let me cut open the bundles to find the best condition books before they were put out for sale.

Currently, I am reading, Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky. It is a novel about a post apocalyptic society that resides in the Moscow underground rail system. My son gave it to me after he read it and played the video game based on the novel. 

On 9/6/2018 at 1:17 PM, pemart1966 said:

GCD lists the re-drawn Spider-Man figure as having been done by Kirby with inks possibly by Brodsky.

The redrawn Spider-Man figure just doesn't look like Kirby to me. And Marie was on staff at the time doing coloring and some penciling and inking. It makes more sense to me that Marval would have her do the new figure and to my eye, it looks like her work but I could be wrong.

2 minutes ago, mattn792 said:

Nelson Muntz.  Look him up sometime...

I do know who Nelson Muntz is but I had no idea this was a quote from the character on The Simpsons. I am grievously at fault for not being familiar with the dialogue quoted by you. Please accept my humble apology.

22 hours ago, mattn792 said:

That’s like asking the square root of a million - no one will ever know.

The square root of a million is 1000.

1000 X 1000 = 1,000,000

I enjoyed reading the old journals and did not visit the new journals after a few exploratory forays. To say I am disappointed by the closing of the old journals would be a vast understatement. 

A very sad day. RIP Marie, you were one of most talented comic artists. My condolences to her family and friends.

Picked these two up from ebay. They were the last two issues I needed to have all the covers done by Neal Adams on World's Finest.

5 hours ago, Ditch Fahrenheit said:

Judge Issues "Comic-Con" Injunction

August 24, 2018 7:57am PT by Eriq Gardner

In what may be the beginning of the end of the road for any self-described "Comic-Con" that doesn't take place in San Diego, a California federal judge has issued an injunction in one of the biggest trademark cases in the entertainment industry in years.

San Diego Comic Convention was the plaintiff taking on Dan Farr and Bryan Brandenburg, who ran the Salt Lake Comic Con. At a trial held last winter, San Diego prevailed on its contention that it held valid rights and that Salt Lake was infringing its trademarks. The jury didn't find willfulness, however, and only punished Salt Lake to the tune of $20,000 in corrective advertising.

Salt Lake asked U.S. District Court Judge Anthony Battaglia to put aside the ruling and order a new trial.

Instead, in a series of orders issued late Thursday, Battaglia has not only upheld the jury's verdict and issued an injunction, but ordered the defendants to pay almost $4 million in attorneys' fees and costs. The decision comes just a week before the Salt Lake convention was about to get underway. Thanks to this court case, it's already been rebranded the FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention.

Battaglia, in his order on an injunction, has enjoined Salt Lake from "Comic Con" and "Comic-Con" and any phonetic equivalents (i.e. ComiKon). Additionally, Farr and Brandenburg can't operate any social media site that incorporates the trademark, nor can they even advertise how the festival they run was "formerly known as Salt Lake Comic Con."

On the other hand, the judge rules it would go too far to prevent the phrase "comic convention" and won't require defendants to destroy all of their already-made merchandise and marketing materials bearing the banned phrases.

It's important to note that San Diego has sued or asserted claims against others who operated "Comic-Cons" around the nation — and most of those cases were put on hold for this one. San Diego vs. Salt Lake was a test case.

San Diego, the plaintiff, pushed for a new trial too because it was unhappy with the jury's finding of non-willfulness and wanted Salt Lake to disgorge profits. The judge doesn't think that's in order by pointing to evidence that included Brandenburg thinking it was ok to use "Comic Con" as others were doing it.

Nevertheless, San Diego has scored a huge coup in the order granting much of its attorneys' fee costs.

Battaglia concludes this is an "exceptional" case compared to run-of-the-mill trademark cases, and slams the defendants for making "repeated, re-argued, and recycled arguments" from having license to pushing a contention that "Comic Con" had become generic to framing the case both inside and outside the courtroom as San Diego's fraud on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

"Ultimately, resembling a broken record, DFP has repetitively restated and rehashed several contentions that they were unable to advance successfully prior to trial," writes the judge. "This type of cyclical motion practice is objectively unreasonable and has justified attorneys’ fees under the Lanham Act."

San Diego wanted about $5 million in attorney's fees and it will end up with 80 percent of the request.

While certainly a victory for San Diego, the attorney fee award could make an appeal more likely.

 

What I find particularly ironic in this case is how San Diego has become less and less about comics and more a multi media convention.

7 minutes ago, Lazyboy said:

You certainly weren't a collector when you were throwing away comics that you trashed. You eventually became a collector.

When those comics were being thrown away, I was not a collector, I agree, but by the time I was carefully saving them, I had become a collector. I had many friends whose road to collecting was similar, if not identical, to mine. You do not have to encapsulate or use boards and bags to be a collector, although I eventually did put my comics in plastic bags to help preserve them.

When I was six and seven years old [1956 and 1957], I read comics my father bought for me. These were Warner Brothers and Disney characters like Bugs Bunny and Donald Duck. I didn't preserve them in any way and read them over and over until they fell apart and were thrown away. By the time I was eight and nine I was buying my own comics and they were DC superhero comics mainly Superman and Batman titles but any comics were read and treasured. By that time I was keeping them in numerical order stacked in my closet. They were reread by me but carefully, so as to not cause them any deterioration. Ten cents an issue was a considerable expense to me and I didn't want to have them thrown away because they were falling apart.

As other kids lost their passion for comics they would sell them for a nickel each and I was one of the kids who bought issues I was missing. I bought the three JLA tryout issues in Brave and Bold that I needed to go with my run of issues from #1 up.

If I wasn't a collector, what was I?

I am very sad to hear of Russ Heath's death. My condolrnces to his family and friends. Russ was an excellent artist and consummate professional. He will be missed.

23 hours ago, pemart1966 said:

Has the original art for that surfaced though?  What about the original art of the unused AF 15?  Has that surfaced?

As far as I know, the original art for the unused Amazing Spider-Man 10 is still in the possession of the person to whom it was gifted.

On 8/16/2018 at 11:55 PM, pemart1966 said:

Possible that it was gifted by Stan to someone?  I wonder how much gifting of art WAS done?  Has anyone heard of any Marvel art that has surfaced with the provenance of having been gifted?

I remember reading that the unused Ditko cover for Amazing Spider-Man #10 was gifted to someone.

A few years ago, I ordered a self feeding electric snake for drain stoppages. FedEx notified by email me of the day it would be delivered and that my signature was required. The day they picked for delivery was a day I and my family were going to a picnic and no one would be home to accept and sign for the delivery. I responded to their notice by calling and informing them to delay the delivery, which they confirmed for me. If you haven't guessed what happened yet, here it is, I got home from the picnic at about 9:00 PM to find the carton containing the snake on my front porch. Luckily, no one had taken it but I still wonder who signed for the delivery if no one was home?

1 hour ago, Mmehdy said:

I think bob was suspended for two weeks, as I recall, I think he can still post here? His comic book store wars project is very important, and he has material than cannot be replaced or duplicated in this 20+ year project, I hope that this gets published for all of fandom.

On June 29, Katy Beerbohm-Young. Bob's daughter, informed her friends, " My dad had a stroke this morning, and is in the hospital in Omaha."

16 minutes ago, Mercury Man said:

Of course:  

I bought these, also. Iwas so disappointed with them because they were almost two dimensional, thinner than a dime.

I can remember looking for thrown away soda bottles to get the two cent deposit on five of them in order to buy a new ten cent comic.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Shel Dorf.