PokerKid

Collecting in the early '80s, I remember that #181 was a modestly expensive key, with #180 and 182 both fetching a decent price. He was far and away the most popular X-Man and picking up steam with every issue it seemed. Those old Overstreets will help be a good guide if someone wants to look up a couple books to see when he gets broken out.

The early issues of this run are great, but it went through quite a change.

Did he at least add to your stack? Nope, he was just fumbling with the chips during a break, he didn't play any hands. And he was gone before I got back from break, but people at the table were talking like the Pope had just dropped by. One of the great things about the WSOP is getting to talk with everyone. I got to have good conversations with James Woods, Greg Raymer and, best of all, Penn Jillette (with Penn, it is less of a conversation and more of smiling while he has a very loud conversation with the room. Good natured and always amusing). And you can meet or at least see pretty much any poker player or poker playing celebrity you would like. It is very casual and fun. The highlight was sitting at the table with Phil Ivey on my right and Robert Williamson III at the the table next to us. They were going back and forth trying to make a $50,000 wager on who would win more money. Somehow Ivey starts bragging about how he is one of the three best Ms. Pac-Man players in the world and Williamson is giving him about his golf game. They were going at each other for more than an hour. Had very little to do with poker, but was some of the funniest stuff I had heard at the table in a long time.

Awesome pick-up...and very inspiring! I am going o be playing in a 300+ person charity poker tournament today to benefit ALS research. The top three finishers get WSOP entries. So now I'll be thinking of Clark. Thanks Pokerkid! (thumbs u Good luck to you. I've played in five events - six counting the free media event, which is fun but doesn't much resemble any other WSOP event - and oddly the two main events were the least fun of the bunch. (Had I made it into the money, I might feel differently.) If you love to play and don't happen to win a seat, it is worth buying into one of the cheap - $1,500-$2,500 - events once for the experience. My first tournament there was a limit hold 'em tourney. Despite 1,200 people in the tourney, Johnny Chan, Phil Ivey, and John D'Agostino along with a couple other name players who show up regularly on TV, but their names are slipping my mind at the moment, were at the table with me. And, oddly enough, during a break, Doyle Brunson apparently got turned around, took my seat and was playing with my chips. My friends were calling back home during the tournament and sending out e-mail updates on what was going on. It was over the top but a blast. I busted out shortly before the money (I'll spare you a whiny bad beat story), but had one of the best times I have ever had.

This one doesn't really fit anywhere, but I couldn't have been happier with this pickup so I had to post it. It is a magazine, not comic related. I had been looking for this magazine since I saw someone selling a cover replica a year or so back. It came up on eBay. Usually, Screen Guides don't go for much, but a 1939 magazine with a Gone With the Wind cover had me worried it might have a few people going for it. I just figured I'd pay whatever the market price was so I put in a $250 bid. Got it for $20. It arrived. It is tabloid size and in beautiful shape.

BangZoom, thank you for posting those great inside pages.

One might think liquor was involved. I've been at parties that ended like this, but if this is an inauguration, what were the wild parties like?

I had a Tec 90 and it was one of my favorites. I always liked black covers, but also this one lacked some of the cheesiness that was starting to show up more and more often (which I still enjoyed, but I like my Batman knocking people around). Keep going until you burn out the bulb on that scanner. Really nice books with some great colors.

Very nice copies. Jack Cole was able to fully incorporate the character into panels and give him a charm that no one else seemed to be able to do with this character. I love reading his golden age books, but nearly all the Plastic Man/Elongated Man stories DC did later felt lame by comparison.

Man, once this guy finds a spy, he's toast (literally). That's tough.

Hahahaha, about 15 years ago when I started collecting, I made this comic my goal in life. I figured once I got it I would probably stop collecting. While I'd like to believe that to be true, there's always stuff out there that I'd really like to have...Like Batman 1 and Tec 27. Life goals you set when you are 4 are not binding. Otherwise, I'd have stopped trying to do anything once I learned to fly and built my house out of chocolate chip cookies.

Great looking copy you found. Do Helen's parents know she's going out in public dressed like that? I'd launch 1,000 ships for a shot at that.

Great covers, but the colors and condition you are finding this is really makes them stunning.

"King me!"

Kudos to GACollectibles, who pulled a card cover magazine for me and hunted for months to see if he came across anything else I might need. Also spot-on grading for a couple of nice Phantoms.

Kudos to pennynike1 for quick, safe delivery of four slabbed Robin II books - which is nearly 25% of all copies of this prestigious title ever graded.

Kudos to deviants innocuous, esquirecomics and 143ksk who each picked up a SOTI. All made quick and easy transactions. Thanks guys.

Not the New Funs, Jumbos and Masters -- those suckers are ginormous! We need some treasury sized slabs. I wish they were smart enough to hire someone like you.

yowza! Incredible! Great group of covers. If I break down and go after a title, it will be Batman 1-100. I love the colors and fun covers that this title has.

It's just a 9.6 Crime SuspenStories with the guy carrying a hatchet in one hand and a woman's severed head in the other. The eye popping color would simply detract you from your work.

Another sweet batch of books! Well done! Great set if books Sharon! I count three flag covers... GE I am always envious of these group shops. Unfortunately I don't have a lot of mint books and I don't have a camera. But I can try to create a group shot with scans from my collection and a little photoshop. bb A couple of these are missing centerfolds and tears have been repaired and Pep 33 is just a cover but it is fun to stack them all up. I hope the scans weren't too large. bb LOVING that group shot; wonderful stuff. p.s. if you ever need to part with the hit 17, i know someone who would take good care of it; really good care of it. did i say extreme care? I see a great group of comics like that and it makes me wonder how anyone can resist collecting golden age. Incredible covers all.

Johnny Craig (thumbs u

I guess now is a good time to show this off. I won a coverless copy to Hangman #3 off of Ebay about a month ago. Here is the first page I forgot about that incredible splash. Wonderful work in there and definitely an upside to owning a coverless book. No reason to ever slab it.

I got mine from Captain Red Pants too! He must have fixed his printing press. Incredible classic cover. Nice books.

A nerd with taste (and money?!?). Great books. I'll admit it. I love Worlds Finest, especially all those early square bound issues.