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Awesome job, thank you. It's like hanging out with Tom Hatten on a Saturday morning.

I hope Flee finds this and has some extra time on his hands. It would be fun to see it in action.

Crappy pages, cool book. These Zip books are tough ones for me. The prices need to be right and they don't seem to come up all that often. Luckily, I got this one for less than I anticipated.

Is he more perfect than a Shmoo? From Wikipedia: They reproduce asexually and are very prolific. They require no sustenance other than air. Naturally gentle, they require minimal care, and are ideal playmates for young children. Shmoos are delicious to eat, and are eager to be eaten. If a human looks at one hungrily, it will happily immolate itself, either by jumping into a frying pan, after which they taste like chicken, or into a broiling pan, after which they taste like steak. When roasted they taste like pork, and when baked they taste like catfish. (Raw, they taste like oysters on the half-shell.) They also produce eggs (neatly packaged), milk (bottled grade-A), and butter — no churning required. Their pelts make perfect bootleather or house timber, depending on how thick you slice it. They have no bones, so there's absolutely no waste. Their eyes make the best suspender buttons, and their whiskers make perfect toothpicks. In short, they are simply the perfect ideal of a subsistence agricultural herd animal. The frolicking of shmoon is so entertaining (such as their staged "shmoosical comedies") that people no longer feel the need to watch television or go to the movies. Shmoo Link To heck with alpacas, I'm gonna raise schmoos. I had no idea they were so perfect.

With all the great - and a bit odd - Sensation covers, you'd think a psychiatrist was thinking this stuff up. Cool stuff!

Picked up a few I'd been after a while: I picked this on on eBay and was happy with the price and the book: A ComicLink upgrade of my VG/F raw copy: And then a few of the books only I would buy:

A popular week for this All-American Western. This one picked up as a VG on ComicLink (bought several this week that didn't have photos and felt the grading was fairly accurate on the VG range books). Goes good with the Canadian version

Wait, he comes on here claiming that a general interest in some unspecified Spideys is a binding contract and that he charges very low prices, but is somehow inconvenienced by trying to sell Spider-Mans elsewhere? OK that makes perfect sense. However, why Batman423? Was SpideyScrewsYou or ImAnArse already taken?

Got a beater undercopy for my card cover collection? I need to start saving my pennies for this cool book. (and mine won't be a 9.0)

The only thing that would make that cover better is if she looked like my ex wife.

Those are cool, when you get a Mexican scanner, I'd love to see them even better. That DD 1 is especially interesting to me.

Very nice work. And bonus points for not letting the girl keep it. (thumbs u

Those appear to be the red-costumed Blackhawks (started in issue 203). Don't have the issues in front of my, but probably from one of the DC comics in the 230s. Based on the date, it would appear it was published very shortly after being published in the U.S. Cool stuff. I'm sure you are the only kid on your block to have one.

I always avoided the cash games with those guys. I had no intention of playing pro (thought about it and decided not to - of course that was before the poker explosion). I never wanted to play with money I couldn't afford to lose and tournaments limit your losses to a fixed amount. As for Phil Ivey, I played against him in a 1500 buy-in event. There were about 1,100 people in this one. But when I sit down at the table, Johnny Chan is across from me (he schooled me royally a few years earlier at the final table of one of my first tournaments when I didn't realize who he was), a pro who I recognized from the late night poker Big Game show, another one of those pros whose name I now forget who got rich selling an internet company and on my immediate right is John D'Augustino, another young pro who I have watched a lot. Pretty unusual to recognize so many faces at a table at the start of the tournament. The tournament starts off and I can't buy a hand. Johnny Chan and I appear to be in a race to see who will get to the bar first. At the two-hour break I am down to about 10% of my starting stack. We get back and the cards start to come. Chan gets eliminated with junk cards in hand and I quadruple up. Luckily for me, the only player who I seem to be killing is D'Augustino. He was playing textbook poker and was very predictable. He also tends to make good lay downs, so when he would try for a steal, I would reraise and he would fold. It slowly built me back up to where I was in good shape. I finally eliminated him and was thinking, "Cool, I have a decent stack and Chan and D'Augustino are gone." So they need to fill the seat and Phil Ivey walks on over. Gee, thanks. Phil is very short stacked. He is talking about how he keeps sucking out. I see him get all in with KQ vs. QQ and rivering a K. I see his 68 beat AA. Finally, I get in a hand with him. I was in the blind with J8 and knew he would raise his button if everyone folded. He raised, I called to see if I could hit the flop and bust him. The flop comes perfect - 7-9-10 with two clubs giving me the nut straight. I check-raise and Phil thinks for a minute or two before saying - "F-it" and raises back all-in. He has an A-J with one club. An 8 allows him to chop, anything else I am golden. The turn is a club, the river is a club and I lose the hand to his flush. I am now shortstacked again. This time I don't come back. To make it worse, despite getting a playable stack and being close to the money, Phil busts out a short time later and doesn't cash. My friend, who was hilariously calling in play-by-play of this tournament to a friend who was writing e-mails to my poker group started calling him "F-ing Phil Ivey" every time since this. Hence the nickname. Phil was actually very nice to the people at the table, which could be hard to do with all the stupid and what must be repetitive questions he must hear everywhere he goes. As an aside - the single best conversation I have ever listened to was at this talble. Phil Ivey is talking to Robert Williamson III who is at the next table. They are trying to set up a bet for who will do better overall during this WSOP. They are talking about betting $50,000 on it. However, they keep going back and forth on the terms and haggling over every little thing. They take turns talking smack - Phil Ivey's "I'm one of the five best Ms. Pac-Man players on the planet. I'll play anyone for $100,000." was the one that got me cracking up. Funny thing is, bits and pieces of this got on ESPN's coverage with Ivey making comments like "I wanna gamble" quote - in reference to Ms. Pac-Man - sounding like he was pushing around the poker table. Their back and forth banter ranging from poker to video games to golf went on for more than an hour. I don't think anything got finalized. For a guy who didn't win, I got a lot of face time with a stupid smirk on my face listening to all their talking. Wow, I hope this overly long post doesn't get this thread moved to the water cooler.

I had no idea how many there were either. I thought maybe a hundred or so would end up in the collection. Like most of my thoughts - I wuz wrong. I don't play much any more - killing a little time in heads up or 1-table tourneys for low stakes is about it. Playing to win takes a lot of time and I spend that time gladly with my wife. When I was playing, I was decent. Paid for college (it had to, I was quitting an $80k a year job to be an unpaid student-teacher on my way to getting a teaching credential for a $40k a year job - told you I wasn't very bright). I did get to play for a long time and against some great players - Johnny Chan, Phil Helmuth and f******g Phil Ivey (that's another story). But the most fun might have been with Brad Garret and Penn Jillette. Two big, loud type A personalities and running their mouths non-stop. I won trips to the main even a couple times and played in half a dozen. Never won anything (f*******g Phil Ivey), but it was a good run. I know several players on here enjoy the game, and my guess is that I would be pretty far down the list of quality players on this site.

I'm one of those who slabs some of the books that I am keeping in my own collection. I'm happy with my first two magazines submissions. Both were eBay purchases that worked out. Neither very valuable, but both are among my magazine favorites in my collection. Vampirella joins a couple others at top of census.

I gotta agree.. while there are some great deals on the boards lately, it seems that most people are pricing their books way too high. I've hardly bought anything here this summer.. I've found better deals on ebay, heritage, and comiclink. But really...if you don't like the price, don't buy it. Pretty simple, really. I agree with all of you. Gouging is always a negative, however when seller on her offer good deals, their books get snapped up in a heartbeat. Saving the seller a 10% or more commission, which results in the buyer getting a better deal while the seller comes out good financially with a quicker and safer sell. Those who mark their stuff up too much usually just end up with wasting time and then when they lower the price, buyers often feel there isn't much interest in the book that's been sitting around and it is tough to move anyway. In the end the seller has to go to the traditional route, pay the commission and sell their books for the going price instead of the dream price.

When in high school in the 1980s, I worked at a pretty good local used book store. I loved the incredible covers that came through there. However, they were few and far between. The books here have a nice variety, but I'm loving them all.

Nice book! I haven't pulled the trigger on this one yet. That is one popular limited comic.

I had nothing to do with it! I did not turn him over to the mods. Stop repeating lies Is that what that meant?

Wow.

So...any info/interest? Thanks again, Jim Heck yes I am interested. All I can piece together it that it is a Canadian only comic. I'd like to know more... and get my hands on it.

Great books!!! Thanks.

Nor does it seem is anyone else who had previously sent you money. That's why you insult every customer on here who has talked about their dealings (save 8mile) and you insist on getting off the list because you know the only people who would buy from you are those who know nothing about you.