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One of my other collecting interest. Started collecting them in the mid-80s. That quote is from when George quit the band for a few days.

83 cds with 87 hours of the creative process. "Let it Be" is one of my favorite songs and hearing how Paul and the band took that song from a demo to what it became is really really fun to listen to. Paul calling out chord changes, how backing vocals were improvised, how lyrics were developed, how the various instrument parts came to be, really interesting stuff if you are deep into the Beatles.

I have been filling in he holes in my run of these mags lately too. The first issue I bought was 18 or 19, must have been a few years after I'd stopped actively collecting, and then I picked it back up and bought a bunch of issues when I started to get back into it. I've been buying a run of comics lately solely because of an article in an old CBM.

Fox's archive includes other guidelines, but I think they are from later in his career, including this one ( again, this is a copy I made 35 years ago - love the note by Sheldon Mayer at the bottom): I've got another guideline from Fox's files that is very story and character centric, but that one is from 1959 or so.

That page is identical to the color reprint in Batman from the 30s to the 70s book, except yours is on newsprint not slick paper like the book. Likely a forgery? Or did the 30s to the 70s book lift the art from an earlier reprint? IDK. By identical, I mean identical quote placement, S-146, etc.

Captain America 1 (CGC 9.4 Reilly/SF pedigree). The rationale of one well known poster on this Board who has a blog tracking key comic sales was that based on a litany of prior prices paid for lesser graded CA 1s, "then this particular comic is a $1,000,000+ book." But, it wasn't a $1M book. Despite the fact it was from one of the best pedigrees of all. It didn't even beat out the price paid for the unpedigreed All-Star 8 (CGC 9.4) two years earlier.

Only if there are buyers willing to spend that much. Your logic did not work for certain big books recently that garnered $1m+ predictions on this board but fell short. The D27 may do it, but since comics have no intrinsic value, it will only be because two people were willing to pay over $1m. That is true for every collectible, and the point being made that not many collectibles garner $1m prices is a good one.

The government was never going to shut down the comic industry. The Supreme Court was aggressively expanding the First Amendment at that point in time. Ironically, what killed PCH was free speech by folks like Wertham, parental action, and customer boycotts. Which is as it should be in a free market of ideas. I'm very surprised you say: The CCA "effectively" became "defunct in 2011." I view it as effectively defunct in the early 80s once the direct market was created.

Big difference between state action and rhetorical acts. If the Senator thought government censorship was the wrong path, and the right path was private action, I don't think censorship was really an option. Gaines testified he was a businessman, and he ultimately made a business decision to shut down EC. It proved smart. The Senate had a stronger tool than legislation - bad publicity.

Is it a good book?

I'm not new, but I can't recall if you have an Action 101. I saw your like over on the other thread. If so, why not post it again so I don't have to search through 140 pages, LoL!

Kefauver only became chairman after the re-took control of the Senate effective January 1955. Kefauver's predecessor (and the author of Youth in Danger)Hendrickson did not seek re-election and his term ended on January 3, 1955 because he retired to become an Ambassador.

The Chair of the Senate Committee states in this book that censorship is basically un-American.

For me, nothing straddles the early, mid, and Atomic aspects of the GA as well as Action 101. It is from 1946, smack dab in the middle of 1938-1955, it is from the title and features the hero which ushered in the GA, but it concerns the weapon that ended WWII and ushered in the Atomic Age. And the style is evocative of a Fleisher cartoon - early GA and modern all at the same time:

Ghastly, I went back through a file I have on my review of the Gardner Fox archive at the UO, and thought you might enjoy the editorial feedback and restrictions Fox was under when he was writing those All Stars. Very fascinating stuff. From a 35 year old Xerox of the original letter:

Weird Chills of all things!

The Marvel Masteworks (and other collected editions) site's boards. They are a place where folks who loved the art and stories, but did not necessarily need the original comics, used to talk about Masterworks, Archives, other collected editions, and comic history and art. Still going, but I don't really check in much now that the DC Archives and Atlas Masterworks are pretty much done.

You know I would read this thread every once in a while as you were posting these books, and I regret not commenting to at least congratulate you on the feat. Your feat was the Classic challenge for GA collectors at the dawn of modern collecting. Many have heard that All Star was the marque run to acquire back at the start of comic fandom. And I think all serious collectors have heard how Jerry Bails eventually scquired Gardner Fox’s bound volumes. It is a marathon and I am impressed. But did you know Fox had another almost complete set? He did, it’s located in the archives of the University of Oregon with his papers. I went through his papers and read the run about 35 years ago (I grew up in Eugene). It is a great run. I have all of the Archives. There is no doubt that run epitomizes what collecting was all about when this hobby started. Congrats!

I miss that from BangZoom's thread, he and BB-Gun did that.

Is he a new poster? I think he's been around for at least a year or so. And I'm pretty sure I've seen his name before then, maybe a similar prior handle or on Gormuu's boards?

Great point! So do I on some of the old threads I started. Makes me sad that they didn't post a comment and bump the thread back up.

Fantastic!

Where I live, millionaires are literally a dime a dozen. There are over 120,000+ millionaires in SF and Oakland, two cities that collectively have about 1,200,000 residents. But, most are just middle class folks who are not dropping $1,000,000 into anything other than safe retirement investments. Being a millionaire does not mean you have a million you are willing to drop on a comic book.

Thanks for the correction! I was going by the order in the book jacket.

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