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I've been meaning to post this comic for some time. Other copies on the internet are out of order, including on Scientific American's website. Curious if anyone else has any thoughts on the artist: Cover: Inside front cover: 1: 1: 2: 3: 4:

Is this prompted by fear of sea monkey pox?

Some things never change:

It's sunny today in SF. So you are picking a good time to come around. Here's my suggestions: Comic related places to visit if you kids have the patience: (1) Walt Disney Family Museum in the Presidio. Cool collection of all things Disney as compiled by Walt, passed down to his kids, and put in this museum. They also have special lectures and movies. A nice compliment to Disneyland. It is in the Presidio, which also has great views and things to do including Colibra mexican restaurant (great green Pazole) and often food trucks or vendors. Plus its adjacent to Crissy Field which has great views of the Bay and also climbing gyms and trampolines or rent bikes at Sports Basement if your kids need some exercise or go to Fort Point with really cool views of sort of under the Golden Gate Bridge; and (2) Cartoon Art Museum but can be hit or miss so check out the exhibits at their website. Things to do in SF: (1) Golden Gate Park especially Japanese Tea Garden, DeYoung, and Academy of Science, which is also adjacent to: (2) Haight with Amoeba Records, shops; (3) Dim Sum - My pick is Yank Sing; (4) Mission - Funky stores and great "Mission Style" burritos at La Cumbre, La Tacqueria, etc. (5) Go touristy and ride a Cable Car and hit Ghiradelli/Hype Street Pier/Fisherman's Wharf - no shame in doing that. Things to do outside of city: (1) Golden Gate National Recreation Area highlights are Marin Headlands (free - especially the big battery gun emplacement site immediately across the GG Bridge (right hand exit but its up and to the left) and then to the backside of the ridge for beautiful country that includes a Nike Missle site, beaches, etc.); Muir Woods and Muir Beach (need reservation for MW) for Redwoods, Ocean cliffs, beautiful hikes; Stinson Beach if its hot; Point Bonita light house; Point Reyes lighthouse (also adjacent to great seafood places on east shore of Tomales Bay like Hogg Island Oysters); (2) Alcatraz or any Ferry tour of the bay; (3) Berkeley (Escapist is not a bad store).

Avengers 1 (off-white) and Hulk 2 are the two best books, and as I read it he can have both!

"Hulk prototype?" Uh ... no. Pass on that one. It's not what you think it is.

Great pick-up!

I've got one of those. I think it dates closer to circa 1964:

Those markings are also consistent with Promise books, which also came from Ohio. Most likely just a distributor marking used in Ohio that cannot be used to tie a book to a particular pedigree without better provenance. Similar markings were also used in Colorado. One theory is that the initial letter denotes a distributor.

There is a surprisingly passionate group of Dennis collectors: But for DTMATBK 10 it is mostly just the extreme difficulty and being in an exclusive club. That’s true of all really rare comics.

I agree, but if you are looking for a regional variant from the mid-1970s, you'll be more likely to find it if you seek out collectors in the right geography of a certain age.

This week I was thinking of selling a mid-grade GSX 1 but it looks like prices have deflated. Wondering if I should hold or sell.

That is a great point for variants with only regional distribution like some of the price variants. Someone should make a variant or rare comic map!

Any normal superhero comic from Marvel and DC in the 70s would not be "rare." Some type of "variant" could be rare - a $.35 price variant maybe/ And maybe there is an authorized superhero giveaway that falls into the rare category from the 70s, but I can't think of what it would be now that I've learned Supergear was unauthorized. Maybe also an educational comic. I can think of ones I can't find on the census, but they are plentiful on eBay, so looks can be deceptive.

Who needs a rationalization? We're comic collectors. I've got OCD completest syndrome. I only started buying the OPG with issue 9, but I got the early issues in a garage sale, and have been trying to keep up with it since.

Another new one for me. Looks fanzines to me, but there are at least three on eBay right now.

You might be right. This is a new one for me. The problem with things like this and warlord is that the copies still in with the toy don’t get cgc’d. so who can tell how many there are?

Seven Seas 5 is up on August 11.

Well, based on what I've seen on this thread, the top candidates for giveaways are the Warlord mini and Supergear - but Supergear was unauthorized (but still very cool) so I'm going with Warlord mini. For comics actually distributed and sold, the top candidates are Dennis the Menace and the Bible Kids no. 10 and Biff! Pow! Pops! Both are rarely seen and have a population of one on the Census. So it's pretty much a tie (with some variants also maybe contenders a bit behind). Worth noting, though, that Biff! Pow! Pops! was only distributed at a one-night concert for the Boston Pops with the proceeds going to a charity. So it is an odd book that defies characterization. It uses properly licensed DC and Marvel characters (which is historic and cool) so it fully authorized, but it is really more in the nature of a fanzine in terms of its quality: It is such a weird comic that, despite the fact you had to buy it (at a high price!) if you wanted it at the concert, that I have trouble putting it on par with a normal comics made by professional creators and published in the normal format and fashion. For me, it's really more like a fanzine that accidentally got permission to use the characters and then was basically a charitable donation to the Boston Pops (who attempted to make money off of it). Super weird, desirable, but maybe should be in its own category?

I think it is its own special category: Commissioned Private Comic. It was not distributed; it was not even given away publicly. It was published to be given away to relatives and close friends. I think it is notable. I just wouldn't put it the same category as a giveaway or a comic that was offered for sale. Maybe it's in the same category as Cancelled Comic Calvacade. I dunno. But it's something other than a publicly available comic book - which is what I think these debates really should focus on. To me, real ashcans (the GA kind, not the modern manufactured collectibles) don't count either. Some don't think of them even as comics - just production materials like stats. They were never publicly distributed, so I agree with not counting them.

Hard to find for a reasonable price! It had a reputation for being very rare and prices soared. But there are nine copies on eBay right now.

Have you found one? Took me 17 years. I was inspired by a post on this site to look for one way back in 2005.

There's a Flintstones 1 on eBay at a price that puts it above a GSX 1 and maybe an IH 181 grade for grade. Good luck to the seller. Seller notes that 9 copies are in the census (which does not include his "midgrade" copy). 8 MTA 36s on the census. So I'm still thinking the DTMATBK 10 (1 copy on census) is rarer than even these hard to find $.35 copies. eBay also has issues of Tarzan, John Carter, 2001, Godzilla, Dracula, Kull, Conan, Logan's Run, MoKF, and various superhero titles for the $200s and less. Star Wars prices are four figures.