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And if you buy that nice a copy you don't get to see the great Kelly work inside!

I knew that book was going to go for $$$ but I'm shocked at the price. Anyway happy to have the copy I bought in the seventies; it's always been one of my favorites and one I would love to upgrade but not at that price point.

He didn’t have Golden Age back in the seventies and anything he had was priced like Rogofsky. I knew my comics then and I would have remembered.

Maxwell Grant on Television Mark Evanier posted this on his website and I figured you Shadow fans would enjoy watching and trying to figure out the mystery of who is Maxwell Grant!

That guy at Collingswood still had piles of bronze age magazines through the early 2000's; wish I'd picked some up. The last time I was in town about two years ago there was nothing left but the memories.

I worked through through high school; ten hour days on Saturdays and pulling in about $30 for the day slinging hot dogs. That money allowed me to build up my initial Barks collection along with a bunch of other Silver Age DC's. I was a senior when it burned down which cost me my job for a couple of months until the owners put up a trailer in the parking lot and got back to work. Good times but hard work.

I'd only be interested in reading about Siegel and Shuster at this point. I'm not interested in all the Kirby nonsense.

His reputation really got around. There was a flea market in Central New Jersey called Collingwood Auctions; it was the low rent equivalent of the Englishtown auction a bit further inland. Both had sources of vintage comics in permanent stands. At Collingwood a dealer seemed to have an endless supply of newstand returns but they were priced per Rogofsky and we never bought them. They did have cheap Harvey giants and Warren magazines by the score; I picked up lots of Spirit issues from them. At Englishtown a guy named Herman Neuberger (sp?) from Brooklyn had somehow come upon a huge stash of mid to late sixties Marvels and doled them out to drooling fans like a stingy pharmacist. Prices were all sub $1. though so you always went there for a weekly comic fix. Good times, the Englishtown auction went up in smoke in 1977 so lots of those books burnt down in that fire. You can almost smell them burning in the photo below!

Interesting series. In the early seventies Gold Key had the Showcase line that would preview the movies in comic form a latter version of the Four Color series but published monthly. That was about as good as it got then except for the reprints in Walt Disney Comics Digest which reprinted some great material.

Amazing numbers and makes you wonder how many claims aren't reported but simply paid off so as not to lose that insurance.

I think it was Steranko's History of the Comics that had a great wise crack about why Master Man was smiling on this cover!

love this one!

Wonder Woman 23 Anyone have any idea why this issue went for about $2000 while two other earlier issues with nicer covers fetched about a quarter of the price.

It would be great if someone wrote a factual history of this without emotion getting in the way. A recounting of the various suits and settlements but also a real hard look at how these guys dealt with the money they did receive would be fascinating. It seems like the money was never enough or it was not invested wisely or otherwise squandered away. It's hard to say what really happened but the old maxim, "Save for a rainy day!" comes to mind.

These early war covers are fantastic!

Ha ha I grew up next to the beach in New Jersey. Things weren't do different there except our beach season was way too short compared to California! But we had all those things and my little home town even had a head shop that sold undergrounds. I remember walking in there to look at them when I was 11 or so and being very confused!! Not tom mention they cost 50 cents!! Ha Ha!

Read a bunch of local news articles; some simple googling.

People have been messing with books since the earliest days when they used old school markers.It used to be great to buy OO books but those days are over.I don't even care for pressing as I can't imagine it is healthy for the book. It's not going to get any better the only hope is there are better means of detection and notation on what was done. I'm comfortable buying a book that has disclosed restoration if the price is right. The only Fox book I own was sold as cleaned and pressed; I didn't mind as the price was very reasonable and I wanted to see what one of those books was like. I'm assuming the cover was cleaned in some old school manner as I bought it in the early 2000's.I've always wondered how it was done.

OK I had to look up that story about the founder; really wacky and right out of an EC comic. Mistresses, insurance fraud, comics; it's got it all! He wasn't even charged until 17 years after the murder!!

I had to go look up the Gigantor opening sequence. GIGANTOR! It's oddly slower than I remember though the main part of the theme is a little quicker. I also still remember this show and I think it was my favorite of the bunch because what kid wouldn't want a remote controlled giant robot!

The original Astro Boy cartoons that were made for the US market also were somewhat modified. I don't think this is quite as controversial. It was amazing to think we got to watch Astro Boy, Gigantor, Simba and Speed Racer from Japan on US UHF television back then. I loved all those shows as they were much more interesting than the US cartoon fare being served up at the time. OK Looney Tunes was pretty good but most of the rest was pap.

Curious about the Carl Macek story; care to elaborate?

Lady in red pants in front of a plane to Hero in red tights on top of a torpedo.

I always wanted a copy of this book; never found one I've liked to this day.

There is something funny about this cover.Jack is paying way too much attention to that propeller and ignoring those well dressed ladies! I think the cover artist had a pretty subtle sense of humor!