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Nice! Great cover!

what two fools let go of the batman and tarzan? The same fool let both of them go if you can believe it. Is that Billy Parker's 8.0 SS 20?!! I didn't realize you had gotten it! Congrats! That is sweet! Oh yeah, and those other books are okay too.

Great books! Love the colors on the Mystery Men!

Two Reillys! Those are very cool!

Congrats! That is the Conan grail. One of these days I'll have one.

Ditto for me, although the Supes 4 is tempting - I really like that cover and it would be cool to own a Reilly.

Me too!

If he wore the fishnets like Zatanna, would he be a costumed superhero? Jack or what? Yes, because fishnets count as tights.

Oops, your right. I guess I was thinking of his scarf. buttock, I'd forgotten about Dr. Occult. Didn't he get a costume in his later appearances complete with an emblem on his chest? Does anyone know when that was? I think it was still pre-Action 1.

It's not been mentioned here but Hermes Press recently announced their plan to collect and reprint the entire Phantom strip from the beginning. The first volume should hit the bookshelves in September. Yet another collection I look forward to Cool! I'd like to read that those too.

There is also the "masked hero" who wears a mask (and often hat and cape), but is otherwise dressed in regular attire. The Shadow would be the first of these unless you count Zorro, followed by his fellow pulp imitators like the Spider and Blask Mask. In comics the first masked hero would be the Clock. Crimson Avenger would fall into this category, as well as Sandman in his original costume. Calling Mandrake and Flash Gordon costumed superheroes is probably reaching a little bit. Flash Gordon doesn't wear a costume, just normal clothes for Mongo, and I don't recall him being stronger - are you sure you aren't thinking of John Carter? And Mandrake's stage outfit is still just a tophat and tuxedo - kind of a stretch to call that a superhero costume. The Phantom is the first character to wear what we think of today as a traditional superhero costume (i.e. mask and tights), but he had no special powers. There is no doubt that all these characters were precursors to the superhero,along with Tarzan, Tracy, Doc Savage and even Popeye, but the total package doesn't come together until Superman.

Just listed a set of Buck Rogers 2, 3, 4, and 5. LINK

Auction page bookmarked - thanks Scrooge! (thumbs u

Cool! Nice to see a couple of more obscure mythology characters like Echo and Cadmus get mentioned.

They are the first Conan books, published by Gnome in the early 50's. The stories are the versions edited by L. Sprague de Camp that would later form the basis for the Lancer paperback series with Frazetta covers that most people known from the 60's and 70's. Very collectible and very cool. (thumbs u

You're off to a great start!

That is really cool!

Holy Spoon! That's awesome! All in one fell swoop!

it's not that bizarre - it's just a full nelson. "Bizarre" would be try try to apply a full nelson to a surly gorilla.

Awesome Spicy's Dwight! And those planets are very cool too, Buffyfan!

Matt, I'm really looking forward to this book as I'm sure most people here are. Good luck! Jeff

Yup should have included that, just toss that in with the corssovers or with Other. Ed Also when he started hanging out with Power Pack.

Other. Kitty Pryde and Wolverine miniseries.

I have this vague memory of dicussing Wolverine as a kid and somebody saying "Wolverine is cool because he kills people." I don't remember exactly when it was, but it was a kid that I didn't think read comics much that said it and remember being surprised that he even knew who Wolverine was. It would have been pre-mini series, sometime during the Byrne run. IIRC the mini-series took place story-wise between X-Men 168 and 172 or thereabouts.