Ken Aldred

Unsurprisingly, I agree with the point about forced diversity.

He sounds like a bit of an egotist. Everyone else is to blame, everyone should just blindly, sheepishly go along with a flawed strategy which is just recycling their 90s marketing tactics that never worked back then and eventually resulted in poorer quality and declining sales, and that eventually the very rapid overuse of diversification becomes another tactic that readers aren't perceptive and intelligent enough to see through? Somewhat condescending.

Conway's storyline about Doctor Octopus wanting to marry Aunt May was much, much more ridiculous. Try re-reading that black widower plot as an adult.

There's a time difference to factor in as well, Mike. Remember not to get too carried away and save one for us Limeys, just in case.

A very good deal for a 9.6, as at the time a typical 9.4 price was $450 to $500.

I didn't know this. I've always thought the book was ND.

Sadly, when talking about Action 1, there are so many reprints to choose from now that scammers are spoiled for choice.

Yup. The current widespread unaffordability is making it a very cheap hobby for me at present.

A book I’ve always found quite disturbing is issue 8 of Kirby's Eternals series. There’s a scene where the most extremely-mutated Deviants are being transported in Death Wagons to be exterminated in a furnace, and, I always assumed the worst here, while still alive. There’s something extremely sad about how defeated they look in there; demonised for no actual fault of their own, simply the helpless victims of a desperate eugenics policy. Let’s not get into the quite obvious, real world, historical parallels.

At least something different to the common Famous First Edition scam for us to spot.

It did all go somewhat adrift after his great, consistent run. The short Walter Simonson run and the "new FF" story drawn by Arthur Adams are about all I remember from that period.

Wasn't there a 5k sale a couple of years or so ago for a 9.8 with exceptionally nice registration?

Strangely enough, it never occurred to me to interlink all of those reintroductions as a single chain of events.

That doesn't look anything like my Millennium Edition copy.

It would be much more interesting than in the comics.

You mean P Doddy? Even though he was from the tough streets of Liverpool, his gangsta rap album failed to convince.

I've never been a fan of his rap music. Biggy Smalls was much more talented.

Sounds like a Wiki error to me. Happiness, happiness, the greatest gift that I possessI thank the Lord I've been blessed With more than my share of happiness He's obviously bragging.

I always thought his song 'Happiness' was an exercise in innuendo, judging from the lyrics. God, I'm so old now.

I've only watched the first season so far, which is excellent throughout.

Avengers 4 is one of my favourite Silver Age books and features the revival of one of my favourite characters. However, it does rely on the team, just by dumb luck, happening to be patrolling underwater in a submarine in that particular region of the Arctic, just after Cap's been thrown in the water by his Timely ally, the Submariner. Nonetheless, it's a powerful reintroduction, and the second half of the issue can't match that and is a very mundane read in comparison.

Sounds like a classic Water Glass / metal silicate crystal garden. As a young science nerd, I used to like those.

The final page of issue 122 is also quite poignant, and gives MJ's character more depth.

May here doesn't look wizened enough to be Peter Parker's aunt.

Fantastic Four 51 Adventure Comics 352, 353