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My pride and joy.Not my most valuable book,but up there in the top five faves. Looks much nicer than the grade...has only one staple,and that is detached cleanly.I wonder how much they ringed it on grade due to that? One of the VERY few times you will see a plastic comic from me....

My quote of the week: “suck it,dink"by greggy,wishing lizards a HBD.

Hey gang,didja miss me?

I recommend selecting a random box,close your eyes,grab a pile and get in there.Preferrably a box you don't have organized. Fun,good times.

I throw one out there once and a while! Now get yourselves reading some comics gang!!

I wonder if board member eccomic will post his Canadian rarities.If ever my pc is back to normal I have several Crime that have different colour strikes...haven't posted them in years.Great stories all!I'm going to dig out my box of reprints and look for your letters!!

Sticky fingers was designed by Warhol no?

I would have wanted that! Hilarious!

More tales please! Girls and weed....sigh,all the bomics I would have bought if I didn't take that 10year break for girls and whiskey and weed... At least I kept all I'd obtained before I was pulled away. Wouldn't trade it for the world though... (took me 10 plus years to find a girl that would put up with my collecting....once she let me amass 3500 LPs, I knew she was the one....and the bug,like a cicada emerged once more!) I know she's NOT reading this,but,Arden,gosh I love you! She even buys me supplies and gave me a den of my own. Okay... keep on telling stories gang.

Just bumping this up to the fresh page....

...do these guys not know that the bird is the word? Muhmuhmuhma mau mau...

I think I may remember that thread...missed out on a Canadian book I really wanted....sigh. That above cover was the first one that got me into.collecting the 68 page Gladstone reprints way back when... Beautiful book,enjoy!

I know,doesn't it!? After seeing so many of Bills and Robots...I'm emotionally attached to this collection even though I've not a one....BangZoom...do you remember what 'zine?Feels historic to me...

That is SO cool! Thanks for that! Now,are you Paul freaks going to search these out?You should! DARN I love gold threads...

Sometimes it seems the hobbies bring my insanities out!

In '67 I was 11years old, and the bolded parts express exactly how I felt about Spidey since I discovered him (and the FF) 3 years earlier. Super hero comics were pretty popular with young boys at the time, most kids had a stack of tattered comics in their room, but the majority of my classmates were still reading Superman and Batman. I remember my friend Mickey and I arguing with a group of classmates how much better Marvels were than DC's. ....this is kind of why some of the younger chaps don't understand the dynamic of the older collector....the "raw" guy. Back in those days the only motive for collecting was fascination...... and we loved these things so much that we'd spend ten bucks for a comic we needed even though new ones were available for a hundredth of that price. There was no real market.... no investment, no speculation..... most people thought we were fools. But I was a HAPPY fool. I remember one afternoon when I was 16 and had just walked in after school, my Mom was sitting around with some of her lady friends..... They started making conversation, and as I was almost a man and not too bad looking then, they were trying to casually sneak peaks at my hips and shoulders until one asked what my hobbies were....... I said "Comic Books"..... and their eyebrows all raised in chorus as if I'd just my diaper..... I'll never forget that ..... but those comics, back then, really were cooler than anything else around.... cooler than TV, the Movies, anything..... and it was like our own secret world and Stan was the ringleader of it. It was a magical time to collect and that's why there are 65 year old men who still have a raw copy in a Mylar..... because there STILL isn't anything better. It's hard to really put it in words....and I don't by any means wish to suggest that their motives are more pure....it's just that the monetary, asset factor just wasn't a part of the mentality. GOD BLESS... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u And this is why Jimbo is one of my favourite posters/members here. True love,TRUE love(not that everyone else does not have it) for comics and comic fandom.The personal stories and knowledge he shares...well.I've always enjoyed them.The first book I got from Jimbo is a special one....my first Atlas horror..and he made getting it fun. Anyways, yeah,get a room Jimmers...but,good.post sir! (and Jimjum12 and I have another 'pet ' hobby in common...)

I know,I'm terrible about stuff like that....

So you say. At least someone correctly used the word "drivel" around here for a change. Um. That's not classy, that's just common courtesy. Or, ya know, he could have just filed a Paypal dispute. Either/or. And if he has class, he will offer to pay for those books after he receives them. If he doesn't have class, he'll just keep them for free. Pretty simple. This looks like a Chuck "the bully" Gower post I always thought RMA was doing this first. Pocupine"woolybully"48 Jimmers knows his board history. I was bullying people long before Chuck showed up. I never called you a bully!!

I can't get enough of that yellow on the number 1!

....That's because "Paul"'s older brother "Sheldon" beat him up and took the Timelys....... GOD BLESS... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u and where are Sheldon's books? Or is this a pedigree I'm not aware of?

I'd like to hear stories too.I can listen to tales about comics all day!

You're absolutely right! (thumbs u mm You tell em.Marty!

Read a comic!You'll live longer !!

So you say. At least someone correctly used the word "drivel" around here for a change. Um. That's not classy, that's just common courtesy. Or, ya know, he could have just filed a Paypal dispute. Either/or. And if he has class, he will offer to pay for those books after he receives them. If he doesn't have class, he'll just keep them for free. Pretty simple. This looks like a Chuck "the bully" Gower post I always thought RMA was doing this first. Pocupine"woolybully"48