Doohickamabob

Nice stuff! Thank you Mr. Myst, I appreciate that.

I never noticed how much that cover resembles Suspense Comics #8!

I love it! Big fan of the horror TV show as well:

I'm auctioning a bunch of golden-age ROMANCE comics this week. Lots of MATT BAKER and ST. JOHN comics, with a few BILL WARD comics from Quality, some Ziff-Davis, Marvel titles, ACG, and other good stuff. Auctions are on eBay and end Sunday evening, Nov. 23. Doohickamabob's eBay auctions These are 99-cent, no-reserve auctions, so hopefully they'll be fun to watch even for those not bidding. Here's a graphic I made that shows some of the comics auctioned. Thanks for looking.

I prefer to take that cover at face value and assume there's a story about four little men trying to woo a giant lady.

Thanks, I believe that's in line with what I've heard -- that there was a 2nd print run. It really does sound like there is no difference between the runs that can be discerned by looking at the magazines themselves, though. I need to get "The Mad World of William M. Gaines" book!

Here's a question for any Mad experts in here: Is there a "1st printing" versus a "2nd printing" (or beyond) of Mad Magazine #24 -- the first magazine issue of Mad? I have heard references to a "first printing" in the past, or maybe on an eBay listing or something. I haven't ever really taken the time to figure out if there are different printings, and if there are, if there's a tangible way to spot the difference. (By "first printing" that could mean "first print run" or slight variants -- even if the variation is only in the index or whatever.) If anybody has any insight into this matter, let me know here in this forum. Thanks!

I've heard people say that they prefer not to have "do not bend" or "fragile" written on packages, with the idea being that there might be somebody in the shipping process who sees it and thinks, "Don't tell me what not to do!" and makes a point of giving that package some extra abuse. I don't know who is right -- the Do Not Bend camp or the Do Not Write Do Not Bend camp -- and there's not really any conclusive way to test the matter... So the verdict is out for me... I guess if you have the kind of mailbox where larger items need to be bent in order for them to fit, you have good reason to ask for "do not bend" on your items. Wouldn't it also be worth considering getting a larger mailbox?

Is there a link somewhere (or a CGC thread) that shows Lichtenstein's art side-by-side with the comic panels it came from? If so, please post it here! I want to bookmark that!

How much time usually passes between grading and shipping?

Is Modern Fast Track given priority over Standard? Both are supposed to have 15-day turnaround times, but it looks like MFT might be faster. Yes, because MFT is supposed to have a 10 business day TAT as opposed to 15-days. Duhr, you're right! I was looking at the wrong column of the grading times list (estimated time versus official time).

The last several years? More like the last several centuries. Look into: Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, George Orwell, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fyodor Dostoevsky, E.M. Forster, George Bernard Shaw, Tom Wolfe, Charlotte Bronte, Edith Wharton, D.H. Lawrence, Philip Roth, John Irving, John Steinbeck, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Voltaire, The Bible...

Is Modern Fast Track given priority over Standard? Both are supposed to have 15-day turnaround times, but it looks like MFT might be faster.

It wasn't clear to me whether Sparkle City refused to refund the initial shipping or the return shipping. If they refused to refund the initial shipping, that is not right.

I really liked it. It's a great "sleeper" movie -- the kind of movie that sneaks in under the radar and ends up being a pleasant surprise. The comparison to Terry Gilliam is apt. Also Jean-Pierre Jeunet who did "City of Lost Children" and "Amelie" and "Alien: Resurrection." The actual director is Joon-Ho Bong, a South Korean who is best known for monster movie "The Host," which I liked. One of the really Gilliam-esque aspects of the movie is the character played by Tilda Swinton, who was almost unrecognizable -- did they use a digital effect to make her eyes further apart, or is she just a weird-looking lady? (Or both?) Another movie "Snowpiercer" reminds me of is "Runaway Train," with the whole train-as-social-metaphor aspect. "Runaway Train" was a little more existential and bleak and poetic, while "Snowpiercer" took the metaphor to a more detailed level that was interesting. When movies are operating on that level, it's great if you have the option to ignore that aspect and just enjoy the action/suspense, and "Snowpiercer" works that way. People who watch "Snowpiercer" and turn it off after the first 20 or 30 minutes have missed out, because the movie's look and feel changes significantly as they move up the train.

I'm auctioning a bunch of golden-age comics this week. Lots of Fiction House jungle, Fox jungle and crime, other crime titles, pre-code horror, and a sci-fi comic (Planet Comics with loads of Matt Baker artwork). Some good, seldom-seen and rare issues in the bunch. Auctionsare on eBay and end Sunday evening, Nov. 9. Doohickamabob's eBay auctions Here's a photo of some of the stuff being auctioned. Thanks for looking.

Ha ha, she's such a stoner.

Found this in Wings Comics #88, Fiction House, 1947. Thought I'd share, especially for all you fans of the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" scene with the fist fight next to the propellor. Not for the squeamish!

I haven't been buying much lately, but did snag this groovy publication (not a comic -- more of a sleazy true-crime mag). It fits right in with my appreciation for the atomic-age Fox comic title "Crimes by Women."

Nice double-header.

Nice axe.

Maybe I am biased in favor of anything Mad, but I really liked the impressions, even though they are severely caricatured. "'Dolf baby, where the hell have you been all these years?!" Whoa, listening to this now, it's every bit as epithet-laden as that flag... Or moreso... This YouTube video is great -- it synchs the printed satire panels with the audio.

Yeah, I never heard of any backlash from that, though if there was they probably didn't publicize it. The "Gall in the Family Fare" record that comes with one of the specials is an audio version of the "All in the Family" parody, and I recall there are a lot of racial epithets thrown around in that as well. Somehow "belly button" is added to the mix, when Archie runs out of other words.

Cool, thanks... Those flags in Mad Special #5 are very memorable (I wonder if any publication could get away with those today). Just got a cellphone image from a relative who is bar-hopping (doing the "golden mile"?) in London. He found this framed Alfred E. Neuman displayed prominently in a pub: