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Taxing the young to pay for coverage for the elderly.

Harley had a copy last year. Flipping through it I found it was missing half a page

I'll take this.

Probably a remaindered book with a shoestore cover. I had a few back in the day. Gary Carter wrote an editorial about mine in a CBM.

Outstanding preservation on these, what a fun find! Congrats.

Should be interesting to see how many books in this thread came from the Berk auction.

Yeah, Terry was trying to talk me into it and when I look back on it I can't figure out a good reason why I didn't bite. This was back when it was still relatively cheap.

I passed on an 11 for the same reason. Stupid.

I'll take the Outlaw Fighters

Because he put bananas in the fridge.

I really wanted that book. Sorry!

And I absolutely adore the copy I got from you. I think when my JB selloff happens I'll hold onto those 3 books.

Tim, I came to your shop around 2002-2003 and you had an original owner copy. You had picked it up with a More Fun 14 and maybe a few other books. Is this the same copy?

I've said it several times, but Science 2-4 may be my favorite 3 issue stretch in the entire GA. 3 legitimately epic covers. Congrats on completing the run!

Great image. I like that a lot.

Not if he's married.

You're on a roll with the Batman/Robin relationship comments.

I think I was making this same complaint a decade ago. The first few years of the boards was like nirvana.

At this point, probably one of Zeck's 10 Nights of the Beast covers from Batman 417-420. I think I know where 2, maybe 3 are, but their prices are not within the realm of reason.

Some of you are taking entirely too much liberty with the word "favorite".

Didn't you read what he wrote? He has seen it happen first hand! Clearly that single example extrapolates to every other business in the world.

A more likely scenario is that whoever put up the funds for the start-up did so as a short-term investment, i.e. this was all planned from the beginning. This is pretty standard venture capital business. You start a company, establish a revenue stream, then sell for some multiple of EBITA. A more risk-averse, but higher-revenue investment firm/company will take over for the 10%/year margin. This is usually a 3-4 year process, so I think that fits fairly well, although I don't recall exactly when they started. All the other speculation about this sale makes less sense.

This is such a lazy origin story. "Hey, how can we make a guy turn into metal?" "Uhhhh... how about he, uh, touches metal?" "Brilliant, let's go with it!"

I think the bland background on this one does it a disservice. It's well-illustrated back there and your eyes are drawn away from it.

I'll take this one Boyd.