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more pics of going in, there will be a lot of images, but not a whole lot of text.

MotorCity Comicon 2017, Saturday photos Hey all, I went to MotorCity with my son and my neighbor and his boy and this year I took a bunch of pictures. Now this is the first topic I have started since the boards have switched, plus the first time trying to post photos. Hopefully I will get this right. I've got a ton of photos to post. I'll start with the line and walk up to the entrance. I think I'll post nearly every picture I took, so that those of you that could not go can get an idea what it was like. It was sunny on the walk in. This would change by the time we left in the afternoon.

I can tell you that mine have not. I bought mine when I first learned of them in the 80's, so the few hundred bags I bought still look like they did when I bought them. At the time they were called time-loks, mylites, and another name I cannot remember for the third type of mylar I used. The time-loks had a pre-made top flap, the mylites were really thin and you have to fold the flap, the third type I have are as thick as the time-loks but the top flap would really take some force to fold it, so I typically left it alone. All of these do not show any noticeable aging and Like I mentioned, even after all this time.

Wow, Bratevaro, I am guessing that you are of the current younger generation. No one gave you an answer in 54 minutes in the middle of the fricken night? (well for a few of us anyways). Are you kidding? Please have some patience with your vague question. If you are part of the younger "I want it and I want it now" generation, be thankful you did not have to grow up in the per-internet days. Back then we had to actually mail our questions to the Comics Buyers Guide or other publications or we had to wait until club get-togethers to get our questions answered, if we were lucky. It is now 12:30pm EST and I see you had never posted another response. So a few regulars give you some light hearted ribbing and you leave? People here are more than nice and a wealth of information as long as you do not act like a spoiled child that is not getting your way. So lick your wounds, come back and add to the group.

A friend I had rented a room out to for a few years moved out last October. She had some trash that she wanted to get rid of and I told I would take care of it. I put it with other trash to be taken care of and didn't think much of it. Then when carrying it to dispose of it I thought what the heck is in here that is so heavy. Opened it up and saw three new hardcover books and about a dozen comics. What the heck? She knew I collected comics, she even to to the Detroit Comicon with the Ex and I a couple of times, and yet when she was moving all of this stuff was just trash. Until then I had thought the days of comics being tossed were a thing of the past.

What the boards mean to me? If I were only allowed one word, that would be "education". I have learned quite a bit from the people here (I almost said members here, but there are some that like to take things out of context lol). I originally joined, just about 8 years ago, after someone on another website linked to Bangzoom's GA post. After reading that amazing post I poked around here and thought that maybe this will be a good place to add to my daily reading. Although I do not post a whole lot, I still like to visit and read up on things.

What about a suitcase with wheels? If anyone complains just pick it up and carry it until they are out of sight, then let the wheels do the work again. Either that or hire someone - maybe tell them that you will pay their way in if they carry your stuff for you.

One thing I really like about the new boards is how postings are now marked as being read or unread. This was a minor annoyance that disappeared with the old boards. On those boards all I had to do was open the page/board and then everything would be set to being marked as read if I returned later, even when I never even read the various posts. With these new boards the topics appear to remain as unread until I actually read them. The colors I can deal with for now. Kind of funny, but if any of you have the current Dilbert Day to Day desk calendar - it has nearly the same red and black color theme as the new board. I had thought that maybe the new board designer had the same desk calendar.

At the top of the page, click on "home" and then scroll down that page and you will see it. One of my daily stops too. https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/forum/12-the-water-cooler/

What we like? I have not explored everything about the new boards, but I like the dot/star thing that lets us know where we had posted before. About the drag and drop - does this mean I can drag right from my hard drive without uploading to another site like photobucket first? If so then that is cool.

I was thinking something along the lines of "Rebirth" when I read the thread title, but I do not know if that applies, well maybe it does from all the restarts the comic companies have put out. The digital age makes sense, but I am more thinking to call it the "Dark Age" as there seemed to be some genuine concern that paper copies would still be around after everything seemed to be going digital. What comes to mind when you think of comics from the 90's? The age of speculation? The Drek Age? What about 2000 to 2010? The Survival Age? Maybe we need to wait a few more years to determine the time period. Many things to ponder.

Lots of cool back covers here. I am in the process of scanning my collection, starting with my Disney comics. I am scanning the front cover, indicia, back cover, and if the book has it, the statement of ownership. I'll eventually put these in a database. Anyways here are a couple of mine I scanned this week. Uncle Scrooge # 16, appropriate for this time of the year I think. Four Color 268 Mickey Mouse

Bangzoom, I hope you are doing better as each day goes by. This thread of yours led me into these forums and added gasoline to my comic collecting spark. Seeing what is posted on this thread and other threads here is like an adventure of sorts for me. I love seeing the pictures of GA comics and also like the stories of how they were acquired.

Man, I just ate lunch....Thanks for the visual. heh heh heh

Christmas and Disney comics, two of my favorite things. Love the picture.

Well dang if I didn't learn something new. After the pawnshop event I had figured that was the way things worked with any entity that had unknowingly bought stolen property, but after reading some of the posts here it sounds like the pawnshops are a different kind of beast when it comes to this sort of thing. Interesting.

I wanna say these were new or uninformed cops. That cannot be the law. I wish it was not the law, but that is how it was explained to us. The detective at the police department told my dad that the pawn shop had to be reimbursed so they were not out any money and my dad would have to get the money back from the thief. I cannot remember if it was the Michigan State police or the county guys who handled our case. The pawn shop was in the next county over. It was not a large amount of money, around a hundred dollars or so. I told my dad it was probably worth it to be rid of the thief as he fled to Florida, the thief's sister told me, and never came back.

Twenty years ago, one of my neighbors stole a couple of my dads guns and sold them to a pawn shop. After we found them, and went to the shop with the police, my dad had to pay the shop what they had paid the thief, to get them back, even though they were my dads property. I am not sure how it is in the rest of the country, but here in Michigan that is how the police told us it works. If my dad did not pay the shop, then he would not have gotten his property back. This did not feel right to me. On a side note, the thief that stole the guns was arrested for it on a Friday night just a few days after we recovered the guns. The judge had already went home for the weekend so the cops released the thief and told him to come back on Monday and the proper paperwork could be done. Well, after he got home he called me and was crying and said he did not want to go to jail, I told him it was out of my hands. Then of course he left the state and has never come back ever since. I'll still never understand why they released him after he told the cops yes he did take them and sell them for cig and booze money. So to this day he has a warrant out for his arrest.

Oh! you could be right. I never knew about Ferdy. I just knew about Morty from the Saturday/Sunday newspaper funny pages. Oh man, I was thinking Morty and Freddie before I saw this, now I am thinking it may be Ferdy. I am at work right now and cannot verify it, but when I get home tonight I'll have to check. Or I can just check wiki: Mortimer "Morty" and Ferdinand "Ferdie" Fieldmouse are Mickey Mouse's nephews. They first appeared in Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse Sunday strip story line titled "Mickey's Nephews" (1932). Since then they have appeared in lots of comic strips and comic book stories starring Mickey Mouse and Pluto.

Cool, thanks for posting. These are fairly concurrent with the publication of Donald Duck #26 and I notice that MM #28 also tried to continue the tradition of the named feature story much like DD#26. Of course one of those is a little more famous than the other. I wonder who had the job of going into the library and figuring out where to start the numbering for these series. I don't think they got it right. Plus at some point there were those small codes on the books that indicated DD#1 (FC318) and DD#2 (FC328). Did MM have a similar code at some point on the Four Color books? The nearest MM comic that I have that is still a Four Color is # 352 and it only notes the Four Color number. I looked in my Overstreet guide and what a mess of numbers. I do not know how Dell could ever have figured out to start the stand alone title of MM with # 28.

And if anyone besides me is interested, here are the indicia pages for the two issues I just posted. Part of the database I am putting together will include scans of the front and back covers, indicia page, and the statement of ownership page if it was in the comic.

Here are a couple of my Mickey Mouse non-Four Colors. I would have scanned more but my scanner went from putting a faint white line to a dark line as you see in the last back cover picture, so I'll be not scanning any more until I can either fix this, or figure out how to take a good picture with my digital camera. Mickey Mouse # 28 front cover & back cover, and # 29 front and back.

Good video. I like hearing about comic experiences from days gone by.

I have a few issues of Cherry/Cherry Poptart. Issue No. 1 is shown below. Issue no. 2 is also titled Cherry Poptart and has a date of October 1993, No. 1 is dated May of 1993. I believe that the first two issues I have are fifth printings(?), maybe I am reading this wrong. My issues from 3 and up are just called Cherry. Issue no. 3 says Cherry (nee poptart) #3 in the indicia and only Cherry on the cover. No. 1 Front Cover (the center white line is from my scanner that I need to replace) No. 1 Back cover No. 1 Indicia