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That is also true.

That is great.

It's easy to forget, and good for the psyche as well. Because high grade copies, even after 20 years of Ebay are still impossible. The only reason it is not #1 is because the run is so small!

My Love, Our Love Story and Wyatt Earp in that order.

Good job, dork. Now you can tear the outer cover off and sell them to rubes as Superman 1.

No way that book grades out that low. it's an 8.5 at least as it sits and it will maybe press to a 9.0

It never has concerned me. In the 80's everyone was worried about non-archival polybags "harming the paper." They never did. Maybe in 200 years they would. Maybe in 200 years the pen acids will eat into the comic paper of SS books. But I doubt the zombie alien overlords will care at that point.

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That is awesome. He was delightful in the film.

That 3-pak is awesome!!

Doug - that is awesome.

Encroyable!

My impression as an 18 year old who was doing 6-8 shows a year is that the book was heavily ordered (because it was an anniversary issue, not because of Todd or Venom) and was very easy to get for months. I will never forget the sight of big stacks of ASM 300 on multiple dealers' tables. Purely from memory, 300 dried up before 298 did, because I was able to scrape up a couple of copies of 298 from back issue bins after Todd caught fire. The real honey pot was Hulk 330. I must have scrounged 15 of those for cover within a day or two of CVM hitting all of his books with up arrows. Lest you guys think I was a savant, I also bought tons of copies of All-Star Squadron 47, and Infinity Inc. 14

TBH, IDK. J/K - GLWS!

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These books were not treated like trash. Even kids that were reading this dross were bagging and boarding the books. All books with a collectible history were treated as collectibles. So there may have been some attrition with Brute Force #1, or Slapstick or Speedball, but not with ASM.

They made a good Fantastic Four movie. It was called The Incredibles.

Did you just "awesome" your own artwork?

Threads like these just absolutely stun me. To the core. Its the comic book version of asking "will this corn cob hurt if I jam it up my fundament?"

It seems a lot more complicated when you are answering questions that were asked 18 months ago. If you really want to pound your chest, why don't you bump a thread from 2002 and answer the "Who is paying $15,000 for a 7.5 AF 15." Go get 'em, Tiger!!

Definitely not - if you know the promoter. Steranko was in an absolutely incredible mood - so funny and engaging. We talked far more about escape artistry, the 60's and 70's and fandom in general than we did comics or his art.

I had dinner with Steranko in Cincy and it was just like Doug's story - lots of stories and hooting and hollering - but with the added bonus of crushing pounds of grilled meat at a Brazilian steakhouse.

It was Catherine. She passed away in 2011.

When I got back into collecting in the late 90's the I-Ching hippie WW books were way hotter than this one! 203 was the last one in the run that some people cared about!!