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Yes, DC has a black and white World's Finest paperback out that reprints the Superman/Batman stories from 71-100. It's also been reprinted in World's Finest #179.

Agreed!

you may have to wait for the paypal outcome and see if the book is returned before you can nominate the buyer if you want, out the buyer anyway and see if he/she shows up here Yes. Please out this person so I don't have to sell to him. I'd like to know as well I didn't realize the reholder fee had been bumped up to $80 a book. Sounds like someone's dipped in the peyote bucket again. I countered him with a $30 refund and he accepted. That should cover a reholder and some shipping assuming it really is damaged. The guy's user name is gecko157 for those of you that care. I guess it is resolved but he is now on my ignore list and I will never have any dealings with him again. gecko157 just opened a $50 PayPal dispute against me. Here's what it says: "The top label of the book has been removed. You did not disclose this to me prior to the purchase. I would like to send in for a refund or I would accept a partial refund to have the book re-slabbed." He never PM'd me after receiving the book. Just opened a the dispute with PayPal. The sale was for $130 shipped, by the way. I packed the book myself and the top label was still attached when I did. I e-mailed him back through PayPal just to send the book back for a full refund. I'm curious how this will play out. In the meantime, I think sellers here should be aware. The top label? Seriously? He opened a PayPal dispute over the fact that the top label is missing? This guy sounds like a real pain in the .

American culture (pop or otherwise) is my passion. Sports, movies, TV, comics, literature, you name it. It started with some Batman comic books when I was 5 and it all went to hell from there. But baseball is the only one I could never really get. Even though I love most movies that deal with the sport, I could never really convince myself to watch an actual game.

You mean Ted Williams the baseball player, right? My lack of familiarity with this particular sport is showing. The guy is (as far as I know) a legend and even though I've heard of him, I had never even seen a single photo of his so as to know what he looks like.

My picks are based on a combination of personal knowledge, google searches and pure guesswork... - A is Chic Young, creator of Blondie (cartoon #11), and the two cuties are, If we believe Wikipedia, picture, Jane Lane and Gretchen Davidson (both models). - B is Otto Soglow, creator of The Little King (#3). The lady is singer Kate Smith. - C is George McManus, creator of Bringing Up Father (#8). The other guy, of course, is Buster Keaton. - D Is Zack Mosley (Smilin' Jack, #5). - E is Milton Caniff (Steve Canyon, #6) with Joan Crawford. - F is Billy DeBeck (Barney Google, #1) with Jack Dempsey. - G is Alex Raymond, creator of Secret Agent X-9 (#10). - H is Harold Grey, creator of Little Orphan Annie (#13). - I... No idea! - J is (probably) Chic Young again, with (definitely!) Olivia De Havilland. - K is Hal Foster (Prince Valiant, #7) - L would probably be Billy De Beck again, since the strip pictured is Snuffy Smith. Based on the comic characters pictured, I would assume that the cartoonist in picture "I" is either Walt Kelly, V.T. Hamlin, or Ham Fisher. But I could be wrong...

It was the lot with the Blackhawks and the other SA DC stuff, right? 19 nice mid-grade SA DCs was, indeed, a pretty sweat deal for $67 postpaid. Speaking as an international collector, I think that the (non)buyer should be added to the Probation list just for being dumb! (I kid. But not much... )

Yikes!!! This is definitely not cool. Hope everything works out in the end, Bosco. (thumbs u

I've had similar things happen. The only thing that it's done is the same thing that your experience did for you: I basically now shop almost exclusively at my old LCS (Lee's comics in Mountain View). Even though it's a 45 minute drive from my home, I tend to be in the area every week anyway for work, so it's not a big deal. Still, I find it baffling when LCS' don't want to sell their products to customers. Comic shops that are serious about making sure that their customers get their books offer really flexible and easy subscription programs. Yes sir, instead he turned down about 20.00-30.00 in sales. I ran into the same thing with toys-r-us with hot wheels and Star Wars. They actually had signs posted limited one! I would go bankrupt if I turned customers away. If a store has a specific sign that says "limited to 1 per customer" or something like that, then I'm OK with it. It's their stock and they can choose how to market and sell it. But, if they don't make it clear from the beginning and let me get to the register and only THEN point out that they can sell me only one copy, we'd probably have to do some serious talking.

What's odd about Image at that time is that, jumping on the ashcan bandwagon, they had a tendency to release ashcans as dealer promos AFTER the issues hit the stands. I have a box of promotional material in storage and this was right in the wheelhouse of when I had my Diamond account and I remember getting ashcans after the fact. It was strange. I'm almost certain that the Darker Image Ashcan came out after the actual #1.

+1 + infinity Seriously, a lot of the people who accuse RMA of certain things are certainly just as "guilty" of these same things. RMA's "problem" is that whenever he's gang banged (and he has been gang banged constantly in the last few months), he prefers to take on each attacker separately so he ends up replying to 10 people one after the other. Could he possibly just let go and not respond or just put some people on ignore and never bother with them again? Sure, I guess. But the same thing goes for everyone here! I don't understand where the double standard comes from.

Welcome back, RMA! (And I voted 'yes', as well. )

MANNUP! Yeah, we wanna see it! Please?

Avg. print run for 1990 is 480K. And I agree with RMA on this one. I just don't see it happening. This is one troubled book and it's entirely possible that a 9.8 never actually existed.

In my opinion, you're doing absolutely nothing wrong in this case. (thumbs u The buyer is trying to convince you to commit fraud by declaring a false value on the the item. Under no circumstances are you forced to comply and I would totally support your decision to end the transaction if the buyer doesn't change his tune.

Popeye the character is a registered trademark of King Features. The earliest Popeye strips by E.C. Segar, though, were published before 1923 and are now public domain. This means that you can't create a new comic book (or strip, or TV cartoon) with Popeye without the permission of King Features, but, in theory, you could reprint the strips from 1919-1923. I'm fairly certain, though, that King Features will have a fit about you making money off their trademarked properties. At least, that's how I understand it. I believe Popeye is public domain in Europe now. I'm still not sure if King it's that cut-and-dried, though. Way I see it, King could still make a strong case of trademark infringement, if anyone tried to publish anything with the characters without the Syndicate's permission.

Popeye the character is a registered trademark of King Features. The earliest Popeye strips by E.C. Segar, though, were published before 1923 and are now public domain. This means that you can't create a new comic book (or strip, or TV cartoon) with Popeye without the permission of King Features, but, in theory, you could reprint the strips from 1919-1923. I'm fairly certain, though, that King Features will have a fit about you making money off their trademarked properties. At least, that's how I understand it.

3. looks like Dylan to me Judging from the fact that many of the pics' names contain the initials of the people pictured ("lt" for Liz Taylor, "bs" for Barbara Stanwyck, etc.), should we conclude that it's someone whose initials are "A.R."?

Well done, Mike! It's always nice to see good things happening to good guys!

There are 4 or 5 cheap copies on eBay right now.

E. Gerber Archival supplies (the ones that Hotflips has) are available through Diamond, so, in theory, your local comic shop should be able to order them for you, even if they don't carry them at the moment. I'm not absolutely certain they're gonna be any cheaper than ordering directly from Hotflips, though. (I know that for me it isn't)

Toilet paper! Just kidding! Congrats!

Hear, hear! One of the most useful and informative threads in the history of the boards