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A wonder to behold

That's the one you were shilling here, right? Can I shill mine? Ahem, here we go - Gosh look at this folks! One of my favourite,favourite,favourite,favourite,favourite covers of all time! If only I had oodles of dosh to buy it myself. An' it's scarce too! Soooo scarce. You hardly ever see it. 'Course it's rilly rilly 'spensive, but you can still buy it an' it's not my copy, nossir, noway...I'm just a filantropis' doing a public service 'cos I love my fellow boardies...

Very nice copies there guys! The colors really pop on the #88 and the blu is unfaded on the #34. I suppose in theory there might be a copy of Fight #34 with deeper colors - say on the dress - but I've never seen one. We've often talked about faded reds, but sometimes blues and yellows fade as well. A puzzle for me is that sometimes even when the reds pop, the blues have dulled, the yellows turned to mustard.

No need! Now they have devices that cure hysteria in the comfort of your own home. (thumbs u I have one of those - but it broke!

Probably my favourite all time cover

wow! Great book. Would love to have a fine copy someday Here is the Larson....i always found this a neat title, so I put the run together several years back....some fun stuff ..... It's a rubbish title and no-one but me should bother collecting it. And - and, Jon Berk has no taste anyway! Oh, did I say that out loud?

Other than putting together runs of golden age comics? Is that what the narrator of the story is referring to in the last panel? He may be slow-thinking but he can drive a tractor. Between the three of you I'm having a slight case of hysterics. Time I booked myself into a spa.

You're screwed. Given that particular cover, I detect irony with your first purchase. Yes, my favorite Freud cover. Unscrew! Dont listen to these guys - they are lost souls!

Pleased to have a copy of this one back in the box!

Them's good eat'n.

I've never seen this. I want one I've seen many copies and used to own one - finding one above vg is a ten year quest!

That's a tough one! Pity the cover artist is such a mediocre journeyman though!

#106 may be the toughest - it was the last I found in decent shape when I was collecting them.

This whole thread is pretty terrific.

The last copy of this I owned was a real dog. Little did I know how long it would take to find a better one!

I so like the covers!

Wow - never seen that cover before Pat. A very powerful novel and the cover accurately captures the strange mood of the book. The movie is my favourite film by my favourite director, Andrei Tarkovsky. His tendency to film in real time with the minimum of edits, gives his films a sense of being actual events. When Hari sucks down the liquid oxygen then slowly and agonisingly comes back to life, it feels real. Even more shocking then when she tries to break down a metal door in order to stay with Kris, and heart rending when he sends this version of her off on a rocket. I think the ending is one of the most profound in all of cinema. And it is fascinating how one great artist - Tarkovsky, takes the work of another - Lem, to reorder the material in his own image to create an equally powerful masterpiece, but quite different from the original in many ways. (The book is far more nightmarish than the film).What they have in common is a profound take on what it means to be alive. Soderbergh's remake with Clooney is pretty great as well, if not quite on a par. Do you have "Roadside Picnic" by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, from which Tarkovsky made "Stalker"?

I wouldn't mind catching a few if I could keep them. Seems a bit fishy to me!

What you mean is Gorgo is more personable than GAtor dont you? But GAtor is waaay more personable than Cap!

Wow - that's a good point. As everyone is quoting Robocop these days, "I'll buy that for a dollar!" Or in this case 50 cents. Presumably Jerry was railing against the middleman for charging a couple of dollars rather than 50 cents. Anyone have actual info on what the keys were selling for in '64?

Here here! This reminds me of Dickens: "most of Dickens's major novels were first written in monthly or weekly instalments ... the series of regular cliff-hangers made each new episode widely anticipated. American fans even waited at the docks in New York, shouting out to the crew of an incoming ship, "Is little Nell dead?"

but it is a beauty....took me a while to find that copy (I Think I bought that copy off boardie josfriend)... presents SO much nicer than a 1.5, but detached cover did it in # grade wise I could have wept.

It looks like KOZLAN, but that makes no sense to me How about John Chester Kozlak? Well done Cat!

It could be that. What is the first initial for Loydall? Assuming there was an inker with that name There is a UK gallery of that name, strangely. www.loydallgallery.co.uk/ Unfortunately I've never come across the name in the context of comic books, so it's a long shot. I'd have to assume that it was "L. Loydall" but it doesnt ring any bells and cant find anything on Google. Jut wanted to throw it out there as an alternative reading.

We wouldn't volunteer if we didn't care Yeah, "Scrooge and alanna" - 'coz we care!