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Yup! This one is rarely seen with bold reds. There may be just a touch too much contrast and saturation in ths scan but not much! ..and i'd like to know if anyone has a copy of this one with really deep reds!

Bold colors are more important to me than technical grade with Fiction House. Care to show us a few of the elite Kelly? I'll go first. Here are a couple of "unreal" copies I've posted before! The intense colors give a vivid sense of enormous space, light and motion: ..and this is the deepest color I've seen on this particular issue, which I think is fairly scarce anyway.

Is that the copy just sold on Heritage that I forgot to bid on? I forget. Sorry Sean, couldnt resist that - yes it is the Heritage copy. I loaded my bid a day or two early and no-one overtook me, but it was a dead heat so I paid every cent I thought it was worth. I see lots of copies of this issue, but very few with the deep colors and it really needs them, being, for me, one of the more prosaic covers. Not that anyone should care, but it also completes a run from #12 to #30. (Still need 9 out of the first 11 though!)

Is that the copy just sold on Heritage that I forgot to bid on? I forget.

Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.

Uusually bright colors on this copy (strange how a mere vg copy of a Fiction House comic can sometimes be much more colorful than a hi grade copy!)

I'm curently in denial - but I'm sure I'll recover...

Fixed that for ya! (thumbs u

Seeing the arrtwork reminds me to post this one!

I was the underbidder on this one! Nice catch. Yikes, if I'd known I was being squeezed between Billy and Jeff I'd've been sweating a lot harder. Between Scylla & Charybdis (just dont ask me which is which!)

My one and only from last night's C'Link auction, but man was I sweating over this one!

have you tried scoffing and sneering at the same time? One's facial muscles tend to go into spasm....

Lost Horizon!

Good bulletpoint, sacentaur. (thumbs u After four pages of Fawcett installations, maybe a change of pace would be an acceptable diversion (rumor has it that this book has been banned in Wisconsin). Mister Merryweather! Under which particular bushel have you been hiding this blinding copy? I've never even seen one before, let alone in such stellar grade!

Shazam! Captain Billy plucks a Church NM out of thin air!

I think you have captured it better than I - at the end of the day, however long I've been going , even though (a bit like gator) I was doing community work, it is not the same as being born there!

I guess it's called a third world sense of humour?

Thanks Pat I've sold more than one collection in service to that love affair!

Agreed, more than a bit far fetched, David! Thanks for your comments, I respect your opinion, as I do Dark Knight's. I hope my fellow boardies will forgive me the indulgence of a fairly lengthy reply, and let's not lose sight of the fact that the big news here is gator's return! For which I am duly grateful and fully agree that the place aint the same without him! You asked, what happened to the so-called second world and the answer is, it kind of disappeared when the wall came tumbling down! The term "First World" refers to so called developed, capitalist, industrial countries, roughly, a bloc of countries aligned with the United States after World War II, with more or less common political and economic interests: North America, Western Europe, Japan and Australia. "Second World" refers to the former communist-socialist, industrial states, (formerly the Eastern bloc, the territory and sphere of influence of the Union of Soviet Socialists Republic) today: Russia, Eastern Europe (e.g., Poland) and some of the Turk States (e.g., Kazakhstan) as well as China. "Third World" are all the other countries, today often used to roughly describe the developing countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. The term Third World includes as well capitalist (e.g., Venezuela) and communist (e.g., North Korea) countries, as very rich (e.g., Saudi Arabia) and very poor (e.g., Mali) countries. Third World Countries classified by various indices: their Political Rights and Civil Liberties, the Gross National Income (GNI) and Poverty of countries, the Human Development of countries, and the Freedom of Information within a country. The term "Fourth World" first came into use in 1974 with the publication of Shuswap Chief George Manuel's: "The fourth world : an Indian reality" The term refers to nations (cultural entities, ethnic groups) of indigenous peoples living within or across state boundaries (nation states). As for me I work a lot in mental health & often with people suffering from stress and other disorders which significantly affect true quality of life. Such a high percentage of people will suffer from mental ill health in their lifetime it too could be thought of as a fourth world cultural entity - or at least as a community of interest! Stress-related illnesses are on the rise in the West and stress is a greater killer than we generally recognise - though there are strong indications that the recognition has begun to permeate and re-shape our outlook and values. I'm no expert, but much of this seems to me to be a product of capitalism, (for which read not a political interpretation but a values one based on materialism) - and to some extent on factors related to urban living. As for poverty, there are many layers to it - but it is possible to live a comfortable life in - say, an indian village - with very little money or possessions. And there are over a million villages in India alone. There are many contradictions! There are a great many people living lives of abject misery - but they are not confined to third world countries and of course not all misery is based on economic indices. I have found the East both humbling and enlightening. All I can say is that among village people in the third world I have never found more open hearts, made more friends, been more enriched, felt more loved, been more fulfilled. I admire gator for his work in Thailand, which I hope he has found richly rewarding and free of infectious diseases (ie cholera and hep B)! And envy him because he is going back in September! Now there is something to look forward too!

Deet! A gift to one's sanity..

Love it gator! Reminds me of that bengali village I was telling you about:

Second that (thumbs u

I was telling gator recently that his trip has reawakened my dormant yearnings... Having spent 32 years living and travelling in The East I would infinitely prefer to live there than in the first world. No disrespect to Dark Knight's opinion, which others will surely share - but I think living with the creature comforts of the first world can shorten your life! (Having said which, if there is one of god's creatures I would gladly see exterminated it is the mosquito!) What I find intriguing is that there seem to be quite a few boardies - yourself included Dark Knight? - with broadly similar experience of the east....ah me...