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His face, or the cowl design? I'm thinking it is the lack of a neck on that cowl (the head just attaches right to the shoulders), which has been bugging me too.

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Definitely true about us, but I'm not so sure about dinosaur intelligence. They did just fine for much longer than we've been around, so even if they were still here (still unlikely due to the colder climate, but we're just speculating here) what would drive the evolution of greater intelligence? Well, had they survived, they would've encountered the same environmental challenges as apes did. (Of course, it was a long journey from primitive mammals to apes over many millions of years before australopithecus arrived on the scene. And it seems there were multiple sub-species of proto-humans well before cro magnon and neanderthals vied for supremacy - if indeed they did. The may just have intermarried, and we do in fact have neanderthal genes.) So maybe there was a dinosaur that had the potential to evolve hands. Mind you, if they were as dumb as,say, turkeys, the world might still be populated with really dumb dinosaurs, we'd still be voles, or extinct, and intelligence would not have become a survival trait. Millions of species were affected by the same environmental changes that hit the apes, but none outside the primates appear to have adapted to those changes through increased intelligence. Of those primates, only one (or a few, it is still unclear but evidence has mounted for an adaptive radiation of bipeds) evolved bipedality, and even fewer still developed serious behavioral complexity (probably just us and Neandertals). Primates were basically pre-adapted for the course we took due to their larger average brains and opposable digits, due in some measure to either arboreal life or insect predation (maybe both). Climate change and the competition it spawned within the primates forced the apes into a tough spot, with early hominids evolving novel adaptations as a response. Dinosaurs, with their much different suite of traits, likely would have doubled down on some other set of adaptations to survive. That's my anyway.

The cartoons are great. Of course, my point need I say it, is that it is pure serendipity that we are here at all, instead of, say, intelligent dinosaurs. Definitely true about us, but I'm not so sure about dinosaur intelligence. They did just fine for much longer than we've been around, so even if they were still here (still unlikely due to the colder climate, but we're just speculating here) what would drive the evolution of greater intelligence?

http://www.amazon.com/Extinction-Million-Princeton-Science-Library/dp/0691165653/ref=dp_ob_title_bk The author is firmly in the volcanic activity (as opposed to impact) camp for the Permian event. Do you have any other book recommendations on palaeontolgy Steve? Here's one for you. wonderful life My favorite extinction theory proposed by Larson... I've always liked this one too, but am reluctant to show it in one of my classes because some of my students would probably take it seriously...

The first 9.6 was over a million, the second wasn't...

Most of those "keys" were flash in the pan villains that appeared in one episode of Flash, like Plastique. Obviously Felicity has proven to have more legs (pun fully intended).

As far as I know there is no 4th print of MoS #19. There's 1st, 2nd, 3rd and the white variant you mention. I have a couple of those and don't recall any print notation on it. If the white variant was printed after the third print, which it seems to have been, what else would we call it? I'm torn on this as well, I don't like referring to comics printed for inclusion in toy packaging (i.e. Marvel legends comics) as second prints. I prefer to save that designation for books that hit the stands. It may just be me.

Isn't the MOS #19 white cover from an action figure pack? The third print is the DCU, I don't think the fourth print is a DCU printing. If someone could show one that'd be helpful. I think one was shown in the "multiple printings" thread not too long ago, but I don't have an opportunity to look right now.

Billy Dee Williams added to the guest list.

If Doomsday is actually an Inhuman and not a Kryptonian that'd be huge! What rights will DC have to trade Fox to use an Inhuman in BvS?

I was scanning books this morning and discovered a game-changer. Looks like Doomsday appeared in a Marvel book first, and killed Dr. Strange years before he showed up in the DCU!

Eight months away!

Five months away.

Check the first post.

Thanks! Shameless plug, I have a lot of DCUs for sale at reasonable prices in my sales thread. I've got nearly 50 of these variants available, stop by and give it a look! I'm also open to trades for DCUs I need.

A nice low grade copy with decent eye appeal was high on my wish list for 2015. Luckily I was able to join this club!

I still think that the separation between the DC TV shows and the movies is a very odd move. I doubt that having two different Flashes is going to play well, especially with the TV version being so well received.

They're all quite tough in my experience. I've never even seen the #109 and up variants, and bought the only #94 I have seen. The Zero Hour variants in general aren't easy, and the Flash for whatever reason seems particularly elusive. Good luck! If you come across any doubles of the #109 and up let me know!

1 of 1 distributed from Diamond. One of those situations that irritates me about grading. IMO it has to be a 10 Gem Mint or a 0. There is not better nor worse. Kind of like that My Little Pony one of a kind that only got a 9.6. The 1 of 1 has nothing to do with what grade it is. What if it got run over by the UPS truck, would it still get a 9.8 just because it is the only one? Grade isn't a relative statement based on the population, or at least it shouldn't be. The 1 of 1 should matter for label color. If DC kept adequate records and the book had some level of serial number or something (not saying they do, saying they could), the 1 of 1 sketches should be eligible for SS. It is certainly a more secure system than that WD 100 debacle from a few years ago that were eligible for yellow labels even though there was zero chain of custody. If DC kept adequate records You are aware that comic buyers that slab their books are a cult minority. Might be 1% of DC's customer base. I hardly think they're factoring the CGC crowd into their marketing. They printed 100 unique comics, had them sketched on by their employee's & are distributing them in an unorthodox fashion. If one of these shows up to be graded, It CAN'T be anything else. CGC should update their policies. Antiquated system. This wouldn't require fingerprints or DNA samples. A simple scan or digital photo of the art would do, along with maybe individually numbered blanks. Nothing that hasn't been done on other promotions. CGC's policies are reasonable. Chain of custody should be preserved if something is going into a yellow label. But in instances where something is 1 of 1 and that can be demonstrated to everyone's satisfaction then the chain of custody should still apply just fine. It can only be the original known to have been sketched by artist X, and should be slabbed that way. Huh? The other guy figured out how to do it. The 1 of 1 has nothing to do with what grade it is. What if it got run over by the UPS truck, would it still get a 9.8 just because it is the only one? Yes, it's the only one. Or give it a 0.0. I understand the logic, there can be no way to determine what shape every book came of the line for 10's of thousands, but if you know there is only one copy, that IS the best copy. By that rationale the best copy of any book should automatically be a 10 then. Did I get that right? So why is the best known copy of Action #1 only a 9.0? Should it be bumped up to a 9.8 by virtue of being the best one? And what happens if a better copy is located? What if the best copy isn't slabbed, how would you ever know what a 9.8 looked like? The best copy of something doesn't determine what the 9.8 level is. A single copy existing doesn't mean that that single copy is 9.8. That isn't how it works.

1 of 1 distributed from Diamond. One of those situations that irritates me about grading. IMO it has to be a 10 Gem Mint or a 0. There is not better nor worse. Kind of like that My Little Pony one of a kind that only got a 9.6. The 1 of 1 has nothing to do with what grade it is. What if it got run over by the UPS truck, would it still get a 9.8 just because it is the only one? Grade isn't a relative statement based on the population, or at least it shouldn't be. The 1 of 1 should matter for label color. If DC kept adequate records and the book had some level of serial number or something (not saying they do, saying they could), the 1 of 1 sketches should be eligible for SS. It is certainly a more secure system than that WD 100 debacle from a few years ago that were eligible for yellow labels even though there was zero chain of custody. If DC kept adequate records You are aware that comic buyers that slab their books are a cult minority. Might be 1% of DC's customer base. I hardly think they're factoring the CGC crowd into their marketing. They printed 100 unique comics, had them sketched on by their employee's & are distributing them in an unorthodox fashion. If one of these shows up to be graded, It CAN'T be anything else. CGC should update their policies. Antiquated system. This wouldn't require fingerprints or DNA samples. A simple scan or digital photo of the art would do, along with maybe individually numbered blanks. Nothing that hasn't been done on other promotions. CGC's policies are reasonable. Chain of custody should be preserved if something is going into a yellow label. But in instances where something is 1 of 1 and that can be demonstrated to everyone's satisfaction then the chain of custody should still apply just fine. It can only be the original known to have been sketched by artist X, and should be slabbed that way.

1 of 1 distributed from Diamond. One of those situations that irritates me about grading. IMO it has to be a 10 Gem Mint or a 0. There is not better nor worse. Kind of like that My Little Pony one of a kind that only got a 9.6. The 1 of 1 has nothing to do with what grade it is. What if it got run over by the UPS truck, would it still get a 9.8 just because it is the only one? Grade isn't a relative statement based on the population, or at least it shouldn't be. The 1 of 1 should matter for label color. If DC kept adequate records and the book had some level of serial number or something (not saying they do, saying they could), the 1 of 1 sketches should be eligible for SS. It is certainly a more secure system than that WD 100 debacle from a few years ago that were eligible for yellow labels even though there was zero chain of custody.

Ya know, people can say what they want about how it "ruined death" in comics, or whatever else they want to lob at it. But every time I flip through Death of Superman tpb, I'll be damned if I'm not reminded that it really was one of the most exciting storylines in comics every time. I liked that as the story was getting closer to concluding the number of panels reduced issue by issue I was working at an LCS part time, and the line stretched around the block for the black bag edition..... demand was so strong that the owner asked us not to purchase copies for ourselves. GOD BLESS... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) will the black bag go up in price? finally? Seems like it has creeped up to being a $10-$15 or so book, which is better than the $5-$10 I was seeing for years (and sometimes less. I bought five copies for $10 at a flea market last year) . My LCS is asking $20 for their two copies and haven't had any bites, but I wouldn't be surprised to see the market $20-$25 mark again if the movie is a big success. Whatever anyone thinks about the quality of the story, or the impact the book had on the hobby, there's no doubt a huge swath of folks out there that have nostalgia for the book. At shows we pretty consistently get $25 for sealed copies of the black bag edition, and $10-15 for unsealed but complete copies that have all the stuff in the bag. Even the regular first prints of #75 are solid $10 books, but the black bagged copies move more quickly and steadily.

Aren't the DCU logos are from 1994 and later? 1994-1996. No DCU logo for MOS #17.

I thought so too.