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  1. That's a tough call. I think #10 would be my favourite with Thanos and Magus in the background. The Captain Marvel covers are interesting in that there are some great ones, and some terrible ones. #26 and #28 are pretty terrible. #33 and #31 are the standouts for me. Hmm...I might have to crack these out again and re-read them
  2. I recently read Blazing Combat 1-4 in a trade paperback format. Simply put, the best war comic books I've ever read - surpassing even the ECs I regard so highly. The trade also have interesting info about the difficulty Warren had publishing these issues due to the backlash from the American military! I cannot recommend these highly enough!
  3. I'm the Twinkie? Seriously, this thread is great! Keep us in stitches Joanna!
  4. Cool list....okay, votes on which run is the toughest to complete - my vote goes for Our Love Story, followed by Mad About Millie!
  5. I always liked Stan Lee's Dr. Strange 'hoary hosts of hoggoth' thing. Where the hell did he come up with this stuff? On a more serious tone, Green Lantern 76 had a memorable line where an African-American asks GL 'You've helped the purple skins from this planet and the green skins from this planet, but what about the black skins on Earth?' (something like that). GL couldn't give an answer. Great run of books if you haven't read them.
  6. Here's a question for you page quality hounds - what would you choose from, a 9.6 GS X-Men with Cream to OW pages or a 9.4 with White pages?
  7. I'm amazed at how quickly this book has gone out of control. 3-4 years ago, this was a $400-500 book. It is a very high demand book, but I don't think these current prices can sustain themselves. I think this particular book may have received a little more attention due to its white pages, and I've noticed a lot of collectors pay very close attention to page quality - page quality can make a substantial difference in final price.
  8. I used to have one of those single-piece all-in-one junkers with an attached turntable. I dunno what it would be worth today but it wasn't worth much when I had it I still have my LPs though - and they'll probably last longer than my CDs
  9. Those Power Records are/were pretty cool. Too bad my turntable died many years ago.
  10. Issues before these are also relatively cheap compared to other Marvel titles and hard to find in nice shape. There's one battle issue with the Hulk vs. Abomination and the Rhino which is underpriced in the guide as well. Can't remember the number exactly...maybe #171?
  11. I betcha if they ever really break out in the guide, you'll see them everywhere
  12. "Some hare argued that Sub-mariner 34 and 35 are the actual true first appearance of the Defenders before they were given their name." I think these two issues were a 'try-out'. If there were ever a group of mis-guided, egotistical, anti-heroes, these three (Subby, Hulk and the Surfer) would be it! I've been looking for a nice #35 for a long time (and this was before they were singled out in the guide), but I haven't found one yet. You holding back on these greggy? Last year I saw a Boston copy of #34 (no 35), but the guy wanted 4X guide and it wasn't NM (maybe a nice VF/NM).
  13. More info added to the debate! I just got this from CBG's mailing list. Quite interesting! BACK ISSUES: Fans respond to Mr. Silver Age's definition of the Bronze Age Dear Mr. Silver Age, So did all of your fans wholeheartedly embrace your notion that the real Bronze Age of comics began in 1975 with Giant-Size X-Men #1? Did they immediately see the perfect logic of shifting this period to coincide with a period when super-heroes again ruled the industry, as the third age of comics would need to have happen? Barry A. Central City Mr. Silver Age says: In a word, Barry, yes. Yes, most of the fans who wrote to comment on my Bronze Age column said my idea had a lot of merit. But that doesn't mean my work here is done, because I know that the vast majority of comics fans don't believe it for a second even after they're presented with the logic. That was proven when I dropped by an online message board discussing the topic. To recap: In CBG #1497, I proposed that the real Bronze Age of comics began, not at some nebulous point in the early 1970s, as many fans accept with no convincing proof. Instead, it began with Giant-Size X-Men #1 (Summer 75), which was a catalyst for other super-hero comics, notably DC's New Teen Titans. Together, those comics created a new wave of super-hero popularity - which is necessary for an age to receive the "third metal" designation of Bronze. Those two books in turn helped spawn Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which created the black-and-white boom. CBG readers, at least those who contacted Mr. Silver Age, mostly liked that concept. For instance, Gerry Sorek agreed, but he further explained his theory (refined in discussions with other members of the famous CAPA-alpha apazine) that ages tend to overlap. He believes each age has precursors arising, as the previous age dies down. He agreed that Giant-Size X-Men was a catalyst but also considered the start-up of black-and-white independent publisher Star*Reach in April 1974 as a precursor to the black-and-white boom. (He also had a lot of interesting theories on the Silver Age, but we'll save those for some other time.) Aaron Frey agreed that Giant-Size X-Men started something, but he'd figured it must've started what he termed the Modern Age, since the Bronze Age supposedly started earlier. My plan worked better for him. Scott Halverson also agreed and liked the 1975-1989 time frame's synchronicity with the other ages. But a few disagreed. Jim Ginger Martin favored Conan #1 (Oct 70). He argued that Conan had appeared in book form before Superman, making him a longer-lived character, and that Arnold Schwarzenegger's Conan movies preceded the 1980s super-hero movies I'd mentioned as gaining attention for the genre. Frankly, I didn't find those arguments compelling. He also noted that Conan made Barry Smith a big name, to show how influential it was, and, as I suspected, "Barry Smith's Conan got me started in comics. 'Nuff said." That last argument is the key reason I think some collectors have a hard time accepting a time shift for Bronze Age comics away from the early 1970s to a period when super-heroes were flourishing again. The collectors who care the most about early 1970s comics are those who first started reading comics then. Those comics were so cool to them (in their own Golden Age) that they think the comics deserve their own age designation. The early 1970s definitely had fans in a thread entitled "What book started the Bronze Age of Comics?" on the CGC Forum online message board (http://boards.collectors-society.com/Comics/Bronze Comics). Elrod Mah tipped me off to it and fought the good fight for Giant-Size X-Men #1. But he and several like-minded fans were overwhelmed by posters who assumed the Bronze Age began in the early 1970s, so a 1975 comic book couldn't have been the starting point. Their suggestions included the popular Conan #1, Green Lantern/Green Arrow #76 (Apr 70) due to its relevancy theme, Gwen Stacy's death in Amazing Spider-Man #121 (Jun 73), and Marvel's first 20¢ comics (Dec 71). Even Marvel Spotlight #2 (Feb 72) was suggested, although the poster admitted it wasn't a big of a deal in itself but was one of the first comics of the period to feature a new hero - i.e., Werewolf by Night. Yikes. The consensus seemed to be that "Bronze Age" essentially means "Right after The Silver Age" or "The Early 1970s." It deserves better than that. That's especially true, since the lack of any rationale as to why this period should be the third age leads fans to crown whichever comic book they consider the coolest, hottest, longest-lived, and/or most representational from the early 1970s as the one that started the age, regardless of that book's actual influence on other books. One poster summed it up as, "If Giant-Size X-Men #1 starts the Bronze Age, then that means that Tomb of Dracula #1 is not a Bronze Age book. But of course it is!" But, of course, it isn't. Make no mistake, Tomb of Dracula was a cool comic book, but it takes more than a bunch of really cool comics to create an Age. Look at E.C. For a period of really cool comics to deserve the title of "Bronze," it should be the third in the series, since it's based on the Olympic Gold-Silver-Bronze trio. And, since the other two Metallic Ages relate to the two major rises of super-hero comics, so should the third. Even more significant, there was a period when super-heroes flourished again that deserves to be the third age. That period began with Giant-Size X-Men #1 in 1975, a new super-hero team concept that influenced many more to come. And it continued ... Yeah, how long did it continue? I got fairly good agreement that really cool super-hero comics began appearing in 1975 and continued into the 1980s, providing the basic criteria for a Bronze Age. But even some of those who agreed with me on the start of the Bronze Age differed on where it ended. We'll look at some of those options next week - and also consider, if another new age is going to begin, when and where it might happen.