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I really can't remember which exact issue...probably better for me that way

As I post this from the service department at the second largest Jaguar Land Rover dealer in North America.......

True that the gloss on those books I found was amazing. The Mister Mystery 11 I got from that collection graded out at 6.5...was a killer book!

He's a real Annie Leibovitz.

Good God @VintageComics will you finally get a new phone!!!!!!

'veI been here 20 years and still haven't subbed a book

One book form the 1930s you mean I was at Roger's Time Machine back in 2008 and only had a bit of money to spend on books that trip. I grabbed the abobeve Exciting, and took this bok as well. I actually passed up a pretty good looking issue of a Centaur Detective Eye (can't remember which one). Looking back, I really did make the wrong choice on that one...

Avid arcard player here as well, starting in the early 80s. We played Track and Field a lot, and guys started using spray paint caps on their fingers to get maximum running speed hitting the two buttons

Let me throw wrench into the works now. I bought 4 of the books you listed above off the racks (and I still have them!). I'm up in Canuckistan and thet are all CPVs...and I have NEVER seen any Tattooz inserts in any of those books. Has there really ever been a confirmed CPV instance of an insert (an OO copy, one that for sure hadn't been married)?

Found a few interesting and rarely seen CPVs on the wekend at my usual honey hole though they were lower grade and proced too high. I did grab this very nice Alpha Flight 12 though. Nice as is at a 9.2 easy, would upgrade absolutely if I was into that sort of thing.

Totally sucks. His run on JL is absolutely classic. I don't think anyone has even come close to how he wrote Guy Gardner.

Found a couple tough ones in the wild, on a spinner rack in a used bookstore I frequent...

I kept all the ones I bought over the last 30 years...most are from the 90s and are basically unworn. I also just gave my 1987 Pink Floyd original concert shirt I had (given to me by my uncle years ago) to a friend of mine that's a girl...she was very happy as she's a huge fan and I can't stand them

This run rejuvenated my (since 1982!) interest in the X-Men! I haven't revisited it in years though...I'll reread that run and see if it holds up. And I LOVED the art actually.

Herb was an incredible gentleman. I was lucky enough to have had supper with him and his wife and two daughters (and Art Suydam, and Harley Yee of couse) and had a great time talking with them all all evening. He did a killer Captain Marvel (Shazam) sketch for me that I cherish to this very day. PS - I also had a great night sitting beside Art, and heading out with him after our supper. Montreal has a lot of...ionteresting...spots to visit, and so we did ;)

He really did tone down the Schomburg cover for the Invaders Giant Size 1. Imagine that cover if someone else had worked it? It would be a classic, huge book.

Hard choice between Ditko and E C Segar.

I still have my copy I bought off the stands myself back when it came out

When I grbbed mine many years ago, I think I got a couple lots of 2 or 3 of them for a few dollars each. I wanted to get more, and I guess that was during the pandemic, and they were asking $20 and up. Maybe less now since the markey has retracted.

The Alan White books look amazing and feel good in hand, though they're black and white and the paper isn't newsprint. I have a number of them and they're getting pricey now. I'm tempted to get some of these PS artbooks I gotta say.

Went to a local flea market comic shop over the weekend and pulled this thing out of the bins. Bone white pages, no cover creases and two spine ticks. This one is pretty!

Yep, I indeed purchased the Wolverine MS directly off the rack at my local corner store and the number 1 we had was the 60c version just like our American neighbors. I was really on top of picking up my books off the racks back then rememberng what was coming out and when...the switch to 75 cents didn't really make an impact on me and I gotta say I didn't really notice. Then growing up and collecting, I did start to notice the difference in price on the cover while digging up back issues though I didn't have a preference overall. I did prefer direct editions over newsstand books once I started realizing I had a choice (later on). I probably have 300 or so CPVs and now hust find them a great reminder of the old days. I'm still toying with putting together a complete set (any condition...would be quantity over quality) as I have the most expensive ones already (includingmy Blip 1 ;) ).

Very possible 3.5...depending on which day it lands ;)

Gotham by Gaslight, (was) coming to a theatre near you!

Roger's Time Machine has moved a couple times and I'm not sure what the curent iteration is, though it was the best comic shop pretty much anywhere when I was there in the late 2000s. Back in the day he had all the GA and SA you could ever want, in-store.