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Did you borrow Greggy's time machine?

Love C&H and that is a great spoof!

Welcome back, I can't believe that no one has mentioned the biggest bit of news to hit the boards in your absence; we now have this... ... Ta da!

Was looking for this the other day and couldn't find it. Someone put a link to it in another thread so I thought I would it for those that haven't seen it. Should be stickied IMHO.

Outliers - The story of success by Malcolm Gladwell. Book that suggests that highly successful people from various fields, from business to sport to science etc, owe more to fortunate circumstances than any innate ability or work ethic. He also suggests that any reasonably intelligent person can become expert at almost anything by spending a cumulative amount of time totalling at least 10,000 hours doing it. It's surprisingly compelling, but I feel that he has been quite selective with the data he presents to back up his claims. Well written if a little hokey.

Hmmm, although, might I suggest that the last thing you want to see in the can is a large clenched fist coming through the wall. It just doesn't allow you relax certain muscles if you know what I mean

That's a pretty book love the blurb in the green text panel, tell like it is Stan

Same for me. (thumbs u (well, different board member obviously). Burning_Psychic?

Comic book funeral pyre for me

I've read neither. I've been a poor Dickens reader. I've been thinking about him forever. Recently something John Ruskin wrote got me thinking about Hard Times. I'm envious of your book choice. I say read all of his books in chronological order by publication date. I doubt you'll regret a page of it & your bookshelf will thank you for it the rest of your days. I'm a huge Dickens fan and heartily recommend Great Expectations, probably my all time favourite book.

When I see that Zombie, I just don't get why some people don't like sig series. That's a great book which is enhanced by equally great sigs. (thumbs u

I remember that annual, I picked it up at a car boot sale as a kid in the early eighties. I'd never read many Avengers stories from that period at the time. Yep, great stuff. And I think the Avengers became my favourite team as a result of that story.

My board name comes from the UK Marvel Avengers annual from 1977 (a reprint of GS Avengers1) featuring Nuklo and The return of The Whizzer. Loved that story as a kid. Somehow, all my Marvel annuals got chucked out and I keep meaning to replace them.

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I just found an interesting tidbit of information which probably isn't worthy of it's own thread, so I hope you don't mind me posting it here. My mother was a child in the centre of London during WW2, and as part of her Xmas present this year I have bought her a book titled; Wartime Childhood by Mike Brown and whilst flicking through it, I came across this passage: "Comics and books could still be bought in shops, although, like newspapers, comics shrank, both in size and in number of pages. There were many favourites, including, for younger children, Beano, Dandy, Jingles, Film Fun and Radio Fun, and for those in their teens, Champion, the Girl's Own Paper and the Boy's Own Paper. These would be read and re-read, then swapped in the playground. With the arrival of 'The Yanks' in 1942, came American comic books, lavish compared with the austere British versions, and highly prized in swapping circles." Now, my mother actually encouraged me to read comics as a child in the 1970's, which was an unusual attitude for an adult at the time. This was due to the fact that as a kid in the West End of London, she and her little friends would follow G.I.'s around with the cry of "any gum chum?", often the American soldiers would take pity on these blitz ravaged kids and pass them a stick of gum or tatty old comic book. My mum's elder brother was also in the merchant marine and would return from the U.S. After braving the U boats With comics, gum, and nylon stockings for the family back home. Mum developed a love of those comics, particularly Captain Marvel, Batman and Flash, and passed that love onto me. Sadly, none of those comics survived the war, and I often wonder what if? But at least I can thank my mum for my love of comics!

For me, the "line of DC super stars" era DC covers are the most attractive and best designed covers in comics, period.

Valley of the Dinosaurs

It's a funny thing, but having the Photo Journals you think you've seen all these books. Then you see larger scans on here and some of those covers just pop in a way they don't in the Gerber books. Only problem is, the more I see the more my wants list just grows and grows

Orrrrrr are they?!

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This thread has been quite lately. Nice pick up

Sure, it looks impressive, but it's 50,000 copies of X Force 1 uh..Yes thats almost my collection 49,999 Near Mint copies of X-Force # 1 (all still sealed in the bag with the "rare" cable card).... and 1 other beater book Touché

Sure, it looks impressive, but it's 50,000 copies of X Force 1