JohnBull

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Kudos to Lighthouse for great deals and great shipping on DC archives.

Not sure I agree with all that, but it's an interesting point. Whatever, it has to be said that when someone posts a "200 and odd DC's to go" message on these boards in order to enlist the help of others, it does also leave them open to paying through the nose for difficult items on the want list. How many people are keeping their eyes open for a Buzzy 70 now, when they didn't even know of the books existence a few months ago ? How many of those people would be prepared to sell it at guide (maybe 20 dollars) and how many would try for closer to $500

Love his incarnatons of Imortality series and his Xanth series... He wrote Porn? Yep... just to see if he could... just like he wrote one horror book called "Firefly"... which I thought was better that most of his fantasy... The porn book is called, of all things, "Pornucopia"... For a long time, you could only get it off his 1-800 number and even then, only if you faxed a copy of your driver's license. It was out of print for over a decade but is in print now from what I understand. You'll never look at an ice cream sundae the same way again... Only one of his I ever read was Steppe, which I enjoyed enormously. What else would you recommend (bearing in mind that I hate fantasy) ?

Saw 'em a few times, a long time ago during the post-punk era. They were good. Do you like the Sisters Of Mercy? For a while a collected their stuff. If we ever meet at a show, I will tell you a very long story concerning a guy I used to share a house with, a guitarist with the SOM who had a broken instrument and the world's first folk-metal band - Barbed Wire and the Metal Minstrels.

Tell me, I'm interested. Great Ormond Street is very famous here for getting the Peter Pan money. Did the Barrie estate sell out to Disney or do something stupid ?

You are right on the money here. Comics always had arrival dates from between 2-3 months from the cover date. The cover date actually is the date that a book was to be removed from sale to make room for the newer books and to get credit for unsold copies. The Edgar Church copies (for example) are very interesting because of the arrival dates in addition to how many copies were ordered. You really noticed this in England, because over here, newsagents always sold in the cover month. Consequently, when buying new issues in the 70's/80's, you had a choice of going to the nearest shop and picking up FF175 or going to a mart and getting FF176, 177 and 178 (for about two to three times the price). I'm not familiar with new stuff either, but didn't they harmonise the dates to the real calendar about 10 years ago ? If so, how did they do that, did they just go October, October, October until they caught up ?