goldust40

Nah, Hadley too his look from me.

Gold! Always believe in your so-oul!!!

For 15 years. Two kids. And grey hair Nope, or at least not yet. Ah, Grecian 2000. Your secret is safe with me.

For 15 years. Two kids. And grey hair Nope, or at least not yet.

Awesome books...

For 15 years. Two kids.

I knew you were an Emmerdale fan! My wife watches that tripe. Have to leave the room when it's on. Yeah yeah I watch it with the sound turned off, waiting for the hotties to show. Lisa Dingle isn't in it anymore.

I knew you were an Emmerdale fan! My wife watches that tripe. Have to leave the room when it's on. Yeah yeah I watch it with the sound turned off, waiting for the hotties to show.

I knew you were an Emmerdale fan! My wife watches that tripe. Have to leave the room when it's on.

Saw her first.

Winsome and dainty.

I meant her in the leather catsuit, not the red-blooded bloke. I mean, I have no interest in wearing leather catsuits. Seriously. None.

No red-blooded bloke would in that leather catsuit.

Booty buddy.

I would have to go in to the Plat list archives, type in some key word search trips, re-find the 450 AD word balloon example(s) some one posted there about a decade ago now, then post. Will try to get to it next day or so. The examples were drawn on a wall dating to late Roman Empire period. The words were there with lines drawn around them with a pointed end pointing at who ever was speaking. The wheel is constantly re-invented, what is "new" is most always quite old, is how I see most "innovations" some generations seek to present. Anyway, the comic strip comic books have been around a ga-zillion years now. Obadiah Oldbuck remains more important than Superman. A collector dealer friend pointed out to me last night that I think he said it was on a recent Comic Connect auction which had a Flash Comics #1 sell for approx $70K that a number of Silver Age comics sold for more. The price of some thing has zero to do with its "importance" as an aercheological artifact. But that is all in the eye of the beholder and what one might deem "important" - just an opine from this dinosaur comic book dealer collector working in a hobby which got way out of hand a very long time ago now. Ah, AD, not BC. I missread. I'll see if I can track it down. Bob, on your second paragraph, I would very much agree that a higher monetary value does not necessarily equate with greater historical significance. I would also suggest, however, that being older or even first does not necessarily equate with greater historical significance either. So I would disagree with your statement that OO is more "important" than Superman, simply because Superman has had a far greater impact on popular culture than OO. OO is important and much more important than the character has been given credit for. And you should be given credit for bringing attention to that importance. But that importance is not due to one American bootleg version in 1842, but rather to the fact that it was one of Töpffer's more important comic strip works and due to his influence on the later European comic strip artists like Wilhelm Busch. You can trace a direct line from Töpffer to the Katzenjammer Kids, so there is no doubt he was an important pioneer. But to say OO is more historical significant than Superman is really over-reaching. Obadiah Oldbuck remains more important than Superman. After seven years, you've got to admire his dedication to his position, as untenable as it is. We've been there and done that. Clearly OO is more important than Superman, it is a comic-book as we all recognize it, the history and development of the medium is set in stone and has continuity and is not random under any circumstances. Pop culture began in the mid-nineteenth century and is quite easy to intellectualize about from a 21st century perspective. Populism means nothing. OO begat everything. The end.

That new assistant in Dr. Who...

It is always nice when professionals chime in with their perspective. Speaking from my own collector's heart, the more I've learned about the evolution of the medium, the more disenchanted I've become with definitions. My own real passion is exploring the spectrum of formats and narrative techniques, the gradient of which eventually led to the publications that all of us enjoy talking about. It's that fascinating and never ending journey through pulps, books, magazines, movies, historical events etc. that keeps my own interest alive. When I dislike definitions so much, it's because they tend to compartmentalize the discussion, culling away all the wonderful blurring and context that I see as the life blood of the hobby. tb, I wouldn't disagree with that at all and in fact your sentiment echos my own. You know the things I collect. I'm fascinated by the Platinum and pre-GA and all the various transitional and experimental formats. The only reason I emphasize defining your terms up front in this particular case is that back in that OO vs Action 1 thread we already spent months and several hundred pages arguing like this: "This is a comic book" "No it isn't" "Yes it is" "No it isn't!" "Yes it is!" "NO it isn't!! "YES it is!!" Ad infinitum... Ultimately what it came down to was a semantic disagreement about the term "comic book." Some people had a very specific and narrow definition and others had a much broader and more inclusive one. Neither side was wrong--there was just a language barrier. Once that was overcome and understood, I think it became easier to discuss, explore, and appreciate all of these amazing and related media formats regardless of what label you give them. I think the best line of argument in the entire thread was "I know it when I see it".

As always, the best copy out there. (thumbs u

Certainly bigger than any of the BSDs, who baulked at that price.

Didn't go up any further, which is fair enough. No bargains anymore on ebay, though...

+1 Here's mine... Nice copy. (thumbs u

It's all about whether the book garners a grade above 4.5.

It's been manned up, mainly by the usual suspects. What grade would you guys put to that book? Looks nice from the outside, but with the interior tears I'm not sure. Hard to say, as I'm not sure about the wear in the top left area of the cover (where the vertical "mystery" is). There don't seem to be any scans of the interior pages that have the issues mentioned either.