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I have a podcast where we do deep dives into old comic book stories and runs, which you can check out here. We try to discuss not just the stories themselves, but also the behind the scenes stuff with creators and publishers that shaped the stories.

at 20% off Any of those Archie multi-packs up for sale?

Thanks for the help, guys. I will have to check out that website, sounds pretty cool!

Anyone know what font DC used for their issue number and date during the early golden age? The font above the logo here, where it says No. 21 and February, 1940. I'm looking to find a digital font online that looks as much like this as possible. Anyone have idea what font this is, or if there's a digital equivalent?

I thought this was going to be about CB radio movies. 1. Smokey and the Bandit 2. Convoy 3.

It's a retcon. Doesn't matter when it's from, it doesn't make MTU #1 her first appearance.

I thought this was a bad movie that ended up being pretty darn entertaining anyway thanks to Tom Hardy's wackadoodle performance. He completely made this film. Imagine someone playing this material straight — like all the other in the film actors were — and I think we would have had a Daredevil level movie here at best. Like... imagine Daredevil-era Ben Affleck playing the lead in this movie and I think you'll get an idea of how bad this film actually was without Tom Hardy. Hardy was great though. I enjoyed myself, at least, I did once Eddie got infected with Venom. I wish that had happened in the first scene, though, because it was a slog to get to the fun part.

Just got this in today

The latest episode of my podcast is now available, featuring the first part of a four-part examination of Marvel's classic Star Wars series. In this first episode, we cover the contributions of Roy Thomas, from the title's genesis through his departure with issue #10. Enjoy! https://classiccomics.podbean.com/e/classic-comics-forum-podcast-21-star-wars-by-marvel-comics-part-1/

I just figured out now how to do multi-quote in one post on the new boards here. Two minutes too late!

I came into podcasting a complete noob, and one thing I have learned, as ComicConnoisseur suggests, is that sound quality can be really tricky. On some of my early episodes, my mic volume was not as high as my guest's. Some of it I could fix in editing, but that's much more time consuming than getting it right to begin with. There are a couple episodes where my voice is still a bit too soft in areas. The other thing is, unless your guest is with you in a controlled environment - where you both have real mics - you're kind of at the whim of the guest's sound quality. I interview guests from all over the country, plus some in Europe and Canada, and if we have a bad connection or they have a poor mic, there's not a ton that can be done about it. Even if your mic and sound quality are perfect, someone with a crappy mic or a washing machine running in the background can be pretty frustrating.

This is pretty much what I try to do on my podcast. Whether or not it's actually thought provoking, I can't promise! But I have a different guest for each topic - usually a specific run, series, or even individual issue - where we try to go in depth with discussions about the creative team, the behind the scenes decisions that led to stories going one way or the other, market stuff, and of course the stories themselves. No ads. I try to keep each episode to between 45-75 minutes, but that's just for ease of listening - when conversations go longer, I just cut them up into multiple episodes. Many of the discussions go 2 episodes, or even 3 or 4 on rare occasions. So far we've done stuff like Steve Englehart's Captain America run, Cap's Kooky Quartet, First Issue Special, Fantastic Four #1, etc. I start with a brief interview of the guest about the reading and collecting history and tastes, so the listener has an idea where they are coming from, then we just talk until someone passes out. Hopefully it's interesting! I started doing it because it was the kind of podcast I wanted to listen to, but couldn't find. So I decided to record it myself so I would have a podcast to listen to! That would be my main advice: do what you would want to listen to, not what you think someone else might want to listen to. You never know how many people are going to listen either way, but if you do something you like, you'll enjoy it a lot more. I mean, I did three hours on Mark Evanier's Blackhawk run — trust me, that was not because I thought it would go viral. But they were probably the most fun I've had yet. Here's my podcast if you want to see what I have been trying with it: https://classiccomics.podbean.com/

Then why is this thread on page 26? Annual #14 is clearly Gambit's first appearance!

You guys ever read Marvel's original Star Wars series? Towards the end of the series, there's this big new character named Bey that turns out to be a childhood friend of Han's. He's hyped up in the stories as being a super famous, important figure in the rebellion. A big new character! The three-part storyline introducing him was supposed to run through #98-100. However, there was some production delay. So they made the completely bizarre decision to publish #99 and #100 as planned, and then print the first part of the three-part arc in #101 as a flashback! For #98, they just printed a random fill-in inventory story. #101 was written first, intended to come out first, and the story comes first chronologically in continuity. So does that make #101 his first appearance, even though he already appeared in #99 and #100?

I don't mean the thread, I mean the movie. The original Wild Bunch is pretty much perfect as it is. More importantly, I think it's still extremely modern. It influenced so much later cinema that it has never really gotten outdated. I don't have an issue in general with remakes, but I don't see what can be added here, only what can be subtracted. Maybe I'm not giving Gibson enough credit, but this one, I just don't see a justification.

I can't think of any reason this should exist.

Just a general question about what kind of grading hit folded interior pages might give a book. I recently sold a lot of nooks on ebay that I listed as "mid-grade." One of them turned out to have some interior pages folded, which I somehow missed on inspection. Totally my mistake. I am working with the buyer to figure out a partial refund or some other solution, as he considers it a fatal flaw for a book advertised as mid-grade. This did get me wondering about how folded or bent interior pages. I expect it may depend on the nature of the folds, severity, etc. ? I've had books in the past with missing pages, or detached centerfolds, or tears, and those sorts of defects I have a better understanding of. But pages that are folded isn't something I've ever really considered that much in terms of grading defects. I'd love any input so I can be more precise with my grading in the future. Thanks!

Alter Ego magazine under Roy Thomas has been doing great in-depth interviews with comic legends for many years now. A large number of their interiew subjects have since passed away, making those interviews even more vital to comics history. I actually got a message from them yesterday that they're having a blowout sale on back issues at $3 each, and I bought like 31 issues, containing interviews with all sorts of departed greats like Nick Cardy, Alex Toth, and Russ Heath:

The price of the variant cover subsidizes the regular covers. In fact, in many cases, if you wait a couple months the stores will have tons of copies of the regular version for pennies on the dollar because they had to order 50 of them in order to get one variant. I see stores all the time that have comics from the last year or two in 50 cent boxes by the hundreds.

I went back and forth over whether to have her sign on the cover or on the inside, but she suggested inside, so I just went with that. My god, Alex Toth is just a genius. The fact that his stories aren't worth a lot more is criminal. Everyone should be seeking these out! As far as pickups for the day, I was just getting low grade readers for the most part. A couple crept into mid-grade, but that's about it. I think all of these were between $1.65 and $3 each - most were $2 each - with the exceptions of Time for Love ($4) and Girls' Love #179 with the crazy screaming toddler cover ($6). There was one dealer who had some really nice higher grade Marvel Bronze Age romance books that I was very tempted by, but it was kind of the curse of the 8.5. At those prices, I wanted it to be just a little bit better, so I ended up passing, but there were a few issues of Our Love and My Love that almost sucked me in. Same for a nice copy of Romantic Story #41, which I really wanted, but it was about a 6.0, so I wanted it to either be an 8.0 or be cheaper. Here's what I ended up with from the bargain bins: The Just Married #93 is a slight upgrade for me. I think this is going to be a must buy for me whenever I see it. It's the first issue of the David and Eileen serial, which is all about an inter-faith marriage between an Irish-Catholic woman and a Jewish man. They aren't too subtle about it, either. Charlton!