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Update for June, previous total of 317. House of Slaughter 11-15 Liked this one a whole lot more than the previous arc. Marvel Team-Up 137-150 Amazing Spider-Man 249-270, Annual 18 Spectacular Spider-Man 86-110, Annual 4 Web of Spider-Man 1-9 Continuing with my run of Spidey titles, finishing off MTU and continuing along with it's replacement in the lineup, Web of Spider-Man. Some memorable issues along the way - Assistant Editor's Month! Debut of the Black Costume! The End of the Black Costume (sorta)! Mary Jane's big reveal! Secret Wars II crossover! The Death of Jean DeWolfe! Slowly approaching the end point of my Spider-Man reading, don't know what will follow - perhaps pick up some of the DC titles where I left off with the 70s? Or where I trailed off in the 90s? Hey, who knows? As they used to say, Stay Tuned! New total for the year - looks like 389. Well below where I wanted to be at this point.

Way to live up to your forum name!

The best part of a person's collection, IMO.

You can hardly go wrong asking Mark about most anything comic related.

So sorry to hear this, Mike. Don't be surprised if it hits you at weird moments. A few years ago my mother died in early November after a few months worth of hospital/rehab/hospital where she really wasn't there most of the time, so it wasn't a sudden thing. At Thanksgiving that year, I saw my wife making homemade pimento cheese for our family dinner, which my mother had always done. I didn't know my wife had asked her the year before how to make it (which was weird itself, as she doesn't really cook). I just lost it - and I don't even like pimento cheese.

I'm surprised no one has remarked about the (I assume) typo in the subject line. When I first saw this thread, I thought, "Wait, did Geoff Johns do a teenage Green Lantern story or something?"

To be perfectly frank, while there were jokes that Microchip was you on a second account, I would say it seems like two different people posting under the Hero Restoration name. Half of your responses have me say, "This guy has had it rough, but he seems to see what he's been doing wrong, I hope he manages to get it together" and half have me thinking, "Wow, this guy is a complete @ss." You would do well to try and expand on the former and shrink dramatically on the latter.

I think if you read thru this thread carefully, you'd find that there were people supporting you and giving you the benefit of the doubt who changed their minds after some of your attacks against people who had 5-figure books with you and had paid thousands for work that hadn't been done for multiple years, along with your "sure you can have your books back but NO REFUNDS". The attitude you have adopted here has not helped your case, particularly the refund stance. I get that you can't afford to pay everyone back right on the spot, but if you were really concerned with your reputation you would have expressed some attempt to make things right at some point.

What a load.

Make that 13, unless you were already counting me. But, really, that show was doomed from the start, way too unrealistic - I mean, their pilot episode had a plan for a plane to be hijacked and crashed into the World Trade Center, for goodness sake.

And yet you feel it's a good use of your time to make all those (rather silly IMO) responses here?

Gee, a fella doesn't check in here very much for a few years and misses all the good stuff!

An excellent typo (or pun, not sure)

That was only back when they were double-secret moderators. 🤫

Is that anywhere close to Phil's Parking Lot? (talk about "old school")

You left off "PERNTS!"

The truth is out there?

Time to change your signature line? Anyway, congratulations! ASM is one of the two Marvel titles I collect that I have not completed a run of - I need #1,3,9, and 14.

Just curious - do you count the Showcase issues in for your quest? I am missing two of the Showcase issues (4 and 8) as well as 112. #132 is on my list as I recently discovered my copy has some defect that I either missed (like a missing centerfold) or didn't care about at the time but decided was just too rough, even for me (who doesn't have high standards, with many 2.0 or 2.5 books in the collection as long as they aren't awful).

I just about posted erroneously about what I did before I saw this and was reminded of what I actually did back then. I had decided that VG was about what I wanted to have as I was generally happy with the condition and I could have 2 or 3 (or more) of them instead of one NM book, so my "target" price was for a given issue in that condition. I remember my first computer generated "want list" using a database program I'd written had a column for "dealer", where I indicated where I had gotten the price I had listed, usually from a mail order company. I can remember having things marked "MH" for Mile High, "PR" for Penny Ranch (a coin shop in Chico, CA that also sold comics), and "OV" for Overstreet when none of my other sources had a price listed.

I remember when this first came out, I wasn't interested in the character, so didn't pick it up, but by the time it was reaching the end of the run, people were speaking highly of it, so I went back and tried it, and yeah, amazing stuff.

Another month down, another update. Marvel Teamup 131-136 Amazing Spider-Man 240-248, Annual 15-17 Spectacular Spider-Man 80-85 Continuing on with the Spider-Man titles of the early 80s. Hobgoblin making his presence known, Black Cat and Spidey "in love", Liz and Harry expecting a baby, and the return of Mary Jane Watson. What's not to love? I'll tell you what, Spectacular Spider-Man #82, perhaps the worst Spider-Man tale I've ever read. Forget about Spider-Man battling Cloak and Dagger and contradicting everything from the battle in just the previous issue, but we also get Punisher escaping from prison to go after the Kingpin taking time along the way to shoot at jaywalkers and litterbugs. Blech. House of Slaughter 6-10 This storyline did very little for me, hoping the next one is better. Babylon 5 1-11 My daughter has started watching the most excellent program from the early 90s, and I have been rewatching along with her. After we finished the first season I thought I'd reread these books, too, since I remember them fitting in well - and filling some holes - with the series. Good stuff, sorry it didn't go longer, particularly given what was teased in the lettercol about future stories. Monstress 19-20 Pretty much the same comments as before, I'm enjoying things, but having trouble keeping track of all the various storylines, characters, secrets hidden and revealed, etc. Didn't read as much as I should have due to the huge size of my Science Fiction Book Club book this month, and I think I even read less than I had hoped to taking that into account. Looks like 42 this month, so total for the year... 317. I had hoped for closer to 500 at this point, so I need to step up my game.

Exactly - every time I ask myself if I might have overpaid, I tell myself that at least one person thought it was ALMOST worth what I paid for it.