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You're one of the best, @jimjum12 , really sorry to hear about this. Take care of yourself, pal, and get better soon.

Yep, really enjoying this season so far. Highly recommended, Alan Ritchson has a gravitas that very few actors can bring to the screen. And the producing, directing, and writing are all working in concert.

That's an awesome grab, SA!!!

I like your taste in authors, sir.

I call it the "Jack Davis" effect.

Great books, Jimbo! I was perusing the Twitter posts of Pulp Librarian and came across this fun image. Obviously not a successful model but I enjoy seeing these attempts. \ If you're looking for a fun, deep dive on all manner of paperbacks and vintage publications, check out their posts. Be warned, it's a very deep dive...

I don't have a copy but I seem to recall that it's a magazine. Both covers are pretty awesome.

Tough book. It's up there with Private Investigator Detective Magazine.

This is a pretty awesome deal for a tough set of books. Great stuff (as usual), David!

I enjoyed it thoroughly. Well structured, simple idea, well developed and executed. Fincher made a number of great choices throughout that help the audience to connect directly with the protagonist, be sympathetic to his cause, and root for his success. I also watched it twice and something interesting stood out:

One of my absolute favorites.

I really appreciate it when you say nice things about me, in such a nice way.

My specialty.

Anyone that thinks girls/women aren't into comics, hasn't been paying attention at conventions over the last 20 years. The number of women that I've seen (who aren't the tagalong girlfriend of some fanboy) shocked me at first but now it's just normal. I think it's foolish to ignore that demographic, no matter how good or bad The Marvels is/was. The last few times I went to a comic movie, there were plenty of women, several without any men. One of my best friends has 3 daughters, ages 8-13. They're all huge fans of graphic novels and comics (much to my surprise, because my friend is absolutely not). Good stories are good stories and the best ones captivate the most people, regardless of race, color, gender, creed, orientation, or other superficial distinction. The only thing I've seen, in recent memory, keep people from appreciating a good story is ideology. Unfortunately, there's a number of people that are just rigid in their belief that someone's trying to trick them or indoctrinate them or persecute them or get them in some way. And that seems to get in their way of enjoying a good story. My older brother is one of those and now he doesn't seem to like anything anymore. Which is sad because he used to be a lot of fun to watch movies with. I really wish he'd lighten up and have fun again but suggesting that only makes him more bitter.

I've always thought that series had tremendous potential.

Agreed. It was a 2 episode story that got circuitously stretched into a 6 episode "season" (more like a mini-series, if you ask me). I don't think either the character of Kang or the actor playing him are very compelling. While both Owen Wilson and Tom Hiddleston are strong actors, they were both pretty limited by average directing and mediocre writing. My emotional concern for any of the characters was very low. As some have pointed out, this is considerably better than watching Secret Invasion but then, that's an exceptionally low bar for reference. Kind of like saying the Black Adam movie was better than the Morbius movie, IMO. In the end, I just think they're in dire need of a new slate of producers that actually understand the characters and the value of the stories. There's a deep well of material to work with but if you don't know what you're looking for, you just end up with an uncompelling group of episodes, loosely tied to together by a contrived outcome. Harsh, I know, but true.

For those unfamiliar, here's a little snapshot of the census for graded copies right now for both books: While not definitive of the exact relationship between the 2 books, it pretty much reflects my experience collecting both issues. Eerie 8 > Creepy 9

That Eerie 8 is so freaking tough. Beautiful copy, Greg!

One of McGinnis' best, IMO.

Every one of those magazines is a steal for the price given the quality of material. Great stuff, sir!

Lots of very cool books, Rick!

Very tough book!

This make way too much sense. Unless you're one of those people that doesn't like to waste an opportunity to take advantage of someone else. Then this is just loser talk.

I think particularly because it seems very inconsistent for inclusion at time of production. My guess is that many copies of ASM 238 and FF 252 never had the insert included when printed and, as @Lazyboy said, the other titles (Iron Man, X-men, etc.) that had the insert sporadically, are production errors. While I have always thought it was pretty dumb, it doesn't really matter. Collectors will always value the books with everything included over books that don't.

I forget every other issue that had them. But pretty sure I've seen the insert in these others: Iron Man 168 Marvel Tales 149 X-men 167 Captain America 279 Thor 329 Avengers 229 Conan 144 Probably other issues, as well. I don't think these had the insert in every issue printed. May have been regional or similar to Mark Jewelers? I don't know.