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On 5/5/2024 at 8:15 PM, Jayman said:

20 yrs for me too on April 15. Does that make me Golden Age or Platinum? 

I'm sticking with Bronze Age but I'd accept Silver Age as I was born in 1966.

On 5/5/2024 at 7:34 PM, october said:

Congrats! Glad you like the GSXM.

I just checked and I'll have been on here for 20 years too, as of the 17th. Time flies. Doesn't feel like that long.

Agreed. 

I'm thinking 8.0, maybe 8.5. The dark covers show those spine tics so much more. 

The rippling on the back has me puzzled as well. Front looks nice! 8.5 to 9.0 is my guess

7.0 seems possible. Still looks good!

58 and appear to be in the highest % on the list. 

I think I've only missed one in the last 30 years but this will be #2. I'll be out of town.

That said, I still go but it's such a shadow of its former self comic-wise. Few big players there except Harley. I miss when it was a bigger deal. Good celebrity list though. (Not my thing)

I'd say you might get a 7.0, maybe 7.5? Not sure what the crease is above the jet engine on FC

7.5

I went yesterday. Solid show with purchases from Bob Storms, Dale Roberts, Reece Comics. Spent most I ever have but really plugged some collection holes. I'm bad about taking pictures so no help there. Got a signed print from Art Adams and Jose Garcia Lopez. 

4.0

I think 4.5 is a good guess. Love the comic. Don't own it but had the Treasury Size "Batman's Strangest Cases" as a kid!

$25 purchase so probably in line. No harm, no foul. (Should've caught the rust stain... lol)

All good. Going on Friday.

Yeah, I originally thought 8.0 but that rust stain tripped me up. Wasn’t expensive

Thanks. I thought 7.0 when I bought it. If it’s a 6.0 it still looks great for $85

Conan The Barbarian

- John Buscema

- BWS by the "teens" - not his "Kirby-esque" of early issues

Swamp Thing

- Berni Wrightson nuff said

Thought there would be a post started? 

Was planning on going Saturday but see it's Sold Out online. Not sure I've ever seen that or if they keep Day Of Show tickets available? May try and drive early on Friday now. 

Anyone else going? 

I'm going to re-look mine over...  Nice!

6.0. The bottom RH corner is what keeps it there for me. Pretty nice overall

On 4/16/2024 at 1:15 AM, Hepcat said:

I'm a great fan of the house ads comic publishers once ran to promote other issues from their own comic line. In particular the ones that letterer and logo designer Ira Schnapp did for DC between 1940 and 1967 were works of art and very often left me with a palpable desire to acquire and read that particular comic.

So show off your favourite house ads by any publisher here with your present day copy of that same comic if possible!

I'll start. I still remember the day in 1964 that I first saw this ad in an old Blackhawk comic in the waiting room of the Ontario Conservatory of Music on Dundas Street in London prior to my weekly accordion lesson:

It left me longing for a copy of Justice League 3 but at the time I thought that particular issue was gone forever in the mists of time. I've had that issue now since 1980-81 but I'd still like a better copy!

That is not a bad copy! When I got back into collecting 30 years ago, this was the one I bought. I have a VG which I bought for $30. I was 28 and had more cash than my teenage self...   My earliest JLA prior to this was #15. I now have all of them which makes me happy. 

9.0 due to the spine. Still nice!

Nice book! I'd say 6.0 is safe, maybe 6.5?

I was thinking 2.5 to 3.0