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Guy Gilchrist Stay at Home Convention Sunday Facebook Live. Lips from the Muppets sketch card. Kermit the Frog Eyes on a envelope. Head profiles of Angel Mouse from Mudpie.

Tim Shinn sketch card commission of Dobby the House Elf with the Infinity Gauntlet. Tim shinn preliminary practice before he did a sketch cover for a client of Chewbacca as Colonel Sanders instead of Fried Chicken, Kashyyyk Fried Porg!

Reading 1,000 comic books in 2020.

Ayyy! Signed by Henry Winkler too.

You may not like the answer, and I do hope that I am wrong in my observation but by viewing your website photo, his pen touched the book in gold pen very tiny. Look at TM initials and go towards your right at the top near the cape is a little gold line. Here is a screen shot of a normal cover found online the same area..... no gold line.

# 300 Giant Size Spiderman and Dracula #1 68 Pages: This is one of the books that has been on my bucket list for at least six years give or take. It was purchased last year at Garden State Comic Fest in a dealer's $5 dollar box. Needless to say, that box was a bit lighter after I went through it. First story, Spiderman has to beg Torch from the Fantastic Four for help to borrow a plane to get to a cruise ship out in sea. Aunt May is dying of a rare strain of flu and the creator of a new vaccine is traveling by boat so he needs to get there in time. Many individuals try to take out the doctor, either for gain, or in Dracula's case, to kill the doctor so it would be easier for said vampire to take over the world. The second story was. reprint from a annual where Spiderman is framed as a art thief and the Torch from the Fantastic Four who is sometimes helpful with Spiderman and sometimes mad at first chases Spidey, before figuring out it was a frame up and then decides to help Spiderman out. I am grateful for this thread as a motivator to get into my LONG overdue backlog of reading. 700..........

#'s 297-299 Archie Meets Batman '66 #1 2nd Printing: Never got around to collecting the full series, and this has been sitting in the to read box for way too long. Really good, I'm going to have to hunt down the hardcover now. Batman, Robin, and Batgirl once again take down a nemesis, this time Poison Ivy and the other main villains decide it is time to try attacking another town where Batman may not notice them. So they go to Riverdale! Ghost Rider #20 (1973 Series): First 30 cent cover price in the series. (I wish they were that price still.) Then again, I'm sure it cost more to have so much ink in the new page setup but I'm getting off topic. One of a handful of books I picked up at a comic convention last summer at Garden State Comic Fest. It was from the $5 dollar box, and Ghost Rider teams up with Daredevil so you can't go wrong. Daredevil and Ghost Rider team up to save Daredevil's ex-girlfriend Karen Page from being kidnapped. Scooby Doo 50th Anniversary Giant #1 100 Page special: I am counting this as one book read. If you read mostly modern books the page count is 22 pages. If you read books from the silver age or early copper, the page counts are longer so I feel if a modern or a silver counts as one, I will count a 100 page special as one book too. Three new stories giving Scooby a 50th Birthday surprise in some way form each story, and six reprints from older Scooby Doo Where Are You Series. I LOVED the first three stories, they took the time to develop the plot a bit more and it made it so you didn't pretty much guess how the villain was after reading two pages. (The only downside of being a adult reading the books.) I wish they had more story lines where you have to wait longer to figure out the culprit. The remaining six stories are good reads that are worth revisiting once in a while. 701.............

#'s 291-296 Spiderman Masques Hard Cover Collects Spiderman (1990) #'s 6-7, 13-14 & 16 as well as X-Force (1991) #4 Was a $4.95 clearance item at my local comic shop a year or so ago that I finally found the time to get to. I'll be honest, not a fan of darker storylines and the book in general gave me a bad feeling as I read especially when Hobgoblin and Ghost Rider fought, rider didn't care that he had innocents in danger. 704........

I agree, maybe a trade paperback of Duck Tales Treasure Trove from 2017.

#'s 289-290 Amazing Spiderman #101 (True Believers #1 $1.00 Reprint) Spiderman in the previous issue wanted to end his power and took a chemical mixture he drank only to now have four extra arms. He calls Doc Connors out in Florida to use his place in Staten Island, Morbius the vampire makes his appearance having drank the crew of a ship and took on Spidey. Doc Connors arrived at the house to try and help only to get angered and turned into the Lizard, now both are after Spiderman to be continued. Ghost Rider #16 (1975) Picked it up in a convention last summer in the $5 dollar box. Ghost Rider has his first weekend off in a month, and winds up at a house on the beach where a man is shooting at dolphins. He hears the tale from the daughter of why the man hates dolphins. The dolphins wind up saving both of their lives out at sea, and the man apologizes. Classic 1970's Marvel tale back when comics were more kid friendly. Have to love the musty smell of an old comic, and the hostess add where the bad guy gives up to get the dessert. Aunt May was kidnapped and the ransom was 50,000 dollars. Spiderman saved her with a supply of Twinkies. 710.........

# 288 The Amazing Spiderman Aim Toothpaste Special. Normally, I don't list just one comic but this one was special. It took me years to find a copy of this as I was not alive in 1980. This was a freebie promotion that came with a purchase of aim toothpaste. The green goblin kidnaps a dentist, peter parker has to babysit J Jonah Jameson's nephew (which cramps spiderman's style), and has to save a dentist convention. I got it signed by Marv Wolfman a few years ago at East Coast Comic Con. He was super busy, I wish I had the time to ask him how te he story/idea came to be. You might want to read this @ADAMANTIUM #712..........

#'s 283-287 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shredder in Hell TPB. Collects Shredder in Hell #'s 1-5. Not being a regular reader of the Turtle Series, I thought that this was. a mini series. The too be continued at the end kind of got my hopes up on this being a one and done book to read. Anyway, Shredder is in Hell and battling with how he wants to move on. His old friend Splinter gives up Nirvana to accompany him and to help him on his quest to free himself of the Dragon God's spirit that has been possessing him his entire life. Splinter takes on his human personage, splinter, and as a actual little rat during the adventures through hell itself. 713........

#'s 276-282 Captain America Man & Wolf TPB Collects Captain America #'s 402-408. Picked this up about a year ago at my local comic shop's clearance table $5 and it was worth it. It covers the storyline how Captain America discovers a little town where everyone is a werewolf, while he searches for his pilot Captain John Jameson who becomes the wolf man again. Captain America gets turned into a werewolf as does Wolverine as a odd hybrid wolf. At the end all are released of the moon's gaze as it were. Love the fact that the trade doesn't have the hyper glossy photo finish on the pages and is real paper feel! 718......

#'s 270-275 The Flintstones TPB Volume 1 Collects the Flintstones #'s 1-6 Yes, sometimes I do read trades out of sequence. It gives flashbacks to when Fred and Barney were in the war against the tree people, when aliens invade bedrock, how Gazoo was called down to protect the people from another adolescent alien attack with disintegrator zappers during their spring break, and how Dino came to be part of the family. 725.......

Saw it last Saturday, it was great. Always love the Svengoolie commentary.

If you haven't started yet, you will only need to read 4 1/3rd books a day since there are 234 days left in the year. Even less if you already started reading!

#'s 266-269 DC Meets Hanna Barbara Trade Collects the following issues; Booster Gold/The Flintstones Special #1, Green Lantern/Space Ghost Special #1, Adam Strange/Future Quest Special #1, and Suicide Squad/Banana Splits Special #1 It also held a mini story of Top Cat lying to Batman to protect Catwoman, Judy Jetson watches her 124 year old grandmother enter a end of life facility where the rest of the family catch on and race to try and stop it only to realize they couldn't get there in time but George's mom uses Cogswell's company to become a robot and she asks them to call her....Rosie! Ruff 'n Reddy teaming up for comedy, as well as a story of Snagglepuss the lion talking to the Senate during the McCarthy Investigations. I can see why Hanna Barbera told DC to stop printing the newer stories. Some of the content was getting darker, and made comments and references of a more adult nature. I can see that DC tried to make the characters more this century than their hey days of the 1950's and 1960's but come on, Banana Splits being forced to join the Suicide Squad! The Booster Gold/The Flintstones Special #1 was good. Booster Gold inadvertently goes back in time to the Stone Age and kills a alien trying to offer the Flintstone generation a new age of peace and prosperity, which results in his own futuristic timeline the alien invasion to get back for the loss of their leader. Now at least, I know how they got the name of their god in the Flintstone 12 issue series, it was the alien that had gotten killed. Green Lantern/Space Ghost was really good. Space Ghost and Green Lantern both answer a cry for help to a planet far away and the two mistake one another as enemies, get taken down by a little girl, become partners, accidentally switch up their power weapons, and save the planet. Adam Strange/Future Quest was good. Always like reading stories about the valley of prehistoric creatures. The plot was pretty good too. 731..........

#'s 260-265 The Flintstones Volume 2 TPB: Collects The Flintstones Issues #'s 7-12 Another one of the Hanna Barbara DC reboots that was cut short. Maybe it was due to issue sales.....in that case people like me that mostly buy trades really cut down the individual issue purchases but for storage the trades fit easier on the bookshelf and less long boxes. The Flintstones are seen as progressing as savages to civilization. Gazoo, saves planet earth from being destroyed by other similar aliens. They cover religion, war, art, movies, and the appliances in Fred's home go on a rescue mission and almost have an uprising. Poor Dino, gets hog tied when he overhears a rescue mission plan the animal appliances have to rescue the armadillo bowling ball from the recycle center where it will be turned into pet food when Fred is gifted a new bowling ball. 735.........

Not until my high school years was there a real comic shop in town. The only way to get comics was a half hour drive into town to a Rite Aid that would have the Archie Hannah Barbara Series but I didn't always manage to make it monthly but at times, they also sold out of issues before I could make it. I had to wait till I grew up to buy online the missing holes in Scooby Doo Archie and Flintstones Archie. In order to get the DC or Marvels, it was over an hour drive to Shop Rite, we used to do that once every two months...... Green Lantern did get me "grounded" or should I say banned from reading it since at the late 1990's early 2000's they allowed swear words in the book and being raised very catholic mom was not happy to see bad words in my comic book. (Plus, she was raised on the old Gold Key Donald Ducks, Uncle Scrooge, and Chip and Dale. When Donald got mad, he was properly censored with symbols. My aunt wasn't too happy to hear that my grandparents gave me the collection that she and mom built together.) I did convince her to let me still read the new DC Scooby run at the time after proving that Scooby didn't have a potty mouth too. I am lucky to still have all of them in my life. Happy Mother's Day mom!

#'s 254-259 Future Quest Volume 2 TPB Collects Future Quest Issues #'s 7-12. I was disappointed that a lot of the Hannah Barbara new DC reboots had short shelf life. Future Quest had Space Ghost, Johnny Quest, the Impossibles, Frankenstein Jr., Birdman, The Herculoids and even Dr. Quest teaming up with his arch nemesis Dr. Zin to take on an alien force destined to devour life on earth as we know it. One thing that sort of grated on me was that the art style changed between issues. I understand that each artist has their own look, but if you are doing a series, shouldn't you try and keep the art style similar? I don't know, just my two cents. 741.......

#'s 248-253 Star Wars Doctor Aphra A Rogue's End Volume 7 Collects Doctor Aphra issue #37-40, Doctor Aphra Annual #3, & Star Wars: Empire Ascendant #1. This is the end of the Doctor Aphra series. One of my favorite ongoing series. In this last trade, Aphra finds her dad in a Jedi site while working for Vader, manages to get her father spared from death/torture by a newly enslaved torture droids that were once friends of Aphra's, tricks Vader into nearly dying while at the same time, manages to Hotwire Vader into giving a command to scramble empire files so the rebels have a few extra weeks time to escape from their current base or to at least get their shields operational. It ends with Vader once again vowing to destroy Aphra. I'm hoping Disney + makes this into a miniseries! Happy Mother's Day to any moms out there on the boards. (It can's just be all guys on here can it?) 747.......

It was pretty good, not on the same level as the Star Wars series but I liked the plot. Most of my total so far has been Star Wars Trades.

Maybe they want a fancy tray for mugs or plates on their coffee tables.

I agree with having books signed/graded past actual value for sentimental value. Been there, and done that. Don't understand trying to sell those three at .5 unless maybe the person inherited them and thought oh they will sell better slabbed?