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Great taste as always, Brian - or should we call you Mitch now??

Great pick-up on the 79! That one has great visual punch. I was eye-balling that one as well. I'm happy with my 88.

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I'll also take Spider-Man Annuals 11 and 12

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Take this and the three issues of Red Wolf

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Take this too at 20% off - I want a few with the mailing label. It's cool to know where they came from!

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Ken Burns sort of puts me to sleep - zzzzzz. Great stuff, but there is so much there to digest. It's heavy. Two hours seems like six. I have to be in the precisely right frame of mind. I'd go with Step Into Liquid. As a midwestern boy, I'm more fascinated by surfing.

Thanks for posting all these!! I'm sure it was no small undertaking the time spent collecting all these scarce, high-grade examples. I tend to like the earlier line-drawn Four Colors with the usual syndicated characters, but I've always appreciated the TV and MTI higher numbers as great windows into American pop culture at the time. Do you collect any of the earlier issues with a similar zeal?

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I'll say!! GLWTS!

That does ring true with me as well - all those greens yielding to greys and browns. The art is still good on the Populars, but the title is always the same blocky font, whereas Avon kept doing custom typography. Recently, I was doing some mental gymnastics as to whether Popular is my favorite or Avon. A straight-up comparison of the first five hundred or so is impossible for me, so I broke it down a 100 at a time. Avon won the first hundred, that I know. I'll figure out the other centuries today!

I was looking back a few pages and realized that I've never seen The Chuckling Fingers in hand. Even if I can't afford them, I've seen all the top golden age grails in person. How is it a Popular in the 200's is comparatively more elusive?

It's neat to have the later printing with the Avati cover next to the earlier ones by Jonas. Such a difference in approach, and I like them both.

Does anybody have a preference for the more highly illustrated paperback covers versus the earlier, more graphic-design dominated first printings? Authors like Caldwell and Spillane certainly come to mind: In my earlier days, I zipped right past them in favor of the earlier editions. Now, I rather prefer them in many cases.

I believe FanBoy took the FF 31 a few posts later (or I would have!).