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Your Omnibus colors are God-awful compared to the book in my hand. I'm sorry. The Omnibus book colors are so sickeningly sweet and glossy bright colored, as if rubbed by cotton candy. When I came around asking about these supernatural Batman stories I was warned about the Omnibus colors so the couple of books I have to read, I paid up for the real deal. Seeing your book, I'm glad I did

that was amazingly interesting. thanks for posting.

I'm starting to like date-stamped books more and more. To all who responded: Thanks for all the information!

The Micronauts don't seem to popular. Hard to find even at the action figure collector show. I loved those toys

Let's put it this way, Irv Novick is no Mike Kaluta. Damn his work on the Shadow book is mind-bogglingly good!

6.5

I just read DC's The Shadow #1 (70s) and the art was killer and the story sucked. I'm thinking about collecting the run (I believe there were only 12 issues) but with the 1st issue story sucking that bad, I'm kinda hesitant to read the rest. I never read the Batman book with The Shadow crossover so I can't say if it's good or bad. I think there is a Batman crossover in The Shadow book, also.

So if a book has a date stamp on it, it's a good bet that it made it out into the wild as opposed to remaining in a box or something like that at the distributor/printer?

Most selling venues didn't stamp their books (which is why I wrote 'some selling venues'). I bought comics off the rack for five years in the 1970s, and only a tiny handful of places put date stamps on their comics for sale. Thanks. Wonder what the other newsstands that didn't date stamp did to ckkp track of inventory. Yeah. I think the date usually was an arrival date. Every book would be stamped -- or would have the arrival date written on it pencil or pen. As a kid growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, I bought comics from probably six or seven places. I don't remember any of them bothering to stamp or pencil in arrival dates. Not sure why that would have been unless their sell-through rates were high enough that keeping track of unsold inventory wasn't much of an issue. good thought

Most selling venues didn't stamp their books (which is why I wrote 'some selling venues'). I bought comics off the rack for five years in the 1970s, and only a tiny handful of places put date stamps on their comics for sale. Thanks. Wonder what the other newsstands that didn't date stamp did to ckkp track of inventory.

Every copy of the book was stamped. It seems like there would be lots more copies of books date stamped. It seems that date stamped books are in the minority.

Back in the day (we'll say the 60s for this example), a book has a date stamp on it. Obviously every book didn't get a date stamp, so I'm assuming the books were bundled together (?) and the top book got the date stamp(?). Was this the receiving day the bundle of comics arrived or the date the books were to be returned? Was this date-stamped book put aside at the newsstand so the owner knew when this particular title arrived? If the date-stamped book was sold would the dealer not lose track of when the book arrived? Thanks! Any date-stamp info would be appreciated!

I'm thinking 8.5. Maybe 9.0 but looks too dirty on back cover at spine. I believe they call this "stacking dirt" where books were stacked in piles. I dunno know about the pressing question. No experience at that. Sorry.

thanks for being on top of mess like this and following through with action, Guys. Super-cool!

Thanks for the response. The action figure (with copy of Marvel Premiere #47) is the first instance of the toy that I can find. Thanks!

Thanks HouseofComics for joining the discussion. All awesome observations/points. Obviously I need to dig a little deeper into the book to find these stories.

5.0

Was in the drug store today and noticed a brand new Antman toy. Antman is my main man and that got me wondering, what year was the first Antman toy figure? Did he have a doll in the 60s? 70s? 80s? 90s? or was the fairly recent movie the first time he got his own figure? Thanks.

I'll hunt down some of those standard issues and give 'em a look. Thanks. Sorry, I meant the ADAMS books were like lightning bolts. Although, to be sure, some of the "standard" ones were quite good, too. You had Simonson Batman in a couple stories. Archie Goodwin writing. Englehart. I very much enjoyed the David V. Reed "mystery" style stuff. All of this is slightly AFTER Adams first came in and reflected the influence O'Neil/Adams had on Batman... but the "standard" stuff around the time Adams first came in will definitely give you an idea of how radical and powerful the advent of Adams...later augmented by O'Neil and other writers...really was. And how much it influenced decades of Batman up through today. Copy. And thanks!

The Warner Brothers' museum (?) exhibit (?) on their lot in Burbank has a Tec 27.

4.5 - 5.0

Thanks all that took the time to respond.

But wasn't lettering a thing? I mean back-in-the-day people were credited for lettering, no?

1.8 - 2.0

Just beginning to think about beginning to begin thinking about beginning to think about buying some OA. With that in mind, your thoughts please: I was at a convention recently with someone who appeared to be knowledgeable and well known in the comic OA world (upon further research he does seem well know-coonected). He was showing me a piece by an artist I'm thinking about buying. For a lack of better/learned language, some "text balloons" were missing from page. I said, "The word balloons are missing." He responded something like, "Well, you can just make copies of the balloons and paste them in there. People don't collect the art for that." Is this true? Isn't lettering an art? Aren't the words part of the art? Thanks from a Noob OA collector thinking about thinking about thinking….