joe_collector

In order to agree with this, I'd have to believe that the importance of GL/GA #76 was only recognized in hindsight, after the subsequent drug issues #85 & #86 were published. A bit before my time, but I've never seen any reference to this being the case.

Essentially, the "drug issues" got the series its main press attention, and in turn, got people interested in the whole run. If GL/GA 85 & 86 had never been published, I sincerely doubt that GL/GA 76 would be as popular and revered.

You're trying to be funny right?

Once again, the original post that we're talking about:

Marvel did it first, they knowingly took on the code, took a risk and they did it with their most popular book! Harry was hooked on something (pills, acid, something) and having flashbacks, a lot EARLIER than Speedy was.

What are you talking about? The GL issues were near a year before the Spidey drug issues?

No there were not:

Amazing Spider-Man, The #96

1963 Series - Marvel, May 1971, coverprice 0.15 , 36 pages.

Green Lantern 85

1960 Series - DC, August-September 1971, coverprice 0.25 , 52 pages.

Just to refresh your memory, here's the original post you are ALL disagreeing with:

Marvel did it first, they knowingly took on the code, took a risk and they did it with their most popular book! Harry was hooked on something (pills, acid, something) and having flashbacks, a lot earlier than Speedy was.

Amazing Spider-Man, The #96

1963 Series - Marvel, May 1971, coverprice 0.15 , 36 pages.

 

 

Green Lantern #76

1960 Series - DC, April 1970, coverprice 0.15 , 36 pages.

 

Well there you have it...

But he's talking about the codeless DRUG ISSUES, which translated (using 20/20 hindsight) into a growing appreciation for the ENTIRE GL/GA run, which started in 1970.

I do believe Marvel was first in introducing codeless drug stories to the world, and that GL/GA followed their lead.

Hey, I WAS right:

Amazing Spider-Man, The #96

1963 Series - Marvel, May 1971, coverprice 0.15 , 36 pages.

Green Lantern 85

1960 Series - DC, August-September 1971, coverprice 0.25 , 52 pages.

Too many to choose from but possibly the Animal Man issue in which he realizes that he's a comic book character.

Nothing like breaking the third wall by ripping off an old Twilight Zone episode.

As a kid, Captain Marvel 32, no question.

That book was a real mind-bender and I literally read it to pieces.

As an adult, Watchmen 6, potentially the best comic ever written.

Okay this looks like a variant but data would suggest otherwise?

Circa 1978, you're looking at a Whitman variant.

I was shaking so much and it's hard to do with one hand so i had to use my teeth and then it fell on the floor...

We ARE still talking about opening a package... right?

What is that?

Internal art from the book I assume. I am guessing the mags were text with some graphics.

Ah, then Dark Talisman must be where this is from:

Okay, it's been awhile, but here are some kudos for some forum deals. I apologize in advance, if I left anyone off the list....

Without further ado, here are kudos...

To nochips for another super transaction - very nice grading and fast shipping.

To drbanner for yet another stack of well-graded Bronze books.

To nikos for some value-priced, well-graded Bronze comics - just a super guy to deal with.

To tkg2627 for a yet another super transaction. He's the Canadian drbanner.

And to greggy for bending me over for another of his over-priced CGC books. But then again, the guy shipped it out minutes after I won the book, so it wasn't all bad.

Good job... now we just need scans of #2 and #3.

You've GOT to be kidding me. No one should be shelling out that kind of cash if they don't know what they are doing. Yet, people still do.

I recently saw a guy sell a few of these off with BINs, though I think he only got $100 a copy.

Is someone going to post a cover or two, or will this just be the "Retards with Emoticons" show?

That's what I thought.

Is someone going to post a cover or two, or will this just be the "Retards with Emoticons" show?

He's not a nice man. Maybe in college, but not now.

Believe it or not Steven Grant was my college roommate and is a very nice man.

Or not.

Kudos to nikos as well for a superbly-packed, lightning-shipped, well-graded (some might say under-graded) pack of comic goodness!!

JC - with a special song from the elementary school years "JC collects DC's, JC collects DC's, nah-nee nah-nee boo boo, stick your head in Marvel"

Hey, it was only ONE issue of Phantom Stranger.

The books came in yesterday, and kudos back to banner for another nice set of lightning-shipped, well-packed comics.

Thus, the shiny side appears to be the "non-acidic" side of the back board, while the dull side appears to be quite acidic by comparison.

Thanks for the test, but I never understood why it was even in doubt.

After all, why in the world would standard backing board manufacturers spend MORE to treat one side of the board, if you weren't actually *supposed* to use it?

I like Gog, but I think Gwen Stacy had nicer nostrils.

 

Eerie, isn't it?

I remember my angst when normal comics rose from 20 cents to 25 cents. Before, a single quarter could get ya the book and pay the sales tax.

 

You guys had to pay sales tax on comics?

 

Canadians don't pay sales tax?

Not when I was a kid, and I remember the hue and cry over adding GST to books awhile back. Canada is not a bad place to live tax-wise, assuming you don't drink, smoke or drive a car.

I remember my angst when normal comics rose from 20 cents to 25 cents. Before, a single quarter could get ya the book and pay the sales tax.

You guys had to pay sales tax on comics?

Just wanted to give the thumb's up to ArAich, divadrabnud, drbanner, tkg2627 and JiveTurkeyMoFo for some nice books.