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Don't be ridiculous....looks to me like he clearly knows how to pick up chicks

Went back and traded for one more, #11. Anyone else have any books from a Beverly Larson?

These just in -- thx to a great boardie for parting with the Doll Man #40, a long-time want. The LTMM #11 and Joe Palooka #66 came from the same place -- I went in for the Looney Tunes, the Joe Palooka was there and I had never seen it before. Too cool to pass up. Commie bondage and torture with a hot branding iron, after all

Went back and landed one more from the same place, from the same original owner as denoted by her trademark "B.L." - #11

My only National currently

You were supposed to laugh! I was just Seriously though, you nailed what I love about that book -- a superhero cover with great GGA and a horror theme that presages atomic age sci-if with the "giant" insect. Kinda lame of Crandall not to work some Nazis into that cover

Bucky kidnapped to Bucky and Toro kidnapped

Actually, you nailed it! It's Rust; that's her name.

per PM! Thx!

Hey! I bought that Doll Man 40 for the giant insect attack!

Which is sad because Mad is arguably the most influential non-hero comic ever, given its ripples thru decades of culture. How many tv and film folks have cited it as an influence?

I was just clarifying because I think @BB-Gun might've misread; he's a great boardie that I do not mean to offend! Marty, there might be older ones out there somewhere, but I doubt there's one on here. (I doubt there's one out there too, I just don't know how to call the question definitively!) Thanks for sharing your books with us in here. Were you ever at any point/are you now a back issue collector of any sort, or is your collection strictly your original, off the racks books?

I think the question is oldest OO collection among boardies.

Pharaoh's woman to sultan and his women

Thank you! If Gail Simone is keeping up the list, Wal-Mart Superman #7 certainly oughtta make the cut.

Ones where I had to actually go back and assemble missing issues? -- Defenders 1-152, Iron Man 1-332, Avengers 1-402. Finished Defenders first; started that title off the racks with #12. The first 11 took some time in the days of mail order catalogs on a grade school budget. Iron Man got knocked out next. I recall needing 37 issues under #100 sometime in the early 80's. I had saved $100 and my dad took me to an LCS about an hour from my house, known for back issue stock. I walked in the door with a plan and I knocked out all 37 issues (including the then-run book 55) with enough left for Avengers #2 and ASM 9. But I passed up the $100 JIM #83 to do it. I was really on the fence but I think the fact that my dad knew I wanted to get there to assemble the run tipped me in that direction. It's not a regret but a what if moment in my collecting history. Avengers took longest and finished last. 137-up came new off the racks/from the LCS. I chipped away the early stuff over time, though I made a point of buying 93-100 soon after deciding to go for it; they seemed at the time like books that were going to be hot and pricey forever and I didn't want them getting out of high school budget reach. The turning point that made me decide to pursue it was a trade in 10th grade. My buddy, a budding artist, got a nice silver age collection with early runs of most titles. He traded me Avengers 3-19, ASM 17 and most of DD 2-10 (there was no 5 in the collection) for a Byrne page from Avengers 184, a great multi-character fight scene vs the absorbing man. Avengers 1 came last, and it came on the same day as my first GA Cap, and it came with an undercopy of Avengers 4. The Cap was coincidence; separate deal. But it's cool to me that it was the same day. I traded an 18-book stack for the two Avengers books. It was a mix of keys, cannot recall all 18 but ASM 129 was what the guy really wanted, so there was that, Conan 1, Atom 1, a couple early GA Blackhawks, a really sharp SA Plastic Man 1; some other GA, a real mix. There's a few larger runs I've pulled from #1 at the LCS but they are all traded away now -- DeMatteis Justice League, Morrison JLA, West Coast Avengers, etc. Probably the only long run I've traded away that I miss rereading is the Peter David Hulk run. The Morrison JLA tpb's are ubiquitous, so it's not hard to revisit. My days of big runs are over; I will read and release smaller runs now but I am more focused on the various books I've wanted over the years and never pursued, rather than wanting to be an extensive completist. I'm working on a Kamandi run for read and release, and I've got The Demon sitting waiting to be read. Oh and I need Yellow Claw 3&4, but that one is not getting released immediately after I read it!

Thx guys! @Lazyboy @awakeintheashes Now I remember that panel; that run was an LCS pull for me back in the day but I no longer have it. Was there hullabaloo around its release at the time? Other than eBay shopping, I wasn't doing much else online in the hobby at that time, so I surely missed any discussion at the time. While it's a shocking panel, the Lois story is pretty much 12 pages of various graphic violence. (I was able to pick it up). I read that Tom King was trying to convey what goes through Superman's head when he is away from Lois and worrying, but the execution was more akin to a slasher film than a suspense thriller, which could have conveyed the concept more eloquently than overt violence. I think it's the implication/expectation that they are "safe for all ages" titles that is at the root of upset folks' upsetness. But I will now watch dollar bins for GL 54; I need to reread that and recall that panel in context. Thanks!

Additionally, about all that its publication in any form proves is that comic book editors have gotten stupider.

What's the 25-year-old book you guys are referencing? I either forgot or never knew! Sorry for slight derail but I'm racking my brain and it's making me nuts

Ben selling an Archie?!?!? To the bunkers! The end is nigh!

Tied to a chair threatened with a gun to tied to a chair threatened with a knife

Never saw it before, but thanks for the heads-up. New release?

I think that's a pretty strong list off the top of my head, but I went and looked up Suzie #73 after @telerites mentioned it; I had forgotten the image but it belongs in the discussion too. Any others?

Happy anniversary; weloome home!