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1 hour ago, SupergirlDC19591 said:

He only ever bet as a coach and only for his team to win a game never the opposite. He never placed a bet as a player.....never.

Thanks. That's what I thought. And I have no problem with it. He's a competitor, he bet on himself, essentially (as a manager). Who cares? 

But cheating in all its various forms is clearly okay. Keep pro baseball, it makes me feel like a sucker.

7 hours ago, Brian48 said:

Coming onto this thread late and I'm a bit confused.  Are not limiting this to Silver Age?  If not, I assume someone's already mentioned Hulk 181 and Conan 24?

I think it's supposed to be Silver only, but that was like Blutarsky in Animal House! Don't stop him, he's on a roll!

16 minutes ago, SupergirlDC19591 said:

This Pete Rose video always makes me sad....I hate to see him reduced to this (I know he bet on baseball as a coach but not a s a player)....the guy is a living legend he should be around the game in my opinion. He is the Babe Ruth of modern day baseball!! People will regret him not been in baseball after he retired once he passes away....there will never be anyone who will beat his record for hits.....not going to happen!!

 

 

I always wondered, though, I did not see it clarified...not that I looked hard....but I think it's relevant. Did he ever bet against his own team? That of course implies throwing, which I would not believe of him, unless told otherwise. If he only bet on his own team, who gives a rat's ? Don't race horse owners bet on their own horse? I think juiced balls and steroided freaks did a lot more to ruin the game for me (not to mention a strike that gave us a year without a World Series. That opened my eyes. I cannot unsee. I was done.)

The Black Terror #1 still looks like a bargain at $600....

Ki-gor to Hector

8 hours ago, Straw-Man said:

boy comics 24 is sold.

Thanks Straw! 

20 hours ago, 01TheDude said:

Interesting that you did not hear that term. I started collecting around 1975 and always heard it referred to that way from the beginning. GA/SA was clearly established and people discounted the 1970s by throwing the term bronze at it as bronze is a less valuable metal than silver or gold. Just like music from the 50s was referred to as Golden Oldies back then frequently.

Within the hobby-- most understand what you mean by Atomic Age. And we all understand the vast difference between 1990s "moderns" and current output. I've always been fond of the term Chromium age for the period myself-- but since i don't collect that era, I don't mind what it is called. My collection barely touches into the copper age and only from a completion perspective on a few titles. SA and BA are my huckleberry if you will. It seems pretty common for people to collect from the era of their childhood (with numerous exceptions of course).

I heard it in the '70s, just not from day one. I simply mean there's a time when books were coming out without the era being labeled. (Kind of like how some folks are saying, hey what era are today's books? We can't still be in the modern era. To my mind, nothing since Copper and the birth of independents needs or warrants an era label. They're just current books at the time. Heck, Dave Sim and the Pinis may even argue about when independents were born.)

I go back to I can call it atomic or 50's; I don't think it's essential to have a label that encompasses every period. That said, the 50's and 70's are very important timespans in comics history, with the 70's in some ways bringing back elements of the 50's, just as the SA brought back elements of the GA in a broad sense (the superhero milieu).

10 hours ago, kav said:

I like Foil Age both for the foil used on covers and the foil hat element of people thinking they would be valuable.

That's beautiful; even allowing for different tastes (your trash is someone's treasure, etc) the exuberance was irrational.

Four at zoo to number four, off to war

Straw,

Just PayPal, or are money orders and/or checks acceptable?

33 minutes ago, comicjack said:

Two headed to a whack in the head

 

That's a new one on me! Cool cover! Western explicit violence not quite as common as the crime/horror variety. 

Pre-Internet, checks and money order were the mail order options. Fortunately, this is a self-policing community that also does a great job of blowing the whistle on eBay scammers. I would think (barring the usual lists that most sellers caveat) that the actual burn rate on here is pretty low. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the regulars and semi-regulars seem a pretty affable bunch. I haven't been here long, but my first sale (through the let's get married thread) was via personal check, and I even sent it out before the check hit in that case, frankly, because I felt comfortable with the buyer and their reputation in the hobby.

Unless one is selling absolute whales, I don't see a lot of risk as scammers know they will be outed loudly and quickly. So now the scammer is down to one and done, so it better be a doozy to be worth it, no?

I'm sure many on here have met in person already and are fine transacting big books at a distance via check. Barring that, I can see wanting a measure of peace of mind in a first-time big book deal with someone you don't know.

But the camaraderie that underlies these boards also makes establishing that friendship part of the fun. If I transact a big book with someone on here. I'd certainly reach out via PM to determine logistics to see if in-person over coffee would be possible. 

Am I crazy?

Hood by Wood to he-man by Kurtzman

1 hour ago, jjfversion1 said:

Christmas with the Super-Heroes 1

GLWTS! I'm curious myself to see if the virtual dollar box can thrive on the boards...cool idea....hopefully, I'm boosting this thread by pointing out that the cover above is made quite disturbing by Robin's bare foot....weird....

I don't get too bent out of shape about it either way. Sure, atom age better describes post-war thru at least mid-50's (though arguably the hallmarks of silver age storytelling don't really come along until FF#1; much of the DC hero revival stuff has no new tone to it to speak of) but arbitrary cut offs don't neatly describe every book in a given year. For example, Adventure Comics from 1946 reads more GA than Atomic in its substance.

People love to quibble about this stuff, and it's interesting, but comics evolution is more of a continuum, it seems to me.

Then again, growing up in the '70s, before it was declared the Bronze Age, it didn't strike me as necessary to have an Age label to encompass every year of comic history. WWII was Golden, Silver was the hero revival. The interim and the new stuff were cool and different on their own, absent a label.

War to war to...war III

Dr Fate to Doc Savage

Just now, comicjack said:

Sorry

Same here

Hand of fate to jewel of hope

Blue Beetle 43 

Patsy to Nellie

It's all over the Internet but no attribution. My first thought was she looks like Caniff's Dragon Lady, but the attire isn't quite right. 

Susie to Georgie

Cindy to Tessie