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The Primitive Man one is the best, especially if you take it for what it was meant to be (brainwashing young minds to think the world is only 5000 years old)! I'm looking forward; I love high weirdness! Thanks again, all!

I'll second that

Guns to guns (Boys' Ranch 6, pg. 12)

You guys caused this! Hope you're happy! I am!

They might push your $300 cap even at the bottom of your acceptable grade range, but Marvel Premiere 15 and (even more so) Special Marvel Edition 15 are two of the best-reading origin/first app tales of the era, imo.

I'm in. I'll have to dig mine out to shoot and post. I had two but one went in a stack of books earlier this year in a trade for Avengers #1 and #4. (Needed the 1 to finish the run, and since I brought more than enough firepower, who can't use another #4?) But Conan 2 and 3 and my other #1 went in the deal. I know an LCS with a reasonably priced #3 hanging around; I doubt I will let it linger too long.

Crashing to catching

You're right! I didn't think of it. Great play by DP and Stan Goldeberg, but in my case I was 15 and founder of a local comic book club. It was at the first con we had organized, at a local mall, and Joe was there for free to help us kids with our club. He was also the reason we had Joe Staton, the Pinis, Herb Trimpe, Dan Green and Greg Larocque. They graciously sold us OA pages at $10; no appearance fees, autograph charges or sketch fees. I also still have the Hulk by Trimpe, inked by Dan Green. It was a good day.

Glad to see that copy is still in the collection. It's a beaut! Beautiful! For Everett/Amazing Man/comics history fans, the text page in Marvel Premiere 15 is a great read. Roy Thomas talks about the origin of Iron Fist as a homage to Everett's A-Man.

Time travel to frozen in time

Oops, I forgot Mike Higgs' Monster Society of Evil hardcover reprint, limited to 300 copies.

Finally completed my run in 2016 with a trade for #1 (and a spare #4). Gave up a stack of 18 books from Gold to Bronze, probably highlighted by an ASM 129. But I am complete. It is my all-time favorite title, and I will read it straight through before ever parting with it. My favorite story arcs in addition to the obvious classics are the Korvac saga, the Count Nefaria trilogy, and the long Masters of Evil storyline that culminated in #275, off the top of my head. Avengers #4 is probably my favorite book, and the last one I will part with, along with Flash 123, if I can help it. To me, they symbolize everything I have loved about comics with the melding of the golden age history into the silver and thus the rise to prominence of continuity.

Should I have ice cream tonight?

Not counting errors and variants, just stuff of which there ain't many left, I've got nothing known to be ultra-rare, just some Gerber 7's. Star Spangled 18, Jughead's Folly, Contact 5, the latter of which I suspect may be scarcer than its GSI rating:

Robot to robot

Timely guillotines to Atlas guillotine

Evil to evil

Thank you! Detached centerfold keeps it in that range, but it's otherwise better.

Someone call for Nedor grails?

Now I owe it to the thread to get us more firmly back on center of topic. New Gods 7 continues to heat up, it seems. I also noticed Eternals 1 and 2 seeing more demand, though we are not talking the same price point as New Gods 7.

All good, Divad! Just giving you the backstory. It was odd to me when he suggested it because I did not see it coming. I could see how you get creepy our of it; I've had it so long I have to work to see it with fresh eyes.

shameless plus for my site - Atlas Archives Phil Apologies Phil; I love your site and should have plugged it. It's just that my mind was on resources that had not yet been mentioned. Besides your site, those two fanzine profiles are the only background reading of any substance that I know of.

That's creepy . . . Ya think? The book was just about to come out, and he was very excited. Of course, as a kid, I wanted to ask for The Thing, but he offered the Pope out of excitement for his project. I figured however many sketches he's done, this would end up being less common among his body of work. It's grown on me. Maybe because Joe Sinnott is just about the nicest human being on earth.

Enjoying this thread; thank you!

I from rats' tails to Witches Tales