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Forgive my ignorance with FedEx. But isn't the ONLY acceptable signature supposed to be the Shippee? ie. if a package is for Charles Xavier only he can sign for it.

BA Kirby...

A different LL First Appearance...

This is one of my favorite channels. This is a good episode. Skip to the 21 minute mark to be spoiled.

Better off searching for one of these... Check out Rare Mad Magazine 1999 Alfred E. Neuman 14" "What, Me Worry?" Statue Vintage on eBay! https://www.ebay.ca/itm/185813236613?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=u6_YoZC5RCm&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=f4LPc_YNTmy&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=EMAIL

Maybe this one... Hasn't necessarily tanked a lot like Ms. Marvel 1 but is not near the highs of when the movie came out.

I didn't really have a connection to Avengers really at all. I was more a DC and X-Men guy. But the ability to own a classic Kirby cover was definitely a Memphisto level of temptation. But I was and have always been a Turtles guy and the trade has always made me now go with what speaks to me personally in a historical sense rather than owning a key that I really didn't have any connection too.

Let's hear your stories of Sales, Trades or Buys you've made that you instantly regretted. NO stories of "If only I Purchased that Comic instead of that Comic off the Newstand/LCS Forty years ago I'd be a millionaire." They have to be head slapping, WTF did I just do that stories. Mine is I traded my First Print TMNT 1-4 mid grade set that I purchased in the late 80s to a dealer for a high grade Avengers 4. I walked out of the store and sat in my car and was like why did I just do that (it was my love of Kirby and Cap and my love of TMNT was winding down) Avengers was more mature of a comic taste I guess which is why I went for it. Every time I looked at I just thought of my Turtles comics. What's yours?

Triple dip for me too. Have them on VHS too.

https://www.gamesradar.com/the-classic-40s-max-fleischer-superman-cartoons-are-getting-a-new-digital-remaster/ Preservationist part of me is happy. These are my favorite superman cartoons growing up eventhough they came out many years before I was born.

I work in the Toy industry so I can maybe give a little perspective here. Toy manufactures, not just Funko, are notorious for 1 to 1 ratio of character or item production regardless of the character or item they are producing. Funko is particularly bad for this. When the Moon Knight Funkos came to my store (and this happens 100% of the time and again not just with Funko) we received 30 Moon Knights, 30 Mr.Knights, 30 Arthur Harrow, 30 Layla and 30 Konshuu. Anyone want to take a guess what sold out and what we have excess of stock? I've had the discussion with vendors from Mattel, Hasbro etc. about why this happens and it all comes back to the economies of scale argument. It's cheaper to do the full run than try to scale it by say doing the main hero/villain figures at a 2 to 1 ratio ie. 20 He-Man and Skelator figures to 10 Trapjaw and Ram Man's. Anyone want to buy 30 Boastful Loki?

Excellent! It reminds of little pleasure of doing a comic Poker hand. Here's one of my Bronze age ones.

Lower Grade but glad to own it.

What are the little pleasures or quirks of the hobby that give you joy outside of the books themselves? For me one of the things I enjoy is the cataloging aspect of the hobby. Also I get a happy feeling after I've rebagged and boarded an entire series into a new short box and see them all lined up perfectly uniform and fresh in the box. Thoughts?

Lower grade but happy to have.

Yo Joe!

I do feel you. I was vacillating between Byrne and Perez for the 80s. I'm a huge Byrne fan. Byrne had X-Men, FF, and my personal favorite Superman. But I looked at Perez' body of work with New Teen Titans (which was outselling X-men at one point) COIE, Wonder Woman and his technical skill and pushed him a smidge above Byrne. Frank Miller I enjoyed for his writing more than his art.

I kind of take that into account when choosing Blank of the Decade lists. If it was just my favorite artists from each decade my list would also be different.

I could be persuaded on McFarlane for the 90s. Kirby in the 40s had nowhere near the impact he had in the 60s (eventhough he co-created Cap). He was drawing: Fantastic Four Journey into Mystery Tales of Suspense X-Men Avengers Strange Tales Sgt. Fury Some almost all simultaneously. While also doing a ton of covers at the same time. He did the cover to the most famous Marvel book of all-time AF15 cause the Editor thought the one Ditko drew was spoon. He doesn't get enough credit cause Stan Lee took it all from his artists and co-creators (same boat Ditko was put in).

So 1980s John Byrne?