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Great group shot! (thumbs u

You, sir, have a great wife! Treat her well!

Looks nicer than an 8.0. Simply outstanding! Thanks for posting. I never noticed the detail of the city in the background on this cover before. That has the whitest whites I have ever seen on a Golden Age!

Woot!

Very nice looking 3.0!

Man, that's pretty!

Nothing wrong with low-grade Timelys! (thumbs u P.S. Awesome sig line!

I remember the black and white implosion of the 80's, the massive store failures of the 90's, and Overstreet's "revaluing" in the 2000's. It's interesting to note that while no comic is selling as well as even the minor big 2 books of the early 90's, the industry is shipping more than twice as much product as they were in 1997. http://www.comichron.com/yearlycomicssales.html There is far more variety and I think a healthier market than has been seen since the late 40's. I am not saying there are as many comic-book readers but there are more comics published with new distribution models and even I am picking up more digital and collected works than individual new comics now. With more ways to read comics there will always be a small subset of people who want to own the original books that started their favorite characters. We will see more bust and boom cycles but I believe the back-issue market will be here long-term. Then again, my wife says I look at things with Disney-Made glasses. "Gawrsh!"

I love seeing enthusiastic Barks collectors! Fantastic group shot! (thumbs u

my feeling is it numbers in the thousands for sure Do you feel like you are seeing very many new people coming into the hobby or do you mainly deal with older, established customers? good mixture of old and new I would hate to see our hobby go the way of stamp collecting. I'm glad you are seeing what I have seen in the last few years. When I went to the Albuquerque conventions this year and last year I saw a number of teenagers and early-twenty somethings spending a couple of hundred a piece on new and kinda old comics. Stamp conventions are old white dude only affairs with the only youngsters being the ones helping behind the tables.

my feeling is it numbers in the thousands for sure Do you feel like you are seeing very many new people coming into the hobby or do you mainly deal with older, established customers?

Yikes! While I love to be part of small exclusive groups, surely there has to be more than a few thousand people who are willing to spend more than a $1,000 on a comic. G.A.tor, do you have a feel for how many people are willing to spend $1,000 on a comic?

Wow! That is just an awesome book! I love that cover. Oh and WTTBs!

Those reds are screaming! (thumbs u

Very, very nice! I still need one!

yep. the american crocodile. florida keys and the everglades mostly. strange, i know, because of all the alligators we have in that area. I checked an on-line source and it said the ratio was 500:1. But you are right, there are some. Learn something new everyday! I never knew about crocs in America; I thought it was alligators all the way down!

Very cool!

Very Nice! Congratulations!

Agreed! I used to ride my bike down a busy street in Las Cruces New Mexico just to get my newstand copies of the first ones. I still have those copies too! I've carried them from NM, to OKC, OK, to Tulsa, OK to Columbia, MD, to Santa Fe, NM. Whew! My arms are tired!

Oh man, The Lemming in the Locket, classic! It is really tough to pick the favorite Barks story. Old Castles Secret comes to mind as well.

Great reader copies! I have all of the Gladstone reprints but I still break out my reader copies to peruse every once and a while. There's nothing like the old comic book smell! (thumbs u

For me, it's the first Barks story I ever read: The Many Faces of Magica de Spell. It hooked me on Uncle Scrooge and on Barks; although, I had no idea why I liked his stories so much better than any of the other authors until much later in my life.

Never seen tha before. Thanks for posting!