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How about this postcard apologizing for the delay in Image #0... Entertainment This Month (the subscription service of American Ent) reminds you it's not their fault!

Took advantage of so many of the guys being at San Diego this year to get multiple sigs!

You won't get any useful info from mrSTUx

As much as I love Antarctic Press and am glad they're finally getting some attention, I think some of these speculator rushes are just scams. This isn't a Sailor Moon comic, it's a news/reviews magazine in comic book size (since about issue 14). It might be neat to have an early US appearance, but it's not much different from collecting Wizard or Comic Shop News, as far as I can tell, except you can trick people who will never open it into thinking it's a comic. I have almost all of this Mangazine run, and it's a great resource for news and opinions from the time period, especially the retrospective articles by Shon Howell about his time with General Products USA. The hype building around the Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z issues is just from speculators who raided dollar bins and launched a "pump and dump" campaign. Now, the Leeanna and Dog Supreme short story in issue 28 is something worth looking for!

Mostly... the only exceptions I can think of are the Whitman DCs, the DC Universe label, and the "Multipack" variant Marvels, aka Whitman Marvels, aka "Fat Diamond" Marvels. CGC now recognizes these as multipack editions: CGC news article about newsstands and multipacks I'm not sure if some of the later printings of GI Joe, Thundercats, Transformers, and Secret Wars were available outside multipacks, or if these should be considered multipack exclusives?

This issue has the first published appearance of Gold Digger, the long-running series (approaching 300 issues!) about a super-scientist archaeologist and her were-cheetah adopted sister. This was a couple of years before Tomb Raider made the scantily-clad archaeologist a mainstream genre.

A little love to AP's super sentai team, who first appeared in Ninja High School 7 (Sep 88). Maybe the first original US sentai team, this was a few years before the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers is thought to have brought the idea to the US.

I've never heard of that happening, but I guess it's theoretically possible. I've done my dropoff on the last day and never had an issue. I suspect they would just rent another truck if they had too much to transport.

Do you have your address set for Walgreens? I attempted to have them reroute it to a nearby FedEx Office (Kinkos) location, but did not have that option under "manage delivery." "Due to shipper restrictions, additional delivery options are not available for this shipment. For more information please contact the shipper."

Box arrived yesterday. Slightly crushed, but contents inside were just fine. Checked in by CGC: 23 September Shipped by CGC: 5 October Elapsed time: 12 days Accepted by FedEx: 5 October Delivered by FedEx: 17 October Elapsed time: 12 days

Probably the only negative experience I've had with a creator was one who was openly hostile to the idea of slabbing. Even though I only had a few issues for signing, discussed the storyline, and bought some prints (clearly indicating I was a reader and fan, not a flipper), his attitude immediately changed when he realized I was with a witness and actually physically turned away from me. I haven't displayed the prints or bought any more of his work since.

Not bad for a quadruped. If my slabs show up two weeks late but delivered by Punxsutawney Phil, all is forgiven.

Got this email today, looks like I can expect the FedEx DeLorean to arrive last week! Hi, .. Your package from SHIPPING MANAGER is delayed. It is scheduled to arrive on Fri 10/07/2022 estimated between 8:05am and 9:20am.

Let's not overlook current Antarctic products! Still a lot of quality stuff coming out of there.

And that's not even considering the variety of alphabets in the world. I don't have to translate Os Justiceiros to retype it into the database, but where to even begin with Indonesian, Arabic, Korean, etc etc?? If you don't know how to recognize those characters you've really got nowhere to even start. That being said, there was, is, and will be a dedicated fan base who could have provided some supportive input (at least as a starting point). If I submit Die Spinne 95 (Condor, 1983) and say it has contents from Amazing Spider-Man 238 and Tales of Asgard 1, it should be relatively simple to check that with available resources. I spent a lot of time cataloging international editions for Grand Comics Database. You don't have to accept that at face value, but if you have my copy of Dan Defensor 1 (Ediciones Vertice, 1981) and GCD suggests it contains Daredevil 152, start there and verify it. I think a lot of us would have contributed to the CGC notes database voluntarily, and it would just take a few positions of responsibility to verify it. I think most of us would even agree to longer TATs under a "CGC Worldwide" process for non-US originating books. Send in a well-known UK edition of Mighty World of Marvel and get it back fairly quickly. Send in the fist confirmed Filipino National Book Store edition of Marvel Feature 3 and expect the label to indicate it includes the contents of US Marvel Feature 3 and the letter column from US X-Men 98, it may take a while. I guess that's a long way to say grading international editions has been an enormous missed opportunity for every company that's tried it. Maybe someday this niche will grow to a size that will justify the effort of a new labeling system and terminology...

I called the customer service, 1-800-GoFedEx, and after navigating the computer interaction to finally get to a person, he basically just read the tracking info to me. "No problem, it's scheduled for delivery next business day!" "But what about the previous times it said it was on the truck but nothing happened?" *shrug over the phone*

Another day. On FedEx vehicle for delivery. Delivery exception. Delivery delayed. Delivery scheduled for next business day. Three days in a row the box has been on the truck for delivery but not delivered.

I'm currently awaiting a FedEx return of books... first scheduled delivery: Oct 7. On the truck for delivery. Delayed. Next scheduled delivery: Oct 10. On the truck for delivery. Delayed. Next scheduled delivery: Oct 11. So what's been happening? Looking into the tracking details, no delivery attempts were made. NO DELIVERY ATTEMPTS MADE. Apparently they're just taking my slabs out for joyrides.

I've always been curious about the pixelated cover art to SiP 3, I wonder if it was originally drawn on computer or scanned for reproduction at a lower resolution?

It's unclear whether or not Marvel approved the story. Bear in mind the office politics in Marvel at this time: Stan Lee was the man in charge, but he was pretty distracted by other things. Allegedly, Stan Lee approved the death of Gwen Stacy without really reading the proposal, then was pretty mad when they actually killed her. It's pretty easy to imagine the Mexican publisher La Prensa calling to say they wanted to make some changes to be more appealing to the local audience and whoever answered the phone at Marvel saying "Sure, sure. Whatever you need." I guess it is fair to say it's Mexican canon, because it definitely was part of their regular published run of the series. The non-canon issues are pretty easy to identify, as they usually have a damsel on the cover and involve fighting aliens or robots or something. They also made some non-canon Master of Kung Fu and a few others.

As much as I'm sure I'll regret engaging with you, I just want to suggest the specific issue in question defies both these claims, as it was originally published in Spanish, and has not been officially translated into English (although I think they made a German edition a few years ago). It is also not a reprint of American comics, but certainly is derivative. Not everyone likes international editions of comics, and that's fine. It's clear you are in this camp, and that's fine. So noted. Move on.

It's part of why these are "non-canon" Spideys. The Mexican audience/distributors/someone was so put-off by the death of Gwen Stacy they actually deviated from the -script sent by Marvel HQ. In this issue specifically, Peter marries Gwen and this becomes the status quo for Mexican Peter Parker, about 15 years before US Peter Parker marries MJ. Considering this fan-fiction is just to be disparaging. The original Japanese Spider-Man manga isn't "fan fiction," and neither is this. It's original, foreign-sourced Spider-Man produced professionally and under license.

The next series I want to dive in to, once I finish getting the last few issues of Twilight X. I always enjoyed the way Ted integrated such detailed vehicles into his artwork.

Here's one in my collection I'd like to have marked as "newsstand" on the label. Yes, it's readily apparent by looking at it that this is not the standard edition, so the label notation isn't adding anything as important as a Mark Jewelers or Mennen ad insert notice. But, if nothing else, the 15 points this issue is worth to the registry are certainly not representative of the notability of this issue. Maybe it's not important to note Spidey head vs. UPC on a random, plentiful Copper Age comic like Avengers 288, but there certainly are cases where it may be important.

Joe Wight turned in some ABSOLUTE KNOCKOUT covers... here are a couple of my favorites: