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Thank you to mikeyriffhard for a nice stack of Bronze Age DC's. Mike's the real deal-- his VFs are very very fine, and his reader copies are exactly as advertised. Great pricing, speedy delivery, excellent packing, and...no drama. (thumbs u

I have a single Golden Age book I'm currently looking to sell. It is a low, low grade copy of World's Finest Comics #30. It will be in its own sales thread here on the forums later tonight. (thumbs u It's up now.

Thank you to the buyers from my recent thread-- lightning-fast payments, all! esquirecomics sakaridis johnenock Tropean kidcolt USA buyers, your books are already on their way. The last of the international packages goes out Monday. (thumbs u

My copy of The Dolls House (the 1st of the Sandman TPBs actually issued) also includes #8. So unless they changed things in later printings, you get issue #8 twice if you buy every TPB. Which is fine-- the story is that good. But in general the point stands-- the Sandman series is very TPB friendly, and DC has done a nice job of packaging the TPBs in ways that make sense.

1) Modern comics (with a few notable and usually short-lived exceptions) are generally dime-a-dozen. 2) Sandman in particular is one of the most reprinted series ever, with the complete story continuously available in a series of constantly-reprinted trade paperbacks.

I'm just sayin

And yes, it would be very hard to square the later Swamp Thing issues with Alan Moore's retcon that the original accident destroyed Alec Holland, replacing him with a plant elemental who was only channelling his memories. Oh well...

close (that issue has a Swamp Thing flashback)...

Sticking with Swamp Thing... towards the end of the run of the original series (#23, the final Nestor Redondo issue), Swamp Thing reverts back to Dr. Alec Holland. In what comic does he change again to the Swamp Thing (for good, this time)?

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Nice idea! (thumbs u 1971- first exposure to comics. My dad buys us some on a beach trip. The one I remember is Batman 234 (damn Neal Adams, ruined me for the next 37 years of inferior Bat-artwork! ). Book gets wet, grandmother dries it out in the oven in our motel's kitchenette. Partially explains why I never became a high-grade collector. 1974- heavily in to comics collecting, despite the vague feeling I've missed all the really cool stuff from DC in the early 1970s. Manage to get most of the Goodwin/Simonson Manhunter series in Detective new off the stands. 1978/1979- first local comic-con. discovered back issue comics store within bicyling distance. Discover Grell's Warlord as a recent back issue. Pick up the Englehart / Rogers Detective Comics new off the stands. c 1980- begin to mail-order back issues. Picked up my copy of GL #76 from Howard ("Tape is not considered a defect") Rogofsky. I did inquire about whether it had any tape beforehand though! 1981- go to college. simultaneously distracted by other things, but also discovered my first big-time comics shop: the Great Escape in Nashville. Silver Age collection balloons as a result. Back issues collect in my dorm room until periodic trips back home transfer them to the main collection. Discover Alan Moore's Swamp Thing from the Great Escape's 25 cent boxes. 1985- graduate, move to small town. Post Crisis on Infinite Earths, pretty much lose interest in mainstream new comics. Do get Watchmen and Dark Knight as new issues. 1989-1991 graduate school in Boston. Haunt the Million Year Picnic, New England Comics, Comicopia. Pretty much down to Neil Gaiman's Sandman as a new issue. 1992- back to North Carolina. Sandman and James Robinson's Starman keep me dabbling in new issues throughout the 1990s. 1998- Grant Morrison's JLA relaunch gets me interested in mainstream super-hero comics again. Start buying on eBay, where I find for the first time in my life low-grade Golden Age books to be available and somewhat affordable. 2001- Buy a new house with a decent-sized basement. Mom & Dad finally liberate their own basement from my old comic book collection. My entire accumulation together for the first time, I find a) lots of duplicates I need to sell and b) lots of beaters I need to upgrade. My buying starts to focus on the upgrading the truly low-grade examples. 2002- Discover these forums. Wife files first of several missing persons reports on me. 2005- Find myself buying way too many new comics leading up to Infinite Crisis. Dramatically cut back when it becomes clear all those mini-series are a cash grab not really tying in to the main story, which itself wasn't all that great. 2008- Very selectively buying new comics, primarily those written by Geoff Johns and Grant Morrison. Upgrading back issues, selling off undercopies, down to a dozen or so back issues I'm still actively pursuing, apart from upgrades. Most of the remaining wants are Golden Age going for more $$$ than I want to spend, so no particular hurry. 2009- :banana:

Thank you to sakaridis cloudofwit cavecarson for immediate payments for books from my Adventure Comics sales thread. Those paying by PayPal, your books are already on their way. If you paid by MO, I'll have them out by Wednesday. Thanks again! (thumbs u

Thank you to capt_comics Designer Toast cavecarson Transplant dekeuk for their VCC and post-VCC purchases. I really appreciate it, guys. (thumbs u

The Justice Society Of America, set in the 1940s. That's an excellent idea I don't remember being discussed before. The Nazis are one of the few remaining 'politically correct' villains. That would certainly set things up differently than the other super-hero movies made to date. They could recapture some of the vibe of the first Indy Jones movie. Focus on the less-powered "mystery men" of the Golden Age: Hawkman, Dr. Mid-Nite, the Atom, Wildcat, Hourman, Sandman, Starman, Wonder Woman, maybe Black Canary even though she came later in the comics. Then in the third act unlease from the shadows the big guns... Dr. Fate, the Spectre, Green Lantern.

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since it came up in the other thread

Hi Ian! You didn't like the move away from Sekowsky to Dillin? Or was it Gardner Fox's subsequent departure in favour of Denny O'Neil that you're thinking of? Personally, I thought the Dillin/Sid Greene team was pretty tight. And O'Neil had a few silly stories at first, but I've always thought the book really took off beginning with the departure of J'onn J'onzz in #71. Mike Friedrich's stuff was hit & miss, but Len Wein's run beginning in #100 was pretty great. For me, the title died after Wein's departure, particularly during the long reign of Gerry Conway as scripter (also when Frank McLaughlin was inking Dillin), only interrupted by the short Steve Englehart run, and a few nice Conway/George Perez collaborations in the early 1980s.

Thank you to rube11 for some nice mid-grade DCs, securely shipped, lighting-fast!

And, some sell-side kudos to buyers of my recent Marketplace thread: Doiby_Dickles hesdeadjim 3319 Immediate payments from all. Your books are all shipped now.