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tried to compensate for the flash here since it killed the Blackhawk #19 ya like so much...

I think this is my favorite of the DC S&K series

Since you asked nicely!

OK, inspired by this thread, I finally got out my wife's digital camera and learned how to post pics from it. Maybe next time I'll remember to turn off the date stamp!

Labels are switched. Greggy wins. What do I do about this? Do I ship them back on my dime and they fix the problem and ship them back to me on their dime. Or do I have to pay for shipping both ways? They paid for my shipping both ways when they did it once. Go contact Steve or Gemma. Will do, thanks for the info . That's a weird one. The dates on the labels are reversed, but 261 does in fact have an Arthur Suydam art job, so that part of the label is correct! I don't know about the other credits... WTF? Surely CGC has a database of issues with all this stuff pre-populated. I could see if they switched the labels within your submission (human error after all). But this looks like someone was actually keying in the data, and misread the publication dates of your two books.

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There's a thread in Comics General (yeah, I know... ) speculating that these latest Rosa listings are in fact mistaken re-lists due to finger-problems by Rosa's flunky's flunky.

The Shade I actually answered this question a few pages later. This character is confused with another ghost-like character that has haunted Bat-man--which we've discussed here as well. (The Squire?) Hey Sterling, you may be convolving a couple of different things here. I think the Ghosts-host (heh) is called "Squire Shade." He does indeed look a lot like the "Gentleman Ghost," who was a Hawkman bad guy that did later have a couple of run-ins with the Batman. Our old bud Shiverbones is my source. Any Bronze horror fans who haven't visited Shiver's site are missing out.

Sterling, It's not exactly a review, but inspired by October's posting the entire story of "The Demon Within" earlier in this here thread, I've posted my second favorite DC Bronze Horror story: Wally Wood's "The Monster" in the Overlooked Readers thread.

Thanks Jbone for the lightning-fast payment! Your books are on their way to you as of this morning.

Decided to rescue this post from one of the many other threads tangential to this one. I'll have to see if I can find the original NY Times Magazine article I downloaded at the time. I had thought the GL/GA relevance made a pretty big splash even prior to the drug issues (after all, they did slumlords, racism, a thinly-veiled Manson story, an Agnew caracature, a satire of the Chicago Seven trial, etc.) If this piece was published May 2, it would have been within a month or so one way or another of the time of the on-sale date of GL #85 (cover date Aug/Sep 1971), so who knows? I'm now interested in re-reading the NYT story to see if the GL/GA drug issues were part of that piece's hook. ** Edited to add-- I just took a look at the next issue blurb at the end of GL/GA #84: the next issue was projected to go on sale June 24, so the NYT piece is at least one example of mainstream hype, a couple of months prior to the DC drug books. Thanks for the pointer, Douglas. I just downloaded the Saul Braun article. A great artifact from the times. Interesting though that it spends most of its time talking about: - the Spidey drug books - GL/GA - Kirby's 4th World books - even Archie tackling environmental and diversity issues! Captain America, Black Widow, Lois Lane also merit mention, but no word on Conan or the New/Old Look Batman by O'Neil & Adams. And of course, not to beat a dead horse, but all the above stuff was in the works well before any CCA revision. I was particularly interested in the quotes from Carmine Infantino and Stan Lee: They both seem to acknowledge that the 1970 relevance experiment was DC's attempt to leapfrog past Marvel. The "Marvel Age," beginning in 1961, had clearly made the older DC Silver Age approach obsolete. Infantino is really crowing here about his GL/GA and New Gods, while Stan comes across as having a justifiable case of sour grapes, since the super-heroes-in-the-real-world approach is something he had popularized years before. Of course, Stan had the last laugh as the DC experiments failed, Infantino was sacked, and by the middle of the 1970s Marvel was on top to stay...

And CGCWorld raises an interesting point: What were the first Spidey Bronze Age books? The first issue published after Conan #1? #89 The first issue published with a 1970 cover date? #80? My old idea was the first Bronze ASM was the first one Stan delegated to someone else to write, #101. Turning the flagship over to the understudy was yet another indication of the Marvel Age of Comics losing its original cohesion. But in retrospect the ASM drug issues are a lot more Bronze Age than Silver, so dating the first Bronze ASM as late as 1971 will not do. So what's the first Bronze Spidey??? (paging FFB, paging FFB)

I agree with this 100%. (Though actually, by the time GL/GA 85, 86 were published, the code had been liberalized, and those books came out with the code seal) In order to agree with this, I'd have to believe that the importance of GL/GA #76 was only recognized in hindsight, after the subsequent drug issues #85 & #86 were published. A bit before my time, but I've never seen any reference to this being the case.

Amazing Spider-Man, The #96 1963 Series - Marvel, May 1971, coverprice 0.15 , 36 pages. Green Lantern #76 1960 Series - DC, April 1970, coverprice 0.15 , 36 pages.

I agree Jayman, that's a great little mini-series. It also has a loose tie-in to the original Teen Titans series #28 & 29, also written by Skeates. The same aliens are conspiring with Ocean Master in that one. That kind of cross-title continuity was rare for DC at the time.

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Jay, I don't believe Time Warp was a vehicle to use up inventory horror stories. Instead, I think it was an attempt to cash in on the Star Wars fad, but DC hedged its bets by making it dark SF rather than space opera (hoping for the crossover appeal to horror fans that you note). In fact I think Time Warp's cancellation created inventory SF stories that were used up by the later (also abortive) revival of Mystery in Space, and eventually in the remaining horror anthologies such as Unexpected. But there was some great stuff published in those few issues. My favorites were a handful of stories written by J. M. De Matteis (my first exposure to his work) and drawn by Tom Sutton.

Catch Me if You Can hinged on Leonardo DiCaprio's use of a Barry Allen alias, and Tom Hanks employs a handful of what appear to be NM Silver Age Flash issues to figure this out. As I recall one of the books shown was Flash #135 ("The Power that Changed Kid Flash!")

I was a subscriber to the CBG email news flashes, and the September 20 2002 mailing contained this bit from that week's column by "Mr. Silver Age": I just had to sign up to weigh in on that one, again and again and again: Probably 90% of my posts over the first 3 months pertained to that discussion over various threads. So I guess indirectly, Pimpy brought me here!

I always liked the way you could pick up on obscure military jargon by reading the books: "Get that tank-part or we're all dead"

That's a nice LD cover I don't remember ever seeing before. Whassup with the label note (where the PQ usually is) that calls out Mike Grell?

I'm pretty sure single panels or even selected pages would be fine, and covered under the "fair use" standard for copyright purposes. Heck, I even think scanning a short story would be ok, like October did for "The Demon Within." I've been thinking about doing the same for my fave Wally Wood Bronze Horror story "The Monster." Oh, and don't forget your former co-conspirator's web page www.shiverbones.com. He's already done a bit of what you're talking about, and done it quite well.