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All this Longshot talk made me realize I need to upgrade my #3. I have two copies, but the best is maybe a 9.0. I just found out that that book is fairly tough in high grade.

I think Longshot might have had the first ever mullet in comics, too. He also had lots of pouches and that one eye that sparkeled ...

Issue 244 seems to be doing well. I just looked at that one and it seems to be puling a minimum of $25.00 for anything advertised as 8.0 or above.

I am an Al Milgrom apologist. I love his work from that era, in particular his run on Spectacular Spiderman. It has a charm that maybe only I and a few others see, but I swear it's there. I even really like JRJR up until Punisher Warzone and pre-X Force Liefeld too, though. As a matter of fact, there are very few Copper Age artists I don't like. They were all so unique and had their own styles at that time and looking back I really like the diversity of it all. Bronze Age was good too, but I feel Marvel had too much of a "house style" at that point and they were maybe forcing artists to draw in the same way. In the Copper Age they let the artists do their thing, but then in the early 90's they probably forced everyone to draw like Image, and that is where the real decline began for me. I can't even begin to care about the modern stuff. It goes in one eye and out the other, but that may just be the lack of nostalgia. It all looks like a computer did it, as opposed to an actual human with personality.

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I felt the same way. The whole concept was just too bloated for its own good, probably. The Wolverine and Punisher miniseries are pretty universally regarded as the best, and that was because at heart they were not gimmicks. With those I got the sense that they were published not to simply sell comics but because they were stories that needed telling.

Milgrom gets a lot of flack, but I find that that era of his art is very charming. The Kitty Pryde / Wolverine mini-series came from the same time and was good in the same way.

That just means you have great taste!

I remember Fraga. There was also a Pacella too. Thinking back, I don't know if the pencils were what Liefeld influenced as much as the way the inking was done.

No, that was Dan Panosian, I believe. He was a Liefeld clone who even took over X-Force when the original left for Image.

I forgot about that one. I don't know if the other one really was (as he didn't put Adams under his Keith), but it just reminded of that poster. BTW, it is weird seeing Austin's inks over Keith's pencils. Austin made every artist he inked over look as clean and efficient as they could be.

I'll help you. The GR / Cable one is ok, but the Wolverine one is a great homage to the more famous Art Adams poster. The curly cues are insane on that one too. Keith liked curly cues like Liefeld liked pouches.

This is the obvious choice for me.

Wendigo and Sabretooth were my two favorite villains as a kid. One was a man-eater and the other was a cold blooded murderer capable of other ghastly deeds as well. The stories they were involved in gave the heroes a genuine evil they had to battle. Both were absolutely ruined for me around the same time- Wendigo with that "Perceptions" storyline and then Sabretooth around Wolverine 50 or so.

True. Even as bad as things got around 94 or so, there were still some things I enjoyed after that era. The Ennis / Dillon Punisher and Daredevil Marvel Knights I remember liking a whole lot. I liked X-Men the Hidden Years too. That was probably because those were throwbacks to a more classic era though.

BA 12 is the 2nd most expensive book of the 90's I can think of, and it feels more copper than modern to me, but I still don't desire that one enough to spend the price it commands because it is not one I ever wanted as a kid. I still totally recognize its key status and staying power, though.

I think NM 87, 98 and X-Men 266 and ASM 361 are all really fun books that there will always be a market for because they were all made when collectors were still primarily readers and cared about the art and stories.

They were made in 1990, but I always associated the NM run as pure, good old copper. Those were pre-gimmick, pre-speculation issues that were designed to attract readers. Also, as much as people seem to dislike Liefeld, that was his best era, and he did draw a mean pre-retconned Sabretooth too. The beginning of Image in conjunction with the die-cut hologram covers at Marvel and the death of Superman is in general where the modern era starts for me and when I finally realized (even way back then) that what was being released was stuff that I and largely nobody else really wanted anymore.

Uncanny X-Men 125 - 142 is my favorite stretch of comics ever, with only 130 being a little too campy. I would have gone earlier even, except for the somewhat weaker issues after 120 and 121.

He has a really good jock strap, or he is missing something else too.

The major hint is that Wolverine appears to be wearing his "Fang" costume. Besides Iron Fist 15, I don't know where else that costume's use occurs outside of the actual X-Men run.

I like the story and the inside myself. I am a sucker for 70's DC horror, so that may be why. However, no story is going to be good enough to match that cover, which is maybe the second best DC Bronze cover, after HOS 92. I got a raw 4.0 I paid $125 for about 4 years ago. I am happy to just be in the club. Here are my top 3 Adams' covers, fwiw: 1. Batman 227 2. Detective 400 3. Batman 251 Beyond that, it gets too tough to pick the best as they are all so good.

I just saw you pointing out that famous relation so I thought you might like the question. It has to do with the terms of an infinite series not necessarily being commutative, which is some mind blowing stuff. I never knew it until I had to teach a Cal II class. The series for e^x converges absolutely, so the terms can be arranged without effecting the sum. More can be found here if you are interested: Riemann series theorem - Wikipedia (I'll stop derailing the thread now.)

Here is a question you might like: In the proof, why is it ok to rearrange the terms of the Taylor series for e^x?

Yes, if you go to each site and type "chicago looting" in their search bar the story will show. I know the rules of the board and I knew I would be pounced on but I posted anyway. My mistake it won't happen again.