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That's a great story! Love it.

You mean those Baby Hueys I got from you were your under copies??!!!??

Nice stuff!

Great job and nice luck!

Saw it the second time last night in downtown Berkeley. Shocked that the theater was near full on a Tuesday night. Had the same thought as you about the German speaking part. I liked the final battle a lot more the second time. Audience was majority female Cal students it seemed and they laughed hard at all the jokes from the time she comes upon Pine in the pools to the end of the London fish out of water stuff. Audience loved this movie. Such a winner.

I was buying these avidly around 1976/1977 and maybe 1978 at maybe two convenience stores along M-89 in SW Michigan. I do not remember ever seeing a pack that had a Marvel and a DC in the same pack. Just one or the other. I remember most being excited about getting as many Our Army at Wars as I could. The new issues were on issue 300=305 or so and you could get ones in the late 290s at the stores. My best find was getting one of the new DC dollar comics in a pack. So yeah, getting a giant was a big deal. I think I got a giant HOM later too. As you guys say, these packs set up the interesting dynamic where the interior is a vivid childhood memory but when you add a copy with the cover as an adult, the cover feels a bit detached from the experience and you don't have the attachment to the cover. Kind of like when you have one part of a story as a kid and get the other years later. I loved Detective 447 to death as a kid. Reread it tons of times. When I got 448 years later I wasn't so interested in the rest of the story. Just another comic. If the Mile High 2 collection is an affidavit return, which it is, of course, then that distributor must have been allowed to do affidavits far before the 1980s since the collection has Marvels back to what, 1966 or earlier?

Good job. The Glanzman USS Stevens stuff is among my favorites. As for Ennis War Stories, I particularly love Johann's Tiger, plus Screaming Eagles and Nightingale.

My guess is that this has something to do with the Tracy hardcover book that was out in the mid70s ala Batman From the 30s to the 70s. Those books were all DC characters except for Tracy and my guess is that this was somehow tied in to that. Ie, DC didn't specifically try to get the rights but maybe was offered it as something swung by the publisher of the hardcover books? Timing seems at least somewhat similar.

Very cool. That was one of my three favorite Treasuries I think.

Have you been to either of the Quality Comix locations in the Montgomery area? How are Brent's stores doing? I understood the main one was very back issue-centric. https://www.qualitycomix.com/page/about

Yes, we went to Comic Relief to look at overpriced Frazetta Famous Funnies! Every summer when I hear the ads for those games I think of your visit.

Exactly, and as I posted in the pre-thread about a year ago, we could try to add some content. Ie, warehouse visits, comic dinner, etc. There is the Cartoon Art Museum here too, of course. (Oh, and a trip to Isotope Comics to see all the famous art on the walls.)

Even before the first show the hope was to grow to the point where you guys would come down once in awhile!

I'm more with you. While I haven't read that story in decades (I probably page through 108-137 every year or two though) I remember main gist of the story and when you mention those origin panels I can picture them all, right down to the general's tie. Not sure it matters about the stories after 150 considering 94-150 are pretty much the best mainstream comics of that period. A few years ago multiple board members including myself said that X-Men basically ended with 175. Great stuff up to 175 and then starts repeating itself, becoming even more soap opera, etc. And I can't tell you how disappointed I was with Annual 7 after how tremendous annuals 3-6 were. Annual 8 was probably even worse.

That's my collect insure dealer's insurance. Second floor is fine. It's called a stillage, I believe. If in a basement, has to be on shelves, essentially. Which totally makes sense and is good practice.

I only had two, Tec 438 and a Tarzan, but read them relentlessly. Lucked into two 100-page OAAWs when I was about six years older. Read those a lot too.

Is Wolverine #1 (1982) no longer the most slabbed book?

Some, but they usually just like comics, might to go a con, but aren't going to collect heavily. There are some great new collectors for sure, but not enough to make up for the people aging out of the hobby. HOWEVER...I see the movies and tv bringing a lot of collectors back to the fold. Tons of 40-60 year olds. They will age out faster than new fans, but it's a healthy development.

Haha, excellent point! Having limited funds and limited distribution points in my small town, I often missed the first or second part until I settled on the Rexall Drugs which seemed to get them on a regular uninterrupted basis. I managed to miss almost no issues for about 40-45 months in a row when I was a kid.

Batman tv show reruns, Jules Feiffer's Great Comic Book Heroes, and Batman from the 30s to the 70s. Followed almost immediately by DC treasuries and DC Famous First Editions.

Man, that white bar donut you brought (what we called a "Long John" in Michigan) was sooo good. I have never seen them for sale in Berkeley.

If your stuff is in a basement it needs to be six inches off the ground to be covered from water damage.

I totally agree! Great help, much appreciated. We had 12-15 board members there. I think our record was last August with 20. Should be a new record in August.

Dupes from like 20-centers to 35-centers. I know there were two IM 55s, I believe 3 WBN 32s. I bought two GS ASM 4s and two Tec 474s and one of two DD 131s from them.