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I think that happened to all of us. What I'm wondering about is how many of those kids grew up and either started their own company or took over entirely when their parents retired.

I do't know about it being the second Spidey book as the original plan was to rotate the Human Torch in as the main character every four issues or so. I've long had it on my Top 100 BA Marvels, and the black cover makes it hard to find in HG. It used to be Top 25 but other books have eclipsed it. If Disney gives us a Spidey/Torch movie, I'm sure it will pop.

$25.00

Will there be snacks? Prizes?

That is so wrong. As long as you can afford the interest, I say go for it. Why be denied something you want just because you can't pay for it. Why is it horrible to discriminate against race or religion or who a person sleeps with but it's considered good business to do so against the poor?

I can see how this might appeal to an eight year old,

Isn't Greg still running things?

I'm not sure why I was thinking about this, but are there any second generation comic dealers out there? I know a lot of dealers whose children helped them out but none that ended up taking over the business. Can anyone think of a prominent second generation comic dealer?

i never saw that before but it looks equally horrible.

Exactly. You've complained about this, made people aware of it and the topic was met with total indifference. Might be time to let this go.

Have a Snickers bar, Bro. I won a set of Avengers Annuals for a song. A week goes by and I get a refund along with a note telling me the books were her boy friends and he decided not to sell them. When I replied that we had a contract she should honor, I was told that her boyfriend was on the Miami Heat and had jew lawyers on speed dial. Just for fun, I wrote back saying I was going to forward her emails to someone I knew from NY who was then doing talk radio in Miami. Next email informed me that both of them had lots of Jewish friends and one of her boyfriends college teammates was then playing in Israel. It got too weird for me so I let it go. A friend won an Omac 1 as the only bidder and was told that the FBI had contacted the seller and said the book was stolen and ordered her to return it to the original owner.

Cap and the bottom row. Then I'd use the savings on The Sentry. Tanks are cool but I like having someone around who can throw my enemies into the sun.

When is Wonder Man making his film debut? Kind of ironic that the only Avenger with big screen experience hasn't been in any of the movies.

I'm inclined to say its a slight miss cut, but my trim detection skills are pretty mediocre.

The stamps were more common in the 70s/early 80s. I have not seen many SA books or modern books with them. My Dentist used to stamp his comic with his name and a big Do Not Remove box. They were all trashed soon after he would refresh the supply.

I'm going with 4.5. A cleaning will increase its eye appeal but not sure it will bump the grade much.

They are comic books. None of them are important in the overall scheme of things. If someone is putting together a Batman run, then 227 is important. A book no one wants isn't a key, no matter how many first anythings might be in it. On the other hand, a book everyone wants is a key book.

Anyone who wants to pretend Batman 227 isn't a key book isn't worth arguing with.

Quite possibly the most ridiculous argument in recent board history. A book is in demand and is valued above its neighbors, but its not a key, only a desirable book. Got it.

So what does, in your opinion?

It all depends what you consider a key. It's more expensive than the books around it. If someone was putting together a run , it's certainly not a common if you use card terminolgy. If you subscribe to the school of thought that there are very few keys in a run, then it certainly isn't.

When a newsstand has a choice between a sixty cent comic or a two dollar magazine, is it little wonder comics disappeared. Lifestyle and Fitness magazines exploded in the 1980s. Too bad Marvel didn't evolve from individual titles to anthologies.Instead of four different Spiderman titles selling for Sixty cents,imagine a 100 page Spiderman title selling for $2.50. Newsstands would have been happy to stock them,and distributors would make the same profit with 25% of the work.

There is a niche for them. Most collector/readers don't seem to know much about the subject but some do and will pay premiums to get their fix.

He has a letter in Arak 1, which predates that one, but I don't know if anything else is before that one.

Todd had a number of letters printed. Does anyone know what the first one is?