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A baseball playe that was succesful at bat 43% of the time would be a gazillionaire.

At a flea market today, I saw a bunch of what looked to be undistributed Marvels from the late 70s, early 80s. There were about 50 and there was a piece of paper on top of the pile that said $3. I looked thru and saw some X-men 119, 121, and some Spideys in the 180--200 range. I started to pull out a few books and asked the guy if he'd cut a deal if I bought a couple. He replied no, thats a lot of books for $3 and I can't go any lower. I ended up with 43 books for $3. A few stalls down, the seller saw me with the comics and mentioned how nobody buys comics anymore. I asked if he had any and he said yes, but not in that nice shape. He went in the van and came out with some beat up 12 cent DC comics- Batman, Flash,Blackhawk and such. Wanted two dollars each but I got the lot of 14 for $15. Picked up a few Conan paperbacks with Frazetta covers for $2 each. Not a bad hour and a half.

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The whole poster is definitely Star Wars-influenced. It seems like a Buck Rogers/Battlestar Galactaca/Star Wars mashup.

wow OMG dude, I used to have this poster when I was a kid and didn't remember having it until you posted it, I'm sorry to say I can't remember where it comes from but knowing me as a kid it was probably inside a box of Captain Crunch Very interesting! Thanks for sharing the memory! This isn't one of my childhood posters, just something that came with a stack of DC Whitman comics I bought on ebay. Those are mostly 1979/1980 so I'd have guessed around then for the date range even if it didn't have a date on it. I think it's a very cool poster, you were a lucky kid! If they came with some DC Whitmans, isn't it quite possible the poster came in a sealed Whitman three pack?

It appears Post had a series of DC posters and premiums in their boxes in the late 1970s.

What does the small print at the top say? Above Supes wrist?

It says Bonus Poster, so perhaps it was in a cereal box? It looks like it was folded into quarters, not halves. I'm just guessing , but perhaps in Starlog magazine?

I think most of everyone else on this board did the same. It's kinda funny how gullible we were to buy into the hype of multiple covers, etc. As oppossed to what? Buying into the hype of pretty colored labels on pieces of plastic?

There are a series of these that were put out in the 1980s, recreating his 1940s Timely work. Any idea what the current market value is? I rarely see them offered for sale.

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Nice job.

If I put a deposit down on a book the seller claimed was a 2.5, and it ended up being a .5, I'd be glad the seller turned out to be a POS and sold it out from under me. That said, anyone who read this thread and deals with Yannis now knows just what they are dealing with.

I don't know if thats the same guy. The Larry Ivie,or Ivey( spelling seems interchangable) was living in NYC in the 60s.Evidently,he was roomates with both Roy Thomas and Bernie Wrightson at various times.He is credited as the writer for several Thunder Agents stories,but he claims he created them whole. His original group was called SILVER Agents and featured a character named Thunderbolt. He evidently had some connection to Wally Woods art studio,but what free lancing artist didn't?

Last week,I had never heard of this guy. Now I read that he created the Thunder Agents,ghosted for most of Woods Daredevils and was approached by Stan Lee to be co-editor of Marvel,was the man behind the scenes in creating the Justice League,was the driving force behind the Batman tv show and discovered Bruce Lee. In his spare time,he convinced Jim Warren to start a line of monster mags and made Yogi Berra a household name. Thoughts?

Can't anybody answer a simple question? No wonder theres so much freakin drama.

No one is saying its not a lot. I'll ask you the same question. $100 cash to spend on any books you want or $200 but you have to buy from a list that you are complaining is overpriced? Is that question really that difficult?

Just speculation,but it wouldn't surprise me if a few people caught on to the fact that they were so liberal on accepting buyers complaints about overgraded books. Telling the buyer just keep the book and we'll credit you is a policy ripe for exploitation.I'm not surprised the guy is no longer in his job.While it might sound foolish to spend $2.76 for a 50 cent item,1) it doesn't really since they are crediting it towards overpriced books,and 2) it cuts down on fraud. You never did answer my question,so I'll ask you again- Couldn't you have done much better with $100 cash to spend at any convention than with $200 in credit towards over-priced books?

If Lonestar is so overpriced,then I think I'd have taken the $100 cash.Looking at his inventory,I could do a hell of a lot better at any con with $100 cash than picking books I didn't want,but take just for the sake of getting something.

After having read thru this thread,what is missing is both BS's emails to Lone Star and their replies. It's curious that BS refuses to take a phone call to clear up the situation,in order to maintain records of the emails. Yet never presents a single email as evidence. I'd love to read the series of emails that went back and forth. I have a feeling the content was as much a cause for the banning as the returns themselves.

Ditto.