RockMyAmadeus

Gotcha. He is Canadian, after all!

Ah, yes. Of course! Thanks RM. He was just a young pup at EC.

Where, Phoenix? I would imagine so! As far as Spidey #300s, I imagine they WERE ultra common, as any Spidey book would have been, during the months after release. By the spring of 1990, however, they were GONE, sucked out of the market like a giant vacuum. You couldn't find them anywhere (and I tried!) None of the local stores in the SF Bay Area even had a copy to sell, and none of the local 1-day motel meeting room "cons" did, either. They started trickling out after they QUADRUPLED in price from the 1990 OPG to the Update (April to June!), and after Spidey #1 was officially launched. I was just a year or so too late.

This may seem...indelicate...but if you're paying someone to have lunch with you, aren't they just an escort...?

There's an entire WORLD full of great Ditko art from before he created Spidey.

Alex could never quite get bullets firing right....it always looks like they're shooting water pistols.

That is my favorite text. Pointing and snickering neighbors are the WORST.

That's odd. I was expecting text of walls. Oh, wait...here's some! When you contemplate how to build a retaining wall, you may imagine how firm and solid it’ll appear from the front, or how great the new garden will look above it. But unless you give serious thought to what goes on behind and below the wall, the retaining wall design may not look good for long. A poor retaining wall design wall can lean, separate, even topple—and it’s out there in plain sight where all your neighbors can point and snicker. You don’t want that! Lots of people think a retaining wall needs to hold back all 6 gazillion tons of soil in the yard behind it. It doesn’t. It only needs to retain a wedge of soil, or elongated wedge of soil, similar to that shown in Fig. A. In simple terms (our apologies to all you soil engineers out there): Undisturbed soil—soil that has lain untouched and naturally compacted for thousands of years—has a maximum slope beyond which it won’t ‘hang together’ on its own. This slope is called the failure plane. If left alone, the soil behind the failure plane will stay put on its own. But the soil in front of the failure plane—the natural soil or the fill you’re going to add—wants to slide down the failure plane. Gravity, along with the slope, directs most of the weight and pressure of the fill toward the lower part of the retaining wall. Since soil weighs a beefy 100-plus lbs. per cu. ft., you need some pretty heavy material—large retaining wall blocks, boulders, timbers or poured concrete—to counteract the pressure. Just as important, it needs to be installed the right way. Here are three key principles in building any solid retaining wall: Bury the bottom course, or courses, of the retaining wall one tenth the height of the wall to prevent the soil behind from pushing the bottom out (Fig. B). Step back the blocks, rocks or timbers to get gravity working in your favor (Fig. B). This lets the walls lean and push against the fill. Walls built perfectly vertical (Fig. C) get gravity working against them the second they start leaning outward even just a bit. Most concrete retaining wall block systems have some kind of built-in lip (Fig. D) or pin system (Fig. F) that automatically creates the step back as you build. Install a base of solidly compacted material (Fig. B) so your wall stays flat. A level wall provides modular blocks, stone and timbers with more surface contact with the courses above and below them. They fit together more tightly. The more contact, the more friction and the stronger the wall. Apply these three rules, and you’ll create a strong wall. But even a well built wall won’t survive unless you take care of two troublemakers: water and uncompacted soil.

I love the $1.26 shipping charge. They had registered mail in 1973, but I don't know how much it would have cost. I wonder if that's the service they used? Action #1 weighs, what, about 8-9 ounces? I don't have one handy to weigh. 1 oz first class was 8c. I wonder if it was sent in a cardboard sandwich.

Theo needs an editor.

♫ "Felix the cat...the wonderful, wonderful cat...." ♪

One can never have too many hobo bindles... ...it's THE must-have accessory for the hobo on the go...

Sex? Drugs? Rock n' roll? Cute kitten videos?

If I'm not mistaken, Marie was the very last person who worked at EC to leave us. A toast to you, funny and talented lady!

All gone now. Marie was the last.

I'm sure this has been mentioned...if not:

It says "Sextuple."

Batman #5 is also the issue where Bats had to take his regular suit to the dry cleaners, and substituted a plain grey leotard that night.

Why isn't this book worth as much as #1? Linda Page?? Is there any other character more central to the Bat mythos...??

Awwww...

For that burn that just won't go away....

This. They are segregated. I had to actively look for them, and I was trying. The casual reader is never going to even notice these exist, despite the drop down menu up top. They're formatted differently than the rest of the boards, making them hard to navigate. If they got put in with the rest of the board, and formatted like the rest of the board, they would be used, just like they were used before. The fact that you can self-moderate your journal is why I am interested.

That's a shame...a lot of the early Marvel Bronze Age was the result of Gary's efforts. He was a prolific writer until he left comics.

Apparently, you have to let people follow you...? I don't want people following me...stalkers!

Yeah, it seems very detached.