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This one just arrived the other day.

Two new arrivals - #76 and #107

Real McCoys one shot (potentially missing Four Color #1325)

Four Color #515

Four Color #557 - another one off the list and 90 to go (with one more on the way)

This was the last issue that I needed to complete the set and it arrived in the mail today.

Four Color #1301 arrived in the mail today. I have a couple of other issues on their way as well, though none of these three finish off a 'hundred' run for me.

I went to Wizard World Chicago every year from when they took it over through 2018. The last decade had some rough patches when DC, Marvel, and others decided to stop attending. I also heard a number of complaints from dealers and other people. However, for me, the show was almost always consistently good for what I wanted, which was to buy back issues for my collection. I would usually come home with 150-300 comics. The writing was kind of on the wall the last year I went, though, when a number of dealers said that they wouldn't be back the following year, and even Graham Crackers was planning on having a seriously reduced presence. I might give the Fan Expo Chicago show a try if the pandemic ever settles down again. Hopefully it will be a good show for comics. My want list is much smaller than it used to be, though there are still a number of things I'm looking for.

Lots of cool stuff in there. I've been buying a lot of old pulps and digests over the last few years I completed Fantasy and Science Fiction up through 2019. Astounding/Analog is complete from 1951-2018. I've made serious dents or completed others as well, though there are still gaps. My most recent purchase was 615 issues of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine dating back to the second issue.

Congrats! I need one or two issues for each of the 600s-1200s so I'm hoping to close out a few of those in the near future.

I haven't been to Hawaii since 1988, but remember buying stuff from Jelly's and Froggies. Each of those places is gone, but I read that one of the people from Jelly's opened a store in Honolulu called Idea's Music and Books and they carry comics. I don't know how big the section is, but it might be worth a look if you are in the area.

It'll probably be delivered by the Spanish Inquisition since nobody expects them either.

I'd been looking for a while as well. I saw another copy at a show a couple of weeks ago, but it was too beat up. I've had the other Yak Yak issue for over 5 years.

I picked this one up at a local comic shop today.

I picked this one up at a local show yesterday.

Maybe they just wanted to 'win' by having you accept their offer rather than the other way around.

I went to Wizard World Chicago for about 20 straight years before skipping it in 2019. I was thinking about going to it again this year when it was scheduled for the end of August. I don't know if I'll go if the October dates stick. Chicago is about a 5 hour drive while the Motor City show is only about 30 minutes away. However, I tend to find a lot more that I'm looking for in Chicago, though who knows what it will be like this year. Other than a small local show, those are the only two that I am considering.

I had a few friends in high school who collected (and still collect) comics. I've also made a few friends as an adult who collect comics. I drove to Wizardworld Chicago with one of those friends every year for more than 15 years and we'd attend the show together. We also have been to some of the Detroit shows together and flew out to San Diego once, staying with one of his friends out there. I went to Heroes and Baltimore on my own in 2019 and go to some of the smaller local shows on my own most of the time. I taught for 27 years and had many students during my last dozen years or so who were into manga and anime with some also being interested in DC, Marvel, or other companies. I know that some of them would go to Youmacon together (a local anime/manga show that is popular) and it wouldn't surprise me if some of them attended comic shows together.

What about kidney beans? I'd be willing to trade a whole bunch of cans of those for the right comics.

Here's the copy that I bought back in 2018, but apparently never posted here.

My dad was born in 1937 and read comics through the 1940s. He lived on a farm and had lots of cousins so the comics got passed around to relatives and may have eventually ended up in bonfires. No comics were kept to be passed down. My mom was born in 1938 and her family used to stop at the drug store on the way home from church every Sunday and they would buy a comic book for her. This was probably from around 1944-1952 or so. She read tons of Disney comics, Little Lulu, Four Colors, etc. Unfortunately, she was an only child and the comics eventually were passed on to her cousins, never to return. The only comics that were kept and passed down to me were some of the Disney cereal premiums from the late 1940s and some giveaway comics such as four of the Adventures in Science Series comics. I probably own most of the comics that she read as a kid, but I had to pay a lot more than 10 cents each for them.

Four Color #265

Another new arrival Four Color #56

The Leave it to Beaver one shot, probably meant for Four Color #1318.