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Were it but sharper and whiter I'd ante up the $300. (thumbs u

Sadly no. I've never come across either a Showcase 22 or a Showcase 23 up to my condition standards and certainly never when I've been flush with enough cash to buy it. I actually just listed my most major keys in this post: My Most Iconic Comics

Yes. I've found that DC #2s are almost always harder to find than the #1s.

Here's a Golden Age acquisition of mine so recent that it's still in my "To be filed" drawer:

Here's a scan of my Flash 110:

Here are scans of my Aquaman 1 and Aquaman 2: It took me over 25 years to find a really nice copy of #2 but I finally got one at a show here in Toronto from Superworld of Worcester, Massachusetts.

Here's a scan from my collection of the Batman comic with perhaps my very favourite cover:

Here's a scan of my Green Lantern #8: It's in fabulous condition but personally I think the painted cover is among the worst efforts on Gil Kane's part.

Mattel revolutionized the diecast car market and in so doing captured the lion's share of it with three novel ideas: 1. Make the axles skinnier. This enabled the cars to go faster. 2. Design radical, far out cars to appeal to kids even if the cars don't actually model any car in the real world. 3. Put power into the actual track itself to enable any Hot Wheels car to run. Ingenious! The Hot Wheel cars and the tracks on which they run are so cool that any young boy from 5 to 95 is tempted by them!

I'm guessing that it was probably the Mattel Creepy Crawlers Thingmaker set you remember:

Oh don't I wish! But sadly, no. I first saw the image reproduced in an early issue of Bill Bruegman's magazine "Model and Toy Collector" and I've often wondered how the lucky owner got his hands on the piece. Bill probably knows.

Here's James Bama's fabulous original art to a couple of the Aurora monster kits: Almost as good as the kits were the ads that Aurora ran for the kits on the back covers of DC comics: The Monster Scenes line of kits which included Vampirella that Aurora released in the early seventies did not get the back cover treatment but was nonetheless noteworthy for the dialogue of the characters: Notice that Vampirella came complete with camel toe in the sketch. Talk about cool! (thumbs u

Wow! It looks like the Silver Surfer himself wouldn't be able to get at those books!

So do I. Chlorophyll Kid had the unique ability to make plants grow super fast and super big. A valuable skill if I do say so myself. He could land a position with Monsanto and put every competing fertilizer manufacturer out of business. (thumbs u

Issue #306, the first appearance of the Legion of Substitute Heroes, also merits a mention. Other key early Legion of Superhero books are: Action 276 - Intro of Brainiac 5, Phantom Girl and Triplicate Girl. Superboy 89 - Intro of Mon-el. Superboy 98 - Intro and origin of Ultraboy.

Here are a couple of one of a kind items in my comic room. The first pic is the original artwork from the movie poster used for the 1972 rerelease of "The Song of the South". The second is a stained glass window I commissioned of Brer Fox and Flower for the door in my comic room that opens onto the upstairs balcony. Not having opposable thumbs, I had to get The MAN to help me install the stained glass window. .

I first posted pictures of the comic cabinet in my comic room just over three years ago: Comic Cabinet Here are some updated pictures from early last summer. The comic cabinets have not changed much in the last eight months but I need to take some better shots:

251 - First Green Arrow by Jack Kirby. 256 - Green Arrow origin. 260 - Aquaman origin 262 - Speedy origin. 269 Aqualad intro and origin. 285 - Bizarro World begins. 294 - First Legion of Super Pets.

Nice box art! (thumbs u

Transformers were the best toys. Still have my optimus that I got in 1985, but no longer in the condition in your picture. Nice acquisition. Getting old toys back are great. I know this is a comic forum but anybody have any interest in getting a section for toys on the forum? Brother, I've been thinking this a lot lately. If they are not interested in a new section, it would be great if a thread like this could be a permanent sticky in this section. It seems like this happens about once every month. To me, it's just like the new comic acquisition sticky thread. I agree!

I had one (thumbs u I've got one with the same teams - Toronto and Montreal. The playing board is white and baby blue though. Games with Toronto Maple Leaf and Montreal Canadien players are the most common. For a really cool game you needed six or more different teams. Because games with Maple Leaf and Canadien players were issued most often, the player figures from these two teams are the least interesting to collectors.

The Aurora Universal monster model kits were one of the very best products aimed at young boys in the early sixties. I initially discovered these kits while tagging along with my mother as she haunted the Kresges, Woolworths, Zellers and Metropolitan stores in downtown London. The very cool ads Aurora ran for their monster customizing contest on the back cover of DC comics in the fall of 1963 and winter of 1964 also left a pronounced mark on my impressionable young mind. The Creature was my favourite, albeit the three I eventually ended up building were the Mummy, Bride of Frankenstein and Frankenstein's Flivver. I also managed to score a super cool Standard Plastics Wolfman/Creature wallet for successfully hawking fifteen newspapers on a Saturday morning in the spring of 1964. Of course I collect all these items now. I have most of the Aurora monsters M.I.B. with the exception of the Mummy's Chariot and the Godzilla and King Kong ones. The wallets are much tougher. I have the Mummy/Dracula and Frankenstein/Phantom ones but neither is in perfect enough condition for my demanding standards.

A buddy of mine had a HO Lionel train set with an operating log dump car and a helicopter launch car. His set made me badly want a similar HO Lionel train set with these cars and others such as a milk can unloading car, missile launch car, bobbing head giraffe car, aquarium car and gold bullion car.

Every young fellow growing up in Canada since WWII either had or wanted a Coleco hockey game: The various models of the games and the different player pieces are of course now hot collectibles among toy and hockey memorabilia collectors.

It was probably a Tudor since Tudor had an NFL licence and was therefore the most popular: I have an Aurora Monday Night Canadian Football with the box. This of course is a bizarre conflux since football is very seldomnly played on Monday nights in the Canadian Football League.