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Wow! I remember the big kids down the street having one of these steam engines when I was five years old. (thumbs u

Agreed! The Ideal Green Ghost is a top of the line collectible game.

Yes! The coolest personal defence weapon ever made! Not at all. (thumbs u

Here's the second best: I built one of these as a kid to race at my local slot car track. I still have the assembled car minus a couple of the lug nuts that I lost at the track. Just as good, I now have an additional mint in box one in my M.I.B. slot car collection.

This one was the best. The box art was by Mort Kunstler who modeled the boy scientist after his own son: My father gave it away to the snot nosed kid down the street when I went off to boarding school in grade nine. I've been looking for another one for thirty years now with no success.

Who did the artwork on issue 111 of Millie the Model?

Interesting analysis! For some reason I've never considered boomer age as one of the driving forces of Silver Age development. The Silver Age was without a doubt all about baby boomers. And aging baby boomers have been the force behind the incredible escalation we've seen in Silver Age comic prices.

Good man! I crack them all too - although I've done only a dozen or so. (thumbs u

More like he`s never met a girl yet. You evidently married the only one you met.

Take it from me, it will never be enough Ditto. The more you make, the higher her expectations go! Then she'd want you to sell more. Why guys end up marrying women who don't share their interests is beyond me. Regardless of how hot they are, you know that won't last.

I'm sure those sweet chariots are swinging quite low by now. I've read that she had a host of admirers including Charlton Heston but could never settle down due to substance abuse problems, which caused her to pass away prematurely in the 1980's. But this hasn't been confirmed and very little seems to be known about her. Who knows, she may now be a grandmother and she and her husband may view albums of her pics from the seventies whenever they get a quite moment away from the kids.

The incomparable Roberta Pedon, perhaps the greatest figure model of all time:

I was put off by a bad first impression for several years.

If you really wanted us to make an accurate comparison you'd have to break the books out of those plastic cases.

That's when I started. I started as a "serious" collector in 1979.

I agree. It looks better than a 6.5 from what I can see. Good eye appeal!

Fortunately I have the 312. .

Here are scans from my collection of the first two issues of the Flash:

All my life? =) All of the silverage Superman Family titles are my collecting focus. Great stuff! I'm still killing myself trying to find nice enough copies of Adventure 310 and 311. (thumbs u

Wow! Those are nice books! I only have about half of those issues. How long were you working on completing those? What other runs are you working at completing?

Why don't you just bring them over to my house for safekeeping? I've got a couple of great filing cabinets for them you know. I'll even let you look at them on occasion with prior notice.

Here's a scan of my unslabbed Green Lantern 7:

There is no such thing currently. Therefore B&B 28 in 9.4 continues to be the 3rd most valuable SA DC book, behind the 9.6 and 9.4 copies of Showcase 4. Would a 9.4 SC #22 top a 9.4 SC #4 right now is the bigger question in my mind. With the emergence of the 9.6 I doubt that a 9.4 SC #4 would come anywhere close to its high price now. FWIW, I expect SC #22 to eventually end up as #1 if the GL movie franchise does well. Given that Showcase 4 predated 22 by three important years and is widely regarded as raising the curtain on the Silver Age, I'd say that Showcase 4 in the same grade will continue to elicit higher bids than Showcase 22. And I'm saying this even though Green Lantern is my favourite hero.

That's a nice one for sure! (thumbs u

Here are scans of the next two Aquaman Showcases from my collection: The 33 was a particularly good buy since it has a 1/8 inch chip out of the back cover at the top but that bothered me not at all. What I didn't like was the miscut left edge but the cover was so white and bright that I bought it anyway.