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Greatest. Short. Story. Ever. Ok, I jest. It's a terrible story. It's famous in its atrocity. At SF conventions, as a late-night digression, people sit around in a circle and try to read aloud straight-faced. If you bust up laughing, the person next to you starts where you stopped. I've made it several minutes, but once lost it less than 30 seconds into the reading.

This arrived today: It's an upgrade from the first Batman I ever bought (and the second comic ever in my collection). I still have the original, VG copy I purchased in the summer of 1976 from the spinner rack in my local pharmacy.

Flash. If I'm going to spend 6 figures on an FF1, it had better be the curator copy.

I'm not a pulp collector, but I picked the Tarzan book. It's a great place to start a pulp collection. Kind of like starting your comic collection with Action 1.

Ok. Tarzan due to rarity and first appearance of a significant 20th Century icon. But it's a tough decision.

'Tec.... Tarzan... No... 'Tec... Wait... Tarzan... No...

And the Planets, and the Jumbos, and the Fights, and the.... You guys know...

Yes. Japan invaded China in the 1930s and perpetuated many atrocities upon the Chinese. China was on the side of the allies during the war and America fought to liberate the Chinese. JG Ballard's "Empire of the Sun" is about his family being captured by the Japanese at the start of the war and being forced to live in a prison camp. IIRC, his father was a British diplomat.

Captain Easy 13 is a great story. I laughed out loud several times while reading it.

huh (Cosmic Aeroplane Captain America... definitely not caca, DC = caca ) Sez the guy who follows the Astros... Astros = dookie I'm going through Blue Belle withdrawal, but I have a six pack of Shiner Bock in the 'fridge.

huh (Cosmic Aeroplane Captain America... definitely not caca, DC = caca ) Sez the guy who follows the Astros...

Superman, even though I dissed it in the other thread.

So they were just a little off from the folks we consider the experts.

And nice books, btw. They look like they all have nice deep colors.

I've been seeing a lot of Jumbos on eBay that are PGX graded. How did PGX's grades and PQs compare to CGCs?

The one on Drury Lane?

But, a feature film is in the works, with both writer and director signed on, and The Rock anxious to play Black Adam. Who will play Mr. Mind? Adam Sandler? Seriously, though, I think The Rock would make a great Black Adam.

Her bra looks like surprised jack-o-lanterns. No. They're just happy.

That might be my new favorite cover.

Superman 5 has a great cover and is higher grade, but I'll go with the Action: 1. Earlier release date. 2. Still high grade. 3. I would want to read the Zatara story.

Yes. And the Famous Funnies folk rejected it because they felt it was too violent. Gaines knew a classic when he saw one and printed it for WSF.

Has the X-Men replaced the JSA as the team of choice? When comic fandom first really started in the early to mid 1960s, we had the FF with less than 100 issues out, the X-men who would go into reprints soon, and the JLA (Sekowsky, ewww) which was an extension of the JSA. I believe that Roy Thomas, an important and early fan, was a big promoter of the JSA. Skip forward 20 years to the 1980s and we have Byrne/Claremont doing great work on the X-men, FF is getting tired, and the JLA is near-extinct. New fans are going to go for the X-men as the team book of choice. I think that momentum has held out over the decades. New GA fans, who weaned their super-team teeth on the X books aren't likely to go back to JSA. They're likely to go to DC's big three, TImelys, or to veer off into other non-hero GA stuff. My speculative on the whole thing.

I see some therapy in Peanuts's future. Great stuff, BZ, keep it coming!

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