OuterboroGuy

Some recent auction wins

8.5 went for $51k. 7.0 went for $23.6k

What do people think about FF#4? (vs FF#5)

From super tanks to super spanks

Good point -- had not thought of that. As a "viewer" we know the entire Jedi thing by end of Return of the Jedi. Most folks in the outer rim likely don't know much of the details about the fall of the Empire. (Although I would have thought that at least Mando's former Rebellion fighter friend might have heard some rumors of "The Force" given the destruction of the Death Star and the accolades given to Luke. The baby yoda thing can get tiresome, but I find the Western-style "mission of the week" format is pretty enjoyable. Like a lot of Star Wars, you really can't spend too much time trying to rationalize a lot of what's happening (e.g., apparently almost every planet is equally habitable by a number of species, and no one gets sick from drinking the local water), but I find this production to be done with a lot of care and obvious affection for the source material. The painted scenes at the end of every episode are also awesome.

One of the great imaginary stories. I read it in a Superman treasury collection when I was a kid, and just reread it this summer in a "Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told" hardcover. Who was the writer -- Bridwell?

I even did a search because I figured it had been covered, but couldn't find anything.

Thor and a giant sword to Superman and a flaming magic sword

My daughter and I love the show, but this whole "What are the Jedi and where do I find them" storyline is pretty annoying. The empire just fell!! Luke Skywalker has to be the most famous person in the galaxy! Mando's best friend is a former Rebellion fighter! In the words of The Critical Drinker, " f*** off, show!"

I was admiring the cover of my Silver Surfer #4 and got to wondering what other comics are valuable ONLY because of their cover? So, no first appearances, #1, relative scarcity to others of the period . . . (and I personally don't include a lot of pre-Code horror books since so many of them were so strikingly gruesome -- but others may have a different opinion -- maybe even that SS#4 doesn't belong in this category).

I always liked Ty Templeton's homage from an extra story in an issue of Stig's Inferno:

Happened to me with an issue of Amazing Adventures #1 I won at an HA auction. I doubt it is fake; it wasn't advertised as signed and it was one of many books in the lot -- I posted a pic on here and people generally thought it was JK. https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/464491-jack-kirby-verification/?tab=comments#comment-11055225

I was watching that auction and couldn't believe the final prices on all of those lots . . . crazy

I've tried to describe to my kids what lower Manhattan (below 14th Street) was like when I was a teenager in the 1980s -- funky, shabby, oddball, dangerous, hole-in-the-wall shops. I don't know of anyplace today that is like it -- maybe the main street in Berkley CA has some remnants of that kinds of shabby retail.

St. Mark's place in the 1980s was pretty cool, a lot of cool shops.

That the layout I remember. Midblock, with that large staircase going downstairs. I got some great stuff there in the '80s! Thanks!

When I was in high school we used to go downtown Manhattan to a comic book store that was basically a huge basement-level room of tables set up with longboxes. I want to say it was Forbidden Planet but when I google search the 1980s picture of FP shows up as a corner store. Does anyone remember if they had an annex that you would enter by going down steps from the street? If not, anyone remember a comic book store like that in lower Manhattan from late 1970s-mid 1980s? This was old-time, no frills comics and other sci-fi ephemera retail.

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Well, I think it was more than people making factual observations. I agree that's perfectly reasonable. I thought I saw comments about people not involved in the transaction calling up eBay or something, which seems kind of like self-appointed cowboy stuff. BUT if folks want to play comics police that's fine with me. I'm certainly not going to go digging through a thread from six months ago.

Back in the late 70s I would exchange American comics with my London cousins when my grandmother would go back to England to visit her family. I loved getting those Beano and Dandy annuals!

What, you didn't love the exciting plotlines over who was going to be elected "Team Leader" of the Legion? I did always enjoy the bit where Matter-Eater Lad went insane when Braniac 5 had him eat the Miracle Machine.

That's what I was thinking but I mis-titled the thread