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Why were you looking at hot dogs?

Don't forget the rock fights against the bad kids....,

Mine was similar but it was rock fights that lasted till someone got head busted.

Same, looking forward to the crash!

The correct answer it that it is as good as it ever was.

In my 20-someodd years collecting I've never seen this many flippers.  People looking to make a buck hustling are like cockroaches.  The number of collectors is much higher than I've ever seen as well, which would mean more homes for books and less turnover.  

I started with the weak stuff, that was supposed to be non-addictive - the dailies in the newspapers, Sunday funnies and paperbacks.
Little did I know that they were gateway drugs into Hell.

I thought it was about comics forgetting their lines on stage.

These all look pretty depressing.  Do you have any of those Crime and its Rewards comics?

These all look pretty depressing.  Do you have any of those Crime and its Rewards comics?

I vividly remember buying Avengers 93 off the newsstand.  My next oldest brother took me on a rabbit and squirrel hunting trip to Christmas Valley, Oregon and we stopped at a little store in Gilchrist, Oregon and they had a stack of them.  It was the first issue of Avengers I ever purchased. 
It looks like that must have been August of 1971, so I would have been 10, and my brother would have been 17.  Traveling in an old, white 1961 Dodge pick-up from our home in Oakridge, Oregon.
 

I vividly remember buying Avengers 93 off the newsstand.  My next oldest brother took me on a rabbit and squirrel hunting trip to Christmas Valley, Oregon and we stopped at a little store in Gilchrist, Oregon and they had a stack of them.  It was the first issue of Avengers I ever purchased. 
It looks like that must have been August of 1971, so I would have been 10, and my brother would have been 17.  Traveling in an old, white 1961 Dodge pick-up from our home in Oakridge, Oregon.
 

I vividly remember buying Avengers 93 off the newsstand.  My next oldest brother took me on a rabbit and squirrel hunting trip to Christmas Valley, Oregon and we stopped at a little store in Gilchrist, Oregon and they had a stack of them.  It was the first issue of Avengers I ever purchased. 
It looks like that must have been August of 1971, so I would have been 10, and my brother would have been 17.  Traveling in an old, white 1961 Dodge pick-up from our home in Oakridge, Oregon.
 

Yup.
Image = quilted, 3-ply, aloe vera, luxury quality
Marvel = cheapest, roughest, school / prison grade
IDW is pretty comfortable as well, I've found.

I use treasury editions. Get your jokes in now ?

Sure, here you go:
When artist Bill Sienkiewicz — whom Boone calls “one of the most amazing comic book artists ever”

I vividly remember buying Avengers 93 off the newsstand.  My next oldest brother took me on a rabbit and squirrel hunting trip to Christmas Valley, Oregon and we stopped at a little store in Gilchrist, Oregon and they had a stack of them.  It was the first issue of Avengers I ever purchased. 
It looks like that must have been August of 1971, so I would have been 10, and my brother would have been 17.  Traveling in an old, white 1961 Dodge pick-up from our home in Oakridge, Oregon.
 

I vividly remember buying Avengers 93 off the newsstand.  My next oldest brother took me on a rabbit and squirrel hunting trip to Christmas Valley, Oregon and we stopped at a little store in Gilchrist, Oregon and they had a stack of them.  It was the first issue of Avengers I ever purchased. 
It looks like that must have been August of 1971, so I would have been 10, and my brother would have been 17.  Traveling in an old, white 1961 Dodge pick-up from our home in Oakridge, Oregon.
 

Thanks a bunch!  I got his at a discount!!

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