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#190 VF- $8 #212 VF $8 (PAPER LOSS BK CVR) #219 FN/VF TO VF- $5 #221 VG/FN $2 #235 VF+ VF/NM $7 (LOOKS NICER,LONG INDENT BK CVR COULD BE PRESSED) #240 FN/VF $2 (BTM STAPLE PULL)

That all does sound unbelievably stressful. I hope you had an uneventful flight and get a little downtime soon.

Thank you for posting this interesting article. There really is nothing new under the sun. Big Tony may be gone, but his spirit lives.

ASM #236 Fine $4 Warlock #9 Fine $10 Warlock #11 Fine $10 Warlock #15 Fine+ $10 Tales To Astonish #95 Fine- $15 @25% off if the deal's still good. Thanks!

Ooh, I read this book a year or two ago. Brilliant idea to make it into a movie. True story that reads like fiction. The trailer does look like its been Hollywooded up pretty good.

I'll take the JLA 21 and TTA 91 at 50% off, please.

I pay to be entertained, not made uncomfortable. I'll skip this one.

Wonder Woman 242 243 244 245 246 252 254 257 258 269 @15% off

I won a Thor 126 in an MCS auction last week, filling a hole and scratching an itch I've had forever. But I didn't want to pay $100-200 for a halfway decent copy. I won a nice-looking G/VG for about $50, somewhat to my surprise.

at 10% off

at 10% off

I'll take the 300 $100 books. I like variety.

I just did some filing today...2023 might be the year I start to switch to short boxes. I might be finally getting too old for longs.

Thanks a lot, I appreciate it. Always a good show, anyone on the fence should totally stop by. Easy to get to as well.

I got a positive COVID test on Christmas morning. This thread was a nice diversion, though.

Hi, I do have a question, thanks. I'm never exactly sure where I can park when I come to this show. I think the hotel now has 'permit parking only' signs up in at least part of the lot. I do always see a lot of cars with permits hanging from the rear-view mirrors. Last time I came, I parked towards the back of the lot and didn't get towed, thankfully. Do you happen to know what the rules are? Can we park anywhere in the lot on the show days? Thanks!

Though I need this book, every time I see one for sale at the going rate, I think of this picture and I just can't pull the trigger. One day.

At 25% off,

Definitely do shop around. Most importantly, have fun and enjoy the show. With your budget and tastes, I'd lean towards bringing home a nice Neal Adams Batman key. 227, 232, 251. $500 might score a presentable mid-grade of one of those.

Mainly because I haven't bought a comic or, really, shopped for any, since February. So not a whole lot to say. The love is still with me. I just can't with these prices. It's no fun running around a field trying frantically to snatch a few balloons out of the air before they all fly away. I still read and enjoy my collection, and I need to get back to the '1000 comics' thread. At one point I made a long-ish post there to catch up and the board ate it. I got discouraged.

I never signed up in the first place.

11-33 is the crux of that run, in my opinion, and those are classic comics. Larry Hama was having fun with that series, and it shows. Those were a blast to read as they were coming out. (My first issue was 21, and I've since collected back to 1.)

Unless maybe it was a VERY good cosplay.

Captain America 160-177 Action 480-483 Batman 235, 236, 240-253, 255 Detective 432-433 333 if my math is right. Or, where I should have been end of April. I'm only a month behind, but I usually take off the week after Christmas and I can read a lot of comics in an emergency!

It still galls me that I collected the entire Star Hunters series out of the back issue bins, not realizing that it got cancelled in the middle of the story and DC never picked it up anywhere. Not to pick on DC, but Marvel would have found somewhere, somehow to wrap up the story. Hulk. Marvel-Two-in-One. Somewhere. (Probably not Daredevil.) It was great space opera otherwise. My younger self didn't understand why it got cancelled in the first place. I have read Captain America 145-159, and Detective 411, Batman 229, and Batman 232. Let me say that Batman 232 is a key that delivers. Reading that book feels like watching an epic feature film. A lot of that is Neal Adams's detailed and beautiful illustrations of the environment. Next time it wants to reboot Batman, Warner Bros could do a lot worse than just filming that book shot by shot and line by line. The palms just get sweatier each time I read it as its value grows, but mine is only maybe a VG-, bought for $8.25 in the 2000s (thank goodness!). But it's a favorite single-issue story regardless of the first appearance. 292