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UNIVERSAL SOLDIER

First Place and the winner of the Joker hard cover, and the undisputed winner of the 2023 Christmas contest, with a guess of $1,107.77 goes to?

CAT

Second Place and the winner of the Marvel New Avengers, with a guess of $1,132.12 goes to?

JCJAMES

Third Place and the winner, of the Detective Hard Cover, with a guess of $1,074.77 goes to?

ICP004

Fourth Place and the winner of the Sub-Mariner hard cover ,with a guess of $1,063.77 goes to?

Okay, before I post the winners...............a little glitch, so here's the heads up. Every year since this contest began, Sharon (skypinkblu) has donated two prizes. I usually start setting this mess up in July, and do it bit by bit. The two books she donated were tagged but somehow got moved around a dozen times, and did not remember what books she donated till today. One was the second place main prize, and the other was the Justice League hardcover. It just so happened that she put in a number, and she ended up in second place, winning the book she donated. WTF. Yeah right. We went over this a few minutes ago, and so she's dropped out , not wanting a book she donated. I know, what a mess. She don't need it anyway. LOL. So the others on the list got bumped up one spot. Lets finish this mess up.

That's it dorks. Winners in about 20 minutes. Everything is double and triple checked.

Got it. Thanks for playing.

There's a ton of people M.I.A. around here. Wish the best for all of them.

Any last minute stragglers better get with it. 40 minutes till the cut off. One more Mystery box is still floating around somewhere.

This Mystery box is an extra prize, courtesy of topcat54. Thanks for the donation. If you hit it, contact him for shipping info. What's in it, he won't even tell me.

got it.

And that street is packed on both sides as far as you can see.

Lets switch gears here for a minute. I should put this in my motorcycle thread, but this was one of the coolest things I have seen. I thought I had lost this video I shot, but found it today. Check it out at the end. I posted in that thread about the year end blow out party at the Sollitt Tap every year. This year something else took place. The brothers that own this bar invited there mom there. She had no idea what was coming. They halted all the action, walked her out to the center, and put her on one of the bikes. Her name is Shelia. I guess that's how its spelt. They started playing birthday music, and here comes a group of people carrying cakes, each with one letter of her name on it . It was her birthday. How would you like to have 5/6 hundred bikers sing you happy birthday. So check out the video at the end. The mom was in tears. Filthy bikers. Thunder roads magazine taped the whole thing also, and a local news station.

A masterpiece of secure packing. Notice the 45 degree angle tape. Secures two directions. Notice the cheesy newspaper wrap. I never attach tape to a Mylite or comic bag.