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Not that anyone cares but Darkseid is in my top 3 mainstream comic book villains of all time. Doctor Doom and Ra's Al Ghul being my other two favorites.

Actually Elvis's favorite comic characters were Shazam and Flash.Of course he was reading DC,back then there was no marvel.

New Gods is another I have started. The #1 I bought in the mid 70s and it has stayed in my collection since. Have always loved the cover.

I started to go after a Mister Miracle run in high grade but keep getting distracted.

Beautiful...again That's a fun read too. Thanks! Since yellow is the color of the moment, I bought that WF 150 with this WF 123 from the same dealer:

That's a pretty copy of WF #150. The colors are stunning.

All I can say is Hot Damn! Thanks to Rich Henn for the offering up an opp with Totleben for sig and sketch. JT knocked it out of the park with the werewolf sketch and such a cool sig to boot.

Same here with both shows. Yeah I feel the same way, Sha - don't want it to end - one of the very few shows that I watch anymore.

Just finished watching the season opener. Another winner.

Digging around some of my old pbs - these seem to fit

I always assumed it was both of these things combined as well. Evanier does mention Kirby's political beliefs and how some of that did play into the Fourth World series -- What were Jack’s politics like? "He was a rather liberal — not uncommon among Jewish folks of his generation — but he had a general suspicion of most leaders of all stripes. He admired Adlai Stevenson and John F. Kennedy, but not many prominent politicians of any party beyond those two. He was especially distrustful of public figures about whom there was a "cult of personality," and he used those feelings when he wrote about Glorious Godfrey in the Fourth World series. Godfrey was inspired by the then-current pronouncements of the Reverend Billy Graham (and awee bit by TV pitchman Arthur Godfrey). Mr. Graham’s speeches now seem more subdued but, at the time, he was coming under criticism from all sides for what some felt were excessive, apocalyptic speeches predicting the end of the world. Jack saw a few of Graham’s fire-and-brimstone lectures on TV and felt that the reverend was abusing his position by taking the "fear" in "fear of God" to unhealthy extremes. And he really, really didn’t like Richard Nixon."

Interesting possibility, jools. I have always wondered myself. I thought Mark Evanier's site might have some thoughts and this is all I could find was this statement - "To pioneer this form, he devised the series that, for reasons that remain in dispute, came to be called the Fourth World. The characters, and a rough idea of their milieu, had come to him in his latter days at Marvel. You can see the embryonic stages in the last Tales of Asgard stories he did in the hindquarter of the Thor comic for a time. At the time, he was, as is well known, unhappy with his lot at Marvel. He had co-created some of the most popular and profitable characters in comic book history only to quickly lose both copyright and creative custody of them." There was a link from ME's site to a site run by Sean Walsh - http://fastbak.tripod.com/ that had some FAQs - here is what is offered there from some folks. What you found certainly seems plausible . "7. Why's it called 'the Fourth World?" Watcher - Probably because of the modern habit of dividing the nations of Earth into First World, Second World, and Third World countries. Kirby denoted his characters and situations as coming from a different "world" than any of the others. Mario - No one is really sure. Two common theories are: Jack meant it to be beyond the First, Second, and Third Worlds of then-modern politics, and another, noting that the phrase first appeared on issue for of the New Gods series, thinks that an overly excited copy writer meant it as "This is the Fourth World Jack Kirby has created in this series" and it just took off from there. From the Jack Kirby FAQ by Bob Heer - "I've heard some creative explanations for the name "Fourth World" being applied to Kirby's greatest creations, the saga of the New Gods. An extrapolation from the "third world" term. Counting the early 40s superhero stuff as the first world, the later S&K stuff as the second, the Marvel Universe as the third. The fact that there were four books involved. A reference to the DC convention of naming parallel worlds (Earth-1, Earth-2 and Earth-3 existed by then). A reference to the Hopi creation myth of "Four Worlds" (my favourite). "The truth seems to be that either someone in DC's production department put "Kirby's Fourth World" on the cover of the fourth issues of NEW GODS, MISTER MIRACLE and FOREVER PEOPLE (and Kirby's seventh issue of JIMMY OLSEN, which came out around the same time), or Kirby put it on the cover of one of those books and someone at DC picked up on it for the rest (Steve Sherman claims he heard Kirby use the term before it appeared in print, while Mark Evanier doesn't recall hearing it). "Somehow the name stuck (perhaps because Kirby didn't really give the saga an overall name, and it was usually just called the tetralogy (or trilogy for those who whould deny JIMMY OLSEN his place in the sun)). The next usage I know of was in the letter page of MISTER MIRACLE #7 (there may have been a house ad in some DC books the month before, but I haven't tracked it down yet), in a reply by Evanier/Sherman. A very matter of fact usage, so the term seems to have caught on with fandom quickly. It appeared again on the cover of MISTER MIRACLE #10, and in letters in MISTER MIRACLE #16 and #18. The phrase also appears in a few pencils for KAMANDI and DEMON covers, which adds a whole other twist. "So the explanation seems to be either 'don't mean nothing' or 'might mean something, but Kirby doesn't seem to have told anyone.'"

My copies I bought off the stands. 261 is one of my fav CA covers.

I love this cover too

Golden (1) Action #1 (2) Tec #27 (3) Cap America #1 (4) Marvel Comics #1 (5) Either MPFW #1 or Red Raven #1 Silver (1) AF #15 (2) Showcase #4 (3) IH #1 (4) FF #1 (5) JIM #83 Bronze (1) GSX #1 (2) GL #76 (3) HOS #92 (4) Superman vs Spidey #1 (5) Spidey #129 Hon Mention - Weird Mystery Tales #4 [

This invoice has been marked "graded" as of today, 10/2! And now the real wait begins

OK.....here's an updated list of everyone who has posted in this thread. It includes updates to both board user names and eBay user names. If there was a link, I clicked on that link and if it was void you're no longer on the list. If something needs to be modified let me know. Crimeny, Mike Now you can cross-reference it to the HOS/Probie list next to note those on it This took some work for sure.

Shipped today 9-30.

Any in particular, Sean? I thought they turned out great. I often struggle with the best sig placement when prepping books. Great books as always, sir The Thor and the Spidey. I had windows cut out at the bottom, underneath the action in the blank space. Don't get me wrong, I still think they look great. But I think they would have been much better at the bottom. I also understand that Stan has trouble with smaller window bag holes these days, so it was on me, not on him. (thumbs u I kind of like the Thor placement but still all great books, regardless.

Any in particular, Sean? I thought they turned out great. I often struggle with the best sig placement when prepping books. Great books as always, sir

Anyone remember these from Toys R Us - comics and card packs. It says 2 comics but I can see 3 in there. I have no idea what the middle comic is - these are in a hard plastic shell so I can't peek. the back one is a bagged copy of X-Force Annual #2.