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thecollectron

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    I'm curious where you saw $360 for a one-day pass. That sounds like a secondary market price.
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    I don’t have my copy in front of me at the moment but as I recall, a scientist made a drug that transformed Batman and Superman into Two-Face and Kralik, respectively. Kind of a Jekyll/Hyde thing I think.
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    Comics were packed securely and shipped lightning fast. Included a freebie too! Great to buy from.
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    You can also park further away and take the trolley. It has two stops at the convention center.
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    Great to work with and fast international shipping!
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    I'll bet there are guys on this forum who have dated such women and even married one. Probably a good thing, too, since it will keep the collection from expanding into the entire house. I had an internal debate for awhile about making the above joke and my internal won.
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    By the way, the first thing I do when I get a raw comic in the mail is count the pages and inspect them. I ask to inspect raw comics at conventions too, but I try not to be a pain about it. I learned from some disappointing experiences.
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    What disturbs me about this is that a professional grading service assigned it a 3.0 instead of a 0.5 incomplete. If the graders didn't notice it was missing a page then I start wondering how many other incomplete books have slipped by. Sure, even grading companies make mistakes but that's pretty egregious.
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    From a 1976 Overstreet Price Guide ad, here is a blatant example of using a salacious image to manipulate you into selling your comics. C'mon now! Raise your hand if it worked on you.
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    Captain Easy #13.
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    PM sent.
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    May I buy Copy B instead of Copy A or is that against the rules?
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    I'm very pleased. Fast shipping and expert packaging. Thanks!
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    I’m planning on going.
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    As I continued to stroll (stumble, really) down memory lane I recalled something about the creation of Swamp Thing in an editorial page of #1, so I got my copy out to take a look. Here is a scan of a paragraph. I'm sorry it's sideways. Anyway, it mentions a man turned monster but it says it was in House Of Mystery. I think that's a mistake and they meant to say House Of Secrets. The story in House of Mystery #195 has no mention of a man turned into a swamp creature but I wonder if it was an inspiration for the Parliament of Trees. Seems like it to me. me.
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    I was pretty sure the talking raccoon in Marvel Preview #7 had a name so I got out my copy to take a look. There is a panel in which he says his friends call him Rocky.
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    I'll go.
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    The Spirit story in the Jules Feiffer book is from the July 20, 1941 insert, not the origin story. I discovered that book in a library when I was a kid. It was great!
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    Very interesting. Thanks for posting!
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    Thanks for posting this. As others have said, George's Marvel Comics Indexes were a wealth of information in the pre-internet era. I was making my weekly trip to my LCS in 1976 when I saw the first one, Spider-Man, on the shelf. It was a bit pricey compared to a comic book but after flipping through it I had to buy it. I collected the volumes that followed too. Great work. R.I.P. George