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nearmint's rather petite Wizard World LA Con report!

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agro23

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Jeff and Ryan,

Great report and photos. The show was great fun. The return trip was not.

Let me list the ways.

Left Blythe Az on Monday morning, the start the first half of the drive back.

Got to Ft Stockton Tx about 11:30 pm. No hotel vacancies.

Three hours later and three small towns and still no vacancies so I figured I would make the overnight drive and get into Houston at about 7:30am. Man was I wrong!!!!!

Got the weather service tornado warning at the same time as the tornado itself (or at least the peripheral high winds) about twenty miles west of Junction TX at 4am.

Managed to make it under an overpass with a wind break so the van didn't blow over. After a couple of minutes it mellowed out a little so I pulled out to try to get ahead of the storm.

About a mile and and half down the road the hail started. And it got bigger. And it got bigger. And it got bigger. And it is very, very loud on a metal van roof.

At about golfball size I stopped and waited for the windshield to pop, or the van to blow over, all the while smelling ozone as lighting bolts are hitting everything.

I might have screamed a little...

 

Well all ended well...about 6am I stopped in Seguin Tx (just east of San Antonio, and a couple of hundred miles from home), got some food, stretched, gassed up and got back on the road.

And as soon as I pulled back on the freeway... a blowout!

Yeah!!!!! I love changing flats. Especially on a van loaded down with comics.

Wrestle with the lug nuts, get the jack up, get the flat off, and I am starting to put the spare on when the truck falls off the jack.

Fortunately I was in front of a car dealership and when they got there they helped get me back on the road.

No bodily damage, thank goodness, but I am wondering if I might have charged too much for one of the comics I sold at the show.

But, you made it home body and stock intact. It was great meeting you at the show and I'm glad you lived to tell this tale!
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I'm glad you lived to tell this tale!

 

No kidding - Richard knows that I had a *very* close call to being "lights out" with a freak accident on the freeway a few weeks ago, so it seems the comic gods are indeed watching out for us :angel:

 

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you didnt happen to be giving Chucky a ride home were you?? Only Chuck gets a road story like this happen to him. But YOUR story I believe. Glad you made it..

 

Chuck would've told the same story with 50 times as many words. Instead of golf balls, it would have been basketballs falling from the sky, and when the van fell off the Jack, Chuck would have simply lifted the van with his left arm while changing the tire with his right.

 

................and have TORNADO as a 50% discount password

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you didnt happen to be giving Chucky a ride home were you?? Only Chuck gets a road story like this happen to him. But YOUR story I believe. Glad you made it..

 

Chuck would've told the same story with 50 times as many words. Instead of golf balls, it would have been basketballs falling from the sky, and when the van fell off the Jack, Chuck would have simply lifted the van with his left arm while changing the tire with his right.

 

................and have TORNADO as a 50% discount password

now that is a down right funny addition!

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you didnt happen to be giving Chucky a ride home were you?? Only Chuck gets a road story like this happen to him. But YOUR story I believe. Glad you made it..

 

Chuck would've told the same story with 50 times as many words. Instead of golf balls, it would have been basketballs falling from the sky, and when the van fell off the Jack, Chuck would have simply lifted the van with his left arm while changing the tire with his right.

 

................and have TORNADO as a 50% discount password

 

lol

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Great read and photos to boot. Looked like a good time (sans strippers even).

 

Just curious, but I think I see a CGC 5.0 and an unslabbed copy of Daring Mystery Comics #1. Who do those belong to? They look like they belong to one of Bedrock's funny book stacks hm

 

Glad you made it home to tell the tale Richard. I'm already looking forward to the next geek session!

 

Snitzer: the slabbed DARING #1 is Bedrock's, the raw (restored) one is mine.

 

Thanks RyanH! That's one of the few grails I hope to attain at some point ;)

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Great read and photos to boot. Looked like a good time (sans strippers even).

 

Just curious, but I think I see a CGC 5.0 and an unslabbed copy of Daring Mystery Comics #1. Who do those belong to? They look like they belong to one of Bedrock's funny book stacks hm

 

Glad you made it home to tell the tale Richard. I'm already looking forward to the next geek session!

 

Snitzer: the slabbed DARING #1 is Bedrock's, the raw (restored) one is mine.

 

Thanks RyanH! That's one of the few grails I hope to attain at some point ;)

 

No problem! I ended up buying a restored, as it is such an EXPENSIVE book otherwise (even restored ain't cheap!). But its a fun , early Timely.

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Great read and photos to boot. Looked like a good time (sans strippers even).

 

Just curious, but I think I see a CGC 5.0 and an unslabbed copy of Daring Mystery Comics #1. Who do those belong to? They look like they belong to one of Bedrock's funny book stacks hm

 

Glad you made it home to tell the tale Richard. I'm already looking forward to the next geek session!

 

Snitzer: the slabbed DARING #1 is Bedrock's, the raw (restored) one is mine.

 

Thanks RyanH! That's one of the few grails I hope to attain at some point ;)

 

No problem! I ended up buying a restored, as it is such an EXPENSIVE book otherwise (even restored ain't cheap!). But its a fun , early Timely.

 

Agree. Restored or unrestored it's one worth owning I've always felt. The cover is fantastic. (thumbs u

 

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Great read and photos to boot. Looked like a good time (sans strippers even).

 

Just curious, but I think I see a CGC 5.0 and an unslabbed copy of Daring Mystery Comics #1. Who do those belong to? They look like they belong to one of Bedrock's funny book stacks hm

 

Glad you made it home to tell the tale Richard. I'm already looking forward to the next geek session!

 

Snitzer: the slabbed DARING #1 is Bedrock's, the raw (restored) one is mine.

 

Thanks RyanH! That's one of the few grails I hope to attain at some point ;)

 

No problem! I ended up buying a restored, as it is such an EXPENSIVE book otherwise (even restored ain't cheap!). But its a fun , early Timely.

 

Agree. Restored or unrestored it's one worth owning I've always felt. The cover is fantastic. (thumbs u

 

The interior is pretty cool too, but it doesn't quite live up to the cover!! I just don't think you can top that !! (fav inside story of mine is easily the Firey Mask story by Joe Simon)

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Great read and photos to boot. Looked like a good time (sans strippers even).

 

Just curious, but I think I see a CGC 5.0 and an unslabbed copy of Daring Mystery Comics #1. Who do those belong to? They look like they belong to one of Bedrock's funny book stacks hm

 

Glad you made it home to tell the tale Richard. I'm already looking forward to the next geek session!

 

Snitzer: the slabbed DARING #1 is Bedrock's, the raw (restored) one is mine.

 

Thanks RyanH! That's one of the few grails I hope to attain at some point ;)

 

No problem! I ended up buying a restored, as it is such an EXPENSIVE book otherwise (even restored ain't cheap!). But its a fun , early Timely.

 

Agree. Restored or unrestored it's one worth owning I've always felt. The cover is fantastic. (thumbs u

 

The interior is pretty cool too, but it doesn't quite live up to the cover!! I just don't think you can top that !! (fav inside story of mine is easily the Firey Mask story by Joe Simon)

 

PM sent to Richard on that Larson. muwhahahahaha! :devil:

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Great read and photos to boot. Looked like a good time (sans strippers even).

 

Just curious, but I think I see a CGC 5.0 and an unslabbed copy of Daring Mystery Comics #1. Who do those belong to? They look like they belong to one of Bedrock's funny book stacks hm

 

Glad you made it home to tell the tale Richard. I'm already looking forward to the next geek session!

 

Snitzer: the slabbed DARING #1 is Bedrock's, the raw (restored) one is mine.

 

Thanks RyanH! That's one of the few grails I hope to attain at some point ;)

 

No problem! I ended up buying a restored, as it is such an EXPENSIVE book otherwise (even restored ain't cheap!). But its a fun , early Timely.

 

Agree. Restored or unrestored it's one worth owning I've always felt. The cover is fantastic. (thumbs u

 

The interior is pretty cool too, but it doesn't quite live up to the cover!! I just don't think you can top that !! (fav inside story of mine is easily the Firey Mask story by Joe Simon)

 

PM sent to Richard on that Larson. muwhahahahaha! :devil:

PM discarded! Bwaaahaaahaaa! ;)

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Great read and photos to boot. Looked like a good time (sans strippers even).

 

Just curious, but I think I see a CGC 5.0 and an unslabbed copy of Daring Mystery Comics #1. Who do those belong to? They look like they belong to one of Bedrock's funny book stacks hm

 

Glad you made it home to tell the tale Richard. I'm already looking forward to the next geek session!

 

Snitzer: the slabbed DARING #1 is Bedrock's, the raw (restored) one is mine.

 

Thanks RyanH! That's one of the few grails I hope to attain at some point ;)

 

No problem! I ended up buying a restored, as it is such an EXPENSIVE book otherwise (even restored ain't cheap!). But its a fun , early Timely.

 

Agree. Restored or unrestored it's one worth owning I've always felt. The cover is fantastic. (thumbs u

 

The interior is pretty cool too, but it doesn't quite live up to the cover!! I just don't think you can top that !! (fav inside story of mine is easily the Firey Mask story by Joe Simon)

 

PM sent to Richard on that Larson. muwhahahahaha! :devil:

PM discarded! Bwaaahaaahaaa! ;)

:signfunny:
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Great read and photos to boot. Looked like a good time (sans strippers even).

 

Just curious, but I think I see a CGC 5.0 and an unslabbed copy of Daring Mystery Comics #1. Who do those belong to? They look like they belong to one of Bedrock's funny book stacks hm

 

Glad you made it home to tell the tale Richard. I'm already looking forward to the next geek session!

 

Snitzer: the slabbed DARING #1 is Bedrock's, the raw (restored) one is mine.

 

Thanks RyanH! That's one of the few grails I hope to attain at some point ;)

 

No problem! I ended up buying a restored, as it is such an EXPENSIVE book otherwise (even restored ain't cheap!). But its a fun , early Timely.

 

Agree. Restored or unrestored it's one worth owning I've always felt. The cover is fantastic. (thumbs u

 

The interior is pretty cool too, but it doesn't quite live up to the cover!! I just don't think you can top that !! (fav inside story of mine is easily the Firey Mask story by Joe Simon)

 

PM sent to Richard on that Larson. muwhahahahaha! :devil:

PM discarded! Bwaaahaaahaaa! ;)

:signfunny:

 

doh!

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