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ROOKIE OF THE YEAR

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THE_BEYONDER

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ROOKIE OF THE YEAR 2004

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First off, I would like to thank Chromium for providing the music. 893applaud-thumb.gif

 

Secondly, I would like to thank everyone that participated. 893applaud-thumb.gif

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Coming in 3rd place with 23 votes(14%) is

REDHOOK

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Redhook is Brad Hamann. I live in.....Red Hook NY. First started collecting seriously in 1966. First few books I remember buying were FF 54 and ASM 41. I graduated from Parsons School of Design in NYC and I make my living as a freelance illustrator, doing editorial and advertising illustration for a wide range of clients. I have two great daughters from my first marriage, Dayna and Julia, 16 and 13. I am currently married to Lady Jane who literally changed my life when I met her.

 

My collecting patterns most resemble a comet that comes round every twenty years. After selling my first collection in the late 70's, I started collecting again in the early 80's. Stopped and then again started seriously only last year. Was intrigued by a CGC book I saw at a Big Apple Con and now own about 45 of them. I am a big Marvel Silver age fan, but thanks to being exposed to so many different interests here, from Charlton to Archie to DC....my collecting interest are starting to broaden.

 

Found the boards last fall, and have really enjoyed participating. I like the wide range of discussions, and arguments and personalities. It's been my collecting graduate school. I enjoy messing around with Photoshop and trying to get a laugh out of folk on the boards throwing up the odd image now and then. I appreciate the support and generosity shown on the boards. And I also am touched by the votes I received as a rookie. I enjoyed my first forum dinner last December and meeting some folks in person. Because I work at home, alone during the day, the boards have been a great hangout for me, during my work breaks.

 

Thanks everyone! It's been fun!

 

We have all enjoyed your creative posts, and appreciate your contributions to the CGC FORUM.

 

How about a round of KUDOS for Redhook? 893applaud-thumb.gif

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Coming in second with 31 votes(20%) is our resident DC completionist

IAN LEVINE

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Hello

 

My name is Ian Levine

 

I live in West London.

 

I bought my first DC comic at the tender age of six. It was the Justice League Of America number 7, "The Cosmic Fun House". I was hooked.

I collected avidly up until 1986, attempting in vain to collect every DC comic. I never had the remotest interest in Marvel at all.

 

By 1986, I had cards filled out with every DC number to tick off, but my Golden Age collection was pretty pathetic. I had great runs from the late 1950s up to 1986, in most cases uninterrupted ones. I just gave up and stopped buying, not finding affordable Golden Age, and not being motivated by the new comics coming out of DC at the time, and too confused by the whole "Crisis On Infinite Earths" and the ending of the simplistic old style of storytelling that I'd loved all my life.

 

In 2002, not having looked at my DC comics for years, and seeing them so thick with dust that it looked like they were covered in a thin layer of cotton wool, I arranged with my old friend Mike Lake to sell some of the rarer ones to a guy called Jonathan Browne, who ran a comic business called "They Walk Among Us".

 

Basically I sold him two thousand pounds worth, and within a week, having opened the cupboards and taken then all out, I bitterly regretted it.

I had opened Pandora's Box.

 

So I bought most of them back for more than I had sold them for, and started collecting again.

Unlike the 1980s, the abundance of collectors and dealers and the internet made it possible to track down comics that heretofore had merely been a dream.

 

ComicBiz and Quicksilver in England, Metropolis, Harley Yee, Rich Muchin, Robert Rogovin, Joe Verenault, Gary Dolgoff, and so many others in the USA, and after a year and a half, I had less than a thousand to go.

 

Then someone suggested to me that I join the GCG boards.

I cannot remember who it was. I am trying but it wasn't anyone that I mentioned above.

 

So I came on here last autumn and posted up my wants list.

 

This did two things.

 

Firstly it led to undreamed of contacts which now means I only need 14 comics to complete the entire set of every DC ever sold in the shops.

 

Secondly, it led to me getting up a lot of people's noses in my quest, especially those who had no love for vintage DC comics.

 

My relationship with these boards has been a real love/hate one.

 

The very public argument with Metropolis, the famous "The Wheels Are In Motion" became the most read thread on these boards.

 

The recent debacle with my being promised three early Detective Comics by a guy in Denmark, comics which I hasten to add never actually existed, did little to diminish my profile.

 

DC comics were my first love as a kid, even prior to Doctor Who, which had not even been commissioned when I bought my first Justice League comic.

 

I have made huge sacrifices to complete this collection. I arranged a remortgage of the house, and I also sold everything I could find to finance it, as my line of work is quite frankly abominable at the moment. So I sold off all my rare records, my Doctor Who props, my Doctor Who film prints, even some of my rare Motown collection.

 

But with just 14 to go, I feel I have achieved something noteworthy. At least to me. I'm not doing it to impress anyone else, whatever any of you might think, and some of my comics are low grade and restored of course. In fact, only three comic people have even seen my collection. No, I'm doing it because I always wanted every DC and it was an unachievable dream till recently.

 

And I'd be lying if I didn't say that these boards have helped me enormously during the last lap of the race.

 

The one drawback being that everyone now knows what I still need. A Buzzy 70, which should only fetch ten dollars, will obviously not be sold to me at any sort of bargain price. If you'd all never heard of me, no-one would have dreamed of asking a hundred dollars for that comic, never mind the ridiculous joke sum of five thousand bucks which that guy in California said he'd sell it for.

 

But with a couple of exceptions, there are some lovely people here on these boards. A little judgemental sometimes, but real characters nonetheless.

 

I just hope I still feel that way after I hopefully find my last fourteen. The visibility of my quest makes me very vulnerable.

 

Finally, to the wonderful Metarog, the KING of these boards, you alone made coming on here worthwhile. Your selfless assistance and tireless searching have been a joy to behold, and a true privilege to get to meet you, PURELY down to these CGC forum threads.

 

I pray I never become so financially unstuck that I'm forced to sell them.

 

 

Although some of us(myself included) give Ian a hard time from now and then....I'm sure we all hope he completes his monumental goal of COLLECTING EVERY DC .

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Coming in second with 31 votes(20%) is our resident DC completionist IAN LEVINE

 

I'm very grateful, especially considering that if I'd posted up my introduction five minutes later, I'd have been ruled out altogether.

Talk about timing.............

 

Do I win a Buzzy 70 now ??????? Or probably not as I only came in second.

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And the winner of ROOKIE OF THE YEAR 2004 with 47 votes(30%) is

rob_react

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by the way...

 

My name is Rob, I'm from boston and I love comics.

 

I also don't feel like a rookie, but who am I to argue?

 

 

Since Rob was a little brief(above), maybe we can get him to come on here and give his ACCEPTANCE SPEECH .4_17_5.gif

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Aces

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The results are down...

 

What was the final tally?

I was wondering if a 5th soul voted for little old me and I got to 3%. flowerred.gif

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ROOKIE OF THE YEAR

Users may choose only one (155 total votes)

Aces

4 02%

 

DiceX

4 02%

 

nikos61

0 0%

 

Ares

17 10%

 

jbud73

0 0%

 

Sterlingcomics

1 00%

 

bassgman

0 0%

 

shiverbones

9 05%

 

Redhook

23 14%

 

rob_react

47 30%

 

garthgantu

5 03%

 

Rip

4 02%

 

Kryptonitecomics

2 01%

 

Ian Levine

31 20%

 

gpcove

2 01%

 

goldust40

6 03%

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Aces

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2

 

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR

Users may choose only one (155 total votes)

Aces

4 02%

 

DiceX

4 02%

 

nikos61

0 0%

 

Ares

17 10%

 

jbud73

0 0%

 

Sterlingcomics

1 00%

 

bassgman

0 0%

 

shiverbones

9 05%

 

Redhook

23 14%

 

rob_react

47 30%

 

garthgantu

5 03%

 

Rip

4 02%

 

Kryptonitecomics

2 01%

 

Ian Levine

31 20%

 

gpcove

2 01%

 

goldust40

6 03%

 

 

 

No Federal matching funds for me. frown.gif

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ROOKIE OF THE YEAR

Users may choose only one (155 total votes)

Aces

4 02%

 

DiceX

4 02%

 

nikos61

0 0%

 

Ares

17 10%

 

jbud73

0 0%

 

Sterlingcomics

1 00%

 

bassgman

0 0%

 

shiverbones

9 05%

 

Redhook

23 14%

 

rob_react

47 30%

 

garthgantu

5 03%

 

Rip

4 02%

 

Kryptonitecomics

2 01%

 

Ian Levine

31 20%

 

gpcove

2 01%

 

goldust40

6 03%

 

Awww, nobody voted for me frown.gif

You really don't like me

You REALLY don't like me

Well, thanks to Shiver anyway, I think he is the one that nominated me (thanks for VOTING for me though Shiv!!!)

Aw hell, maybe I'll be SOMEBODY when I start in on BassGMan Year 2

 

You'll be seein' me. shocked.gif

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Since so many people disqualified themselves by not makin a proper speech/post I don't know what's up...

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I claim all the votes that went to the disqualifed folks! devil.gif

 

where were we sipposed to make speaches?

I wasnt notified!

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I would have voted for you, but you're from England.

 

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I actually DID vote for you.

 

Ian, that was a magnanimous (and not atypical) gesture. acclaim.gif

 

Ah well, at least you're English Rookie of the year. Better than nowt!

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