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On 2/17/2022 at 7:33 PM, comicjack said:
On 2/17/2022 at 7:20 PM, szav said:

Assumed the Suspense 3 was gonna hit 100k, but 52k a few minutes out of the gate....what a start.

250 k

Although it's seemingly pretty much Crazytown out there right now and 2022 is a long ways away from 2017 even with the pandemic in there, maybe CGC 6.5 at 5th highest graded is still even further away from a Church CBCS 9.2 highest graded?  hm (shrug)  

Nevertheless, it will still definitely be very interesting to watch!!! :popcorn:  :taptaptap:  :taptaptap:

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On 2/14/2022 at 12:26 AM, sagii said:

While I am a dyed in the wool goldenage guy first and foremost now, I came up on bronze and copper age books. 

Here's what I will say about this book (**and this is not my copy, nor do I know who consigned it). Hard as it is to imagine for anyone who came up on comics during the 90's or later, the period between say 1975 and early 80's DC comics had a stigma of being seen as 'childish, corny and or not 'hip'.

I discovered super heroes by way of the Superfriends,  Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter), Shazam / Isis Hour, and my folks introducing through reruns Batman (Adam West) and Superman (George Reeves) to my brother and myself. Superman 78 is still to me the greatest superhero movie ever made. So i was a DC guy even though my first comic was a Marvel comic oddly enough purchased for me by my late Aunt Eloise. While Spider-Man was 'around' through Electric Company, a short lived live action primetime show, newspaper strips and reruns of the 60's cartoon (and later the Hulk), DC was the juggernaut at that time of their heroes making headway in other mediums outside of comics.

Anyway, I set all that up to say, I remember swap meets and lunch time comic sharing, bringing my stack of Super Friends, Justice League of America, Green Lantern, Flash and dreading to hear the one line over and over again "You still read DC?!?!" I remember a kid lending a copy of X-Men 122 and saying, here read this. It was different, but I still wasn't 'sold' on Marvel yet.  lol, I was probaly 11 or 12 when at one park meet up someone said 'DC sucks, except for The New Teen Titans". Two more chimed in "True". This intrigued me. I asked to borrow his copies of TNTT 1 to 6 and was blown away. I guickly became a fan and the run was so successful DC actually had a comic that challenged Marvels top tile , The X-Men.

I could go more in to depth about their meteoric rise, but dont want to go on too long. But I'd go as far as to say DC Comics Presents #26 changed DC's fortunes. If George Perez along with Marv Wolfman had not taken this assignment (he reportedly is on record that he really wanted to do primarily the JLA for DC) who knows where the company would be now. The book was so successful DC tasked the creative team with taking that momentum and high profile to revamp their entire universe (Crisis on Infinite Earths) to give a clean slate to their dated characters and attract new readers and hard core Marvel fans to come on board. 

Soon John Byrne jumped ship to DC and revamped Superman, and who knows if Frank Miller would have come to DC to revamp Batman ( who at that time still 'suffered' from the shadow of the Batman 60's show (even with Denny O Neil and Neal Adams returning the character to darker roots), as did the pereception of comics in general to outsiders) if the Titans hadnt bought luster back to the publisher. The Dark Knight and later Batman 89 changed all that for Batman, and DC comics was a contender again.

But it all began with the publication of DC Comics Presents #26. Yes, every comic age has its milestone books. This is one of them for its age and the book is long overdue to catchup with its Marvel contemporaries of the time price wise and 'hold'. I'll go to mat for my New Teen Titans, lol! They made those meet ups a lot more enjoyable 😉 

Now, back to our regularly scheduled goldenage programming. 

I was in high school and working at a comic shop on the weekends when this comic came out. You are 100% correct. It was memorable. It had a huge effect on the perception of DC at that time. It was a really big seller. And for this Marvel zombie it was a good read.

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On 2/18/2022 at 2:58 PM, MrBedrock said:

I was in high school and working at a comic shop on the weekends when this comic came out. You are 100% correct. It was memorable. It had a huge effect on the perception of DC at that time. It was a really big seller. And for this Marvel zombie it was a good read.

When we were kids, my brother was the comic collector and reader, not me.  He raved about the new X-men and Teen Titans, especially the Perez art.

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On 2/18/2022 at 2:58 PM, MrBedrock said:

I was in high school and working at a comic shop on the weekends when this comic came out. You are 100% correct. It was memorable. It had a huge effect on the perception of DC at that time. It was a really big seller. And for this Marvel zombie it was a good read.

 

On 2/18/2022 at 4:54 PM, adamstrange said:

When we were kids, my brother was the comic collector and reader, not me.  He raved about the new X-men and Teen Titans, especially the Perez art.

Nice to see so many of us gold heads are from the same generation :headbang:

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On 2/18/2022 at 5:04 PM, sagii said:

 

Nice to see so many of us gold heads are from the same generation :headbang:

My brother is 10 hm  20 hm 30 years older than I am. :whistle:

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On 2/18/2022 at 4:13 PM, adamstrange said:

My brother is 10 hm  20 hm 30 years older than I am. :whistle:

He must have been in his late 70s when he bought DC Presents 26. So cool that he had a passion that late in life!

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On 2/18/2022 at 7:02 PM, szav said:

I know you're not even watching the Suspense #3, and you secretly have your eyes on these 9.9s.  Clink does certainly seem to be the venue of choice for 9.9 BA/CA/MA.  Looks like one of the 9.9 aficionados is cashing out anyway, that and/or they decided to live with identical looking 9.8s.

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Those are the real gems of the auction! :peace:

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