Yes dear readers, today we are celebrating an anniversary... a milestone...

...Drum Roll Please!"My 100th Collectors Society Journal!"And what better way to celebrate a personal milestone than to talk about my latest acquisition... what I like to call, "A Holy Grail of a Story!"Almost the same time last year, I wrote a number of journals espousing my love for HIM... Marvel's Messiah... the Gold Skinned Christlike figure with a guilty conscious and an future evil self... the one and only... Adam Warlock.Forty-seven years ago, in the pages of the Fantastic Four Volume 1, No. 66 (1967), the comic book world was introduced to eugenics Marvel Style!Four nutty scientists, known as the Citadel of Science (COS), gathered inside a secret mountain complex, and kidnapped Alicia Masters, the blind sculptress and Ben Grimm's lady-love. Tasked to sculpt the bust of the COS's greatest creation, since no man can look with their naked eyes into the blinding energy which bathes their progeny without going blind (scientists without opaque safety googles?), Alicia Masters is given the 311 on the origin of their creation: HIM... the first of his kind... the leader of a superior race... a master race of perfect humanoids... a race of genetically birthed Gods! And for what purpose? To deliver humanity to a Golden Age or to subjugate it?In the subsequent issue, No. 67, Alicia Masters and the readers bear witness to the opening of the Cocoon and what awaits inside... the unholy power of HIM... Man's supreme creation! However, like a Modern-Day Prometheus, in his first appearance, this God-like being emerges to turn on his evil fathers, knowing full well of their nefarious intent, and destroys them... thus saving humanity from an incalculable evil. Realizing his true purpose lies not on Earth but in the Universe which awaits, HIM ascends to the stars for his spiritual growth and development. Thus began the great cosmic odyssey and legacy that is to become Adam Warlock.Where would Counter-Earth be without its Messiah?Where would the Mad Titan, Thanos be without Adam?Where would the Guardians of the Galaxy be without Warlock? And where would we, the apostles of Marvel's Cosmic Universe be without our Grand Savior?Thus I give you where it all began! In these very pages... we are privileged to glimpse HIM... he who emerged from the Chrysalis... and became the Messiah of the Marvel Universe!I am proud to induct Fantastic Four Volume 1, No. 67, CGC 9.6, White Pages, with the Old Universal Blue Label, into my Adam Warlock collection, euphemistically dubbed "The Keys to the Kingdom!"And lastly, I thank you all Dear Readers!... For diligently reading my journals and providing feedback, support and inspiration... for where would I be, a wannabe Writer, without my Readers?For this blessed and most humbling gift... I am forever grateful.SW3DTo see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.