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I like the better adult titles that came out at that time. Its more interesting to me to read all the various genres you could get in indies at the time from humor to fantasy to horror to adult to sci fi without reading another same old, same old superhero story. I've never read Omaha but for adult works I did enjoy the Don Simpson works from the time - Wendy Whitebread, Forbidden Frankenstein, etc.

I have to say I never cared much for the xmen as I thought it was a corny soap opera, but that issue 102 is super cool. That was one I enjoyed reading and loved the art for as well. Out of the cockrum run that might be my favorite issue.

that would be amazing

I can't speak for records or rpg products but on (vintage at least) games there's no authenticity issue; the sticker doesn't prove anything. The boxes are cardboard and just the act of opening them stresses the cardboard in detectable ways, especially along the back hinge where color breaks and a groove is formed from having to pull open the flap that you can see under magnification. Now, when you get out of the cardboard age and into the plastic case age, I have less expertise on that and it may be more of an issue.

Merry Christmas I like the ones for stores that no longer exist. Woolworth's and Richman Gordman and so on.

And TBH I basically feel like whatever the answer to that question is, removal will happen more and more over time - its a losing battle, a bit like telling people not to press their books.

I always liked store stickers myself on the video game side as well. You could see the original price, sometimes the date, and as you say they have a vintage look to them themselves now. Unfortunately, the OCD crowd won out and stickers have been removed consistently for 15 years now. What's it like on the music side? I have to think there are lots of people running around removing stickers there too, and that the market generally slightly prefers 'clean' copies without stickers?

You were right. Now would you consider letting it go?

I'm guessing that's not that exclusive of a club How long ago? I saw him on some interview maybe 5 years ago and he was a mix of entertaining, interesting and messed up.

Nice to hear you have good taste! Pinball OA for the win!

and horseshyt in the streets!

I have to admit I've gone from thinking.... wow she REALLY fell off to... damn I've never really considered the phrase GILF before!

I think I've just been debunked! Let me just say..................... WHEW.

And no disrespect to Marianne, time gets everybody in the end.

Speaking of Marianne, Here's the concept of future shock in a single jpg:

When we drive by the seniors' home, my kid tells that's where I'm going to later

Yes, that's true! in 1907 you're riding a horse around town. You wake up in 1947 and there's concrete everywhere and cars. Huge changes all through the 1900s.

And respectfully I just don't think its the right take. I heard this whole thing referred to as Future Shock thirty years ago. As I understand it, its not uneasiness about our future per se - its uneasiness about our present as compared to the past that we remember as kids. I remember going to the library, the Dewey Decimal system, having to call people on the phone, pagers, all sorts of things that are totally ridiculously obsolete now and its comforting on some level to return to that sometimes because mentally we are dealing with more change in the present than we are really equipped / evolved to be totally comfortable with. So, its really not a doom and gloom scenario, but that sense of future shock or nostalgia or whatever you want to call it only gets stronger as the pace of change in the world speeds up. 1840 probably wasn't that different than 1810, not much to get nostalgic about, right? And I'm truly sure that 640 wasn't much different than 610. However, 2020 and 1990 are very very different - worlds apart. There's more change in that 30 years than in 500 years in a different part of our species' timeline.

great books guys. Just watch out for light exposure. Leaving them out on permanent display can turn those purples into baby blues and those deep reds into pinks before you know it.

tremendous. was he the original owner?

True! Anyone in the "Lee was useless and Kirby deserves all the credit" camp needs to be locked in a room with a stack of 70s Kirby and not be let out until they have every word memorized

great books

agreed 100% - I remember pages from Raphael 1 with Casey Jones panels being sold by Eastman for 5k ea or so, what maybe six years ago? (I might have that wrong but somewhere in there) and now those pages are 25k on HA.

The interview is easily searchable on google. A) #3 appears to have been out at the time of the interview; B) the rest is ambiguous due to the word choices in the relevant interview; C) the piece in question doesn't seem to appear in the interview. There is a Raphael image in the interview but this is not it. Perhaps it was published elsewhere in the book but that does seem unlikely off hand. D) Clearly they haven't done enough diligence on this description and they do make mistakes sometimes. I'll leave it to others to determine if that's criminal. Strikes me as a strong word choice but this also seems lacking on their end.