I love seeing stuff I had no idea was out there. Very cool 😎
Mostly Comics! But, nature photography, aquariums, cats, music, antiques, Atari. My lovely wife is an artist, and the pic of our daughter above reminds me that the ultimate goal is civility & kindness. Native American Shop Stewart & environmentalist
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I love seeing stuff I had no idea was out there. Very cool 😎
Show off your Gene Colan!
Very cool! Howard the Duck is one of the 1st comic book series that I got hooked on & had to find & complete. Currently, one of my holy grails is this comic with a very early cover work by Gene Colan. from Dec of 1952. I don't think you have to be a war comics fan to appreciate the beautiful detail
I was lucky enough to work with Gene Colan when I was first starting at Marvel. We did a couple of black and white Hulk stories (inked by Alfredo Alcala and Dave Simons) that were wonders to behold.
If you Google The voice Australia boy George, there's a pretty cool video of a young 20 something year old woman performing one of his songs so differently that he didn't even recognize it until the second verse. Never been a fan, but Worth the 10 minutes to check it out.
Today is the birthday of legendary artist Gene Colan (Sept. 1, 1926-June 23, 2011).
In my experience, baseball is still an affordable sport in most stadiums. I remember I used to go to see the Washington Capitals regularly; a lower level seat was $65. Then they signed Jaromir Jagr & the same seat was $90. Cheered against this guy for a decade then he raised my seat cost 35-40%
Name something that is significantly overvalued. And go!
IMO, Pro sports as entertainment. Outside of athletes as role models which isn't always achieved (sportsmanship during competition, model citizen, etc), pro leagues bring little of value to society. The last time I wanted to go to a football game, one lower level seat was $400 completely ridiculous
Share the last movie you watched... .... Lone Wolf & Cub Swords of Vengeance
Happy September! Here’s the Classic Marvel Black Light Posters calendar for this month. This one is special to me, because I used to have this full size poster hanging in my room as a kid. I love it still! Art by John Romita.
I took my family to Lancaster PA for a weekend this summer & the owner of a local antique shop there had an amazing 12" GI Joe collection for sale. It was like being in a museum. He had some planet of the apes stuff too that had me wanting them LoL
I'd have to dig for them. I'm such a pack rat LoL! If get into that closet, I'll take pics & tag you :)
I was into this series as a teen. I think I dropped it off my pull list after issue 12. With the recent pick up from you I think I only need one or two issues. I need to dig out my pull list issues & check. It'd be a cool re-read
Our Army at War #84 2nd appearance of Sgt. Rock!!! I honestly am shaking I can’t believe I’m fortunate enough to get this. @big5army.bsky.social @spyvinyl.bsky.social @notnearmint.bsky.social @mediummic.bsky.social @comicsinthega.bsky.social
TOP 10 COMIC BOOKS CLZ offers CovrPrice Value Updates with subscription. These are the wildest weekly price fluctuations ⬆️ & ⬇️. # 10 INCREDIBLE HULK 180 This is the 1974 first appearance of Wolverine $511(FVF) ⬇️ $325 🔥🔥🔥🔥 FACT: even 181 is markedly down!!! Great time to buy for Wolvie hunters. 💫
TOP 10 COMIC BOOKS # 9 TALES OF SUSPENSE 52 This is the 1964 first appearance of Black Widow $360(VG+) ⬇️ $97 🔥🔥🔥🔥 FACT: Black Widow died in Avengers Endgame but the Marvel Zombies version crossed into the “MCU616” so they can bring back Scarlet anytime they desire. Nobody stays dead forever. 💫
TOP 10 COMIC BOOKS # 4 GREEN LANTERN 87, vol.2 This is the 1972 first appearance of John Stewart and second Guy Gardener $298(F) ⬆️ $37 🔥🔥🔥🔥 FACT: many Green Lantern books have crashed in value but this is one that usually holds because John Stewart is the Lantern many grew up with. 💫
TOP 10 COMIC BOOKS # 3 MARVEL PREMIERE 47 This is the 1979 first appearance of Scott Lang as Ant-Man, first Cassie Lang, and first Darren Cross $115(FVF) ⬆️ $45 🔥🔥🔥🔥 FACT: this is a rebound after the 3rd MCU film flopped. Scott is still used in comics and will be used in Avengers: Dooomsday. 💫
TOP 10 COMIC BOOKS # 2 DAREDEVIL 131 This is the 1976 first appearance of Bullseye (Lester Poindexter) $235(VF-) ⬆️ $79 🔥🔥🔥🔥 New season of Born Again is coming. 😼 FACT: Bullseye is like how the Joker is to Batman. Bullseye has died, his arm cut off, had multiple copies of himself: he’s a fixture! 💫
TOP 10 COMIC BOOKS # 1 X-MEN 101 This is the 1976 first appearance of the Phoenix & 1st full Black Tom Cassidy $391(FVF) ⬆️ $113 🔥🔥🔥🔥 FACT: 2 movies have attempted this story and failed… 3rd time’s a charm? 🤷🏻♂️ This Top 10 List is for REAL COLLECTORS instead of FOMO. Share & Like. 💫 Have a great week!
TOP 10 COMIC BOOKS This is a YouTube Short featuring the Not Near Mint Top 10 Comics Books for August 2025, week 5 💥 Every key issue and first appearance. 5 down & 5 up. 👍 If you haven’t yet, please like & subscribe! 4 away from 1k! 💥 How many do YOU have? 0/10? 10/10? 💫 youtube.com/shorts/ratHi...
Announcing our next Comic Book Film Club screening at the Alamo Winchester - EVENT HORIZON, which now finds itself as a comic book related film thanks to the excellent new DARK DESCENT series by @cjward.bsky.social & @tristansbones.bsky.social, published by @idwpublishing.com. Join us 9/28 at 5PM!
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Poison Ivy by Cary Nord. #comics #art
I have most of the Mego Star Trek figures. I also have a pretty cool custom one that someone made into Trelane. If you're not super into the series, that was William Campbell that was basically an all-powerful alien tween dressed like a captain.
I have an hour of mail left to deliver. Feeling kind of blah. I do have some cool modern Comics coming in a mailcall, so I'm excited about that. Anybody doing anything cool for this Labor Day weekend?
As do we all 😂
I had that rubber Spidey and played with it until the bendable wire came out of the arms 😂
@ksfphd.bsky.social Kevin, I've never known you to post abt video games but I do know you're a Stan Sakai fan. Anyway The Cult of the Lamb is a pretty iconic Indi game & here is a 1:100 variant copy with art by Stan Sakai. I have this one coming thru the mail. There's still a few on eBay, but pricey
Beautiful as always CC. What's also really nice about that copy is the Marvel top blue line is nice and straight. How many times have you seen a decent marvel comic from that time period and the cut is off & that Marvel Comics headline is crooked?
Back from CGC: This came back as the single-highest grade copy to date. Which entitles me to a free drink any time I’m in Pecos City.
So I might be a day late here, but I think Jack Kirby deserves a nod for this top shelf Friday. Here's my submission: Tales To Astonish #48, the first appearance of The Porcupine :)
This is now on my want list. Very cool 😎
Nice!
Very nice Steve :)
David, what's your favorite Kirby cover?
Never sent away for it but from what I understand the artwork on those ads are Russ Heath
My latest piece @thenation.com written with the great Chuck Modiano: "The DC Night Patrols Are Showing Our Cities How To Fight Back Against Trump’s Occupation" www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Happy Birthday to Jack Kirby!
Better than a mailcall. Better than an LCS pickup. I'm watching my little girl swim :)
Today I asked two dentists that I deliver mail to if they could refer me to an oral surgeon. Both dentists (basically) replied "you'd have to make an appointment with us before we could refer you to an oral surgeon". Everybody wants their fucking cut don't they?
Are those rosary beads up on the top shelf? Heavenly hostess pies? 😂
youtu.be/Zju_9ZAdwd0?... Today my Governor invited President Trump to to a safety walk down the streets of Baltimore. I have a MUCH better idea..... 🩰
Very cool 😎
I've never seen this before. It's beautiful! Remind me of an old original Jimi Hendrix or Grateful Dead poster :)
SO lucky to have this one. I chased it for well over a decade & finally got a good copy around the year 2000.
MGA is my favorite DC Comic that I still actively collect :)
Thanks! I've been slowly putting this series together for decades now :)
Ferguson obviously ignore the "no-sleeve rule" when it comes to Space rangers. Totally unforgivable LoL
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Mailcall: My Greatest Adventure #27, Jan 1959. Cover by Bob Brown. Panels by Lee Elias, Jim Mooney, & Ruben Moreira. Panels below 👇
I'm not a dog person, but if I were to retire and have a dog I would want it to be a basset hound. Great pick up there Bill ;)
My pleasure:) honestly, i wish everyone that I enjoy interacting with would come over. I sty have DaveComicBookHero, Donovan, Alec, FrankiePaul, over there just to name a few, but I 2nd what Vinson waa saying, very similar interactions with 1/10th the followers & A LOT less spam.
F14s ?
I have 1/10th the followers here compared to Twitter, but the community here is even more active for me. You'll find some very cool accounts you used to enjoy active here.
Anyone not familiar with Comic Citizen's posts, he finds some pretty amazing comics in excellent shape from the 70s. I love seeing his stuff.
Here’s something with an appropriately blue sky to start me off.
No clue. I'm thinking about getting it slabbed because the cover is basically newspaper quality, like an early foreign release marvel or dc.
Awesome CC! 1st time I've seen you post on Bluesky :)
What an awesome idea! I've never seen anything like it.
Very nice Jere! That's a TOS I don't have :)
Wow! I didn't know that. I only have a few JSA. However, I do know his work from My Greatest Adventure (later turns into the Doom Patrol). He worked on that series here and there. I was an avid collector of MGA before the interweb & still pick up issues here & there :)
Yes it's there as a museum & you can go on it. It's rare that they move it though. Every blue moon they let groups of kids spend the night on it (I think they still do that?) & ity supposed to be haunted LoL
It was the best! It totally felt like we were sailing a wooden frigate out of the harbor & there might have been 35 people on board, including an original veteran of the ship in a wheelchair. His story was he fudged his age to join the service.
I had to have this book because my wife managed a restaurant where it's docked & one of our dates before we married was to attend "the turn about".Basically periodically they tugboat the ship to the mouth of the harbor & turn it around. It's so tall, you can't see the tugboats. Beautiful experience
You folk are throwing down some rare books! In honor of that, for my TS Friday I submit what I think is the rarest book in my collection. Put out by the Eisenhower Administration in 1955 & distributed to the students of Maryland, commemorating the retirement of the USS Constellation built in 1854.
Dick Dillon in the house! Very nice Ed :)
Very cool! Something I've never seen. I'm guessing it's a spoof from Stephen King's early dark Tower series (?)
What an amazing book Jeremiah! Extremely cool 😎
Top Shelf Friday time What's a comic in your collection that you think deserves to be on that top shelf? Whether its a key, rare, or just one you love❤️ This week, a newspaper strip, Savage Empire (Oct '75), the first true appearance of Warlord! #TopShelfFriday #comicsky #comicbooks #comics
I got mine around the same time. Definitely an oddity and I love the T-shirt :)
World of Suspense #1 (1956) I can’t believe I was fortunate enough to win this in a giveaway!
How often do I make chemistry jokes? Periodically.
Well can't you do something? 😂
I really REALLY don't like drawing cars. (It's strange that it should be so difficult. They are basically just boxes with four wheels on them!) However, THIS was an exception. FromJustice League: Metal #32. An issue I'm still really proud of. 🙂
Friday afternoon comic-
For those w/a usps horror story, here's another take: Today I had an LP Mailer addressed to an apt building w/o an apt # & just addressed to "Chris". So I googled the sender's address & gave my number to his leasing office? He called my cellphone& I was able to deliver his records to the right apt:)
Thanks :)
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Today is the birthday of artist Marie Severin (Aug. 21, 1929-Aug. 30, 2018), most known for her work for EC Comics & her many years at Marvel.
It is essential to dress for success in the cold depths of space ;)
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LCS pickup: Four Color Comics #421 from October 1952. Art by Al McWilliams. More panels below 👇
I don't know how you all in FLA do it. My father lived in coastal North Carolina for a little over 20 years & in all that time, his roof never aged to the point of needing replacing
Sure! I wish you luck with the project. To be honest, I was mostly into Thieves World & Sanctuary, but feel free to tag me on anything you would like me to see & I gave you a follow :)
Should be up the coast by tomorrow. I'd love to see the splash pages if you want to tag me ;)
Definitely not the Baltimore area. My community website has posts like "local meth addict knocks on doors asking for odd job work and then later seen on ring doorbell camera breaking into garage" That's more my community's speed 😂
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Beautiful Jared!
Norrin Radd meets Galactus for the first time! And his life will never be the same! #SilverSurfer (art by John Buscema and Joe Sinnott)
Lol!
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Mailcall concluded: All American Men of War #94; Dec 1962. Art by Irv Novick. Stories by Robert Kanigher & Bob Haney. Panels below 👇
QT this post with someone you wish was still alive
Mr Rogers is a hero of mine. Good choice
Cover by Jack Burnley.
