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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 27, 2021 17:54:47 GMT -5
That alien does resemble a thark, but tharks have four arms and two eyes.
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Post by Jeddak on Jul 27, 2021 19:35:43 GMT -5
Forgive me, but I'm gonna get pedantic here. All Tharks are Green Martians, but not all Green Martians are Tharks. Only the horde that lives in and around the ancient city of Thark take that name. And yeah, four arms. Also they stand around 12-15 feet tall.
I know, who cares? I would have let it slide, but my avatar wouldn't let me.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 27, 2021 20:06:26 GMT -5
Nostalgia of a time when that is where we bought comics. Not nicely lined up on a wall in alphabetical order. But haphazardly put in a rack in front of other books. Who knows what treasures you will find behind the latest issue of Batman. Plus, they INVITED you to take them out and flip through them. Even the "Hey Kids! Comics!" sign at the top gave you the authority to spin and search. I started buying comics in the early 70's and I have to confess that I didn't deal with a lot of spinner racks. I mostly went through comics in piles in candy stores.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 27, 2021 21:28:13 GMT -5
Plus, they INVITED you to take them out and flip through them. Even the "Hey Kids! Comics!" sign at the top gave you the authority to spin and search. I started buying comics in the early 70's and I have to confess that I didn't deal with a lot of spinner racks. I mostly went through comics in piles in candy stores. If you could get the things to spin. I've seen some that hadn't been oiled since manufacture and you would just give up and walk around the thing. Those big plastic ones that Waldenbooks put in their stores were really poorly balanced and some had seen some hefty abuse.
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Post by berkley on Jul 28, 2021 0:08:24 GMT -5
I started buying comics in the early 70's and I have to confess that I didn't deal with a lot of spinner racks. I mostly went through comics in piles in candy stores. If you could get the things to spin. I've seen some that hadn't been oiled since manufacture and you would just give up and walk around the thing. Those big plastic ones that Waldenbooks put in their stores were really poorly balanced and some had seen some hefty abuse.
Yeah, I'm of the age when they were around but I don't feel much nostalgia for them, personally.
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Post by Confessor on Jul 28, 2021 7:18:23 GMT -5
Forgive me, but I'm gonna get pedantic here. All Tharks are Green Martians, but not all Green Martians are Tharks. Only the horde that lives in and around the ancient city of Thark take that name. And yeah, four arms. Also they stand around 12-15 feet tall. I know, who cares? I would have let it slide, but my avatar wouldn't let me. Good nerdy knowledge. Tars Tarkas would be proud.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 28, 2021 8:21:28 GMT -5
Forgive me, but I'm gonna get pedantic here. All Tharks are Green Martians, but not all Green Martians are Tharks. Only the horde that lives in and around the ancient city of Thark take that name. And yeah, four arms. Also they stand around 12-15 feet tall. I know, who cares? I would have let it slide, but my avatar wouldn't let me. Good nerdy knowledge. Tars Tarkas would be proud. It's essentially the same with Green Rabbits. Not all of them are Bucky O'Hare!
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Post by brutalis on Jul 28, 2021 9:44:14 GMT -5
Good nerdy knowledge. Tars Tarkas would be proud. It's essentially the same with Green Rabbits. Not all of them are Bucky O'Hare! Most are ill, turned green unnaturally as members of the Easter Bunny Corp's who ate too much of the green grass and jelly beans in the baskets they delivered. Cuz we all know nobody believes in 6 foot tall green bounty hunting rabbits, right? 😉
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 28, 2021 10:49:23 GMT -5
It's essentially the same with Green Rabbits. Not all of them are Bucky O'Hare! Most are ill, turned green unnaturally as members of the Easter Bunny Corp's who ate too much of the green grass and jelly beans in the baskets they delivered. Cuz we all know nobody believes in 6 foot tall green bounty hunting rabbits, right? 😉 I believe in invisible 6 foot tall rabbits, though!
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Post by tartanphantom on Jul 28, 2021 12:59:09 GMT -5
Most are ill, turned green unnaturally as members of the Easter Bunny Corp's who ate too much of the green grass and jelly beans in the baskets they delivered. Cuz we all know nobody believes in 6 foot tall green bounty hunting rabbits, right? 😉 I believe in invisible 6 foot tall rabbits, though!
Same here.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Jul 28, 2021 21:50:06 GMT -5
What’s the earliest reprinted versions of FF 48-50?
48 is likely out of my range. I have 49 but kind of want to grade it. And 50 while I might get around to buying is also one I’d just like to have in some form. I like getting the “first reprints” or earliest reprints possible for bigger books. So whether is some treasury or whatever let me know if ya know! Thanks!
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Post by Bronze age andy on Jul 28, 2021 22:06:32 GMT -5
What’s the earliest reprinted versions of FF 48-50? 48 is likely out of my range. I have 49 but kind of want to grade it. And 50 while I might get around to buying is also one I’d just like to have in some form. I like getting the “first reprints” or earliest reprints possible for bigger books. So whether is some treasury or whatever let me know if ya know! Thanks! Pretty sure it is Marvel's Greatest Comics # 35 -37.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 28, 2021 22:45:28 GMT -5
What’s the earliest reprinted versions of FF 48-50? 48 is likely out of my range. I have 49 but kind of want to grade it. And 50 while I might get around to buying is also one I’d just like to have in some form. I like getting the “first reprints” or earliest reprints possible for bigger books. So whether is some treasury or whatever let me know if ya know! Thanks! Pretty sure it is Marvel's Greatest Comics # 35 -37. This is correct. They are reprinted together in Marvel Treasury Edition #2.
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Post by tonebone on Jul 29, 2021 10:47:37 GMT -5
Plus, they INVITED you to take them out and flip through them. Even the "Hey Kids! Comics!" sign at the top gave you the authority to spin and search. I started buying comics in the early 70's and I have to confess that I didn't deal with a lot of spinner racks. I mostly went through comics in piles in candy stores. I lived so far out in the sticks, we didn't have candy stores.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 29, 2021 11:02:35 GMT -5
I started buying comics in the early 70's and I have to confess that I didn't deal with a lot of spinner racks. I mostly went through comics in piles in candy stores. I lived so far out in the sticks, we didn't have candy stores. I grew up in a little farm town, in central Illinois. We had a little Mom & Pop grocery store. Candy was about the only real attraction. Most people shopped in nearby Decatur, for price and selection, by the mid-70s. No magazine rack of any kind. Little impulse fixture with cheap toys was about it. In the late 70s, they had a small Whitman rack and carried the bagged sets of comics, both the Gold Key/Whitman books and the DC sets. I bought a crap-ton of those; but they only had them for a few months. For comics, I either had to get them in Decatur or bike 5 miles to the next town, which had a larger grocery store/True Value Hardware, with a newsstand (they had a Borden's chemical plant there, which had been a munitions factory, in WW2; so, they had a larger customer base). When I was earning money in the summer, I would boke over there, buy comics and get a snack and a soda, finish that and then bike back home to read the comics. That included a steep hill (murder going there, great for the home trip) and at least one farm dog that would come out and chase you, until you threw a warning kick (never connected, animal lovers; just a message to back off). So, yeah, I literally rode, uphill, 5 miles (and back, though mostly downhill), through barking dogs, to get comics! You tell that to the young people of today, and they won't believe it!
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