just curious what peoples views are and where you live are there any shows that
you attend

I have some cards to trade and 8x10's I am looking for detroit teams and some
cards from the following yrs 81 topps,84 85 88 fleer 87 donruss 90 score if you
are interested let me know what you are looking for

looking to see who collects what items

But the angel said to them, 'Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great
joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has
been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. Glory to God in the highest, and on
earth peace to men on whom his favor rests.'" (Luke 2:8-11; 14) MERRY CHRISTMAS
to all of you from Hero's Cards and Comics.

burger king cards from the late 70's and regional issues looking to trade for

SHIPPING THIS WEEK on Wednesday (Today) as usual, AND PICKS:

ABSOLUTION #5 (OF 6) (MR)                                3.99
AGENTS OF ATLAS TP DARK REIGN                           19.99
ALEC SC YEARS HAVE PANTS LIFE SIZE OMNIBUS (MR) (C      35.00
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #616 GNTLT                            2.99
ANGEL ANNUAL #1                                          7.99
ANGEL ANNUAL #1                                          7.99
ANGEL ONLY HUMAN #5 (OF 5)                               3.99
ANGELUS #1 (OF 6)                                        2.99
ARCHIE #604                                              2.50
ARCHIE #604                                              2.50
ARKHAM REBORN #3 (OF 3)                                  2.99
AVENGERS INITIATIVE #31 SIEGE                            2.99
AZRAEL #3                                                2.99
BART SIMPSON COMICS #51                                  2.99
BATMAN #694                                              2.99
BATMAN THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #12                        2.50
BATMAN THE WRATH TP                                     17.99
BEASTS OF BURDEN #4 (OF 4)                               2.99
BILLY BATSON AND THE MAGIC OF SHAZAM #11                 2.50
BLACK COAT OR GIVE ME DEATH #4 (OF 4) (RES)              3.50
BLACK TERROR #6                                          3.50
BLACK WIDOW AND MARVEL GIRLS #2 (OF 4)                   2.99

BLACKEST NIGHT JSA #1 (OF 3)                             2.99  -- The lastest
BLACKEST NIGHT TIE-IN is sure to rattle your bones.

BLACKEST NIGHT JSA #1 (OF 3) VAR ED                      2.99
BPRD TP VOL 03 PLAGUE OF FROGS                          17.95
BTVS SEASON 8 TP VOL 03 WOLVES AT THE GATE              15.95

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER WILLOW ONE SHOT (OSW) JO        3.50 -- The actual Joss
Whedon has emerged from retirement to write this new one-shot.  Yay.

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER WILLOW ONE SHOT (OSW) MOL       3.50

CAPTAIN AMERICA REBORN WHO WILL WIELD THE SHIELD         3.99 -- Yeah, I've had
some questions about this myself.  NOTE:  This issue probably contains some
spoilers, since it takes place after Cap Reborn #6, which hasn't come out yet.

CHEW #7 (MR)                                             2.99
COMPLETE DRACULA #5 (OF 5)                               4.99
CONCEPTUAL REALISM IN SERVICE OF HYPOTHETICAL SC        24.99
CRIMINAL MACABRE CELL BLOCK 666 TP                      12.99
CRIMINAL SINNERS #3 (MR)                                 3.50
CROSSED #8 (OF 9) (MR)                                   3.99
DAREDEVIL OMNIBUS HC VOL 02 BY BENDIS & MALEEV          99.99
DARK AVENGERS ARES #3 (OF 3)                             3.99
DARK REIGN HOOD TP                                      19.99
DARK REIGN SINISTER SPIDER-MAN TP                       16.99
DARK REIGN SKRULL KILL KREW TP                          19.99
DARK REIGN YOUNG AVENGERS TP                            16.99
DARK TOWER BATTLE OF JERICHO HILL #2 (OF 5)              3.99
DEFINITIVE PRINCE VALIANT COMPANION SC                  24.99
DETECTIVE COMICS #860                                    3.99
DETECTIVE COMICS #860 VAR ED                             3.99
DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP #7 (OF 24)           3.99
DOCTOR VOODOO ORIGIN OF JERICHO DRUMM                    4.99
ENDERS GAME COMMAND SCHOOL #4 (OF 5)                     3.99
ENDERS SHADOW COMMAND SCHOOL #4 (OF 5)                   3.99
FALL OF HULKS GAMMA FOH                                  3.99
FANTASTIC FOUR #574                                      2.99
FANTASTIC FOUR TP MASTERS OF DOOM                       19.99

FOOTNOTES IN GAZA HC                          29.95   -- Actual genius JOE SACCO
comes out with another fine hunka comics.  Any thematic connection to Blackest
Night is incidental.

FRANK FRAZETTAS DARK KINGDOM #3 (OF 4) FRAZETTA CV       3.99
FREDDY JASON ASH NIGHTMARE WARRIORS #6 (OF 6) (MR)       3.99
GANTZ TP VOL 08 (MR)                         12.99
GARTH ENNIS BATTLEFIELDS HAPPY VALLEY #1 (OF 9) (M       3.50
GI JOE ORIGINS #10                                       3.99
GOTHAM CITY SIRENS #7                                    2.99
GREAT ANTI WAR CARTOONS                       24.99
GREEN LANTERN #49 (BLACKEST NIGHT)                       2.99
GREEN LANTERN CHRONICLES TP VOL 02                      14.99
GRIMM FAIRY TALES #43 A CVR AMORIM                       2.99
GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #21                                  2.99
HALO BLOOD LINE #1 (OF 5) (MR)                           3.99
HELLBOY BRIDE OF HELL ONE SHOT (OSW)                     3.50
HISTORY OF THE DCU SER 3 BRAINIAC AF
HISTORY OF THE DCU SER 3 OCEAN MASTER AF
HISTORY OF THE DCU SER 3 ONE THIRD BAL CASE
IMAGE UNITED #2 (OF 6) SAVAGE DRAGON CVR F               3.99
IMAGE UNITED #2 (OF 6) SPAWN CVR A                       3.99
IMAGE UNITED #2 (OF 6) WITCHBLADE CVR C                  3.99
IMAGE UNITED #2 (OF 6) YOUNGBLOOD CVR D                  3.99
INCREDIBLE HERCULES #139                                 3.99
INCREDIBLE HERCULES TP DARK REIGN                       14.99
INVINCIBLE #69                                           2.99
IRON MAN VS WHIPLASH #2 (OF 4)                           3.99
IRREDEEMABLE #9                                          3.99
IRREDEEMABLE TP VOL 02                                  16.99
JACK OF FABLES #41 (MR)                                  2.99
JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #34                           2.99
JUXTAPOZ VOL 17 #1 JAN 2010                              5.99
LAST DAYS OF AMERICAN CRIME #1 (OF 3) B        4.99
LOST AT SEA GN NEW ED                                   11.95
LOVE AND CAPES #12                                       5.99
MADAME XANADU #18 (MR)                                   2.99
MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN #58                         2.99
MARVEL ZOMBIES RETURN HC                                24.99
MIGHTY TP VOL 01                                        17.99
MINI MARVELS TP ULTIMATE COLLECTION GN                  19.99
MMW UNCANNY X-MEN TP VOL 02                             24.99
MONSTERS INC LAUGH FACTORY #4                  2.99
MORE THAN COMPLETE ACTION PHILOSOPHERS TP               24.99
NAKED COSMOS DVD & MINI COMIC                 20.00
NEW AVENGERS #60                                         3.99
NEW MUTANTS #8 XN                                        2.99
NEXUS ARCHIVES HC VOL 10                      49.95
NGE SHINJI IKARI RAISING PROJECT TP VOL 03        9.99
NORTHLANDERS #23 (MR)                                    2.99
OKKO CYCLE OF EARTH #4 (OF 4) (MR)                       3.95
ONE MODEL NATION GN                                     17.99
ORIGINAL JOHNSON GN VOL 01                              19.99
POWERS #2 (MR)                                           3.95
PSYLOCKE #1 (OF 4) 2ND PTG TOLIBAO VAR          3.99

PUNISHER #11 2ND PTG MOORE VAR (PP #896)                 2.99 -- A second chance
to check out this new monster-heavy direction for the Punny.  Beasts!

PUNISHER #12                                             2.99
PUNISHERMAX #1 2ND PTG DILLON SKETCH VAR (MR) (PP        3.99
PUNISHERMAX #2 (MR)                                      3.99
SECRET WARRIORS #11                                      2.99
SONIC UNIVERSE #11                                       2.50
SPIDER-WOMAN #4                                          2.99
STAND SOUL SURVIVORS #3 (OF 5)                           3.99
STAR TREK TNG GHOSTS #2                                  3.99
STAR WARS CLONE WARS TP VOL 04 COLOSSUS OF DESTINY       7.99
STAR WARS KNIGHTS OLD REPUBLIC #48 DEMON PT 2 (OF        2.99
STAR WARS LEGACY #43 MONSTER PT 1 (OF 4)        2.99
SUB-MARINER TP DEPTHS                                   19.99
SUBLIFE GN VOL 02                                        7.99
SUPERGIRL COSMIC ADVENTURES IN THE EIGHTH GRADE TP      12.99
SUPERMAN #695                                            2.99
TEEN TITANS #78 (BLACKEST NIGHT)                         3.99
THOR #605                                                2.99
TINY TITANS #23                                          2.50
TORCHWOOD CONSEQUENCES HC                     11.99
TORCHWOOD ENCYCLOPEDIA HC                     24.99
TORCHWOOD RISK ASSESSMENT HC                  11.99
TORCHWOOD UNDERTAKERS GIFT HC                 11.99
TRACKER #2 (OF 5)                                        2.99
TRANSFORMERS TALES O/T FALLEN #5 (OF 5)                  3.99
UNCANNY X-MEN #519                                       2.99
UNKNOWN SOLDIER #15 (MR)                                 2.99
USAGI YOJIMBO #125                                       3.50
VICTORIAN UNDEAD #2 (OF 6)                               2.99
WALL-E #1                                      2.99
WEB #4                                                   3.99
WHAT IF SPIDER-MAN HOUSE OF M                            3.99
WILDCATS #18                                             2.99
WITCHBLADE #133 SEJIC CVR A                              2.99
WOLVERINE ORIGINS #43                                    2.99
WOLVERINE WEAPON X #8                                    3.99
WONDER WOMAN #39                                         2.99
WORLDS FINEST #3 (OF 4) CVR A                            2.99
WORLDS FINEST #3 (OF 4) CVR B                            2.99
X-FORCE CABLE MESSIAH WAR TP                            34.99
X-MEN FOREVER #14                                        3.99
X-MEN LEGACY #231 XN                                     2.99
X-MEN SPIDER-MAN TP                                     14.99
ZORRO #18                                                3.50


I wish you all a very Merry Christmas!!! (sorry pagans)

Bruce
Hero's Cards and Comics

For Sale: I have several NFL Quarterback
Cards available in lots. There's far to many
to list all the cards. Available are Troy Aikman,
Mark Brunell, Marc Bulger, Daunte Culpepper,
Neil O'Donnell, John Elway, Brett Favre, and
Elvis Grbac, Brian Griese, Trent Green, Drew
Bledsoe, Steve Bono, Jeff George, Dan Marino,
Rick Mirer, Warren Moon, Joe Montana, Jake
Plumber, Ryan Leaf, Jon Kitna, Doug Flutie, Ty
Detmer, Tony Banks, Kerry Collins, Jim Everett,
Randall Cunningham, Trent Dilfer, Chris Chandler,
Stan Humphries, Kordell Stewart, Vinny Testaverde,
Steve Young and Kurt Warner. Most of these lots
have ten cards per player but not all. Asking $6.00
to $8.00 per lot of 10 cards. Anyone interested in
buying ten or more lots I will give a 10 percent off.
I also have over 3,000 other NFL cards available
if anyone wants to buy them all contact me. Shipping
is extra..I accept cash or money orders..Thanks.
Blue Springs, Mo. 64014

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SHIPPING THIS WEEK and PICKS:

ADVENTURE COMICS #5 (BLACKEST NIGHT)                     3.99
AIR #16 (MR)                                             2.99
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #615 GNTLT                            2.99
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN PRESENTS ANTI VENOM #3 (OF 3)         3.99
AMORY WARS TP VOL 02 SECOND STAGE TURBINE BLADE         14.99
ANGEL #28                                                3.99
ART OF STEVE DITKO HC                                   29.99
ASTERIX HC ASTERIX & OBELIX BIRTHDAY                    14.95
ASTONISHING X-MEN #33                                    2.99
AUTHORITY THE LOST YEAR #4 (OF 12)                       2.99

BATMAN #694                                              2.99
BATMAN 80 PAGE GIANT #1                                  5.99
BATMAN ARKHAM ASYLUM SPECIAL                             5.99
BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #39                                  2.99
BATMAN STREETS OF GOTHAM #7                              3.99
BETTY & VERONICA #245                                    2.50
BLACK PANTHER 2 #11                                      2.99
BLACK WIDOW DEADLY ORIGIN #2 (OF 4) SECRET VAR           3.99
BRAVE AND THE BOLD #30                                   2.99
CABLE #21                                                3.99

CAPTAIN AMERICA REBORN #5 (OF 6)                         3.99 -- Hey, look!
Another one of these!

CAPTAIN AMERICA REBORN #5 (OF 6) CASSADAY VAR            3.99
CHIMICHANGA #1                                           3.00
COMPLETE ALICE IN WONDERLAND #1 (OF 4)                   4.99
COMPLETE LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE HC VOL 04                  49.99
DAREDEVIL #503                                           2.99
DARK AVENGERS #12                                        3.99
DARK AVENGERS ANNUAL #1                                  4.99
DARK WOLVERINE #81                                       2.99
DARKNESS PITT #3 (OF 3) KEOWN CVR A                      2.99
DEAD AT 17 AFTERBIRTH TP VOL 01                         12.99
DEAD KINGDOM OF FLIES TP (MR)                           15.00
DEADPOOL MERC WITH A MOUTH #6                            2.99
DEADPOOL MERC WITH A MOUTH #6                            2.99
DEADPOOL TP VOL 02 DARK REIGN                           14.99
DOCTOR VOODOO AVENGER OF SUPERNATURAL #3                 2.99
DOCTOR WHO ONGOING #6                                    3.99
DR WHO MAGAZINE #415                           7.99
DRAWING DOWN THE MOON ART OF CHARLES VESS HC (RES)      39.99
ELEPHANTMEN #23                                          3.50
ENGINEER HC                                              9.95
ESCAPE FROM WONDERLAND #3 (OF 6) A CVR CHEN              2.99

EX MACHINA #47 (MR)                                      2.99  --  Number 47 in
a 50 issue limited series!

FABLES #91 (MR)                                          2.99
FARSCAPE ONGOING #2                                      3.99
FEAR AGENT TP VOL 05 I AGAINST I (RES)                  14.95
FINDING NEMO REEF RESCUE TP                    9.99
FORGETLESS #1 (OF 5) (MR)                                3.50
FRINGE TP                                               19.99
GAHAN WILSON 50 YEARS OF PLAYBOY CARTOONS HC (MR)      125.00
GHOSTBUSTERS DISPLACED AGGRESSION #4           3.99
GI JOE #13                                               3.99
GIANT-SIZE GFT 2009 HOLIDAY ED A CVR FRANCHESCO          5.99
GODLAND #30                                              2.99
GOON TP VOL 06 CHINATOWN & MYSTERY MR WICKER            15.95
GRAVEL TP VOL 02 THE MAJOR SEVEN (MR)                  19.99
GREEN ARROW BLACK CANARY ENEMIES LIST TP                17.99
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #43 (BLACKEST NIGHT)                 2.99
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #43 VAR ED (BLACKEST NIGHT)          2.99
HELLBLAZER #262 (MR)                                     2.99
HULK #18 MCGUINNESS VAR                                  3.99

INCORRUPTIBLE #1                                         3.99  -- A new ongoing
series spinning from the pages of Mark Waid's hit Incorruptible!  Also by Mark
Waid.

JLA JUSTICE LEAGUE ASSEMBLE BASEBALL T/S LG             23.99
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #40 (BLACKEST NIGHT)           3.99
KOOKABURRA K #2 (OF 3) (MR)                              5.99
LAST RESORT #5 (MR)                                      3.99
LIFE AND TIMES OF SAVIOR 28 TP VOL 01                   19.99
LOCKE & KEY CROWN OF SHADOWS #2                          3.99
MARVEL ILLUSTRATED TP GN KIDNAPPED                      14.99
MARVEL SUPER HERO SQUAD #4 (OF 4)                        2.99
MARVELOUS LAND OF OZ #2 (OF 8)                           3.99
MIGHTY AVENGERS #32                                      2.99
MODERN WARFARE 2 GHOST #2 (OF 6) (MR)                    3.99
MS MARVEL #48                                            2.99
NEW MUTANTS #6 2ND PTG VAR                               2.99
NEW YEARS EVE EVE PARTY MINI-POSTER
NEXT ISSUE PROJECT #2 (SILVER STREAK COMICS #24)         3.99
NOMAD GIRL WITHOUT A WORLD #4 (OF 4)                     3.99
OFFICIAL INDEX TO MARVEL UNIVERSE #12                    3.99
OKKO CYCLE OF EARTH #3 (OF 4) (MR)                       3.95
OUTSIDERS #25 (BLACKEST NIGHT)                           3.99
PORTABLE GRINDHOUSE LOST ART OF VHS BOX SC VOL 01       19.99
POWER GIRL #7                                            2.99
PROJECT SUPERPOWERS CHAPTER TWO #5                       2.99
PS238 #42                                                2.99
PUNISHER FRANK CASTLE MAX TP WELCOME TO BAYOU (MR)      14.99
REALM OF KINGS INHUMANS #2 (OF 5)                        3.99
ROBERT E HOWARD THULSA DOOM #4                           3.50
ROCKETEER COMPLETE COLLECTION HC VOL 01                 29.99
SECRET IDENTITY FETISH ART OF JOE SHUSTER HC (MR)       24.95

SECRET WARRIORS TP VOL 01 NICK FURY AGENT OF NOTHI      16.99  -- The first TPB
of this genuinely pretty good series.

SIMON DARK TP VOL 03 THE GAME OF LIFE                   17.99
SIMPSONS COMICS #161                                     2.99
SPIDER-MAN 1602 #3 (OF 5)                                3.99
SPIDER-MAN CLONE SAGA #4 (OF 6)                          3.99
STAR TREK DS9 FOOLS GOLD #1                              3.99
STAR WARS THRAWN TRILOGY HC VOL 01            34.95
STREET FIGHTER II TURBO #10 A CVR RYU SAGAT              3.95
STREET FIGHTER II TURBO #10 B CVR Q TRENCHCOAT           3.95
SUPERGIRL #48                                            2.99
SUPERMAN BATMAN #67 (BLACKEST NIGHT)                     2.99
TALES OF TMNT #65                                        3.25
THOR TP AGES OF THUNDER                                 19.99
THUNDERBOLTS #139                                        2.99
TICK COLOR SERIES COMPLETE WORKS TP VOL 01       34.95
TRANSFORMERS ANIMATED TP VOL 12                          7.99
TRANSFORMERS BUMBLEBEE #1                                3.99
ULTIMATE COMICS ARMOR WARS #3 (OF 4)                     3.99
UNCLE SCROOGE #386                           2.99
UNDERGROUND #4 (OF 5)                                    3.50
UNKNOWN DEVIL MADE FLESH #3                              3.99
VENGEANCE OF MOON KNIGHT #4                              2.99
VIXEN RETURN OF THE LION TP                             17.99
WHAT IF DAREDEVIL VS ELEKTRA                             3.99
WORLD OF WARCRAFT SPECIAL #1                             3.99

X-FACTOR #200                                            4.99  -- Landmark 200th
issue!  A return to the classic numbering of days past.

X-FACTOR #200 MAGUIRE VAR                                4.99
X-FORCE #22 XN                                           3.99
X-INFERNUS TP                                           19.99
X-MEN LEGACY #230                                        3.99
YEN PLUS MAGAZINE VOL 3 #1 JAN 2010                      8.99
ZOMBIES THAT ATE THE WORLD #7 (OF 8) (MR)                3.50

By Chris Olds - Editor, Beckett Magazine


Few athletes have had as polished an image, a brand, as Tiger Woods.

And when it comes to sports cards and memorabilia, Woods is among a select few
whose autographed items have been sure things if talking "investment" and future
strength based on what's been achieved and what should be to come.

Few autographs are in as much demand among living athletes than those penned by
Tiger.

But prolonged silence after an auto accident last week and a subsequent apology
today for "transgressions" — precisely what hasn't been stated, but most of us
can read between the lines — one thing's for sure.

That image, that brand, is no longer as polished. And that, combined with
injuries in recent years as well as the inevitable fact that his golf game will 
diminish with age, one has to ask.

Is it time to buy or is it time to sell?

Is this the end of the bad news for Woods? A plea for privacy, a missed
tournament while in the midst of a tabloid frenzy in a TMZ world? Or are we all
awaiting that first public appearance to assess a scratched face more so than a
well-beyond-scratch golf game?

Or are we too caught up analyzing the damage done to his Cadillac Escalade,
undoubtedly paid for by one of Brand Tiger's biggest corporate sponsors, to
realize the damage that just might be done to his career? Have all of his
achievements been forgotten and turned into a punchline, one found in the
comments left on his own website:

"What's the difference between a car and a golf ball? Tiger Woods can drive a
ball 400 yards."

Few of the athletes in the Air of Woods' company lived in a world where their
every move could be documented via a mobile-phone and uploaded for the world.
Their transgressions went unnoticed — or at least undocumented beyond gossip
that went unpublished. Their images were perhaps questioned at times, yet never
tarnished, on their ways to the Hall of Fame or sporting immortality. Sure,
Tiger's thrown his fits on the fairway — one recent tossed club bouncing and
hitting a fan — but they just get chalked up to a competitive nature. And that
photographer-loving caddy? Think he'll like paparazzi? Do those free passes
exist any longer? Probably not with TMZ hot on Tiger's tail from here until
2020.

Is this the end of the bad news for Tiger? It's a valid question as there are
plenty of fans, collectors, investors and companies with interests in Woods.
After all, that just might be one of the reasons he remained so silent so far.
But why talk now? Is there more to come?

Woods' autograph is among the priciest in the sports world today, some might
argue his best Rookie Card is among the most important ever made — another
reason it's worth asking. High-ticket items will often be the ones to fluctuate
the most on the high-end when historic achievements are attained. And they also
have the most to lose, too.

The average value of a Tiger Woods autograph card is more than $1,000.

Think about that. An average value of $1,000 a card.

Considering that he's still alive, that might be too high. Considering he's the
world's most successful golfer who doesn't have to get out of bed unless there's
a seven-figure paycheck involved, perhaps they're not.

So, in essence, it's time to sell — and buy — Tiger Woods depending on which
side of the fence you're on.

We've seen other athletes in much messier situations — ones that end up in
courtrooms — where it seemed their images were forever tarnished for something
we may or may not know was done. Before the ruling from the Court of More-than
Public Opinion, some fans frenetically defended the athlete they didn't know
based on the image, the brand, that they saw. While others immediately discarded
them from their collections.

Some, but not many, of those athletes have gone on to new and unforeseen heights
in their careers.

But they also aren't Tiger Woods. They aren't the most high-profile athlete in
their sport. They haven't helped change their sport socially — a sport where
social status often has said plenty.

Brand Tiger has lost a lot. Truly how much? That has yet to be seen.




Chris Olds is the editor of Beckett Baseball and Beckett Graded Card Investor.

Upper Deck officials on Tuesday morning announced that the company stands in
full support of the embattled Tiger Woods and will continue fulfilling an
exclusive relationship with the golfing superstar that's been in place since
2001.

"Upper Deck will maintain its exclusive agreement with Tiger in both our sports
cards and memorabilia categories and we look forward to his eventual return to
the PGA Tour," said Richard McWilliam, Upper Deck's CEO and Founder. "Tiger and
his family have our full support."

Woods alone helped Upper Deck launch the mainstream golf trading card category
in 2001 and his signed memorabilia has been integral to the success of Upper
Deck Authenticated in recent years.

Has anyone seen the site at comic-covers.com?  its a site with LOTS of comic
covers.  Its a useful site to browse occasionsly.

This morning I found a page infected with a Clicker variant.  Specifically
Trojan-Clicker.HTML.IFrame.amw.

What this Trojan does is remain resident in your WIndows memory and constantly
connects to various internet sites.  This is done to fake visit counters so the
site owner can earn more money with their adds.

I think its reprehensible for a site owner to infect a visitors PC so they can
illegally make more money for their site adds.

Beware when entering this site.  If you don't wish to buy anti virus software
then a number of free options are available.  Avast antivirus is one of the
better ones.  It can be found at the CNET site download.com

Superstar writer Mark Millar is no stranger to big events, and for two of his
biggest projects, fan favorite Canadian artist Steve McNiven has been riding
shotgun with the Scottish scribe.

After collaborating on Marvel Comics' best-selling "Civil War" in 2006 and 2007,
Millar and McNiven teamed up once more for the post-apocalyptic "Wolverine"
serial "Old Man Logan" in 2008 and 2009.

Five weeks ago, Millar and McNiven released a one-page teaser poster for their
third project, "Nemesis," with no information other than a release date: March
2010. Posters in the forums and the message boards throughout cyberspace have
speculated that the book was everything from an "X-Men" revamp to an "Avengers"
project and all points in between.

The guessing can stop now as earlier this week the two shared as much as they
could about their latest collaboration, a mini-series that will be released
through Marvel's Icon imprint starring Nemesis, a supervillain that Millar
compared to The Joker. The twist being that at his disposal, he had all of
Batman's gadgets and resources, and that his primary target was Millarworld's
answer to Commissioner Gordon.

CBR News: The two of you have developed quite a history working together, first
with "Civil War" and then with your follow up, "Old Man Logan," both massive
hits for Marvel. I guess teaming up for "Nemesis" was a no-brainer?

Mark Millar: I just love Steve. He's amazing. I'm just spoiled now. I can't
stand seeing the brilliant artists I've worked with work with other guys. I'm
like a psycho ex-girlfriend. The minute I come to the end of one project with
Steve or Hitchy [Bryan Hitch] or John Romita Jr. or somebody, I'm just thinking
of the next thing for them.

So Steve and I really had to do a third project together. We get along well,
even though he's Canadian, and we work really well together too. We've only done
two comics together before - "Civil War" and "Old Man Logan" - and both, like
you said, were massive books. So the logical next step was a creator-owned
project that shatters all records. We made Marvel a lot of money with these
first two projects, and we feel we paid our dues and we had fun writing and
drawing almost all of the characters that we'd ever want to do. But now we want
to create something. "Nemesis," we hope, is the next big thing. We're very
excited and think we have something quite unique here.

So when Mark called, Steve, you were ready to go?

Steve McNiven: Yes, definitely. Mark is fun to work with. He writes stuff that's
fun to draw, and that's great when you're not pulling out your hair. And he
makes me lots of money, too [laughs].

There's nothing wrong with that.

Millar: What? I'm in it for the craft, baby. Jeez, you make me feel like Jodie
Foster in "Taxi Driver." I didn't realize I'm just your wee cash cow [laughs].
Steve's Harvey Keitel and I'm Jodie Foster. [Laughs] I thought he loved me, but
now I see it's just about the cash.

OK. Before, we jump into this, let's put the rumors to rest. "Nemesis" is not an
Avengers project, or an X-Men project, or a Marvelman project. It's not even set
in the Marvel Universe. It's another world that you've created.

Millar: Absolutely. It's a Marvel book, technically, in the sense that it's
published by Marvel, but it comes out via Icon, and that means me and Steve own
all the rights. It's a sweet deal.

McNiven: It's great for Marvel to have an imprint there for us. It's really a
great place to do this kind of thing.

When we first emailed back and forth about this project, Mark, you teased me
with the tagline your friend suggested: "What if Batman was The Joker?' I guess
the answer to that is you'd have "Nemesis." What was the genesis of this
project?

Millar: Yeah, a lot of people who've read it have been coming up with hilarious
tag-lines. "What if Batman was The Joker?" is the tame one. Marvel President Dan
Buckley sort of paid me a compliment, saying, "This is such a stupidly simple
and obvious idea. I can't believe nobody's ever come up with it before. You are
the master of the stupidly simple idea." Which I suppose is kind of flattering.

But, yeah. "Nemesis" is a reversal of the Bruce Wayne or Tony Stark archetype.
What if this genius billionaire was just this total psycopath, and the only
thing that stood between him and a city was the cops? It's Batman versus
Commissioner Gordon, in a weird way. Or maybe a super-villain version of
"Se7en." A billionaire anarchist up against ordinary people. The Joker's the
best thing in the Batman movies, so this guy is a bit of an amalgamation of all
the stuff we like.

McNiven: And we didn't want to do a little creator-owned book. We wanted to do
something that shoots for the Top 10 and competes with "X-Men" or "The
Avengers." We want this to be as big as it possibly can be. We're aiming
directly at the mainstream, too, and have already set up some corporate backing
you've never seen in comics before, and international press. Mark has been
working overtime on this one.

Millar: I'm a great believer in creator-owned books not being small. I think
probably growing up in nineties' comics did that, seeing things like "Spawn" and
"WildCats" that did really well. I just love the idea of creator-owned books
outselling Marvel and DC even.

So the idea that you do your Marvel and DC stuff with big sales and then you do
your little creator-owned work on your own, I've never been a fan of that. I've
been really lucky that "Wanted" has sold hugely. So with this, I just wanted to
do the biggest one of the lot.

McNiven: Aim high, buddy.

Millar: I don't see why it shouldn't. Steve is the biggest-selling artist in
comics. If you add up all his sales and divide it by the number of books he's
done, he's the biggest selling artist by a mile. At the moment, he's the biggest
and best of this generation.

Steve, you need to hire Mark as your agent.

McNiven: I know. That's why I work with him.

Millar: It's totally true. There are guys who sell well, and then there's Steve.
It's just a different league. So the idea of getting Steve to go from "Civil
War" to "Old Man Logan" to this big, new creator-owned thing to me feels just
like Todd MacFarlane going from "Spider-Man" to "Spawn." It had to be huge.

Nemesis is the world's smartest man, and the bad news for us is that he's the
world's only super-villain. That means he's got freeze guns and jump-jets and
all these James Bond gadgets and he's using them against us. To entertain
himself, he picks a different cop every year and makes his life a misery. The
book opens with him messing over Japan's top cop, and then our story, the
mini-series, takes place as he shifts his attention to Washington and his first
American attacks. The visuals we've released here are just single panels from
the Japanese segment. It's the best stuff I've ever seen Steve do.

Do we get to see Nemesis in the Bruce Wayne role - the billionaire playboy, out
and about town?

Millar: I wanted it to be a kind of mystery. I liked the idea of having "who is
this guy?' as a plot thread running through it. Why does he keep going after
these cops and flying and training all around the world to end up in America to
take on this one guy? So we find out a little more about him every issue.

McNiven: It's a clever idea to switch it around so you don't have the origin at
the beginning, as opposed to Batman where you get it right at the beginning. I
think this makes it a little more of a compelling story.

Millar: It's the reverse superhero concept. A superhero story normally has a
linear fashion. You see how he becomes that guy, and then you see him in action.
But here, we've done the reverse. The origin comes at the end of the story. But
he's the Hannibal Lecter of supervillains in that sense. All the cops are needed
to go up against a guy as formidable as this. He's almost supernatural, he's so
good. But he happens to just be in a costume. Hopefully nobody's ever seen
anything like it before. We're so used to supervillains fighting superheroes, I
just thought, "Imagine if there was only one person on the planet like this, and
he was actually a bad guy." How would cops deal with him, even though he has no
super-powers?

Let's talk about the main cop, the Commissioner Gordon to Nemesis' Batman/Joker.
What can you tell us about him?

Millar: Very simply, I wanted to do a book about the world's greatest villain up
against America's greatest cop. I just liked the high concept of that - the idea
of a villain going around from country to country and having a battle of wits
with the best guy that he can get his hands on. And he sends them a little
funeral wreath with the date and time of when they're going to die on it, every
one dying at precisely that time. All these cops in the Pacific Rim are dead,
and then we come in at the American side of the story and see the struggle of
this guy in just trying to stop him.

Steve, can you speak about the look of Nemesis and the cop?

McNiven: Mark and I have been talking about it quite a bit. We want to make the
guys good looking. They're not ugly mugs. And they're relatively young, as well.
Even though Mark said this cop is Clint Eastwood-level good, it's like young
Clint Eastwood, not "Gran Torino" Clint Eastwood. Not that there is anything
wrong with that. We get great mileage out of the old guys. The visual is to try
and keep them very clean and very elegant and not go with giant belts and big
shoulder pads and pouches everywhere and that sort of stuff. We've tried to
streamline them and give them more of an iconic look. 

We're just
talking about the different outfits right now. But Nemesis, being the central
figure, we really worked hard on his design. I started with more of a Midnighter
type of look, but we wanted to work with a white costume, something that really
stands out in the shadows. Very much the antithesis of a Batman costume with the
cape, as well. But in working out that initial design, we realized it was a
little too bulky, too much armor. We wanted something smoother and simpler, and
so we really distilled it down to something that's almost the bare essence of a
costume. A lot of the impact of the costume is going to be more in the acting of
the character, as opposed to some costumes where you have giant shoulder pads
and huge guns and all that stuff, and it takes the place of any particular
acting on the character. This one is stripped down, and we're trying to let the
character of Nemesis come through.

Millar: Almost the way Batman was a good guy dressed in black, we've reversed
that to the bad guy dressed in white. It just seemed obvious to me. And there
are so few characters out there wearing white, it's actually an unusual look in
comics. There are loads of red and loads of blue and loads of black. We wanted a
guy that's very, very visually distinctive. When Steve sent through the first
drawings, I had never really seen anything like that before. He looked quite
beautiful for a bad guy. It almost looked like a costume made of moonlight, just
because it was this shining light material. It's visually quite stark, but it
also looks like something people could wear in the real world. Again, this is
set in our world. It's not a superhero universe.

Mark, you're no stranger to having your projects being picked up as movie
properties. Have you already had those talks about "Nemesis"?

Millar: We actually got a call a few weeks ago when the teaser poster went up on
CBR. We were pretty crafty about this in terms of how we marketed this. We had a
poster out that said, "'Civil War,' 'Old Man Logan,' 'Nemesis,'" and teased it
as a potential big event for Marvel. The number of people talking about it and
guessing was just insane, which we loved.

And Marvel was very good about it, not contradicting us. But what was funny was
that I got a call from my agent that night - and it was funny because all we did
was release a date and a title and no information. And my agent called and said
two producers had been in touch saying, "We're really big fans of this book that
Mark and Steve are doing. We really like it." Are the rights available?"
[laughs].

McNiven: That, my friend, is the definition of Hollywood insincere.

Millar: I know [laughs]. I couldn't believe it. But it made me realize how lucky
I was my first picture making $350 million and getting Angelina [Jolie] in it. I
remember what it was like, literally being unable to pay my bills nine years
ago, so to have this level of interest when I couldn't sell a book not very long
ago is just amazing.

McNiven: Sniff. I'm so touched I think I'm going to cry.

Millar: So, yeah, if a movie happens, great. If a bed-spread and lunch-box
happens, great. But we're really just focusing on the comic. Anything else is
gravy and shouldn't be taken too seriously.

Millar, McNiven, "Nemesis," March 2010. Gentlemen, thanks so much for for your
time.

The latest array of bat knob cards adds to short and unique niche.


While Billy Ripken still has the most memorable bat knob in hobby history, the
latest baseball card set from Topps certainly is giving him some competition.

Among the tough-to-find insert cards in 2009 Topps Unique are Bat Knob Relics,
which have a piece cut from a player's game-used bat. (You can guess which
part.)

Found at a rate of one in more than 50,000 packs, Unique has 110 knob cards to
be found — all 1/1s — between the standard and autographed sets. But what's
interesting is how this release affects the total population of a very small
niche in the hobby.

It raises the total number of bat knob cards listed in the Beckett.com database
to just 551 different cards — and just 132 of those are autographed. How many of
those 132 came from Unique? Just 95.

How many overall knob cards exist? A majority of them are 1/1s, while some —
cards with knob-size cuts touted to be from the South end of a bat — have as
many as 10 copies. And, in all, there are just 17 memorabilia card sets that
include bat knob pieces — and most of them pale in comparison to Topps' 2005
Pristine knob inserts, which was — and remains — the largest set of knob cards
on the market, despite Unique's arrival.

Does including a vast array of bat knobs in Unique deplete Topps' inventory that
has been building since 2005?

"Like you said, we have not done bat knobs in some time, so we had a nice little
inventory of these pieces," said Topps' Clay Luraschi. "We have a handful left,
but not that many.

"There are many Unique pieces that can be found on cards in this product."

The first bat knob memorabilia card was released in the 2002 Fleer Fall Classics
Series of Champions Bat Knob insert set, however most of those cards were just
knob cuts. (There were 10 copies of each card made.)

The largest set to use knobs were the 2005 Topps Pristine Power Core Bat Knob
and Power Stick Bat Knob sets, which each had more than 130 players featured.
The Power Core cards infamously had the player's name and the bat knob
designation burned into the wood (not a popular choice with this collector),
while the Power Stick cards were 1/1s with the bottom of the knob.

Earlier this year, the 2009 Topps Triple Threads set also include bat knob cards
— as booklets — impressive pieces to say the least.

Just a handful of the newest knob cards have arrived on the auction block and
only one has sold so far — a Ben Zobrist with his uniform number affixed atop a
sticker on the knob — for $232.50. Other bat knobs on the auction block are
interestlingly devoid of markings,something that often gives game-used bats
their charm and adds a level of authenticity.

Some players consistently mark their bats a certain way — or use a variation of
a phrase, saying or other info — so they can grab their bats off the rack at a
glance when they head to the plate. After all,staring at a rack of unmarked bat
knobs could make things a bit more challenging than they need to be when
readying to face a 100-mph fastball.

For example, New York Yankees outfielder Nick Swisher marks nearly all of his
game bats with "BLS", the initials of his grandmother who raised him and died
from cancer in 2005, as a tribute as well as an easy reminder. Not all of his
bats will carry this marking, but those that do will command a bit more interest
from collectors who appreciate the unusual characteristics that players will
have with their trusty warclubs, whether it's the handle taping, pine tar
application areas, knob markings or other modifications.

Hopefully we'll see more variety in the rest of the bat knob cards that
collectors find in packs of Unique.

Chris Olds is the editor of Beckett Baseball and Beckett Graded Card Investor.
Have a comment, question or idea? Send an e-mail to him at colds@....

WANT TO GO BATTY?
Bat knob card collectors should look for cards from these sets…

2002 Fleer Fall Classics Series of Champions Bat Knob
2003 Fleer Fall Classics Series Contenders Bat Knobs
2004 Topps Chrome Handle With Care Bat Knob Relics
2004 Topps Chrome Handle With Care Bat Knob Relics 1 of 1
2005 Fleer Showcase Timepiece Ink Autograph Bat Knob
2005 Prime Patches Next Generation Autograph Bat Knob
2005 Prime Patches Next Generation Bat Knob
2005 Prime Patches Next Generation Bat Knob End
2005 Prime Patches Portraits Autograph Bat Knob
2005 Prime Patches Portraits Bat Knob
2005 Prime Patches Portraits Bat Knob End
2005 Topps Pristine Power Core Bat Knob Relics
2005 Topps Pristine Power Stick Bat Knob Relics
2007 Artifacts Bat Knobs
2009 Topps Triple Threads Bat Knobs
2009 Topps Unique Bat Knob Autographs
2009 Topps Unique Bat Knobs

SHIPPING THIS WEEK (Today Actually)and NOTEWORTHY ITEMS.

Sorry for the late post this week gang. Tis the season to be busy!!

ACTION COMICS #884                                       3.99
ADVENTURE COMICS #5 (BLACKEST NIGHT)                     3.99
ALTER EGO #90                                            6.95
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #614 GNTLT                            2.99
ANCHOR #3                                                3.99
ANGEL HOLE IN THE WORLD #1                               3.99
AOD ASH SAVES OBAMA #4 (OF 4)                            3.50
ASTOUNDING WOLF-MAN #20                                  2.99
BATGIRL #5                                               2.99
BATMAN THE CULT TP NEW PTG                              19.99
BLACK WIDOW DEADLY ORIGIN #2 (OF 4)                      3.99
BOOSTER GOLD #27 (BLACKEST NIGHT)                        3.99
BOOSTER GOLD BLUE AND GOLD TP                           14.99

BPRD WAR ON FROGS #4 (OF 4)                              2.99  -- In this very
special issue:  A homeless guy with a piece of broken glass wrapped in dirty
rags stabs some dude!

CARS RADIATOR SPRINGS #4                      2.99
CITIZEN REX #6 (OF 6)                                    3.50
CLASSIC GI JOE TP VOL 06                                19.99
COMPLETE DRACULA #4 (OF 5)                               4.99
CROSSING EMPTY QUARTER & OTHER STORIES HC      24.95
DANTES INFERNO #1 (OF 6)                                 3.99
DARK AVENGERS ANNUAL #1                                  4.99
DARK REIGN LIST PUNISHER ONE SHOT 2ND PTG DILLON V       3.99
DARK REIGN LIST WOLVERINE ONE SHOT 2ND PTG CHOI VA       3.99
DARK REIGN LIST WOLVERINE ONE SHOT 2ND PTG CHOI VA       3.99
DARK REIGN UNDERSIDE TP                                 24.99
DARK X-MEN #2 (OF 5)                                     3.99
DAYS MISSING #5 (OF 5)                                   2.99

DAYTRIPPER #1 (OF 10) (MR)                               2.99  -- Exciting new
miniseries from Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba.  It's about something, it must be.

DC HOLIDAY SPECIAL 2009 #1                               5.99
DEADPOOL #18                                             2.99
DEATHLOK #2 (OF 7)                                       3.99
DMZ #48 (MR)                                             2.99
DOOM PATROL #5 (BLACKEST NIGHT)                          3.99
ENDERS GAME WAR OF GIFTS ONE-SHOT                        4.99
EX MACHINA TP VOL 08 DIRTY TRICKS (MR)                  12.99
GEN 13 #33                                               2.99
GHOST RIDERS HEAVENS ON FIRE #5 (OF 6)                   3.99
GHOSTBUSTERS PAST PRESENT FUTURE (ONE SHOT)        3.99
GI JOE MOVIE SNAKE EYES #3                               3.99
GOD COMPLEX #1                                           2.99
ARROW BLACK CANARY #27                             3.99
GROO HOGS OF HORDER #2 (OF 4)                            3.99
HOT TOYS DARK KNIGHT POLICEMAN JOKER 1/6 SCALE FIG     195.00
INCARNATE #3 (OF 3) (MR)                                 4.99
INCREDIBLE HULK #605                                     3.99
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #21                                  2.99
IRREDEEMABLE TP VOL 01                                   9.99
JLA YEAR ONE TP NEW PTG                                 19.99
JON SABLE FREELANCE ASHES OF EDEN #3                     3.99
LEGION PROPHETS #4 (OF 4)                                3.99
LEGION PROPHETS GN                                      17.99

MAGOG #4                                                 2.99 -- featuring a
special guest appearance by Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke.

MARK RYDEN TREE SHOW HC 2ND PTG (RES)         40.00
MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN TP VOL 14 THWIP DIGES       9.99
MODERN WARFARE 2 GHOST #2 (OF 6) (MR)                    3.99
MS MARVEL TP VOL 07 DARK REIGN                          19.99
MUPPET SHOW #0                                2.99
NATION X #1 (OF 4)                                       3.99

NEW AVENGERS ANNUAL #3                                   4.99  -- Following up
on the New Avengers: The List one shot from a few months ago.

PHONOGRAM 2 #6 (OF 7) SINGLES CLUB (MR)                  3.50
PILOT SEASON MURDERER #1                                 2.99
PUNISHER NOIR #4 (OF 4)                                  3.99
PUNISHERMAX #2 (MR)                                      3.99
REALM OF KINGS IMPERIAL GUARD #2 (OF 5)                  3.99
REBELS #11 (BLACKEST NIGHT)                              3.99
RED HERRING #5 (OF 6)                                    2.99
RED ROBIN #7                                             2.99

RETURN OF KING DOUG HC                       14.95 -- All-new fantasy stuff from
Oni.

RUNAWAYS GOOD DIE YOUNG TP                              16.99
SECRET SIX #16                                           2.99
SHIELD #4                                                3.99
SKY DOLL TP VOL 01 (MR)                                 19.99
SPIDER-MAN AND SECRET WARS #1 (OF 4)                     2.99
STAR TREK ALIEN SPOTLIGHT CARDASSIANS                    3.99
STAR WARS CLONE WARS #11 HERO CONFEDERACY PT 2        2.99
SUPER FRIENDS #22                                        2.50
SUPERMAN SUPERGIRL MAELSTROM TP                         12.99
SWORD (MARVEL) #2                                        2.99
TANK GIRL NUGGETS (ONE SHOT) (MR)                        3.99
TERRA TP                                                14.99
TITANS #20                                               2.99
TOY STORY #0                                   2.99
TOYFARE #150 MATTEL WWE CVR                    4.99
TRANSFORMERS ONGOING #2                                  3.99
ULTIMATUM TP MARCH ON ULTIMATUM                         19.99
ULTIMATUM X-MEN FANTASTIC FOUR TP                       19.99
UNCANNY X-MEN FIRST CLASS #6 (OF 8)                      2.99
UNWRITTEN #8 (MR)                                        2.99
VAMPIRELLA SECOND COMING #4 FRISON CVR                   1.99
VAMPIRELLA SECOND COMING #4 GABRIELLI CVR                1.99
VAMPIRELLA SECOND COMING #4 JONES CVR                    1.99
VAMPIRELLA SECOND COMING #4 SUYDAM CVR                   1.99
WALKING DEAD #68 (MR)                                    2.99
WAR MACHINE #12                                          2.99
WEB OF SPIDER-MAN #3 GNTLT                               3.99
WHAT IF WORLD WAR HULK                                   3.99
WIZARD MAGAZINE #220 PLATINUM ROSS CAPT AMERICA CV       5.99

WOLVERINE UNDER BOARDWALK ONE-SHOT                       3.99 -- Illustrated by
Tomm Coker. Based on a short story found in the files of Brad Frondell, founder
of the Pepsico company, after his death.

X NECROSHA GATHERING XN                                  3.99
X-MEN FOREVER #13                                        3.99
X-MEN NOIR MARK OF CAIN #1 (OF 4)                        3.99
X-MEN SPIDER-MAN TP                                     14.99


Happy Reading!

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Apparently the curse of the perpetually late Barry Allen has caught up with his
resurrection series, now that Flash: Rebirth #6 is delayed until at least Jan.
27, 2010.

The issue was originally solicited to ship Sept. 30, 2009. Aside from its ties
to "Blackest Night," DC has offered no explanations for the continuing delays on
this mini-series.

Another founder of what has become Comic-Con International: San Diego has died.
Ken Krueger, who co-founded the event with Shel Dorf and others in 1970,
succumbed to heart failure Nov. 21.

Born in the late 1920s, Krueger was an active fixture in both science-fiction
and comics fandom, beginning with letters written to science-fiction magazines
at age 11 in 1938, and attendance at the first science-fiction convention in New
York City in 1939. According to Terry Kemp's biography of Krueger, published in
Vegas Fandom Weekly #100 (Sept. 4, 2007), Krueger "hosted" a gathering of
science-fiction fans and writers at his parents' home in Buffalo in 1944.
(Unfortunately, he had forgotten to tell his mother about the group he had
invited.)

In the 1940s and 1950s, Krueger was involved in several publishing ventures,
which led to his West Coast bookstore work and ownership in the 1960s and
beyond. That involvement included ownership of Alert Books in Ocean Beach,
Calif.

At Pacific Comics, he helped publish the early work of such creators as Dave
Stevens, Jim Valentino, and Scott Shaw! Later, he worked for Capital City
Distribution, managing the comics distributor's Los Angeles-area warehouse. On
his retirement from that position, the company threw him a party, but found that
Krueger never truly retired. He was a constant visitor to Comic-Con and attended
the show's 40th anniversary celebration this past July.

Krueger was also a lifelong collector of comics and related items. ICv2.com's
Milton Griepp recalled his first visit to Krueger's home in Sparta, Ill., in his
obituary. "One of the rooms in that house was stacked floor to ceiling with
boxes, wall to wall with no aisles, up to the door. And that wasn't the only
place in his house where he had portions of his collection."

In addition to his organization of the early San Diego conventions, Krueger
brought a level of professionalism to the show.

A memorial service is planned in upstate New York at a later date.

Comics fan, comics professional, and convention organizer Shel Dorf died Nov. 3,
at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego after a lengthy hospitalization. A
funeral was held Nov. 4.

Born in Detroit, Mich., July 5, 1933, Dorf was a comics fan from an early age,
maintaining scrapbooks of his favorite comic strips. His interest in those
strips led to friendships with many of their creators, including Steve Canyon
creator Milton Caniff, who hired Dorf to letter the strip during the last 14
years of its run.

In the 1960s, Dorf, along with other Detroit-area fans, began the Detroit Triple
Fan Fair. When he relocated to San Diego, he and other fans in that area began
what became Comic-Con International: San Diego, which celebrated its 40th
anniversary in 2009. Dorf was president and/or chairman of the convention for
several years.

The list of Dorf's many accomplishments is difficult to sum up and those above
are only a very brief summary of the contributions that Dorf made to the comics
hobby and industry throughout his life.

A "Shel Dorf New Talent Encouragement Fund" has been established by Shel's
brother, Michael, to remember those whose careers Shel helped start and to help
the careers of other new artists.

Donations can be sent to:
Shel Dorf New Talent Encouragement Fund
c/o Michael Towry
P.O. Box 232497
San Diego, CA 92193

SHIPPING! Books arrive on Thursday, December 3rd this week, folks. Thank the
pilgrims.

ARRIVING this week! With picks peppered throughout.
28 DAYS LATER #4     3.99

365 SAMURAI & FEW BOWLS OF RICE SC 16.95 There's a colossal level of hype on
this one, a Dark Horse debut from newcomer JP Kalonji that looks like a Guy
Davis/Goseki Komija mash-up.
ABSOLUTION #4 (OF 6)   3.99
ALIENS #4 (OF 4)   3.50
AMBER HAGERMAN DESERVES JUSTICE ONESHOT  3.00
ANITA BLAKE LC EXECUTIONER #2 (OF 5)   3.99
ART OF HARVEY KURTZMAN HC   40.00

ASTERIOS POLYP GN     29.95  It's not often that a book would get coveted PICK
status that's already been out for a while, but this is the best book of the
year, and it's been unavailable for a while. You need to read it!

AUTHORITY #17       2.99
BARACK THE BARBARIAN #3 (OF 4)     3.50
BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #38     2.99
BATMAN THE CAT AND THE BAT TP    12.99
BATMAN THE UNSEEN #5 (OF 5)     2.99
BLACK PANTHER TP DEADLIEST OF SPECIES   15.99
BLACK WIDOW AND MARVEL GIRLS #1 (OF 4)    2.99
BLACKEST NIGHT THE FLASH #1 (OF 3)   2.99
BLACKEST NIGHT THE FLASH #1 (OF 3) VAR ED
BLACKEST NIGHT WONDER WOMAN #1 (OF 3)    2.99
BLACKEST NIGHT WONDER WOMAN #1 (OF 3) VAR ED
BOYS #37  2.99
CAPTAIN AMERICA THEATER OF WAR PRISONERS OF DUTY    3.99
CINDERELLA FROM FABLETOWN WITH LOVE #2 (OF 6) 2.99
DARK AVENGERS ANNUAL #1   4.99
DARK TOWER BATTLE OF JERICHO HILL #1 (OF 5)   3.99
DEAD SHE SAID TP   17.99
DEADPOOL TEAM-UP #898  2.99
DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP #6 (OF 24)  3.99
DOCTOR WHO CLASSICS SERIES 2 #13    3.99
DOCTOR WHO THROUGH TIME AND SPACE TP  19.99
DONATELLO BRAIN THIEF #3 (OF 4)  3.25
DORIS DANGER GIANT MONSTER ADVENTURES TP  9.95
DRAWING BETWEEN LINES SHORT DOCUMENTARY JEFFREY BROWN      15.00
ELECTROPOLIS TP            14.95

EMPOWERED ONE SHOT    3.99  Adam Warren's cheeky (pun intended) super hero
comedy gets a comic-sized one shot. Great for sampling this fun book!

EX MACHINA DELUXE EDITION HC VOL 02  29.99
EXILES ULTIMATE COLLECTION TP BOOK 03  34.99
EXISTENCE 3.0 #1 (OF 4)     3.50

FALL OF HULKS ALPHA FOH    3.99  M.O.D.O.K. is in it, so it'll probably be one
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GI JOE #12    3.99
GLAMOURPUSS #10    3.00
GREAT TEN #2 (OF 10)    2.99
GREEK STREET #6     2.99
GRIMJACK MANX CAT #5    3.99
HACK SLASH SERIES #28 A CVR SEELEY  3.50
HAUNT #3      2.99
HAUNT #3 10 COPY OTTLEY VAR
HEAVY METAL JANUARY 2010    6.95
HOUSE OF MYSTERY #20   2.99
HULK WINTER GUARD ONE-SHOT    3.99
INCREDIBLES #3  2.99
INVINCIBLE PRESENTS ATOM EVE & REX SPLODE #2 (OF 3)  2.99
IRON MAN REQUIEM    4.99
IRON MAN VS WHIPLASH #1 (OF 4) 3.99
JACK OF FABLES #40   2.99
JONAH HEX #50  3.99

JSA ALL STARS #1   3.99  The preview pages look good, it'll be interesting to
see how they differentiate this one from the main JSA title.

JSA ALL STARS #1 VAR ED
KILL AUDIO #3 (OF 6)  3.99
KNIGHTS OF THE DINNER TABLE #156   4.99
LEGION PROPHETS #2 (OF 4)   3.99
LEGION PROPHETS #3 (OF 4)   3.99
LOBO HIGHWAY TO HELL #2 (OF 2)  6.99
LOOKING FOR CALVIN & HOBBES SC  24.95
MARVELS PROJECT #4 (OF 8)    3.99
MARVELS PROJECT #4 (OF 8) EPTING VAR  3.99
MICE TEMPLAR DESTINY #5 OEMING CVR  2.99
MIGHTY #11   2.99
NORTH 40 #6 (OF 6)    2.99
NORTH WORLD GN VOL 03  11.95
NOVA #32   2.99
POPEYE HC VOL 04 PLUNDER ISLAND   29.99
PSYLOCKE #2 (OF 4)  3.99
RANN THANAGAR HOLY WAR TP VOL 02   19.99
RED TORNADO #4 (OF 6)  2.99
SAVAGE DRAGON #155   3.50
SCALPED #33   2.99
SECRET HISTORY BOOK 07 (OF 7)  5.95
SHONEN JUMP JANUARY 2010   4.99

SIEGE CABAL  3.99  Boring name, promising premise. Doom Vs. Osborn!

SIEGE CABAL DAVIS VAR
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #207   2.50
SPAWN ORIGINS TP VOL 03    14.99
SPIDER-MAN NOIR EYES WITHOUT A FACE #1 (OF 4)   3.99
STARR THE SLAYER #4 (OF 4)  3.99
STARSTRUCK #4   3.99
STRANGE #2 (OF 4)  3.99
STREET FIGHTER LEGENDS TP VOL 02 CHUN LI   12.95
STREET FIGHTER TP VOL 01 NEW ED   12.95
STREET FIGHTER TP VOL 05 KICK IT INTO TURBO     13.99
SUPERGOD #2 (OF 5)   3.99
SUPERMAN WORLD OF NEW KRYPTON #10 (OF 12)   2.99
SW CLONE WARS AHSOKA TANO MAQUETTE   90.00
SWEET TOOTH #4   2.99
SWORD #20   2.99
TALES FROM WONDERLAND TP VOL 02   12.99
TEEN TITANS DEATHTRAP TP  14.99
TERRY MOORES ECHO #17    3.50
TEZUKA DORORO GN VOL 01   13.95
TEZUKA DORORO GN VOL 02   13.95
TEZUKA DORORO GN VOL 03   13.95
THE GOOD THE BAD & THE UGLY #6   3.50
THOR #604     2.99
THOR #604 COIPEL GATEFOLD VAR
TORCH #4 (OF 8)       3.99
TRANSMETROPOLITAN TP VOL 05 LONELY CITY NEW ED   14.99
TREASURY 20TH CENTURY MURDER SC VOL 02 FAMOUS PLAY       9.95
ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #5   3.99
UNCANNY X-MEN #518   2.99
UNCANNY X-MEN FIRST CLASS TP HATED AND FEARED GN  14.99

UNTHINKABLE TP   19.99  Top notch Boom! conspiracy/action mini finally gets
collected.

WARLORD #9    2.99
WHAT IF SECRET INVASION  3.99
WOLVERINE WEAPON X 100 PROJECT TP   12.99
X-BABIES #3 (OF 4)    3.99
X-FORCE ANNUAL #1   3.99

That's all for this week. Now go and heat up that leftover turkey. Yum!

Bruce
Hero's Cards and Comics.

For Sale: I would like to sell my entire
NFL Football Card Collection of well over
3,000 cards from most NFL Teams. I have
over 200 Rookie cards. This collection
covers the past and present players. If
anyone is interested please email me. My
cards are in very good to Nr. Mint condition.
I have far to many cards to list them.
Thanks..Blue Springs, Mo. 64014

Garbage Pail Kids, the 1980s trading card parody of the Cabbage Patch Kids toys
(and really much, much more in pop culture), are returning with a new set from
Topps that pays tribute to many of the memorable original cards from the 1980s.

Scheduled for a mid-February release, Garbage Pail Kids Flashback is a 160-card
set (two named versions of 80 drawings)  that includes some of the most
memorable kids from the past classic sets along with nine "lost" Kids that never
made the cut back in the mid-1980s.

One subset of cards in the release –  "Where are They Now?" — updates a few of
the memorable Kids from the past, showing them what they might look like today.
(You know, the Kids grew up… )

Each hobby box includes 24 packs and they carry a suggested retail price of $2 a
pack. Unlike in the original sets, which were merely sticker cards, this new
edition of the Garbage Pail Kids includes some higher-end chase cards.

Like what?

Hand-drawn 1/1 Sketch Cards drawn by artists in the set — these haven't been
done since the Series 4 set a few years ago. (The GPK's never really went away…
the classic ones have just returned for this release.) Also to be found are 1/1
printing plates — the actual metal plates used to print the cards. (Four colors
per card — Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black.)

Also planned are four parallel sets, which will have different borders than the
standard cards — they're Gross Green, Punk Pink, Silver and Gold. Only 85 Gold
sets will be made, while the others will be found as many as six times per box.

Finally, there will be Loco Motion cards (three per box), which will animate 10
Kids, allowing their grossness to go where no GPK had gone before.

Topps officials on Monday confirmed that the company has secured an exclusive
multi-year deal with Minor League Baseball.

The agreement, which takes effect beginning Jan. 1, 2010, grants Topps the
exclusive rights to produce nationally distributed trading cards of top draft
picks and prospects within Minor League Baseball, and will give Topps the rights
to names and logos of the 160 affiliated Minor League clubs and current Minor
League players in uniform on baseball cards and stickers. The deal also means
Topps is the only company that can use Minor League Baseball's Pro Debut logo.

The company's first officially licensed Minor League product will be 2010 Topps
Pro Debut Series 1, set to release in March.

"Topps is excited to become the official baseball card of Minor League Baseball
as many of the young players today will be stars in the Major Leagues tomorrow,"
said Warren Friss, Topps General Manager. "Now we're the only trading card
licensed by both Major League Baseball and Minor League Baseball and we look
forward to a lasting relationship with both leagues."

"Many fans begin to follow their favorite players as they become standout stars
in the Minor Leagues, and a major avenue to build this connection is through
collecting their Minor League cards," said Howard Smith, Senior Vice President
of Licensing for Major League Baseball.

Minor League Baseball and Topps annually recognize the top prospects in baseball
with the Topps Player of Month Awards and year-end classification all-star
teams.  "We are pleased to extend our long-standing relationship with The Topps
Company into licensed trading cards," said Minor League Baseball President Pat
O'Conner. "This provides us with a unique opportunity to continue recognizing
the be stand brightest minor league talent while providing our fans and
collectors high-quality trading card products."

Earlier this year, Topps became the first exclusive baseball card company of
Major League Baseball in nearly 30 years.

By Dan Hitt - Beckett Magazine

Breakout Player of the Week:
Vince Young, QB, Titans
(387 yards passing, 1 touchdown)
We realize that Young is not your typical breakout playersince he was the
Offensive Rookie of the Year in 2006. However, manyfootball experts and plenty
of collectors had written off the once-hotrookie as a bust. Since 2006 many of
his best cards have dropped invalue by as much as 60 percent, and most have
decreased in value byhalf. Young logged the highest single-game passing yardage
total of hiscareer vs. the Cardinals on Sunday and his game was solid again for
thefifth straight week.

The most important part of Young's performance was the improbablegame-winning
99-yard touchdown drive he engineered. On that remarkablemarch, Young converted
three fourth downs, including the clinchingtouchdown pass with no time left.
That's the Young we all remember fromthe 2006 Rose Bowl and the one most
collectors had hoped to see in theNFL. We're not convinced just yet that Young
is a superstar, but a fewof his low- print-run, mid-price-range Rookie Cards
would be worthy ofa buy.

Cards to Grab:
2006 Sweet Spot #207 AU/199 RC ($80)
2006 Topps Paradigm #95 AU/99 RC ($100)


Veteran of the Week:
Philip Rivers, QB, Chargers
(317 yards passing, 2 touchdowns)

Rivers is quietly having a monster year. He's been overshadowed byother hot
quarterbacks, namely Brett Favre, Drew Brees, and PeytonManning, so collectors
have yet to jump on buying his top 2004 RookieCards in earnest. Rivers is
currently fifth in the league in passingyardage, eighth in touchdowns and fifth
in quarterback rating. He andthe Chargers have been on a six-week offensive tear
comparable to anyother team in the league.

The team has some challenging games in December that include theCowboys and
Titans on the road and the Bengals at home. If Rivers canplay well in those
games and win at least two of them, then there's agreat chance for upward
movement in his top cards.


Cards to Grab:
2004 Ultimate Collection #128 AU/150 RC ($120)
2004 Playoff Contenders #162 AU/556* RC ($120)
2004 SP Authentic #214 JSY AU/299 RC ($350)


Rookie of the Week:
Kenny Britt, WR, Titans
(128 yards receiving, 1 touchdown)

Collectors have been waiting for a big game from Britt and theyfinally got one
on Sunday. Britt made a leaping grab on the final playof the game for the
winning touchdown against the Cardinals. He alsocaught passes on two other
critical fourth downs in the game. We shouldsee plenty more of Britt on the
field as the final month of the regularseason unfolds. There's a great chance
that Britt's cards will see anincrease in activity this week and could remain
hot if he is able tobuild on Sunday's performance.

Cards to Grab:
2009 Donruss Gridiron Gear #209 JSY AU/100 RC ($N/A)
2009 Bowman Chrome Rookie Autographs #130 ($25)
2009 SP Signature #204 AU RC ($40)

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