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From: phaedrus@milton.u.washington.edu (Phaedrus)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics,rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Comics with Missing Coupons
Date: 13 Aug 92 20:25:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Aug13.202510.19375
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle


     Whoops, my mistake!  Cease fire! :)  It was my understanding that the
Magnus coupons were actually part of the pages of the comic, so that a page
would have to be cut to remove the coupons.  If they're bound in separately
as I now understand they are, so the removal doesn't actually affect any of
the pages, then they certainly could be Fine or perhaps even Very Fine with
the coupons removed, though I still think that even Near Mint is out of the
question.
-- 
Internet: phaedrus@u.washington.edu        (University of Washington, Seattle)
 "If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs,
    consider an exciting career as a guillotine operator!"
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
From: cwelsh@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Craig Welsh  8823239)
Subject: Re: Bwah-ha-ha-ha!
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 04:18:52 GMT

In article <1992Aug21.204903.16071@henson.cc.wwu.edu> n8943689@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Peter Giffin) writes:
>jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer) writes:
>Yeah, a friend of mine picked up an Astonishing Tales 26 (First appearance
>of Deathlock in VF/NM condition at an antique store for a whopping 25 cents
>
>(For those who don't know this book guides at $100 Nm/M)
>
>Pete

Actually, Astonsihing Tales #25 is Deathloks Appearence. Just a nitpick.

Also, I guess I already have my comic fantasy completed. I bought $80
worth of comics off a friend of mine a couple of years ago. In the pile
were a lot of Iron Fists, including #14 (1st Sabertooth), lots of
Warlock appearences, an almost complete run of the old Dr. Strange
series form the sixties and more. I figure the comics he sold me for $80
are now worth about $800 now. Oddly enough, he doesn't talk to me much
anymore.

Can't understand why, though :-)

*************************************************************************
* Craig Welsh                  *    "I'm a few bricks short of a       *
*                              *     load, but a full load always      *
* cwelsh@morgan.ucs.mun.ca     *     hurt my back."                    *
*                              *     "Crazy" - Barenaked Ladies        *
************************************************************************
* "Homeboy from Hell." Screw that. I'm the Waiter from Hell.           *
*  You figure out which is scarier.                                    *
************************************************************************


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From: stailey@snoopy.comm.mot.com (Mike Stailey)
Subject: Re: Marvel 2099 titles
Reply-To: stailey@comm.mot.com
Organization: Motorola Land Mobile Products Sector
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 20:10:13 GMT


 Just as a side note... the next issue of MARVEL AGE will be
 showcasing these new titles.

 --
 Michael                      
 stailey@comm.mot.com     


Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
From: mbvg9741@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (plain)
Subject: Re: Worse Comics of all Time
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 21:30:31 GMT

jimh@pacdata.uucp (Jim Harkins) writes:

>In article <1992Aug11.192852.26710@newshost.unh.edu> amc@kepler.unh.edu (Andrew M Champagne) writes:
>> Hi Gang,
>>
>> Has anyone but me noticed that NONE of the Spiderman titles are any good?

>Has anyone but me noticed that NONE of the Marvel titles are any good?

>>I know this is a bold statement.

>Tell me about it :-)

>jim

Oh, c'mon, aren't you being just a little harsh?  They can't
be all bad.  Personally, I read and enjoy ..., well, I read...
hmmm, okay maybe you're right. ;^)
-Vincent.

>-- 
>Lawyers Creed:  What's mine is mine, what's yours is negotiable.
>--------------------------------------------------------------
>Jim Harkins                         [ucsd|uunet]!pacdata!jim
>Pacific Data Products               jim@pacdata.com
>--------------------------------------------------------------

Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
From: mgq@inel.gov (Michael G McKellar)
Subject: Re: Sandman questions
Organization: Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 13:30:06 GMT

In article <hoahosth.16.713758376@halls1.cc.monash.edu.au> hoahosth@halls1.cc.monash.edu.au (ANDREA HOSTH) writes:
>In article <1992Aug13.095248.1@vax1.umkc.edu> cbjuland@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
>>Subject: Sandman questions
>
>>I also have a question about the comcic.  What is the purpose of Dreams helmet? 
>>He was afraid to take it off in front of Lucifer (issue #23).  Does it prothim
>>or is it just a badge of office?
>
>Its part of his regalia and (I think) in some way provides strength to him. 
>He originally (at the beginning of series) had three items: a gem, a pouch 
>of sand and the helm. He had invested a fair deal of power into the gem, 
>which was returned to him when Dr. D. destroyed it. The pouch of sand is a 
>tool in which to shape the stuff of dreams. The helm is less easy to pin 
>down. I can't recall him ever "using" it to do anything, so I assume that he 
>might even just feel better with it on. 
>
>Ankh
>
 
It is his badge of office and apparently allows him to visit other
realms in an official capacity.  It also seems to protect him when
visiting other realms hence the hesitation when Lucifer asked him 
to remove it.

Mike McKellar (mgq@inel.gov)



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From: n8943689@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Peter Giffin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Bwah-ha-ha-ha!
Date: 21 Aug 92 20:49:03 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Western Washington University

jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer) writes:

>Well, I haven't exprienced my ultimate comics fantasy yet (that's where
>an aging mother is paying me to haul away the 30-year comics collection of
>her recently departed - moved or died - son), but I just did the next best
>thing - I spotted a number of silver age comics at a rummage sale and 
>scooped them up at $1 apiece!

>Sure, they were in only G or VG condition, but I got X-Mens 94 and 107, 
>Fantastic Four 44, Strange Tales 120, and many more! Bwah-ha-ha-ha! 
>-- 
>John Switzer               | "Don't mess with me, man!
>                           | I'm a higher mammal!"
>74076.1250@Compuserve.com  | 
>jrs@netcom.com             | 

Yeah, a friend of mine picked up an Astonishing Tales 26 (First appearance
of Deathlock in VF/NM condition at an antique store for a whopping 25 cents

(For those who don't know this book guides at $100 Nm/M)

Pete
-- 
Peter Giffin <n8943689@henson.cc.wwu.edu> <uw-beaver!henson.cc.wwu.edu!n8943689>
  Reality Used  |   MIND:       | If Looks could | I'm having verbal
  To Be A Friend| The Perpetual | I'd Kill Your  | constipation, Lets
  Of Mine       |  Intercourse  | Television!    | Start Throwing Things
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
From: stailey@snoopy.comm.mot.com (Mike Stailey)
Subject: Spawn (Re: Image)
Reply-To: stailey@comm.mot.com
Organization: Motorola Land Mobile Products Sector
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 16:48:49 GMT

(Howard Z. Shiau) writes:

*Actually, I liked Spawn.  I think that MacFarlane is a great artist.

 Agreed... Spawn is probably the best title Image has put out so
 far. I have to admit I'm really enjoyng it... and I am older
 than 14 years old.

 --
 Michael
From: dc@ohm.york.ac.uk (Dave Cullen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Marvel History
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:53:51 GMT
Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK


  I've been given the unenviable (if not impossible) task of defining the
history of the Marvel Universe. Cap.America's appearance, that sort of
thing. Problem is, the only Marvel titles I regularly subscribe to are the
X-titles (sad, but true!), consequently my information resources are small
and...well...inherently inconsistent.
  Is there anyone in possession of a structured Marvel history out there
(grease grease grease!!!)
            DC
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics,rec.arts.comics.misc
From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: Liefield Throws Tantrum
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 17:56:04 GMT

jed@matilda.vut.edu.au (Jed Bowtell) writes:
>rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
>>Would destroying some of your favorite comic books, then copping the
>>attitude that this is the best thing that he could ever have done for
>>you, and that this qualifies him for nigh-godhood, be enough?  He
>>exemplifies everything that people hate about the big two.

>>No matter where you turn, there's a decision to be made.  Life or death.
>>Right or wrong.  Regular or crunchy. -- Punisher
>                                         ^^^^^^^^

>You obviously don;t like anything by the big two! Punisher
>exemplifies everything people hate about the big two just as
>much if not more than Liefeld!

I thought it would be rather ironic to override the random quoter and
throw that one in for contrast.  Apparently not...
-- 
My wife ran off with my best friend last week.  Gawd, I miss him!
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
From: louzon@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Louzon ronald g)
Subject: Re: Current Spidey
Summary: SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN
Reply-To: louzon@aplcen (Louzon ronald g)
Organization: Johns Hopkins University
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 19:10:35 GMT

In article <BsvLrt.6Gs@acsu.buffalo.edu> camdna@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Darren Natale) writes:
>> Has anyone but me noticed that NONE of the Spiderman titles are any good?
>>I know this is a bold statement...I've been collecting Spiderman for 18
>>years, and I don't think I've seen such a rut in storytelling in Spidey's
>>history (not even the Rocket Racer days of the late seventies!)
>
>>This is very disconcerting to a comic reader...can something be done?
>> 

I disagree.  I think that SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN is a very entertaining
book.  DeMatties's writing wasn't been this good in years.  The 'Child
Within' storyline was the best since 'Kraven's Last Hunt'. I will give
you that Buscema art isn't the best but its better than it used to be
now that he is inking himself.  Some of the pages where the character's
expressions change from panel to panel have been excellent.  I will 
agree with your statement for the rest of the Spidey line.  I picked up
all of the hologram issues and they ranged from average to poor.  Spidey
deserves better. IMHO.
From: starback@Minsk.DoCS.UU.SE (Per Starb{ck)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.info
Subject: New mailing list on Disney comics
Date: 18 Aug 92 18:24:34 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.comics.misc
Distribution: rec
Organization: Uppsala University, Sweden


There is now an electronic mailing list with discussion of Disney
comics.  To join, write to the following address and indicate your
preferred email address:

	disney-comics-request@student.docs.uu.se.

Please distribute to interested non-newsreading people with email
addresses!
--       "
Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden.  email: starback@student.docs.uu.se
 "Life is but a gamble!  Let flipism chart your ramble!"



--
-Hades (Brian V. Hughes) Moderator: Rec.Arts.Comics.Info
		   "A clear case of curare poisoning
	       of one of her Majesty's Cold-Cream Guards"
						   -- Durlock Holmes
From: ac985@cleveland.freenet.edu (Joel Tscherne)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.info
Subject: New Books List Delayed
Date: 14 Aug 92 13:48:22 GMT
Reply-To: ac985@cleveland.freenet.edu (Joel Tscherne)
Followup-To: rec.arts.comics.misc
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)



Due to circumstances beyond my control, this week's list of new books
will be delayed until some time next week.  I hope to be able to post
the list by Monday, but it may not be possible until Wednesday.

In addition, I probably won't be posting a list of scheduled releases
for the coming week.

I'm sorry in advance for any inconvenience.

-- 
===============Joel Tscherne:  ac985@cleveland.freenet.edu===============



--
-Hades (Brian V. Hughes) Moderator: Rec.Arts.Comics.Info
		   "A clear case of curare poisoning
	       of one of her Majesty's Cold-Cream Guards"
						   -- Durlock Holmes
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics,talk.bizarre
From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
Subject: Re: Death's Gender
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 22:31:10 GMT

>> Big Al writes:
>> Who wants to have sex with Death, anyway?
>
>i can't think of a soul, actually.
>perhaps someone with a death wish.
>
>but i'm quite sure you'd have to have a date with Death, first.

Everyone has a date with death, so everyone is qualified ...
From: tina@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Christina Scott)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Calling Michael Toth !!
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:25:34 GMT
Organization: Centre for Speech Technology Research, Edinburgh University

No - it's not Tina, it's Grant Mason on a visit to CSTR for a Friday night
drinking session !

Michael - if you're there - I've moved flat, and managed to lose your address and
all of the fab Rapunzel promo lit that you sent me.  Maybe you can email Tina
here at CSTR with your address and she'll pass it on to me, or you can mail me at
my new address which is -

		28/1 Shore
		Leith
		EH6 6QN
		Scotland

Look forward to hearing from you soon,

Cheers,

Grant
Newsgroups: rec.arts.dance
From: mintz@qkstep.mcc.dec.com (Erik Mintz)
Subject: Re: USABDA competition questions
Keywords: ballroom, mailing list
Reply-To: mintz@took.enet.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 13:51:48 GMT

>  Once I compete in syllabus at, say, silver level, I understand I can never 
>switch down to bronze level. Is this also true of open work (ie, are 

I have only recently started competing, so others may have more definitive
information.  But from what I read in the rules attached to the entry form for
the USABDA US Dance Sport championships, ENTERING a competition at one level
does not prevent you from entering a lower level.   In fact, we saw a number
of people compete in both Bronze and Silver/Gold at the same competition
(also some people did both American and International style)

WINNING at one level may prevent you from entering a lower level at a future
competition.  Check specific competition rules for details.

-- Erik Mintz
Newsgroups: rec.arts.dance
From: ez@milton.u.washington.edu (Eleanor Zitek)
Subject: question about posting to this group
Organization: University of Washington
Distribution: seattle
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 00:49:11 GMT

I'm a member of Smooth Movin' Country, a non-profit
country/western dance group that's dedicated to competition
dancing and to teaching beginning country dance.  We teach group
classes once a week at the Monroe Eagles and occasionally sponsor
workshops with guest instructors.  Is this newsgroup an
appropriate place to announce our classes and workshops?
I would naturally restrict the distribution to "seattle" only.

- Eleanor Zitek (ez@apl.washington.edu)
From: das@voodoo.boeing.com (Deb Schwartz)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.dance
Subject: Re: Anyone have the USABDA Nationals results?
Keywords: ballroom, mailing list
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:05:44 GMT
Organization: Boeing Graphics project, Bellevue WA

In article <1992Aug13.193618.626@cbnews.cb.att.com> rbrennen@iron.Berkeley.EDU (Reid A. Brennen) writes:
>The USABDA Nationals were held last weekend in Baltimore.
>Does anyone have the results from that comp?  I would
>love to know them.  
>
Yes, please post them.  I too would like to like to know the results.

Thanks,

Debbie Schwartz // das@voodoo.boeing.com  // or uunet!bcstec!voodoo!das 
Newsgroups: rec.arts.dance
From: DAOUST@CISVX2.DFCI.HARVARD.EDU
Subject: Weekend of Ballroom Dancing in New England
Gatewayed-From: ballroom@athena.mit.edu
Reply-To: DAOUST@CISVX2.DFCI.HARVARD.EDU
Organization: None
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 16:37:17 GMT
Keywords: ballroom, mailing list

For New England Ballroom Dancers:

Two Evenings of Swing & Ballroom Dancing
featuring the 7-piece
Eastwood Swing Orchestra

Friday & Saturday
August 21 & 22, 1992
8:30 pm - 12:30 am
Admission: $3

Club Joseph's
1270 Westford Rd.
Lowell, MA
(508) 970-1572

For further information contact:

Norman Daoust
(617) 491-7424
Internet: DAOUST@CISVX2.DFCI.HARVARD.EDU

Directions:
From the Boston area: (less than 1/2 hour!)
Rte 128 to Exit 32A/Rte 3 North/Lowell
Rte 3 for 13 miles to Exit 32/Rte 3A/Rte 4/N Chelmsford/Westford
Right at the rotary onto Westford Rd east.
Club Joseph's is 1/2 mile on the right.
From: eaustin@ll.mit.edu (Eric J. Austin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.dance
Subject: Re: Untitled mail message gatewayed from ballroom@athena.mit.edu
Keywords: ballroom, mailing list
Date: 18 Aug 92 14:17:09 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington MA
Originator: eaustin@ll.mit.edu (Eric J. Austin)


Glenn Boyd <boyd@rabi.uchicago.edu> writes:
|>   I am preparing to enter my first USABDA competition and would like to know if
|> there are any standard references on rules and formats. 
|>   Once I compete in syllabus at, say, silver level, I understand I can never 
|> switch down to bronze level. 

Incorrect. Fortunately for all of us novice level dancers, you can compete
in two levels (Bronze and Silver, for example) at the same comp. There is
a restriction on competing at a level or lower once you have won three 
times at competitions where a semifinal was danced. Put another way, you are 
required to move up once you have won a level three times where semifinals 
were danced. This is to prevent people from hanging around in novice levels 
forever while they continually win. Personally, I think you should move up
before you are forced to in order to keep challenging yourself.

|> Is this also true of open work (ie, are 
|> there repercussions to including gold steps in the routine)? 

If you include gold figures then you had better be dancing in gold or open.
Doing gold figures in bronze or silver competitions will get you disqualified.
However, this does not prevent you from doing bronze at some later competition.
There is no restriction against doing novice figures in open competitions,
anything goes (within the bounds of the Standard style of dance, of course.)

|> My partner and
|> I have yet to decide on our routines (probably jive and quickstep), but are 
|> leaning towards open work because it seems less exacting but more creative.
|> 

RESIST THIS URGE WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT!! It only seems less exacting, it really
takes much more control to make it look that way. If you are really interested
in dancing well so that it looks easy then you must take the time to learn
the basics. I know it sounds boring but jumping right in to open work is a
big mistake. I have seen couples in the open levels who moved up too quickly
from novice and it is not a pretty sight.

|>    I have an ordinary tailled tux which I would like to use for dancing. Is
|> it easy to alter it so that the shoulders don't ride up when you are in
|> dance position? If anyone knows of tailors in the Chicago area who might 
|> have experience converting tuxedos for dancing, please let me know.
|> 

Tail suits are not allowed in novice level competitions. It is not easy to
alter a regularly cut jacket into a dancing jacket. I talked to a few people
in the Boston area and eventually decided that I would be better off having
a tuxedo made for me that was made for dancing. Ask around to other competitors
in your area, perhaps someone is interested in selling a tux that would 
fit you. Plan ahead, it can take months to find a tux and have it altered.

Best of luck.

-- 
 Eric J. Austin                       EMAIL: eaustin@ll.mit.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.dance
From: Rick Lasslo <lasslo@hpnst.mayfield.hp.com>
Subject: Dancing in New Orleans?
Gatewayed-From: ballroom@athena.mit.edu
Reply-To: Rick Lasslo <lasslo@hpnst.mayfield.hp.com>
Organization: None
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:14:20 GMT
Keywords: ballroom, mailing list


Does anyone know of ballroom or swing dancing in New Orleans area.  I will
be there August 22nd- August 28th.

Please send me email direct,

Thanks in advance,

Rick Lasslo  Mountain View, California
From: rbrennen@iron.Berkeley.EDU (Reid A. Brennen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.dance
Subject: Anyone have the USABDA Nationals results?
Keywords: ballroom, mailing list
Date: 13 Aug 92 18:26:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: cbnews.1992Aug13.193618.626
Reply-To: rbrennen@iron.Berkeley.EDU (Reid A. Brennen)
Organization: None
Gatewayed-From: ballroom@athena.mit.edu

The USABDA Nationals were held last weekend in Baltimore.
Does anyone have the results from that comp?  I would
love to know them.  

Thanks,
	Turtle
Xref: sparky rec.arts.dance:577 rec.folk-dancing:1628
From: vaghughe@atlas.cs.upei.ca (Greg Hughes)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.dance,rec.folk-dancing
Subject: Scottish Dance Weekend
Keywords: RSCDS, Scottish Country Dancing
Date: 14 Aug 92 11:37:31 GMT
Organization: University of Prince Edward Island

Fredricton Scottish Country Dance Group is holding their 21 st annual Dance
weekend, Canadian Thanksgiving, Oct 9 - 11, 1992. Guest Instructor is Gerry
Gray from Charlottetown, PE and music is by Don Bartlett of Toronto, ON.
Features Friday night Welcome Dance to recorded music, Classes Saturday,
Bnquet and Ball Saturday Eve and Brunch and Scottish Raffle aftre class on
Sunday morn.  Everything will be at the Lord Beaverbrook Hotel in downtown
Fredericton, New Brunswick.  Call George DeMille, (506) 454-9966 or write to
him at 121 Winslow St, F'ton NB, Can, E3B 1Z8.
              R.G. (Greg) Hughes, PEI SCD. vaghughe@upei.ca
you
Newsgroups: rec.arts.dance
From: Glenn Boyd <boyd@rabi.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Untitled mail message gatewayed from ballroom@athena.mit.edu
Gatewayed-From: ballroom@athena.mit.edu
Reply-To: Glenn Boyd <boyd@rabi.uchicago.edu>
Organization: None
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 20:00:34 GMT
Keywords: ballroom, mailing list

  I am preparing to enter my first USABDA competition and would like to know if
there are any standard references on rules and formats. 
  Once I compete in syllabus at, say, silver level, I understand I can never 
switch down to bronze level. Is this also true of open work (ie, are 
there repercussions to including gold steps in the routine)? My partner and
I have yet to decide on our routines (probably jive and quickstep), but are 
leaning towards open work because it seems less exacting but more creative.

   I have an ordinary tailled tux which I would like to use for dancing. Is
it easy to alter it so that the shoulders don't ride up when you are in
dance position? If anyone knows of tailors in the Chicago area who might 
have experience converting tuxedos for dancing, please let me know.

  Any suggestions or information would be much appreciated.


  Glenn Boyd

Newsgroups: rec.arts.dance