Spider-Man Created By Kirby?

Stan Taylor makes the case here.

Here's a look at Marvel's launch of an Indian Spider-Man.

In short, Devarajan's attempt to transform Peter Parker into Pavitr Prabhakar forces him to confront the age-old challenge of separating the universal aspects of human nature from the particular characteristics of a specific culture. The success (or failure) of Devarajan's effort matters, because it may tell us something important about the validity of Americans' faith in the universality of our most cherished ideals.

Questions for the Group about Reprints

I originally included reprints of comics on my list because I was keeping track for my own purposes, not doing a list for the group, and at the time I didn't really care if they were reprints or original because there were so many books out there and so few scanners that it seemed silly to think we'd ever get to the point where it mattered.

But now, of course it does matter. So the questions are as follows:

1. Should comics that have been posted only as reprints be removed from the list? When answering remember that this is not a clean solution either. If we remove issues from the list, inevitably there will be people trying to be helpful who will post the reprint scans as "not on the list" without checking to see that they are reprints.

2. If not, should we maintain a separate list of "reprint-only" books to alert folks to stuff that needs to be rescanned to get the originals?

3. If yes, does anybody have a good list of the comics that should be taken off the list? I have a couple of issues that I know about--several early Flash issues, a couple Green Lanterns, but nailing down all of them is going to be a tricky matter; there are some comics that were scanned as reprints and later scanned as originals so making sure we don't take completed comics off the list may be harder than it sounds.

Thanks for your input!

GA Bid Club Thoughts

Okay, we scored our first big comic in WDC&S #1. I suggested in the chat today that we have two main objectives when getting comics for the bid club:

1. Get low grade. Cheaper, and less likely to be damaged by the scanning effort.

2. Get a bargain. We have a lesser chance of losing money on a transaction if we buy cheap in the first place. Not that there's anything wrong with losing a little in return for filling a hole, but the less we lose, the more we can buy.

Anybody got any other suggestions? Several people indicated that prices are cheap after the holiday as everybody blew their money on Christmas presents, so we should buy now, sell later.

Big Town Want List

Big Town: 2,8,9,11,13,15,27-29,31,33,35,38

I've got #37 coming soon, but don't have any of these missing messages.

Anyone else have any?

PR

DC Superhero Comics of the 1960s Still Missing

Here are the comics still missing from the DC 1960s Superhero issues. Only 34 missing, 27 of which are the Wonder Woman issues.

(Post amended to delete the two Metal Men issues, three Adventure issues and a Spectre issue, which have been posted)

Book Issue
Batman 3D 1966
Batman Kellogs Giveaway
DC Special 1
House Of Mystery 151
House Of Mystery 160
House Of Mystery 165
Superman Record Comic
Wonder Woman 111
Wonder Woman 112
Wonder Woman 113
Wonder Woman 117
Wonder Woman 118
Wonder Woman 136
Wonder Woman 146
Wonder Woman 147
Wonder Woman 150
Wonder Woman 152
Wonder Woman 153
Wonder Woman 154
Wonder Woman 156
Wonder Woman 157
Wonder Woman 158
Wonder Woman 159
Wonder Woman 160
Wonder Woman 162
Wonder Woman 164
Wonder Woman 165
Wonder Woman 167
Wonder Woman 168
Wonder Woman 170
Wonder Woman 171
Wonder Woman 172
Wonder Woman 173
Wonder Woman 176

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