Open That Box! Day

Today is Open That Box! Day over on the Non-Sport Update Forums. It's the day where everyone is encouraged to open a box of trading cards and share the results on the forum.

I opened a box of Fleer 1995 Fox Kids Network cards that I bought at a flea market last weekend for $1.00! It's a cool set if you're a fan of mid 90s Saturday morning cartoons. The set features cards from The Tick, Spider-Man, X-Men, Eek!Stravaganza and Bobby's World.

The full set has 150 cards and I got 77 of them plus 31 doubles. I'll have to find my wantlist to see if I need any of these for my set. I know I bought a bunch of these back in the 90s when they first came out, mainly for The Tick cards. I sure wish they made sketch cards back then, that would have been cool!

Click on this link to see what boxes everyone else is opening.

Books From Goodwill

A week or two ago I went to my local Goodwill. I didn't find anything interesting until I hit the book section. Their book prices are: hardback $1.50, paperback $1.00, and children's 50¢. I got all of these at the children's price even though one of them is definitely not a kids book! :)

All of these Peanuts books were printed between 1968 and 1972. I always pick up these books when I find them cheap. Gotta love good ol' Charlie Brown.

A Hulk Junior Novel from 2003. Spider-Man: Secret of The Sinister Six novel from 2003. The Official Polish/Italian Joke Book by Larry Wilde ©1973, 23rd printing, November 1978. I know this is very unPC. But, I've been getting these joke books since I was a kid in the 70s. And The Wizard of Oz published by Scholastic in 1968.

Countdown To Akron Comicon Day 1

This coming Saturday is the 2nd Annual Akron Comicon. I went to the first one last year and had a blast! You can see my photos from it here. I'm really looking forward to going again this year.

To get myself in the mood, I am wearing a different comic book shirt each day this week and will share a picture of it for all to see. Because who doesn't like to see my t-shirt collection? :)

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Cliff Robertson, R.I.P.

From EW.com --

Cliff Robertson, who portrayed John F. Kennedy in P.T. 109 and later won an Academy Award for his role as a mentally disabled man in Charly, died Saturday of natural causes. He had turned 88 one day earlier.

The film, television, and theater veteran enjoyed a career that spanned more than five decades, making his big-screen debut in the 1955 romantic drama Picnic opposite William Holden and Kim Novak. He would appear in dozens of films, including The Girl Most Likely, Gidget, Sunday in New York, The Naked and The Dead, The Devil’s Brigade, Three Days of the Condor, and more recently, the Spider-Man movies as Uncle Ben Parker.

A popular leading man in the ’60s, he played a sitting President — John F. Kennedy — in the 1963 World War II drama P.T. 109, after Kennedy gave his casting approval. Five years later, he scored an Oscar for his touching portrayal of mentally challenged bakery employee Charlie Gordon in Charly, which was based on the novel Flowers for Algernon. Robertson — who won an Emmy in 1966 for his performance in an episode of Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre – also popped up in such TV series as The Twilight Zone, Batman, and Falcon Crest, and in commercials for AT&T. He also earned attention for blowing the whistle on a film studio president who had victimized him in a check forgery scheme in 1977.

Bubble Funnies: The Amazing Spider-Man

Bubble Funnies No. 1 The Amazing Spider-Man from 1981 by Amurol Products.

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