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		<title>Detective Comics #27 Sells for $1.075 Million Dollars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hot on the heels of the first comic book to fetch one million dollars, an 8.0 CGC graded copy of Detective Comics #27 featuring the first appearance of Batman brings $1,075,000 at auction!  Who says Superman is better than Batman!
This book was purchased by a collector 40 years ago for $100 and was beautifully preserved [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2010/02/28/detective-comics-27-sells-for-1-075-million-dollars/</link>
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		<title>Appearance on CGS Episode 794 &#8211; The Early Days of DC Comics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Needless to say, I had a great time appearing on Episode 794 of Comic Geek Speak to discuss the early days of DC Comics.

We discuss the period from 1935 through approximately 1947.  These were the formative years of the company and the great characters they published.  Thanks to the guys at CGS for inviting me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2010/02/24/appearance-on-cgs-episode-794-the-early-days-of-dc-comics/</link>
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		<title>Action Comics #1 Sells for One Million Dollars!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Action Comics #1 (June 1938) is really &#8220;golden&#8221; with an 8.0 CGC graded copy selling for $1 million today at the auction site, ComicConnect.com. 
This beautiful copy of Action Comics #1 featuring the first appearance of Superman was a part of the Kansas City pedigree collection, the oldest pedigree collection known to exist, and one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2010/02/22/action-comics-1-sells-for-one-million-dollars/</link>
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		<title>The Bat-Bobsled</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was watching the Men&#8217;s Two-Man Bobsled event from the 2010 Winter Olympics tonight and thought the USA&#8217;s black bobsled would be very cool as a &#8220;Bat-Bobsled&#8221; with its black paint and fins.  I then remembered the original Bat-Bobsled as it appeared in the Golden Age of comic books.
Yep, in the winter of 1945, Batman, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2010/02/20/the-bat-bobsled/</link>
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		<title>75 Years of DC Comics!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DC Comics is 75 years old this month!  Without DC there would be no Superman, Batman or many other superheroes that have become so ingrained in popular culture.  Following is my tribute to 75 years of DC Comics as written for the 2010 Vintage DC Comics Calendar.
In February 1935, Major Malcom Wheeler-Nicholson created National Allied [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2010/02/19/75-years-of-dc-comics/</link>
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		<title>Atlanta Comic Book Show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am at the Atlanta Comic Book Show this morning, and already had a good find. I dug up a copy of Marvel Mystery Comics #54 (April 1944). This copy is low grade, but has a very cool Human Torch WWII cover. This issue features great Human Torch, Sub-Mariner and Miss America stories, among others. It even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2010/02/07/atlanta-comic-book-show/</link>
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		<title>Happy New Year from the Golden Age of Comic Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year from the Golden Age of Comic Books.  I hope you have a great 2010!  To ring in the New Year, here&#8217;s a classic New Year cover by Vincent Sullivan from 1937 &#8211; More Fun Comics #17 (January 1937).
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		<link>http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2009/12/31/happy-new-year-from-the-golden-age-of-comic-books/</link>
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		<title>The &#8220;Golden Age of Comic Books Bowl&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems that the college bowl games of old are now named after their chief sponsors, so why not have the &#8220;Golden Age of Comic Books Bowl&#8221;!  Well, I don&#8217;t have the budget of the Fortune 500 companies whose names grace the bowl games these days, so I&#8217;ll have to settle for showcasing some Golden [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2009/12/27/the-golden-age-of-comic-books-bowl/</link>
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		<title>Merry Christmas from the Golden Age of Comic Books!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time for the celebration of Christmas at the Golden Age of Comic Books Blog and Podcast!  I hope that you and yours have a wonderful Holiday Season, and that your time is spent with family and friends.  Here are a couple of Christmas covers from the Golden Age of Comic Books that are guaranteed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2009/12/24/merry-christmas-from-the-golden-age-of-comic-books/</link>
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		<title>Golden Age of Comic Books Podcast #65 &#8211; Fifth Annual Christmas Episode!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Merry Christmas from the Golden Age of Comic Books Podcast and welcome to our fifth annual Christmas episode! For Christmas 2009, we tell the story of  &#8221;Captain Marvel and the Plot Against Christmas&#8221; from Captain Marvel Adventures #42 (January 1945).
In this story, Captain Marvel foils the plot of Gouge Smith to deprive the orphans of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2009/12/20/golden-age-of-comic-books-podcast-65-fifth-annual-christmas-episode/</link>
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		<title>Golden Age Reprint Round Up &#8211; Marvel and DC Classics &amp; WWII Paper Drives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just in time for your last minute Christmas shopping, Marvel and DC have published two first class Golden Age reprint volumes.
Last week, Marvel presented Marvel Masterworks, Golden Age Sub-Mariner Volume 3.  This hardback edition features the entire contents of some rarely reprinted Sub-Mariner stories from the WWII era.  In this volume you&#8217;ll find the stories [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2009/12/19/golden-age-reprint-round-up-marvel-and-dc-classics-wwii-paper-drives/</link>
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		<title>Christmas Covers, Revisited, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, Virginia, even Christmas covers with Santa Claus get swiped!  As I noted last year in a post showcasing DC&#8217;s earliest Christmas covers, one of the best know &#8220;Christmas cover swipes&#8221; is Al Feldstein&#8217;s swipe of Vince Sullivan&#8217;s cover to More Fun Comics #16 for his now classic cover to EC&#8217;s Panic #1.
It&#8217;s tough to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2009/12/10/christmas-covers-revisited-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Golden Age Reprint Roundup &#8211; Great Christmas Gifts!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few months there have been several new collected editions featuring Golden Age reprints.  These would make great Christmas gifts for your favorite Golden Age fan!
Marvel has continued with their popular Masterworks series featuring Atlas Comics reprints.  Their latest offering is Marvel Masterworks Atlas Era Menace, volume 1.  This &#8220;ghastly&#8221; volume features reprints of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2009/12/09/golden-age-reprint-roundup-great-christmas-gifts/</link>
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		<title>Nothing But Batman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our friend and fellow blogger Pat Curley of the Silver Age of Comic Books, has done it again with his new blog, Nothing But Batman.  His most recent post features the Batman &#38; Robin story from World&#8217;s Finest Comics #51 (April-May 1951), &#8220;The Academy for Gangsters&#8221;.
From one Batman fan to another, thanks for this new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2009/12/03/nothing-but-batman/</link>
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		<title>Christmas Covers, Revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we enter the Holiday Season, I enjoy getting into the spirit of things by perusing Golden Age Christmas covers.  They just don&#8217;t make &#8216;em like they used to!  Here&#8217;s my post from last December 22nd featuring my ten favorite Christmas covers from the Golden Age of Comic Books.  More to follow!
2008 Favorite Christmas Covers
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		<link>http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2009/12/03/christmas-covers-revisited/</link>
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		<title>Happy Thanksgiving from the Golden Age of Comic Books!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a busy past eight weeks and I have not had much time to post on the blog or record a new podcast.  However, as we pause to celebrate Thanksgiving and reflect on what we have to be thankful for, I would be remiss if I did not thank the fans of the Golden [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2009/11/25/happy-thanksgiving-from-the-golden-age-of-comic-books/</link>
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		<title>Almost as Good as the Golden Age, Part 2 &#8211; Superman the Complete Animated Series</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hot on the heels of Justice League: The Complete Series, Warner Bothers has hit another home run with its relase of Superman: The Complete Animated Series.  This seven disc set will be available for you to own on DVD when it hits the stores on November 24, 2009.
This 54 episode collection features the complete Superman [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2009/11/17/almost-as-good-as-the-golden-age-part-2-superman-the-complete-animated-series/</link>
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		<title>Almost as Good as the Golden Age: Justice League &#8211; The Complete Series</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite animated series of all time was Batman: The Animated Series.  I thought it captured the Batman of the Golden Age (by intent or otherwise) better than any “modern” treatment of Batman in film.  In recent years, DC and Warner Brothers have produced a great follow-up to this series with the Justice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2009/11/04/almost-as-good-as-the-golden-age-justice-league-the-complete-series/</link>
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		<title>Trivia Contest Winner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to our friend and fellow blogger Pat Curley of the Silver Age of Comic Books blog for being the first person to provide the correct answers to the trvia contest questions from the last podcast! Pat is the proud owner of the new 2010 Vintage DC Comics and Vintage Marvel Comics calendars from Asgard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2009/10/18/trivia-contest-winner/</link>
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		<title>Golden Age of Comic Books &#8211; October 12, 2009 &#8211; #64 &#8211; Baltimore Comic Con Special Edition</title>
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I&#8217;m back from a great weekend at the 2009 Baltimore Comic Con where I was privileged to be a guest of Asgard Press.  We had a great crowd and I was very pleased with the interest in the Asgard products, including the DC and Marvel Vintage Comic Book Calendars.  I signed a number of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2009/10/12/golden-age-of-comic-books-october-12-2009-64-baltimore-comic-con-special-edition/</link>
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		<title>Golden Age of Comic Books &#8211; October 4, 2009 &#8211; #63</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m back with another installment of the Golden Age of Comic Books Podcast.  In this installment, we discuss the Golden Age Crimebuster who appeared in Boy Comics.
Crimebuster was the alter ego of teenager Chuck Chandler.  After his parents were murdered by the evil Nazi villain, Iron Jaw, Chuck became Crimebuster and vowed to avenge their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2009/10/04/golden-age-of-comic-books-october-4-2009-63/</link>
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		<title>Golden Age Reprint Roundup &#8211; September 13, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There have been some good Golden Age reprints over the last few weeks.  Both Marvel and DC have provided some interesting and esoteric offerings.
DC Comics
DC has published The Sandman by Joe Simon &#38; Jack Kirby.  This hard back book features the &#8220;new look&#8221; Sandman and Sandy from Adventure Comics 72 (March 1942) through 91 (April/May [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2009/09/13/golden-age-reprint-roundup-september-13-2009/</link>
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		<title>Golden Age of Comic Books &#8211; August 29, 2009 &#8211; #62</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Golden Age of Comic Books Podcast is back with episode #62 featuring The Green Lama!
This character got his start in pulp magazines in the early 1940&#8217;s and made his first comic book appearance in the pages of Prize Comics #7 (September 1940).  He appeared in this title for 24 issues and eventually got his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2009/08/29/golden-age-of-comic-books-august-29-2009-62/</link>
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		<title>2010 Vintage DC Comics &amp; Marvel Comics Calendars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am excited to announce that Asgard Press has once again produced a great special 75th anniversary edition Vintage DC Comics Calendar for 2010.  Just like the 2009 calendar, this is a large format very high quality 11 X 14 calendar (opens to 11 X 30) with 16 collector quality cover reproductions that are suitable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2009/08/20/2010-vintage-dc-comics-marvel-comics-calendars/</link>
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		<title>A Golden Age Love Triangle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As most fans of comics know, one of the classic love triangles from the Golden Age of Comic Books is between Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper and Veronica Lodge.  There has been much hoopla in the press recently about Archie&#8217;s decision to marry Veronica.  Poor Betty!  Archie and Betty first appeared in the pages of Pep Comics [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2009/08/08/a-golden-age-love-triangle/</link>
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