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So you picked the end I live in. I thought I heard a tap. 😆

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I never expected to make such a close connection to my childhood comics reading the Rosa collection . Here's the bits of the story Barks wrote that Rosa retconned a beginning to decades later. Amazing! 7/7

Scrooge retrieves his long-ago hidden shares: 10th bottle from the floor, 8th row from the right.

Scrooge confronts the last McViper. And demands $2 for the two patches he had to make for McVipers shooting his hat: once in 1898 and again in 1965. Apparently inflation didn't affect the price of hat patches.

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Rosa became the second most revered Disney duck writer/artist after Barks, so I learned his name, even though he was creating stories (I wasn't reading) while I was an adult. When I saw the collection up at the top for so cheap a price, I figured it would be worth it. 6/

But there was no Internet back then, so I had no way of knowing who created those Disney comics I read and reread throughout my childhood. Later I learned of Don Rosa. He was a huge fan of Barks and got the job of creating Uncle Scrooge comics. He built on the legacy Barks built. #DonRosa 5/

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Even though I stopped reading Disney comics once I started reading superheroes as a teen, I couldn't help but eventually learn Barks' name just from being in the sphere of comic fandom. 4/

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Disney comic books were uncredited back then. Not that it mattered, because as a child I wouldn't have read the credits. But comic fans from the generation before me noticed Barks' stories because they were well drawn and written. Eventually his name became known to fans. 3/

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A couple weeks ago, I found that 1975 comic in my parents' basement! I thought it had been taken out by a basement flood. It reprints an Uncle Scrooge story from a decade earlier by Carl Barks, "the Good Duck Artist." #CarlBarks 2/

Uncle Scrooge #122, dated September 1975. Art by Carl Barks. "Enhanced colors" by school-age me. It reprints Uncle Scrooge #65 (March 1965).

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Reading the stores in this Uncle Scrooge collection I bought a couple months ago, I got to this sequence of Scrooge hiding railroad stocks in a bottle of a bottle house. I thought, "Wait.... I'm pretty sure I had the comic where he retrieved those when I was a kid." #ComicSky 🧵 1/

In 1898, Uncle Scrooge hides $50 worth of shares in the Goldopolis and Boom City Railroad in a bottle of a bottle house so the McViper Clan won't steal them. He forgets to go back for them. (Bottle houses are real things, although I don't know how frequently they've ever been built.)

Then he discovers the McViper Clan shot his hat and chases them, demanding $1 for the patch he'll have to buy for it. By Don Rosa.

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www.maptap.gg October 6 97🔥 97🔥 85😁 100🎯 94🏅 Final score: 946 I'm from the state #4 is in. That x3 for it really helped!

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Ah, whatta you know. You're just the author. 🙂

So when you're talking about godly powers infused in an object, I'm not sure the science of heredity matters. It might be more up to the whims of the god(ess). This could go either way.

I found a Marvel Legends @romspaceknight.bsky.social figure at a closeout store last week. I ordered two—one to open and one to stay in the package—as soon as it was released, but I still haven't opened one. This one has already had the package cut, but was complete, so....

Marvel Legends Rom meets Parker Brothers Rom.

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Lunatic Lee @eclecticlee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#VintageToyTuesday Hot Wheels Streex. This short-lived Hot Wheels* line came out when I was in college. They intrigued me enough to buy. Then I just never got rid of them. *Ironic, since they don't have wheels.

Three Streex "cars" (purple, orange, and black) with two launchers. They have no wheels, just flat bottoms, and glide just over the floor when launched.

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For anyone wondering, yes, I got #Strands pretty quickly today. Strands #945 “Grab your tokens” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵

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😆 www.maptap.gg October 4 98🔥 84😁 96🔥 99🔥 83🌟 Final score: 920 There was *so* much luck involved in mine. But I did know where the country for #4 is!

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Huh. I had people give me their old video game consoles and games, as that's another hobby of mine. But that hasn't happened with CDs, but I've only lately started putting it out there that I'm amassing them. Although my mother did, this morning, talk about me going through her CDs.

Sorry, that's what *I* also meant. My collection has mostly come from thrift stores, estate sales, yard/garage sales, and used record stores. Some, of course, were bought new early on. Oh, and there was a brief period where I was buying brand new CDs from Sam's Club.

I'm sure the majority of my collection is used at this point.

Rom's service is perhaps unique for being temporary. (You're the expert on that, I believe.) But I think it was also the first time a planet ever defeated Galactus' sitting herald. So I consider him a temporary or fill-in herald. (And Marvel will never acknowledge it graphically due to licensing.)

Yes. And right after I bought it (used and within the last few years), the radio station played "She Drives Me Crazy" on my way back to wherever I was going.

Lunatic Lee @eclecticlee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, @cartoonistcorey.bsky.social, I've seen Big Boggle in person now! (Didn't buy it.)

A photo of Big Boggle: The Classic Edition. It's a 5x5 puzzle instead of 4x4.

Lunatic Lee @eclecticlee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Insane Ian @insaneian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's kind of how I felt when I spotted a familiar logo on a video tape recently, but then actually read all the text.

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For #BandcampFriday I have updated & re-released my collection of Logan Award nominated songs ft new nominations, new live performances, & a new cover image to celebrate my momentous win after 18 nominations over 16 years of 15 different songs! Pick it up now! insaneian.bandcamp.com/album/rap-ga...

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Rap Game Susan Lucci, by Insane Ian

15 track album

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It wasn't horrible, but not something I'm going to buy again either.

It turns out just because you like two foods, it doesn't mean they should be combined.

Johnsonville Dr Pepper Inspired Sausage (brats).

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Lunatic Lee @eclecticlee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I paid for a meal partially with Susan B's at a mall Taco Bell like 20 years ago because the post office stamp machines used to give them as change. I started to explain them to the cashier, who was probably a teen, but she just silently showed them to the manager behind her and he nodded.

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I'm anxiously awaiting Frank's objection.

Lunatic Lee @eclecticlee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Lunatic Lee @eclecticlee.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

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Male "doughboy" Dire Wraiths. Art by Sal Buscema and Joe Sinnott.

Female Dire Wraith. Art by Bill Sienkiewicz.

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Lunatic Lee @eclecticlee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ah, a new site to use to check things. Thanks! Absolutely, it was country by country. All Australian versions I've seen are Atari branded. South Africa had that too. In Germany and Finland, Atari hired local singers to do cover versions translated into the local languages.

Yes, okay, you're on to my theory. "Pac-Man Fever" was released by Columbia in Dec 1981 in the U.S. Not sure when in the U.K., but as far as I can tell, it was not a hit. Atari 2600 Pac-Man was released in Mar 1982. I think Atari repurposed promo discs with new sleeves to publicize it.

True. Sorry, focused on the wrong part.

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The seller says he "found it in a shop" and knows nothing more. With further research, I've developed a working theory of what this is and why this sleeve is relatively rare. But I want to ponder and research more before I share it. 2/2

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I'm not sure if you're accusing the seller or me of faking this. If it helps, here's the original auction (www.ebay.com/itm/40721176...). The photos in the post are ones I made after it arrived. I believe it's legit because it would be insane to go to this much trouble for so little profit. 1/2

ebay.com

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Dragon's Lair II is freakin' hard! I can finish the first one. I don't think I've ever managed to finish DL2.

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Buckner & Garcia only re-recorded it because Columbia won't release the masters! (If they even still have them.)

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There were no other songs when the single was released! Buckner & Garcia released a 45 themselves (with the instrumental) in Oct '81. Once it caught on, Columbia picked it up and released an identical 45 in Dec '81. The album was Jan '82. In Italy they put "Froggy's Lament" on the B side.

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Atari 2600 Pac Man Fever Uk

I am aware, however, of the U.K. commercial for the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man that uses the song as background music. So I know Atari made some sort of deal with CBS Records for cross-promotion. And not just in the U.K. youtu.be/ihHMR855PBw

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YouTube video by The 17th Void !

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The record seems identical to one version of the non-picture sleeve one (minus the "promo only" text). The back of the sleeve duplicates text (and borrows art from) from the Atari 2600 Pac-Man instruction book. 🤔❓

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