So Who's

'Hot'

 In Our Archived Blog Posts

Right Now?

None Other Than...

'The 4400' TV Show

Bettie Page

 Samuel L Jackson

& Carolyn Jones In Batman TV Show!

These are the Big Four Of Our Top 10!

As of 05-29-08 08:55 AM PST

Regular Readers of our Blog know that I check our Blog Stats at least daily to see what topics bloggers are looking at!

Currently we have Four Standouts in our Top 10 Most Viewed!

The following topics are 'Hot' right now per our last 4,000 archived blog post views in less than the last 24 hours!

#1 is STILL amazing to me, as the news that 'The 4400' won't be back for a Season 5 is old news, but more bloggers are giving this show a try. And they Should! Billy Campbell pictured at the top right was just on the Season Finale of 'Shark'. He is one cool but scary character! 

#2 is our Bettie Page - Jenny in The Rocketeer Film connection. That topic seems to always be in our Top 10 because of the timeless cross-over of Bettie Page Fans and Rocketeer Fans.

#3 is Samuel L Jackson and the Nick Fury  connection at the end of the Iron Man Film that is out right now.

#4 is not a newcomer to our Top 10 List, but she has edged out Laura Vandervoort once again! That would be Carolyn Jones who besides playing Morticia in the Adams Family, also portrayed Marsha Queen of Diamonds in the Batman TV Show of the 1960's!

The above round out our most viewed topics right now as of the past 4,000 page views...

They Were The Eternals

Another Jack Kirby Series!

Over the weekend we picked up another collection of Jack Kirby  Comics including his early 1970's series of Kamandi for DC Comics and his mid 1970's The Eternals for Marvel Comics.

We have an ongoing Comic Con  and pop culture convention here at Make It So Marketing, what with our daily blog posts and listings of items for sale!

Thanks for reading this post today and please join us again!

Michael (and Tina)

More

On The Last Boy On Earth!

Over the weekend we picked up another collection of Jack Kirby Comics including his 1970's series of Kamandi for DC Comics and The Eternals for Marvel Comics.

Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth, was published from 1972 to 1978 by DC.

Kamandi himself was portayed as a young 'hero' in a Post-Apocalyptic future, which was set in a parallel Earth of the DC Universe's future.

It was set in a period after an event called "The Great Disaster". In that period humans are a persecuted minority in a world ruled by intelligent, highly evolved animals.

If that sounds familiar to you, then remember that an earlier 1968 movie 'Planet of the Apes'  also portrayed an animal-ruled world!

Indeed, the cover of Kamandi #1, showing a demolished Statue of Liberty, was posibly inspired by a similar scene in the 'Planet of the Apes' movie just before it ended!

However, if you were to think that Jack Kirby was 'aping' the movie, he actually had drawn a similiar theme in a comic book story in 'Alarming Tales' #1 back in September 1957.

In that comic book Jack drew a story entitled "The Last Enemy."

In that story, he has a man traveling in time to the year 2514, where he finds that humans are extinct! That time traveler finds that the world is ruled by tribes of intelligent tigers, dogs, and rats!

Jack's drawings of these intelligent animals are very much similar to his later drawings in Kamandi 15 years later!

This series was one of the last that Jack Kirby wrote and drew for DC Comics before returning to Marvel Comics. Some of my favorite artists of the Silver Age took over the book after Jack left to go back to Marvel Comics. Those included Chic Stone and Dick Ayers!

We have an ongoing Comic Con  and pop culture convention here at Make It So Marketing, what with our daily blog posts and listings of items for sale! Just click on the cover at the top right to see our current listings!

Thanks for reading this post today and please join us again!

Michael

We Want To Thank The

 160,000th

Visitor...

To Our Pop Culture And Comics Blog!

I just finished having breakfast with Tina, and headed down to the home office to continue listing, when I saw that our small niche pop culture and comics blog reached the 160,000th visitor while we were eating!

(That would be 160,000 visitors, NOT page views. There have been almost 286,000 page views of our 2,550+ archived blog posts per our stats counter. The eBay counter at the top left section says over 464,000 views, but that number is not verifiable.)

The blog visitor came in at 6:46 AM PST from the Madrid area of Spain, and viewed the "EUReKA TV Show Will Have a 3rd Season!" blog post that was from October 7th, 2007! That post was about the renewal of the TV Show and what we thought about the TV Series 2nd Season up to that point!

We want to thank that blogger from Europe as well as ALL of the others who have come to view our blog posts since we started keeping stats on July 15, 2006!

We actually started the Blog on June 7th 2006, when we came back home and blogged about viewing the X-Men III Film and deciding to list some X-Men comics! (eBay had just started the eBay Blogs so we were an early adopter of their format.)

Having bloggers like the 160,000th AND NOW YOU come in and view our blog posts always makes our day or evening!  Thanks again for visiting us!

For those of you new to us, we have an ongoing pop culture - comics convention here at Make It So Marketing, what with our daily blog posts and listings of items for sale!

Why

Tax Loopholes For eBay Sellers?

As previously blogged here, Tina and I have posted some 'reviews' in the eBay Reviews and Guides Section off and on for several months.

So this month I've been reading or re-reading books on blogging and eBay itself, as both Tina and I expand the scope of our operations on this, my 10th Anniversary on the Web!

The book 'Tax Loopholes For eBay Sellers' was of course one that I wanted to check out again...

Here is my Review that was just posted in the eBay Reviews Section:

Although This Book Was Published In 2005...

...the information in this book is still timely for the most part! Who doesn't want to pay less tax and make more money?!

During eBay Live 2005 I took in one of the programs that Diane Kennedy, CPA, presented. I found her topic interesting, organized and aided by multiple visual aids.

This book was written the same way. Janelle Elms, an eBay University instructor was the co-author of this book, and I have listened to her on the eBay Radio shows several times before.

More than just a how-to book, this is presented as a 'why' to do what Diane and Janelle suggest you as an eBay owner to do.  Being in the accounting field myself, I found that the subjects presented in this book are well written, informative, and right on the money.

If you want to take your eBay business to the next levels, then you should either check out this book in your local library or buy one on eBay itself.

So this month I've been reading or re-reading books on blogging and eBay itself, as both Tina and I expand the scope of our operations on this, my 10th Anniversary on the Web! This book is a good foundation for YOUR eBay business. Check it out!

We have an ongoing Comic Con  and pop culture convention here at Make It So Marketing, what with our daily blog posts and listings of items for sale! Just click on the cover at the top right to see our current listings!

Thanks for reading this post today and please join us again!

Michael