Please excuse the looks of some of the archived blog posts, as eBay techs have changed the blog formats since those earlier postings, so they may appear a little distorted on your browser.

As I mentioned in the previous blog post, it was just earlier in this same year that I blogged about Dave Steven's passing...

As I stated at the top of this blog post, I am seeing hundreds more bloggers today reading our archived Bettie blog posts and thus wanted to repost this compilation of links for ease of reading for our blog readers.

This new blog post is not to capitalize on her passing... indeed we don't have any Bettie Page items in stock to sell. This is just to make it easier for Bettie fans to find the links to our previous posts instead of searching for them, or missing out on one of the previous posts.

Note From Make It So Marketing: To the left is a photo of Michael and Tina from the 2008 SDCC - San Diego Comic Con International. Click that photo to see 'Our World'!                   Each comic / comics book. Graphic Novels or magazine in our eBay Featured Store is individually graded by Michael, inventoried, priced, bagged and boarded, before being listed for sale!                     We attend several  Pop Culture Conventions and Comic Cons during the year to replenish our comic books and other pop culture inventory for resale!                   If you don't see what you are looking for, feel free to email us a 'want list' and if in stock, we'll place it in our eBay Featured Store 'Just for You' to purchase!

  A Call For Artists Submittals!

Tony Piro... one of my newest Facebook Friends, just messaged me today that his contest for submittals is ending very soon, (December 22nd!). 

Calamities of Nature is his online strip that has also been published in print form. Tony is shown attending his booth at the 2008 APE convention, (top left photo), that I have blogged about earlier, (click here for that show's details).

Tony wants you artists to to ask yourselves:

"Do you have any social, political, or maybe philosophical commentary that you need to get off your chest? Do you have a great gag you want to do, but it will only work with a pink creature wearing a green and red hat? Well, this is your perfect opportunity. The Calamities of Nature Guest Strip Contest is in its last week of taking entries.

The 3 best strips submitted by December 22nd will have their comics featured as the December 28th, December 31st, and January 2nd updates, including links to the winners' websites. In addition, each winner will receive a signed copy of the Calamities of Nature Volume 1 collection. If you don't win, it's still all good. All other submissions will be featured in the blog individually on Tuesdays and Thursdays and have their comics saved in the gallery. For further details, see the official entries announcement at

calamitiesofnature.com/blog/index.php?blog=103

This should be an opportunity for those cartoonists or illustrators looking for more exposure...  So check the link out above for submittal details!

For those of you that are new to our blog today, we also have an ongoing 'Comic Con and Pop Culture Convention'  here at "Make It So Marketing Inc.", what with our daily blog posts and new listings of items for sale in our online eBay Featured Store! 

How Did I Miss This One?

But then again... if I had read these six comic books as they came out on the stands, it probably wouldn't have been such a terrific read for me as I would have had to wait for each issue to be published!

This trade paperback collects 'Books of Doom' #1-6 by Ed Brubaker, Mark Farmer and Pablo Raimondi. Here I thought I knew so much of Doctor Doom's origin, (which I did), but the additional sequences written by Brubaker are very well drawn by Farmer and Raimondi.

I could hardly put this collection down!  Of course I am a long time fan of the Fantastic Four, (started with issue #3 back in 1962), and have enjoyed Victor Von Doom's earliest adventures against and then later with the Fantastic Four. Yet this updated telling of Victor Von Doom puts it all together for the reader, both for those that started reading about him in the 1960's, and for those that are newcomers to comics!

This is a collection that makes taking individual comics that are part of a story arc and combining them into trade paperbacks a great idea!

The only thing missing was that my copy of this collection did not have inside credits, or other regular pages including title page, publisher's info, etc. that you would normally see in a tpb.  Whether or not this was on purpose by the publisher I know not.  Possibly it was printed that way to be a true 'Books of Doom' presentation without any xtras?

Other than that... this is a great read!

For those of you that are new to our blog today, we also have an ongoing 'Comic Con and Pop Culture Convention'  here at "Make It So Marketing Inc.", what with our daily blog posts and new listings of items for sale in our online eBay Featured Store! 

Thanks for reading this blog post today, and please join us again for more!  BTW, besides blogging, we have over 465 Reviews that Tina and I have placed in our eBay Reviews Section. Just click here to see our latest reviews!