Michael D Hamersky On Comics... Remembering Jack Kirby! On Sunday, August 28th of 2011 - Which Would Have Been His 94th Birthday -  Far Top Left Photo:  Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott back in 1972! - Above Photo:  CGC graded copy of Fantastic Four #48 with Jack Kirby cover pencils & Joe Sinnott inks.  Comic cover dated March of 1966!

TODAY'S FEATURE - Blog #3494:

Yesterday I blogged about being 'invited' by LCBS owner Randy Myers, to attend the 'Read A Comic In Public Day' event at Collectors Corner in Baltimore, Maryland, via the Facebook event page for that event.  (As seen here!)

Of course I had to decline as I am on the West Coast, and wondered if there were any of these 'Read A Comic In Public Day' events closer to me in the San Diego Metro Area...

I found that there actually was one, at this Facebook event page, '2nd Annual Read Comics In Public Day - San Diego' sponsored by Chriss Cornish.  It is being held on Sunday, August 28th from 11:00am - 3:00pm at the Starbucks on the corner of Balboa and Genesse (4227 Genesee Ave) in San Diego.

What does this have to do with the 'Remembering Jack Kirby' topic here today?

Well, I knew that I would be blogging about Sunday going to be  what would have been Jack's 94th Birthday, and then realized that with the So Cal Comic Con that I've got a dealer's table at on Saturday, and then attending the 'Read Comics In Public Day' at the event in San Diego, that I would be probably a little too busy to actually blog on Sunday...

So what better way would there to be this morning than to suggest to 'Remember Jack Kirby' on his birthday except by reading one of his comic books in public on Sunday!

So not as an addendum to yesterday's blog, but as an additional thought to combine the two events together, (as the originators of the event did on purpose),... I'm going to be reading at least one Jack Kirby Comic in public on Sunday!  And I encourage you to do the same!

Which one(s)?

Well according to this incomplete listing (I'm sure), at the Grand ComicsDatabase, Jack has over 10,120 credits to his name at this database!  So I'm sure you should be able to come up with something to read!

And no, I don't mean to ask you to break open your CGC graded comics, like the Fantastic Four #48 that once was in my personal collection as shown at the top right of this blog, but any original comic book, or TPB or omnibus with Jack's works would do!

For those of you new to this blog and / or comics in general, and Jack Kirby to be specific, here is a link to the Wikipedia entry on Jack as a preliminary introduction.  There are many compilations of Jack Kirby's works, books on him, and even a magazine series, (The Jack Kirby Collector), that I could recommend for additional reading!

So I'm suggesting that you read a comic in public on Sunday and if possible a Jack Kirby one... To help promote comic books in general and remember what Jack Kirby did for the comics industry.  That's definitely a good way of 'Remembering Jack Kirby'!

~Michael D Hamersky - who is asking you for your vote in the current voting going on over at The Shel Dorf Awards web site. I was nominated for 'Comic Blogger of the Year' on Monday, August 8th!   

While being honored to be nominated, I'd also like to win! The competition has some other good nominees for the same category I was nominated for, so I'm asking for your help on this!  Voting ends on September 4th!

If you have enjoyed this blog or any of the others in the now over 3,493 blogs in this series of mine, I'd appreciate your vote!

Here is a direct link to the voting page. 'Comic Blogger of the Year' is the category, and 'Michael Hamersky On Comics' is the name I'm listed as to vote for.

Here is a link to blog #3481, where I went more into depth on this topic.

My thanks to any of you that take the time to vote for me!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!  We currently have over 2,530 'Followers'!  Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button! 

And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

~ Michael D Hamersky

If I have it... You can find it 'Under The Big Top Of Comics' at:  

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Michael D Hamersky On Comics Suggests You Attend... The 'Read Comics In Public Day' Event Near You! Which Runs On Sunday, August 28th of 2011 Internationally! -  Far Top Left Photo:  Adam West (Batman) and Yvonne Craig (Batgirl) reading Detective Comics #359 (The Debut of Batgirl in Comics!) in 'public' (publicity shot) back in 1966! - Above Photo: The 2011 Read Comics In Public poster for Local Comic Book Shops to download and print off for the event!

TODAY'S FEATURE - Blog #3493:

Yesterday I was 'invited' by LCBS owner Randy Myers, to attend the 'Read A Comic In Public Day' event at Collectors Corner in Baltimore, Maryland, via the Facebook event page for that event.  (As seen here!)

I had to decline as I am on the West Coast, and wondered if there were any of these 'Read A Comic In Public Day' events closer to me in the San Diego Metro Area...

I found that there actually was one, at this Facebook event page, '2nd Annual Read Comics In Public Day - San Diego' sponsored by Chriss Cornish.  It is being held on Sunday, August 28th from 11:00am - 3:00pm at the Starbucks on the corner of Balboa and Genesse (4227 Genesee Ave) in San Diego.

Here is more info taken from the Facebook event page that Chriss posted:

NOTE: Different location from last year!

August 28 is international Read Comics in Public Day (RCPD). The first was held last year. 

Some of us San Diego sequential art lovers gathered at the Starbucks by Mysterious Galaxy, in the Clairemont neighborhood. This year we'll instead by at the Starbucks at corner of Balboa and Genesse.

We'll be meeting up outside at the tables so that those with budgets that don't stretch to venti lattes can still participate without feeling self conscious.

___WHAT IS RCPD?___
Read Comics in Public Day was founded in 2010 by Brian Heater and The Daily Crosshatch. It began as a joke; something about Heater reading novels on the train because it’s too embarrassing to read comics. His fellow Daily Crosshatch editor Sarah Morean had the idea to take the joke to nobler heights. And thus we have Read Comics in Public Day.

LINKS
www.readcomicsinpublic.com

THE GOAL
Be seen reading comics in public.

Step 1: get some comic books, graphic novels, or other works of sequential art

Step 2: go somewhere public

Step 3: read the comics

Step 4: have someone take photos and upload them to your Flikr account after joining the RCPD group

Repeat steps 3 and 4 as desired

____THE PLAN, STAN____
On Sunday, August 28, we will congregate at the Starbucks at the corner of Balboa and Genessee (San Diego, CA)

We'll start at 11:00am and go to around 3:00pm, or whenever.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED
* Comics and/or graphic novels. Please bring some to share if possible - it's a great opportunity to introduce fellow comic lovers to new titles. And not everyone has the budget to have something new to read.

- What about digital comics?
 The goal of RCPD is to be SEEN reading comics, in public, by strangers. If the public can not tell you are reading a comic than we don't really achieve that goal. 

THAT SAID, if you have some way to make it very obvious you are reading a comic on your digital device (short of announcing, "oh, I am enjoying this digital comic" every two minutes) than it's all good. Otherwise, let's stick to the always obvious traditional printed format.

There are also other locations internationally that are being shown with Facebook event pages, including:

Bakersfield, California

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Frankfurt, Germany

Berlin, Germany

There are other events that don't seem to have Facebook event pages, but are being held, including:

Portland, Oregon - Perth, Australia -  Roanoke, Virgina - Overland Park, KS - and others...

You can see more of those and other news of this event at the main web site here: International Read Comics In Public Day  

Additionally, here is the origin of 'Read Comics In Public Day' from the web site by Brian Heater & Sarah Morean:

~Michael D Hamersky - who is asking you for your vote in the current voting going on over at The Shel Dorf Awards web site. I was nominated for 'Comic Blogger of the Year' on Monday, August 8th!   

While being honored to be nominated, I'd also like to win! The competition has some other good nominees for the same category I was nominated for, so I'm asking for your help on this!  Voting ends on September 4th!

If you have enjoyed this blog or any of the others in the now over 3,482 blogs in this series of mine, I'd appreciate your vote!

Here is a direct link to the voting page. 'Comic Blogger of the Year' is the category, and 'Michael Hamersky On Comics' is the name I'm listed as to vote for.

Here is a link to blog #3481, where I went more into depth on this topic.

My thanks to any of you that take the time to vote for me!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!  We currently have over 2,530 'Followers'!  Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button! 

And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

~ Michael D Hamersky

If I have it... You can find it 'Under The Big Top Of Comics' at:  

http://www.ComicBooksCircus.com/ 

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written for the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up differently, sorry about that!

The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  As of Monday, June 27th, 2011, I'll be using my new laptop, where the default resolution is 'higher', so there may be some temporary glitches until I am used to the new resolution.

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works!

To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:

Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page! 

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Michael D Hamersky On Comics Suggests You Attend... The Upcoming 2011 Leo Carrillo Film Festival  Which Runs On Friday Nights From August 26th thru September 23rd At The Leo Carrillo Ranch In Carlsbad, California   - -  Far Top Left Photo:  The front page to the two page flyer about the 2011 Leo Carrillo Film Festival.  (Right click the picture to see a full sized version of the first page of the two page flyer.) - Above Topmost Photo:  The Leo Carrillo Film Marquee! - Above Photo: From the 2009 Leo Carrillo Film Festival - See an episode of The Cisco Kid first, and then a film that Leo Carrillo was featured in... Either a starring role or supporting role!

TODAY'S FEATURE - Blog #3492:

Last Friday night we missed the Fund Raiser for the 2011 Leo Carrillo Film Festival in Carlsbad, California, as we were attending the final concert of the 2011 TGIF Jazz In The Park Series, also in Carlsbad.

This Friday night, August 26th is the first of the free films being shown for this season, which we are planning on attending.

Here is the link to the two page flyer with instructions on how to get there, and then on the second page is the listing of all the films to be shown this season. 

You'll notice that the 2011 Season is only five (5) Friday nights this year... But there are several good films to be shown, with an episode of 'The Cisco Kid' TV series shown prior to the main feature.

Plus, you can bring your own dinner & drinks, or buy from the food shack on the premises, which is what we are going to do the first night of the Film Festival.

I have blogged about Leo Carrillo and / or the Leo Carrillo Film Festival many times through the years.  Here is the link to all of those blogs or re-posts.

For those of you that are new to this Blog of mine, (ComicBookCollectorsBlog.com), you may be wondering what this topic has to do with comics... Well, here's the link to where you can see all of the covers to The Cisco Kid  comic books that Leo starred in.  Several have photo covers! Would you believe that there are forty (40) of them to collect?!

Plus several of the films that are shown during the Film Festivals have comic books that were published, but you'll have the fun of searching those out for yourself, at the same web site!

Hope that you can make it to one of those nights during this five night 2011 Leo Carrillo Film Festival!  If not... I'm sure that I will be posting photos from each night that we attend in a special photo album at my Facebook Fan Page.  Night #1's photos will be shown in this album.

~Michael D Hamersky - who is asking you for your vote in the current voting going on over at The Shel Dorf Awards web site. I was nominated for 'Comic Blogger of the Year' on Monday, August 8th!   

While being honored to be nominated, I'd also like to win! The competition has some other good nominees for the same category I was nominated for, so I'm asking for your help on this!  Voting ends on September 4th!

If you have enjoyed this blog or any of the others in the now over 3,482 blogs in this series of mine, I'd appreciate your vote!

Here is a direct link to the voting page. 'Comic Blogger of the Year' is the category, and 'Michael Hamersky On Comics' is the name I'm listed as to vote for.

Here is a link to blog #3481, where I went more into depth on this topic.

My thanks to any of you that take the time to vote for me!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!  We currently have over 2,530 'Followers'!  Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button! 

And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

~ Michael D Hamersky

If I have it... You can find it 'Under The Big Top Of Comics' at:  

http://www.ComicBooksCircus.com/ 

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written for the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up differently, sorry about that!

The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  As of Monday, June 27th, 2011, I'll be using my new laptop, where the default resolution is 'higher', so there may be some temporary glitches until I am used to the new resolution.

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works!

To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:

Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page! 

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Michael D Hamersky On Comics Reflects On.... Jerome 'Jerry' Leiber  1933 - 2011 -  Top Left Photo:  The front cover to the autobiography "Hound Dog" by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller & David Ritz Copyright © 2009 by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. - Above Top Photo:  The front cover to the UK Elvis Presley record... 'Elvis Presley Sings Leiber & Stoller' from 1980, one of the LPs released after Elvis' death. The photo on the cover was taken in 1957 at the MGM Studio!

TODAY'S FEATURE - Blog #3491:

Jerome 'Jerry' Leiber passed away yesterday...

I heard this at 1:48 PM on the Sirius Satellite Radio station's Elvis Presley Radio channel as I was driving on an errand, which I found ironic, as Jerry Leiber with his partner, Mike Stoller, had co-written many of my favorite songs that Elvis had recorded...

Jerry was born April 25th of 1933, so he was 78 years old.

Jerry started writing music together with Mike in Los Angeles in 1950, so he was pretty darn young at the time.  Mike was the composer, and Jerry the lyricist. You can find at lot more details about the duo at this Wikipedia link.

For you younger readers, who didn't grow up with the duo's songs being sung by the likes of The Coasters, The Drifters, Jay and the Americans, The Exciters, and Peggy Lee, Jerry & Mike were serious song makers for many years, before going into the production side. Their last major hit was for Stealer's Wheel in 1972, with 'Stuck In The Middle With You'.

However, it was the songs that they wrote and were recorded by Elvis Presley, or ones they wrote specifically for Elvis Presley's films, that were my favorites. Basically because I was a long time Elvis Presley fan & collector. (See this blog #3319 for that info.)

The UK LP shown at the top right of this blog has what the producers thought were the best of Leiber & Stoller songs to present on that collection.  I would have to agree on that as the LP contains:

1. Hound Dog
2. Love Me
3. Loving You
4. Hot Dog
5. I Want To Be Free
6. Jailhouse Rock
7. Treat Me Nice
8. Baby I Don't Care
9. Santa Claus Is Back In Town
10. Don't
11. Trouble
12. King Creole
13. Steadfast, Loyal & True
14. Dirty Dirty Feeling
15. Just Tell Her Jim Said Hello
16. Girls Girls Girls
17. Bossa Nova Baby
18. Little Egypt
19. Fools Fall In Love
20. Saved

So yeah, I would have to agree with those selections.

As for Leiber and Stoller's works... They do continue on in pop culture. One of the more recent episodes of the TV show 'American Idol' had a 'Leiber and Stoller' Night on May 11th of 2011.

It's taken several years for the duo to receive their 'due'.  Awards started being presented to them back in 1969, but the big ones were only presented afterwards, such as:

 1985 – Induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
 1987 – Induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
 1988 – Elvis Presley's recording of “Hound Dog” placed in the Grammy Hall of Fame
 1991 – ASCAP Founders' Award
 1994 – A star placed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in front of 7083 Hollywood Blvd.
 1996 – National Academy of Songwriters Lifetime Achievement Award
 

But as Paul Shaffer said..."Leiber and Stoller?  There would be no 'Rock and Roll' without them!".

Note: There haven't been any comic books that were based on this duo's songs that I am aware of.  However there have been several Elvis Presely comics and a couple of graphic novels printed.  Should there have been any printed on Leiber and Stoller songs I'll do an addendum to this blog.

I never met either of this duo in 'real life', but enjoyed many of their songs in 'reel life' on the screen in Elvis movies.  My thanks to both of them for years of enjoyment.

...And my condolences to Jerry's family and friends.

~Michael D Hamersky - who is asking you for your vote in the current voting going on over at The Shel Dorf Awards web site. I was nominated for 'Comic Blogger of the Year' on Monday, August 8th!   

While being honored to be nominated, I'd also like to win! The competition has some other good nominees for the same category I was nominated for, so I'm asking for your help on this!  Voting ends on September 4th!

If you have enjoyed this blog or any of the others in the now over 3,482 blogs in this series of mine, I'd appreciate your vote!

Here is a direct link to the voting page. 'Comic Blogger of the Year' is the category, and 'Michael Hamersky On Comics' is the name I'm listed as to vote for.

Here is a link to blog #3481, where I went more into depth on this topic.

My thanks to any of you that take the time to vote for me!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!  We currently have over 2,529 'Followers'!  Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button! 

And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

~ Michael D Hamersky

If I have it... You can find it 'Under The Big Top Of Comics' at:  

http://www.ComicBooksCircus.com/ 

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written for the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up differently, sorry about that!

The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  As of Monday, June 27th, 2011, I'll be using my new laptop, where the default resolution is 'higher', so there may be some temporary glitches until I am used to the new resolution.

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works!

To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:

Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page! 

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Michael D Hamersky On Comics Presents... A Report On The August 2011 Semantink's Comic Savvy! A Meetup Held At The Milano Coffee Co. in the Mission Valley Area of San Diego, CA On August 21st of 2011! -  - Top Photo This Column:  Michael Wyatt, The Winner of the Free Gift, (A Copy Of The New Book Published By Archaia Entertainment -  'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes', Presented By ComicBookCollectorsBlog.com, After All Who Were Present At The Time Were Given Equal Opportunity To Win!  -   Video Above: Three Minutes Of One Of The Earliest Discussions Held At The August 2011 Comics Savvy... The Topic:  Cowboys & Aliens Film That Had Been Released Since The Last Meetup! - Top Left Column: Logo for Semantink Publishing, Host Of This Monthly Meetup! - Middle Left Column:  Just One Of The Many Photos That Will Be Uploaded To The Special Photo Album At: August 2011 Semantink's Comic Savvy!

TODAY'S FEATURE - Blog #3490:

This 'report' is on the August 2011 Semantink's Comic Savvy meetup that was held last night at the Milano Coffee Co. in the Mission Valley area of San Diego, California!

Here is the link to the Facebook Comic Savvy 'event page' for this meetup.  Even more attended than had clicked the 'attending' link, which was great! There is no charge to attend... And you have an opportunity to order food and drink from Milano's menu as well!

Chris Henderson moderated the meetup last night, which was a little hard to do, as several persons showed up later.  There were some other activities going on in So Cal affecting the attendance, and we actually had one person drive down after attending the Los Angeles Comic Book & Sci-Fi Convention that also ran on Sunday.  So there were good reasons for the late arriving crowd last night!

Chris started several good conversations, and the above video from my new YouTube Channel, at 'Hamersky On Comics' was just one of them.  This one that I filmed was on the recent movie, 'Cowboys & Aliens'.

Talking about comic book movies... My question last night to all who were present at the time, (20 of the 25 who attended), was also on 'comic book movies'.  There were actually five (5) that had been released since the July 2011 meetup.  I considered the "comic book" movies to be ones that had been based on comic books, OR have had comic books (one shots or series) based on the films. You'll notice that there was mixed reactions to the films:

~Michael D Hamersky - who is asking you for your vote in the current voting going on over at The Shel Dorf Awards web site. I was nominated for 'Comic Blogger of the Year' on Monday, August 8th!   While being honored to be nominated, I'd also like to win! The competition has some other good nominees for the same category I was nominated for, so I'm asking for your help on this!

Voting online ends September 4th... And there are several categories to vote in... I'm only mentioning the 'Comic Blogger of the Year' here, so as not to play 'favorites' with the others nominated in the other categories!

If you have enjoyed this blog or any of the others in the now over 3,489 blogs in this series of mine, I'd appreciate your vote!

Here is a direct link to the voting page. 'Comic Blogger of the Year' is the category, and 'Michael Hamersky On Comics' is the name I'm listed as to vote for.

Here is a link to blog #3481, where I went more into depth on this topic.

My thanks to any of you that take the time to vote for me!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!  We currently have over 2,529 'Followers'!  Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button! 

And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

~ Michael D Hamersky

If I have it... You can find it 'Under The Big Top Of Comics' at:  

http://www.ComicBooksCircus.com/ 

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written for the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up differently, sorry about that!

The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  As of Monday, June 27th, 2011, I'll be using my new laptop, where the default resolution is 'higher', so there may be some temporary glitches until I am used to the new resolution.

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works!

To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:

Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page! 

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