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"Jon Meyers" wrote...
 > ...of hype, and of the price of not doing your homework:
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3590640143</font" target="_blank">http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3590640143</font</a>>
 > This item--the first issue of the comicbook ($8.95 cover price) based on a
 > character created by Michael Chabon for his 2000 novel, The Amazing
 > Adventures of Kavalier & Clay...

Just an additional piece of information for any Chabon collectors out there
(Hi, Ann!): If you're not plugged into the comics grapevine (as I am not)
you might not be aware (as I was not) that Chabon made his comic-book debut
late last year, contributing a story titled "The Strange Case of Mr.
Terrific and Doctor Nil" to JSA All-Stars #7 (dated January 2004--released
November 2003).

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Jon,

Gosh, maybe its worth all of this money because, as the seller states in his
listing, the author is a Pulitzer Price winner, and everything has its
price....
Les

 >..of hype, and of the price of not doing your homework:
 >
 >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3590640143
 >
 >This item--the first issue of the comicbook ($8.95 cover price) based on a
 >character created by Michael Chabon for his 2000 novel, The Amazing
 >Adventures of Kavalier & Clay--just hit the stands on Wednesday. And, while
 >it may not be available through the publisher's website, it is widely
 >available through other online comics sellers and is nowhere near sold out
 >in B&M stores--at least, the local shop where I got mine still had several
 >copies yesterday.
 >
 >Why will people believe anything they read, without checking it out?
 >(That's rhetorical--I can think of several reasons.)
 >
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Jon wrote:
<snip>

 > Just an additional piece of information for any Chabon collectors out there
 > (Hi, Ann!): If you're not plugged into the comics grapevine (as I am not)
 > you might not be aware (as I was not) that Chabon made his comic-book debut
 > late last year, contributing a story titled "The Strange Case of Mr.
 > Terrific and Doctor Nil" to JSA All-Stars #7 (dated January 2004--released
 > November 2003).
 >
 > --
 > Jon Meyers
 > [To reply,
 > lose your way.]

Thanks, Jon.

As you surmise, I don't keep up with comics but you can bet I'll be out
today looking for both of these. Any idea what I should pay for the
first one? I assume from your post I should be able to get the new one
for cover price...

I've even bought a couple of the Ayelet Waldman "Mommy mysteries".
They're light and sassy (contraction of smart-assy?). Anyway, she's
pretty clever. Guess she'd have to be to keep up with him.

Did you ever find out if he really posted here a couple of years ago
when we were discussing A Model World?

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 > As you surmise, I don't keep up with comics but you can bet I'll be out
 > today looking for both of these. Any idea what I should pay for the
 > first one? I assume from your post I should be able to get the new one
 > for cover price...



Last year, when I wanted to see Dark Horse Comics series featuring Tarzan
meeting John Carter of Mars, I had good success with:

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://newkadia.com/" target="_blank">http://newkadia.com/</a>


William M. Klimon
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"ann greenfield" <gfield.TakeThisOut@evansville.net> wrote in message
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 >
 > I've even bought a couple of the Ayelet Waldman "Mommy mysteries".
 > They're light and sassy (contraction of smart-assy?).

 > Ann


Not that this is necessarily the last word of course, but not
according to -

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.

sassy 1

SYLLABICATION: sas·sy
PRONUNCIATION: ss
ADJECTIVE: Inflected forms: sas··si·er, sas··si·est
1. Rude and disrespectful; impudent. 2. Lively and spirited; jaunty.
3. Stylish; chic: a sassy little hat.
ETYMOLOGY: Alteration of saucy.
OTHER FORMS: sassi·ly -ADVERB
sassi·ness -NOUN

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"ann greenfield" wrote:
I've even bought a couple of the Ayelet Waldman "Mommy mysteries".
They're light and sassy (contraction of smart-assy?).

Miochael Adams wrote:
Not that this is necessarily the last word of course, but not according
to -
The American Heritage=AE Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.

sassy 1

SYLLABICATION: sas=B7sy
PRONUNCIATION: =A0 ss
ADJECTIVE: Inflected forms: sas=B7=B7si=B7er, sas=B7=B7si=B7est
1. Rude and disrespectful; impudent. 2. Lively and spirited; jaunty.
3. Stylish; chic: a sassy little hat.
ETYMOLOGY: Alteration of saucy.
OTHER FORMS: sassi=B7ly -ADVERB
sassi=B7ness -NOUN
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main link: http://www.bartleby.com/61/
michael adams
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Samuel Johnson wrote:

SAUCY. adj. [I know not how this word can be easily deduced from
"sauce": it may come more properly from "salsus". Latin] Pert;
petulant; contemptnous of superiors; insolent; impudent; impertinent.

"You are more 'saucy' with lords than the heraldry of your birth and
virtue give you commission." Shakespeare.

"Study is like the heav'ns glorious fun,
That will not be deep search'd with 'saucy' looks;
Small have continual plodders ever won,
Save safe authority from other's books."
Shak..

"And if thou hast the mettle of a king,
Being wrong'd as we are by this peevish town,
Turn thou the mouth of thy artillery,
As we will ours against these 'saucy' walls."
Shak..

"Power's first pedigree from force derives,
And calls to mind the old perogatives
Of free-born man; and with a 'saucy' eye
Searches the heart and soul of majesty."
Denham.

"I lose my patience, when with 'saucy' pride
By untun'd ears I hear his numbers try'd."
Roscommon.

"No 'saucy' citizen shall dare
To strike a soldier, nor, when struck, resent,
The wrong."
Dryden's Juvenal.

"Homer, to express a man both timorous and
'saucy,' makes use of a kind of point, namely,
that he had the eyes of a dog, but the heart of a
deer."
Addison's Spectator.

Ref: Dictionary of the English Language, London, 1785, sixth editon.

Jerry Morris


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"ann greenfield" wrote...
 > Jon Meyers wrote:
 > <snip>
  > > ...Chabon made his comic-book debut
  > > late last year, contributing a story titled "The Strange Case of Mr.
  > > Terrific and Doctor Nil" to JSA All-Stars #7 (dated January
2004--released
  > > November 2003).
  > >
 > ...Any idea what I should pay for the
 > first one? I assume from your post I should be able to get the new one
 > for cover price...

If you have any well stocked comics shops in your area, you might be able to
find it for at or near the cover price of $3.50. I had to call 4 shops in
St. Louis, but I finally found a copy for $4.50; you might do even better.
It also comes up a couple times a week at eBay, in the Collectibles>Comics
category, and, although often grouped with other JSA issues, the bids are
pretty reasonable.


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Jon,

Many thanks for your research. I feel sure I'll be able to track down
both of these. Now would they be considered "B" items or what?

Ann

Jon Meyers wrote:
 >
 > "ann greenfield" wrote...
  > > Jon Meyers wrote:
  > > <snip>
   > > > ...Chabon made his comic-book debut
   > > > late last year, contributing a story titled "The Strange Case of Mr.
   > > > Terrific and Doctor Nil" to JSA All-Stars #7 (dated January
 > 2004--released
   > > > November 2003).
   > > >
  > > ...Any idea what I should pay for the
  > > first one? I assume from your post I should be able to get the new one
  > > for cover price...
 >
 > If you have any well stocked comics shops in your area, you might be able to
 > find it for at or near the cover price of $3.50. I had to call 4 shops in
 > St. Louis, but I finally found a copy for $4.50; you might do even better.
 > It also comes up a couple times a week at eBay, in the Collectibles>Comics
 > category, and, although often grouped with other JSA issues, the bids are
 > pretty reasonable.
 >
 > --
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michael adams wrote:
 >
 > Not that this is necessarily the last word of course,
<snip>


Michael,

Oh.....my......God.

I was kidding, of course. And you are, too, right? I mean, you do
realize I know what sassy means and I don't actually believe it's a
contraction of smart-assy?

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"ann greenfield" <gfield RemoveThis @evansville.net> wrote in message
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 > michael adams wrote:
  > >
  > > Not that this is necessarily the last word of course,
 > <snip>
 >
 >
 > Michael,
 >
 > Oh.....my......God.
 >
 > I was kidding, of course. And you are, too, right? I mean, you do
 > realize I know what sassy means and I don't actually believe it's a
 > contraction of smart-assy?
 >
 > Ann

....

Never mind me Ann. I only pasted the contents of a link.

Jerry Morris kindly went to the trouble of transcribing some
very illuminating definitions and examples of "saucy" from the
1785 edition Johnson's Dictionary. Unless that is, he owns an
unusually large scanner, and a fairly tolerant and ligature
friendly OCR programme.

all the best


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and for what it's worth, the two issues of the Escapist are to be collected in
book form too (in late Spring, early Summer)



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"Steven Rowe" wrote...
 > "ann greenfield" wrote...
  > > Jon Meyers wrote:
   > > > "ann greenfield" wrote...
   > > > > Jon Meyers wrote:
   > > > > <much snipping below>
   > > > > > ...Chabon made his comic-book debut late last year...
   > > > > >
   > > > > ...Any idea what I should pay for the
   > > > > first one? I assume from your post I should be able to get the new
one
   > > > > for cover price...
   > > >
   > > > If you have any well stocked comics shops in your area, you might be
able to
   > > > find it for at or near the cover price of $3.50....
   > > >
   > > > Many thanks for your research. I feel sure I'll be able to track down
   > > > both of these. Now would they be considered "B" items or what?
  > >
 > and for what it's worth, the two issues of the Escapist are to be
collected in
 > book form too (in late Spring, early Summer)


A site I found said that the second issue of The Escapist is due next month,
the compilation of issues 1 & 2 in April, #3 this summer, and #4 in the
fall. Then again, the first issue was originally scheduled for last
December.


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