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Comic Geek Speak Podcast - The Best Comic Book Podcast

625 - Spotlight on Batman in the Silver Age

Comic Geek Speak Podcast - The Best Comic Book Podcast

Speakers of Geek

Graphic Novel, Superhero, Comicbook, Comicbooks, Comic Book, Comics, Arts, Comic Books, Arts & Entertainment, Comic

4.6653 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2009

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Our series of Batman spotlights continues with a look at the Silver Age Batman. It's wacky and zany, but for many it's the Batman they love. Give a listen and learn a lot. (1:15:10)

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0:00.0

This is Comic Geekspeak, episode 625, Spotlight on Batman in the Silver Age.

0:15.8

Welcome to Comic Geek Speak. I'm Brian Deamer.

0:17.9

And I'm Brian Christman.

0:19.4

And this episode of Comic Geek Speak is sponsored by

0:22.7

highgradecomics.com. If you're looking for back issues and you want to know that you're going to get

0:29.3

good copies that are graded the way that you expect them to be graded. So if say you want a very good issue copy of something and you order it, when it shows up at your house, you want it to be very good.

0:44.1

Well, that's the thing that high-grade comic specializes in.

0:47.8

They're no BS kind of grader.

0:50.0

You get what you pay for.

0:51.8

They're very honest and they're very trustworthy.

1:13.6

And they have a huge selection, and they have some really nice stuff. I was just kind of looking at their selection of Silver Age Batman, some of the early, early stuff. You know, it's actually a little cheaper than I thought. Like issue 126, 127, 128, very goods for like 75, 80 bucks.

1:16.0

It doesn't seem outrageous for a comic that's that old.

1:21.2

And he's very specific about any defects. I mean, you know, like date stamps, Watermark, Scream. He goes into like really good detail on that. So you know, you know what you're getting

1:24.3

absolutely with that. Yeah. Well, yeah well here's one now this is interesting

1:27.5

uh batman number 129 says cream off white pages fine to ver to no fine minus to fine 110 bucks

1:38.3

so that issue must be a little more special that i believe has a robin origin and also a Batwoman somewhat bondage cover. She's on a

1:47.5

spinning wheel, I believe, on the cover of that issue. Oh, bad woman in bondage. Yeah, there she is.

1:54.8

Look at that. Oh, the crazies, 50s and 60s. So anyway, so go on over to highgradecomics.com to fill in those holes in your back

2:06.0

issue. If you're, if you already have full runs and you're trying to get better copies of

2:10.2

those full runs and all that kind of jazz, you can go there. And if you mention that you're

2:15.7

a CGS listener, you'll get free shipping on your first three orders,

2:20.1

and that's for people in the U.S. If you're outside of the U.S., then you'll get $10 off your shipping,

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