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Re: dust jackets - since I work in the rare book trade, "I know this one!" :-)  Although dust jackets originally protected the books (circa 1890-1920), ever since about the publication of "The Great Gatsby" they have become primarily advertising tools -- i.e., they are there to get you to pick up a book at the bookstore and say, "Ooh, this looks cool!"&...

Heroes4Heroes.com is a charity that accepts (preferably recent) comic books for soliders abroad.  No, I am not a paid endorser -- but I have sent them several shipments of books I've read and decided I don't want to keep. Also, I am starting to narrow the focus of what I buy (much less what I save) to a few specific characters (in my case, the Superman family).

Never having seen the Batman TAS I can't weigh in on the great debate of "homage and/or reinvention," but I will say that first installment was my favorite on the whole disc.  I think Batman is such a pop culture icon that anyone who was "uninitiated" watching this story would immediately figure out that we had a multiple p.o.v., "blind men touching the elephant&q...

It won't fix the mess that the main continuity Supergirl currently is, but don't forget that Johnny DC has a Supergirl title coming down the pike in which Kara really is a girl -- ie., just eight years old, so hopefully none of the sex kitten stuff we've been seeing -- and is aimed at young readers.  Should be fun.  I plan to read it with my son, who will soon be seven -- and hopefull...

I've only been reading and collecting comics for a little over a year and am already running into storage issues!  My suggestion for getting rid of unwanted *recent* comics is to box them up and ship them off to Heroes4Heroes,com -- they make "Care packages" of comics for our troops serving overseas.  Or, you may find a quicker local option: for example, my church regularly ...