Alter Ego Magazine #122 Very Fine (8.0) [TwoMorrows]

Alter Ego is a final, flag-waving salute to the Comics Buyer's Guide! There was no CBG #1700 - but if there had been, this is what it might've looked like! History and remembrances from Alan Light and Murray Bishoff re: the original The Buyer's Guide for Comics Fandom; Maggie Thompson and Brent Frankenhoff on CBG; plus 'final' columns by CBG stars Mark Evanier, Tony Isabella, Peter David, Fred Hembeck, John Lustig, and classic art by Don Newton, Mike Vosburg, Jack Kirby, Mike Nasser, and many more! Plus: Fandom before TBG - Bill Schelly's overview of comics adzines prior to the dawn's early Alan Light; Bountiful Reminisces of TBG & CBG - 15 short memoirs by Brent Frankenhoff, Terry Beatty, Stephan Friedt, Russ Maheras, Fred Hembeck, John Lustig, Bob Ingersoll, Batton Lash, Mark Evanier, Cliff Biggers, Ward Batty, Andrew ("Captain Comics") Smith, Charles R. Rutledge, R.C. Harvey & Johnny Lowe; Mr. Monster's Comic Crypt Buyer's Guide Scrapbook - Michael T. Gilbert relates his own sojourn with both incarnations of the long-lived adzine; Fawcett Collectors of America - P.C. Hamerlinck presents tributes to -- and a hilarious story by -- TBG's Alan Jim Hanley. Cover features the original cover art for TBG #1 by John Fantucchio, in color for the first time.