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Prez, DC Comics, 2016
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Playboy Book Club advertisement, June 1980
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Book Review: Warlord's World
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Spock lookalike contest, 1967
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An Ultimate Alchemist
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An actual issue of 2000 AD (Prog 449, December 1985)
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The Inhumans graphic novel, 1988
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Two Enemies by Trillo and Salinas
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At McKay's Books
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Robo Hunter: Verdus
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My Sweet Summer Suite
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Book Review: Thieves' World
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Junk food from Ollie's
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