 I think we should be coming in live. Good morning everyone. This is Chishol. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another live stream. Today, today is April 26th, 2021, and we're doing a comic book reading live stream. This is, I don't know what set this is, but we started off with five. We did one reading already with Superman number 37 from 1945, I believe, and we got four more to choose from for today's reading. I thought about introducing some of the other ones that we have on the sidelines, but I think we're going to wait until we knock off a couple more of these or maybe all of these and then introduce a new set. Aside from that, we've done a lot of these. A lot of them live at a lot more, I believe, as of right now that we're prerecorded, that we started doing comic book readings back in. I don't know what we started. 2014, 15, 13, 12, maybe 2012. I think maybe 2000 and maybe even earlier. I can't remember now anyway. We've done a lot of these and we've had a phenomenal time doing them. We've spanned golden age, 1940s basically, all the way to the present, and we've got a nice sapling here today as well. We've got golden age, silver age, modern age with X-Men, first appearance, first floppy appearance, I guess, or series appearance of Gambit, and a recent book from Vault Comics. Aside from that, while we wait for people to roll in to the live stream as notifications to go out, again, if you want to know what this work is about, I am, I am on Patreon, patreon.com forward slash chico, c-h-y-c-h-o. You can follow the work on Patreon if you want to get a feeling of everything that we are sharing, everything that we're creating. How could Barry, how are you doing? Doing well, brother. I've been looking forward to this. We've had a lot of heavy stuff going on in our live streams and the world in general, so it's nice to do a comic book reading. Cheryl, hello, hello. Do you need help with a poll? Possibly. Cheryl, if you can't do it, no worries. I can run it. I can enter it. I'll just reach over and do it. It should be fine. We only have four books today, so do whatever you need to do, Cheryl. We're good. We're good. Hopefully you can just listen in the background. Malatras, too. How are you doing? Cheers, cheers. Higgins, hello, hello. Welcome, welcome back to the live stream, Felix. How's it going? You show pretty good feelings. Doing well, Elder God. How's life? Crack sniff sniff. Do I smell comics? Indeed you do. Good afternoon to you, Crack. Winnipeg, three hours ahead, so you're 1.30. No, two hours ahead. What am I saying? Two hours ahead? I think you're two hours ahead of me. 12.30. 12.30. Bojo Master, hello, hello. Hope you're doing well, Brando. It's good morning, good morning. I am only on here for a bit. Have a great stream. Thank you very much, Brando. We plan on it. Nice chill reading. Yeah, two hours ahead of me. 12.30 here in the peg in the peg. I have a lot, it's surprisingly weird. Like, there's a lot of Winnipeggers in the West Coast, in Vancouver specifically. A lot of people from Winnipeg make their way to the West Coast. I don't know why. I have some really good friends from Winnipeg. I have some really good friends from Winnipeg. Felix, it's 6.30 p.m. in England. Nice. Good time to do a comic book reading. Alcobarri, 1.30 in Cleveland. 11.30 in New Mexico. Nice, nice. So we've got one hour ahead, two hours ahead, three hours ahead, and eight hours ahead, eight hours ahead in England. Crack really, eh? Maybe I know them, maybe. That's what a lot of people, that's the one of the going joke that goes around in Canada. Whenever you go to the states, if you meet, you tell people that you're from Canada and go, oh, I know, I have a friend in Canada. You might know them. Like, what? There's like 33 million people here, man. Funny, funny, funny. Gang, for those of you that are supporting this work on Patreon, thank you very much for the support. I very, very much appreciate it. And gang, we are streaming on Twitch, twitch.tv, for those of you who are supporting this work on Twitch, thank you very much for the support, for the followers, for the likes, for the comments, or comments, for the coming alternate live streams, for the bids, for the points, for participating in the discussion, and mods for taking care of business. Crack, exactly, Chicho. Bojo Master, we're in future, the sun, moon, light, light, Vermont, moon, moonlight in Vermont. How are you doing? Hello from Vermont. First time catching a live stream. Welcome, welcome to our live stream. I hope you enjoy it. You picked a nice one, man. The comic book streams are nice and show. We'll do a little discussion at the beginning, read a comic book, do an outro, we're done. We're sampling some amazing art, amazing storytelling. Hopefully anyway, sometimes they're a little sketchy, but fun, fun time. Alligator 33 million people. That's all, that's all. I do an I'll see these live streams 30 minutes before we go live on Mines, VK, Gab, and Parler. And we do have a Discord page. You can come to our Twitch channel anytime you want, and in the chat, type in exclamation mark, social, and all the links will pop up here. Okay, thank you for the follow, Almighty01. And at the bottom there, there'll be a Discord link where we do have a server where there's a few hundred people sharing information, sharing content, talking, getting advice, giving advice. For live streams where we don't have any visuals, you can follow the podcast as audio, as a podcast on SoundCloud.com forward slash Chico, C-H-Y-C-H-O. And those podcasts should be available in your favorite podcasting platform, including Spotify and iTunes. Huckleberry, Moonlight, Moonlight, Moonlight, Light in Vermont. I love Vermont. I drove through the green mountains earlier this year, and it's a memory I'll look back on for the rest of my life. Awesome. I've heard it's beautiful. I've gone through Maine. I don't know if I've driven through Vermont. Come to Discord. We need warriors out of the cup. And we will be uploading this live stream, this reading to all four of our video sharing platforms. And the segment, the reading, I'm going to snip out of this full live stream, and it will be available, should stay on Twitch as well. So there's really five video sharing platforms we have now. But this live stream will go on SensorTube, will be on Bitchute, will be on Rumble, and will be on Odyssey. And gang, for those of you that are following the work on Odyssey or want to know where we're hosting a lot of our videos, right? I've done, I did the count yesterday. We have 1209, I think, videos on SensorTube that we've uploaded in the last 15 years or so. Last night I did a sync between Odyssey and SensorTube and YouTube. And Odyssey was able to transfer over 837, no, 832 of the videos from SensorTube to Odyssey. It was only able to transfer over the last 1000 videos that we've done. So the initial 200 videos that we uploaded are not there. I have to load those on manually. And Odyssey would not load on anything that was longer than two hours or over a certain size. So there was a, you know, there's 300, if I did the count correctly, 377 videos that are still on SensorTube that are not backed up on Odyssey. And maybe during the summer I'll get a chance to transfer most of those on there. But at some point, they will be backed up on Odyssey and hopefully on Rumble and Bitchute as well, since we're lessening our footprint on SensorTube. It is a second tier video sharing platform now. As far as, even though we have 33,000 followers on SensorTube, we're losing subscribers on a monthly basis now. We're not being promoted. YouTube is not sending out notifications. They are unsubscribing people to our channel. And I'm checking the comments. And yesterday I showed my partner out of 14 comments that were posted on SensorTube that were approved by SensorTube to be posted as comments on my videos. Half of them were porn fishing links. The other half were spam related to Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. So out of 14 comments that were posted, two of them were legit. 12 of them were just garbage. I had to go in there manually and delete them. So I apologize to everyone that's been following this work for 15, 16 plus years on SensorTube. But SensorTube is not a friendly place for independent content creators, people who are being authentic. We're not being paid by corporations. We're not. I'm not here pushing anyone else's agenda other than my beliefs, my loves. And if you want to follow everything that we are creating, there's a reason I have a presence on three other video hosting platforms. And there's a reason why I decided not to livestream on SensorTube. They're killing independent creators. So if you want to follow all this work, I highly, highly recommend following on the other platforms. And that being said, there's a handful of you that are still supporting this work on SensorTube through SensorTube membership and gang, thank you very much for the support. I do, do very much appreciate it. SensorTube is a dead horror as Elder God says. Huckleberry Chucho. Maine is incredible too. I drove through Vermont on the way there nice. Yeah, Maine was beautiful. And I drove through Maine in 1991. No, not in Maine. I drove through Maine in 1988. 1988. I drove through Maine. Beautiful. So peaceful. So peaceful. Crack. As soon as I upload a video, within a minute I get at least one spam call. Yeah, I'm getting like a few within first five minutes. It's garbage. And I'm a very small channel. Yeah. So frustrating. Crack, Cheryl says. Crack. It is a bit, it is a bit for sure, Chucho. Sorry, Cheryl. I just stay on top of it and block report the video. Yeah, that's what I'm doing too, but it's just taking more clicks. Like just imagine 12, 12 comments that are approved by SensorTube, right? Meanwhile, they, they, they block some of the real comments that are coming in, right? So 12 comments blocked on SensorTube, one click to report them, right? Remove them. One click to say it's a spam or explicit sexual stuff. So three clicks per minimum and then four because you have to load it up. So four clicks per spam or porn comment. Multiply that by whatever number you wish, however big your platform is on a daily basis. Why? Huckleberry, it's a damn shame. I found you through YouTube and it sucks that such a popular platform is making it so hard for new people to find your content. Yeah, but Huckleberry, what's going to happen is we talked about this in personal finance and investing. This is the peak of SensorTube. Actually, the peak occurred about, I'm assuming about six months ago or a year ago, right? SensorTube's market share is going to continue to drop and other platforms are going to get market share. Like just imagine owning 90% of the video hosting market on a disruptive innovation that is going to be around for decades to come and you drop the ball and you open up the platform for other video hosting sites to come and take your market share away. If you were, if that was your business, congratulations, you just failed as a business operator, right? Oh my god, I stopped my premium membership on SensorTube. I need freedom content indeed. Totally. She chose, especially for a channel like yours. That's a lot of work. It's too much work. Like my fingers, really, it's a lot of work. I need to stretch my fingers because I'm online, have a strong presence online. But now, keep in mind, I'm no longer just uploading to SensorTube. I'm uploading to three other sites. So all of those clicks as well. Click, click, click, click, click, copy, paste, copy, paste, click, click, click, set the parameters and all that jazz. It's time consuming. Unfortunate. Okay. Loads of people immigrating to Twitch through the over the last year, I think, yeah, Indeedcrack and other platforms and other platforms. And Rumble just recently, I noticed it, they're allowing for live streaming too. Sweetness, sweetness. And gang, don't forget, Free Assange, Free Assange, Free Assange. Julian Assange is a publisher and journalist that has been crucified for trying to bring transparency and accountability of power, of capitalist power to humanity. For more information, see wikileaks.org, defend.wikileaks.org, or Julian Assange and WikiLeaks playlist on SensorTube. That's SensorTube. Odyssey is a new video site for CEO Jeremy Kauffman. Sid was created to recapture some of the freedom and independence of the internet he grew up with. Elder God posting this quote. In internet where quote, anyone could speak and anyone could have a voice. Kauffman argued that since then the internet has become very corporate with a small number of companies controlling the flow of information. Odyssey was created to provide an alternative and eventually more than that. Indeed. And there's a reason why the Securities Exchange Commission, Wall Street, central power is going after Odyssey library regarding their crypto, the way they're doing the incorporating blockchain technology with their platform. They're trying to kill Odyssey. If they're trying to kill a platform, if the sensors are trying to kill a platform as a creator, it's a good idea to support that platform as an independent creator. There's a reason why I synced my Odyssey channel with YouTube. There's two channels we have now on Odyssey. One of them is Chicho YouTube Sync. That contains the 832 videos that I just synced up from last night. So it contains mirrors, the ones we've uploaded in the last 90 videos on the Odyssey channel which is just called Chicho. And I'm going to be uploading all of these videos to that Odyssey channel Chicho. And if you want to have access to the previous videos is Chicho YouTube Sync on Odyssey. Gang, I'm going to take these things down and oops, took the wrong one down and that's the second time I've done that. I think I might need stronger glasses. Let's do some comic book reading. That's enough politics and technical difficulties. Gang, we got four comic books to choose from. Okay, let me give you the lowdown on this. And we're going to run a poll. Elegant, are you on mobile? It's difficult for you to run polls on mobile. So I'm going to set up the poll as soon as I tell you guys what these are. This book is from Vault Comics. I Walk With Monsters. It came out last year, 2020. Okay, it came out in November 2020. It's written by Paul Cornell. He's from the UK, I believe. And he's written stuff for like Doctor Who and a lot of British impossible. I'll do it. I'll do it. No worries. It's impossible. It's impossible. He's done a lot of writing for British television series. Not all of us are making the answers. And the artwork is by Sally Cantarino. I couldn't run it. I pulled up my laptop. Are you serious? Okay, Cheryl. Awesome. Thank you very much. And the artwork is by Sally Cantarino. She's from New Jersey. And the colors is by Dear Bla Kelly. And she's based in Dublin. Okay, so this is as independent as it gets in regards to comic books and is pretty international. Artist, United States, writer, UK, colors, Dublin, and both Kelly and Sally. Kelly is the last name, but Sally and Dear Bla. They do other types of work as well, just like the writer Paul. So it should be a pretty interesting read. Our next option is Uncanny X-Band number 266. Some people consider this to be the first appearance of Gambit. Some people consider Uncanny X-Band annual number 14 to be the first appearance of Gambit. Uncanny X-Band number 14, annual number 14 came out a month before this came out. However, in terms of timeline, this occurs before that one. Okay, so Ronnie, welcome to the live stream. So timeline-wise, this predates Uncanny X-Band annual number 14, but Uncanny X-Band 91 over 14 came out a month before this one came out. So for the longest time, this was considered to be the first appearance and it still is, but the price of the Uncanny X-Band number 14 annual is kicking up big time. You could have got it for a lot cheaper a couple of years ago, five years ago, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, right? And this is written by magic, master, by one of the greatest writers in comic book history, Chris Claremont, right? And Gambit was created by Chris Claremont and Jim Lee. Okay, the cover for this is done by Andy Kubert. Andy Kubert, I am not pronouncing that right. Andy Kubert. Okay, the artwork for this is done by Mike Collins, Inks is by Joel Rubinstein, Colors is Brad, Brad Vankata. Okay, and letters by Pat Broso and Tom Obrowski. Brutalizing the names here again. Brutalizing the names. Ronnie, not sure if you were asked this before, but are you more of a Marvel fan? Or I'm more of an independent brother. Ronnie, I love Valiant, I collect everything Valiant, but I buy a lot of independence. Most of my buys are independence. Okay, my pull list anyway, on a weekly basis. Back issue wise, I'm all over the place. I'm all over the place. Huckleberry, I used to love Gambit as a kid. My friend and I used to practice throwing playing cards in the bathroom when I was in elementary school. Awesome, awesome. Did you put that kinetic energy in there to go pop, make them pop? Ronnie, I like Gambit in the Wolverine movie. Yeah, I see. Crack. Independent small press all the way. Yeah, me and Crack have sort of the same taste in regard. If you've been in the comic book collecting business for a while, officiate out of for a while, you're collecting a lot of independence. A lot of independence. Okay, and here's one of them. One of the great comic books companies from they start off in the golden age of comics, EC Comics. Okay, and this is impact number three. Oh yeah, by the way, as far as the date goes, this is 2020. This was the date for this is 1990. Okay, impact is nine from 1955. And it's one of the first, I believe it's the second issue in the impact series, which was categorized as approved by the comic code authority, right? And EC Comics, these guys here, these guys were magic. However, unfortunately, censorship destroyed the company and the only thing that really remained from them was mad comics. But they were producing some amazing comic books, some of the best comic books from the golden age of comics. Okay, were EC Comics and then censorship kicked in. And unfortunately, they went under, right, or not under, but they have to stop producing a lot of their comic books. And the people that have worked on this is Al Feldstein, Reed Crandall, Mary Severn, Jack Davis, Jack Kim, and I'm just Graham Ingalls. It's just the who's all and be all of golden age of comics, a lot of them, right? Turn up to 2004. Hi, Chichou. Glad I finally able to, glad to finally, I hope I can read better about her comic today than this. Glad to finally be able to join the live stream instead of watching everything after the fact of on Censorship. Also, I wonder how do you choose which comics to buy? Are they all series you know and enjoy? No, no. I'm only just starting out and have been buying series I know I like in other mediums such as film and video games as well as ones with cool covers. To answer your question, turn up. For sure, I buy things that I love that I know, right? I did a buy gang. There's a comic book coming as a CGC graded book. And when I show it to you, you'll know what it is. And I bought this one coming in because I loved it. Okay, so I buy things that I love, all right? However, when I go to buy things, I check the seller on eBay or I look at the previews, previews order catalog that comes out every month. So I go through the whole thing every, every day, not every day, every month, right? And I order things, I pull out the pages and I go to my local comic shop store where I have my pull list. And you know, I tell them, okay, can you order this for me? Can you order this for me? And I read the description. So I do that. I also do a lot of research online, right? And if I see something that really intrigues me, then I go for it. Golden age comics, they're a buy. Silver age comics, they're a buy. Like for me, every genre is a buy. And depending on the genre and the date, which category of comics they're in, I set a certain maximum price that I'm willing to pay for some stuff, right? Most of my expensive buys are golden age comics, golden age or silver age key comics. And I do buy some modern age key comics. One of the book coming today, not today, the last buy that's coming, coming, it's on its way here is a modern age comic as a key comic. Okay. And to answer your question, let me give you show you this comic book I bought because it intrigued me. I wanted it as a historical reference, right? Why? This is, I was buying from a seller, right, that we've bought before. I was going to get books from him, right? Books that I knew and some stuff that I found that I said, okay, this is pretty cool, I'll buy this. And this is one of the ones that I was bidding on that I ended up getting. I believe I didn't put the great and stuff on here too bad. I need to do that. But we ended up buying this one, I believe, for $10, T-Man. And the reason, and my bid for this was a lot higher, like really a lot higher, because I really wanted this book. The reason I wanted this book was because, take a look at this, January 3rd, and this T-Man came out in 1919. Where's T-Man? 1952, so it's a golden age comic. T-Man, January 1952, number three. And this is the reason I really wanted this book, right? Death Trap in Iran, right? So there's a lot of rhetoric, a lot of saber-rattling regarding politics with Iran and stuff. And comic books have been used as propaganda since their inception really, right? And I was born in Iran. So I really wanted this comic book. I want to see what type of propaganda is in here, right? Pulsating Pete Trask thriller, and Pete Trask is like T-Man. And take a look at this thing. Now, if you're from the Middle East or Asia, you know that Iranians, you know, they don't put the... This is more Turkish, not Iranian. So it's an interesting historical piece for me, okay? So I'm all over the place with this. Ronnie, is it safe? You might say we just have a good taste, crack. We might say we just have a good taste within the Bending Comics. Yeah. Ronnie, it's safe to assume collecting comics is your favorite hobby. Is it? It is. I put a lot of time and effort into it. I do love it. I do love it. These are the four books we got, gay. I'm a Terminator 1986 on Discord. Ah, okay, awesome. Awesome, Terminator. Turn the paytower. These are the books we got, gang. T-Man. That's an awesome cover. Thanks for answering my question. That was really interesting. And hopefully, I'm eager to learn more about the... Yeah, and I end up doing a lot of research, by the way. Especially, one thing that happened when I started doing these readings and just creating this comic book content, I was doing a fair bit of research before because it's just... I love the hobby, but I started reading more and more about it because I wanted to know more. It's the way I got into teaching mathematics, right? I started teaching mathematics because I love mathematics. I didn't want to forget my mathematics. And then people would start asking me questions and to find answers for them, I dug down into the realm of mathematics more. So, I learned more. I used it as a catalyst to teach myself more. Same with the comic books. As soon as I started uploading my videos online regarding comic books, a lot of questions, a lot of people got interested. And doing the readings, I would do research. And when I'm buying stuff, I'm looking at things up. So, it's just been a win-win-win-win-win-win for me, right? Huckleberry. Wow. A comic book about Iran right before everything that went down in 1954, 1952, indeed. And that's Mozhadek. The CIA and the UK conducted a coup and overthrew the democratically elected government in Iran in 1954 with Mozhadek, right? And the reason they overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran and installed a Shah, a brutal dictator, right? A democratically popular person elected in Iran. The reason they installed them was because Mozhadek, the government of Iran, nationalized the oil and said that Iran's oil revenues belong to Iranians, right? And then the CIA came to overthrow them. And we get, look at this, from 1952, right? And keep this in perspective again. There's a lot of media that people are consuming right now that is full of propaganda that the centralized powers in the West are trying to, the wars that they are trying to start again, right? That includes TVs, movies, comic books, books, music, art. There's a lot of propaganda being pushed on the general population regarding the next wars. If you're paying attention, you'll know where they are. And that directly relates to investing in personal finance, because if you're smart about it, you'll protect yourself and your family, right? Ronnie, that's awesome. Crack, well, I think it's a no-brainer than as far as choice is concerned. We need to read T-Man. Hilarious. Uncle Bird, big US Treasury Department stamp on the front, does it? There is too. Check this out. In this issue, in this issue, an authentic case based on the files of the US Treasury Department, right? And we've done propaganda readings before in our comic book readings, right? So it's pretty cool. It's pretty cool. It makes you smarter. It makes you more aware of what's going on right now. Well, T-Man, oh my God, the poll is ready. Cheryl, I'm just catching up with the chat. Gang, I'm going to skip the chat. Let's do the poll, Cheryl. Let's get into the reading gang. We're already half an hour in. Huckleberry, G-Chart manufacturing consent by Chomsky is a great study of this. Yeah. If you pay attention, you see it all the time. What's father was born. Just look at the Jack Ryan series on Amazon about Venezuela. Oh, yeah, really? Oh man. I got to take a look at that. And I call him G-Man. Fear and tromboning. Tromboning. And tromboning. At this point, you can pretty much take the opposing view of whatever the U.S. is saying about the Middle East. You'll be right. In the gang, the poll is going. We got, I walk with monsters. We got T-Man with one vote, right? And the rest of these three are sitting at zero right now. So cast your votes if you want to know. Cast your votes if you want to do a reading. I walk with monsters, guess one vote. Oh, here we go. I'm Canny X-Man. First appearance of G-Man gets one vote. We're slow off the gang. There's only two minutes of voting gang. So pick your read. Pick your read. T-Man gets another vote. Two votes for T-Man. Three votes for T-Man. Oh, after that discussion regarding propaganda. Oh, here comes G-Man. Here comes G-Man with two votes. Oh, T-Man is going with four votes. Take a look at this. Take a look at this. T-Man with four votes. Honestly, you can do that with just about anything for a policy. In these four votes for T-Man, we're about halfway through. We got about a minute left. Okay, gang. Come on, T-Man. Come on, boy. Fun. We got four votes for T-Man. We got five votes for T-Man. Five votes for T-Man. Two votes for uncanny X-Man number 266. First full appearance of Gambit and one vote for I Walk With Monsters. Poor impact is sitting there with no votes. T-Man is a six-votes gang. Unless something magical happens and a lot of Gambit or I Walk With Monsters fans come along, we're going to be doing a little bit of propaganda reading from the golden age of comics two years pre overthrow of a democratically elected government in Iran by MI6 and the CIA. Okay, we got about 10 seconds left. Six votes, two votes, one vote. Poor impact is sitting at zero. And unless, unless, unless we got T-Man, we're going to read T-Man. Fossfress in 1983. Thank you very much for the tier one sub. Awesome. Awesome. Gang. Respect. Huge respect to impact. Gang. Huge respect to impact. This comic right here. This comic right here. And this is one of my favorite covers. Really. Candy, cigarettes, lemonade, 15 cents. And you got a little lady setting up a lemonade stand right in front of a guy selling lemonade for 15 cents. And she's selling big glasses for five cents and small glasses for three cents. That's what you call entrepreneurship. Right? Awesome. I love this cover. I love it. Really. It's beautiful. I really like it. Fun, fun, fun. Okay, okay. So, gang. Come on, T-Man. Come on, boy. Gang. So, we're going to get into this reading. Let's do this. Let's do this. I'm going to turn off notifications. I'm going to turn off the chat. We'll come back after this reading and sort of do an outro and talk about the reading if we want. Right? And let me find our chat. Here's the notifications turned off. Chat turned off. And I'm going to take down this video right here. So, we don't have any interruption in terms of the reading. I'll see you guys after the reading gang. Have a sip of tea. Hi, everyone. This is Chih-Chou. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another comic book we're reading. Today is, what is the date today? Today is April 26, 2021. And we're doing a live stream on Twitch where the chat basically decided out of four books that we wanted to read T-Man from 1952 from Quality Comics. Okay. And this is considered to be the golden age of comics. And we just recently bought this a few months ago. Maybe two, three, four months ago. And we got a great deal on it. We paid, I believe, like $10 for it. I forget what the grade for this is. It was a low grade, I believe, but we'll take a look at the grade on it. Okay. And it's a beautiful cover. The cover is very nicely intact. Let me take this out so we don't get the sheen off the Mylar and then I have it in. Take off the tape so it doesn't snag on the comic when we pull it out. I usually always take off the tape. I mean, the beauty of this thing is there's nothing, the cover is fully intact. And let's check it out. It might be, oh, it's in pretty good shape. This looks beautiful, gang. Beautiful. And like I said, this is T-Man number three. It came out in January 1952. Okay. Cover is by Reed Crandall. Okay. And the pencils, the inside pencils are by Edmund Goode. Okay. And Edmund Goode was, it was pretty prolific, I believe, in the Golden Age of comics. Okay. And who's the other person? Edmund Goode, 20th century. Let me see what I got written up here. It was a 20th century Canadian illustrator. Right. And that's one of the reasons which I found this cool as well. He was a Canadian artist. Okay. And co-author of more than a dozen comic books during the Golden Age of comics. And there's another person that's worked on this, which is Harry Anderson. And Harry Anderson, again, was present during the Golden Age of comics, but he basically decided not to do any more comics. I believe in the mid-1950s. Okay. And Irving Steinberg has some work in this as well. But let's take a look at this. There isn't, I couldn't figure out who did the script for this, the writing for this. In terms of grade for this, right now, this looks very damn good, very good, very good indeed. And this would be more of a mid-grade. Okay. In this issue, an authentic case based on the files of the U.S. Treasury Department. And at the beginning of the live stream, there's a little bit of chunk missing here. Take a look. See that. Right. See that. And at the beginning of this live stream with chat, we mentioned that this book came out in 1952 and the CIA, MI6 backed coup of a democratically elected government in Iran, where they installed a brutal dictatorship in Iran, took place in 1954, when the CIA and MI6 were basically overthrew the democratically elected government of Mosaic and installed the Shah. And this is from quality comics. Right. So this comic came out two years before that overthrow took place. Right. And one thing we noted is that in popular culture, in media, usually central governments, central power ends up using a lot of different platforms to push an agenda where they try to program, brainwash their citizens into supporting certain wars and certain covert operations where they're destabilizing other parts of the world. And this is, as far as I'm concerned, a very much related to that. Right. And that's that occurs in the golden age of comics, silver age of comics, bronze, copper, modern age of comics, that's taking place right now as well. Not just through comic books, but through television series, music, movies, newspapers, everywhere in our society, you will find propaganda, death trap in Iran, pulsating, Pete Trusk thriller. Right. And those of you that know anything about Iran, you'll know that this isn't really Iranian headgear. This is a more Turkish style of headgear, but we haven't had read the story. Maybe the story begins in Turkey and continues in Iran, how to fix any part of any car. Cool. Nice. Ignition, oil filter, generator, carburetor, motors, auto repair manual. Very cool. Very cool. I don't think we've seen an auto repair manual. Right. Free seven day trial. They love free seven day trial. So basically learn how to become a mechanic covers every job on every car built from 1935 through 1951. Very cool. Remember, this came out in 1952. Right. If you're looking for a manual that does this now for every car that's created for how long is this? 20 minus four. So for 16 years, I think you would need, you would need, I don't know what you would need. And this is a very nice copy. Very nice copy. Right. Very nice copy. So I was mistaken. I didn't pay a low grade. I might have paid a very low grade price for this, but this is definitely not low grade. This is mid grade. Easy. Right. So let's have a read through this. Okay. And just so you know, the people that have worked on this, the cover is done by Reed Crandall. Beautiful cover, by the way. Beautiful cover. Okay. The, their stories, the pencils are done by Edmund, Edmund Good, inks by Joe Kurt, legendary golden age artists. Edmund Good has done work in this. Harry Anderson has done work in this and Irvin Steinberg has done work in this. Let's look at the, usually we're taking a look at the advertisement on the back, back of the front cover. And we're getting a raid from Professor EXP welcome raid on Twitch. 10th anniversary special featuring guaranteed quality rings and watches. Free 10 day trial. There's a lot of free 10 day trials here. Interesting. What's the price on some of these? Genuine imported Swiss ladies watch, special 8.95. Beautiful feminine with silk cord brand jeweled price. Very cool. And there's, there's a, there's a lot of people out there that collect watches as well. And some of those watches are pretty expensive. Let's look at the fine, read the fine print here again. Let's see what this is all about. Team and January 1952. Number three published by monthly by comic magazines. 163 Pratt Street, Mary, Mary, then Connecticut, Maryland, Connecticut, executive offices, 578 Summer Street, Stamford, Connecticut, Everett M. Arnold, General Manager, Alfred, Greenit, editor, Richard Arnold, associate editor, yearly publications, six copies, 90 cents, foreign $1.50, applications for entry, a second class matter pending at the post office at Mary, then Connecticut under the act of March 3rd, 1879. The characters and events pictured, pictured here in are entirely fictitious. The publisher access no responsibility for unsolicited materials, editors and advertise editorial and advertising offices, 347 Madison Avenue. Wow, it's Madison Avenue, New York, 17 New York, copyright 1951 by comic magazines printed in the USA. Very cool, very cool. Is this cut? No, the cover is very nicely intact. This is a really nice great copy gang. I like it. I like it. Very good, very good. Gang, should we just start reading? Let's start reading. We're not even going to flip through this. There is a handful of stories here, I believe, so let's just go through. There might be two to three stories here. Okay, and I've never read a T-Man comic book. This is my first T-Man comic book as far as I can recollect in my collection, so very cool. T-Man, I have to say. You think this is trouble? Ha, just stick around and see the things that can happen to an innocent T-Man when his back is turned. With Britain and Russia scrambling for control of Iran's oil fields, anything could happen and I thought I was ready, but even with my crazy experiences, I'd never figured on finding myself. Troubles double. It's actually talking about the politics of the time. Control over Iran's oil. And at the time, gang, Britain had control of Iran's oil. Okay, just so you know, in the as-shall hotel near Iran's great oil fields, a week of secret diplomatic meetings draws to a close. Then we are agreed on the terms of a treaty, Mir Reza. We are agreed, agreed, Effendi. The British and Americans may have the exclusive rights of our oil production. I sign because you have proved yourself friends of Iran. You respect our laws and customs as others do not. He says. After all, Mir Reza, are we not seeking to promote the dignity of all mankind? That is the way a free world would have it. Either the British or the Americans says that. Welcome to Big Cigar, he is. He's got a cigar in his hand right there. Big fat cat. But hopefully it's a Cuban cigar. Suddenly, hold it mop top. I'll take that scrap of paper. What, who are you? Trask is the name. Trump Pete Trask, U.S. Treasury Department. My orders are to break this up. But good. Man, are you insane? Has your government gone mad? He says. Just smart. Why should we split oil when we can bring a few troops and take it all? Stick around, Bob. I've got a present for you. Whoa. Already loving this comic. Crazy. What the? Here, rag head. Take this little fellow home and barbeque him for breakfast. What a peg. The insult beyond. All insults to a Muslim. I think they spelled Muslim wrong. Oh my god. Lunatic madman. Wait until your government slaps him in the face. Take it up with Washington, kiddo. And see how far you get. Whoa. Oh my god. This is the most intense page ever. Wait a second. But what was the deal? We are agreed, offended. The British and Americans may have the exclusive rights to our oil production. What is going on on this page? This is, wow. I need to collect this whole series. This is insane. Are you hurt, Sir Glenn? Mir Riza, you must not, you must not dishult the treaty. You must not dishult the treaty. What? Treaty infidel dogs. I'll sign my treaty with the Soviet. Be glad. I don't order your heads to fall for this insult. He's like tearing up the treaty. There were lots of things wrong. Where, there were, were lots of things went, lots of things wrong with what happened in Iran. But the chief, chief one was that I was 10,000 miles away the night it happened. Oh, okay. Let's check this out. Yo, look at that baby fight. Sam is doing some catching fish. Him, nice fish. Eat good with bacon. Just think five whole days with nothing to do with fish. Shh, shh, plane come, fly heap fast, heap low. What language is this guy speaking? It was an army jet and he was hot. He buzzed us twice and then let us have it. A message streamer, a message streamer. Oh no, there goes my fishing trip. So I'm assuming he's the real agent that this guy's pretending to be, right? Let's check this out. So that was that. I had no idea what was up, but I knew it was serious. U.S. Treasury Department, Pete. Imperative, you fly from, you fly Iran at once. World peace in balance. Contact Lacy, a brush off field office. Douglas chief. It was 28 miles to the nearest landing field. I made it in 26 minutes over a goat track. Anybody say Indian don't scare him crazy like fool. This Indian heaps scared. A day later, when we came in over, uh, Abra, Abra shot her. I still didn't know what lay behind my urgent summons. I hit for her field office by way of the hotel fuzz, uh, fawaz, to leave my bag suddenly. Huh? Hotel fawaz. So there you are. You two timing double crossing wolf. Oh, someone's been impersonating him. Look at this. Look at this, even with the ladies. Must be with the ladies. It is indeed. It's the lady in the cover. Oh, are you speaking to me? Gorgeous. Ha, I'm not speaking to Paul Revere, or Revere's horse. Your ears are too long, Pete Trask. Slap. Well, I'll be an art works uncle. I never saw that babe before in my life. He says, I pulled my jungle wits together and walk to our field office. Hello chief. What in blazes up now? Our numbers up if you can't straighten out a mess, Pete. Come on in and watch your step. It is he, the defiler of the faithful. That's the blighter who struck me. That's the blighter who struck me. My government demands his immediate arrest and trial. I'm assuming that's the British rep. Take it easy, boy. Did you, did you or didn't you attack these gentlemen in the hotel fawaz two nights ago? Are you nuts? Two nights ago, I was camping in the Rockies and I've got the mosquito bites to prove it. Then, for the first time, I got the whole cockeyed story, so far as our department knew it. So somebody's impersonating you, Pete, to insult our friends and block that oil treaty. He must be found. You're telling me the louse even muscled in on my love life and that's going too far, Pete says. It took a lot of talking, but we finally got what might be laughingly called chance. Just hold off until I find this egg, sir. You'll know which of us is which by his black eye. Very well. The Iranians, I'm assuming that's supposed to be Iranian guys. Iranians don't wear very seldom. Wow, no, I guess some do. Very well. You have 24 hours. Find this imposter, improve your fantastic story, and I will consider the treaty. 24 hours, he says. How generous can you get? Stop beefing. That's 24 hours more than I thought we'd get. Just get out and perform miracles. Find the lead somehow, he says. Pal, I've got a lead with a shape like Venus and a slap like a mule's kick. Be suing, be seeing, suing you, suing you, Pete says. At a time like this, he can think of girls. I could think of one girl, the one who might lead me to my deadly double. Thanks. She came out of the Hawas. If I can find her, she can tell me how she met the rat who pretended to be me. She's American, about five feet to blue eyes. But, Effendi, you asked about Miss Lorna Marci, only 10 minutes ago, and I told you then, room 412. Suddenly, I was cold all over. I say old chap, pushes the guy away. One side, Buster. This is life or death, he says. This was no time for a polite knock. I hit the door on a 412 with everything I had. That rat knows I'm in town, and knows she could spill his beans for him. If I'm too late, smack. Goes through the door. Look at this. Assassin's on. He's doubles right there. Nice. Look. Trask, get him quietly. You're welcome to try, he says. Strike quickly, Rasma. There must be no outcry. This will, oops. Let me take that before you cut yourself stupid. Aw, you grabbed his wrist. That's actually one thing you're supposed to do when you're a fight with a grabbed hand, I believe, that has the knife. Ah, my wrist. You heard what the boss told you. Smack. This'll keep you both quiet. One punch knockout. What's this about? Now, you imitation of a, oh, he's got a gun too. Wait, Mr. Trask. Trask, if you make one move, I will throw caution to the winds and destroy this dangerous witness. You win for the moment that the girl go hero. Do not, do no such thing, Vashil. Your bungling has caused enough trouble already. Oh, I wonder who this is. Who's this? Who's this? Well, well, Fidor Kogaav. So you're behind this cute trick. Exactly, Trask. The idea was born to me the day I saw Vashil and realized how he resembled you. I've been training him. Don't get muscle bound, Patty, your own back coggy. You couldn't fool anybody in the department. Naturally not. But after you and the girl vanish, he can insult Iran once more and our work will be done. I wonder which country he's supposed to be representing. My wonder. Wake up bungling dogs, sons of camels. Take these two to my headquarters and see that they utter no sound. A knife against the girl's throat should do it. Comrade, indeed the Russian say, Trask is a chivalrous fool who does not want her harmed. Don't mind me, but that's the nicest thing I ever heard said about a man, the girl says. Chin up, honey. Maybe you'll get a chance to uncork that slap on a better cheek. Oh, then I slapped the wrong man. I'm so confused, she says. Silence, bring them quiet quickly. While the hall is empty of prying eyes, he says. I'd wondered how Kovak, Kogav, figured to get us out of the hotel. It was a shock when I got the answer. In the elevator, you two, my headquarters are on the top floor and do not expect help. My country quietly bought the Fawa's hotel some time ago and my men are everywhere, he says. There was a sticky stick holding the spring gate of the elevator open. My urge to kick some something got too strong to resist, so I kicked. There was a tight spring on that gate and it caught Kogav neatly. Oh, it helped. Oh, if I only had a custard pie, she says. This is like the old school elevators, it was a sliding door in front. Never mind, honey, this is the same idea. Only smearer, smearer. Kogav was too sore to be cautious now. Outside, a gun opened up and I went into a power dive too fast to enjoy the scenery. Bang, bang. Oh, the girl's skirt being up. Hang on, kitten. Here we go. Eek. Oh, that's the elevator. See the little handle? So he's pushing the elevator down real fast. We hit the main floor and started out. Run for the street and, ew, Kogav must have slid down the banister. Oh, is he firing a gun? I think he's firing a gun. Bang. There are telephones in the halls. We would call, we would call the desk. We shot back to the third floor and burst out. Can we start a fire or something to draw them off? Afraid to pet? This is a legitimate hotel. We might trap all folks or children. Come on. Back into the elevator. Quick. Pizzas. Kill them. Don't let them escape. Bang. You're stopping between floors, Mr. Trask. Peat to you, sugar. Peat to you, sugar. And this is our only hope. They have enough goons to cover every floor in this fully trapped. Come on. I've jammed controls. So the cage is locked here. Locked there. I hope this is the only way out. I'm with you to the bitter end, Peat, she says. Quiet now. If they don't hear the elevator moving, they won't know where we are. I've got a slim, I've got a slim gamble in mind, he says. I can climb. You go ahead, she says. I'm gambling that Kogov left my double vestial to guard the fourth floor with only five slugs in my gun. I'm with you. I can bite and kick a scratch, she says. They're about to open it up. The door to the fourth floor from the elevator shaft. That was a pretty good hunch on him. Our Lady Luck was still riding with her favorite son. The guy's still smoking. Brother, I wish I had time to enjoy this. Smack. It's beautiful, Peat. The girl's sharing him on. Someone's coming up the stairs. Quick. Fall down and keep still. Play it the way I deal the cards. Karma, Kogov, quickly. I have captured the filthy spies. Good work, Vashil. We will take no more chances. We'll kill them and throw their bodies down the elevator shaft, he says. You wouldn't want to bet on that, wouldn't you, fatty? Ugh. You're trash. Kogov started to swear and I slapped his face absentmindedly for getting the 45 automatic in my hand. Smack. Sit down and shut up, screwball arc. The other one, I'll kill. Oh, grab his gun, Lorna. Look at this. Look out, Pete. Nice work, kitten. There was a scattered fuselage of shots from below and then the chief came galloping to the rescue. Where were you when I really needed you, Pete says? Pete, you're okay. We were trying to get in. The rats had the doors barricaded when the shooting started. Kicks the gun. Stop mourning, Vashil. Back in Russia, you'd be shot for getting messed up with a girl when you were on the job. I hope they send them back. The slimy rat, she says. Kicks her. Mereza came, saw and apologized. An oil treaty was signed. Then and there. Mr. Trask, I owe you an apology if there's anything my country can do for you. Well now, you mention it. Sir, there might be, he says. What does he want? Stand by to phone your best hospital. I'm about to try to kiss a lady who saved my life, but I know from experience what kind of slap she can hand out. What a crazy story. That first page was insane and the whole premise of this thing, right? And this is present day politics right now. Wow, wow, wow. Crazy, crazy. Let's read the second story again. Let's read the second story. Let's see who they're trash talking now. Let's check this out. The case of the narcotics smuggler. Look at this, look at this. The case of the narcotics smuggler. A true case adapted from the files of the U.S. Treasury Department. Indeed, indeed. Let's see what this is about. If you want action, excitement, danger, become a U.S. Treasury agent, the tea man goes everywhere, does everything and all too often, dances at his side, but you have to be a man of versatile talents and no fear to get on this force. Follow the thrill packed adventures of narcotic agent Oscar. Oscar W. Polkacz as he hurdles into the ambush at Woodbine. Check. In May of 1947, customs officers learned of a huge narcotics ring operating in Calexo on O.N. A Calexo on the border. I was reading that O.N. as in Ontario. I'm going Calexo. Calexo on the border. Calexo on the border. Border bar. Real club. Heading the ring was dapper Jesus de Mara. Self-styled Al Capone of Baja California. He's a big Hollywood narcotics buyer. Want. Watch him. Maybe we can unload something on him. See Jesus. But if we do, we must shoot the competition. They are all after him. Posing as the big Hollywood buyer was Oscar W. Polkacz, top-notch narcotics agent. As you see, I have the cash for the opium I ordered, he says. Buena. It is good. The delivery will be made on schedule, senior. But Polkacz's order of opium was seized by custom officers as it was being delivered from Mexico. Eva Perez Cruz, your under arrest for transportation of narcotics. No, no. I tell you, I know nothing about that opium in my car. It's funny. Suspicious of Polkacz. The smugglers made many false appointments to test him. Coyote Spring, the fifth time they've left me holding the sack. Checking me, of course, he says. Finally, on June 22nd, the break came. So they're going to deliver 135 tail cans of opium to meet tonight at Woodbine Check. That's right, Woodbine Check. This may be it, boys. So get over here fast. Early that evening in a garage, Polkacz and other customs men made plans. Doubt. They'll be watching. So I've got to go. Go it alone, boys. That's suicide, Oscar. I say a couple of us will ride in the back of your car and we'll send a couple of boys out to that old building a few hundred yards from the rendezvous. Maybe a good plan. I've got a funny hunch. That mob is up to something, he says. Oh, look at that. They're taking the seat out of the car. So they're going to hide down there. Covered with this blanket and suitcases, you'll look just like a pile of luggage. Only bad thing is we'll be blind till the action begins. Just after seven, Polkacz hit it for Woodbine Check and possible death. I ought to be there about now, he says. No, no, he's just driving. Woodbine Check is on the all-american canal, which is right on the border. A great spot for an ambush in case those dope peddlers have any idea. Three of them, armed to the teeth. Two, well, it's my first move. Lights up a cigarette. Buenos dias, senors. Did you bring the goods? We brought it. And you, senor, you brought the money? I think it's best if we put the stuff in the car, senor, uh, Demada. Then I'll pay you. As you say, senor. Sorry, Demada. We're taking over. Come out, boys, he says. Why, you, it's a double cross. Devils, I might have known it was a trick. Drop your gun, Demada. Or we'll drop you. It was a vivid duel in darkness. Zing, zing, zing, bang, bang. Down, boys. A couple of guns with rifles have joined the fight. Yeah, I thought I heard a 30 caliber slam. There they are. Karampa. It is good that Jesus had us come. I'll get one, bang, bang. But the rifle then spoke too soon. That'll stop your smuggling days for a while. Shoot some. The two customsmen who had hid in a nearby building joined the battle. Get down, Oscar. They'll riddle, riddle you. Glad you're here, boys. They must have suspected us from the first and laid an ambush. We'll never nab them this way. Let's spread out, flank them. I'll take the left. Zing, zing, zing. Yeah, one of those slugs stunned my ear. Oh, right top of the ear right there. Zing. He's dodging those bullets pretty good. Look at that, shots coming from everywhere. From the trajectory on that is coming from behind, from the side, from the front. Good thing they haven't got a Tommy gun. Zing, zing, zing. One of the smugglers appeared to welcome capture. Honest, senior. I never fired a shot. I surrender. But please, don't kill me. All right. I'll just snap the cuffs on you and take you back to the car. He's putting his handcuffs on him. A half hour later, the fight was over and only one man in custody. Three of them yelled so they must have been hit. Well, we might as well get back to town. At least we have the opium, he says. Later in Calexo, 10 bullet holes in the old crate in the car. And that's a hired car. Boy, will this cost you plenty. I take it snapshots the car. So, police chief, chief Juan Adarga got assassinated because he refused to give the smugglers safe conduct across the border. And they retaliated by machine gunning him. On July 2nd, 1947, two months after the battle, six of the smugglers were indicted, indicted. Did you get them all, Mr. Polkash? We believe at least two of them died of gunshots. Jesus Demera, the leader, got away and is still a fugitive. Breaking an narcotics ring is routine stuff with Oscar Polkash, T-Mab. We'll get Demera someday. The Treasury Department has long arms and lots of them. They call that Hydra. That's probably the most accurate description of the Treasury Department. It's Hydra. And for those of you that are following Marvel comics and stuff with Captain America and Winter Soldier and Falcon, Falcon Winter Soldier. What's this one? Let's check this out. That's cool. That's a gigantic clam. T-Mab. Let's see how many more stories there are. So, we got T-Mab. Let's read the description of this one. I think I got time for one more reading. And this is the center. It's really nicely intact. The staples. So, this is a very good copy. Like, better than very good. This is like 5, 5.5 grade. What does this subscription say? Like, the U.S. Marines, a treasury agent, is supposed to be ready for any emergency, on land or sea or in the air. That's okay with me as long as I've got a chance to hit back when the fight starts. But, deliver me from any more salt water shindigs that send me down under the briny, briny to face death in the deep. Death in the deep. Let's check this out. So, that's one story. Death in the deep. Oh, look at this. Black Hawk. Advertisement for Black Hawk. Nice. This is a very sought after comic series. Okay. You would have been smart to buy these. A great action. Magazine, alive with excitement. As timely as today's headline. Fast becoming the most popular comic magazine in America. On sale every month. What does that say? January issue. On sale October 24th. The mightiest adventures with the greatest heroes of them all. The Black Hawks. I don't know if that's from a cover. I'm assuming it would be one of the covers. The Deathly Hawks of Horror. What is this one? I think this is the last story. Let's read the description of this one. T-Man. Join the Treasury Department and see the world. Oh, sure. Off season. Down in the valleys of southern France. People were sweltering in the sun. And where was I? Where else but high up in the Alps? Alps Mountains. Freezing my neck off while a mob of very nasty foreign agents plotted to give me a quick freeze with hot lead. A quick freeze with hot lead. Let's see if this is the last story. If this is the last story, we're gonna read this. Yeah, let's read this one gang. The last story of the book. So we're skipping one story in this. Wow, look at this. They're tying a rope across from where he's skiing, right? Never do this to anyone. That would hurt. And I believe this is done by, the artwork is Irving, Irving Steinberg did the art for this one. It was late last October that the Legresse Geneva Express burst out of the Mancheral tunnel in the French Alps and hit a loosen rail on the 100 foot trestle over Charest Gorge. Mondeu. Oh, look at that. The result was a horror beyond description. Oh, no. 100 feet up in the air. I saw the wreckage about noon flying over it with Mack layered of our Soutenant Field Office. It wasn't pretty. And somewhere down there, Pete, is Vito Fiora, our Naples agent with a briefcase full of data hot enough to blow up half of Europe. The Red knew he had it. They'll be after it too. You've got to find Vito and get the case to me in Geneva. I'll find them Mack, dead or alive, and I'll get the data he says. Another lady in the scene. As I walk towards the camp, an angel in white, white barred my path. Sorry, but if you're not a doctor or an aid man, you'll have to turn back. We're too busy to let viewers in. I don't blame you, honey, but this is official. A tea man. Can I help you, Mr. Trask? I'm Hilda. Maybe you can, Hilda. One of our men was on the train. I've got to find him or his body in a rush. The dead were piled in the snow. It wasn't always easy to tell what they'd look like in life. As near as I can tell, Vito's body isn't here. Then he may be among the injured in the hospital tent. Come along if you can take it. I almost couldn't take it. There must be pleasanter ways to make a living. Not there, I don't think. Then follow me. Believe it or not, quite a few people survive with no more than bruises, she says. Another blank, Hilda. That leaves only two possibilities. It may take hours to get all those bodies out. There's another aid station, half a mile down, where the front cars landed. Your man might be down there, she says. Oh, Gus, how about a lift down to the base? Sure, Hilda. Climb in. You too. Uh-huh. Two should be double O's. Or you two. There was a litter of luggage all over the snow. My chances of finding one small briefcase looked about zero minus. Have they started collecting baggages yet? No. That will come after the people have been taken care of, he says. We were almost to the bottom when I spotted the battered figure of a man crawling from a coach window. Hold it. That poor devil looks familiar. Stop, Gus. It was Vito Fiora. Vito, it's Pete Trask. Where's the briefcase? In there, under seat, he says. I've got it. Good. Hand it over, Mr. Trask. It was kind of you to find it for us. Ha-ha. What? And I walk right into it with my big stupid face hanging out. Oh, he was played. He was played. Okay. Here it is. Throws it out of bang. No. And here's a five knuckled bonus to go with it. Ha-ha. Let me get at the capitalist dog. The other guy says, you got, you got at me, Buster. Now what? Truss just keeps on grabbing their wrists, say. Interesting. Now I will kill you in a moment. The Russian says, I still hadn't figured out the whole score until Sweet Hilda bent a gun barrel over my dumb skull. Oh, stupid, bungling, bungling fools. Man, oxen in the head. I wasn't out, but my muscles were on strike. Let me kill the burko dog and bring the gendarmes with a shot. Let him go. We have what we came for, she says. But that Trask is a dangerous enemy to leave alive. You are taking orders from me after your stupidity in wrecking the train here. You cannot be trusted. Get in full. Do not try to move. You are hurt. Only my pride, doc. Take care of my friend here. He really needs help. I had to move fast. This was no time to play it cautious. Here are my credentials. I've got to catch those three. They've caused a wreck and stole vital papers. They will not get far, monsieur. There is no road down there, only a footpath to the ski lift out Mount St. Clair. Mount St. Clair. This man will survive if he can be taken to the hospital tent at once, the doctor says. You take care of Vito. I'll borrow somebody's skis and go after those red rats myself, he says. I couldn't compete with experts, but I've done enough skiing to get around. Once they have to abandon the jeep, I'll catch up fast and when I do, he thinks. Now, there are foot and the advantage is on my side. My knuckles are itching for another crack at those jaws. There they go, riding the ski lift. Hilda, it is that trust I told you we should have taken care of him. This time, I will not fail. Oh, he's on there with the skis. That's right. Oh, you pick my kind of game. That time, chum. Matt Moselle, monsieur, you have reservations, no? They got up to the top. That toboggan. Show him your reservations, Gus. Sure, Hilda, I'll even let him feel it. Sacramond. What is the meaning of this? Pushes him off the toboggan. Name of a pipe. They still are sled. Come back. Cochones. Return at once. Wait, monsieur. There is no ski trail down this side. Sorry, friend, but I can't wait. Pete comes in. I'll make my own trail, he says. Chasing the toboggan. Oh, it's a, what do you call it? It's a toboggan run. Like a looge or something, right? Cool. Once I caught sight of my quarry down inside the ice walls of the toboggan run, the rest of the time, I was too busy. And to think some idiots do this and call it fun, take the jump. There's the ski poles. There they go. If I, if I break something on this last slope, I only hope it isn't my slugging arm. Gus, your gun killed a T-man. Hell that says. I thought I couldn't stop, but a buried rock caught me different, taught me different. Hey, oh, look at that. It comes out of his boots. Here I come, ready or not. 1952 skis. I will escape. I will not be stopped. Look at the grin on his face. He's all happy. I will kill you myself. Hell that says. Yikes. I lost my gun somewhere in the snow. Oh, snowball in the face move. I snatched for the handiest weapon, a chunk of frozen snow. This was kid stuff where I come from, baby. In the face. I'll take over, over now, sugar pie. You can take orders from me. A filthy capitalist pig, she says. Look at this. Maybe I've got a mean streak, but I enjoyed myself then. Mush on, you egg heads, faster. It's 12 miles to town and I'm late for a date with the cops. Let's look at that. That's how they roll. That's how they roll. Oh, fun. I want to try to get more, my hands are more of these. So it's detached from the top stable. Okay. Maybe we ended up doing that through the reading. Okay. But while worth it, while worth it, it's still attached to the bottom staple. Okay. So either through this reading or, or, or what not, the top stable got detached. Right. I will show you how to learn radio, television, servicing or compute communication by practicing in spare time. Nice. Well, I should show you that. Sorry. Your practice radio communication. Fun. Play red hot. Play red hot harmonic music in eight minutes flat. Look at that. Harmonics is awesome. I love harmonica. I used to have one. Sure, it slides. Pick out any melody automatically at chords. No notes to read. Cool. And gang, this first page here, that was insane. This has got to be, this page here has got to be, this has got to be one of the craziest, craziest panels ever. Here, rag head, take this little fellow home and barbecue him for breakfast. I pick the insult beyond all insults to a Muslim. Crazy. What the hell? Like, like, crazy, crazy, crazy. Fun read. Fun read. T-man number three from 1952. Two years before the democratically elected government of Iran was overthrown by a MI6 and CIA-backed coup to take control of Iran's oil. Crazy, crazy, crazy. Aside from that gang, I'm going to go back to the chat. We are live streaming this and see what people thought about it. See what people thought about it. Right? Crazy page. That was insane. That was insane. Nice selection for the read. Nice selection for the read. I hope you guys enjoy it. Gang, thank you for the follows. Thank you for the raid. I forgot who it was and hello everyone. Welcome to a comic book reading and it's a, this is a nice great copy. That was great. Not very busy. This, like seriously, right now, like they would be questioned about if even this would be censored, right? Like, if they're able to censor Dr. Zeus, why wouldn't they be able to censor T-man? Not very busy, oh my god. Darn it. I was born between the craziness of the story and your relaxing voice. I was torn between the craziness of the story and your relaxing voice. My brain didn't know what to do. I didn't either. I was like, what's going on? What a crazy read. What a crazy read. But you know what? I'm going to keep my eyes on more T-man. More T-man comics. That was, like, could you even print something like this right now? Cheryl, just hang on for the ride. That's the historical context, right? Which is brilliant. Which is brilliant. Which is brilliant. Wow. U.S. Treasury Department. So they trash talk Iranians to a degree. They totally mis-portrait them, right? And they're okay with, like, Joblo signing Iran's oil rights away, which is what they did. They installed the Shah, which gave Iran's oil rights to the U.K. mainly, right? U.K. and the United States, both of them really, right? And then they trash talked to Mexicans, Mexican border, drugs coming up, right? Who they trashed and the Russians, Russians, of course, Russia, bad, bad, bad, right? Always, no matter what they do, right? Crazy, misspelled Muslim. I know. Like, some of the things I read was like, what? Like, there was misspellings in there, right? Maybe Muslim, Muslim. Oh, maybe they try to make it, make the pronunciation the way in Iran you would say Muslim, right? Muslim, Muslim. Cheryl, I literally had my mouth hanging open with the big tossing when you first read it. I couldn't believe it. Totally crack up. Insanity. I've seen it spelt like that before. Maybe there's a reason behind it. Maybe I'm thinking, now I'm thinking, maybe I was supposed to pronounce it like an Iranian word, right? Muslim, Muslim. So maybe because of the pronunciation, that's the reason they misspelled it, right? And the Russian person saying you too, you also, or maybe it was both of you too. I think it's just an old variation, not an international, intentional site. Okay, okay. So it's an old variation, maybe that. Cool. Interesting read. Wow, worth it. Well worth it. Very interesting read. Pure propaganda. In the title of this, of this one, we loaded on all the platforms. I'm going to put propaganda on the title, most likely. Wow, wow, wow. Fun. Yay, we're going to do more of these. I missed the comic book reading from last set. We didn't do one last set, so I'll try to catch up in the next few sets. Maybe do two comic book readings in the next set, the announcement live streams that we're going to do. But we have two more live streams left over from the set. We're doing mathematics tomorrow morning. And we do current events, politics, current events on Wednesday night. Aside from that, Cheryl, thank you for putting the poll together. Gang, thank you for being here. Moz, thank you for taking care of business. Those of you who rate it, thank you for the rate. Thank you for the follows. Thank you for the subs gang. And I hope you enjoyed the reading. Aside from that, if you want to know what this work is about, I am on Patreon, dot com, forward slash chico, c-h-y-c-h-o. If you want to follow this work, if you want to see what it is that we're producing, we're putting out, Patreon is a great way to do so. For those of you that were supporting this work on Patreon, gang, thank you very much for the support. We are live streaming on twitch, twitch.tv, forward slash chico, c-h-y-c-h-o-l-i-v-e. If you want to participate in these live streams, twitch is where you want to be at. And again, gang, thank you for the support. It is in the lowest part because of the support we're getting on these platforms that we're able to do what it is that we are doing. I do announce these live streams 30 minutes before we go live on Mines, VK, Gap and Parler. You can follow the work there or come to our Twitch channel anytime you want and type in so exclamation marks, social in the chat, and all the links to those platforms will pop up, including our Discord page where there's a lot of people sharing a lot of information. Cheryl, I enjoyed the older comics so much more than I ever thought I would. It makes me regret poo-pooing than when I was a kid. Oh, so we've read some amazing golden age books. That atomic age number one reading, that was brilliant, brilliant. Basil Wolverton's Eye of Doom, the first comic we read, so good, the EC comics we've read, so good, so good. Oh, my God, Muslim is an alternative spelling of Muslim. The words have the same meanings in all contexts and both spelling have been in use for several centuries. Muslim was the preferred spelling until the first half of the 20th century. Today, Muslim is the preferred spelling. Okay, awesome. Thank you very much, all the God for that. Gang, for live streams when we don't have any visuals, we do upload the audio as a podcast to SoundCloud.com for our slash chichou, C-H-Y-C-H-O, and those podcasts should be available in your favorite podcasting platform, including Spotify and iTunes, and we will be uploading this live stream, this reading to all four platforms, SensorTube, Bichute, Rumble, and Odyssey. 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