 Let's test one, two, three. So we're recording there. Let's make sure we're also live streaming. And there we go, we're live streaming there. Awesome, awesome, awesome. Hi everyone, this is Chicho. Welcome to my channel and welcome to the live stream on Chartered ASA Chicho. How are you doing? Been really looking forward to this stream. Yeah, me too, man, me too. We're finally getting through the set of comics that we decided to read. So fantastic, fantastic. And those that might be watching after the live stream or listening to this audio on SoundCloud as a podcast. Today is May 17th, 2020, and we're doing a comic book reading. And today on the menu is Atom Age Combat Number One from 1958, St. John Publications. Okay, and this is a comic book reading I've really been looking forward to. I'm really curious. I've read some stuff regarding, you know, the Atomic Age and stuff from the Golden Age of comics and just technology in general. So for me, it's an amazing opportunity to take a look at our history and see how pulp culture viewed the Atomic Age rolling out. That is a beautiful cover. Indeed, it is a beautiful cover. I really like this. And I can honestly tell you this comic book and comic books like it, they go through periods that they're very hard to find. Elder God, how are you doing? They go through periods where they're hard to find, but right now, because of the current economic situation, lockdowns and whatnot, I'm finding more rare comics, obscure comics, available for purchase. And I might go about trying to get my hands on some of these things. Again, I just checked out a couple of websites, well, one website specifically, where they list all these comic books and Adam H. Combat number one, this comic that we're looking at right now, wasn't available for purchase for a long time, like a long time, months, years, right? But I just checked it now and there's three copies available for purchase. They're lower grade, very good, good and good and good minus. Okay, fair, poor, poor, good, right? And even though they're higher priced than what we paid for this, we ended up paying, this is graded at good minus and we ended up paying basically 9.50 US, 9.30 US, $10 US. The copies that I saw online available, they're like $35 US. So they're higher than what we ended up getting this for, but not a bad price. Excuse me. Springtime allergies. Comics from the 1950s are really rare in the UK for a good price, yeah. I think everywhere, really. They're becoming harder and harder to find. I get springtime allergies, gang. I hope that wasn't too loud for you guys. When bullet is on the streets, buy comics, right? Contrary, an indicator. When blood is on the streets, it's a good time to invest. Comic books is not a bad place to be. Spider-Man. Serious allergy sneezes. Bless you, teacher. I hope everyone is doing good. How is everyone? Nice, nice, nice. Gotta clear out the eyes. Sometimes I have sneeze attacks, hardcore sneeze attacks. One time, when I was much younger, I would get the sneeze attack, sometimes 10, 20 sneezes in a row. One time, I threw out a rib. Oh, I sneezed so hard. I had to go see a car protector to put it back in. Powerful sneezes, powerful sneezes. So we're gonna give everyone a few minutes to roll in and we'll start the reading. I'm looking forward to this reading. I'm not sure if notifications have gone out or not. And I'm recording. Recording this on the lapel mic as well. Okay, so I can edit the audio much easier than edit the video. So, whoo, I'm having allergies too. Yeah, and it's a crazy time when you go outside right now. When you hear someone sneeze or cough, everybody's turning to look at them, right? Like, total paranoia has kicked in and people are fearful. So the degree for the right reasons, but fear is never a good thing to indulge too much in, right? You sort of have to go with the flow and whatnot. I'm gonna be uploading the cooking stream, by the way, on BitShootin' YouTube today or letting it loose anyway. Catholic traditionalists, how are you doing? Good afternoon, folks. I hope your day has been blessed. Thank you, thank you. YouTube as well, Catholic traditionalists. That's true. Oh, whoo. Brush off the allergies, brush off the allergies, right? Fun. And this cover, this thing is. When I got this, I did open it up just to take a look at it. The cover is, I don't know if it's detached. I don't remember if it'd been detached or not. It was fairly loose, okay. But, and there are big splash pages on this. From what I recall, we bought it. This was actually a buy from funds that Nicholas sent us, as well as the buy we did yesterday, as well as we read this one yesterday, right? Alarming Tales. And this was part of the buy that we got with Nicholas's funds that he sent in and me topping it off, right? So we ended up getting some good purchases from that comic book haul. Awesome, going to check out and make the dish with the wife, nice, nice. Is delicious. We got a little bit left. The feet licks, how are you doing? We got a little bit left of the eggplant stew we made to eat up today. So looking forward to that, it's been fantastic. Persian dishes, man. Persian food is absolutely phenomenal, really. It's absolutely delicious Persian food. And very nutritious for the most part. I mean, the pastries could be a little sketchy, but not sketchy delicious, but not as healthy, right? Great lasagna, how are you doing? Hope you guys are having a fantastic Sunday, by the way. In Canada, it's a long weekend, Labor Day long weekend, May long weekend here. So a lot of people are off work and whatnot. Not, you know, everybody's off work, majority of people are off work, but it's supposed to be a holiday weekend here. So the vibe is very chill and everyone's relaxing. So excited about this comic. Persian food is scrumptious, scrumptious indeed. I was watching some of your older comic book videos and I was wondering, what's the rarest most expensive comic book you own? See, here's the thing, Felix. The rarest doesn't necessarily mean the most expensive, right? The rarest comic book I have is Jackie Gleeson and the Honeymooners, number 12. And from what I understand, there's anywhere between 50 to 100 of those around. There isn't that many of those around. And I missed the opportunity to buy a CGC graded one at seven that went for dirt cheap, as far as I'm concerned. It went for like a couple of years ago, went for, or a year ago or so. It went for a year or a couple of years ago. A couple of years ago. It went for like $160 US or so. And I got over a bit. I didn't have the funds to be able to go higher than that at the time. So that's the rarest comic book I have. As for the most expensive, I think it would have to be daredevil number one. No, no, no, no, I'm gonna rephrase. It might be some of the EC books that I have in my collection. I got some EC books that are high grade and some EC books that are high grade that are Canadian editions that are much rarer than the American editions. Now, sometimes the Canadian editions go for a higher price in the American editions, sometimes vice versa. But I haven't looked up the prices for those. I'm guessing it's either daredevil number one that we did the reading for, or it's gotta be one of the EC comic books that I have. And if we end up doing a reading on a when, let me rephrase, when we end up doing a reading of the ones that I had framed, because I have a frame set of six EC comic books, horror science fiction and crime ones, six of them from 1952 framed in a big frame. And one of the comics has slipped a little bit, okay, because I ended up framing on myself so it slipped a little bit after a few years, right? So I do need to bring those out. And long time ago, I promised that if I bring out, pull those comics out of the frame, we will do readings of them. So when I get the opportunity to pull those comics out of the frame and maybe reframe new comics in there, we will be doing a reading of six EC comic books that I have had in my collection for at least 30 years. And they've been on my wall for at least five years or so, I think. So maybe those ones, because they are hard grade. And who knows, maybe I'll end up sending them in to be graded. I've never sent in a book to be graded. So we'll see, we'll see. Love it. To which need to add that emote. Oh, which emote is that? Oh, a little train. Look at the choo-choo train. Current hype train conductor. Choo-choo. What is the oldest comic in your collection? The oldest comic in my collection. The oldest comic in my collection. It may be, I probably have an action comics from the 1930s or Superman from early 1940s in my collection, maybe a Batman or two from early 1940s in my collection. I have some stuff, I have some 1940s in my collection. So I have not that many because they're pretty expensive in general, but I have some 1940s comic books in my collection. So those would be the oldest. I don't know if I go all the way down to the 1930s. I doubt it. I doubt it. Felix, I don't have many individual comics, but I do have the full Infinity Saga book and a few other full volume contain in a single book like Civil War, nice. And those full volumes are great reads, by the way. You got the contained story and you can read them and the advertisements are not there and it's all continuous and stuff. Sometimes the full volumes might be missing something though, an issue that was an off issue. Okay, Graham. I have sort of a philosophical question about comic books. Is it best to just browse and pick things up that look interesting or do lots of research and seek out specific books? I would say do both. Why limit yourself to one or the other, right? I do both, okay? I mainly buy stuff that I'm interested in. I mean, there isn't too much stuff that I have in my collection that I haven't been interested in having. There are some stuff that I buy because for me it's an investment. So my assumption is that the price will increase over time. Sometimes I'm right, sometimes I'm wrong. It's like investing in anything, really. So I would say Graham, you can do both, right? My earliest comic is 1942. Elder God, yeah. Which one? Which comic book? Is it one of the superhero ones or Atlas comics, DC comics? Easy, when did DC come about? DC was 1940s but I don't know if they were as early as 1942. Which comic book is it, Elder God? I'm curious. Still waiting. It still says pending. What's pending, Spider-Man? The current hype train conductor? Is that what it is? Not sure. DC, AC. DC, AC. Action comics. DC action comics. You got action comics from 1942. So that would be less than a hundred in the, so action comics 1938, 12 per year, 12 times four. So you're in the 1940s or 50s for action comics, yeah? Elder God, that's pretty good. That's really good. Felix, not sure if it counts, but my oldest comic would be a newspaper comic strip from a few decades back that my granddad had. Ah, that's cool. Yeah, as far as I'm concerned, that counts. There's old comic strips from newspapers that are collectibles that people buy and sell. I've got some 1960s action comics, Graham says. Not a good year for DC comics. 1960, they were very juvenileish, I think, during that period. And then Marvel really kicked it up and DC followed with more adult-oriented stuff. I have a book from 1947, I believe that's my oldest. Cool, Spider-Man. My new emote. Oh, that's your new emote. No. Oh, your new emote hasn't kicked in, okay. It was my grandfather's. It was your grandfather's. Your grandfather was a comic book collector or bought comic books, bam. You had a cool grandfather, Elder God. Most of my family is because from different generations and a different part of the world. When I started collecting comic books, they're like, what are you doing, right? Marvel was eating their lunch very shortly. Yeah, Graham, Marvel came in and adult-oriented, more mature-oriented comic books and blew away DC in the 1960s, right? What got you into comic street show? My oldest comic books would be that I have in my possession, not the oldest when they were published, it would be the Tintin comic books that I put out a video for. I just like arts. I like the visual aspect of it. When I was really young, I couldn't read, so I like flipping through the pages and looking at the artwork, and to me, it told a story, right? So I think that's how I got into it. I got into hardcore collecting comic books. So I was reading comic books when I was young in the 1970s and stuff like this, but I got into collecting comic books in my university years. When my younger brother visited me and he, at university, was going to university away from home, and he visited me, and he said, okay, where's the comic book store here? And I said, comic book store, I don't know. So I looked it up in the yellow pages, right? And this is late 80s, right? I looked it up in the yellow pages. I found a used comic book, a used bookstore in my area. I said, oh, let's go check this out. So we went there and there was, they had a section where there was like, used comic books that they were selling. And I was a huge fan of Flash at the time when I always had been a huge fan of Flash. And we had a whole run of Flash of the 1988 series that kicked out, right? So they had a whole run of that and they were like 50 cents or a dollar each. So I bought a whole bunch and my younger brother bought a whole bunch. And we went home and I started reading them and he was reading them and I sort of went, oh, wow, this is pretty good. Really, it was sort of mature oriented stuff. I said, wow, wow, wow, this is fantastic. And then we found comic book stores in my town, the sister town, and we went to the comic book stores there and I grabbed a poll box. I found out what a poll box was and whatnot and from there it was just, went ballistic with it, right? Just loved it, just loved it. Should we do a reading gang? Let's do a reading, yeah? There's plenty of time allowing people to pop in on a Sunday morning to do a comic book reading, right? I picked up some comics off the rack when I was 14 or so but I was extremely frustrated because it was in the middle of the story and I didn't know what was happening, yeah. And that was one of the problems with some of the comic book's stories. And another place that I really got me hooked on comic books was a heavy metal magazine, right? Heavy metal magazine, I had a small collection of heavy metal books in the 1980s that I love the science fiction aspect of things and the stories and the artwork and just the compilation of the different artists and stories that were in there. Heavy metal is fantastic, right? I'm so excited but I still love talking comics. I do it for hours, me too, me too. So let me take down the notification, okay? I'm taking down the notification. I'm gonna take down the chat from the screen gang from the video gang, boop, chat's gone and I'm gonna take out my video. We'll come back after we do this reading. See you soon, okay, oh, oh my God. This is the second time I did this, bang it. Okay, let's do this, let's read through. I'm age combat, okay? Let's make sure we're still recording on here. We've got everything good. We've got notification, chat, everything turned off and I didn't do my intro today, which is okay. We've done a lot of the intros for Patreon, Twitch and whatnot, right? Maybe we'll do a closing intro. Aside from that, welcome to our channel gang and welcome to another comic book reading. Today, what we're gonna do, we're gonna read Adam Age Combat, number one, War of Wars from 1958 and it's by St. John Publications. That's their logo right there, it's an eagle flying with a flag attached to it, St. John, right? And this thing looks like it came out on February, 1958 and the information regarding the artists that are involved with this, the only thing I could find is that Dick Ayres did the artwork for this and Dick Ayres is huge, he did a lot of work for Marvel, DC. He was active during the Golden Age of comics, during the Silver Age of comics, during the Bronze Age of comics, during the Modern Age of comics, right? He is one of the giants in the industry and when I found out that Dick Ayres had done this work, I was pretty excited to get my hands on this, okay? And it is a beautiful cover. It is absolutely beautiful cover, an amazing sort of historical artifact of what was going on during that period, right? So instead of trying to fight the glare of this, let's take this out of the bag and this is graded at good minus, okay? We picked this up a couple of years ago during some auctions off eBay and ended up paying 9.30, 9.50 dollars US for this, which comes out to about 12.50 Canadian, okay? So it's a lower grade comic or a low grade comic, right? It's got a rip on the cover right there, okay? But there isn't huge chunks missing from this. There's chunk missing from this. The cover, the spine is pretty mangled up, okay? Okay, as you can tell here. But the comic is complete, right? And it is at the beginning of the Silver Age because it's got the comic code approved logo here, the stamp on it, right? And the back cover, it's got little chunks here. The tash, it's got a little chunk missing from the bottom left corner of the back cover. So good minus, sure. I don't know if I would give the minus part on it. I would say good, but a good minus is good enough for me, right? And who knows how many hands this has gone through, right? And this has got a few different stories here, okay? It's got a three-page story, the Adam Age combat. It's got a nine-page story on target. It's got a six-page story, which is Old Leatherneck. It's got a three-page story that's titled Who Says? It's got a two-page text article, Past, Present, and Future, right? We might have a little look at that as well just to see what it is. Seven-page story, I, Sage. One-page story, which is due, and a few other stories here as well. One-page text story, The Balm. One-page text story, Man Alone. Two-page story, Moon, Descent. And it's got a five-page story, Who Knows? With sci-fi, sci-fi theme to them as well. And the two-page story, there's another artist here that I found, which is Paul Riemann, also has a two-page story on this, which is the story of Moon, Descent, okay? And the cover is loose, so hopefully we won't detach the cover as we're reading this, okay? And what's the advertising? Exciting ant farm, look at this. We read the origin of Antman. We're the prototype of Antman in the previous comic, right? And we've got a little ant farm here. Let's read the fine print of this, okay? I'm gonna read it, I'm pretty sure this is not gonna focus on this, and it's sort of faded, so I'm gonna do a little tilt here and see if I can make out all the words. Atomage combat, volume one, number one, February 1958. And this one says volume one, but it isn't the volume one. It's actually volume two from St. John. There's another Atomage series that they put out, okay? So this says volume one, number one, February 1958. Published by Monthly by St. John Publishing Corporation. 545 Fifth Avenue, New York, 17 New York. Application for second-class entry pending at post office. New York, New York, 19 or 10 cents per copy. Subscription rates, $2 per year. $2 per year. Why would it be $2 per year? By Monthly, especially by Monthly. $2 per year including postage, so I guess it's the postage. Not responsible for loss or non-return of manuscripts, photos and drawings. Sort of faded here, must be accompanied. By return postage. Names of the characters and names the characters used is fictitious, humorous and select them. Temperature, purely coincidental. So there's a little bit of fading here. So I can't really make out the words, which is part, publication as part of who is, printed in the U.S., copyright 1958 by St. John Publishing Company, okay. And while we're reading this, we have a little piece of the comic book that fell out, right? I'm gonna put this back in the, I'm gonna put it on the side here. We'll put it back in the bank, all right? Awesome, it's falling apart on us. It's falling apart on us. Let's check out the approved by the comic book. Let's check out this thing they've written here, right? Approved by the comic code, by the comic code authority. This seal of approval appears only on comic magazines which have been carefully reviewed, reviewed prior to publication by the comic code authority and found to have met the high standards of morality and good taste required by the code. The code authority operates apart from any individual publisher, publisher and exercises independent judgment with respect to code compliance. A comic magazine bearing its seal is your assurance of good reading and pictorial matters, right? That's what the comic code authority puts these guys that put in there. Actually, I don't think we've ever read one of these things. We've read a fair bit of comics that had the comic code authority seal on it, but we never, I don't remember reading this thing before. And everything here that they say is basically BS, right? Because it's all about censorship. It's not about moral code or anything. It's about preventing people from reading things that the centralized power does not want them to read, right? It's about fear and control and good riddance to the comic code, okay? Aside from that, let's read a little atomic age historical piece. The atom, so the first story anyway, atom age combat. And again, most of the artwork here I believe is by Dick Harris or at least this one is for sure, okay? And a beautiful cover and Dick Harris was fantastic, right? Thank you, Elder God, reminder, reminder. Please keep politics to the politics. The age we are now living in will go down in history as the atom age. That's a little note there. Beautiful piece of work, yeah? Great perspective. It has been terrifyingly powerful weapons placed at man's disposal by science. Let's read this in a row, right? The age we are now living in will go down in history as the atom age. It has been terrifyingly, it has seen terrifyingly powerful weapons placed at mankind's disposal by science. Click. Look at this, the name of the towns are in there. New York, I guess that's Los Angeles on the buttons. Washington, London, right? So they're pressing a button for New York and we got a rocket taking off. For the sake of global survival, it is the common duty of all, all of us to work incessantly to prevent the suicidal thermal nuclear holocaust of total war in the atom age. This comic book is total politics. Look at the ostrich. It's got his head in the ground. I'm not sure if you can hear the rain outside. Nice rainy Sunday, right? What a better time to read a comic book, right? This does not mean we can relax our vigilance until adequate diplomatic safeguards have been devised to ensure lasting peace. Our armed forces must keep developing new weapons. They must keep reshaping their units and their tactics. Ostrich with his head in the ground. We must not be ostriches and bury our heads in the sand in the face of danger. The picture of the rocket, eh? To permit our atomic muscles to grow flabby while striving for peace would nearly invite atomic attack by an enemy stronger and less responsible than ourselves. In keeping with the realistic approach, we, the editors, feel we are performing a significant service by presenting dramatic stories of limited thermal nuclear battle. These stories will be reassuring insofar as they will demonstrate how amazingly powerful and fantastically ingenious our country's atomic defenses are. Look, different types of missiles and rockets they're showing, eh? And by giving an insight into these weapons, terrifying potential, terrifying potential, the stories will reinforce your fervent desire to help prevent an all-out war in the atom age. These stories are not science fiction. No matter how fantastic the weapons, vehicles, and devices you are about to see in the following pages appear to be, they are authentic or based on fact, some already in use, others in their final stages of development. This is the atom age. The unbelievable has already begun to come true. Heavy intro. That was a three-page intro to this comic. What a serious intro. They introduce it with a rocket in its hanger and someone clicking a button to send the rocket to New York, right? So right off the bat, there's sort of a propaganda mechanism here in play, right? The fear factor kicking in. But what a brilliant introduction to a comic book about the nuclear weapons from 1958. Beautiful, beautiful. On target, the first story. Let's have a read through this. As you can tell when I'm reading this game, just because the letters are a little bit, the typeset is a little bit, the letters aren't coming out too clear. So I'm stumbling on the words a little, okay? So I might show you guys the pictures and then bring the letters to my eyes to be able to read them properly, but I'll try to do my best, okay? The story on target, to read this text. That's a tank blowing up. Oh, actually it's more than a tank blowing up. It's everything blowing up. That's like a nuclear explosion in the background, I believe. Serious mushroom cloud happening, right? Or is that just a tank blowing up? Let's read this. We're really rolling, sir. The enemy's falling back everywhere. I know Coln now and that's exactly what has me worried. Colonel, I should pronounce that, Colonel. And that's exactly what has me worried. A limited atomic war has broken out between the United States and another country. Both sides have agreed to use only low yield, clear atomic ammunition and to concentrate on established military targets. And they have clearly defined the war's political objectives. But as of today, the war here to for, so here to for, so carefully localize, threatens to take a new turn. So that sets the stage for us. So that was a limited tactical nuclear weapon, something that has been basically kicked into high gear and development for our time in the last 10 years, right? New budget came out about 10 years ago. A trillion dollars worth, I believe. There's a nuclear explosion right there. We've been pushing the enemy around so much lately. He knows he's losing. Well, what if out of desperation, he breaks his pledge to keep this war limited? Editors note, in atomic combat, airborne TV will take the place of battle reports. Instead of having to wait for news from the front, commanding officers will be able to watch the battle as it unfolds many miles away. Wow, take a look at this, amazing. This is 1958, right? This little editor's note, science fiction, telling us that on the display, commanders will be able to watch the war in real time, which is exactly what we've been witnessing for the last couple of decades, right? Beautiful, beautiful, right? What if he decides to risk everything on one last wild knockout punch? What if he starts dropping some of the big A bombs? He has stockpiled, but he couldn't do that, sir. Both sides have inspection teams and each other's strike bases, couldn't he? What if he's building a new strike base where our inspectors can't spot him? You mean? That's just what I mean. The one place where one inspector couldn't possibly get close to the enemy is right around here, right behind his battle lines. But we've had continuous reconnaissance, sir. And so far, all reports have been negative, not all of them, Colonel. What about reconnaissance force D? The report hasn't come in yet. The man posts and army headquarters, the sign says, right? So they're in their headquarters, watching the war unfold. Just then, who's that coming in now? He may be a courier from force D, sir. Editor's note, a helicopter weighing less than a man and powered by rockets has been tested for use by the armed forces. It has a speed of 70 miles per hour and a range of 30 miles and has already been nicknamed the, no true, what does that say? Hot rod, it has already been nicknamed the hot rod. That's for real. 1958, take a look at this, take a look at this. Look at the courier on this guy, look at that. Oh, you have stuff like that around now. 1958, sir, special courier from force D reporting. As of 25 minutes ago, sir, so the guy's flying around a little one man helicopter, right? As of 25 minutes ago, sir, no new enemy installations whatsoever have been cited. So he's reporting back. But sir, the enemy appears very sensitive in our sector. Our force was engaged in short distance from its starting point and thrown back by superior numbers consequently. Reconnaissance of the sector is incomplete. The courier says, you hear that? The colonel says, if my hunch is right, that's the spot. They're building a secret strike base somewhere in that sector. But look at the size of the sector, sir. We can't saturate bomb it. With this limited war setup, we need a pinpoint target, pinpoint target, eh? All right. If it's there, I'll get it for you. I'll start working on it right now. Grabs the phone. Tell the chief signal officer, what camera drones over every square inch of this sector, I want a complete set of aerial photographs within the hour. He's telling someone and looking at them through video. He's talking to them and looking at them through video and the guy's saluting, acknowledging the order from 1958. Go the drones. 10 minutes later, seize the launching of the first group of drones. The small radar tracked remote control planes, each with a mounted aerial reconnaissance camera. There go our flying spies, sir. Here's hoping they come back with the information we need. Yes, for the whole world's sake. Here's hoping. Now comes the period of waiting, of time that keeps dragging, dragging along with insufferable slowness. He's smoking a big fat stogie at their video conference in each other. Until finally, nerves begin to crackle. Where are those drones? What's keeping them? Why aren't they back yet? Sorry, sir. All I can say is no sign of them. The enemy must have shot them down, sir. Video chatting, live streaming. We're getting warm. They have something they're hiding in that sector. And my hunch tells me that something, something is a strike base. Now, all we have to do is pinpoint the base and destroy it. Pinpoint a base that you just have a hunch about, sir? How? Soldier asks. Keep sending out groups of drones and regular intervals. One of them has to get through. And the guy in the video conference is saluting him, right? 60 years ago, a comic book from 62 years ago. There goes, there goes more taxpayers' money down the drain, the soldiers say. The enemy would give their, to bring down one of those all in one pieces, for what I hear, they're way behind us. When it comes to autonomous, automatic recon equipment. A-R-E, automatic recon equipment. That's what they're referring to as the drones. They got propellers and they're jet powered as well. Look at that, pshh. Later, just heard from the signal officer, sir. Nor turns yet on any of those drones. Any orders, sir? Tell him to keep dispatching them, times running out. And until we think of something else, those drones are our only chance. All throughout the night, drones are launched at regular intervals. These are equipped with special infrared cameras. But once they are swallowed up by darkness behind the enemy lines, they meet the same fate as those that have gone before them. Not one returns. At dawn, sir, you haven't slept all night. Don't talk to me about sleep, Colonel. Not yet, not until that targets pinpoint. What about the one-man patrols we sent out during the night? Anything coming from that, from them yet? No, sir, not yet. If one of them would only come, come in with a prisoner. If we could only interrogate one prisoner from that sector. That's a big if, sir. What about the drones? Shall we keep sending them? Yes, keep sending them. At that moment, miles away, a young US officer out alone in a tri-fibious jeep spots an enemy tank. Uh-oh, disable enemy tank. That baby's a sitting duck for one of my rockets. So try phobias. So it flies, drives, and floats on water. Editors note, a tri-phobias jeep capable of travel over ground and water and through the air is currently under development. That being said, awesome. If Lux on my side, one of the crew will still be in shape to talk after I let go at her. The general wants a prisoner, blows up the tank, survived that, but I'm not in the clear yet. I've been spotted by enemy artillery boom. They have me bracketed. Come on, you tri-fib. Let's high tail it out of here. He escapes, looks like it. Look at that. Later, back at headquarters, good work, lieutenant. The prisoner say anything on the way in? He's been acting very cocky, sir. Says he won't be a prisoner for long, that our goose is about cooked on his face yet, so we don't know what nationality is there. Oh, we see the face now. You, start talking. We want to know all about the new installation set up in your sector. It is no use, general. You will get as little information from me as you got from your drones. You know about the drones, do you? You saw them shot down, did you? Shot down? No, the prisoner says, and he's sweating in there. Not shot down, then what happened to them? I talk no more. I have said too much already, the prisoner says. What could he have meant by their not having been shot down, sir? Could be they figured out a way to ground them without shooting them down. Could be I've heard the enemies short on drones, drone type equipment. Could be this is the lead we need to pinpoint that target. Not get moving on the double. I want these messages sent at once to both the chief signal and ordinance officers. A few hours later, uh oh, there go some more drones. That general of ours has a stubborn streak of a mile wide. Dollars to donuts says none of them come back either. You know the chance you're taking, sir. What if you're hunched about that secret strike base is right? And the big bombs the enemy is piling up there aren't clean. No, not at this stage of the game. The enemy wants to put over a sneak lab jab to get us off balance so they can regroup here on the field. They're not crazy enough to fool around with fallout bombs, not yet, I hope. Meanwhile, at a certain new installation behind the enemy's lines. Look, the Americans have sent us a gift of more drones. They're saying, huh, the Americans are as stubborn as they are stupid. Shall we bring these down as we have brought the others, sir? Silhouette of the enemy. Look at their faces. I'll show you guys the other panel. Look at the silhouette on these guys. Yes, of course, bring them down. After our surprise, the nature of the war will undoubtedly change. It will be pursued more vigorously, shall I say. And in such a war, we will need every piece of extra equipment we can get to these faces. But it will mean delaying the surprise we are about to spring on the Americans, sir. Our bombers are scheduled to take off in a few minutes. Bring them down, I said. Look at this, they got a little electromagnetic ray or something. Signal jamming, maybe. They're shutting them down. The propeller's not moving as fast. Air bubbles in the jet coming out, but they're stalling them into the hangar with them. Clear the field. It is time for just then the drone blows up. There are Trojan horses. They rig the drones to blow. Look at a symbol on the planes. Your hunch works, sir. The enemy was bringing down the drones right at the secret strike-based site. This is the US Army now. It figured that they'd have their best anti-reconnaissance equipment where it counted most. Look at that big stuff go up. Will you? That's chain reaction for you. And what's more, no fallouts. No fallout, how could there be no fallout from that? Look at the mushroom cloud there. Look at that thing. That might not be a mushroom cloud, gigantic explosion. They got their special goggles on. Funny how things work out. Bet they thought right up to the last minute that they were putting one over on us, bringing those drones down the way they brought down all the others. If you hadn't made signal and ordnance work together to mount warheads instead of cameras on that last batch of drones, sir, the enemy might very well have had the last laugh. But instead, they pinpointed our objective for us. They brought our bombs right down on target for us. Next thing I want them to do for us is to sue for peace. And something tells me they'll be doing that before law. I was not expecting the story to be this intricate, this wonder if we have tryphobias. They must have tryphobias vehicles for sure. Let's go to the next story. Old Leatherneck, let's have a read of the box caption here. At the start of the fifth week of the stalemate, atomic war between our forces and the ruthless enemy, the Pentagon makes a surprise move that leaves the world gasping with shock. The command of our forces in the field is handed over to one military man who has always refused to accept the facts of atomic combat, Lieutenant General Joseph Hutton, of the US Marine Corps, Old Leatherneck himself. This is a three star general and he's got the three stars on his shoulders as well. Old Leatherneck. Even as Old Leatherneck enters the headquarters compound, the nightly enemy barrage that has been the big factor in holding us up can be heard shrieking down on our forward installation. The same mysterious barrage that has come night after night originating from some unknown emplacement that ceaseless reconnaissance has been unable to locate. If we could only find out where they're throwing that stuff from. That's a big F. And if our base brass doesn't bypass it soon, we're going to be in bad shape. Look at the strut on that old war horse, will ya? Mr. Marine himself has landed and the situation's more snafude than ever the two soldiers are talking about. If there's one man who can be signaled out as having always been unilaterally opposed to the innovation both tactical and weapon-wise that have been imposed on our armed forces but the advances of atomic science, it is the lantern-jawed old fighter. Men fight wars has always been his slogan, not machines, and he has never hesitated to bellow his anti-atom triads for all. Trade, turades, anti-atom turades for all the world to hear this is a lantern-jaw. Okay, I get the picture. The enemy keeps us tied down while he builds up for a big push. So our job's to find his mystery in placement fast. Have one of those new fangled tri-fibs here at dawn. I'm going out myself for a look-see, but sir, you can't. After all, sir, you're a general officer. I'm a Marine First Colonel and Marines don't sit on their hands in a snarled-up situation like this one. You just have that tri-fib here at dawn. I'll do the rest. Sir, I wish you would consider if you were to be captured, sir, stow it and get out of the way, Colonel. I'm taking off. So it sits down in one of those tri-fibs and takes off. Later, over the enemy lines, this looks like a good spot to land as any enemy soldiers. The land's right in the enemy territory. Look whom we have for prisoner and American general. Up with the hands, up, up with the hands, I said. Be glad to only, oh, he punches them. My knuckles are coming along with them. Wow, he punches the enemy in the face. He's in a fist fight with the enemy. He gas fights like a tiger, but we are too many for him. They're swarming him. Beautiful, back to headquarters with him. Our intelligence officers should find interrogating him most interesting. They subdued him. Oh, they captured him, look at that guy. Old Leathernecks, not too smart. Look at this, crazy. Later, so the famous fighter, General Hatton, falls into the enemy's hands and very first day after his arrival, a good joke, is it not? That's the interrogator talking to the general. Yeah, and looks like the joke's on me all right. The general says that your war department even permitted you to approach the battlefield, proves their idiocy. The whole world knows, knows you for stubborn old fool who lives in a dream world where battles can still be won by the bravery of individual Marines. But this is not a dream world, General. This is a real war in the atom age. And you are an incompetent misfit. Your immediate capture proves it. This is all the enemy talking to the general. Yeah, guess only an old fool could have thought he could find that mystery emplacement of yours all on his own, the general says, huh. But of course, and now, General Hatton, you shall learn to what an extent your whole army is comprised of fools. The emplacement that your reconnaissance troops have never been able to find has always been right under your noses. Right here in sector 912, right inside the hill here, hill there, barely a meter away from your own front lines, it is a new type, flashless atomic motor, General, and there are two excellent reasons for it never having been found. Firstly, because of the most ingenious atomic power camouflage contravence ever developed. And secondly, because perfectly synchronized, widely dispersed atomic cannon well in the, in the rear always fire at precisely the same moment as the close up mortar. So they're synchronizing their attack. And so, since the new type mortars are both flashless and sound less, their whereabouts have always remained a mystery. Ingenious, hey, General Hatton? Ingenious enough to fool even those Americans who accept the changes in modern warfare, eh? So what chance did you have? You, a man who still lives in, as you Americans say, the horse and buggy days. A quarter of an hour later at the American headquarters. Here it is, sir. The message that has come through from Washington, all decoded, hmph, as if we didn't have enough to worry about what all Hatton on is on the missing, missing an action list. Now you're sending fire orders from Washington? All right, pass it on down. Heaven knows what good will do, but pass it on down, our consulgers. All batteries zero in, zero in, and ready to fire simultaneously, as per special order, sir. Let them rip. Let's get this crazy fire mission over with as soon as possible. So they gave them some coordinates to fire on, eh? Explosions. There it goes, that hill in sector 912 is going sky high. I still wish I knew why Washington ordered it, pound it. What sort of information could they have been acting on? Looks like the joke's on you, huh? Your troops will be able to sweep forward now, won't they? The general's laughing. Why you? No, the Americans will overrun us soon. If we harm him, it might go hard with us. Well, what do you know? Looks like I'm going to squeeze through with the whole skin after all. Didn't think much of my chances when I purposefully let myself be captured. Oh, Leatherneck says. Want to see what the gimmick was? Here it is, a new type long range atomic radio strap inside my helmet, beamed right back to Washington. We figured at the Pentagon that with me as your prisoner, you'd start boasting and give the location of the emplacement anyway, emplacement away. But for you to use such a device, it is contrary to your whole personality to all your speeches. A two way radio helmet with a one mile range has already been developed by the army. A two way, check this out, a two way radio helmet with a one way range has already been developed by the army. Knowledge updates. That's just what our counterintelligence wanted all our enemies to believe. That's why I've been putting on the act all these years. So it might be used in a snarled up situation like this one. Oh, Leatherneck says. Marines fight to win, you know, with bare knuckles or with gadgets borrowed from Buck Rogers. Marines fight to win. The end. I was wondering why he still had his helmet on, right? Crazy, fun story. What's this next one? Who says, this one is a three page story. Let's have a read through this one. Let's see what this is all about. Let's see what this is all about. Our third, or I guess fourth story, it's the fourth segment, I guess. Who says, how many stripes does this guy have? This guy has three stripes. I don't know what the rank of that is. Is that a colonel? Three stripes in the US. What does that mean? So the soldiers hiding behind rocks, and I'm assuming the silhouettes are the enemy. There's at least four of them chasing him. Sergeant. We're live streaming this and I'm checking the chat. And we have ex-military in the chat and he's telling us what it is. SGT, I'm assuming that's a sergeant. So let's see what the sergeant says. And thank you, Elder God. Who says this is an Adam Age combat? Oh, if I could only lay my mitts on the Madison Avenue pencil pusher who dreamt up that fancy phrase, I cram it right down his huckster's throat. One word at a time. Does this look like push button warfare to you? Where is the button I'm supposed to push now? The button to stop them from finding me? Where is it, huh? The sergeant says, he's nervous. Where were all those magic buttons hiding clear through this whole snarled up mission? The way me and my squad dropped down here behind enemy lines. I'm in a flashback. Was no different from the drops the GIs made in the last war. Flares below the guerrillas right now on time. So they're parachuting down from the planes. I squatted him. When we hit Terra firma, and I mean hit, where was the button to cushion the impact? Those guerrillas were good Joe's, but there was no time for speeches. Our mission was to liberate their captured leader so they could start raising Cain again, deep in the enemy rear. Thank heavens you have. You have. Cut the hearts and flowers, mister. Let's get moving. The guerrillas were trying to thank me, saying, cut the hearts and flowers, mister. Let's get moving, the soldier, the sergeant says. The sooner we finish the sooner we could get back behind our own lines. But there were no push buttons to keep our feet dry as we slugged through the mud that night. No button to keep the brambles from tearing at our faces. Keep moving, keep moving. Look at that silhouette, beautiful silhouette. And none to help us when we reached the joint where the guerrilla leader was an unwilling tenant. Was that a robot that tossed the grenade, that made Swiss cheese out of that guard house wall? No siri. That was me, grenade supposed to flame like that. And that was no push button fire control center directing the covering fire as the guerrilla leader ran through. No sir, that was me again. Look at the guerrilla leader just running. Looking at the sergeant run for your life. After the guerrillas and their leader still smiling thanks had scrammed down the road. Where was that big brain Univac? Then to warn me that just a few hundred yards ahead on the way to our pickup, one of my men would step on an enemy trip flare. He sees the flare goes up. Oh, they're surrounded, look at that. Every man for himself run for it, he says. Surrounded, being bombarded, we're fired on, right. Who knows how long I've been running? All I know is that I must have fallen asleep on this ditch and now they're closing in on me. So we're into the present now. I'll put up a fight, but oh, if I could only get my mitts on. Sergeant Lublonsky, pst, is that you, serge? He's got some of his men coming up behind them. Or no, not behind them. The people in the silhouette here that he didn't know who they were. They're soldiers. He's all happy now. How did you ever, one of your men reached the pickup? If there were, if this were the last war, you'd have been forced to leave the rest of you behind. But with all these special Adam Age recon vehicles, we've been able to set up a temporary base back here until you're all rounded up. So the technology helped them. Who says this is Adam Age combat? I say, bub, I say, he's all happy. Technology wins, yay. You can see, forgot about throwing the grenade and whatnot. Past, present, and future. Oh, it's just a story. I sat there, far underground, below the buried city level, my finger resting on the pulsing time, my other hand holding the lever. Okay, so it's just a story. I thought this two page write-up would have been the way war was fought in the past, house being fought in the present and what the future holds, but it doesn't look like it. It's totally, I'm just gonna skim this gang really quick. You know what? One way that I've learned to speed read that I learned at university was to read the first paragraph and the last paragraph of any text and read the first sentence of every paragraph. So let's have a read through it and see if it gives us an idea of what this is, right? Past, present, future. I sat there, far underground, below the buried city's level, my finger's resting on the pulsing time, my other timer, my other hand holding the lever that would send another Titan, six guided missile to his destiny. I thought again, let me bring this up, maybe you guys can read it together with me, right? This is easier to read than the word bubbles. I thought again of this mechanism, under my control carrying its huge freight of cobalt bomb, 10,000 miles at more than 30,000 miles per hour. Even here, so deep beneath the surface, the walls quivered as though in a revulsion at the enemy missiles exploding above. A word we used for Earth's surface. What was it like out there? I wondered, for two centuries now, man has not seen that surface heaving and poisoned, heaving and poisoned with noisome radioactive fog. That's the first paragraph, the first sentence. The timer pulsed faster, the bell rang. I pulled the lever, so this is a story, this isn't gonna work for speed reading. They had another, they had other, they had other atomic powered weapons too, in those early days, submarines powered by atomic fission, ships and jet planes. They had dreamt of a golden age for mankind when he had found the secret of the atom. They had discovered a force of abysmal destructiveness and they turned it to the elements of peace and aid to mankind. The timer pulsed beneath my fingers, finger breaking my verily alerting me, reverily alerting me. First they had fought on land and sea and in the air. There had been, there had been the terrible, quote, seven day atomic plague when whole cities had vanished from the face of the earth. Slowly the world began to recover, to build again. There came a day when a sneak attack was launched and the world was once again embroiled in war. Time passed as the 20th century wore to a close and our century began. The old stories told us of what it had been like before the war, stories that were like fairy tales, so unreal were they, so different from what we knew and had experienced. We're gonna read this last paragraph thing, last paragraph in a sentence. Let's read this one. And man had forgotten, and man had forsaken all that, had crawled beneath the earth to a new existence, a new environment and sparked by a radiation effects upon the genetic structure. Mutants began to appear among men. As nature tried to find the changed species to fit this changed environment, giants, midgets, strange and weird freaks appeared and as generations past were eliminated, finally nature found the answer in polyploidy and mankind cells. His chromosomes and genes mutated and multiplied until the ordinary double chromosome began, chromosomes became tripled and each man became a triloid or tetraploid. And so a new species of mankind was established in a single generation, a species to fit his environment and all men now are like me. The timer pulsed beneath my finger. The bell sounded. It was time to pull the lever again. Triploid or tetraploid. Triploid or tetraploid. What does that mean? Triploid or tetraploid. That's a good sci-fi couple of page story, yeah? Ice age. Let's take a look at this one. This is a seven page story. Ice age. I have good reason to be proud for of all the military controversies placed at mankind's disposal by science in this atom age, ice age and the most unbelievably genius. I am not alone in this high elevation. If others did not esteem me as highly as I do myself, they would not cloak my inner mysteries with top secret secrecy, would they? They would not hide me in the concrete windowless block houses, would they? There are many of me. I am a far flung network covering key military bases all over the country. My full name is semi-automatic ground environment. I am the electronic system on which this country depends to deal with the threat of enemy bombers. What's his name again? What's the autonomous semi-automatic ground environment? Semi-automatic ground environment. Sage, that's what it is. Semi-automatic ground environment. Ice age. Semi-automatic ground environments. Each of me contains 123 miles of wire and 58,000 separate tubes. Mine is the most marvelous memory at work for all that flies in the world today. It is only fitting that sage, the abbreviation of my full name should mean wise or judious, judicious, wise or judicious. How do I operate? I shall try to explain slowly and simply, but do not be discouraged if you fail to comprehend. After all, you are only human and I am sage. I'll look at the old school computer little cards. Every day, thousands of scattered facts about all aerial activity over this country and its approaches pour into them into the maw of my massive mind. My bulbs glow and my wires hum as I collect, sort and memorize every last one of those facts with a speed befitting the age of the atom. A speed vitally necessary for your preservation, for the jet speed of incoming enemy bombers can be countered only by such miraculous calculative speed such as mine, bomber coming in. That depicts the enemy, tracks him down, tracks him down and is even in on the kill. The radar installation, right? The enemy bomber coming in. Yes, unbelievable as it sounds. I retain in my memory every last detail of 30,000 scheduled friendly flights a day. Each of these is given a tracking number preceded by the letter F for friendly. As the progress of these flights registers on radar screens, the detail with the information concerning them that I have stored in my memory. And so the men who operate me know that all is well. But when a flight registers for which I have no memory record, oh, here's a baby we have to mark H for hostile. The operator thinks. Then while they are busy alerting higher headquarters, I really get to work faster than any human brain could ever hope to function. I determine the exact altitude, speed and direction of the plane or group of planes marked H. But that's not all. In my massive memory, I also contain knowledge of which is interceptors, of which interceptors and guided missiles are best located to do the job. And when the counter attack starts, it is I, Sage, who flies the interceptors by sending radio impulses that guide the automatic pilots. There goes the missiles, right? I even keep track of the interceptors fuel supply. If my memory tells me it is running low, I dispatch a second group to take over. And so through the miracle of my functions, if the occasion should ever arise, the interceptors will inevitably accomplish their mission. But even as the victors has us, will ring in the air. I, Sage, shall remain impertable, impertable, impertable. I shall keep assembling more data, keep committing an endless stream of new facts to my unfailing memory. Well, do I not have good reason to be proud? I am not truly, am I not truly amazing? If not for me, the enemy would have attacked long ago. Because of me, they have kept far from our shores. Beautiful sunset. Because of me, until today, only friendly craft have flown over this land. Because of me, only practice interceptors. Practice interceptors, interceptor missions have been dispatched until today. But today, H flight, call headquarters. Season H flight. Look at them scurrying about like frightened mice. There is nothing to be concerned about. I have registered H flights many times before and always they proved to be nothing more than friendly planes that had failed to report in advance that they meant to take the air. And consequently, did not dovetail with my memory record. Hold everything. The command decision will be coming through any minute now, one of the tech people says. Let them scurry. I, impertable as always, compute the exact altitude, speed and direction of the H flight. It's the real thing. Get the closest interceptors, groups off the ground, the guys on the phone. Look at the pilots scramble to their planes with their parachutes intact. The real thing. The enemy really streaking towards our shores. My gear keeps meshing. My wires keep humming. But now, even as I guide the interceptor, I shudder with fear as I envisage the bombs hurling down and all my intricate components smash into useless rubble. How can they be sure it's the real thing? How can these scurrying humans be sure when I sage cannot be sure? I must not let their foolish fears affect me. I must keep guiding the interceptor group. No sign of things yet. Here's hoping this is just another dry run, one of the pilot says. Look. Their enemy bombers alright. The US jets are at visual contact. Thank heaven for sage. The pilots dive down on the bombers. Oh, look at that missile. They're firing their missiles. USAF, US Air Force. They hit their targets. Back home, everybody. Mission accomplished. The pilots come back. Look at the smoke of the planes they blew up. They knew they were right. Because of them, the enemy that would have reduced me to rubble has been driven back from our shores. That was a close one. One of the people says, good old sage, we have a lot to thank for her. Yes, so they have. But because of what happened today, I know now that I have a lot to thank them for too. After all, I didn't spring full blown onto the world. It was men working day and night at the Lincoln Laboratory on the Mass Institute of Technology who made me, that's MIT. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is men operating far-flung airborne, ship-borne and fixed radar stations who feed me the endless stream of facts that I store in my memory. I cannot interpret those facts. It is men who must decide whether the H flights that register on my screen are actual hostile. It is men who must make the command decisions. Whether or not to intercept. I am still proud, but my reasons have changed. I am proud now because I represent the supreme achievement of mankind's genius in the field of aerial defense. And because I represent man's desire to live in peace, to prevent wars, crackling fires from searching his land. The end. That was a nice read. I gotta do one thing here, gang. I'm recording this at the same time and my computer gave me a little message saying low on disk space. Oh, I stopped recording it. Let's check this out. I checked the disk space, but it looks like one of these downloads. Sure, we've got enough room going here for the recording to continue. Okay, cool. We just freed up some disk space. Let's kill this one. No, that should be enough. Cool. I think we're still recording. Let me make sure we're still got streaming. We're still streaming. That's good. Okay, good stuff. That was a very cool read. That was a great read. That was a very cool read. That was a very cool read. Let's check this out. We're almost at the end of this game. Look at this. We got one more page. We got one page story. Oh, actually, the info I gave at the beginning with Paul Riemann. There is no Paul Riemann story. This is from an alarming tales that I was thinking about in Moon Descent. This is the last story, gang. A two-pager. What's this back one? America's atomic age airborne. For sure. Let's read both of these. Right? Send you where you trip to Disneyland on records. Look at this thing. We'll take a look at that ad after we read these. Fantastic. What a great comic book. What a great read. That was great. That was fantastic. Great stream. That's one of the best stories. The best story I ever heard. Really fantastic. Awesome. Let's read this one. Do. Standing for distant early warning. In the name, distant early warning. Do. So we got Sage, which is in the previous story. What did Sage stand for? Sage stood for semi-automatic ground environment. Sage. And now we got Do. And Do is... Let's check this out. Do is distant early warning. Okay? So standing for distant early warning. Is the name of the network of Air Force radar stations scattered over 3,000 miles of Northern Canada and Alaska. Northern Canada and Alaska. Northern Canada and Alaska. Some of the stations of this vast radar warning net are located in areas so barren as never to have been inhabited before even by Eskimos. This sensitive electronic equipment is housed in plastic domes that do not interfere with radar beans and are strong enough to withstand Arctic gear gales up to 200 miles per hour. If enemy bombers ever come roaring down the Northern route, Do will provide us with our earliest warning buckets flying. And so give our close to home atomic defense units ample time to swing into action. That's page 32. Let's take a look at this. Yeah, page 31, page 32. America's Adam Age airplane So that was just the one pager. Do. Just telling us about the radar system in Northern Alaska. And America's Adam Age airplane the Convair F 102A already in operation is America's Trump card when it comes to all weather interception. Those are the planes there. The sleek delta wing jet can tear through the air at 740 miles per hour and that's 1.3 times faster than sound. It can zoom up climbing almost vertically to an altitude of 50,000 feet in about 5 minutes and that's the present ceiling of all supposed enemy long range bombers. It can fire standard rockets Falcon air to air missiles or atomic rockets and yet the Convair F102A is only one small cog in the vast machinery that comprises our country's atomic defenses. Like our little one page one page info pages really about US military basically propaganda really that's cool, we read the whole thing and there was only the advertisements in this, there's the front back, the back page let's look at this ad too Hey kids after after all that after all that military war atomic talk and everything on the back of the back page it's hey kids send for your trip to Disneyland on records you gotta be kidding me check this out in one big package full color aerial map of Disneyland and 5 578 RPM records $1.25 crazy that is trippy relive time and time again a trip through the magic realm of Walt Disney's world famous Disneyland with this one package kit a giant illustrated map in full color on heavy stock 3.5 feet wide plus 5778 reps per minute RPM records that describe and narrate your trip through this entire land of fantasy including Tomorrowland, Fantasyland Frontierland Adventureland the ideal gift brought to you by the combined talents of Disney the master of make believe and metal the most famous name in musical toys the giant illustrated aerial map stands up by itself and can be viewed by several people at the same time it's just like looking down from the advantage point of a helicopter while the records play on whisking you away in fantasy to personally to personally conduct tour of Disneyland truly a most wonderful yet inexpensive gift that will bring endless hours of enjoyment order several and keep them on hand for those special occasions Disneyland crazy and this and take that and the beauty of it is and the beauty of it is this is approved by the comic code authority to deliver you deliver you what did I say deliver you standards of morality and good taste required by the code awesome just pure awesome what a fantastic read and toy soldiers at the back cover that we can buy and an ant farm at the back of the front cover what a great read game what a great read that was fantastic I hope you enjoyed I loved it I loved it I've been aching to read this for so long so long let's throw this back in the back in the cover so that's the what is this Adam age combat number one by saint john and published in 1958 okay and it's approved by the comic code authority with a little Disneyland advertisements on the back cover after we just went through a few stories of death and destruction all around with the atomic weapons and very cool very cool artificial intelligence story that was fantastic that's from the what do you call it Terminator Skynet I think that's what Elder God was talking about mentioned in the live stream let's put this back and the odds are I'm not going to bring this out of this bag again unless I put it in mylar or something because the cover is still attached but it's getting sketchy it's getting sketchy okay gang I'm going to go back to the chat because we are live streaming this let me put this up because we don't get the glare and I'm going to turn on the chat and turn my screen back on super fun read super fun the machines are coming the machines were coming in 1958 awesome supposed to remind you to rate are we going to rate? who are we going to rate? even kids know better numbers are better crazy that was a fun read gang who are we supposed to rate Elder God where are we going to go rate who are we rating thanks for being here gang by the way that was fantastic super fun read how do we do for time? our timing is not bad just a little over 2 hours spider-man is wanting a rate okay cool let me grab his yeah gaming anarchism fantastic ex how are you doing I didn't know you were here but it's up to you after reading it it went from it went from a good minus and stayed a good minus it went from a good to a good I wouldn't grade this any lower I would say it's a good even it's a 2.5 tell you the truth inside is beautiful the pages were fantastic the color was amazing the color was amazing right and the story was phenomenal the what do you call it the artificial intelligence one I SAGE was a great story what's a chrome egg I don't know what a chrome egg is brother Elder God fun that was super fun man that was crazy fun I appreciate your willingness to use comics for the original purpose I gaming anarchism 100% Neanderthal is that what it is? oh chromagnoman that's right chromagnathal I got slowly I'm going to be able to decipher your code elder god as far as using comic books for the original purpose dude 100% comic books are meant to be read right even though I am a collector I collect comic books I didn't buy my first graded comic book I bought was I bought it because there was a lot of talk about it so I think like 4 years ago after 30 plus years of collecting right did you put that fragment back in the back oh good reminder thank you very much pope here it is here it is I forgot about it there's the little fragment it's gotta go back it's gotta go in oh come here it's gotta go in thank you for the reminder yeah older books like this these are the bomb these are and for me I don't care about the grade if the story isn't there's a little bit of fragment here too let's put that back in too and here's a little fragment here a little guy let's put that guy in too nice nice let's do this let's tape this up put a new tape the lockdown messiah how are you doing I still read old comics even during lockdowns yep yep got to keep it as whole as we can for sure kids that read comics in real time went to vietnam have a million comic books oh pope I don't have that many I got a few thousand grand prix hello hello I'm just gonna sit on my porch and enjoy this love the content she showed awesome grand prix I hope you enjoyed it we read through the whole thing 19th really drones artificial intelligence talking video conferencing in real time watching attacks in real time in 1958 while during that time majority of the population was still trying to wrap their head around the nuclear age that we had just entered the atomic age right phenomenal unbelievable I wonder if the US Department of Defense had any hand in funding comics like this to push their propaganda game in arachism for sure they did I've read that through part of history I've looked into the history of comic books and the United States government just like now that they're funding Hollywood movies what do you call it newspapers what's that hummingbird project hummingbird where they put CIA operatives in all major news outlets and for sure that's one of the reasons I think the comic could came to be as well other than trying to control the population and their thoughts the US government 100% was involved in creating comic books there's a lot of propaganda in comic books we've read comic books where they're selling war bonds right from the 1940s and stuff a jingle jangle comic one of the first comics we read was in the early 1940s I believe during during the during World War II right remote control missiles gram 100, remote control missiles how many people in 1958 had there could even imagine walking visually right like this in real time we need a covid 19 it will be coming the lockdown Messiah for sure it will be coming if it's not already out there I think reading comics are a must but I also like to preserve my favorites by having them graded if this was if this comic was I paid through like I paid a mint for this that this comic was graded like if this comic was graded at even 7 I bought this graded at good minus 1.5 grade I would give this a 2 2.5 tell you the truth I wouldn't give it a 1.5 I bought this for 9.30 US right if this was graded at let's say 7 or 8 it would have cost how much would it go for 500, 600, 700 I don't know how many graded there are of this there isn't too many graded I looked at this a long time ago I think there's only like there's less than 10 graded comics of Adam H. combat and I think the highest one was like an 8 like if you're hitting 8 on this and there's only one graded at 8 on this that thing is going for over a thousand easy if this was an 8 graded we would still read it because it's me but the grade might kick down it would have cost us a couple of hundred bucks to read the comic but some of the comics that are extremely high grade for sure preserve them for history's sake so I don't mind that but for me I live in Canada I try to send books to be graded by the grading companies that are in the states it takes a fair bit and it costs a fair bit of money right 1950 born kid reads comics in 1958 then in 1969 is off to Vietnam elder god crazy huh crazy Graham I disagree the only way to preserve these kinds of books is to scan them into the internet and then seal it up don't hoard culture or facts it's not about hoarding it's about investing Graham right and there are websites out there that you can read comic books I've read some golden age and pre golden age and silver age comic books on there's one website that I go to where you can read these comic books they've archived comic books so yeah for sure I agree and for me one of the ways to preserve this is is reading them and for me this is a part of my preservation technique for comic books man I hope my children can make it make it to comics like for me I exposed our family my cousins to comic books and they've read comic books gaming and anarchism I know the CIA funded modern art artists and some magazines during the cold war now they fund things like Call of Duty and that Amazon series about invading Venezuela yeah head POV thank you very much for the raid hello everyone hope you're all doing well we just did a comic book reading of a 1958 comic book atomic atom age combat right and as far as the gaming industry goes 100% the CIA funds shooter games in the 1990s I had a few people that I hung out with with the gaming group then they worked for gaming companies and some of them were like dude we're selling our souls to the devil but the pay is amazing right cool man hi everyone I'm just catching up with the chat by the way just scrolling down I like to collect the CBLDF books the comic book legal defense fund books yeah Pope I have some of those and I highly recommend if you want to defend comic books go to the comic book legal defense funds and support them I have in the past when I've had funds it helps comic creators and says FU to censorship 100% and I'm 100% anti-censorship awesome raid comic books it's people coming in from another channel that like our like our work here and so they open salty durian oh what's your favorite comic book my favorite comic book my favorite comic book I don't know I have a favorite I have favorites that I read one of my most favorite story arcs is Lobo the last Zarnian it's a four issue miniseries that came out in early 1990s it is absolutely phenomenal one of my favorite comic book stories of Batman is legends of the dark night Batman the venom story arc absolutely fantastic yeah we got raided hello I was recommended to raid you by a person named Javino you know him I don't know maybe possibly there's so many names I'm trying to learn and thank you for the raid head POV appreciate it and thank you Javino for recommending the raid here I think vinyl and comics are like that boss fight that is impossible to do vinyls are B okay favorite arcs okay valiance unity crossover from the 1990s was absolutely phenomenal frank miller's dare double run was absolutely phenomenal V for vendetta allen moors swamp thing is absolutely phenomenal the 2012 relaunch of valiant comics harbinger is absolutely phenomenal archer and armstrong was absolutely phenomenal standalone comic fall of harbinger book of death fall of harbinger and fall of bloodshot were two of the most outstanding standalone comics I've ever read as I said lobo the last zarnian infinity war infinity gauntlet and the build up to it from silver surfer kicking into the infinity gauntlet was absolutely phenomenal everything ec put out pre comic book related to horror science fiction and crime was absolutely phenomenal books like this absolutely phenomenal from the 1940s and 50s that are that are historical artifacts there's so many amazing comic books out there there's so much amazing stuff out there right gaming and archers and wow that's a fascinating tip bit about developing video games for the cia I'm sure the pay is amazing the pay was amazing they even moved some gamers to california at the time they I don't know if they moved but the gamers that I knew in vancouver they picked up jobs in san francisco and silicon valley cia is seriously huge operations there with the technocrats and whatnot and they were making games and the games were funded by the cia by the pentagon really I wouldn't say cia per se but the war machine batman the batman the cult elder god batman the cult 100% batman the cult so good so good superman was my grand morrison superman amazing amazing superman was my thing for a while until I finally got into that whole shield hydro arc nice elder god I have seen him in chichu's chat have you? okay cool head POV head POV what was his name? da da da da da govina govina hey where'd it go? uh gavino I'll try to remember the name gavino and thank him for sending you and your gang our way yes daredevil daredevil is fantastic really and daredevil is underrated well it's not as much now because the netflix tv series that came out fantastic tv series right punisher's got some great story arcs dark punisher max was absolutely amazing with barracuda kicking in that was so good that was so good hell blazer one of the most phenomenal comic book series ever created hell blazer at par with sandman but I personally prefer hell blazer hell blazer and sandman absolutely phenomenal right justice league dark is awesome really I haven't read the justice league dark stuff the recent stuff anyway v for vendetta watchman killing joker chronicles of war more I haven't read the chronicles of war more dark night returns I've read the killing joker watchman vendetta dark night for sure hello by the way hello andy how are you doing grand prix aliens vs predator vs judge red wait a second there's that triple one aliens vs predator is fantastic predator is fantastic alien is fantastic from the 1980s 1990s was really good thank you for the awesome read got to go feed the mini me it's steak and spinach nice stay stay cool guys and keep reading awesome comics you too pope and thank you for popping in I hope you enjoyed and enjoy the steak nice gaming anarchism I'm reading a comic called vinland saga right now it's a Viking revenge story and the art is amazing oh nice who wrote it gaming anarchism yeah salty durian hell blazer one of my most one of my most one of my favorite series of all time without a doubt a transmetropolitan one is amazing series what an amazing series transmetropolitan dude I grew up reading that it's sick dude I grew up reading gaming anarchism vinland saga I don't know vinland saga think dark horse comics made it dark horse comics made it vinland saga elder god save me some steak vinland saga is by Mako Yukimura really so Japanese artist Mako Yukimura it's a Japanese comic yeah oh I don't know this cool thank you for the recommendation if you're if you happen to be on our discord post your recommendations in our comic book folder that we have cause people are sharing nice recommendations for comic books there and comic book news and pics and stuff can't do later guys awesome I definitely recommend that the char development is amazing the character the char development the character development is amazing really dark horse made yeah dark horse made alien versus predator versus judge right I think yeah I have the original dark horse comics presents with aliens and predator and I have the predators first few ish well it was a four issue miniseries so I have that series oh thanks elder god okay I will join discord awesome gaming anarchism fun should we call the stream gang let's call the stream gang wait alien versus predator versus judge red is a thing okay yeah salty durian and I didn't know is there all three of them together like is there all three of them together aliens versus predator I have aliens I have predator I have judge red I have not the original from the 2000 ad stuff but the later stuff rate spider-man rates I gotta grab the spider-man's name hold on let's grab spider-man's name where's spider-man's name where's spider-man oh there he is let me grab his thing spider-man fan dude okay gang we're gonna do a rate there's a crossover comic by dark horse I guess wow really okay I'm gonna type the same game raid spider-man there's a crowd okay let's call the stream and oh that's sick I looked it up the crossover was written by John layman really cool I had no idea I had no idea there was one crazy crazy and I'm just gonna finish off with my little ending and then we're gonna raid spider-man okay as far as who I am and by the way thank you for being here gang oh yeah and if you're into mathematics everybody tomorrow we're doing a math drop-in tutoring session from 2pm PST, BDT Pacific Coast, Canada my time from the west coast of Canada so from 2-4 I'm making myself available to help people out if they want to do math okay math tutoring basically and usually we have a bunch of people that show up that love mathematics that help people out if they have questions because I mainly cover high school mathematics and there are people that come into our chat Masque of Raven, Audmic Catholic Traditionalists and there's a couple other people that come in that are their mathematics is more powerful than mine so sometimes people have questions that they help them out so it's sort of a time we put aside as sort of a community to make sure that people that need help in mathematics have at least one place they can come to to ask for help and just talk mathematics because mathematics, the language of mathematics is absolutely beautiful absolutely beautiful and powerful right so if you're into it tomorrow from 2-4 Pacific time, Pacific West Coast Canada we'll do a math drop-in tutoring session aside from that if you want to know who I am I'm on Patreon patreon.com backslashchicho c-h-y-c-h-o if you want to support this work Patreon is a fantastic way to support this project I don't put anything behind paywalls I share everything that I can and you can just follow and if you like the content after a while what we're doing and what my thesis is I'm building sort of math curriculum link in the app everywhere and I do sort of explain what my thesis is on my Patreon homepage as well Patreon is a good place to be we are live streaming this on Twitch Twitch, backslashchicho, live c-h-o-c-h c-h-y-c-h-o l-i-v-e if you want to participate in these chats live this is where you want to be at okay I do announce these streams on Twitter, Gabs, Mines VK and LO okay those are sort of the platforms I announce things on so you can follow the work there and I do share additional 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and thank you for the feedback fell one friend I'll be back for the tutoring awesome salty durian to spider-man we go ok gang we're going to spider-man I think I have to wait until we say rate now and then I can stop recording right oh I gotta rate now ok