Bob started up a website y'all can visit called www.comicspectrum.com. This jerk you all know writes regular articles and reviews for it. :)
It was a pretty long process getting Guinness to verify it. Someone in Australia claimed to have the largest comic collection, but under scrutiny it was revealed he had duplicate issues. Bob's collection has no duplicates, but that had to be verified by independent auditors before Guinness would grant him the record.
He's stated he wouldn't be surprised if someone out there could break it, but they'll need to go through the same auditing process he went through.
This is off topic a little bit, but why did he leave the comic book page podcast. I've not listened in a long time and flipped over there yesterday. I noticed that Bob's name hadn't been on a podcast in a while.
edit: it feels like forever ago that CGS hosted the Mayo Reports. I guess it's only been about a decade so it has been forever.
This is off topic a little bit, but why did he leave the comic book page podcast. I've not listened in a long time and flipped over there yesterday. I noticed that Bob's name hadn't been on a podcast in a while.
edit: it feels like forever ago that CGS hosted the Mayo Reports. I guess it's only been about a decade so it has been forever.
Without going too deeply into it, Bob wanted to create Comic Spectrum, and it would divide his time between that and what he was doing with John, so he left.
Without going too deeply into it, Bob wanted to create Comic Spectrum, and it would divide his time between that and what he was doing with John, so he left.
I figured it was something like that.
However it's a little anticlimatic. I was hoping for Bob and John trying to knife each other in Tijuana after a drunken SDCC dispute over an issue number. You know how crazy stuff gets when you hit a losing streak at a Mexican cockfighting ring.
Without going too deeply into it, Bob wanted to create Comic Spectrum, and it would divide his time between that and what he was doing with John, so he left.
I figured it was something like that.
However it's a little anticlimatic. I was hoping for Bob and John trying to knife each other in Tijuana after a drunken SDCC dispute over an issue number. You know how crazy stuff gets when you hit a losing streak at a Mexican cockfighting ring.
How the flaming blue hootie did you figure out what Joe and I have planned for our 200th episode?
Without going too deeply into it, Bob wanted to create Comic Spectrum, and it would divide his time between that and what he was doing with John, so he left.
I figured it was something like that.
However it's a little anticlimatic. I was hoping for Bob and John trying to knife each other in Tijuana after a drunken SDCC dispute over an issue number. You know how crazy stuff gets when you hit a losing streak at a Mexican cockfighting ring.
How the flaming blue hootie did you figure out what Joe and I have planned for our 200th episode?
We were trying to estimate what portion of the largest possible collection he has.
Approximately 1/3 of the individual issues printed.
Geez. My collection is pretty big, especially since I was a bottom feeder through a lot of the 90's and would buy in bulk from comic shops that were closing out ($30 a long box means you buy things you think you might read some day), but I doubt it's anywhere CLOSE to his.
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It was a pretty long process getting Guinness to verify it. Someone in Australia claimed to have the largest comic collection, but under scrutiny it was revealed he had duplicate issues. Bob's collection has no duplicates, but that had to be verified by independent auditors before Guinness would grant him the record.
He's stated he wouldn't be surprised if someone out there could break it, but they'll need to go through the same auditing process he went through.
edit: it feels like forever ago that CGS hosted the Mayo Reports. I guess it's only been about a decade so it has been forever.
Lots of comics
However it's a little anticlimatic. I was hoping for Bob and John trying to knife each other in Tijuana after a drunken SDCC dispute over an issue number. You know how crazy stuff gets when you hit a losing streak at a Mexican cockfighting ring.
Back to the drawing board...
We were trying to estimate what portion of the largest possible collection he has.
Approximately 1/3 of the individual issues printed.