I spent some time yesterday afternoon opening boxes of comics that folks have sent in for Len Wein. I was doing this with the aid of my trusty assistant…who I am sadly losing to a TV writing job. Why would she want to do something like that when she can help me open crates of Brother Voodoo comics?
Two quick observations. One is that a lot of folks are shipping me comics they'd never told me (via e-mail) that they were sending…so Len is going to wind up with some duplicates because other people have also sent those comics. We're going to figure out something fair to do with duplicates because it's darn near impossible to just return them. (You should see the filing system we've got going on my office floor.) I think we'll attempt to trade them to dealers for other comics we need and if we can't manage that, they'll be sold off for or donated to some worthy charity. Nothing will go to waste.
Other quick observation: I don't know if everyone loved the Legends mini-series Len did in 1986-1987 or hated it but everyone wants to send a set. I wrote to one person and told him we already had one but we'd like some of the other comics he offered. He wrote back that we couldn't have the other comics unless we also took his collection of Legends.
Anyway, I've uploaded an updated list to the "Let's Restore Len Wein's Comic Book Collection" Project website. As you can see, we've made great progress…way more than I was expecting. I was thinking about some major promotion/collection at this year's Comic-Con International but I suspect we'll have restored the collection before then. At this rate, we might do it by June. Thanks to all of you for proving that a diet of super-hero comics creates heroic, generous people.