So I've been blogging my li'l heart out, logging in during conventions, while sitting in restaurants, before I eat breakfast, whenever -- but none of it counts as posts at the CBGXtra website? I'm stuck at 998 posts until I formally join in discussions elsewhere on the site? What is this? Dang!

Oh, well, life is good. Gemstone's Two-Fisted Tales Vol. 2 in its The EC Archives set looks gorgeous, and a Day with Kurtzman is a Day of Artistic Delight.

And a friend just called, having uncovered an Ella Cinders pinback involved with something about a Lucky Number and the New York Evening Journal. If the number on the pin was in the paper, there'd be delightful prizes. Couldn't find anything on it in the 5th edition of Hake's Price Guide to Character Toys, for starters. The strip ran from 1925 to 1961, and I remember reading it in The Pittsburgh Press in the 1950s -- though never involving pinbacks. Does anyone out there have information for my friend? My status as an expert may be in jeopardy. (Mind you, an expert is just a person who knows whom to ask. And I'm asking you.)

And now it's time to fix dinner. Still stuck at 998 posts.