a look at the registry...

OK - so not the journal I promised to write about the go-go check collection, but that journal is turning out to be more work than I anticipated. It's coming, it's coming.

Instead I thought I might write a bit about the registry - I am fascinated by the registry. And today, because of my love of Matt Baker, Jack Kamen, Rulah, Zago, & Zegra - I thought I would start with the letter Z.

In the letter Z there are 11 competitive titles, sort of; three of them have no sets: Zen, Intergalactic Ninja; Ziggy Pig Silly Seal(?); and Zoo Funnies (1945) - although I suspect Zoo Funnies will have at least one set soon, since it was just added. We can also ignore the sets for Zegra (1 set, obscured); & Zero Hour (1 set, 0 points).

This leaves Zago, Jungle Prince; Zip Comics; Zombies!: Feast; Zoot Comics; Zorro (Dell); and Zorro (Gold Key) - 3 of the 4 Zorro sets are by the same registry member - so there isn't a lot to talk about there either; although the member appears to have a couple of really nice sets with 90% of the Gold Keys and 68% of the Dell - I can't really tell though, since there are no pictures.

Zago, Jungle Prince is only a 4 book set and issue 4 has a Matt Baker cover - so I had high hopes that this might produce an attractive set to look at, but of the three registered sets there are no pictures.

Zip Comics, this should be an exciting set to view - there's 4 sets, but the top two are obscurred, and the bottom one has zero points. The only really good set belongs to Poker Kid - it isn't obscurred, and all three books have images. I think if it were me deciding, obscurred sets would be automatically eliminated from all consideration, including point totals, in competitive sets.

Zoot Comics - this should be a great competitive set, you have Rulah, Jungle Goddess in issues 8-20 (?) - Matt Baker and Jack Kamen art, bondage covers, headlights - nearly everything the GA good girl collector would want (me included) - instead 3 of the sets, including the top set, are obscurred and absolutely zero sets have any pics. Sadness...

All this leaves is Zombies!: Feast - not a set that interests me, I don't read or follow Zombie books or other zombie goodness - it just doesn't have any appeal...but - here there's actual competitiveness, 3 set with points - the top two separated by 5 points. Set two is 100% complete with 10 pics - now this is interesting. Here are images of books I'm not familiar with! Here are the unobscurred sets.

If it were me - armydoc's set for Zombies!:Feast - would be the number 1 set in all of the Z's.

Next time - let's looks at the letter Q...or R, or whatever looks cool.

In the interim, Happy Hunting.

L