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Got a new Tip Top Tarzan for the T-box.

That makes sense but Lady Doom does look like she may be familiar with the use of a whip. Unfortunately not a choice though there are more listed inside. Turns out that the wheel falls in between rope and water so Tim Holt / Red Mask gets tied to a mill wheel - Here's the Ghost Rider splash b/c it's also cool I do like that splash by Ayers. Some pretty good Ghost Rider stories were in Tim Holt.

Splashes from Action and Adventure. Baily was one of the best and who doesn't like Meskin. Even Robinson and Kirby sang his praises.

I've never even heard of a Nazi slave ship. But the book is cool Yet another dramatic chapter in the history of the British Navy was written when on February 16 H.M.S. "Cossack" pursued the Nazi slave-ship "Altmark" into a Norwegian fjord and rescued 299 British prisoners at the point of the bayonet. Below is a recapitulation of the episode based on Admiralty statements and eye-witness stories. The slave ship was almost home. Two months and more had passed since she parted company from the "Admiral Graf Spee" after receiving from the pocket battleship her last captures of British prisoners. That was on December 6, somewhere in the South Atlantic, and since then while the "Graf Spee" was resting and sinking ever deeper into the Montevidean sandbank, the "Altmark" had ploughed a zigzag course heading northward. She reached at last the cold waters of Iceland, and now turned south past the towering cliffs of Norway. On February 14 she got into Norwegian territorial waters of Trondheim Fjord and (according to the Norwegian Prime Minister) was stopped and "examined" by a Norwegian torpedo boat. She was allowed to continue her journey, but next day, 100 miles north of Bergen, was again stopped by a Norwegian warship, and refused a request that she should be searched. The afternoon of Friday, February 16, found her approaching Norway's southernmost point; a very short distance beyond lay the Skagerrak, safety, and home... HMS Cossack and crew which liberated the British prisoners.

According to "The Art of Glamour" interview, he was paid $35 per page for pencils, inks and lettering. Did he make more than Schomburg or less for his covers? I don't know but he should have made an equal amount. He was also responsible for the entire package as art director. When Schomburg worked for Harvey, the covers were sometimes described separately in the text stories. It seemed like St. Johns treated Baker fairly but Fox ripped off everyone. Fiction House was a shop that took a percentage of everyone's paycheck.

Barks original art. Hey you, come off of that cloud. Those are printer proofs. They are comic size in black and white.

There was a nice splash in Headline 18 and most of the art on those characters was done by Charles Voight, I think. I like that splash by Binder as well but you probably would have to go to Prize (49) for that one.

NIce group of Westerns...and war comics.

I added another to my favorite Captain Marvel issues. I still have a few more in the box.

I was a fan of Hopalong when he was on TV. We usually saw Roy Rogers on TV too but Randolph Scott was the man who made my favorite western movies when I was a kid. The Saturday Matinee was usually a western and a Bowery Boys movie starring Huntz Hall and Leo Gorcey. Just picked up a couple of additional Frazetta covers. They all look good together but still missing several good ones.

Was this cover by Fine or Crandall or...?

I like that cover but had to photoshop my scan a little. Oops, he moved his foot.

There are lots of Spirit comics available on ebay. I find them at the flea market as well. The one on the right center fell out while I was looking at some Sunday pages. I purchased both.

It may be his first book but it still isn't signed by Barks...and Ghost Morgan's Treasure was published before Green Serpent, I think.

I like the Lone Ranger books and Wash Tubbs too.

Congratulations! That's a great looking group of books. Thanks BZ Wow! Nice haul Bill! Next time I'm over I'm gonna read that Popeye one! And I want to read those Mickey Mouse books, Treasure Island, Bat Bandit and Blaggard Castle. Is the Popeye and the Jeep story the same as the Four Color comic?

awesome book, grats on the acquisition. I to am looking for a copy, trying to obtain something 6.0-7.5 A nice Jack Katz cover according to Jim V.

Nice batch of books Bill.

I want one too. The cover always reminds me of Tec 54.

from Air Fighters 10

I am not sure about BB 4 but most if not all of these covers are by Ayers

Dang! That's a dynamite copy, Dan. Congrats. SLR +1 I finally got around to adding another BB to my collection, I could not resist this copy. I like any of those Kubert covers for Brave and the Bold. I posted these in group shots but they need to be here too.

Some of Barks monsters were pretty scary.

I like this one. Alan, like Brando and James Dean, seemed to prefer the Triumph to Harley or Indian. They were supposed to be faster, I think. Elvis rode a Harley and Roy Rogers road an Indian. Jack, Dennis and Peter rode custom Harleys... and I used to ride a Suzuki.

The original art to one of these splash pages still exists, hand-colored. I saw it at a museum exhibit in Atlanta about 8 years ago. It must have been part of the comic book artist exhibit that Jerry Robinson put together. I saw it at the Jewish Art Museum in NYC but don't remember the splash.