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I enjoy reading Ghost Rider because of the Ayers art and the cool Spiderman mask.

:"The Magic Hourglass" is one of my favorite stories. Reminds me of Lawrence of Arabia.

Those are great JB. I like the Our Flag cover. Didn't you mention that Mooney was a little concerned about adding all of the little details in that one.

I always loved these type of covers also, as a kid, Strange Adventure, Mystery in Space & My Greatest Adventure were the first books I grabbed. I was slow to pick up on the sci-fi comics after the superheroes returned in the silver age but once Adam Strange was added to MIS, all of them were on my buy list.

and I don't think I see that one very often. Maybe issues near the end of the run are more rare.

What a great job. When did he do that recreation?

The story published in USA was a little different. "Finally, the two brothers collaborated on a neatly typed letter stating that one of them was a high school art teacher who was planning a class that would include a discussion of comic art, specifically Disney comic art. In particular, the “teacher” wanted to write to the artist who had been doing the Disney Duck stories for the last 15 years to ask about the technical side of writing and drawing comics. A woman at editorial in Disney wrote back with the name and address of Carl Barks. John Spicer wrote a letter to Barks on April 11, 1960. Since it was the first real fan letter Barks had received, he was suspicious about it. Finally, Barks wrote back."

I didn't know that. Nor had I seen the first Barks cartoon as far as I recall - must not be in the AR Barks library. So thanks for posting those! Me either although I had seen the cartoons. Is this the book and therefore basis for Malcolm Willits (and the Spicer boys) "discovering" that "The Good Duck Guy" was Carl? If that's so, it ain't exactly Columbo grade detective work, which I find kind of deflating. Oh well . . . Willits probably didn't use the book to track him down. The first letter to Willits is dated 1957 which predates the book (1960). Perhaps I am wrong but I have always connected the two. It is still the only publication with credit for Barks at the time. Bill or John Spicer's fan letter to Barks is dated April or May 1960.

That's a terrific bunch of comics to salivate over. Can you post the Batman 41 recreation for dessert?

I am a big fan of DC science fiction comics. Here is a group shot of some of my Strange Adventure comics. I purchased many of these during my teenage years in the sixties.

Hawkman by Kubert is the closest thing to Raymond's Hawkmen and Viking Prince is a wonderful homage to Foster's Prince Valiant.

I think that is a foot foul but love the sensational cover.

Three great books I agree

This is a page by Cole, I think. It isn't really a splash but it is a...well, I don't know what to call it.

and Barks received credit for drawing "The Lemonade King" which was the key to the discovery of the "Good Duck Artist". Yes, I know you know since you are checking this thread but I don't see a lot of scans of other collector copies posted on this thread.

The Eyeopener has Barks' first published cartoon, which everyone has seen, and his second which isn't seen as often.

I feel like I had Gladstone's luck when I found two of these but I like the reprint book a lot too.

These are fun titles to collect.

Supersnipe liked the Shadow too. Blackstone did this little illo. Some of the Blackstone covers were done by EC Stoner.

I still have a lot of my original Superboy collection and some (85-100) that I purchased at the corner drug store.

You and me both! Here is a lsightly larger version. check out my Flickr site for full size Jo Jo 8

Here's a good one from Daredevil 2.

Sharing some Jo Jo joy here.

Twisty, those are nice splash pages by Palais...and here's another.