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My friends, George, Ron and Joe, and I saved (liberated) these comics from the local paper mill back in 1965. George pitching in the backyard. He died of a heart condition back in October. We were both big fans of comic books published in the sixties. Before George went to Nam back in 1965, we visited Jerry Bails in the suburbs of Detroit. Jerry shared some new drawings he had made and we thumbed through his All Star collection.

A few silver age that I purchased recently and another that is not so recent.

I have (or had) most of those but not the Thrilling Crime. It is probably one of the best Cole covers ever. Can you post a scan with just that one? Sure. Really nice! Thanks!

I have (or had) most of those but not the Thrilling Crime. It is probably one of the best Cole covers ever. Can you post a scan with just that one?

A few more added to the pile. Special thanks to the Comic Shop in Lancaster, PA and Charlie.

These are amazingly cool. Thanks for posting them. How I wish there was a comic publisher today with the imagination, taste, and quality of DELL! Great group photo Scrooge and another reason for collecting western comics.

Very nice and some of them are really tough to find.

I have been a fan of the Flash since I read Showcase 4. It was a thrill to see the golden age flash return in Flash 123. I really like that Halloween cover. Is it in your pile?

Don Newton was one of my favorite Batman artists of all time..... such a sad end. I'd love to have that Flash painting....awesome. I love this thread and really miss the convention scene circa 70's. It was affordable and all about the fun......and when you finally found that long sought after gem, the sense of good fortune was priceless. One of my versions of Heaven is a 70's convention with 500 bucks in the pocket.....complete with the bell bottoms, dashikis, and jeans jackets. The only tweeking I might have to do would be to add all of today's lovely ladies in their costumes..... but in a way, those predominently male geek fests were fine just like they were. Things were just so simple then. GOD BLESS... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u I agree. Newton did a great job on those paintings. Below is a larger scan without the glare.

I like the Marvel Family but I wish Fawcett hadn't dumped their earlier group of heroes.

The National 18 is incomplete. All the comics in the picture are incomplete and are mostly bits and pieces. Here is one of the scans that I made of the National 18 splash.

I like Star Spangled too. Tomahawk, Robin and Newsboy Legion are my favorites.

Wow! Maybe I should get some of these graded. Selling them to me raw is another option. I'll sell you mine raw - at the right price! (Not really.) C'mon. You know you're getting tired of them! There is more to romance than just Baker. How about prices for Schomburg covers and Western Romance?

The National 18 is incomplete. All the comics in the picture are incomplete and are mostly bits and pieces.

Nice one.

\ I go Pogo....

Wow! Maybe I should get some of these graded.

Another great group shot. On a different note, does anyone know if the Dic k Tracy stories of the 40's and early 50's from Super Comics or Dic k Tracy Monthly (Dell/Harvey) are all strip reprints? I am assuming this was a strip reprint which was in Dell FC and Harvey Detective Tracy. I don't know if it was in Super which I think was entirely strip reprints of Tracy...but I think it probably was too. Do you have that one Bill...Super with the Swami story, I mean?

I am enjoying those crime comics. Especially like the stories by Montana and Briefer in CDNP.

Zip 30 It also features a great Zambini story by Paul Reinman and a Montana cover. But don't buy it because it isn't worth the money. Just walk away. Nothing to see here. These aren't the droids you were looking for.

Ace comics are fun to collect but some of the titles seem to be hard to find.

The interiors of comics published during WWII had skeins of death, destruction and horror.

Great copies of course - do you happen to know who the cover artist is Steve? The first issue has a Wolverton insert. Did Baily do some of the other others?

It's not surprising you were fooled. Midnight was intentionally a Spirit clone. Quality's publisher, Busy Arnold, was worried about Eisner being drafted. Unlike most of the other Eisner produced features for Quality, Arnold did not own The Spirit, Eisner did. Arnold could always hire other artists to continue Blackhawk, Black Condor, The Ray, etc, but if something happened to Eisner, Arnold could not just hire someone else to produce new stories. Eisner might have been gone for years, been killed in the war, or maybe their business relationship would come to an end. So in order to hedge against those risks, Arnold had Jack Cole create Midnight. Cole did some great work on the strip. Eisner may have inspired that splash and the cover above.

I like those Shelly Hawkman covers but any Flash cover is fun too.