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Grading should be for those in the best condition which have the most value. Lots of common books seem to be graded but aren't valuable. HIgh grade Timely sells at the top of the market, two to three times guide. HIgh grade DC superheroes seem to be priced a little above guide. Perhaps someone can give you a better idea if they know what you have. I don't see why low grade, fair to very good, books are graded. Books in poor condition are designated as readers and usually sell below guide, even if they are graded. Good Luck!

I have always found it difficult to decide on which Quality comic I want to buy. I suspect kids in the forties had the same dilemma that I had back in the sixties when Marvel started their superhero series. Buy all of them. Get a job. Beg for money and buy them all. OCD....

Great book! Congrats!! And the interior has a Rex Dexter model rocketship. Nice book. Can you provide a better scan so we can all make one.

I only have one issue of Torchy but enjoy her stories in Modern. Someone needs to sale me more...

The first 25 or so covers of Hit Comics are also pretty good.

I really like those early Police covers by Cole and the interior stories of Smash and Police. Lou Fine stories in Crack are great too.

I turned that around for you and added a few.

It sounds like a great time. Those cover recreations look especially appealing. What size are they? BZ, that is about twice up or 4x the area of the original comic. Perhaps Todd can provide a better estimate.

Thanks again, Red Fury. Maybe we can get some of those Baltimore Travelers to the BBQ next time. Philly is only 1-2 hours away.

The menu looked pretty good at Red Fury's BBQ this weekend. We admired his collection of All Star recreations by Hasen and Moldoff. He showed us some comics and pulps. I tried to put the Wonder Woman 1 back in the box with my comics but Bill was watching too closely. Todd had a lot of comics I wanted such as the Powerhouse Pepper.

Good Job. It looks really sharp. Thanks.

I still have this patriotic cover but sold my copy of this Iron Jaw cover. This scan belongs to someone else but I owned a copy for over 20 years. I have several others and enjoy the Rocky X scifi stories in the later issues.

One of my favorite runs of the GA The backup strips are usually pretty good. Black Angel, Bald Eagle, Heap and others with art by Fuje and Depreta. Bizarre battle scenes were also a highlight.

I had three set of those Tinker Toys and usually combined them with my Lionel Trains to make bridges, tunnels and auto car loaders.

My son-in-law likes full scale locomotives and O-gauge model trains and my grandson likes to go for a ride. Strasburg railroad travels from Strasburg to Paradise, PA and back. Thomas made a similar trip.

If your family likes train museums, then you might want to check out the Strasburg Train Museum. Sometimes Thomas is there and the kids can ride a real steam engine driven train.

My comic book page is small compared to that one. The whole family enjoyed Geppi's Entertainment museum although my grandson thought the Superman statue was kind of scary. I liked the cowboy stuff and the comics.

I visited a pretty nice collection this weekend and found a lot of Big LIttle Books. BZ's Hat Some of my lost Howdy Doody toys. And took a call for Batman which my grandson wanted to answer... Where was I?

Found it! Yeah, Blue Ribbon Vol. #2, #2. From what I can see it's a 3 issue run with #'s 1 & 3 being Heckle & Jeckle covers?!?!? GCD lists it as 6 issues, 3 of which are romance books LINK The Diary Secrets run is one of the most convoluted and confusing in comic history. This is about the simplest way I've found to outline the lineage of the run: Blue Ribbon #2 is the first issue of the series that would eventually become Diary Secrets. It's the first comic to bear that title. Blue Ribbon #4 (titled Teen-Age Diary Secrets) is DS #2, and Blue Ribbon #5 (also titled TADS) is DS #3. Then, the series officially titled Teen-Age Diary Secrets begins, correctly numbered #4. The following issue has no number, and no indicia, but is TADS #5. The numbering is picked up again with #6, and the series runs through issue #9. (#7 and #9 are digest sized issues, with identical contents, but different covers.) Finally, the series officially titled Diary Secrets begins with issue #10, and runs through #30. (With the exception of issues 21, 22, and 23, all of the stories in Diary Secrets #10 through #30 were reprinted from other St. John titles, and from earlier Ziff-Davis romance titles. Only the covers were new.) You forgot to mention that obvious giant size issue published by St. Johns.

I like Bob Fuje's artwork. I would like to see those dailies again. Fuje's Hangman was something special and he did great work for Hillman, Harvey and Continental as well.

Me too!!!

I like that Gorilla Love cover.

I think Best of the Best would be the exclusive class for those three.

It isn't easy to find some of those TAR issues. I could use that 23.

Found it! Yeah, Blue Ribbon Vol. #2, #2. From what I can see it's a 3 issue run with #'s 1 & 3 being Heckle & Jeckle covers?!?!? GCD lists it as 6 issues, 3 of which are romance books LINK I thought John Selegue and I had posted the info on that Blue Ribbon issue (4) a few years ago. One of us sent the info to GCD too. They still use my scan anyway.