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Yes, it was one of my three favorite Supersnipe covers and the Shadow Comic has the first Supersnipe story. bb

This group shot may not make sense but they are all books that I picked up recently and are part of my collection now. I was especially happy to pick up the America's Best 25 since I think it is Schomburg's anniversary issue.

I like this cover and fortunately it has been stored properly which reduces fading. It looks like Baker had touched it up. Interior story seems like Baker pencils.

Here is a scan. The resolution of many pictures is very good but some are a little fuzzy. I think more than one camera was used.

I have a little time to clean out the basement and garage this summer but I stop whenever I find something interesting. BZ mentioned photographs from Jerry Bails a few months ago. I put all of mine in an album which I stored away in the basement. Here is the album and a few of the pictures. I will scan some of the others which may work a little better even though they are just black and white photos. But as you said, it was probably the first time I saw many of those covers. bb

Two airplanes, one pilot...

It should be Detective 225 because the Martian Manhunter was really the first silver age superhero.

I have never found any original comic pages with Nemo although I am sure someone has plenty but there are some great reprint books such as the one described in Brent Swanson's review seen below. "Give Checker Book Publishing their due: they have mined the Winsor McCay motherload with great diligence. The physical dimensions of their books have often resulted in reprints that are of academic value only, but even that is better than all the gaps that have existed between infrequent and incomplete printings of "Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend" and "Little Nemo." McCay's work is not easy to reprint. Source material is not easily found. And McCay didn't think or work small. This was an artist who cut his artistic teeth creating circus posters. As a vaudeville performer, he brought a full-sized dinosaur onstage. So we make do with this thick, 9 X 12 volume, and second volume of what is to date the most complete reprinting of McCay's classic Sunday page strip. The strips start in 1909 in the original "Slumberland" run, then continue with the 1911 thru 1914 run under the "In the Land of Wonderful Dreams" title, and then jump to 1924 for the final "Slumberland" run of nearly two years. The dimensions of these reprints are approximately the same as those of the Remco/Fantagraphics/Evergreen volumes overseen by Richard Marschall and (later) Bill Blackbeard. The color values in those earlier volumes were a bit better, but Checker has done nearly as well. Is this volume the last word as far as completeness is concerned? Well, Bill Blackbeard claimed, in the early '90s, to be in possession of an unpublished "Slumberland" page from 1926 and to know the whereabouts of one or two others. These don't seem to have made it into this volume. And this volume is missing the final "Wonderful Dreams" strip that appears in the second Sunday Press volume. Given McCay's prolificacy, there could be even more hitherto unknown Nemo gems out there, but carping about their absence here would be as useless as complaining that this book doesn't measure up to the giant volumes from Sunday Press. What Checker has accomplished is to finally brings us a complete run of the strip as it is known to exist. It has taken from the first efforts of other publishers in the mid-'70s till now for this to happen, and we should be grateful to have it. " You can find these listed at Amazon. I have a lot of Nemo scans which someone made from similar reprints, I think. They are all amazing and his editorial cartoons are pretty impressive too. Thanks BZ.

I am still working on 1-100 but I collect 101-200 when I can find them.

I managed to pick up an Action 38 to add to my beat pile of Action comics.

I like those silver age Detective comics.

The colors help too.

Windsor's Nemo had a unique style which reminds me of Escher.

Here is another reason...

Great movie poster! My wife keeps threatening to collect vintage movie posters. As for the bit I bolded... Or is it just me? Shirley was never as glamorous as Dorothy Malone but she made a good comic partner with Jerry. She has always been a wonderful actor and filled out the Bat Lady costume.

You have probably mentioned this movie before but I saw it recently and noticed the numerous comic book references. Dean takes a job drawing Jerry's favorite character, Bat Lady. Jerry has read so many comics, he dreams about the characters and talks in his sleep. Dean listens to the dreams and incorporates the stories into the comic book plots. A young Shirley Maclaine is the model for Bat Lady and she falls in love with Jerry's character but doesn't want him to know she is Bat Lady. Unfortunately the movie includes a scene where Jerry denounces comics which have caused him to be retarded. Still a nifty approach to comics censorship, blood, gore and superheroes.

I don't think I posted this group shot on the Cap thread...so here it is./

(worship) (worship) Wow. Cap leading the charge of the Russian tank corps. I wonder what would have happened if this cover was reused in the 50s! Then Cap would be leading a German tank to Moscow against Russian soldiers. IN the 50s,Cap would have to lead Sherman tanks into battle against Koreans in Russian T-34 tanks. I would hope the British supplied some tanks too. Otherwise...

This cover is similar to the EC Christmas cover but a related story didn't appear until WDCS 75. I suspect that Donald would have preferred to feast on Bucky Bug's family and relatives with a side order of salad. However this story ended up well for the turkeys.

I enjoy reading those Bucky Bug adventures. A large collection of stories was published along with the early Barks, many years ago by Abbeville Press and is probably available for fans that don't want to invest in early WDCS.

I love the fact that they are sitting on a bunch of golden age comics and a bunch are on the ground too, like palm leaves.

Picked this up from PopKulture on Flickr. It was published as a calender.

Nice bunch of comics and the interiors have very creative stories. No one has an arm burned off or a needle in the eye and no half dressed damsel in distress or secret pictures within pictures.

Apparently, the movie cost someone his job. I thought it was great and it was popular in Europe and etc. However, it didn't tie in with any current TV shows, have any flesh eating Zombies or feature a teenage music star. Perhaps marketing for the teens might have helped. Or supplying free copies of ERB to middle school kids who have been forced to read Mark Twain stories that need annotations. By the way, I thought the jumping scenes were spectacular. Was it the 3D effect or did they seem the same in 2D.

Although I am a big Julie Newmar fan, I saw this picture of Lisa Gaye and thought she might have been a great choice to play Catwoman. I saw her on a late night re-run of Sea Hunt and wondered who she was. Her sister is Debra Paget, from Prince Valiant and others. She also co-starred in "Rock Around the Clock" and other teenage hits from the old days.