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And I found a couple of new scans from Goldenagecomics.co.uk that gave me a big chuckle. I love them giant robots and I like the work of Lilly Renee. bb

This thread would die if not for contributions by you, BB-Gun, and others who post so many great covers and stories. That's what keeps me and others interested. Thanks, guys. Your welcome BZ. As I said before, I am just stirring the soup while the Chef is out of the kitchen. I don't have much to contribute when you dig out all of those Spicy and Adventure pulps. But I did find a 1929 pulp in my collection and spotted an ad that gave me a thrill. "Like floating on a cloud" sounds about right, A Heritage Softtail is about as close as you can get to riding on a cloud. bb

I scanned another motorcycle cover and added my scan of Cap America 41 which should be a Harley based on the shifter location. The Charlie Chan motorcycle has a side car and I don't have any idea what the model is. I bought this issue on a cold morning in November in a parking lot. I was probably the only person to be outdoors shopping at the flea market on that day. It was a Gerber 8 no-show to my suprise.. bb

Ryan, Please post your scans. I think most of the scans available for Silver Streak are from fiche and are not good quality. They are readable and I enjoyed SS 6 and SS 7 as fiche scans but I have a SS 9 scan that is from paper and much better quality. Some of the scans are also in Black and White. The scans below are from 10 and 11 in fiche and 9 from paper. bb

The Gremlin covers could be considered a war time theme. I think they were part of the home front propaganda campaign to encourage better quality, greater productivity and less errors. I don't think they were really looking for spies or thought that they were wrecking planes. Below is my beat up copy of the cover which has some repair work. bb WHOOOOOOO -- I didn't know this issue was on my want list until just now! What a great Kelly cover! I see that there's a 2-page Gremlin Gus and the Widgets story by Kelly in the issue. Donald's not in it, is he? Were there any actual crossovers between the Gremlins and Donald or any other Disney character? Is this cover the only example? Jack I can't answer any of your questions about the interior other than what you found in the GCD. All I have is a cover. I have several coverless issues between 11 and 47 but no 34. I also have a Vacation Parade 1 cover but I have a complete copy too. Does anyone have the interior for either of these comics? The cover of WDCS seldom refered back to the interior stories and Barks didn't do the covers until issue 95. I have another comic with the Wise Little Hen story which includes Donald. This may be a cross over but there are other stories like Mickey's Fire Brigade which I think included Donald. The story is mostly Text like several other early WDCS stories. Mickey and Donald were also on the cover of 33 and 41 (although MM is not in the Duck in Iron Pants story). The first crossover cover would be issue 3 with Donald and Pluto. I think since these characters started together, a crossover wouldn't be considered unusual in the early issues. But the Barks stories were consistent and generated a world separate from MM after Donalds' introduction as the featured character in the magazine. bb

Correct! I think the latest ad that we found was for All Star 50. The issue #57 ad is bogus. It was noted in the All Star Companion that the comic was not advertised very much near the end of the run. By the way the last Companion was pretty good. Check it out if you don't have a copy. bb

Find the bogus ad. The same ad was used at least three times but I changed one of them can you guess which? bb

Doctor Death and Power Nelson are using the same secret code! The JJSA liked to change their codes often. I guess they wanted something for the new readers. bb

The Gremlin covers could be considered a war time theme. I think they were part of the home front propaganda campaign to encourage better quality, greater productivity and less errors. I don't think they were really looking for spies or thought that they were wrecking planes. Below is my beat up copy of the cover which has some repair work. bb

I have always liked this Vacation Parade issue. Three stories by Barks (55 pages total) and one of them is 33 pages long. bb

The Weird Tales that I posted were from 1944 to 1949. Perhaps production was cheaper. I don't have an early Weird Tales to compare but I assume that the paper quality was better in the 1930s. Perhaps they paid more for Howard's stories too. bb

Who is the artists? Sometimes I have to see the name in big letters. bb

I have to agree with that - beautiful books. The Ditko cover is part of my collection and I have the Cole cover plus the Fox but all of them have been cleaned up by photoshop. The Everett cover was found on the boards and probably the Bailey cover too. I was just trying to keep the thread going with some of my favorites but now I have to search for artists with names that begin with G, H and I. bb

and Fox. After all Frazetta only did one horror cover unless you include Ghost Rider. bb

I get a chuckle out of this one. Love is never having to say you're sorry. Or excuse me cause my face just fell off. bb

and D is for Ditko (you know Everett has to be next).

So I guess these Fox covers don't work for you. bb I found these on line in a shared file.

[ Thanks! GCD: Planet Comics #24 1940 Series - Fiction House, May 1943 ["Mars, the outlaw god, forever schemes to plunge..."] (Sequence 1 - Story , 10 pages ) Feature Story: Mars, God of War Credits: ? [as Ross Gallun] (-script), Joe Doolin (Pencils), Joe Doolin (Inks), ? (Colors), ? (Letters). A full decade before the covers I was asking about. Did you mean Doolin, is the GCD credit wrong, or were you just comparing to Powell's work? Does anyone have a scan of the published page? Do you own the original page or just scavenged it from Heritage? Jack Do I ask too many questions? Jack, I also found that I have issue 24 and below is posted a scan as requested. bb

OK, I'm just mumbling to myself in the corner, but here's another cover with the same technique from Oct 1953 by Murphy Anderson. Phantom Stranger 4 is Feb-Mar 1953 by Carmine Infantino. Maybe the technique was more common than I think but I'm just noticing it here. Jack Jack, I notice that the original art for Mars has a note that the engraver suplied the blue ink job. Mars was supposed to be invisible in the story and usually apeared as that ghostly image. I have noticed that Powell used that technique a lot. I think he probably asked for blue or green for some or his horror/ghost stories. bb Thanks! GCD: Planet Comics #24 1940 Series - Fiction House, May 1943 ["Mars, the outlaw god, forever schemes to plunge..."] (Sequence 1 - Story , 10 pages ) Feature Story: Mars, God of War Credits: ? [as Ross Gallun] (-script), Joe Doolin (Pencils), Joe Doolin (Inks), ? (Colors), ? (Letters). A full decade before the covers I was asking about. Did you mean Doolin, is the GCD credit wrong, or were you just comparing to Powell's work? Does anyone have a scan of the published page? Do you own the original page or just scavenged it from Heritage? Jack Do I ask too many questions? Jack, I think Doolin was responsible for the Mars art but I was also thinking of examples where Powell had used the same technique. I have a True Sports issue where Powell used the technique and it was probably also used for the Shadow. Examples of Doolin (I think) and Powell work below. The original art was scavenged from Heritage by someone and posted on Goldenagecomics.UK. bb

and you could probably post covers by Cole for a long time. You even have two choices for Cole (LB or Jack). bb This was posted by someone else.

B is for Baily or Blaine if you are doing pulps. bb

OK, I'm just mumbling to myself in the corner, but here's another cover with the same technique from Oct 1953 by Murphy Anderson. Phantom Stranger 4 is Feb-Mar 1953 by Carmine Infantino. Maybe the technique was more common than I think but I'm just noticing it here. Jack Jack, I notice that the original art for Mars has a note that the engraver suplied the blue ink job. Mars was supposed to be invisible in the story and usually apeared as that ghostly image. I have noticed that Powell used that technique a lot. I think he probably asked for blue or green for some or his horror/ghost stories. bb

Seems like popping out of a grave should be horror but does the hat make it only a western? bb

Some, like this one, are from an original owner collection. BZ, Perhaps you do have a thing for Killer Frogs. I think the aquarium in Baltimore or some place that I visited had a lot of Killer Frogs. Beautiful in real life. Tiny but deadly. That is a great cover by the way. And I also liked the giant tiger cover. The sabre tooth tiger in 10,000BC reminded me of that cover. Pretty neat graphics and a plot too. I think I might have liked the movie a little more than the Iron Man movie which I think would have been ordinary without Robert Downey. bb

And for some reason the ad doesn't match the cover. I find this peculiar. Fox usually printed the correct cover in their advertisements. I have a comic that advertises Mystery Men 5 which is why I recognized the cover. I know that Harvey printed a lot of advertisements for comics that never appeared like Flash Gordon, Boy Explorers, and Flying Fool. Strange and too bad since I think Briefer's work was pretty good. I would like to see more of his sci-fi and more Montana Superheroes. bb