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I think this photo was also in a copy of Alter Ego. It contains your comic which induced me to buy a copy of my own.

I posted a couple of items about Ed Lahmann several years ago. He was a comic guru that taught us new collectors how to collect golden age comics from different companies. I asked Jerry Bails for a copy of this article many years ago and he sent me some scans.

I sold a few of my Ace comics issues but never saw any replacements. A few others appeared on the market and I got one or two.

I purchased my copy of Laughing Dragon from Roger at Sandlin Toys. I was present the day he purchased an upgrade and I jumped on the old copy. I hesitated when offered his other copy of John Carter and still haven't picked one up.

I am a fan too. I think Maximo got me interested and Flash Gordon issues always seemed special to me.

All of my other Four Color comics are different from Four Color 178.

Don signed my copy at the local comic show many years ago (1990s).

I think my copy of Hangman 6 has a tape pull on the front. I took it out with photoshop. I wasn't trying to sell it. I just wanted it to look good.

My copy is in better condition but not super glossy like yours. Color is dim because I took a box of Detective comics to an outdoor BBQ in Ft. Washington (thanks again Red Fury). It was difficult to photograph in bright light.

Not sure how this guy could survive the Hangman but perhaps his diet helps.

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I noticed the earlier issues featured a few extra Marvel Family characters on the cover but later covers featured the main three.

My brother and I worked paper routes for extra cash and picked up pop bottles to cash in at 2 cents per each. Comics were a dime at the drug store but 5 cents at the local Mom and Pop grocery. After 1961, I was on an allowance which increased to 2 dollars a week by the time I finished high school.

For every great buy there is an equal great loss in collecting. I traded away $10K for Four Color 199 back in the eighties. I am the older and less wiser of the two in the picture and "No" my copy of FC 199 was not that big. We took the pic in Disneyworld back in 1994.

When I started collecting Uncle Scrooge, I had my brothers collection which started at issue 5 and jumped to 15. I probably traded his earlier issues for Superman comics. However, I filled in the gap and purchased the earlier issues. The final missing issue was the Christmas issue from 1963 which I purchased from Beerbohm. This underground classic was a favorite. (all of them were until about 50)

I think I paid $20 for two comics but this was one of them twenty years ago.

The Black Cat was a bondage queen like Betty Page.

Hey I recognize that guy from Clue comics...

It is kind of funny when you think that Harvey had to have a cat on the cover (or a guy in a cat costume) after they dropped Black Cat adventure for generic horror comics. By the time issue 46 came around they changed their logo to suggest the Mystery was no longer an issue and no cats were necessary on the cover.

I like those Black Cat issues with motorcycle covers.

In case you wanted to read the early Phantom story about the Sky Band and you couldn't find Ace 12-30. The story was also reprinted as a Big Little Book entitled Sky Pirates. It starts a little later than Ace 12, I think.

I've been attached to Planets for a while. Caught in their web sort of...