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Great run. The Yankee #1 is a great cover. (thumbs u

Well done. It took 10 hours to track it down, that is an eternity on this site. Usually that will mean no one knows the answer, much less be able to post a page to go with it.

My biggest week (shows how cheap I am compared to the big boys around here). While I usually stick to card covers, I also want to collect my top 10 covers (and 2 honorable mentions). This week, I added two of those covers in two days. The CDNP came from a deal on the boards and this Air Fighters was picked up on eBay and benefited the Heroes Initiative, as well as my collection. For me it was a tossup between this and the incredible Valkyrie cover five issues earlier. The colors on this issue always grab my attention and ultimately the lower price tag made it an easy choice to make. Low page quality, but also meant I got a book that looks more like an 8.0 before it took the PQ hit. Then this baby. Best cover ever. My other top ten covers I still need to pick up: Human Torch #12 (need to sell a kidney first) Fight Against Crime #20 (need to wait for someone who owns one to die so it can be sold again) Fighting Yank #23 (I'd swear these used to be available and affordable) Remember Pearl Harbor and my honorable mention: Rifleman #10 (need a nice CGC)

This board and the people on it rock. Socratic Wonder (and at least one other bidder) left me in the dust on a 4.0 of this book on ComicLink recently. Then he sold his copy to GreatEscape, who apparently had this measly 3.0. GreatEscape then flipped his 3.0 to me, who sent my check for the 3.0 to Socratic Wonder as partial payment for Great Escape's book. As all these shenanigans are going on, everyone trusted each other enough to put the books and money in the mail. I've got the book and I don't even know if the check has made it to the bank yet. Now I just need to crack this out of the slab so I can find out about The Mystery of Indian D*ck. So, anyone got a Fight Against Crime #20 they want to sell?

It's good to be the king, but he sure seems to pop out of his card a lot.

Not old (published in 1997). These were limited to 100 copies each and sold for about $10. Great research articles and art featuring the Shadow and other great pulps. Here are Aces 8-14. The cover art is done by Paul M. McCall.

Two of my all time favorite covers in one shot. Awesome.

What a great book to make your first post here. Welcome.

I love when comic books use the back cover for story instead of ads. Four Color seemed to do that better than most.

Great looking copy of my most sought after cover.

Metropolis filling in some empty slots in my niche. The Mr. DA is a Crippen. Nothing remarkable about the others.

If you find a crappy #24 I might still be interested. (Nice book Twistty1)

This is one tough charity to find any information about. GuideStar doesn't list them among the 1.7 million verified non-profits and the only information I can find seems to come from the Collectibles with Causes folks soliciting donations. I can't find any complaints or any info on them helping folks. Withcauses: Got a tax ID number you can share?

Wow, now that is the boards paying off in one beautiful book. Great team effort.

I hadn't made the connection, but I'd have sworn this was Randolph Scott. Now I'm sure it must be.

Well I picked up my most wanted pulp - the 1943 Star Western. I saw the cover art in a pulp calendar and bought the calendar just to find out where the art came from. I stumbled across this one - a Bethlehem pedigree - when i was buying another Bethlehem book from the same dealer. Now I can put that poker-playing Popeye at the top of my want list. The Bethlehem: Other pulps picked up this week:

Three Bethlehems for my collection - first for me of this pedigree. Western Rough Riders #1 Ghost Stories #11 And even a pulp - December 1943

With all those holes, I'm surprised it went for that much.

Kudos to joker-fish for the set of Marvels. After the deal was done and paid for, he tossed in a very nice copy of Marvels #0 to round out the complete set.

I don't post many moderns that are added to my collection, but the cover by Gabriele Dell'Otto on this Superman/Batman is spectacular. (This is the French Edition - based on that Frenchy looking writing on the back, limited to 2,000, but I got a C- in French in high school, so it could be saying there are 2,000 gerbils eating lettuce for all I know.)

Not only is that a great card cover, it has the sleeve of tattoos to go with it. Great books. Thanks Cimm. I am going to have a hard time finding them, but I love knowing they are there.

I saw those at Verzyl's booth and was mightily tempted; nice pickups fo some fun books, Mark! Awesome group.

I hoped to find a better copy in SD, but struck out.

All of a sudden I seem to have hit a run of picking up pedigree books. First this Crippen, then some Bethlehems, which are on their way. Very happy because mostly I have been settling for lower-grade fillers.

Beautiful.