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You guys may not be impressed by this, but I am: The autograph of the father of the Hydrogen Bomb and the great rival to Oppenheimer the father of the A-Bomb.

There is a lot of history on this board. Bruce Hamilton, Theo Holstein, and this board's own Mitch Mehdy basically doubled the price of Action 1 from $1K to $2k in about a year or so. The market making just accelerated after that.

I'm impressed!

I believe it was a D27 in 1990 (Allentown I think) sold by Metro to the Dentist. The highest price paid in the 1970s was $17.5K by Geppi for a MC 1. As context, the first comic to break $1K was an Action 1 bought by Bruce Hamilton in 1973.

Now you're choking me up. An increasingly frequent thing in this age of Covid. Family matters.

What a great little memento!

Samson is a superhero.

It's definitely a superhero comic with a superhero cover, so I think it does not qualify as a non-superhero comic. It also has one of the very best anti-Jap and anti-German WWII covers of the GA (which is cover dated December 1941 pre-Pearl Harbor), which matters a lot in a world where Suspense 3 is the leading candidate for non-superhero comic values.

$116,512.00 at Heritage on 2008/11/12. So its on my list of contenders. But I think it has a long way to go to reach a mark that 9.4 AS 8 and 9.4 CA 1 have not yet broken.

Very Zen. The problem is that they may exist in the Dentist's collection. Begging the question that if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around does it make a sound?

Having said what I just said about how the article lost me on the first paragraph, I need to clarify that was just your logic. I thought it was well-written and interesting and agree with Shadroch. I just think previews are never "first appearances" of any sort.

100% agree. The article lost me on the first paragraph: Superman, for example, "appeared" in preview ads before Action 1. But no serious collector would call that a first appearance.

Extremely unlikely. The MH/Church Suspense 3 (9.2) is the record holder for non-superhero comics at $262K. Other potential contenders (Archie 1, Detective 1, Planet 1, Startling 49, WDC&S 1) have yet to break $200K. The only one that could break $500K in the next five years or so, I think, would be a really really high grade Detective 1, and I don't know if such a comic exists.

I think you mean CJ 127, and that is a cool cover. There are other magazine C&H covers by Watterson, mainly when he did interviews. I am looking for actual comics.

They are missing these official U.S. publications (which I just acquired and are why I posed the question), but I'll be sending some to them soon: This unofficial cover appearance: And these foreign comics:

Another reason I think Sickles may have been involved, beyond his relationship with Copp, is this piece that sold at an auction of men working on an Atomic plant: Why was he drawing Nuclear plants? But it is all a guess.

This is a poster by Noel Sickles that makes me think his hand (or at least great influence) is present in the portrayals of machinery in The Atomic Revolution comic book which is also high contrast and very clean. My supposition is also based on the fact that Sickles had done work for the US Air Force in 1955 and General Dynamics was one of his clients at points during his advertising career: Other examples of Noel Sickles from around the time period of The Atomic Revolution includes these:

I'm pretty proud of a comic book and record (and map, and booklet, and letter from the CEO) set I just picked up. It is a General Dynamics promotional piece: It features a comic book, "The Atomic Revolution," which is copyrighted by M. Phillip Copp, Copp, a leading producer of giveaway comics for industrial companies, had been an agent, and represented Noel Sickles in the 1940s. The art definitely has a Noel Sickles influence in the use of heavy blacks and contrast (apologies, these pics are from my undercopy and I'm hoping to get decent scans later): While press reports say a "team" of artists drew the book, the style is very consistent and the only artist actually identified as having some involvement was Sam Citron. Citron started as an artist for DC on Superman, then did westerns, romance, and adventure titles for a variety of publishers in the later 1940s and 1950s. He also did art for Classics Illustrated and horror stories for Eerie and Creepy in the 1960s. I'm not sure what Citron's art would look like on a project like this, but we know he was involved somehow because here is a picture of Copp and Citron reviewing the original art for page 30 of the comic http://web.archive.org/web/20030729001544im_/http://greg.org/images/m_philip_copp_samuel_citron.jpg I'm just not entirely convinced from what I've seen of Sam Citron's art this is his, but some panels do appear to have the clean DC style and could be by someone who did a lot of romance. In fact, it is almost good enough to have followed Raymond on Rip Kirby: The record is a lecture by Edward Teller, the father of the H-Bomb, on the Theory of Relativity. I am very fortunate that my set includes a record that is autographed by Teller. My set also includes a printed letter from the CEO of General Dynamics with a business card. The other booklet has some pretty avante garde art promoting General Dynamics in a slightly trippy fashion. The map is a pretty standard star chart type map. I'll post some more about this book and record later, when I can get some better images of the key interior art of the comic.

Super-collector Rick Durrell at Cherokee Books in LA with the proprietor Burt in 1964 (colorized to make it easier to identify comics):

Nice oblique homage, but not really C&H like at all.. .I'd rather have a Watterson cover.

Here's another, non-Calvin & Hobbes, example of this genre of newspaper published comic books: .

Yes, those are weekly publications of the Connecticut Post entitled Connecticut Post Collectible Comics. They were authorized publications. There was a time when such publications were being put out by a handful of U.S. and Canadian papers. What makes these special is that they had covers, including C&H covers, that were not just comic strips. Hence we get an official comic book publication with C&H covers. I'd never seen them before or seen any discussion of them. As you said, I think they are cool. Very very cool, given the popularity of C&H. They are in keeping with the tradition of newspaper strip reprint comic books such as Tip Top, Comic on Parade, Ace Comics, King Comics, etc. and comic book inserts into newspapers like Spirit Sections, etc.

Word.

I suspect your suspicion is off-base. These are official US publications: Here's the Elementals cover: P.S. There are also foreign Calvin & Hobbes comics:

Love and money.