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Marvel Mystery #1 came out last year, and it wasn't a reprint. See here: http://marvel.com/catalog/?id=11832

I think it is highly unlikely that anyone would be able to fake a GA comic book. Heck, Marvel and DC have had enough trouble converting them into a presentable form for Archives or Masterworks that they resorted to lower quality scanning or redrawing to create a presentable facsimile -- and those are readily distinguishable from the originals by a mere eyeball test, without even doing any of the sorts of scientific evaluation that might be used to assess whether a painting is a fake. And its not like you can just pass off a counterfiet Action 1 on a street corner. Realistically, you are going to have to fool sophisticated collectors, auctioneers, and, probably, third party graders. I wouldn't lose any sleep over this one. I also don't think that the very slight risk would create much more interest in a comic's "provenance" than now exists. Seems like many collectors and dealers are already under suspicion for shady practices at one point or another -- whether thats restoring books, passing off restored books as unrestored, overly generous grading, or even, I've read, forging the identifying marks of certain pedigrees on to non-pedigree books. So provenance ultimately seems a negative concern, not a positive one, if it can be discerned at all. Why would anyone care about provenance when CGC certification rules the market?

Roy Rogers has been Archived by Dark Horse and Marvel has Masterworked the Rawhide Kid. You might want to check out those books to see if you like the stories enough to collect them.

My father's boyhood collection has comics from the late 40s and early 50s. I remember reading Gene Autry, Gene Autry's Champion, Tomahawk, Long Bow, Indians, and some others. I thought they were all pretty enjoyable stories. The Dell titles had more sedate covers, photo or painted, but more consistent interior art and stories. The Fiction House titles had really nice colorful covers, and I remember really liking Long Bow, but I don't the writing was the same quality as Dell. My favorite art and stories were Tomahawk, especially the Frazetta art, but he's more a Daniel Boone figure than a western cowboy and its set around Revolutonary War times.

Great story. Thanks for posting.

Nice art ... could be Foster. ooops.

Thanks for sharing, Mark. That looks like a fascinating read.

Well ... CA 46 came out in April 45. Auschwitz was liberated in January 45 and VE day was in early May 1945. So it might really have been more a matter of the limited time between the truth of the Holocaust becoming public knowledge (1/45) and the end of the war in Germany (5/45).

Scrooge, Thanks a lot! I tried to answer my own questions, but you beat me to it (and I didn't see before I posted) and I appreciate the confirmation it was Paul Reinman. I was going off of GCD information that had a ?

The story is found here: http://allthingsger.blogspot.com/2009/06/never-again-friday-comic-book-day.html It pre-dated "Master Race" by three years. The artist may have been Paul Reinman.

Can you post full scans of "Atrocity Story"? Did it pre or post-date "Master Race"? And who was the artist/writer?

Well ... if your goal is to truly own every DC comic ever to appear on a newstand, arguably you haven't met that goal with the Double Action that's on Comic Connect.

Is Ian selling his Double Action on Comic Connect, and, if so, did he get a better one?

I thought it was 35 cents. I'm surprised that anyone marked up an old comic.

Great choice! I love Barks. My favorite comic book cover and story of all time, for purely personal reasons as it was part of my Dad's collection that I discovered my grandparents attic as a boy, is Donald Duck in the Land of the Totem Poles. If Barks had done a painting of that I'd be paying anything to get it. Hopefully Gemstone will stay in business long enough to get us the complete Barks library in hardcover. I love reading Barks and I can't wait until my son (now in first grade) is a tiny bit a better reader and can really enjoy those stories.

Congratulations on page 1000! Now post something to mark the occassion!

I'm curious, what is Bangzoom planning to post to celebrate the 1000th page in this thread? Only five more to go ...

This is the best thread ever.

BB thanks for posting the animated covers. I always wondered what they would look like.

I'm gonna bump this up.

I am a big fan of this thread, and I would really appreciate it if someone who knew what was up with BangZoom and his collection would post an update. I'd hate to think that anything happened to him (and his wonderful stories and generous attitude in sharing his collection via the posts on this site) or his books.

Does BangZoom still post here?