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Understandable! Post it when you get it. Twins! Hoarder! Is that the Metro copy on the left? If so that was great deal - awesome colors!

Conan would kick Green Lantern's *spoon*!

Thanks! Our Single Series 20 discussion the other day had me jonesin' for some Foster Tarzan, so I had to pick up something to get my fix.

Thanks Bill, It was certainly tougher than I thought it would be. That's one of the great things about collecting scarce GA books in the internet age - the thrill of the hunt is still there, unlike SA Marvels, for example, where everything is available and you just need cash.

Sounds like some good reading material. I didn't realize his soon was an artist. Since JCB was involved did the comics adapt the actual stories or were they new adventures? I really like Marsh's art, but I wouldn't think his style was particularly suited to Sci Fi. They're all adaptations of the novels, even the Four Colors. Yeah, JCB's not a bad artist at all - Dark Horse actually reprinted his JCoM newspaper strip in the back of the Tarzan's Lost Adventure book awhile back. Marsh is not bad, but he's not spectacular either. I think he was limited by the times and environment in which he was working. The novels are full of swashbuckling action and violence and half-naked Martian princesses - material that had to be greatly toned down for the Four Color issues.

Yes, he appeared in The Funnies issues 30-56, first as a 4 page feature, then later 8 pages. I have a few of those other issues, but not the full set. The early issues are by an unknown artist, but starting with #34 it was done by ERB's son, John Coleman Burroughs. JCB would go on to do a short-lived John Carter newspaper strip and the David Innes of Pellucidor feature in Hi-Spot Comics #2 (the only GA appearance of that Burroughs character and one of my grails). In The Funnies 57, John Carter was dropped and replaced by some guy named Capt. Midnight. The three Four Color issues in the 50's were done by Jesse Marsh and are pretty lackluster compared to the earlier Funnies material by JCB.

Very cool, I haven't seen that before. When is the "next annual" survey? I'd like to participate next time. A lot of my favorites are represented....It's great to see Action #2 so well represented You know for the kind of money that was spent on that book you could have 50 VF copies of the runner-up, Weird SF 29.

This is my first real Platinum book - just came in the mail earlier today. Illustrated Tarzan Book No. 1 (Grosset & Dunlap 1929) - Reprints Hal Foster's adaptation of ERB's novel Tarzan of the Apes from the first 60 dailies of the newspaper strip. The text is actually abridged snippets from the novel itself. It's very cool - I couldn't put it down until I'd read the whole thing. Foster is amazing!

A group shot would be killer! Here you go: John Carter group shot

I've always been an ERB fan ever since I was a kid, so when I got into GA one of the first things I wanted to do is put together a run of GA John Carter of Mars covers (collecting Tarzan seemed a little too overwhelming ). I had no idea it would take so long, but some of those Funnies issues are tough to find. Two years later I'm finally finished so I thought I'd share. I included Funnies 30 even though it's not a JC cover, but it is his first comics appearance. Funnies 42 is not a true JC cover, but he does appear in one of the vignettes on the cover.

Oh sorry, here you go. Click on the the Central Valley link: http://www.comicpedigrees.com/

Here you go: Central Valley Thread If I remember correctly it ended up a CGC 9.4. I don't know the sale price, but I'd be curious as well. I would understand though if the buyer didn't want to share that info.

Understandable! Post it when you get it.

I've got a couple of undercopies if you want one. One's lower grade and the other is mid-grade if I remember correctly.

Well if you upgrade again, I want first dibs! Man, I'm so jealous of your friend! That is just a gorgeous copy. To tell you the truth, after seeing the CV copy, I'm not sure I'll ever be satistfied with a VG copy. That Superworld copy would have been perfect for my budget. Stupid spooning comic thief!

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Sorry for the spoony photos, but I don't have a working scanner at the moment. I'm about to pick up an HP 3970 off ebay and as soon as I get it I'll replace these with proper scans. #173 (Crippen)

Thanks for the comments guys! It took me a long time to round all of these up - they don't come up sale very often. Maybe I'll put together a group shot. I think Funnies 36 in particular is a very underrated cover - I just sold my lower grade undercopy for nearly 3X guide! I couldn't believe it. I though I was crazy when I paid 1.5 guide for it.

Hey, was that you that snagged Metro's 4.0 copy before I could get to it?! Superworld had an 8.0 w/ slight color touch listed for a long time on their site and last week I I finally decided to pull the trigger, but when I emailed Ted he couldn't find it - he said he's thinks it may have been one the books that got stolen last summer. BTW, have you seen the Central Valley copy? When I saw it I was so blown away by the colors I had to make it my new av. Technically it's a little late for this thread, but I think all the reprint books like Single Series, Large Feature, Feature Book, etc. really fit more in this era content-wise even if some of them post-date Action 1. Check it out:

Thanks! Plus, it's got one of those huge, horrible ugly File copy stamps!

It's circumstantial, but it makes sense. I wonder how Martin Nadle/Howard Dell (I'm assuming Dell is a pseudonym for Nadle) fits into the equation. Perhaps he and Marsh were partners. Any idea what happened to Nadle in the time between Ace King and Bob Scully and his creation of the Jumble puzzles 20 years later? It's funny how today we place so much importance on the few orginal comics from this period, when at the time the reprint books were the cream of the crop (which reminds me - Bill, those early Famous Funnies are great! ). The original books were, as you said wannabes - in my initial post in this thread I compared them to the straight-to-video movies of today. I keep hearing that this emphasis on original material in the collecting community wasn't always so and that at one time books like Single Series 20, Feature Book 26 and Four Color 10 were considered grails right up there with Action 1 and Tec 27. I guess that was before my time - too bad as books like that are still personal grails for me; I guess I'm kind of an anacronism.