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I paid $12 for this from a box in a country town antique store, but since it was Australian dollars it gets under the threshold at around US$8.40.

So... as long time readers know, I have full runs of some of the EC New Direction titles (Aces High, Impact, Piracy, Valor), and have been picking up a few others - like the M.D. above. One title I mostly managed to resist was Extra! The one copy (#4) I have isn't scintillating (though it has a very good cover). Then this lot of #1,2 and 3 (graded "average FN+") came up at Heritage and the Inner Completist (with whom I rarely win any fight) decided we needed to own them. The winning debating points were that they are nicely matched in grade and the #4 is close to that, and I'd only need to pay postage once. So at some future time these will be here to enjoy in closer detail. Here's my #4 for completness: With that I am just three books short of the entire New Direction run - Extra! #5, M.D. #3 and Psychoanalysis #1. Anyone have ones they would part with?

Yet more childhood nostalgia added to my box of Australian Disneys. Both of these were big favourites at the time - a long Barks story and the 'Best of DD' series was great. Each one had three of the WDC&S 10 page classics. I can't recall how I felt about the price rise some time in 1975, but the odds are good I wasn't impressed!

Cat in an alley to cats and a duck on a fence

Squatting beneath a bomber to climbing into a bomber

Soldier with rifle to soldier getting rifle

It's not excessive when you realise that you would have to do a lot to reach those four buyers if not for the platform eBay provides. That said, a bit of downwards pressure through competition on eBay prices would be a good thing.

Great stuff. I love these sorts of achievements, being a run collector for the most part myself. This must be a very pretty collection up close.

I've got one of these: a WDC&S with a heavy sub crease. But it normally lives like this, which is kind of cool.

Another new arrival. (Both of these were from @mycomicshop - here's an unsolicited thank you for their great service.) These books are dialogue heavy and action short, but I quite like them as a snapshot of medical practice 60 years ago. We've come a long way in that time. It's interesting to ponder what medical science will look like in 60 years time. Getting an 'EC twist' into these stories sometimes takes a bit of work, but this issue has one that's not bad at all. here are the first and last pages. In between there are several pages of 1950s surgical practice.

Probably - that's pretty much a description of the Maginot Line in practice.

Musical woodpecker to musical duck

I got some new books in today, including a new addition to my war bonds collection. The cover image is quite good (maybe an S-class submarine, but a little too generic to be sure). Thankfully that's all we care about these days because this is some seriously ordinary reading right here. Here's a sample page - a small band of US paratroopers with only light weapons has parachuted into a heavily defended area in occupied Europe... I've read a lot of WW2 history. Trust me when I say that the depiction of German fighting spirit and acumen on that page is a tad underdone. Max Hastings put it best in one of his books: "any display of boldness by the western allies was invariably severely punished by German forces".

Captain Aero to Captain Science

Mad planet to Mad sci-fi parody

Snake throne to Persian throne

Knowing how hard it is to put together runs of non-US comics from that period, that is a wonderful collection. Well done!

Owl to hooters

Pretty sure we could do this all day, though few of the lions will be drawn this poorly!

Woman in leopard skin garment dodging spear to woman in leopard skin like garment wielding spear

We need an expert @Get Marwood & I , what this? Reprint? Yes, Australian reprint from the late 50s. https://ausreprints.net/issue/73683/17125