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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

OK, here's a bit of esoteric fun. I have long owned this book: I was surprised to find an Australian variant of the cover of this book, given the American war stamp on it. Well, turns out there was one, with the stamp and voice balloon suitably repurposed: Like most Australian comics before the 1960s (other than Disneys), it's undated, but the GCD tells me that it was part of the 1947 series by Cleland publishers.* The series appeared in a number of formats (regular sized, pocket sized, portrait and landscape). This one measures 16 cm x 21 cm (or a little over 6" x 8" for our metrically challenged readers). I was a bit surprised by that, because if it's a "pocket comic" you'd need very big pockets. A curious carryover from the American comic of July 1944 was the "Magazine Editorial Advisory Board Approved Reading" logo. Inside we find that the members of that august body are Eleanor P. Roosevelt (no, not that Eleanor Roosevelt, this one was "past President, Girl Scouts Council of Greater New York"), polar explorer Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Allan Roy Dafoe M.D. "the famous quintuplet doctor". I very much doubt that the board was running an eye over Australian publications, but it can't hurt to look "respectable" on the cover, right? Here's a fun interior page. The -script page is hard to read! In the "who gives a rat's" category, but noted here for completeness, Aus Reprints points out that early issues (#1-10) were printed by Cleland for Vee publishing, but the publisher name was changes to Cleland from #11 on.

L. B. Cole Gorilla to ... L. B. Cole gorilla in (dun dun dun!) PICTURESCOPETM

Car crash to car splash

Kid to goat

Wertham would be so proud of the additions a previous owner made to that Camilla page!