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Never tape anything, including with so-called archival tape. If you really wanted to reattach it (and I can understand why you do) then use archivally safe japan paper. Better still, find someone who knows how to do that.

Wolverton (pretty sure... feel free to correct) to Wolverton

Someone has to lower the tone of this thread before we all get nosebleeds. I'm here for you guys! 2018 was a year in which I could feel my priorities changing away from US-printed books and towards Australian GA, both reprints of American material and locally-produced stuff. Top of my list would be the "Cheetah collection" of Fiction House reprints. I saw these books pieced out on eBay by Geppi over a month or two more than a decade ago and was always kicking myself that I didn't go harder because of the disproportionate postage costs on multiple small shipments. Then they surfaced here in Cheetah's collection. I'd reached an agreement to buy them when Cheetah sold out of comics, but life took him off the boards and I'd (almost) given up hope of getting them back home. But 2018 saw Jeff come back and the 'consummation devoutly to be wished' finally came to pass. Here are the books sitting on a floor in their native land once again: Thank you again @cheetah for my comics highlight of 2018. In terms of Australian-produced material, I think the sci-fi covers in Silver Flash probably get the nod.

Hideous racial stereotyping to 15c in Canada.

The Phantom #3 reprint has a small 'R' in the cufflink of the bad dude. As you say, this is an original. PM responded to.

You did very well to find those. Some valuable issues there. I'm intrigued as to what else you got. (See my collection of Australian GA as linked in my sig.) if you're selling I'm likely interested! PM me if you like. I can probably help with info on these books.

We're doing octopodes again so soon? Fine with me.

And back to gorilla

You know, I'm not seeing what you guys are evidently seeing. Other than the hospital ship episode, I've enjoyed every episode of this series, and I thought a few were very good. This last one was excellent other than the WTH was that about? Anyway, I'd watch this ahead of almost anything from the John Nathan Turner period any day. I sometimes think we forget how bad Dr Who has been at various times right throughout its existence.

Wings to wings

Green dress to green dress

Cat to cats

The book also has an extra staple by the look of it. I agree with others that 1.5 is "right" but I'm not sure what it would get...

B-25 to B-25

It's been a while, but a couple more Australian Fiction House reprints have joined the fold. These two have different titles, but both have covers from the US editions of Wings. This one has the cover from Wings #117, though the contents come from a number of FH titles, including Fight Comics. And this one has the cover from Wings #118 When the MiG-15 appeared over Korea it came a very unpleasant surprise to the Allied forces, being significantly better, more heavily armed and much faster than the straight-winged US and British jets in theatre. Having a pedigree of excellent Soviet engineering, a British supplied jet engine design and some of the insights into high-subsonic flight obtained by German engineers towards the end of WW2, it was an early sign that the US wouldn't have everything it's own way in the Cold War. USAF folklore has it that the introduction of the F-86 Sabre reset the balance, and for a long time it was possible to find claims of kill ratios of better than 10:1 in the US' favour. When Soviet records became available much later, it became clear that the both American and Soviet pilots had greatly over-claimed. The true figure is likely closer to 2:1 against all MiG-15s, but closer to parity when the MiGs were being flown by experienced Russian pilots rather than North Koreans. The two aircraft were quite closely matched. And in any case, the MiGs succeeded in preventing USAF daylight bombing attacks. (Further reading: The jet that shocked the west)

Headlights that defy gravity to in the headlights

Any Fawcett Funny Animals?

When a daddy monster loves a mummy monster very much...

To be fair, I noticed six of them. Welllll, three. Welllll, someone told me about one. But it was apparently quite good.

He just keeps plugging away.

Knights to nighty night

Just one in my boxes.