AJD

Not any more - it's (mostly) back from the dead!

You are too kind guys. I'm glad you like it. Yes, I'm pretty sure that's the same scarecrow from Arkham. Here's a new book to my collection. Another Crimson Comet winging its way back to Australia (from the UK):

That one is wonderful. This is an excellent thread. So many underappreciated books in it. What was the origin of ACG? In Australia the local reprints of ACG stuff started in the Fiction House titles like Fight and Rangers. This is one of them: This cover is a reprint of the cover of the ACG book Operation Peril #13.

Well, not quite as many now. I went back and reloaded as many as I could, because I'd like to keep this thread alive. The biggest gap in the thread so far is Cheetah's wonderful collection of Australian Fiction House reprints. Luckily, I copied most of them and got his permission to repost them just before he disappeared from the boards. So I'll put those back up when I get a chance. (Incidentally, he also agreed to sell them to me, but went incommunicado just before we closed the deal. If anyone still talks to Jeff, please let him know I'm still up for it!) Anyway, here are a couple of my own recent purchases to get things back on the road. A really nice grade Fight Comics reprint: And one of my favourite Australian original series, the Crimson Comet.

Great review Harry. The Lizard is an excellent tragic villain. Your copy must look really nice in a mylar too - it's a pretty good looking 3.5.

Spoken like a true collector! Gotta find my precious....

You earned them Ed. I think Duffbloke might have been angling for an undeserved freebie. Fear not, I usually send him something at this time of year, so I'll send him a deserved freebie. <summons dog, looks for paper bag and matches>

So I was picking up the bombproof packaging that typifies an @edowens71 package and I thought to myself "self, those couple of pieces of cardboard seem quite heavy". On inspection, there was a magazine (neatly housed in a mylar with a fullback) taped between them. here it is - a freebie I hadn't noticed! By this stage of Mad most of the 'comic book EC' guys had moved on, thought there is a Joe Orlando piece in there. What I really liked was this unusually cerebral 3-pager. I'd love to be at a baseball game where the fans were bagging out the umpire with the Bard!

Well, he doesn't quite take it that badly! But, yes, the champagne is poisoned.

One more EC from Ed. Another one in the SSS series I'm not collecting. UTC this time with a story about a movie star - who seems to be a hybrid of Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff - who is tired of being typecast in horror films when at heart he's a serious dramatic artist. He doesn't take his lifetime achievement award quite in the spirit in which it was intended...

OK, I've almost finished reloading the images of mine in the Australian GA thread. I'll bump it back when it's done and add a few of the books I've picked up since Photobucketedden. But back in the saddle with recent acquisitions, here's another @edowens71 surplus EC western. Yee haw. A great Ingels cover to start with. Here's the UTC page for this issue. Another splash. Another wagon barely under control. Another woman in red with bodice-straining anatomy. Still, it's hard to see how you could have too many of those.

We did get a mention in some foreign comics, Here's one.

Too bad Rich. Like you, I'd love to own a nice copy of this book. I assume you mean this one? Looks like a similar grade to the one the OP is asking about. I wonder if it's being flipped?

OK, by 'popular demand' - here are three books I got this year that I smile at every time I look at them. I've really got the Australian comic bug in the past 18 months, and these three are books I suspect not too many people own. If you'd told me in January that a romance comic with Audrey Hepburn on the cover would be one of my favourites of the year I'd have told you you're dreaming!

My kind of lineup. Dells, ECs - esp that Two-Fisted, which is one of the favourite books in my colelction - and fawcetts. Great stuff.

Nice ones. Rwo strips I used to enjoy. Mostly unintelligible to younger Australians though. You've reminded me that I need to try to resurrect the Australian GA thread. I gave up when the great photobucket calamity of 'ought sixteen hit.

Moving on from hot librarians to hot cowgirls (though do we ever really move on from hot libriarians?)... another Ed hand-me-down here, and my first western comic. I just love the colours on this one. Here's the splash. You might well think 'how can she recover from that situation'? Well...

take argh...

I saw the title and thought I'd chime in with my top 3. Then I read through the thread, and now I'm with Charlie Brown.