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As an active WDC&S collector, I don't discriminate between the ones with an address box on the back or not. I have never seen anyone else do it either. In the 50s, the address box moved onto the front cover - I avoid those because it detracts from the cover art.

As @sagii says, I've wanted one of those for six years now. I've only seen one for sale in that time and it was in significantly worse shape than yours. Well done!

I don't think I've shown this one before. Cracked out of a 6.0 PLOD ('tear seals on interior pages'). The tear seals are a little white glue on 2 edges, about 1cm long. And for that I got a 60% discount... For 'under the covers', here's a WW2 rationing story with Clara Cluck being threatened with decapitation if she doesn't come good with the eggs.

Whoa, those grades look way low to me. Those aren't big tics, and that book looks 8.0 or better all day to me.

It's what a maths text would call "an exercise for the reader".

Yeah, I see what you mean about a tough ask to grade. Guessing here, but the scrunch in the middle of the top front page is probably the biggest flaw, and might keep it to 7.0 or so. Otherwise there's also a bit of a spine crease at half height and a couple of little marks, but they're small defects. Everything else looks pretty good, so I'll go with 7.0.

I got and . I could not feel worse about this now.

Just picked up this Australian EC reprint. I knew there was at least one issue of Piracy printed here, but I've never owned one, and I have never seen a #3 until this one appeared on eBay recently. It wasn't in Ausreprints or GCD lists either. I've never seen a #2, and the two sites don't have a scan of that either, but presumably it exists (or did once). All EC reprinted stories, including Blackbeard and the excellent Krigstein U-boat! story from the US edition of the same number - but with two fewer pages. This book was printed on pretty poor paper stock, and the cover of this copy looks pretty murky. If anything the scan does it a favour.

OK, back to some journalling here. When I was collecting the EC Two Fisted Tales title, a couple of 'moderns' (which were actually nearly a quarter of a century old) kept bobbing up in my eBay search. I ignored them for a long time, but curiosity finally got the better of me and I bought them when last I ordered something from MCS. Here they are: To cut to the chase, these are wonderful books, which are absolutely worthy of being in any EC war comic fan's collection. #1 has a cover by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Eisner, while #2 has a cover illustrating an EC story from the 1950s, but newly pencilled by Kurtzman. Sadly, it must be close to the last thing he did, because #1 has an obituary for him, as he died while the books were in production. Both books have multiple short stories, all of which are easily up there with the EC classics, and reprint one story . Don Lomax is the writer on a couple. His work on The 'Nam was excellent, and so it is here. There's a new story on the Civil War about the battle of the crater, and it doesn't shirk either the brutality or the racism of the event, it being one of the first battles in which a large group of black soldiers fought for the Union. There are contemporary stories too, including a good one about the Israeli Commando raid at Entebbe airport. The story called 'War' is the last story Kurtzman ever wrote, and it has all of his hallmarks of bold graphics and a 'preachy' tone. #1 is squarebound and #2 is saddle stitched. Here are the back covers This was $10 well spent!

I'm sure you're all wondering where this journal has got to in the past few days... If you'd like to see the other vanity project that has been keeping me busy, check out this 361 comic extravaganza.

I'm with Ed. 7.5 seems right. Looks great.

I think you did well to get a 5.0 This otherwise really nice WDC&S #7 is sitting in a blue 4.0 slab.