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A bit of a lame effort here from EC, but their decapitation images were always in "good taste", of course.

I accepted a long time ago that there were comics I'd like to own but never will because the opportunity cost is too high. I'd love a WDC&S #1, but I can fly to the US and climb in Yosemite valley for a month for the price of a copy in the grade I'd want. No brainer.

That's just plain creepy.

Thanks Jon - yes, the colours are excellent on that one. I'm getting towards the end of the last parcel (but fear not, there are two smaller ones on their way as I type). Here's the only EC I haven't posted. Psychoanalysis is kind of growing on me as a snapshot of a mental health development at the time. This one is a bit different to #2 because it has the end of therapy for two of our continuing patients. In each case insight is gained and lives changed. In one instance, our teenage patient's parents are made to see that they are the problem... well, duh, thought every reader of this story!

I love where the voice balloon is coming from.

This is the end of the story in Dell's Smilin' Jack #4. I think it qualifies as weird...

It reminds me of the opening credits of Bewitched. I wonder if the image inspired the TV people?

Still plowing my way through my last parcel of books to arrive. I got this one from @skypinkblu via @edowens71. I love the community on these boards. Sha, Ed Here's the start of a bio of WW2 aviator Robert S. Johnson, who was a top ten ace pilot of the war. By the time this post-WW2 book was published he was flying as a test pilot. He later became an insurance executive (which must have been almost as exciting... ).

In case anyone finds it useful, I prepared a handy guide to the art of Fletcher Hanks.

Up to you. I let a guy take two weeks to pay $700+ and he came good. I checked his buying history, and there was no hint of him not paying, and several said something like 'paid eventually'.

Yes. There was a hardcover series, mostly in B&W, though I have a volume of Mad in colour. But there was also a series of coloured reprints in comic format, also by Cochrane. There were several different packagings - 32 page floppies, 64 page double size issues and 'annuals' that had 5 issues each. There are plenty of them around. See here for one example: https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=162711

While I'm on a WDC&S roll, this one isn't in the 1-100 run, but it has a fun Walt Kelly cover. Before it arrived, I was looking forward to getting a part of the MM 'Monarch of Medioka' serial, which I saw was in the list of contents. But what's this? That can't be right - isn't Mickey meant to look like this in this story? Huh, well I just learned something - the Gottfredson story was reworked for this reprint by Ted Osborne and Bill Wright. The Gottfredson one appeared in WDC&S 6-9 (all of which I have, so I can go read it there). I don't know why they did that, because the original is so much better!

Not really. There was in fact a very healthy Australian industry of home drawn comics, but most of them were adventure, crime and romance. I'm not aware of any WW2 vintage war-related books, though a few popped up during the Korean War. I did start a thread of Australian GA, but there aren't any 1939-45 war books in there that I recall.

It doesn't seem to be the case that the Dark Horse books are just EC reprints, according to the contents list of #1 in the GCD. That says that there's one EC reprint story and the rest seems to be new. I can't find the contents of #2, though the cover story looks like it might be the one from Frontline Combat #2. I was asking if the non-EC stuff was worth having.

Thanks for remembering me.

Nice to see some love for the EC war titles here. Since there are some fans around this thread to ask, I've seen these in ads sometimes, but have never seen one up close. Are they worth having?

Ha - that pretty much describes my EC collection, though I'd add two more categories: War - have all of them Sc-fi - have all of them Adventure (Valor, Piracy) - have all and wish there were more Humour - have all of Mad, and a couple of Panic Horror - have a handful Medical (Psych, MD) - a handful Crime - none

+1,000,000 (The 'Nam is surprisingly good.)

I was scanning this one to sell it, and thought I'd put it up here. FC #1099. A Barks cover, but not much else to recommend it. The stories are all pretty weak.

Here are 48 of the 50 (the other two didn't fit). These came from packs of Brookes tea or teabags. I had many sets of cards from tea and breakfast cereal, as well as ones sold in wax packets. My brother has all of my (Australian Rules) football cards, and I sold off the others, with subjects like Australian plants, animals and birds, explorers, classic cars etc. I kept these ones mainly because I really like the artwork by Roy Cross, who also painted the boxtops of the classic Airfix kits I grew up with. These date to the mid-to-late 1960s (when the F-111 and Harrier were new and exotic). I don't think they're worth anything much, but they are nice.

Oh, those are nice too. Interesting that they chose the obscure night fighter version of the F4U Corsair (with the radar pod on the wing). Coincidentally, there is one of those partly constructed on my model bench at the moment. i have some aviation cards from packets of tea - I'll scan some tonight. I have few cards left because I gave most of them to my brother when I settled on comics and he went with cards.

The last of the WDC&S needed in the 40s. Another book courtesy of @Point Five The inside back cover, like most of the WDC&S from 1944 and 45 has cartoon American military unit badges: Having a professional interest in submarines, The USS Sand Lance insignia caught my eye. This Balao class boat also has an Australian connection, having sailed from Fremantle in Western Australia (a lovely town and still a working port) for one of its cruises - and only just limping back after a harrowing experience concerning Japanese bombs and a torpedo 'running hot' in the tubes. The second USS Sand Lance was a Sturgeon class nuclear boat, with an updated and more aggressive version of the unit badge:

And the final one I needed to finish off the 40s in the WDC&S run. A great Walt Kelly cover.

Loving these books. You've made me want to read some now.

Another one off the want list. I've wanted one of these for a long time - I love the colouring on the cover.