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Wow - that's a great start to a duck collection David.

Great books Count - those sorts of covers are what the GA is all about.

Great work Bill - that's a long run to go after. How long did it take? Oh, and if I count correctly, it would be #80.

3.5 ?

I was tracking this one. Thought it might be a barometer of what effect the weak dollar is going to have on the Duck auction this week. I think this is a sign of some strong results coming. $100 under guide. It is nice to be able to spend my money as USD though.

It's been a while, but thanks to Heritage this week:

Nice! Any Rangers 15 is a good 15. Pretty tough book in my estimation. And a really cool cover. How did these young ladies find themselves in such predicaments? (And how do their dresses defy gravity to keep them decent?) Enquiring minds want to know!

That's some very fine collecting there...

Strictly speaking that's your first 'mirror image Nazi swaztika' cover. Great book!

This is cool and bizarre in about equal measure.

A few weeks ago I missed a 4.5 copy of this book and was annoyed. But I must have accrued some good karma points or something. I got this beauty on ebay for not much more... great war bonds cover for my small but growing collection.

Do tell - I tried the search engine (which is usually useless in my experience). With the search engine I found... this thread. So I tried a Google search of the site, and got this link. Welcome to the boards Clay.

Nice get Scrooge. That's a really cool cover. My other hobby is aircraft modelling, and the P-61 is an all-time favourite. Some of the Wings covers have unrealistically posed and/or inaccurately rendered aircraft and I really can't get past that. (e.g. 59 - attacking aircraft is bound to crash into the water too, or 63 - mid air collision imminent). I know they do that to make it work as interesting cover art, but I find it too distracting. #55 gets it right enough though. (thumbs u OK, I'm a geek.

Correct, and not unusual for 1943-45 books. I imagine all of the steel saved in all of the comic books published made a square yard of a liberty ship's hull or something. It does make Dells of that period a bit harder to find with nice tight covers though.

Got this one in for my war bonds collection. Even if it is the lowest graded (!)

I have heard of the UK Mickey Mouse Weekly before, but I got a chance last week to buy one cheaply to check it out. It's kind of cool - some Gottfredson Mouse, a couple of DD daily strips, a Lone ranger page (all the interior pages are B&W) and some strips that I think must be of British origin; 'Skit, Skat and the Captain' and 'Pinky green our cheery chappy'. Excuse the scan, this tabloid size book is too big for my scanner, so this is two badly concatenated scans! The book presents really nicely and I'm pleased with my $9 outlay. There are a couple of text stories. One is awful, a fishing story from the view of the trout, but the Ali baba story is actually nicely done, and has this interesting DD illustration to go with it: Can't say I'll be getting into these bigtime - but if anyone sees the VE Day issue (early June 1945) drop me a PM - it would fit nicely with my war bond/patriotic covers.

Another war bonds cover. I was underbidder on this on Heritage last year at $250 when the Aussie dollar was trading at US70c. Then it popped up on ebay last week with a BIN of $150 - and the Aussie is US98c... :banana:

Now that stirs my Welsh blood boyo - nice pickup. Michael Caine's finest moment.

Dear Gator, I'd love to own a WDC&S #1. Should I buy soon, or is time on my side?

Wow - not everyone's first choice, but I have a soft spot for those Gold Key/Whitman books. In high grade the colours look fantastic. Nice pickup!

I like the guy Hajdu tracked down who was involved in the burnings as a teenager. In true teen boy style, he recalled hiding a box full of GGA jungle comics to save them.

What he said - except replace UK with Australia. Jon is a class act. (thumbs u

I put this in the have a cigar thread, but thought this thread could use a bump as well.

Just got this one in today. An ebay purchase with a reasonable BIN. It'll go nicely with my Capt Marvel #37. Now I have to find a Wow 27 to have the whole family with their war stamps.

Love WWII covers. Missed that one and have been looking for it for my war bonds collection.