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ok here are mine :

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!

 

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!

 

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

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!

 

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!

 

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!

 

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!

 

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!

 

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!

 

OK, a very nice box of comics arrived today courtesy of the redoubtable @edowens71. Ed is very kind, and as well as unloading selling some of his nice undercopies to me, lets me use him as a shipping agent as well. Many thanks Ed!
Here's an Owens hand-me-down, and a very nice one at that. It's everyone's favourite offbeat EC New Direction title. I like Jack Kamen's Dali-esque cover image a lot.

It's always hard to pick an interior page from these because of the slow pace and dialogue heavy nature of them. I picked this one because it struck me that Ellen Lyman is being set up for one of those scenes where she takes off her glasses, lets her hair down and gives it shake, transforming her from librarian to hottie. That never happens, but a guy can dream, right? #hotlibrarian (Maybe I need some Psychoanalysis myself? )

 

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...
 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Great stuff here, all Top 3 worthy. Certainly the toughest year for me as a collector to narrow it down to three, as i had a great one. Was going to pick my Blue Ribbon Comics #9 also, but since my good buddy @gino2paulus2 showed his (and was instrumental in bringing to my attention the copy that eventually became mine  )i'll pick another book. 
1)The Berk auction was the event this year, i'll never forget that week , I finally scored a Larson copy (with a cool Octopus cover to boot)!  2)Also got an issue of the elusive 'Our Flag Comics' run in the CC auction before the Berk auction.  3)and lastly @Robot Man shared a tin Bugs Bunny toy a ways back and i've always wondered what it 'was'. Through much nudging from a friend who knows i love 'junk' i started perusing 'Etsy'. I saw and scored a complete version of this 1940's tin toy (with an original box!!). Bugs nor Porky 'talk' anymore, but this was the number one pick of 2017 for me. 

I think there are many of us looking for "a decent, affordable copy" of that book. Give me yours please.
Until then, I'll have to console myself with the first Australian edition.

I think there are many of us looking for "a decent, affordable copy" of that book. Give me yours please.
Until then, I'll have to console myself with the first Australian edition.

I can show you a couple of inside pages of my latest duck arrival.

Jungle #144 was 1952. I agree with @1950's war comics- that's an expensive toy, even if you could make a thousand of them.
I was away visiting family this weekend, and hit a couple of second hand and antique stores. I found a few good books, and this, for $10:

This find made me unreasonably excited. It's the first Australian magazine I've found with a war bonds cover, and it's in great condition. My wife loves it (she's an easy touch for 30s and 40s illustration). We think we'll frame it under UV glass and hang it on the wall.
Edit: I should mention that it's a big magazine too - 41 x 29 cm ( over 16" x 11") which makes its condition more remarkable.
 

No, I was in Tokyo. Went to a few comic stores to check them out, but manga doesn't really do it for me and I didn't find any western comics.
Here's a safety tip though - when it's six floors of comics, they start out very innocent on the first floor, and go steadily downhill after that. By the fifth floor we were in an ugly place. I have no idea what was on the sixth.