MisterX

Sweet!

Damn, OV...I don't collect sig books (or hang out in the SS forum) but that is a really great pile of books you got there! You picked all the highlights, and threw in some personal choices as well (like that Men of War book). Well done. (thumbs u

New aquisitions, Jeffro? They're pretty sweet.

I've always liked Kubert's Losers covers for OFF 123-137, where he would incorporate the Losers logo into the design of the cover. I especially like 130 and 133. I'll see if I can post some pix of mine soon. He seemed to be on a hot streak then. The covers for OAAW 236-255 and SSWS 151-166 are all just as creative, at least to me. (And he did some great Tarzan covers not too soon after!) It was Kubert's covers that drew me into collecting War books in the first place. As for the top five --- I'll need to think about that a bit longer.

No im afraid i didnt but little tell tale signs like the top and bottom left hand corners tell me its mine. This is what i find fustrating about CGC sometimes. I sent this away thinking it would come back a 9.4 but it received a 9.2. Someone wins it and does a resubmit(it doesnt look like its been pressed) and it comes back 9.4 and is going to make a few thousand dollars more. Anyway nothing i can do about it now just feel a bit aggrieved. Sorry to hear this, parkinson. Is it just me or is that asking price kind of aggressive?

Actually, Receiver X, I read an interview with Doug Moench somewhere (most likely Comic Book Artist magazine or Back Issue) where he said that Jim Shooter hated MOKF, and demanded that Shang-Chi be turned into a ninja or the book would get cancelled. (This was around the time I think Shooter was battling with Marv Wolfman over the Dracula character as well.) Anyway, Doug refused, pointing out that ninjas are Japanese, not Chinese, and that was that. Grain of salt -- Doug Moench and Shooter never did get along, so the story could be hot air. I'm sure that low sales numbers and changing tastes in the comic book buying public factored in as well.

Lovely stack there +1 You might have some great Alex Toth stories in there.

Everybody's kung fu fighting? It's a little bit frightening, man.

I picked up a mid-grade complete run of MoKF this year. What a great read! Although I really liked the Gulacy and Zeck eras, I thought the later Gene Day stuff was incredible. If he hadn't died young, I feel like he could have easily joined Adams and Golden as "Masters of the 80s." Marvel is trying to bring Shang-Chi back, right? I haven't read any of the new stuff, but I understand that Marvel no longer has the rights to publish Fu Manchu related material. The series had such a great dynamic with Fu Manchu being his father/nemesis, the fact that Marvel has to discard that element of the story for legal/moral reasons is, while understandable, kind of a shame. That's what really gave it juice! I wonder if Shang-Chi just isn't as unique these days, what with everybody doing kung-fu?

Pretty sweet! When did you get this signed? Did you get to talk to Kubert at all?

Nice book, got any other BA war?

Did Frank Thorne do the interior art on this as well?

Sweet book!

Great books! Is this a Grandenetti cover?

I spoke to Joe several years ago, and one book that he really enjoyed working on - as a concept - was Blitzkrieg. Not sure if it was his absolute fave... Blitzkrieg is a really interesting book. Kind of ahead of its time. Not great but full of promise---you could see where the creators were wrestling with how far they could go (showing the war through enemy eyes, showing sympathy for the enemy, etc.). I think the intention was to have the main German character gradually realize that he was fighting for the wrong cause. Too bad it got cancelled after only five issues.

I think Our Army At War wins by default. Kubert did the interiors on that book longer than any of the other bronze war books. Pretty early on in the bronze age, GI Combat was handed off to Russ Heath and then Glanzman. OFF was Severin, then Kirby, then Evans. SSWS was sadly, Speigle. You're right, but don't forget Heath also took over the OAAW interiors as well, around #234, which came out in '71.

I'm not sure. But, IIRC, he wasn't doing interiors for the war books because he had moved on to Tarzan. However, he was editing and doing nearly all the covers for the BA war books by the late 60s or so. Personally, I really like the covers he did during the 48/52 page issues the most.

Thanks, ngh81! I don't think this is the Diamond run copy. It wasn't sold to me as such. What makes you think it might be?

Thanks, guys!

Great books, Fay! Here's my NYCC pickups. Beat but complete, hanging onto the staples by the skin of its teeth... Anybody else have a copy of OAAW 82 with that strange printing error on the SMG? Picked up this one from Dale Roberts. Dale had a great selection of war books this time around... And finally... There were alot of GICs at the show, the same batch of OAAW everywhere I looked, alot of Gunner & Sarge era OFF, the usual dino/enemy ace SSWS books (with not a single sighting of M. Marie), and only a handful of AAMOW for some reason. Grey tones and early Rock appearances seemed to be the "wall" war books, with the odd Atlas book here and there. Dale had a great selection, Bob Storms had a new OO collection with some very early issues in the VG/FN range, and Worldwide had a nice selection of HG OAAW, but, man, they were not going cheap!

Hey, everybody -- I mostly lurk in this thread but I'd like to share my NYCC pickup... I deslabbed the book this morning, here's the label... My first Northford Ped book. Heck, my first Ped book, period! The stories are pretty good, in a goofy kind of way.

Thanks, I <3 Sequenetial Crush, too.

I recently bought a bunch of late Bronze/Early copper books from Andy, mostly dollar-size GIC and Sgt Rocks. Wow, these are pretty wacky. Kanigher is still the writer (after almost 30 years) and I guess he just wrote whatever he felt like. The tone veers from the amazingly pulpy, with robots, zombies, ninjas, mad scientists and the like (like this page from GIC 240)... To surprisingly grisly stuff that's like somthing out of a Sven Hassel book (like this page from GIC 256)... I don't remember anything like that happening during Kanigher's '68-'74 "Make War No More," days! Why do you suppose the depictions of violence went from one extreme to the other?

Here's three of my latest pick-ups...

Great cover, Doc!