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Fantastic looking 1.8. Congrats on a very cool book!

Yep, I definitely think the Lady in Red seems to fit in that tradition, and deserves recognition in my eyes. Thanks for posting some of the pages. They were interesting to read.

Definitely makes sense to me to notate as first heroine crime fighter, though I guess not first "super"heroine. The first heroine with super powers is debated, but many consider Fantomah (just before Lady in Red) from Jungle Comics, though she is a very odd and obscure character. I still like to think that Scarlet O'Neil is the first (or at least most important) heroine with superpowers (invisibility), introduced in 1940 (1941 in comics), and that became the prototype for the introduction of Wonder Woman and superheroine characters to follow.

New Mutants #98 for me. I really don't know why, because I've never been a huge Deadpool fan. But for some reason I got an itch to find an "undiscovered" character and bought 10 copies or so from $5 to $10 each on the community section of comicspriceguide.com from various folks. After eventually grading them, I ended up with a couple of 9.6 copies and most of the rest were 9.4. I probably sold shortly before the peak, but it was a nice kick to the finances to help me support my Golden Age addiction!

I’ll take it.

War Comics 1 came out Jan 1940, so would have been penned in late 1939. By that time, the idea of an unmanned aerial vehicle (aka drone) wasn't entirely new. Pilotless aircraft were built shortly after WWI, and the concept of an aerial torpedo (basically an early cruise missile) was born. Though not very successful, the British Navy tinkered with radio controlled pilotless target aircraft in the late 1920's, and both the British and US had working prototypes by the late 1930's. It was in this time that the word "drone" came to be. The drones actually came into service as early as late 1938 by the Navy, but the USAF didn't adopt the concept until 1939. Here was the problem... Though this early drones could be radio controlled, there was no visual component, so they were difficult to maneuver and weren't very successful. Operators had to ride in "motherships" and try to control the drones from afar. So it wasn't until 1941 that the first assault drone, the TG-2, was installed with an RCA television camera that could allow the US to track the drone's path from afar. The first operationally successful flight took place in April 2942, as the drone torpedo struck a destroyer at a range of 20 miles away from the control point. This really was the first tactfully successful drone, though even that wasn't truly adopted en masse by military planners until 1944. All that said, the "Television Torpedo" story in War Comics 1 precluded by almost 2 years the actual working technology. The innovative concept made it to the pages of a comic book long before a working prototype was ever completed.

What an interesting read this topic has been. Thanks to vaillant for bumping up the "comprehensive index" thread with the link. Just to update the thread a bit, I'll post an image of War Comics 1 (first dedicated War comic). It triggered me to go back and read through some of the stories. I found one in particular that I thought was very cool...

Wow! I'm sure all else would pale to that one, so if you were going end the year with one biggie, I'd say you had a successful year!

Nice group shot! I just love the cover of the War Comics 4. The flamethrower War Heroes cover is great too (as are they all).

Very cool cover!

I’ve always been intrigued by this one. Thanks.

Thanks. Hard to pass up on a signed Leifield book. Ha ha!

Sorry man. I tried to resist, but couldn’t get it out of my mind for almost an hour. It kept calling to me.

I tried to resist, but one of my all time favorite covers. I think it’s still available, right?

Looks like I need to add back a few lost in the Photobucket fiasco as well.

I've been meaning to post this one for a while now, but am finally getting around to it...

One of my favorites as well. Great book!

Wow. That's just amazing!!!

Too nice to pass up. Thanks!

I like this one too. Big buyer tonight