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Send it to me and I'll figure it out!

The recent book on Bill Everett, "Fire & Ice", made mention that Hardie & Kelly were the pubs of the pulps. Happened to strike me at the time.

Nice pick up Billy. Not sick anymore but lost all my #'s. Call me tomorrow so we can finally catch up Great cover! thanks guys; i love it, but it's cap't midnight 17 i'm hot for now--go check that bad boy out. just a killer raboy cover, missed by o'street.

Slick Chick was the first that came to mind too!

This one is driving me nuts. I know I've seen it a hundred times.

DC had agreed to distribute no more than eight Atlas titles per month (which amounted to sixteen bi-monthly titles at the time) in 1957 when Atlas could find no other distributor which was probably a fallout from the Kefauver Senate hearings on the threat to the nation's youth poised by comics. I doubt, however, that the Incredible Hulk's cancellation was linked precisely to the desire to launch the Amazing Spider-Man. The title that gave way to the Amazing Spider-Man was none other than Amazing Fantasy. The timeline fits since with the cancellation of Amazing Fantasy Marvel had room for one more title. Moreover the last issue of the Incredible Hulk ran in March 1963 which was the same month that saw the launch of Amazing Spider-Man which would have amounted to a doubling up in that month. In 1958, 1959 and 1960, Independent News was distributing 8 titles per month for Atlas/Marvel. In June 1960, they began publishing 10 titles per month -- with the exception of December 1960 when no titles were released. 11 titles were distributed in June 1961, 10 titles in July and 12 titles in August. The numbers alternated between 10 and 12 titles (with the odd exception) until June 1963 when annuals pushed the monthly release to 15. The monthly numbers ranged between 11 to 16 until the end of 1965 (this is where my area of interest ends). We can see the numbers of books crept up slightly but books still needed to be cancelled in order for Martin Goodman to juggle the titles. ___________________________ Amazing Fantasy #15 was cancelled June 1962 and replaced in August 1962 with the return of Two-Gun Kid with issue #60. Note that these are newsstand distribution dates and not cover dates which post-dated the actual month of release by two or three months. Linda Carter, Student Nurse was cancelled with issue #9 in October 1962 and was replaced with Amazing Spider-Man #1 in December of 1962. The Incredible Hulk was cancelled with issue #6 in January 1963 and replaced in March of 1963 with Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos #1. Gunsmoke Western was cancelled with issue #77 in May 1964 so that Amazing Spider-Man could go monthly in July 1963 with issue #5. Images courtesy of the Grand Comics Database. Great information, thanks for sharing ! Yeah, what he said!

I remember it like it was yesterday, sitting behind the table working out that deal with you. I bought it after you had failed to sell it to someone else because they didn't want to pay over guide. I was at the bootht and told the potential buyer that it was the kind of book that went for a premium and that it was smart, in that case, to pay over guide. My logic didn't work for him but when he turned it down it worked on me, and I wasn't previously even looking for that issue. Bedrock the gouger.

You get a scanner?

I can't compete with that. Lech Walesa I did sit next to Lee Corso in the airport last night

Now that there's a real fine funny book. Congrats!

Gonna have to find one of those! Thanks for sharing!

Who is this DavidMerryweather fellow, and how do I get into his will?

Looks like #21. You can see the gunboat at the bottom of the cover.

Someone recounted seeing DD trimming a book years ago. I can't recall if it was on the boards or not -- but at any rate, this was a low-tech operation. Essentially a hand-held razor. That would have been enough to get by most collectors prior to CGC.

Can we keep an original probation list for the rest of us who don't want headaches?

That's only one book, not 53-54.

Dwight, those are exceptional! (but you already knew that... ) Have you ever entertained getting the comics?

She has the good fortune to always know which direction she's heading...

That is a super tough book! Have been looking for a copy for a while, and have yet to see one for sale. If you ever decide to part with it, let me know. Harvey reprints - from the small size Pocket, Speed and Spitfire issues. It's the digest-sized equivalent of Double Comics -- which was from the same publisher. Only the 2nd copy I've seen (the other was a FR at best). Jeff, have you seen another?

I don't gottal.

Coupla others that come to mind.

Exquisitely rare one-shot.

I like the pic as a stand-alone image, but it looks nothing like what I'd expect from Sienkiewicz.

Salida? (thumbs u