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And don't forget the Fantastic #5 - I should have bid on that one.

Does that mean you already have a Science 3? That is my favorite of the run... Stop it! Here's that guy's lonely brother.

Two... TWO ABC 7s?!?! Greedy SOB!!!

Great cover and a tough book to find. I think I have seen one beat to hell copy for sale, and that's about it. There was a sweet 6.0 on Clink last year too. Wish I would have got to it first.

Must.. resist.. expanding... collecting... goals ...FAIL Just keep on moving. No room for more Atlas collectors right now.

The sidebar on this one is awesome. I love the last two. Almost humorous.

I'm glad this thread was bumped. I've become more & more of an Atlas fan recently, and with each purchase the pull gets stronger. I'm buying Westerns for Pete's sake! (the second is a slam-dunk self-portrait of Heath)

Thanks 'Tec! Makes me want to dig mine out again.

Seems like everyone who gets that book ends up selling it. I guess nobody likes it...

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I've gotta agree with you here Matt. This one & Startling 52 blow away the Startling 49 in my opinion.

Check out the eyes on Subby & Cap. Not my copy, but if it was I'd be trying to get rid of it!

I gotta agree with the tall guy. MMC 3 rocks. How can you not like an amputee dwarf?

Did I say permananently...? And I'm not even drunk More importantly, why aren't Hellblazer back issues more highly valued than Sandman? 1) Started years before Sandman 2) Still running today! 3) Most of the series remains un-reprinted 4) Has had a movie starring Keanu (much as we wish it hadn't) i always wondered about that. i have never read Hellblazer but i did see the movie and thought it was pretty good. how does it compare to the comic? I enjoyed it, I did. The movie is a quite fun in its own right, and has some really great turns by Tilda Swinton and Peter Stormare. But it isn't Hellblazer. Keanu's Constantine is nothing like the JC of the comics. Put it this way, in the movie Keanu was trying to earn a place in heaven by doing 'good deeds' *cough splutter*. JC would probably rather take his chances in Hell than kowtow to that stuck up miserable little ponce 'god', you get me? Furthermore the movie was way too entrenched in Catholic dogma. JC's universe is far more eclectic and mixed up, and has no special respect for any particular religion. A real Hellblazer movie (or better still a TV show) could be low-key, low budget, dark and irreverent, and bloody brilliant. Geez, this may be the best post ever on the boards! Nicely said.

Sure, to you or I, its a Schomburg "knock-out" cover not unlike dozens of others. So we're in agreement. Good.

Looking through the Heritage archive & Metro's inventory of scanned books, I found the following numbers on the Mile Highs (which are thought to indicate the number of each book ordered) Startling 25 - 4 Exciting 15 - 6 17 - 4 23 - 8 26 - 8 28 - 6 Fighting Yank 4 - 2 10 - 1 The rest were uncoded. The conclusions I draw would be (a) the data set is too small (b) that being said, the numbers in general aren't far off from DC & Timely from the same era © the numbers support a scarcity of Fighting Yank, but contradict a scarcity of late 20s-early 30s Excitings. Interesting.

Very informative, thanks. what do you want, a comprehensive list? Just look at any other Schomburg cover.

dozens of others just like it.

Good idea. Although I love early Schomburg above all other GA cover artists, we are looking for a book, not just a cover...and, well...Schomburg's WW 2 covers only covered 1/2 the 1940's so they can't be representative of the entire Golden Age. The book IMO needs to be something that transcends just the early 40's... So definitely superhero, definitely patriotic, childish (in a good way) is a must and creative. I would like to nominate several Whiz Comics and Captain Marvel Adventures issues but I can't decide which ones. Captain Marvel was obviously the biggest hero of the Golden Age until he was taken down unfairly and he embodies every element of the Golden Age. We should at the very least vote down the best books from these two titles to compete with any others in my opinion. I would also strongly nominate Marvel Mystery #9 for obvious reasons. Very key, classic cover, classic story, classic artists...not dated to the early 40's as many other books are but rather way ahead of it's time. What do you guys think? I love Fawcetts, CM in particular. but if I'm gonna chose one to go up against Supe 14 or 17 it's going to be a Raboy Master (probably #27).

I think 2 people have already posted one in this thread.

If we could add in a "going too far" element for some of the early '50s horror comics, that would be good too might be a long list!

To try and inject a little objectivity here... A systematic approach might not be unreasonable - at least to pare the list down a bit. Start by identifying the things that "define" or represent the GA, then identify covers that have those qualities, then identify those that have the qualities most well-represented. I'd say: - Superhero - patriotism - not necessarily a WWII tie in, but it doesn't hurt - some sort of childish element (IMHO the GA is partly defined by comics focused toward children, not adults) - and an element of creativity - the GA being a wild frontier for experimentation of ideas.

Nice choices, I'd toss in this one too.

It's all in how you define "representation".

That's a great choice for one that set it all off - and I believe that is one of the special things about Action 1. But I'm not sure those make it the best choice as the representative of the era.