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I have a book stuffed away somewhere from the mid-80s entitled "Seduction of the Innocent - Revisited" that was another attempt like Wertham. Obviously not as effective.

Killer book, I still don't have a copy of that one.

Very cool book, Steve. I recently got my first MH Centaur.

If I get the time, I plan to list some pretty nice raw GA books tonight. I'll try to get things going around 9:30 EST if possible.

I love the shadowing on that book.

I just noticed Severin's sig on the belt buckle. Very cool.

Very nice! Added to the want list. That top panel looks semi-Escher-esque.

Here's a sharp copy of a book I've wanted for years. This came from Lee's Comics - A+ guy BTW. This issue is a real gem among the post-code Atlas war books. Interior by Colan, Williamson, Drucker - as well as an artist named Bill Walton. Not to mention a phenomenal Heath cover - about as life-like as line drawn art gets. I wish I could get a scan that represents the cross-hatching as well as it is in person.

Bucky's no peach either. I agree that neither of these is a $5K book, but if I was offered the choice of either for free - GL just due to the war cover.

Your post prompted me to do another manic search for wastones online... yet again, I come up empty.

Stunner Mick! I've been on the prowl for that book for years and nothing anywhere near that nice has come across my plate.

Excellent shot, Mike. Not an easy task by any stretch.

He's the king of the pickle-men.

Let me know when you find it! You'll be the first to know. again and again and again...

Where's the "jealous" graemlin?

Yup. They're kind of fun that way. Supposedly Harvey stopped making them because they were stolen in such high numbers.

That will be twice in a month!

This finishes the run for me - group shot pending delivery and crack-out.

I love the WO 3 - I've been looking for a decent copy for a couple of years. I have very few westerns that I can think of, certainly less than 10.

Wow, no love for my Signature Series Al Feldstein signed Gaines File NM plus graded copies of 2 classic EC comics? HOF 8 is probably my favorite EC cover - I'm quite jealous. I'd love to get the 9.6 in the CLink auction, but the funds aren't there for it at the time.

Those are great, I especially like the six-gun western. My sense with Maneely is that for each cover like those above, there are 3 or 4 others that are relatively bland. If you contrast that to Heath or Everett, the ratio is more in favor of great covers. At least in my opinion. That probably reflects my affinity toward covers with a little action as Maneely tended to draw static poses and situations. As you've said, you prefer those which I would imagine explains your fondness for Maneely. I think as a technical artist, and stylistically (linework, not layout) as well he is up there with the best of them. But I prefer the content of other artists as a whole. Don't get me wrong, I like Maneely and think he did some wonderful work, but looking through my war books his action scenes were often lacking (in fact the two covers of his I really like are more static - Battlefront 11, War Action 12). Maybe the editor(s) at Atlas recognized this and put him more on the Western line where he could put some tense "stand-off" images together; more in line with the content. I'm just making this up as I go, so please no-one take this as gospel. Here are the two covers I referenced.

I love unexpected finds like this. I went to a local show with no plans to even look through boxes - I was meeting some other collectors for a "show & tell". I struck up a conversation with one of the dealers and he started pulling out boxes for me to see. I happen across two books I definitely wanted and we came to a reasonable price. The Rawhide Kid 22 is a true stunner. Blinding white pages, newsstand gloss. I know FUELMAN has a sharp copy, but I think you'd be hard pressed to improve on this one. The Outlaw Fighters has one of the few Maneely covers that I think stand out relative to the rest of his output. He was definitely a talented artist, but didn't have that "oomph" that made him particularly stand out among the crowd. This cover shows what he was capable of, and the lightening is wonderfully rendered. I think the colors for the logo are perfectly suited to the rest of the cover as well. I've passed on a few copies of this in the past, but this one was too pretty to resist.

Bob Storms and Marnin Rosenberg have quite a few (although Rosenberg's prices are, er... ), and Clink has a few. That being said, the large majority of those are post-code. I don't think they do well in an auction setting for a variety of reasons (too many titles being one of them), so that might be one reason they aren't on ebay as much.

Yup. Makes you wonder if Palais wasn't a fan of Pioneer Picture Stories.

It only took a dozen years or so, but I finally got my grubby hands on a sharp copy of this killer cover. I'm on right now.