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Or crack the dang thing out of that plastic tomb!

Great stuff! Everett at his peak.

Thanks Adam. I'm trying to think who showed me that War Comics 11 for the first time. When you showed me a scan of that book about a year ago I was hot as fire to track one down for my collection. After a year with no luck and then I open my most recent purchase yesterday and nearly fainted when that was included as a freebie. I love these boards and thank you for showing me that incredible book. Also another Kudos to Buttock for the freebies. Not sure who showed you that either. But I am certain that buttock is a mensch! Hey! Who you callin...... (pauses to look up "mensch").....oh. Fay's enthusiasm made me feel all warm & fuzzy inside so I had to do a little nice-nice.

Heckuva book, Buttock!! I really love 1950's Everett ... ASTONISHING and VENUS are two titles well worth going after!! Everett's brushwork from this period is incredible, and his imagination seemed totally uninhibited. I used to love reading those Everett Venus reprints ... Weird Wonder Tales (1970's) I think? Thanks! I had horrific luck with this book. 3 different bidding catastrophes - one each on Ebay/Heritage/Clink over the past year so I was glad to have a bid finally go through. The Venus books are too crazy right now for me to go after, but I'd love to get them.

I can try b/c I read it said by Joe Simon. It's highly possible (I would have to check) that both companies would have the same distributor. The distributor would win cross-advertising because 1) they need to up volume for profits and 2) it was not uncommon for the distributors to be major partners in the publishing houses, that is, distributors were in essence vertically integrating to make sure that they had a pipeline of products to put on the stands. The same scenario applied to the appearance of some ads for Prize books in late '40's DC books. Scrooge Actually, I think it has to do with both books being put together by Lloyd Jacquets "shop", Funnies, Inc. Silver Streak 1 has an ad for Marvel Mystery #2 as well. The output of Centaur, Timely and the early incarnation of Lev Gleason (pre-Biro and Wood) were all provided by Jacquet. True, Richie, but from a "Follow the Money $$$" angle, why would Funnies, Inc. place cross-ads like this? What was their incentive? The publisher would have rather wanted to sell an actual ad than include a page advertising another line's product. If the publisher really was there only to provide capital and had no editorial control, the question folds back to: why would Funnies do that? Cut down on work (stick an ad recycling artwork instead of a new page)? or Promoting sales of its portfolio of products? ... the latter being the most plausable alternative all the more so since once the production left the shops and went in-house / freelance, those types of ads disappeared. The Ad was from the Amazing Man 22 issue. I was suprised to see it and I am glad that people took the time to explain why it was there. I still like Bob Wood's work on Silver Streak. I also found an ad for the Comet at the end of the book. The scan is from fiche unfortunately and someone else might have shown this before. I mentioned in a previous post that Centaur and the Comet pulp were related but I didn't have the advertisement available. (Maybe the relationship is less secure since they also advertise Silver Streak but I will ignore that.) And some nice panels from Reef Kinkaid. Lubbers art looks good. He did a lot of work for Fiction House but I don't know what else he worked on. bb Don't leave me hanging...what happens!?!?!?

Nice catch Norrin - this guy sent me racist PMs. He needs to be banned quickly.

Looks like some of the Kudzu along I-40

Sorry, of course another copy popped up on ebay right after and went for less (tiny scan, but looked pretty decent).

Tough book. Looks great!

Just in from Heritage & quickly disentombed. Probably overpaid a little, but what a great book. Everett at the top of his game.

Here are a couple of toughies.

Andy, I'd also like to know what you think of the color on that book relative to the scan he had with the auction. His other books looked faded, but I couldn't tell if it was just the scanner.

The GIC is great, a lot of NS copies have heavy tanning. Yours looks like it has nice paper. I forgot about that OFF 19, otherwise you would have either lost it or paid a lot more. The Battle Cry is one of my favorite books, and very uncommon in anything above VG. Here's my copy, I tried to get sacentaur's glossinator effect.

Sometimes I get lucky.

Wow Steve. Just wow. I've never seen those two. The #1s come up from time to time, but...wow.

Here's the quote: and here's a link to the interview: http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=36&t=003713

I recently read an interview with Heath where he commented on OAAW 244. He said something to the effect of, "nobody had drawn a tiger tank before and I wanted to draw it so well that noone else would try". Not verbatim, but that was the gist. I'd venture to say that he did just that.

Very nice. What other artist could pull that off?

Yeah, a glossy Comics Magazine should be tested for HGH. Keep 'em coming! I agree since they are on paper stock covers, I had a copy of #5 once that had been restored. Heavy color touch on the spine. That didn't look very good...

Great books Steve. We can really test your glossinator's powers on those early CMs.

Love the 94 Andy. Mine's a lowly 5.0ish copy. My 93 on the other hand...

Personally, I feel that separating the two is a good idea. One compromise would be to start one thread and list the GA first, then the SA - or vice versa.

Oops, sorry about that.

I love the colors on #3.