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Ain't that the truth.

Very nice. I love the shading. In retrospect, Hitler really kind of ruined the name Adolf for everyone else. That ! There must have been some angry mothers a few years after he came along.

I was finally able to get a nice copy of this book. One of my favorite Raboy books. Wonderful colors on this copy. I'm giddy like a schoolgirl.

I did a little something similar for the VCC, and liked it so much I made another from the GA, and another for my top 25 (although I'm not sure if this really is my top 25).

Very nice! I haven't even been able to find one that presents well.

.....do do do DO do do DO do do do do DO do do DO do I like big 5 and I cannot lie.....you other geeks can't deny....

I'd be reluctant to. FH isn't known for good paper and that's a lot of spine roll to "fix". I think you run a pretty good risk of splitting the interior. Thanks for the info. I'm not trying to increase value here but want to "experience" having a book pressed. I'll probably bring the book to Chicago Con and have Kenny look it over there to see what he thinks. I'll check the paper at the spine but it's better than most FH I have. My copy of Fight 46 IIRC is as you describe: the complete book is splitting in half at the spine. This is not the case of this copy of # 20. We'll see. The whiter the paper the lower the risk. It's probably not the best book to experiment with. Us white boys need a quote like that. There's "the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice". Maybe "The whiter the bread, the more time spent on the internet"?

I'd be reluctant to. FH isn't known for good paper and that's a lot of spine roll to "fix". I think you run a pretty good risk of splitting the interior.

That is soooooooo cool, Jack, Jon, & BZ. That kind of stuff just epitomizes early GA to me. There was so much experimentation going on by artists, writers, publishers. The "boundaries" of the medium hadn't been set and anything went. It must have been a blast to be a kid then.

I had beautiful copies of 100, 101, 102 years ago. I was making a trade of a box full of books for a More Fun 14 and forgot they (and a perfect 138) were in there. When I found out I kicked myself for weeks. Oh well, at least they weren't Heath covers.

Mick, which of the GI Combat washtones have you found to be the most difficult to find? Both in grade, and in general.

Archie Bunker?

It does have that portrait feel to it. I can't put my finger on a name, though.

You might recall my posting the above a couple of weeks ago. Yesterday I got in another book from the same period with a similar lovely blue on the cover. Makes me feel like AdamStrange, liking covers for colors that is. Too bad Atlas didn't use it more often, generally preferring red - I like the cab driver.

WOW. That's great!

You were born in 8-9/55?

That's very unusual for Atlas! I don't know of any others. Now that I think of it, it's NOT Heath. That sticks in my mind because I bought a copy years ago because the description said "Heath-c full length story". Due to the bad punctuation I thought it was saying Heath cover AND Heath full-length story. What it was trying to say was full-length story, Heath cover. Years later, I can pass along the pain.

That's a great book. IIRC, it has a full length Heath story!

Ronaldo, you HAVE to crack that one out. It's one of the classic GA splash pages. To see it on a pedigreed book would be

Nice pickup. I had my eye on that one for a while. Seemed pretty reasonable for a SF.

Great books! That More Fun is a very rare one. IIRC the print run at that point was about 10,000 per issue. And I love the Exciting. Looks like a little of Steve's glossinator rubbed off on it!

Weird Chills 2 seems to always be available, just priced highly.

Great books, all of them!

My Western has glasses, my Action does not. The stories are typical Atlas fare, and probably sub-par compared to the contemporary stuff from other Atlas mags. There's a real tear-jerker in the Action by Tuska, but the book only has 2 or 3 war stories. The rest are sports/spy/manly-men type stuff. They're impossible in any kind of decent shape as they're oversized (magazine width, comic height) and the covers are on a pretty flimsy cover stock. It seems even worse than other Atlas comics, whereas other 3-D books were on a thicker stock. As an aside, do you know who Heath used as a model on this book? It's definitely not his typical face, and I know he felt that he wasn't a good face-drawer. I recall him saying he often used his reflection in a mirror, but I've never seen him draw another face like this one.

Almost a month with no posts. Here are a couple that you rarely see.