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so did anyone happen to catch the recent auction at Skinner's, in Mass.? A pretty nice collection, lots of SA keys, It had two lots of SC Green Lanterns first lot second lot hammer prices - lot 1- $1,800 , lot 2 $1,500 wondering if anyone in here picked these up?

I love my Brave and the Bold 34, when I was a lad I always love the fantastic Kubert art against that great blue background, and when I finally landed a clean copy I was incredibly happy... here's mine, with my #36

I love this description of the Honey Badger, from one of the youtube videos.... "The honey badger is the only known member of the animal kingdom that has developed criminal insanity as an evolutionary defense mechanism."

having spent time in Belgrade this year, I love to see any Serbian Walking Dead's

very nice Greggy

and now for some (mostly) Neal Adams Batman ........... I did resub the Bats 232, it originally came back as 9.0 OW, on resub it is now 8.5 CR-OW. To get both lower Grade AND lower PQ is upsetting, but that's the risk... And I've posted the 227 before, this was the only book I had graded immediately upon receiving (thought it had strong chance at 9.8) but posting again here for completeness' sake. Neal's beginnings on The Brave and the Bold . and finally some of Neal's Deadman run on Strange Adventures .....

Onto the DCs, we start with a small group of Green Lantern ....... the 63 is the first 9.8 for this issue, so I'm happy with that grade!!

and finally for the Marvel's, here is Prince Namor, The Sub-Mariner ..............

Next, the tail end of Kirby's run and beyond on Fantastic Four .........................

Next, I really love Buscema's covers in this run of Avengers ......................................

I picked up the following books from an OO collection late last Summer, I finally got them all graded a few months ago, and just this week I've found the time for photographs. I do apologize for the glare in each pic, i am without a good scanner... In total, I bought 160 books, and sent 130 to be graded that I believed to grade 9.2 or better. Very pleased with the final grades (except for one PLOD, definitely not expected), 8.0 - 2 8.5 - 4 9.0 - 9 9.2 - 20 9.4 - 49 9.6 - 36 9.8 - 4 first up, The Amazing Spider-Man ................ Still surprised at the PLOD on 109, not expecting professional resto on a book from an old collection, but anything can happen I guess.

and probably one of the nicest groups of photos I've found, a set of three photos taken at a newsstand in Brooklyn in '59, showing an entire comics section from multiple angles, really showing just about every book available this month (June 1959), as well as some greasers looking for trouble

here's where we start to slide into S.A. - spinner rack loaded with goodies, 1956. The young lad in the photo is holding a copy of Superman #105 (May '56)

next, a few "cool" kids hang out with some comics, circa 1948

next up, not a comic book per se, but definitely comic inspired... Nose art to a B-17 Bomber, 1942. Great early Superman depiction

going to post a few more photos tonight, some start to bleed into the very early silver age, hopefully that isn't too great a crime Also, a lot are watermarked since they came from online photo archives, but for the most part they aren't too distracting... First up, an assortment of books from 1942 - 43, including All-Winners #10 (top right corner) . My question is, is this kid lying down or standing up?

a photo to show comics were popular with the rich and famous... NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio and his son with a stack of comics

For two summers during college I worked at a large press shop in Ohio ("Press of Ohio"), 4 color and B/W printing commercial printing. Mostly we made grade school workbooks (B/W), school textbooks and lots of magazines (even the occasional skin mag, ) , but we also did a far share of Graphic novels. As was mentioned, all/mostly all of the plates were scrapped/recycled/reprocessed after use, unless one of the guys who changed out the plates (which I did) wanted it when that run was completed. We had a big cardboard dump box where all plates for the day would go after a run was completed, never thought much about them after they went in the box. I do not remember any regular comic issues going through our line (there were several large Heidelberg press lines, I worked on just one), but this was early nineties and I was burnt out on comics at the time, so I guess we could have printed some? Probably should have kept some of this stuff, but this was height of the Marvel/DC crapfest (special diecut, reflective, 3d, gem laddened covers, ), all I wanted was to earn beer money for college that fall... But I do vividly recall pallets of some Avengers graphic novel sitting at the end of the litho station, waiting to be moved to the bindery, I have never been able to remember what book that was...

and finally, a small newsstand... now that I look at this again, i think there may be a few comics tucked into the bottom row of books (maybe Fight Comics and Jungle Comics?)

next photo, i think this was dated 1940

next photo, date 1939

A few new photos, for the eagle-eyed viewers out there... I've not been able to find any comics, but these are from the period of '38 - 41, so maybe someone can parse out a comic from amongst the other periodicals? First photo, dated 1938

you know, the one consistent thing I've seen across a lot of the photos I've collected... I'm amazed any books sold at retail back then (newsstand, bookstore, tobacco shop, wherever) have survived in any condition above poor. Those books were picked through, read, shoved back onto the shelf/spinner and eventually bought and shoved into a back pocket or elsewhere, read over and over, and then eventually stored away. All the more reason to appreciate the collections that have come to light.

and last update for me today... Ending on a more solemn image. From Dec 8th, 1941, one day after Pearl Harbor. You can just make out the top edge of some comics, to the right of the lantern base (World's Finest is easiest to see)...

Another set pics that can be filed under "Kids reading comics"... does anything say "1950's America" better than kids in 3D glasses... rare, color photo from 1953. dang it kid, put down the paper, we wanna see whats behind you!