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Is Super-Brain a Professor Xavier prototype?

Beautiful book. Congratulations!

Came in yesterday from CGC. I think this is a pretty cool cover:

And a couple more that came back from CGC on Friday. These are all books that have been in my collection for 20 + years and I finally got around to having them slabbed. A couple of MMCs came back as restored. The LCS I used to buy them from probably knew it and didn't disclose it and I wasn't as tuned into detecting restoration back then. Hard to believe but, there was a time when professionally restored books didn't sell for less than coverless copies

And a couple of others that came in today. The USA #3 is really wild... check out the guy blindfolded, chained and bent backwards, with a giant buzz saw about to gut him. Crazy! I love the symbolism of this cover. The Statue of Liberty standing strong in the mid ground with the Eiffel Tower and the Kremlin Tower (?) burning in the foreground. Classic war cover, indeed.

Got a batch of books back from CGC today. Here are a couple: Man, this one sits really crooked in its holder.

I took a look at my copy. Cover doesn't exactly match the story, but it does involve Bill Barnes being captured and subsequently escaping from a Nazi prison. No barbed wire, no pack of angry POWs with him...just his sidekick, Sandy. No mention of concentration camps, etc. There is an interesting story about how US Navy tactics mimic plays run on the football fields of America. And another about Patton.

I don't have a copy of it to scan, but you may be thinking of Wonder #5. It shows the Grim Reaper busting in on Japanese soldiers machine gunning and flame throwing a bunch of American civilians into a big pit.

Here it is: I can see it going either way. Prisoners aren't in uniform, but the main character is wearing pretty fancy boots for a concentration camp survivor. I'd probably go with POW uprising or resistance fighters in prison. And I agree, Cap 46 is the only one that truly noted the atrocities associated with the Holocaust.

I'm not sure if I've already posted this one in this thread, but I thought I'd put it up with a shot of the splash page as well.

No wonder soldiers fell in love with their nurses <3 Is that army regulation? I'd be too distracted to fight. If thats her bra on his left arm, whats that on his head? Her panties?? Guess that explains the phrase, "Going commando."

This might help explain why the Japanese were so intent on capturing American nurses. From Rangers #19, the poor gal had to use her bra to bandage the injured soldier.

I haven't had the Fair '39 or '40 out in a while, but I believe they are both blank on the inside covers. World's Finest were blank on the inside covers until about #8 or #9. My #11 has a Table of Contents on the inside FC and a house ad for the Big 8 of DC comics on the inside BC (Action, Detective, More Fun, Sensation, All American, Star Spangled, Adventure, and Flash). Also, I hate to disagree with MrBedrock, but my Big All Americans have paper covers, not cardboard. They also have all blue printing on the inside covers.

Very cool! Were cardboard covers peculiar to the World's Fair/World's Finest run, or were they fairly common back in the day? I know that the New York World's Fair comics and the World's Finest up to # 17 had cardboard covers, but I don't know of any other comics with cardboard covers. I would guess there are others... anyone?

I love U-boat covers:

A group shot of some cardboard cover comics:

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse covers... any others?

Forgot I had this Hitler cover:

A few more that haven't been posted yet:

Early in his run, Captain Midnight seemed to concentrate more on the Nazi threat (with some wonderful Mac Raboy covers), but the middle issues of the run featured his exploits against the Japanese. (Don't see as many Japanese sub covers as Nazi U-boat covers...love the sub spotting blimp in the air)