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Something going on down in the bayou!

DC Strawfanboy!

Let me suggest: “Another New York City subway PCH cover”

Not unusual to see something like that on New York City Subways right now.

Great covers but please only pick one

Great books bayou!

Avoid washing after wearing to get the “swamp scent!”

We’ve already seen the Giant-Size Straw-Man-Thing!

I can’t wait for when Billy discovers Rom!

Eyes light up!

Thanks Kirby Jack- I have one but took that photo off the internet. You have to see it in person.

Now you need to get this:

Actually, Giant-Size Straw-Man-Thing!

He’s Straw-Man-Thing!!!

Straw-Man-Thing!!!

Not sure where you get “official” period of GA is 1938 - 1956? The GA was pretty much over with the end of WW2. Superheroes tried to fight crime after the defeating the Axis Powers, but the crime comics along with romance and horror genres, caught the public’s attention given the postwar fears of atomic war and communism. The best examples of this change are first seen in comics like Crime Does Not Pay, Young Romance, and then of course EC Comics. DC Comics did keep the Superman (Adventure and Superboy) and Batman “family books” along with Wonder Woman through the 1950s, which was significant given that a part of the DC Silver Age success was attributed to a continuity of these GA characters (see BB 28 and the Justice League of America). Still, comic books published by EC Comics were in no way similar to what was hit the newsstands during the war years that preceded. So it’s clear that the period following the demise of the superhero (see Atlas and then that publisher’s failed attempt to bring back the Submariner, Captain America, and the Human Torch during the mid-50s) was a different era and should be called the Atomic Age. Period.

They eat a lot? Maybe find them huge buffets?

Fantastic Leader! We need more Leaders!

See the trick or treaters looking into the window from the outside?

Something you can see on a New York City Subway…

I don’t know because my barber always tells me their problems.

Beauty! The cover was originally thought to have been drawn by Raboy but the consensus now is that Sultan drew it. The metallic ink makes these covers special.

The question needs to be qualified unless the OP makes this an exclusive Golden Age top 5 thread because a collector of Atomic Age precode horror will include Spokane books (incredible page quality!) on their top 5 list. Not to mention Salida war books and Pacific Coast Silver Age copies. Silver Age romance books are found in the Oakland and Savannah Pedigree Collections. Church books will always be on the list in just about every category but any pedigree question gets complicated given the different genres and eras collectors focus on. “D Copies” are found in so many genres and eras that the range itself makes it a fascinating collection. Palo Alto’s are special books that hold their own during the Atomic Age. File Copies like Gaines are what I call “Time Capsule Collections” given the publisher’s intent behind them and this makes them truly special. It’s a difficult question when we get past the Church books. I can spend an infinite amount of time discussing the pedigrees and how they are distinguished from one another due to their special attributes and the provenance each has.

“…Captain Marvel was putting Superman out of business.”