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Kevin.J · October 26, 2022

A couple D Tracy's.

jimjum12 · October 21, 2022

On 10/21/2022 at 11:07 AM, jimjum12 said:

I'll take it.

jimjum12 · October 21, 2022

On 10/21/2022 at 11:04 AM, jimjum12 said:

I'll take it.

Surfing Alien · October 16, 2022

On 10/16/2022 at 12:26 PM, Pat Calhoun said:

it has been a fabulous collecting jag to round up a batch of Atlas digests in the last few months. the thick cover stock and colorful images are very PB-like, with Cardwell Higgins and Peter Driben both contributing wonderful work. these are all from 1942-1945.

Great books there, Pat. I've never even seen most of those before.

GACollectibles · October 6, 2022

Some redheads.

PopKulture · October 4, 2022

On 10/3/2022 at 10:19 PM, PopKulture said:

There are ssooooo many amazing Avon one-shots!

Definitely. That would be a tough but great set of books to complete.

zoso99 · October 4, 2022

Another Kinstler that came to mind.

AJD · October 2, 2022

Some Zane Grey Four Color's with Mo Gollub front and back covers.

kaculler · October 2, 2022

Some random Four Color's I don't think I've posted before.

zoso99 · October 2, 2022

On 9/30/2022 at 11:33 PM, zoso99 said:

I post a "Vintage Comic Show and Tell" as well as unboxing videos with my oldest daughter Rachael each week. The channel is about five months old.

Good luck with the channel. I've seen 4 or 5 of the interviews so far and really liked them all.

If you're taking requests, I'd like to see a weekly segment with Andy and Kiss's Calling Doctor Love as his intro music.

PopKulture · October 2, 2022

On 9/30/2022 at 3:37 PM, adamstrange said:

This was an interesting selection.

Spoiler: No Heath. No Severin. No Toth. No Frazetta.

Thanks for the head's up AS and as PopKulture mentioned above, I appreciate the effort that went into these. And what kind of top 100 list would it be if you couldn't blurt out "ugh" or "what the hell?" more than a few times? I liked seeing so many cool books on the big screen and I'm looking forward to seeing the 1-100 War books by the same person.

OtherEric · September 28, 2022

On 9/28/2022 at 10:06 AM, OtherEric said:

The End of the Night is one of the MacDonald's I haven't read yet, I'll need to track it down. All three books are gorgeous.

Thanks and for some reason I thought you read all of his books. I think I've read 13 of his so far and will try to stick to only reading 3 or 4 a year since I know It'll be depressing when I've finished them all. Though I'll be kicking myself if I don't live another 15 years.

Pat Calhoun · September 28, 2022

Some random additions to the collection.

I read MacDonald's The End of the Night a few months ago and really liked it. The feel and pace of it reminded me a lot of Capote's In Cold Blood

September 26, 2022

On 9/24/2022 at 6:57 PM, BB-Gun said:

He signed this drawing the same way (signature is deleted from the scan).. Met him in NYC at an Apple con I think.

Ayers was wearing a big straw panama hat and taking art requests.

Love it and it would have been great to have met him and get a Ghost Rider sketch or some commissioned art. In 1991 though, I probably would have just asked him if he could make me a Wolverine sketch and moved on to the next artist.

lizards2 · September 19, 2022

I'll take AAMW #94.

Surfing Alien · September 7, 2022

On 9/7/2022 at 9:26 AM, Surfing Alien said:

When this came up I had to have it. My final upgrade on the 1st Paperback, 1st Print of "The Hobbit". The Ballantine's file copy. My undercopy is extremely nice, but not unread publishers file copy nice!

What a great book. Congrats.

Point Five · September 7, 2022

A couple more.

vaultkeeper · September 7, 2022

A couple more TFT's.

I'm a sucker for a sad dog story, so Hungnam! is my favorite in #26. Not the prettiest example of the splash page though, with the ink transfer and off register colors.

Surfing Alien · August 25, 2022

On 8/24/2022 at 6:20 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Thanks! Seeing it all in one place is eye opening. It was a lot of work but well worth it. The livestream was fun, Ruben is great to banter with about this stuff. He knows so much about art technique.

Here's a book that I didn't know was a Johnson cover until reading the article. I knew he could paint beautiful women but didn't know he was also a master of the creepy pervert.

Surfing Alien · August 24, 2022

On 8/6/2022 at 6:43 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Just throwing it out there that Illustration #77 with the Raymond Johnson article is finally back from the printer and Dan has it posted for purchase on the website now

http://www.theillustratedpress.com

I hope dropping a link doesn't get me in jail. This message board is mentioned in the article

I'd like to post a reminder tomorrow about the Livestream I'm doing with Ruben DaCollector tomorrow evening. I'd love to see any boardies drop by. Ruben is quite entertaining and there will be TONS of paperback art shown!

Congratulations on the article SA. I just finished reading it yesterday and really enjoyed it. With so many great covers, his work really deserves that spotlight.

Looking forward to seeing the replay of the livestream on Youtube.

Carats · August 14, 2022

Here's the first page of Vault #37 introducing Drusilla. Mentioned above by KirbyJack and noted in Overstreet as Drusilla's first appearance, but the Vault Keeper implies in the word balloon that she's appeared before. Did Drusilla have minor appearances before and this is the first appearance as a host or is VK just full of crap?

ThothAmon · August 4, 2022

I pick up a new guide every 2 or 3 years. Obviously not as relevant as it was but I still get decent use out of it for the books I collect and getting one gives me a little reminder of how excited I used to get when the new one came out. #11 (L.B. Cole) was my first.

What really bugs me every year is that Star Ranger #1 is listed as the "first western comic" (along with Western Picture Stories #1) but is still not listed in the Western Top 10. I'm sure adamstrange gets really irritated that his best comic doesn't get the recognition it deserves.