damonwad

Some recent pick-ups.

Nice one. I always thought the Venus run would be a fun (but expensive) run to collect. So many different styles of covers in only 19 issues.

Thanks for posting those Buster Brown's (especially the Thanksgiving story). Some very entertaining comics in those Platinum Age books.

2 of my top 10 Baker covers. Really nice looking copies of both of them too.

The Tip Top is definitely one of my favorite Tarzan covers and a great looking copy too. I'd love to get a nice one some day. Also, that's a great Tarzan map premium. To hell with video games.

Cool book. You gotta love a great looking old label double cover.

One of my favorites.

Thanks, I've been waiting for one that didn't have too much of the discoloring/fading. That's a great looking "old" copy. I'd love to see your upgrade.

A couple maneely covers.

It is. It’s Rebo, saturnian villain from the "Saturn vs. the Earth" long series, which is one of the few italian comics translated and presented in USA at the time. This series reprints the various episodes in their entirety (albeit in black and white and small format compared to the wonderful large pages on the journals). The few pages in "Future Comics" are from the first episode, the one you see at the far right. Thanks for the information. I always like seeing the "overseas" books you post. Some great books that most people (including me) have never heard of before. These stories really should be seen in their original format, which was very large. Italian comics journals were larger than tabloid format, some really big like the Topolino (Mickey Mouse) supplement from 1932-33 by Nerbini (one of the rarest italian comics). To have an idea, just look at this page and consider is more than twice the format of a GA comic book: I love those large pages. Now if I could only read Italian .

It is. It’s Rebo, saturnian villain from the "Saturn vs. the Earth" long series, which is one of the few italian comics translated and presented in USA at the time. This series reprints the various episodes in their entirety (albeit in black and white and small format compared to the wonderful large pages on the journals). The few pages in "Future Comics" are from the first episode, the one you see at the far right. Thanks for the information. I always like seeing the "overseas" books you post. Some great books that most people (including me) have never heard of before.

These look great. The guy on the cover of the bottom row of books seems to be the same one on the covers of the 1940 Future Comics issues. Also, the earliest comic with Tarzan in it that I'm aware of is Tip Top #1 (1936).

Thanks and it came out in 1940. One of the great GA books, imo. I agree. Thankfully not a lot of others agree though or I'd never be able to afford it .

Nice group and those early Prize's are tough. I love those Briefer Frankenstein's.

Thanks and it came out in 1940.

Thanks.

From Web of Horror to Web of Crime.

I was very happy to get this one. One of my favorite Golden Age books. Inside front cover with a photo of ERB. (Excuse the lighting/shadows on the interior pics). The book covers the Egyptian story line from the Sunday pages. I loved it.

That's a good one. I first became aware of his Airboy covers when you posted a V5#4 years ago (V5#7 may be my favorite). GCD shows only issues #4-6 as Zolne Western Fighters covers. I only have 10 issues and the Zolne's flew under my radar. I'll have to fix that though as Zolnerowich is one of my favorites.

Nice one. I didn't even know Zolnerowich did any of these WF covers.

Thanks, definitely not your typical western cover. There's some pretty fascinating now-forgotten frontier horror fiction that went on in the era... basically, there's 2 or 3 legends based on real events that lead to fictional headless horsemen and phantom riders that get combined and streamlined into the ghost rider characters of the golden age and beyond. The above is partially inspired by the terrible exploits of Felipe Espinosa, who tortured and killed 32 people in Colorado in 1863, and was ultimately killed and beheaded (to confirm the kill, rumor has it he refused the bounty) by legendary tracker Tom Tobin. Espinosa's legend had grown to include a night-riding spectral horseman at just the time this story was being written. Thinking back on the Espinosa saga many years later, which clearly troubled him his entire life, Tobin said: "It occurs to me that the question is not whether a choice exists between bad and good, but whether certain men are even aware of the difference. At what point, I wonder, does it stop being revenge?" That's pretty much how Ghost Rider has been defined up through modern times. That's very interesting, thanks for posting. I have a few early Yellowstone related magazines from the 1870's but haven't spent any time looking into the dime novels from that time period. I look forward to doing some research on them now.

An absolute beauty.

A couple more Ben Bowie's (#9 and #10).

Both nice ones. With the lighting on the faces and the view "from the fire", the Buffalo Bill reminds me of the Don Heck cover for Weird Terror #7