damonwad

a man of exquisite taste. my favorite, too.

I like them all too but the Mystery Men #5 is the stand out for me.

You beat me out for this one, congrats on a great pick-up.

Those are spectacular. Two of my favorite covers given a first class treatment.

A great Airboy run. Some really cool looking books there. Congrats.

I don't know who's art it is but based on my very limited "art detecting" skills I say no Kubert. Here are some pages though.

Some more recent pick-ups. The writers of the Jesse James #1 stories must have had a serious case of hero worship. It's kind of funny how heroic Jesse is in these biographical tales.

Her's one of my favorites.

I just recently read the first Walt and Skeezix volume (1921-1922). I really enjoyed this and am looking forward to seeing how everyones lives play out. Interesting little scenes involving getting alcohol during prohibition. A great trip to Yellowstone also. I also read the first two volumes of Prince Valiant (Fantagraphics). The great reputation these strips have are well deserved. I love the adventure stories and the artwork is spectacular. Beautiful colors. I wish I didn't have to wait six months for the next volume.

I have a question for any of the Centaur experts regarding Star Ranger #1 and Western Picture Stories #1. Overstreet notes "1st western comic" next to the issue number of SR #1 but next to the title of WPS #1 with each having a February 1937 publishing date. Is it known if one issue hit the stands earlier than the other or is it generally considered a tie?

I can't help you with your search but cool story.

Great books Alzabar.

That is on a very short list of my all-time favorite covers. I was watching it but couldn't afford it. I notice it is still shown for sale though.

This is a great book BP and made me want to get some issues in this run. I have a question about Ibis #3 though and you would seem to be the man to ask. Is there confusion over whether #3 is a Raboy cover or not? Gerber doesn't note it but Overstreet does and Comiclink has an old label stating "Raboy cover" but a new label that doesn't. i don't believe #3 is raboy. not on my raboy want-list, at any rate. and i checked some h'tage archives and saw a label that noted "raboy art" but not "raboy cover," but didn't look at them all. I saw some of the "Raboy art" notes also. Overstreet and the old label copy on Comiclink are the only "Raboy cover" notes I've seen. I'll assume it's a non-Raboy cover (Gerber, new label and Billy Parker vs. Overstreet and old label). Thanks.

sufferin' sassafras! way to go, yuh ornery polecat. and here i 'uz thinkin' ya a tenderfoot. hmmm, mebbe i read too many of these here books over tha years....

I have heard of Fujitani before but don't know much about him. I fell in love with that cover though as soon as I saw it. Did he always sign his last name as "Fuje" or was that due to the anti-Japanese sentiment so close to WWll?

This is a great book BP and made me want to get some issues in this run. I have a question about Ibis #3 though and you would seem to be the man to ask. Is there confusion over whether #3 is a Raboy cover or not? Gerber doesn't note it but Overstreet does and Comiclink has an old label stating "Raboy cover" but a new label that doesn't.

I've been picking up some westerns lately. Here are a few. I picked up some Blazing West's from Jim Payette after seeing honkey cat's great group shot. I like them and will post my own group shot of them in honor of honkey cat when I complete the run. I wish they would have lightened up on the western "slang" a little though. Lot's of killing in this Western Fighters (V1 #3). Western True Crime #6.

Congrats and great group shot. I wish I had that kind of patience.

Great background information to go along with the great books.

I really like this one also.

Great posts BB-GUN.

Now this is a cool thread.

I sent him an email, thanks.

One of my favorite covers. I haven't seen one in the year I've been looking. (thumbs u