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The heroes finally get their own titles in 1968

Speaking of ads, here's the Human Torch 2 ad for Cap 1. The back cover plugs Mystic 5. The next ad is for Human Torch 5 from Marvel Mystery 27.

That blue wheel thing on Mystic 5 is similar to the wheel on the Subby mobile. Water-powered generator?

groupie

new group shot

Photoplay must have got the idea from this publicity still

I got this Louise Brooks cover issue a few months ago

April 1940

New one. Thrilling Wonder Stories June 1940. The Universal film Dr. Cyclops was released in April 1940.

Thanks ThothAmon!

Does anyone know what the Detective 32 went for? It was a CGC 5.0

Fascinating! I just thought the apostrophe might be an inker's mistake. Many thanks for the information on Hardaway.

Recent Pickup. Looney Tunes #2. A well-loved copy for sure. The Elmer story has Bugs Bunny as Bugs' Bunny with an apostrophe throughout the story. Some kind of error there. Porky seemed to be the favorite in 1941, followed by Bugs and then Elmer Fudd. Other characters in the book like a penguin and fox eventually fell by the wayside. Daffy is at the top of the cover but he doesn't appear in the book.

Hi Sharon, long time no hear. Miss you! I was always on the phone with Evelyn's husband who was Pat. He told me a different story about the microfiche project. Pat told me he was in the army corp of engineers during WW2 with a bunch of other guys in the microfiche and photographic departments. They were responsible for producing and supplying blueprints and maps to the army brass. His buddies were also avid comic book readers and they got together after the war to photograph every page of all their comic books from cover to cover. It was a massive undertaking. Most of the digital comics on CDs out there today are Pat's comic books that he personally microfiched in the 1950's and 1960's. In 1990, he was contacted by Microfiche International in New Jersey to supply that company with full series of DC, Timely and Fawcett comics. Those microfiche from the 90's have become collectors items. They were eventually phased out because DC and Marvel no longer wanted to license reprints on microfiche. Instead, DC and Marvel figured they could reprint the stories themselves in hardcover which is exactly what happened and that's when the Marvel Masterworks and DC Archives started. I bought many microfiche from Pat's own collection. These have made their way to Digital Comic Museum and other public domain platforms. When Pat took ill, Evelyn was trying to sell off his comics and she contacted our mutual friend Richard (the Ebay seller) to facilitate sales. Pat had everything. Full runs of Action, Detective, Marvel Mystery. You name it, he had it. He was missing some early New Funs and More Funs and to this day the digital CD companies still don't have those missing issues like 3,6,7,8,18,20,26. For those unacquainted with microfiche, here's an example and the reader needed to view them.

2 new ones. Feb 1935 & Nov 1936

some goodies

2 new ones

A new pickup.

My two

Thank you guys. Recap time

2 sweet 2 to be 4 gotten

another tough act to follow!

That's a tough act to follow!