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Okay, not a Nazi, but who cares?

The Nazi femme fatale is my favorite cover trope! [Sadly, nothing newly acquired, but here are some of those posted earlier - some still with me, some long gone]. It's a very long time since I spotted an unknown one.

On 2/11/2022 at 5:02 AM, AJD said:

A box full of mine spent a few months in that warehouse too!

Well, at least in your case they found the right continent!

..and this one has great reproductions, and lots of them!

..and here are a few more books - monographs on Mort Kunstler and Samson Pollen.

On 2/5/2022 at 6:24 PM, Randall Dowling said:

I have a couple of those Rage mags.  Very cool!  I've been on a buying hiatus,  but I picked this up a little while ago (it's an upgrade).  Increasingly, I've come to identify certain issues as what I would consider "classic covers" for the genre and this is one of them.

I just checked to make sure I still had my copy - and I do [phew]!

Guess who...

..and just for fun, here's some Saunders OA, none of it mine, sadly!

Saunders would pose for many of his own paintings. So all those Nazis in uniform? All him! Here he is posing with model Ellene Politis, also his wife.

Further back in the thread someone mentioned Norman Saunders. There is a great book on him published by Illustrated Press - now OOP but copies can still be had.

..and when I landed a previous of this 'un, Rich contacted me to say that he needed it to complete his run, so I let him take it from me in trade. Took me many years to replace, which suggests that it's unusually scarce.

On 3/14/2020 at 2:08 PM, FoggyNelson said:

lBcolefan, you might have population of one, only known issues of some of these👏👏👏👏 probably not but you sure don’t ever see them anywhere, maybe some old timers have them in storage?

I never responded to this but meant to. Back in the day I found myself in some bidding wars with Rich Oldberg - and ended up with a copy of this without the date stamp, both from the Ohio warehouse find. The seller had listed two hi grade copies, and I had won the one shown here. But the seller got his wires crossed, and I got Rich's without the stamp and he got mine. To me, the stamp meant nothing, but Rich was absolutely gutted. So we agreed to trade, which was only fair. In our back and forth, he told me that he had multiple high grade copies of all the Man's Story, Men Today, Man's Epic etc etc, and whenever hi grade copies turned up he would bid strongly on them, regardless of how many copies he already had. He alone could perhaps account for the apparent scarcity!

On 2/9/2022 at 11:26 PM, adamstrange said:

What a maroon

To be honest, that didn't take much working out!

On 2/9/2022 at 4:39 PM, lbcolefan said:

I’m still waiting on my Holiday 4 from Heritage and Holiday 2,3 and 6 that are stuck in an airport warehouse in Australia.

I bought a scarce hardback from a dealer in Moose Jaw to be shipped to me in the UK. Three months later it turned up in a holding warehouse in Australia. Maybe that's where all the lost books go?

On 2/9/2022 at 4:46 PM, adamstrange said:

Unlike the reasoned and measured artistic impulse that inspires comic collectors.

Or, to paraphrase Schopenahuer, '“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of collecting.”