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The style Wyeth adopted for The Odyssey (which are wonderful and unknown to me before this posting, Pat) have a clear Symbolist quality. Here is Arnold Böcklin: The Plague George Frederic Watts: Hope Böcklin: The Isle of the Dead John William Waterhouse: The Lady of Shalot Alexandre Cabanel: Ophelia

Great book Diego Nice to see the appreciation for Fawcetts around these parts lately Very nice Douglas!

Splutter! Guess I really did sell them then - thought it might have been just a horrible dream...

He did so many great Jumbo and Jungle covers as well - but we really need cheetah to do full justice to those!

..as for great Doolin Fight covers they just go on and on...

..and I've always liked this group of Rangers covers (#21 is the Rockford, and the others are Bob Overstreet's old copies):

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His first five Planet covers are simply wonderful:

I coild happily post Doolin covers all day - partly because I have so many but mainly because they are so great! Here though are a few pages from an interior - it may be from #17 but my current copy is graded so I cant doublecheck. For me his work is the very essence of Planet Comics, and he is head and shoulders above everyone else!

At least your photo is no better quality than mine! (thumbs u

Fabulous treasures Jon!

Great books Michaël! You're way too kind. This is nothing compared to the sweet Planet run :hail: Here are a couple of the Wings I received at the same time - It's always nice to see copies with colors that really pop!

Competition time and - I win! (Oh - it doesnt work that way?)

Getting there Walter! What a fabulous copy of one of the rarest issues! (thumbs u

Great books Michaël!

Kindred spirits... Killer copy Richard! You know where to park it when you get a really hi grade copy! (thumbs u

Apologies for the poor scan but I did so want to post an image of Planet #12 to #30 having finally pulled the trigger on a nicely colored #25 that plugged an age-old gap! Still got a long way to with the rivet run - nine more to go and beginning to wonder if I'll ever make it! Here is a set of thumbs:

Apologies for the poor scan but I did so want to post an image of Planet #12 to #30 having finally pulled the trigger on a nicely colored #25 that plugged an age-old gap! Still got a long way to with the rivet run - nine more to go and beginning to wonder if I'll ever make it! Here is a set of thumbs:

great stuff! I quite forgot that City is a sequence of interlinked stories rather than a standard novel. In the end the ants take over the earth. Dammit!! Spoiler alert, please!! Apologies, I will be more careful in future. In my old edition the ants were even mentioned on the back cover! It's not a shock or twist ending, and it wont spoil your reading I hope, but is in fact indicative of a grand theme, characteristic of Simak's work, that nature doesnt need humanity, humanity needs nature. He was probably the first ecological sci fi writer, along with J.G Ballard. Speaking of Ballard, any early editions Pat? Greatly enjoying the wonderful dust jackets you've been posting - they are timeless!

From Wikipedia for those too young to remember him: Syd Shores Sydney Shores (September 4, 1913 - June 3, 1973) was an American comic book artist known for his work on Captain America both during the 1940s, in what fans and historians call the Golden Age of comic books, and during the 1960s Silver Age of comic books. You have sharp eyes BZ! Shores is responsible for one of my favourite Timely covers, sadly no longer in my collection: He also did these covers for Lorna the Jungle Girl, - which thankfully I can lay claim to: What I've only just noticed is that the author of The Last G.I. is none other than Lou Cameron, the mainstay of Ace horror comics... ...as well as the illustrator of Classics Illustrated's War of the Wotlds adaptation: and The Time Machine:

It was also reprinted in the November, 1926 Amazing. These are very interesting! Here is Ogden Whitney:

great stuff! I quite forgot that City is a sequence of interlinked stories rather than a standard novel. In the end the ants take over the earth.