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I know I couldn't. One is not enough. Nice pickups on all 5 books.

Prime stuff. The Doorway to Nightmare and Time Warp (science fiction) were some of Kaluta's best covers. I think there was an unpublished Doorway to Nightmare cover (#6) that appeared in one of the Cancelled Comic Cavalcade's. If memory serves me correct, it also appeared in the interior of one of the $1.00 issues of The Unexpected.

I have always found 4 half wraps in Timelys, Nedors, DCs and other companys. They have always had the "missing half" on the back side from the staple. I believe this has to do with the printing/colating process. I also believe they occur in the "same" places. I'll try to look one up and let you know exactly where they are. Probably won't be able to do that until tomorrow as the wife and myself are going out after I get home from work. By the way, how many pages are in the front half are there before you get to the staple where the centerfold is and how many pages are in the back half. Don't count the cover.

I suspect you are only missing one page. The "60 pages" probably refers to 56 interior pages plus 4 pages for the cover. They were printed as having 16 "sheets" (or 32 pages counting both sides) before the staple in the center and 12 sheets (or 24 pages counting both pages) after. (Sort of like the 52 page comics which were 48 interior pages and the 4 cover pages. Makes it sound like you are getting more for your money.) There were 4 "half wraps". If you have 15 pages before and 12 after, then one of the "half wraps" is probably missing (unless someone just tore out a page). You can generally tell if it is a half wrap missing. There should be 4 of them. If you look at the back half of the book, you can see a thin sliver of paper at the spine . It may or may not be "glued" to the page before or after. Because it is such a thin piece of paper, a pull on the full side of the wrap can tear through the back side and the page can become loos. This happens often on books with spine rolls. If it's because a page is torn out, you can usually see evidence if you look closely at the pages at the inside spine and see a corresponding jagged edge. Hope this helps. It's a lot easier to explain if someone is showing it to you, than explaining it with just words.

I'd have a hard time not being DC centric. I think the best covers from that period were done for DC by Adams, Wrightson or Kaluta, and I could probably pick 10 Adams', 10 Wrightson's, and 5 Kaluta's before I would start picking any others.

hkp, It's amazing that you have been able to put together so many copies in such nice condition. Those early issues are hard to come by even in lesser condition. Here are the two missing issues. They go right before the last row. (I've only got about 20 issues, but by some twist of fate, have the two you are missing.)

Beautiful books. Those Snow White covers are gorgeous. One of my favorite WDCS covers is this one from #45. Walt Kelly's take on the Dwarf's band.

Well, since you asked so nicely ... Here's one of the last 4 Mickey Mouse Magazines where they shrunk the title down to comic book size. Only the last one (V5#12) is 68 pages and with comic book contents. The other 3 were 36 pages and had content similar to the previous magazine sized issues.

Would that FC 4 be the 6.0 that sold in a recent Heritage auction? Last I checked, there were only 4 in the CGC census with the 6.0 being the highest graded. Here is a scan of my copy.

Doesn't Donald Duck Four Color 4 predate the MMM V5#12? It was in the modern comic book format.

I was out of town on a business trip earlier this month and had some time to kill so I stopped at a comic book store and came away with this unexpected surprise. Sad thing, though, is that it's missing the centerfold (but it did make it "affordable"). Anybody have a coverless copy they would like to sell? At this time, Goodman was also publishing pulps under the Red Circle line. They had a couple of "weird menace" titles (Uncanny Tales and Mystery Tales). This cover takes after them with the monster, hero, fiendish villians in red robes and the girl in the torture device. There's something special about those Timely's from their first year of publication.

I don't know how many books got out of the Library of Congress or when they would "clean house", but I've got a copy of More Fun 69, cover dated July 1941, with a LOC stamp saying it was filed on May 27, 1941. There's also a large stamp saying "FILE" and a smaller one saying "NIGHT DEPOSIT". Got it on eBay a couple of years ago. Probably a VG-, with some tape on the cover. Didn't pay anything extra for the LOC stamp, although I thought it was kind of neat. Always wanted a Dr. Fate cover.

This one is a "Better Publications". I just picked it up yesterday. Flipped a coin to see if I posted it here or in the "have a cigar" thread.

Thanks, now what's the other one? Gotta be a Marvel multi-character book, as there are Cap, Subby and Torch stories inside. The GCD lists the stories in Human Torch #31 as "He Gambled on Death" (Torch), "Troubador of Terror" (Subby), and "Man Who Could Foresee Doom"(Torch). Doesn't list a Captain America story. Is your book a different book or did they miss a story? ECFANMAN

I am pretty sure they are both #31's. Sub-Mariner 31 and Human Torch 31. Are you interested in selling the Sub-Mariner? I have an incomplete copy and I ain't too proud to marry-up a couple of books. ECFANMAN

Because they have a copy that is complete except that it is missing the centerfold. Whether it "adds" $3K to the value, is another question. I think it would. Or maybe you would be better off buying a complete coverless copy for $7K, removing the centerfold, and trying to "salvage" the coverless/incomplete remainders for $4K. That might work. Sometimes the bigger factor is how well the parts "match" (page quality, cut, staple holes) the rest of the book that you have. There are a lot of Golden Age books out there that are missing either a cover or missing the centerfold. It's a matter of finding and marrying the two. There is a rather healthy market out there for Golden Age parts. Sure the resulting book would get a CGC qualifed or restored label, but I doubt if the people looking for these kind of books are the type of collectors that are into slabbed books. The reason this is CGC slabbed is to certify the authenticity of the pages. Just this month, I bought a coverless & missing first wrap Superman #20, to "complete" a copy of the book I've had for years that was missing the centerfold. ECFANMAN

The posters were actually reproductions of cover recreations (without the logos) that Schomburg painted. They were Captain America #37, All Winners #11 and Marvel Mystery #66. Beautiful posters. I regretted not buying them when they came out and then got a set on eBay about 6 months ago from the guy who original had them done. Now If I had only been smart enough to buy one of the paintings way back then. ECFANMAN