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Can we see your 102 all the same?

Yeah Terrible copy. I wish I'd never have such a low grade copy of any of my books Great books guys. I do like the Plastic Man 24 quite a bit. Methinks he was referring to issue #102...

Yeah Terrible copy. I wish I'd never have such a low grade copy of any of my books Great books guys. I do like the Plastic Man 24 quite a bit.

AtlasT - yer killing us with these copies I'll raise you another Heath cover in my grade range - You can almost feel the heat on this one - Contains the story The Beast at Bay which is a continuation from a story in Battle 17 which recounts the "story" of Hitler - fairly unusual to have continued stories across issues - Yeah, I know I am on a Atlas War Heath cover kick -

A 9.8 White page copy from Feb. 1945. Can it get any better than that? Great book HD. The Plastic Man archives contain one of the few early DC stories that I can enjoy beyond their historical importance.

So Tim, great enough for you to bid on them Here's a recent Airboy addition to my stash. There were some on eBay yesterday but I missed bidding on them Some rarely up there as well, 1948 issues with great covers. Bah, knowing how cheap I am I probably wouldn't have won - This is the July 1949 issue (I think) -

Nothing high grade but an interesting run to grab at once - eBay Auction for WDCS 33 to 214 = 142 Books

RJ, you ought to sit down and look at the Atlas war covers around 1954 - 1955. There are plenty of hidden gems in those runs, especially the Heath covers. That Battle is striking not only for the high impact from Heath but also as AT mentioned the color palette used. Moreover, the 4 stories inside the book are solid. We start with a nice Maneely R.O.K. story (Republic of Korea), followed by the best job I have so far seen from Sale then a bio of Alexander the Great by C.H. Winter (who was / is unknown to me but his style fits the topic very well) and the book ends with a recap of the cruelty of the German Blitzkrieg by Tuska. Can't ask for much more than such a line-up. Here's a particularly well interpreted page by Sale. The story is about the Argonne battle, first solo offensive by the US troops in WWI - AT - Thanks for posting your copy of AiWW # 3. I bought mine in August and have yet to read it despite AS mentioning that it's a great issue. Methinks this will be my reading for tomorrow

on the score - This one was already on my want list.

A better copy of this book probably has already been posted but what the heck - Battle 30 with Heath cover -

to me - See I looked at BTT and told myself. Wow from the cover "dress" this looks like a Fawcett but I doubted it because I didn't remember Fawcett having many horror books or not any with "out there" covers. So I just checked OSPG and sure enough it is a Fawcett! Yeah for me. [End of monolog] But there is something still puzzling about the entry in OSPG. The listing states - EC art swipe / Haunt of Fear # 5 and Vault of Horror # 26 Here are the respective covers - So I have to assume the art swipes are from the interior stories? Any idea Paull which stories correspond to that? Ghosts Hounds of Trelawney, The Nameless Horror or Custodian of the Dead? Also, in the GCD, the text piece in this book - Horror on the Hill - is listed with writing credits by John Martin ... which happens to be the name on the graveyard on the cover! Who said editors didn't earn their keep?

AdamStrange

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I'd like to thank AtlasT for all the superb copies of a brilliant variety of Atlas books you have been posting. Even though I never chime in to wow at your copies, I never miss any new ones you post. So thank you for sharing those rarities with us.

I wonder who voted No? I guess I'll have to look for more contemporaneous Baker and look at the cover again. So Keith, what's next

You could try not to forget other members of our own- Golddust, HouseofComics, Esquire, FD, Filter (once his site is up) ... Am I missing anyone?

Atlas Tales put the number of suspected Baker stories in Atlas books at, at least, 42. Goes to show that pinning down Matt Baker as an artist is harder than what one would think! Thank you for looking it up. Should we run a mini-poll to see what people think? I vote this is not Baker but am willing to be proven wrong.

I'll concur that I like it as well. Any ideas of the artist. It's not Kubert and the GCD does not any one listed. Does OSPG (am at work right now) or Gerber list an artist? And while I am at it, how much faith should one put in Gerber's listing of artists in cover and inside art chores? Thank you.

Yeah, I can see that - I remember receiving Al's catalog for the collection a few years ago. I was still wet behind the ears about GA and so I didn't jump out of my seat when I saw the books listed. Should have though! Now I know. By the way, I had never noticed that on those King covers, we have some strip cross-overs as Henry is interacting with Popeye. Kinda neat as Ed mentioned.

You know, I have no idea why this gets a notation in Overstreet (and hence on the CGC label). It`s not a meaningful distinction to any DC collector that I know. Now, "grey tone", on the other hand... The 5700 AD stories are also sometimes called the "Solar Director" series, since that was GL's other job when he traveled to the future. They're pretty cool, and an example of what Julie Schwartz liked to do in his books: create a running sub-theme that the strip could return to every now and then for fresh ideas. Kind of like the Atom's Time Pool adventures, or Hawkman's stories back on Thanagar, or the early Schwartz Batman "Mystery Analysts of Gotham City" running series-within-the-series. Other Solar Director stories were in #12, #47 and #51, though there were also several sequels by later creative teams in the post-Gil Kane era. Great. Thanks Zonker. That's the kind of info I was looking for.

Wow - Should I be more impressed by the book or the lack of glare on your scan? Kidding aside, this is an awesome book and from the look of that URC, a very very sharp copy in that grade. Congrats Now, what are these 5700 AD stories?

Well, here's part of the quote - "In Wings Comics # 115, [...] in the last picture of one story a girl, who has been proved right, turns to her boy friend and says, "Speaking of rewards, Mister - Bend over!" When Ted scanned the panel, he read over the entire story and could not from the context provide any more info. Yet the PoP author goes out and points out that she "was proven right". What's that's got to do with anything is beyond me. I think we'd better bury that sideshow.

Thanks Jayman, it makes perfect sense Nice and simple. However, there is still the as to why that panel was singled-out in Parade of Pleasure. Apparently, we were not the only ones to read it wrong. I am still endebted to you to make sense of this one. Just goes to prove that language / slang has had time to evolve a lot over the last 50 years! That E.G. Robinson picture comparison is a riot and I have a suspiscion you are correct too.

I assume it relates to spanking. Were you thinking of something else Without being funny, I really don't know what to make of it? Gotta be the English as a second language thing kicking in. I have a weak historical evolution of the language detector. Heck you should have seen the reaction of the first person I said "Jolly good" to with a straight face in the US or sprinkling my speech with words such as to skulk, swath, obsfucate, sheath (sp?). Needless to say in Oklahoma, that marks you clearly as a "for'ner" (read foreigner). Plus, with a slight vowel pronunciation problem, you can imagine the reaction of people when I said "focus"

# 107 Justice Comics # 26 - Bought from ? Content - Cover by Chris Rule (?) 9334 - The Night of June 12th by Tony DiPreta 7 pgs 9515 - Murderer's Oath 2 pgs text 9298 - The Man they Couldn't Kill by ? 6 pgs 9201 - Routine Investigation by ? 5 pgs 9291 - No Place to Hide! by Vern Henkel 5 pgs Since this is an Atlas book, we need to start with a little history of the book itself. The numbering on Justice Comics took over from Wacky Duck in the Fall of 1947 with issue # 7 and kept that numbering until # 9 (or 3) and continued with # 4 for a long time. This is the long-running title for Crime for Atlas. Justice continued under this title until # 52 in March 1955 when the title is renamed a very similar Tales of Justice and continued on its regular schedule until issue # 67 in September 1957. We have already seen some of Tony DiPreta's work for Atlas among other publishers. DiPreta was remember in and out of strip assignment at the time until he landed long-running stints on second tier strips. Roy Thomas tells me they have an interview with DiPreta in the can and he is just waiting for the proper time to run it in Alter Ego. Henkel, however, has already been featured in AE, specifically in issue # 48 of May 2005. Henkel's comic book career is actually fairly typical of artists of his generation. Let me cliffnotes his bio from the interview so you can see his comic path. Vern Henkel was born in Lancaster, PA, on November 27, 1917 and still lives there. He bought comics while growing up, remembering such titles as Famous Funnies. He cracked the comic market at 20 when he started to work for Quality Comics. Henkel was actually working from PA, mailing in his jobs and therefore had more involvement with writing the scripts of his features and would only come to New York every 3 months to check in with the offices. Henkel stopped working for Quality in 1946 at which time he picked up more commercial art assignments as his breadwinner, but still continued to turn stories for a variety of outfits - Timely, Lev Gleason, ME, ...even though his association with Timely was the longest as he turned in his first job in 1946 and worked there until 1954. Henkel was assigned regularly to certain books such as Casey, Crime Photographer and Rocky Jorden - Private Eye. After 1954 / 1955, Vern drifted away from comic, continuing a career in illustration doing many jobs be it for advertising, coloring books or film strips. DiPreta Splash - Note that the cover dates the story in 1945 while the splash places it in 1947 - Second Story Splash - Notice the Robert Mitchum look-alike hoodlum in the final panel - Third Story Page - Henkel Splash - I find that there are similarity in Henkel and Keller design-sense - P.S.: I know Justice comes before Ka'a'nga but I simply jumped too fast. There is still Justice Traps the Guilty before we resume the Ks.

Has this one been posted here before This is a new one to me so ... Btw, is this a Canadian comic? Also the auction with this book also has this one (a Canadian book for sure). Is it Cole as well? I don't know so and the scan is too small to truly tell - Neat book anyway -