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    Most unpopular Golden Age superhero

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    Ale!

    Green Lama wasn't lame or unpopular, neither was Cat-Man & Kitten; both had success extending to their own titles. Red Bee was kewl too & featured on several HIT Comic covers with excellent art. Nevertheless, there's a lot of eyebrow raising superheroes in the GA, usually secondary characters with weak stories and/or art that ...in some cases... are laughable. In fact spome of them get highlighted. Here's an example of a pathetic GA character reviewed by the Comic Tropes guy in a YouTube video that cracked me up! lol 

    #711 appeared in early Police Comics (Quality Comics Group)...

    :cheers:

    Show me your Timely's and I'll show you mine. Have a Cigar...

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    On 12/17/2023 at 1:17 AM, Primetime said:

    🪝💣 Mystic Comics 5 💣🪝 released December 15, 1940 with a house ad for Cap 1 (released December 20, 1940). Got a full hook 🪝 on one of my copies. 

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    Yeah, the full hook is probably less common, but Schomburg art was enough to hook most readers. The thing that amazes me in the detail work is that Alex had the forethought to include a powder room.

    These would be essential additions with women replacing men as factory labor during the war! (:

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    If I had to guess, I'm going with restoration removal

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    While the pressing boat has sailed ...getting relatively no press coverage these days... I'm much more sanguine about restoration.  FTR, I don't normally seek restored books, although I'm not opposed to them and own a small number that benefit from it. I'm sure those books were restored long before I acquired them; I'd be unlikely to have professional restoration removed from a high grade book as the risk of damage might increase as would my displeasure if the removal impacted the book's appearance in any way.  Like it or not, restored books are an important part of the market and I'm confident the popularity will grow allong with percentage of Universal grade values over time. The only issue with restoration carried over from the early days of grading has always been disclosure. And with third party grading being the marketplace standard, that issue was laid to rest even before the pressing debate started. My two cents (ale extra).

    :cheers:

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    R.I.P. Roger Hill

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    Roger Hill was active in fandom when he worked with Jerry Weist to create Squa Tront back in '67.  While I didn't know him personally back then, over the decades became aware of his passion for the hobby and commitment to EC's legacy, first as a fan and artist, eventually as a dedicated publisher of books about EC's artists. But most of all I knew him as a wonderful human being. The joy you see in his face in photos is a 100% accurate reflection of the person. His passing is a sad loss to our community, one that'd even bring tears to the eyes of the Crypt-Keeper, Vault-Keeper and Old Witch.

    Here is a photo I took of Roger at an OAFcon ...based on my Wayback Machine's best memory... circa 2016, with original Wood EC art and the amazingly detailed Wally Wood diorama:

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    RATE YOUR GA BOOKS ON COVER APPEAL ALONE. Forget grading criteria.

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    On 7/5/2021 at 1:37 PM, Cat-Man_America said:

    Here's two triple A's, that means the second touches all the bases and brought the first in with a home-run! :grin:

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    Double header: (worship)

    Having reviewed reactions of the many awesome covers gracing this thread, my only surprise was that these triple A books were completely ignored!

    Am I the only one who likes this team??? :whatthe:

    While this experiment was orphaned by it's publisher after two issues, ...obviously a thinly veiled attempt to compete with DC's ALL STAR team-up... these are unquestionably A-list attention getters in the pantheon of Timely hero books and in my humble view at least worth of an encore in spite of receiving no initial reaction from the esteemed scholarly minds on these hallowed boards.

    So with that bloviated introduction, ...a reprise of the classic ALL WINNER'S SQUAD; ...I'll dodge the tomatoes!  :boo: