OtherEric

I vaguely recall hearing about others finding the Authentic Police Cases and other giants with non-standard contents, as well. So it’s quite possible St. John used leftover covers for remainder giants on a small scale in addition to the regular contents.

At work, so don’t have time to go through the scan; I’ll just leave this here: https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=17520

Surely it's just somebody writing their name on the book and not a price...

I can agree with everything you said here; thank you for taking the time to read the book.

Happy Turkey Day!

I certainly don't have a 23... my earliest issue is 29. But I lucked across this last year not even knowing it was supposedly difficult:

I missed this earlier. My copy unfortunately has a detached cover with a beat up spine, but even so it might be time to let it go...

Came across this today looking through boxes, it's not the era we normally showcase here but it seemed to fit nonetheless:

I've pretty much given up on ever getting issues 1 and 2; I'm still looking for a copy of #3 for the Walt Kelly story. Overall I'm at 15 issues to go and they're NOT getting any easier or cheaper.

I must respectfully disagree with you on the contents, I find Jack Mendelsohn and Howie Post's Jimminy and the Magic Book a delightful feature in the Walt Kelly vein, and Genius Jones is another very fun feature. I am prepared to agree that all the other features are unimpressive, with Dover & Clover being the worst thing Henry Boltinoff ever did by a fair margin. Nice pick-up, in any case. I have about half of the last 20 issues but haven't been able to track down this one yet, so my comments are about the series in general, not the specific examples in this issue.

make no mistake, I've got my eyes open for a copy someday...

I don't have a copy of Campus Town... But, if I have to choose between the two, I'm happy with the choice I made...

I’ve been keeping my eyes open for those; they don’t seem to turn up often.

Thanks for the report. I've only got the two I've quoted above, the Leydenfrost Planets are definitely in demand but $306 seems like a very solid price for a copy in that grade. Very happy with my copy, given that I got it essentially for free. (I bought a small batch of pulps and flipped one of them for roughly what I had paid for the lot.) The Super Science Stories is beat up but may seem like a steal not too far in the future, it's Ray Bradbury's first profession publication.

This one, I can answer. The book was dated Feb 1988 but came out months earlier, so the actual copyright date you're seeing in the corner box was 1987. They actually were released the same month. Mike's Amazing World shows them both releasing on October 20, 1987.

Today's book. The spine roll actually looks worse on the scan than in person. Such a great Jones/ Bode cover:

In this morning, mail actually showed up before I go to work for once:

Was reading the Girl Genius webcomic today, and noticed a visual shout-out to a famous pulp cover in the art. I then figured we could use a general thread for this sort of thing, I always find it interesting when people reference the pulps in more recent works. The relevant panel:

I wonder if there's a direct connection with that and Marvel doing the adaptation of the movie:

I really do need to find my sets... I have two of these... and see how they look. Return of the King is far trickier than the other two to find in my experience. Nice pickup!

It's not totally nonsensical, since the book reprints "At the Stroke of Midnight". And I would love to have a Steranko sig in my collection. But I can think of at least 50 books I would rather have the sig on than that one. (Admittedly, 27 of those are the Shadow paperbacks he did the covers for, so not just comics...) Still, a nice pick-up. That book is getting tricky in any grade these days.

Powell's only cover for the Shadow pulp- and the only Powell Shadow cover I have:

Big Sleep is the only one from that era I have. I swear, I'm going to sit down and start reading these some day very soon now...

Pre CGC days. I've got a copy in storage somewhere, it was a dollar book. Same with Starslayer 4 & 5 and Groo the Wanderer #1... Nice copies of all 4, all dollar bin books. But I've also seen them on walls more than once over the years. (Well, not the Starslayer 4 as a wall book... but the other three.)

So why is Destroyer Duck hot? Just a Groo upswing? The book has jumped from Dollar Bin to Wall Book and back again more times than I can count over the years...