OtherEric

The rotating feature era is definitely a highlight, although I also like the various "when we feel like them" characters, like the Faceless Creature, Animal Man, Immortal Man, and Enchantress. And, of course, Deadman remains a classic. I tend to think the weakest part of the run is from about 50-100, where they don't really have much in the way of recurring features. Although even then Darwin Jones pops up occasionally.

Love it. My PKD books are a bit more scattered; I've got the Ace D-Series mixed in with the other Ace D-Series (shown way back in this thread) but I'm up to about 20 firsts. You've got more hardcovers than I do, though!

Variable, but with a decently high hit rate. I tend to prefer the recurring features, but there's a good number of fun one-off stories as well.

Picked up at Grit City Comic Show in Tacoma today. My budget was quite tight, particularly since I'm still making time payments on Vampirella #1. But this was well within even my tight budget and I'm crazy happy to get a copy.

Found today. Just a reader copy, but it's the last 12c issue I needed:

Missing an interior page, but for $20 it still seemed well worth it at the Grit City Comic Show in Tacoma today:

Picked up at the Grit City Comic Show in Tacoma today. Cover is detached, but at $8 I still couldn't get my wallet out fast enough.

Got a couple mags at the Grit City Comic Show in Tacoma today. The other one I'll post in the Vampirella thread:

I need to at least try to read Junkie one of these years. It belongs in every vintage paperback collection, I think; just as the book most famous for being rare and valuable even if it's not really considered the rarest or most valuable PB anymore.

Thanks for the heads up! Agreed the paperback thread would fit better over here, but no idea who to contact.

Actually, the #2 is a real EC, arguably the first. The indicia says published by Educational Comics, Inc. Agreed it's a shallow end book, but since it's the first it's a shallow end book I feel every EC collector should have nonetheless.

Does anybody else here read the webcomic Girl Genius? They're doing a bit of a side story right now, with a guest artist, featuring a guild of monsters. Wednesday they introduced a new character; although it wasn't until today that it clicked that the new character had a very distinctive lettering style. (The strip has used various styles of lettering for different voices in the past, but they haven't used this one before that I'm aware of.)

No consensus. I think everyone agrees fat diamond books were heavily distributed by Whitman but there is still a lot of dispute about them being entirely distributed by Whitman. In this thread we’re happily showing fat diamond books as Whitman’s but trying to avoid arguing about them, saving that for other threads.

Pretty sure these are both Sun Fade, although printing error isn't impossible in either case:

Correct, although it's in pretty common use in discussing him as well, since his last name is actually more common as a first name. In case anybody is unclear on who we're discussing (unlikely), here's his first novel:

Nice! First published PKD story under that classic cover.

Famous last words...

Is that the Doom Patrol writer Arnold Drake, or somebody else by the same name?

A great book, even if Finlay was so irked at how they cropped the cover he never worked for Street & Smith again

First Buck Rogers. Wanted at least since I saw it in Steranko's history, probably longer. Never really expected to even ever see a copy, much less own it:

I’ll be going to my first show since 2019 next week. Super excited for that, even if it’s a tiny show.

The 50's DC that surprised me with how long I took to find a copy was Adventure #151. It's one of the Frazetta issues, so moderately high profile. But there's aren't nearly as many copies of it as the other 7 Frazetta Shining Knight issues, and the census shows that.

You're thinking of Buzzy #70, not Scribbly. Although the publicity was enough that the issue actually has 8 copies on the census currently.

50, oldest original owner book I still have in my collection is from '78, got my 1st Golden Age books when I was in High School.

I don't think any of the Scribbly issues are actually terribly rare, although they're not common either. I do agree that the rarest 50's DC is probably something that nobody realizes is tricky from the middle of a long run; the problem being there are actually a lot of randomly scarce issues out there (or, more accurately, NOT out there). Still, if you think Scribbly is worth mentioning in this context, I'll link to this thread: https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/430688-everybody-but-everybody-loves-scribbly