OtherEric

Agreed. The fact that this is the only a-list Disney character I'm aware of who was created specifically for comics has been overlooked for a long time. Everybody else, you can get their first comic book appearance... Scrooge, you get his first appearance full stop. I've had my copy since the 90's, I was happy to get it then and I'm still happy to have it now:

Thank you. It looks like I've got the 2nd print, after all.

Avon Fantasy Reader #14, from November 1950. This issue reprints "The Curse of Yig", the revision for Zealia Bishop. The story got reprinted a LOT, with the ISFDB showing 10 publications just through 1960.

Not quite as nice as it looks... the laminate, while there, is peeling a few places, even if the scan hides it. Structurally very nice other than that, though. A well spent 6 bucks, I think.

A couple covers Frazetta did for the Science Fiction Book Club that aren't as well known as his Barsoom covers:

And I'll follow up with some Frazetta covers:

A few books from the local store today. We'll start with this one, I NEVER find Woolrich in the wild.

June 1950 Famous Fantastic Mysteries, with a spectacular Saunders cover for the main story and a great Hannes Bok illo for the Lovecraft reprint, "The Outsider". I scanned a few illustrations Bok did for Lovecraft stories a while ago, so they'll pop up a couple more times over the next few days.

If it makes you feel better, mine has a fully detached front cover. It really is a striking cover (no pun intended).

Thor Annual 18 seems to be jumping on the heels of Loki ep. 2 as well; but I'm honestly unsure if that's better considered Copper or Modern (it came out in 1993).

Glad you're enjoying them! Sadly, I've only got a couple weeks more worth of books to do. Today I'm backtracking, this one really should have been between the second and third issues of The Arkham Sampler. But I didn't get the book until last night. Avon Fantasy Reader 6, from May 1948, with a reprint of "Beyond the Wall of Sleep". ISFDB doesn't have a credit for the cover, anybody know who it might be?

I must disagree, when you have 2 issues to go and I have 3, you're ahead of me. I'll agree to me having the #6 as a tiebreaker when we go back to needing two issues each. Speaking of which... NOW I'm down to two to go. In today:

Two books in this week. Technically only one fits the Pulp category, but as you will see they need to be posted in tandem:

Two books in this week. Technically only one fits the Silver Age category, but as you will see they need to be posted in tandem:

I think 3 and 4 are about equal, neither are easy.

Fully agreed on silver age, at least, particularly if you're willing to go for a low grade copy. I would qualify that it's a case of you can get any book you want... but you won't necessarily get EVERY book you want. You do need to pick and choose which is the most important to you. My low grade but still crazy happy I finally got a copy a few years ago gem:

Avon Fantasy Reader #10, from July 1949, with a reprint of "The Statement of Randolph Carter". I'm not sure if it's the first Lovecraft story I read, but it's the first I remember reading. The ending absolutely should not work, trying to describe it it sounds like farce. But somehow Lovecraft manages to turn it into a genuinely creepy and stunning moment.

@CDNComix: You mentioned over in the Eerie #1 thread that somebody had discovered a real first printing of Collected Cheech Wizard #1. I was wondering if you could elaborate on that, or at least provide a link to that discussion? Thank you for your time.

In today, completing the run:

I'll post the 3 in the this week thread as well, since it's new today. I would say it's not an easy run to complete, but honestly it's not that easy a run to even start. The books certainly aren't rare compared to GA, but for bronze they're extraordinarily scarce:

Keep the 2.0 unless the 1.0 presents much better in person than it shows in the photos

How is the paper quality on each of them?

Avon Fantasy Reader 8, December 1948, with a reprint of "The Temple".

I should, soon, but not right this moment... I just saw the thread pop back up, and felt like taking the photos. I don't mind pulling them out for that.