OtherEric

Supposedly the printing on the Charlton version was so poor Gaines had the book reprinted, so I'm guessing there's a fair number of differences. But as far as I know, the logo color is the only deliberate difference.

Shhhhhh! You'll dry up my source for Fantucchio pedigree magazines if you tell everybody about MCS.

Not sure I would quite go so far as "most undervalued", but it's definitely a bit of a sleeper. I think, in general, the New Direction books are overlooked; and this is by a fair margin the most extreme case given how important "Master Race" is.

I can think of far worse spec buys... I wouldn't mind finding some extra copies of Omega Men 37, either... I think that's the first Lobo solo story.

Today’s find. Does anyone have a checklist of these?

In today. Not thrilled with the condition, but pages are supple and this issue had been eluding me for a couple of years. Last part of “Red Nails “, giving me the whole serial:

The post he was quoting was all Frazetta, the two by Jones were in the next post

I'm no expert on the Warren books... the only titles I have complete runs of are Help! and The Spirit, both of which are somewhat atypical. I would just try looking at the cover galleries and seeing what issues are flagged, they do seem pretty good about announcing themes on the covers. https://www.comics.org/series/1640/covers/ https://www.comics.org/series/1755/covers/ https://www.comics.org/series/1916/covers/

If I had heard about it, I had forgotten. But that may be why they went for the "Strange Adventures" name for the recent series rather than Adam Strange. It's actually surprising how few comics actually titled "Adam Strange" have been published over the years: not counting reprints, there were two limited series and 3 specials, two of which he shared title credit on. 14 total issues.

My reaction as well...

Sounds about right; I paid $725 for this copy almost exactly a year ago. Congrats on getting a grail!

In this week. I got the #6 last year, down to 4 to go on the title:

This one seems a tad optimistic to me... https://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Six-Million-Dollar-Man-Adventures-1-SIGNATURE-SERIES/313446202279?hash=item48fad97ba7:g:MuoAAOSw7ctgRW42

In today. Has “The Hills of the Dead”, a Solomon Kane story by Howard, and “The Electric Executioner”, a revision by Lovecraft based on a story from several decades earlier by Adolphe de Castro. Somewhat unusual in that the original version was published, but Lovecraft changed things enough Castro was able to sell it as a new story. In any case, one of only 10 Weird Tales I’m aware of with the first publication of actual stories by both Howard and Lovecraft:

I asked about these at the local Retro (not record, retro) store last week and they turned these up today. They were actually in the remnants of the original shrink wrap, but the wrap was damaged enough I went ahead and opened them. Even with the clipped corner on the one I’m happy with what I paid:

So, we’re doing illustrated fantasy novels now? I’ve got a lot of Baum and other Oz books, these are my two oldest. Zixi is a first state, Dorothy and the Wizard is a second state from around 1909 or so:

My Shadow paperbacks with the Steranko covers are in storage. But here's a couple other paperbacks with his covers (one of which is actually from a comic).

Here's two with a duck; for some reason they never used Daffy on the Looney Tunes cover other than a cameo on the first 4 issues, and only rarely inside:

Because, as you said, I'm the Strange Adventures guy and the EC guy and you didn't even mention that I'm the Looney Tunes guy... I'll pick up earlier issues when I see them happily, and I have quite a few. But I'm only specifically looking for that particular run. Although one of these years I want to get 34-41 for the Walt Kelly stories.

What was I before? Actually, for all that I'm looking forward to enjoying the Barks stories in those issues, I'm actually trying to get the 204-254 run of WDC&S for the Scamp stories. The only other Duck run I'm really working on is Uncle Scrooge 1-71

In today, all either $2.00 or $2.10.

In today. Probably the easiest of the major EC first issues to find... but it’s definitely a major EC first issue:

I would try contacting @Mark Simonson at http://www.marksverylarge.com/ if nobody here can give you an answer. They don't seem to have been on the boards beyond a couple of posts a few years ago, so I would go check their site for contact info.

There are some actual Kolchak comics, but they're from the early 2000's

Any of them; I'm honestly not the expert on Spiders. Possibly City of Doom? It gives you three Spider stories and has the Steranko cover. The extended Empire State story may be the most famous Spider story, but that's partly because it's atypical for the run as I understand it. Cover images swiped from Amazon: