OtherEric

I'm 15 issues short of the whole run on the Dell Looney Tunes, so no argument from me on that. But the list of us who consider that a cool run is quite a bit smaller than the others I listed.

Kirby Green Arrow, anybody? Only need the #251 for the full run of the Kirby Green Arrow stories, I've got the World's Finest 96-99 already:

This one has been blowing up the past month or so once people finally realized it predates Star Wars 39-44, figured I should grab it for my treasury collection before it becomes impossible:

No less an authority than Issac Asimov described that book as one of the three most important debuts in Science Fiction history; along with "A Martian Odyssey" by Weinbaum and Heinlein's body of work his first year. And he was talking about EE "Doc" Smith and Skylark of Space, not Buck Rogers! This book isn't as expensive as some other pulps just because it's more common than a lot of others, given how dedicated the SF collectors were even back then. But in terms of actual impact on popular culture, it's hard to say it isn't one of the top 10 or so books of the 20th century. An awesome pickup, even with the writing.

Not even close. Barks ducks? Cool funny animal titles. Walt Kelly Pogo (and others)? Cool funny animal titles. Sheldon Mayer DC funny animals? Cool funny animal titles. I will freely grant they haven't kept up with the superhero or horror books in demand, but there are a lot of genuine classics in the genre.

5 more. I think Shock 6 & 7 are both 'official' classic covers, and the other three are all pretty impressive as well:

https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/NOV208764

And a few I got in while my scanner was broken:

In today:

The store does have a one per customer limit. But when I showed them your post, they let me grab another one. I'll PM you in a couple minutes.

Today's pickup. I've almost exhausted the LCS's supply of the title:

One local store had a lot of shelf copies of the standard version of High Republic #1, considering they’ve already announced a third print.

And that's it for now, hopefully more very soon!

It may be a reprint book at this point but I love the covers:

189 has one of what I believe are only two Ditko stories in the title:

104 is the first Space Museum:

Got my scanner up and running again, so here are my recent pickups... starting with better images of the two I just had photos of a couple weeks ago:

That is a beautiful copy of a beautiful book. Most of my EC's are from the last 2-3 years at most, and right now I've got almost exactly half of the new trend and new direction books. Hopefully I'll be able to finish Shock Suspenstories this year; after that the big project is Weird Science and Weird Fantasy. EC remains better than 99% of all the comics ever published. I don't know that they could have done that much more in their old format by the time they were forced out; honestly... they took what they did about as far as possible, I suspect. But there has never been a publisher-wide level of quality that was even remotely like what EC managed for about five years.

The next five. I really think the Psychoanalysis #3 cover is underrated. And then we get into the Shock Suspenstories covers, which are pretty uniformly great, even if I don't think #2 or #3 are particularly standout classics:

I wouldn't argue with the idea that Kurtzman's solo work is better on his war than his humor. I think when he did layouts for humor for Elder or Wood or Davis to finish he was utterly brilliant, but I wouldn't disagree that his solo style worked better on the dramatic than the comedy. (I still think his solo humor is great, just not as good as the other two cases.)

Oh, and to get things back on track: the comic interiors are actually pretty good, but I can't stand either of these covers:

Wow. I think I'm going to just have to be happy I got the #17 for $100 about 4 years ago and let my dreams of the #19 fade away. I really wish I had bought the coverless copy of #19 for $250 when it was on the bay for months, it disappeared right after I had decided to get it my next check.

I don't even want to know what you paid for it; the #19 is insane at the moment. I got stupid lucky getting the #17 and #18 right before they went nuts.

There were actually one or two stories that would pass for westerns, even. But I think the closest it ever got to funny animal was "The Cartoonist's Calamity" story, and that really wasn't that close. Great story, though.

I'm still hoping to get a #2. I'm missing 1, 2, 15, and 19; and my copies of 12 and 14 are coverless. I've also got a spare coverless copy of #13. I figure the 2, 12, 14, and 15 are all getable still, but the 1 and 19 are probably hopeless. My copies are almost uniformly low grade, but they've become a lot harder to find at all the last few years.