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Check page 40, the "Head First" comic by Wilson. If it's cut off at the bottom edge, it's a first. If the page is correctly aligned, it's a second. (Or at least, one of the several indistinguishable printings that are considered second)

I can find no indication online the books actually exist, I wonder if they were solicited and then cancelled? The images I was able to find, the barcodes look very pixelated, suggesting they were mock-ups rather than scans of actual books. I did find an image of the 17 2nd print; same problem with the barcode:

Marvel Team comic to DC Team comic:

I remember actually reading a fascinating interview about Jack Adler with, of all people, Howard Stern; I think it was in Alter Ego. They were cousins.

I should track down a copy of Golden Blood...I've only got 1/6 of the story so far. (Specifically, part 4 of 6:)

In today. Return of Solar Pons is generally considered the third Solar Pons collection. There was a collection of three stories put out by Mycroft and Moran a few years before, titled "Three Problems for Solar Pons", which is the rarest Mycroft and Moran boo. All three of the stories are included in this collection, however, so Three Problems is generally considered something of a specialty item rather than key to the run. Stated print run was 2000, actual was 2079. This actually gives me all of the Solar Pons stories in Mycroft & Moran editions; although they put out four other Solar Pons books, accounting for 13 of the 20 books released by the imprint. The others are the aforementioned Three Problems for Solar Pons, The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians (a softcover, illustrated chapbook with a story later included in The Casebook of Solar Pons), The Solar Pons Omnibus (technically an Arkham House book), and The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus (Basil Cooper edited the stories for the original omnibus; people were apparently displeased.)

Just wanted to thank everybody who weighed in on this. I would love to see that 60's promo item if it ever turns up, and the Sam & Friends covers were awesome! So little of that show survives; if you made me choose between getting back missing Doctor Who or missing Sam & Friends Sam & Friends would win. It seems like there are too many earlier books to call the Super Special the first Muppets comic; but it may be the first US Muppets comic book (as opposed to a comic with the Muppets).

That is a very, very, VERY 70's looking book!

I don't think the Crazy 57 counts as a "real" Muppets appearance, even if Marvel wound up with the rights 30 years later. Doesn't mean I don't want a copy, though!

That looks AWESOME. It appears to have not been released in the US, though... it definitely beats the Super Special for "First Muppets in comics" but the Super Special may still be the first US appearance. EDIT: also, copy ordered online.

Just got this book in this week; and it got me to thinking: what is the earliest appearance of the Muppets in comic books? I think this is it, at least in the US. There was an earlier UK annual with some stories; but this is the first US comic and first book in a conventional comic format to have them that I can find with a quick online search. If anybody knows of any earlier appearances I would be very interested:

Marvel Preview to Marvel Preview

And here's one from another pulp reprint series that you don't see nearly as often; it's the only one of the Corinth Operator #5's I have... which helpfully reprints one of the few issues of the pulp that I don't have yet:

132 total. 96 stories in single volumes; 15 double volumes (numbered 97-126); 13 Omnibus editions (numbered 1-13) that have 4 or 5 stories in each; and 8 new novels. The doubles are the hardest to track down in general, although each era has some books that are harder and some that are easier to locate. It took me about 20 years to put together the run. Most of my copies are in storage, but I've picked up several duplicates over the years, and not all of those have made it to storage to compare with my other copies. Here are the first and last books in the reprint series. Not sure why I have a copy of #1 beat up like that; I suspect it was in a quarter bin at goodwill or something and I couldn't resist rescuing it:

1 Doc Savage Paperback down, 131 to go! Curiously, that's actually the Doc Savage paperback with the highest total print run, even more than the first book.

But what about the watermelon? I still think Buckaroo Banzai was a fun Doc Savage movie...

Also in today. Ironically, when it comes to putting together this series, I would describe these four issues as nothing super special:

In today:

Never did find my copy, if I did have one. But got a copy in today, in any case:

In today. I believe that, with this issue, I have all of Harlan Ellison's uncollected Science Fiction stories. But my checklist for those was self-generated by looking up pretty much every story he had on the ISFDB and other online sources, so it's entirely possible I missed some. Thought I would post it in this thread to show off the nice Freas cover:

Neal Adams cover to Neal Adams cover:

The real gem was this one the owner pulled out to show me, though: It's not particularly rare or valuable; but Gahan Wilson was amazing and this should be extremely fun to read:

Went back to the local store today, since I was running errands around there anyway. Finished off the Destroyer run; now I should actually sit down and read them:

Spider-Man to Spidey

Ra's Al Ghul to Ra's Al Ghul