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A few from the LCS today; I also posted a couple earlier issues over in the Atomic Age DC thread in gold. Just some great "what's going on?" covers on the 52 and particularly the 51; the 46 features one of the last Captain Comet stories in the title.

A couple Captain Comet covers from my LCS today. These are the earliest Strange Adventures I have and the first Captain Comet issues I've gotten:

Yes, although I have the impression it was also sold a couple other places. I haven't been able to find a number for how many were made. I absolutely loved the Micronaut toys as a kid.

My 10 year old self couldn’t resist this at the retro store today:

I'm pretty sure it is the first book specifically conceived as a mini-series. One-shots have been around much longer, though.

I've had this one for quite a while, but posting it today for no particular reason. It always struck me as interesting that this was the only Pogo book in the traditional pocket book format... the others were all larger, and a wide variety of odd sizes. It makes for a very uneven (if fun) looking shelf when you have all of them lined up together.

A couple Marvel 1st (or only) issues you don't see that often, although neither are in that high demand:

A couple books grabbed at the local store today. Nothing I particularly care about other than a sense of wanting all the marvel comic mags if I can get them; but they were cheap:

Actually trying to put together the Gold Key/Whitman run of Buck Rogers; I fondly remember the show. Issue 8 is one of the super-rare Whitman's, though, so who knows if I'll ever track it down. Just found an affordable copy of #9, at least. Here's the real book for the hard-core Buck Rogers fans, even without an Erin Gray photo cover:

There's an entire Pulp Magazines sub-forum now; people would love to see this over there as well!

And a couple Dell First Editions.

A few pickups today. The Heinlein is redundant in my collection... I have all six stories in their original magazine appearances... but I realized I didn't have any Pyramids with the early logo, so it seemed like a nice one to grab. My Pyramids are mostly 70's; I have all the Steranko Shadows and all of the Uniform Harlan Ellison set. The Ace D-series had no particular reason to be got other than I can't resist Ace D-series books.

Maybe I should dig my Doc Savage paperbacks out for the Paperback thread over in gold... I finally finished the run of those a decade or so ago. The pulps, I've only got about 15 or so, mostly digest issues.

And here's GI Joe. Better copies have been posted, but they were smaller, so I went with my beater copy. I still think it was a good use of $2.

Star Wars #3, this one is nicer than my copy so I'll quote @wormboy's copy instead.

It just so happens that I have Laff-O-Lympics on the way to me right now, if nobody beats me to it I'll post it when it arrives. Then again, if somebody DOES beat me to it, I'll post my copy anyway on general principles. :-) I think I know where the other two are further back in the thread, I'll see what I can find.

And today's incoming book:

@Morganmi posted Doc Savage #3 over in the this week thread, which led me to digging these out. The 2 and 6 could use upgrades even by my low standards, but the rest are pretty nice. I find this run interesting because, as far as I know, these are the first new Doc Savage stories since the pulp was cancelled in 1949... the earlier comics from Gold Key and Marvel were adaptations of pulps; and the paperbacks didn't have new stories until around 1990. (They did dig up one previously unpublished story in the 70's.)

Exactly. And this one, in particular, I doubt they'll ever be able to sort out the rights to everybody's likeness. It might be a fun idea to create a list of "unreprintable" stories like this, where the rights either temporarily or permanently make a story unusable. I vaguely recall Marvel making at least something of a big deal of them being able to reprint Marvel Two-In-One #21 with the Doc Savage crossover a couple years ago.

I was 6 at the time, so I never saw it then either. I did see some of the "best of " shows in the 80's, so I was familiar with this version of the cast when I finally did find the book years later. I do find it funny that, at the time, the idea of Stan Lee hosting SNL like he does in the comic would have been viewed as improbable at best. But in the decade or so before he died, it's more "I wonder why he never did?" Here's the Spider-Man comic I would have likely gone for at the time over this one, in any case. (This issue should have been on the stands around the same time.)

I have yet to be disappointed in the Black Friday bonus set, personally. The second Christmas bonus set is generally a little less impressive.

I can think of at least 4 more sets I'm looking at at the moment; it will be a matter of picking what set I use to get my Black Friday giveaway set. This one couldn't wait.