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Fresh in today. I am unsurprisingly insanely happy to get this one:

Was just at my local Walmart, looking for these. They had one copy of the Batman issue left, which I grabbed, and nothing else. I also snagged a 3-pack with this, which is labeled "Wal-mart Edition" in the indicia. Anybody know anything about it?

I think it’s a distributor code, but not positive.

I keep thinking the first two Scorpion issues might do something if Marvel ever does something with Dominic Fortune.

Captain Marvel may have been his favorite character, but I believe his favorite comic was Jingle Jangle; for the George Carlson stories.

Nice! I've got a Fox Giant with the guts of the issue, but it is of course missing the cover. As near as I can tell, it's an original story made to look like it's based on a book.

In this week:

RIP Harlan Ellison. The cover stories are Ellison in all these issues, but not always under his own name:

I've posted this before, not too long ago; but wanted to put it back up today. RIP.

And, highlights from this year’s visit to Kayo books:

Found in the wild yesterday. Not quite as rare as its reputation suggests, but still not super common. And, of course, pretty much a must have book for historical reasons.

Not exactly pulps, but I think people here would still find them interesting:

Slightly off topic, but I thought people in this thread would appreciate them anyway if they don't go into the Pulp thread:

Discovered this one a bit ago. The small "comics" is my low grade copy, the big "comics" is borrowed from the GCD. The small "comics" seems to be rarer but still a pretty good percentage of the population. (A check of heritage showed 16 copies, 13 big logo and 3 small. I didn't check for the same book selling multiple times, though.) Edit: Guess I already mentioned this back when I found it, but figure adding the images still makes it worthwhile. Sorry about the redundancy.

They had permission/ licensing/ whatever to do the books. Harvey was officially Editor in Chief of the books; both issues featured one classic EC reprint written (and in one case, drawn) by him. The 2nd issue had a story written and rough penciled by Kurtzman; supposedly his last comic story before his death. And of course he did the covers; with Eisner on the 1st issue and Stout on the 2nd. Don Lomax, a fairly obvious choice, did stories in both issues; 2 in the first. Spain Rodriguez had a story in the 1st issue, as well. Otherwise, mostly not creators I recognize. I don't think the books were entirely successful as "new EC's"; but they both definitely have worthwhile stuff in them.

And, to answer my own question, some further searching online suggests the "Field & Scream" parody in #31 was Kurtzman. Which makes sense, since it was Jack Davis's last work for MAD until #99.

I think that was the last Steranko-drawn comic I tracked down. NOT easy to find. Nice pick-up.

Didn't realize there was a 2nd issue of this until a few days ago. Never quite sure how to consider these; on one level I don't think of anything created post 1956 other than MAD to be an EC. But on another level, Two-Fisted Tales edited and written by Harvey Kurtzman surely deserves consideration over pretty much anything else when it comes to being a EC revival. Glad to have them, in any case.

There are three variants of the spring issue, with different text in the banner in the corner. I suspect a fair number of people have all three, reducing the number of copies in circulation.

Beat but complete. I'll happily take it: On a tangent, does anybody know the last issue that was still burning off Kurtzman inventory? I know 29 and 30 definitely had some, but I'm not sure about 31 (or any later issues).

Or it's possible Mickey WAS the original owner; it was either written on the book by the newsstand to hold for them, or they were bought new as gifts.

And a slightly less impulse buy of some late Savage Swords. I'm only trying to put together the Roy Thomas runs, but that's still issues 1-60 and 190-235, so it's close to half the series:

Impulse grab today when I spotted this in the wild, after others showing off the series recently:

And, finally, the pair of books that I was actually mainly grabbing the lot for. v1 n10 and v1 n 11. All 5 of the books have spectacular page quality, by the way. I'm quite happy tonight:

Also from Summer 1942, the Fantastic Adventures quarterly. Burroughs might not be as high demand as he used to be, but it's still always a treat to get a pulp with his work in it: