OtherEric

The #19 is the gold standard, but these two are pretty high demand as well:

I should have known you would have other pulps with the Atlas globe, Pat! I do find the various fringe uses of the Atlas globe fascinating...

Those Amazings are just beautiful! My most recent find, and the only pulp (well, digest) I've ever seen with an Atlas globe:

Cross-posting this one from over in pulps, since it's the only pulp (well, digest) I've ever seen with an Atlas globe on it:

What exactly is this? It's in Gerber but not most other lists of 3-D comics I've seen.

I did specify it was the May issue that didn't have anything high on my list. I was looking forward to at least a couple items in the July one... including "The Little Black Bag", which I haven't read before.

Perhaps nobody else wants to share theirs, but I've got a few more to show: A very early Richie Rich appearance. For the life of me, I can't remember where or when I got these. They're uncreased, so they were never actually in a comic. An odd one, with Ziggy Pig & Silly Seal in a non-Marvel comic. No idea how or even if the publisher wound up with the rights. Archie's lone entry into the 3-D game.

A couple of digest finds in the mail today: The last Heinlein issue of Astounding I still needed. Now if I can just track down an April 1941 issue of UNKNOWN, I'll have all of Heinlein's work for Campbell. Rarely have I been so happy to get a book I don't care about. There's nothing in this issue I particularly want to read; I just want it as part of my goal of "put together the entire Campbell-edited run of Astounding/ Analog". But, since this is the book that introduced the world to Dianetics, it's one of the trickier digest issues to track down an affordable copy of.

Let's see what I've got handy in the bucket already...

Just realized I actually have a second book that could qualify as a Baker Romance: I think every version other than the 1st is missing 6 pages of Baker art... so glad I have the 1st, even lower grade like this!

I'm still not 100% sure I should count it as a Target, but the Flaming Western Romances issue is crazy hard to find. I have the other 11 Target issues, but that one still eludes me. If I could convince myself it doesn't count it would help... but I can't. The Western Romance issues are definitely not nearly as common as the actual Target issues, though.

Which originally appeared in the pulps as "Sea Kings of Mars": I don't believe "The Sword of Rhiannon" and "The Sorcerer of Rhiannon" are actually related beyond the title. I suppose I should read them and verify that, though...

And one more pickup. Moving from bedsheets to digests:

Lower grade, but all much loved: Air Force... my branch! I did promise back when that I would show this after I unslabbed it. Rest in peace, Mr. Davis. And thank you for decades of wonderful art.

A couple pickups today. Bedsheet Astoundings are always fun to get: C.L. Moore, L. Ron Hubbard, Leigh Brackett, Theodore Sturgeon, and Doc Smith. Not a bad line-up of writers. Also has a fascinating little essay by John W. Campbell, written on 8 December 1941, already discussing some writers who are not going to be writing any more for the duration. An even better line-up, with van Vogt, Heinlein, del Rey, and Asimov.

Gratz on finally finishing the run. For a lot of us, we have to go for the low grade just to own a copy at all:

And, jumping ahead a bit, let's peek at the ending. Gold Key didn't continue the Looney Tunes title when they took over from Dell, and the series went away until the mid-70's. But that version did make it into the early 80's, and DC's version picked up mid-90's, so there have been Looney Tunes comic books every decade since the 40's. Even if I don't bother much with the Gold Key or DC versions, this fact makes me happy. The last issue of the Dell run, July-September 1962: And then in October, Gold Key takes over the show:

As ordered, keeping em' coming! Let's head back to the beach once or twice:

What's that? You say I have to bring some brand new scans to the discussion as well? Fine, here's the other two books I have from the first 14 months of the title, since I've already shown 5 and 6 in this thread: I've actually got 15-25 complete, I'll see if I can get a few of those scanned in the next day or two.

And then the vacation is over too soon:

And think some more:

Still, it's summer time, and we think about vacation:

Right, since everybody is joining the fun right now, I'll post a few that I already had scanned and shared in other threads way back when: My first wartime comic. Not just the first Looney Tunes, but my first ever. Had it for close to 30 years now: And a few other random issues I found floating in my bucket:

Or, in fact, any at all that I'm aware of. I think that's supposed to be Daffy on the cover of the first four issues, as part of the logo, but other than that Daffy stayed far away from Looney Tunes at Dell. I don't think it's until around issue 120 or so that he even starts to show up inside the book remotely regularly; and I don't believe other than that weird image on the 1st 4 issues Daffy EVER got a cover on Looney Tunes at Dell. To be fair, my Looney Tunes run is still about 3 dozen issues short of complete, so I'm relying on the GCD to fill in on the early part of the run. But Daffy's absence is obvious enough that there has to have been a reason for it, particularly given that they were making up features like Kandi the Cave Kid and Pat, Patsy, and Pete to fill the pages. I just have no clue what that reason was, and at this late date it's possible nobody does.

And, it's been a few too many days since this thread was added to. So, a short run from near the end of the title: Even if it is a reprint, happy to have this as my only pulp where REH gets the cover. Also has Killdozer by Sturgeon, I really do need to sit down and read this one...