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Interiors as well, I believe. Got my copy in yesterday as well, same order as the Jungle Jim. Just need 7 and 11 now, plus a complementary copy of #1 if I run across one.

I remember the #36 being one of the harder books to track down when I was working on the run. That #54 looks very orange compared to my copy:

In today, too big for the scanner. Always nice to find a 50 year old book with the dust jacket intact:

Hooray for Wally Wood! In today, actually:

In today. I think this was the only time PKD had a story in Playboy, but I could be wrong:

In today, something of an oddball book. Gotta love Goodwin/ Williamson, though!

It may mean it was sold on a military base? Similar stamps are quite common on Mark Jewelers variants.

For reasons unclear to me, Creep, Shadow, Creep is vastly harder to track down than the other Merritt Murder Mystery Monthlies. Very happy to fill this hole, and it's a pretty copy as MMM's go:

Seconded

Excellent! Glad to see standards being maintained during the leadership crisis. Off to work now, but if the postman is kind I should have some new books to share here when I get home.

I thought Barry's job title was specifically "Angry Vole". Is the program to decrease his anger, or to increase it?

A check of the bylaws suggest that a member is not allowed to abandon a position of power within King Club other than at the triennialx club elections, unless it can be demonstrated that the member has eliminated their eligibility for membership within King Club by divesting themselves of all King comics. Lacking documentation of such divestiture, they're stuck with the job until December 2026. Sorry. x As everybody in the club knows, the elections are triennial in honor of the original run of the King Comics being the three years from 1966-1968, even though the only book believed to actually have come out in 1968 is the hard to find Beetle Bailey #66.

I think the real question may be "What was the first appearance of the Earth-1 Lois Lane?", rather than "What was the first appearance of the Silver Age Lois Lane?" The answer to that question is, correctly, Adventure 128 (presuming the information above is correct) because, in DC lore, the Earth-2 Superman was never Superboy. So the earliest Earth-1 stories were the early Superboy stories, even if that only became apparent in retrospect. Similarly, the last story that is considered to be of the Earth-2 Superman before they officially established the whole Infinite Earths concept was Superman #128, from 1959, because the story relies on Superman having never been Superboy. But stories that had to be the Earth-1 rather than Earth-2 version had been appearing for a while now. Earth-1 is not purely Silver Age and Earth-2 is not purely Golden Age in the stories themselves, even if they do mark the general boundaries. So, unless somebody can point to an in-story reason why something is considered the 1st Silver Age Lois, you can pretty much pick whatever date you want to start the Silver Age at (and Showcase #4 is probably the most popular choice), and go with the issue closest to that.

Eerie #33 thoughts: Cover: We've seen Larry Todd's work before, with Vaughn Bode, and he's using a similar style in his solo cover here. I do like this cover, it manages to create an ambiguity between are we looking at a ship, or at an alien, and narrowly but successfully avoids looking ridiculous doing it. Monster Gallery: Apparently, there's some rule stating that every 11th issue of Eerie has to have The Minotaur as the Monster Gallery. Neal Adams' version appeared in #11 and was reprinted in #22. (I wrote that before I saw @Axe Elf commenting on the same thing in the intro.) Clif Jackson does a decent version here, although the female human looks rather odd compared to the rest of the illustration, at least to me. A Trip in Time: A fairly neat conceit for avoiding a paradox in a time travel story; but the actual script was pretty ludicrous. The concept of a scientist threatening to have another scientist arrested for talking about creating a time machine is absurd, even if he was just trying to make a point. 243 Blank Pages: This is actually a fairly clever idea for a story, but the punchline just falls completely flat for me and, I strongly suspect, the rest of us here. Who among us would even dream of writing our name in the front of a collectable book and reducing the value? (Yes, I'm aware that this was a much more common practice in the not too distant past.) Whom the Gods Would Destroy: While some of these are certainly reprints, the GCD lists 34 stories with the title "Whom the gods would destroy". It's beyond a cliche. It's not even the only time Marv Wolfman has used the title. Speaking of Marv Wolfman, he only does a couple stories for Warren, although the index says he was a story editor for a bit as well. He has over 6000 credits at the GCD, but is probably best known for his work on The New Teen Titans and Crisis on Infinite Earths. He's also responsible for DC having creator credits more consistently. An intro page in one of DC's mystery books had the host introducing a story as something the Wolfman brought. The comics code objected until DC told them it was the real name of the writer, and they started adding credits so the code would allow the joke to go through. The story isn't particularly to my taste, it's a bit too heavy on message at the cost of the story and too long for the premise. This was at the height of the relevance trend in comics; so it's not surprising to see something like this in Warren magazines at some point. It's just not a particularly good example of the trend. Escape into Chaos: A fairly flimsy story, but it works perfectly as a frame for Colon to draw some beautiful artwork. I may have already said this, but Colon is another one of the artists who is just a revelation going through the reading club... I've definitely stopped thinking of him as primarily a Richie Rich artist, that's for sure! Starvisions: A very offbeat story by Larry Todd, this feels very much like something from an Underground Comic. A excellent change of pace from what we might normally expect from Warren. The Pest: Another slight story; but Corben knocks the art out of the park. It's not as good as his stuff will get, but it's fascinating to watch his style develop. I wonder how this looked to people reading it when it came out, it's one of those stories where a high point for me is based on what I know about Corben's future work and seeing the development. Fan Page: I don't believe Rick Bryant or Pat Broderick ever have any Warren credits other than the fan page. But Bryant has over 300 credits at the GCD and Broderick over 1200, so they're definitely worthy of note, at least. The Painting in the Tower: Not the best art we've seen from Boyette, but pretty good. The tone of the story felt a bit off, though; either way too grim, or not grim enough if they were trying for a particularly dark piece, or possibly too serious without some dark humor to balance it. Lots of ways this could be made to work but I don't think they quite hit any of them. So, not a spectacular issue; but enough good stuff that I can't call it a bad issue either. Just somewhat average; the sort that would happily have gotten my 60 cents if I was a regular reader but not a lot to make it stand out either. But as I've suggested before, good enough so you don't feel you're wasting your money on the lesser issues so you can get the occasional masterpiece is really a pretty good baseline for a book.

The for real, honest and true, no we've really figured it out this time 1st Boba Fett, Yoda, and Lando Calrissian in comics! (Other than possibly some Marvel UK books, but that's still up for debate last I heard.)

Maybe they used the obsolete Shilling stamp rather than a normal non-returnable stamp to try and catch who was returning what should have been non returnable material? It could give them a tracking mechanism of some sort on where the books had been if they used different stamps. Admittedly, that's a wild guess, we've shown they don't make much sense any other way, either...

I remember when Star Blazers first came out in the US, I loved it so much that I actually voluntarily got up early so I had the half hour to watch it uninterrupted, rather than try and see it while eating breakfast and getting ready for school. I was in 3rd grade at the time.

Love the A Maze of Death, it's one of four PKD SF novels I don't have either a true 1st, a BCE, or a 1st paperback edition of. A couple more covers I don't think we've seen here yet:

The last one I had on order. First Yosemite Sam in comics:

New Jersey Post Office? That's 100% a wild guess...

Merlin being imprisoned in a tree is definitely one of (several) classic fates attributed to Merlin. I recognized it, at least.

Take The Young Outlaw at $12