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I'm guessing it's an UK or international book, but beyond that I really don't have a clue.

@Yorick got annoyed when I tried to describe myself as "the yank" in the Alan Class thread, rather than "one of the yanks", so I'm not the only one. It's a fairly small group, though. I don't think I've ever actually seen the photo in its original context from Fantasy Masterpieces, but I've seen it before several other places. Trying to figure out why I remembered the rolled up comic in his hand but not the hat when I saw the bottom of the picture, though.

What you said, verbatim. Only I’ve already found one and ordered it.

Stan. Not sure on where it first appeared. Fantasy Masterpieces 1?

Garcia-Lopez is just a stunning good artist who is horribly under appreciated. I’ve had multiple offers for this piece he did for me a few years ago:

"Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot" in Christmas with the Super-Heroes #2. (Cover borrowed from the GCD, the characters aren't on the cover anyway.)

Nice, I've been looking for an Air Pirates Funnies 1 for a while now. They turn up often enough on the bay in my range but people keep beating me to them.

Creepy #28 thoughts: Cover: The pink/ purple is an unusual choice, but I think very effective here. This one must have really popped on the stands. Loathsome Lore: One of the better written ones of these we've seen in a while. It uses a deliberately archaic cadence to good effect. Madness in the Method: Mastroserio really was a good artist who I never properly appreciated before the reading club. It's a tragedy he died so young. In the Subway: Reuben Reid, the winner of the Cauldron Contest, has no other comic credits. But his story is pretty solid, at least relative to Parente's work. Not a masterpiece, but not a case of "You couldn't find anything better among the submissions", either. The Worm Turns: Kim Ball has Reid beat... they get TWO total credits, not just one. I wonder if it's a pseudonym. The story isn't particularly good, with Colon resorting to symbolic pictures of monsters on the side of pages to liven things up. But I'm glad to see new names in the credits as a good sign. Grub: Nicola Cuti is a massively prolific creator getting his start here, a credits search at the GCD gives over 4600 hits. He's possibly best known as the co-creator of E-Man for Charlton, but he did lots of writing and editing and drawing all over the place, with his last work before his death being for the Warrant mags. Here he turns in a very EC-esque tale that, while not spectacular, has a solid twist and shows a good grasp of craft even at the start of his long career. A decent beginning for a major Warren contributor, and another sign that we're into the rebuilding stage. Possibly even the biggest sign so far. Valley of the Vampires: A new writer who only gets a couple credits, the art is decent but a bit stiff. A hilarious twist at the end of the story, though. The Doorway/ The German Student: A couple solid reprints, even if I'm still not a fan of Grandenetti I get why others like his stuff. The ad at the end is clearly a follow-up to the ad in Eerie #22, but they also seem to have realized it doesn't really match the Vampirella we actually get so they've changed the text at the bottom to a next issue ad. A quite solid issue here, with the debut of Cuti being the major news. I still maintain we're out of the Dark Ages proper, even if we're not quite to the full glory of the rebuilding era yet.

Dell #14, Gold Key 49, 61, 62. I don't think any of those are particularly rare or high demand, they're just the ones I haven't happened to get yet.

Two found at a local store today. Not high grade, but still a well spent $4. Looks like the blank ink was running out on the 146:

As annoying as these are, it's really two separate groups. If the books have lapsed into the public domain, what they're doing is legitimate, but annoying. If the books are NOT public domain, then the owners can sic the lawyers on them.

Ace Doubles image library doesn't have a credit.

In today, courtesy of @SOLAR BOY. Now I'm down to only needing one Dell issue of US, and a total of 4 issues with new Barks stories:

Found at Half Price Books today:

And then Half Price books was very good to me as well. The D-568 is the last D-Series SF book. The others mostly speak for themselves:

Today's Mail Call. Unlike some of the assorted Aces I've gotten recently, these three are all going fairly high on the reading pile. I've enjoyed a lot of comics Arnold Drake wrote, so I'm looking forward to see how he does with prose. Red Alert was the basis for Dr. Strangelove. And More Macabre has a PKD story I don't think I've read before:

For whatever reason, that's the title where I wound up getting all the variant covers as well; although I didn't bother getting the trades and the variants they had on one or two of those.

Interesting. I don't have that one yet, but I ordered a copy (from a different seller) the same time I ordered the others that showed up today. You're probably right on the templates. The cookbook, in particular, just seems like an incredibly weird choice as the first non-double book...

The Queen's Awards is the only time John D. MacDonald turned up at Ace that I'm aware of:

"Macabre Reader" has three Lovecraft stories (two of them revisions) and some poems, it's the only Lovecraft I'm aware in the early Aces.

I believe "Shame" is the first title to get reprinted within the DSG series. It's also the only one I'm aware of where it went from a single to half of a double, rather than the other way around.

Today I learned the very early D-Series singles had spines that resembled the doubles:

Lots in today for the Ace DSG series.

A few more Warrens today. I'm surprised how few comic covers Geiger actually did: