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Yes, it was one of the first comics I ever bought as a kid. Until Valiant resurrected interest in the original Dell/GKs, though, it was impossible to find high grade copies. The usual conundrum of which is better: low value=low supply or high value=high(er) supply. Hell, they're still tough to find in HG (except for #3, which must have been some kind of warehouse find)

Yes, I imagine they would have a rather explosive impact. Perhaps you're taking your interest in war comics a little too far? My old Epson worked fine with slabs. The scanner I'm using at the office is a Kodak. As you'll see from some of the Turoks that I post later, the scans come out fine when the inner well is smooth, but any ripple at all creates significant glare.

Scrooge, the dark side is calling to you...

I always love the slamming doors as people send the Mitchells on their way, and comments from Dennis like "He sure cries easy"! Great panel, I'm definitely going to need to find a copy of this issue.

Okay, brought in a few books to the office to scan, and will post them over the next few days. The sad thing was realizing that I just don't own that many 10 cent books. I need to do something about that... As mentioned in one of my other posts, I'm getting some glare from this scanner wherever there is "rippling" of the inner well. I tried moving the book around and holding it in different positions, but just couldn't eliminate it. Any suggestions on how to combat this (besides "buy a new scanner") would be appreciated.

Adventure 247's are always "good"!

I was going to say something along the same lines! Gorgeous book, Adam. Early Superboys are so very tough to find in high grade.

I just realized I have one non-Duck book that fits the criteria for this thread, so I get to join in the fun after all! I've got other 10 cent Turoks which fall into the Silver Age which I'll be posting over the next few days in the SA 10 cent thread (shameless plug). I'm trying a scanner we've got here at work. It's got a much bigger flatbed, so I'm able to scan the whole book, but I can't seem to get rid of the glare. Anyways, for this particular book I think the glare's not too bad.

Adam, very cool Black Knight cover!

Joanna, please DO feel free to post in the 10 cent SA thread. It is absolutely NOT for high grade books only.

Silver, these GI Sweethearts were fantastic! Truly relics of a different era.

You have "Age-Issues",.....that's all I'm gonna say!

Definitely clearer, Joe. I can read all the word balloons now. Now you just need to post the rest of the strip again!

Fuelman, GREAT books, particularly this Black Knight! It rocks! I might have to start hunting down copies of this.

Great new thread, Adam! You've clearly tapped into some pent-up demand, based on the explosion of posts at this late hour. But... isn't this a sci-fi book?

Then you'll limit the subject matter,.....mis out on the non-superhero stuff,... Well, there are already horror, good girl and war threads, and the Ducks thread cuts across all eras. So besides superheroes, what else is there? Romance? Classics Illustrated? Westerns?

How about anything that fits the atomic age? That would be "generic" Atomic Age! I think Adam makes a good point, there are already some threads featuring subsets of the Atomic Age. To avoid overlapping, I think it should just be limited to superhero titles.

Just expressing my happiness. I'm a little bored of the dancing banana, so decided to add some other fruit to the mix. An Atomic Age Heroes thread would be outstanding. But I would have nothing to contribute.

Nah, I think people would understand it basically covers all sorts of stuff from the late 40s (1948? 1949?) up to the month before Showcase 4. Don't know if AA has enough of a following at this point to deserve its own forum, but the only way to find out is by starting a thread. Start it in the GA forum, and if it generates a lot of interest, perhaps the Web gods can be persuaded to create a AA forum and move threads in there. Of course, AA is not an officially recognized era by Overstreet, so perhaps it might never get its own forum.

Yes I'm debating starting a thread in GA for post-gold, pre-silver kinda stuff. As soon as I figure out what to call it. Some of us old-timers call that Atomic Age!

That is a great Fury cover! Marie Severin is SO underrated!

Sterling, very cool combat albums! Is there any doubt the Germans produced the finest tanks during WW II?

That's it Adam, off these boards you go, and don't darken our doorway again! If you can't play by the rules, then don't play at all, I say. Or, in lieu of banishment, as a penalty you must post 5 previously unposted books, but all of them must make at least 5 different forum members go and .

Clearly a popular cover. We should see how many different editions of this cover we can post. We're currently at 3: original, Gladstone reprint, Mexican edition.

I don't understand this whole new beatification of Little Archie. When I was a kid, I read Ducks, Dennis, Little Archie (and big Archie) and the various Harvey titles (particularly Richie Rich). Even then, it was obvious that Carl Barks' work and Toole-Wiseman's Dennis the Menace work towered above the rest. It just had that touch of genius. Little Archie never really stood out in my mind, it was an entertaining read and that's all. So I'm kind of amazed by the adulation it's suddenly getting.