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Kudos to Greggy, I just received the book that I purchased in early February. So I can confirm he is NOT a scam artist, there is no need to panic just because a book does not show up within a month, it's bound to show up within 2!

Thanks for the list Billy! Gives me some good reference points as I go searching. I'm amazed to see that Gina appeared so early. I had always assumed she was a 70s character introduced to add a little multi-ethnic flavor. Also interesting that Joey doesn't make an appearance until #31. I take it Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are there from the very beginning?

At the risk of sounding like an unabashed fanboy, I think the only way to show interior art from higher grade books would be to use a digital camera, because flattening them to put on a scanner bed would damage the books.

I'll ditto that, it's not often these early Detectives get displayed!

Wow, this thread exploded over the weekend! Joe, thanks for the great posts, the breadth of your collection is phenomenal. You are a true DTM completist. And thanks for your great posts, BB! The consistent miswraps on your books is really interesting, it's almost as if the miswrapped books went month after month to the store where your OO was buying his books (or he was into miswrapped books ), because Joe's books from the same issues don't seem to have the miswrap. And thanks for breaking out the page showing Margaret's first appearance in the comic. I wonder if you and Joe could put together a list of key DTMs?

Wow, the number of covers exploded over the weekend. Thanks in particular to FT88 for sharing many of his fabulous covers!

No kidding! I wonder who owns that beauty now?

Just shows you great minds think alike. Tell Roy to check out these boards and some of Adam's posts! How old is Roy Thomas now, 60 or so?

That's a beauty, Hans!

I can't seem to find any of the old lift and scan scanners, let alone a legal size one. All the scanners here seem to be the type for feeding documents. I can probably find something if I look harder, but I haven't felt like looking harder.

Still no new scanner but at least now I can show some of my bigger saved files. Don't know why it took me so long to sign up with photobucket, I'm just a combination of stupidity and laziness sometimes!

Photobucket rules! Just opened an account, and can now load up some of my scans which are too big to meet the 150kb limit here but which I've been too lazy to resize. Here's a SA duck. Sorry about the overt display of the label at the expense of showing the full cover, the scan was made for, er, commercial purposes (although in fact I still own it).

Wow, nice books, Acme! Question: how is the art inside the books? Flessel only did the covers, correct? Isn't one of the criticisms of a lot of GA, particularly the smaller publishers, that they engaged in bait and switch by commissioning gorgeous covers by truly talented artists and then filling the insides with horrible cut-rate art?

The travel stories, all of them! My favorite is probably Mexico, and then after that in descending order Hawaii, Hollywood and Washington DC. Am I missing any one?

Thanks for posting this, Joe. What a great article. I found myself nodding in agreement with just about everything Fred says. One thing that occurred to me is Wiseman and Toole must have been compensated pretty well, because this was the only comic they worked on, correct? Which means their income from just this one comic was enough to provide them with a reasonable standard of living (unless they continued to do advertising work on the side). Contrast this with the huge amounts of product generated by the artists and writers at Marvel and DC, presumably to generate sufficient income to achieve an approximately equal standard of living. Either that or Stan and Jack were becoming wealthy because their output was double or triple everybody else's.

Great thread! Flessel's covers were really outstanding!

And of course they were read constantly which added to the wear and tear! You've got an awesome Dennis collection, Joe!

Is this thread running out of steam already? We're just looking for a place where all the Duck covers can congregate, because they've been spread out over a lot of different threads so far. So feel free to post here even if you've posted elsewhere, or it's not high grade, or it's SA or BA or modern. Today's addition, WDC&S 136:

Wow, CBG and BB, you guys are the masters of the Dennis universe! I'd never seen Ketcham's early Dennis strips before, being a kid who only came of reading age in the early 1970s, so it's interesting to see that his early style was much tighter and clearly influenced Wiseman's depiction of Dennis. My memory of the Dennis comic strip by the time I started reading it in the early 1970s was a much looser style, which perhaps not surprisingly was mimicked by the much looser post-Wiseman depiction in the comic book. Was this Ketcham himself getting lazier through the years, or the result of ghost artists taking over the drawing duties?

Bonds, if that's a serious inquiry, I'll be happy to PM you. LMK.

Wow, that's a spectacular copy! Too bad about the dust shadow down the right edge. The WDC&S 41 is gone, but this WDC&S 85 is still available:

It would be good to hear that they did get closer before Hank passed away. I don't know anything else about the family situation, what I do know (and which I mentioned above) was all learned from an article in People magazine. Actually, now that I think about it, Hank moved to Switzerland in the 1970s or so, didn't he? Which undoubtedly would have made it more difficult for him to stay in contact with his family (unless that was the point).

Nice book as always, Adam!

Is this thread dying already? Not if I can help it! WDC&S 41 (no longer mine , sold to a collector in Texas. Thanks to hkp for the introduction! )

VG+, thanks for posting the great Doc Savage paperback covers! That's a real trip down memory lane, I loved those covers and loved the books, had tons that I bought back in the mid- to late-70s, and I think they're all tucked away in storage somewhere.