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Not only I like it, but I love it! – Would love to find a copy… Many thanks for the pictures. And I love the animated gif too…

Tell me more about your Treasure Chests… Do you have duplicates of volume 18?

I love this… Any chance to see something of the content?

I love this… Any chance to see something of the content?

That’s probably a good point – I had no precise idea on the value of the 15 or so listed, so I couldn’t tell, but this surely will help Chip to fine-tune the offer and to avoid the "Mystery Box". Very good point.

So should that Christmas Tree candle!

Line 16 of the rules. Mystery boxes are not allowed. You must list everything you are selling exactly as the buyer will receive it. Strictly speaking, this time what Chip was offering were not "mystery boxes". Buyers knew what they were buying for that price, and there were additional "filler" books, so I believe there is an excessively strict application of this rule on the moderators' part.

Love it!

These early Weird Tales covers by Margaret Brundage are wonderful… Merry Christmas BZ!

We should group them all, and have a directory of all the threads related to World War Two and the war events. There were some pretty cool and meaningful!

Of course, the 1945 year run of the italian Signal abrubtly interrups with the end of the war, so they are probably four issues at best. Definitely not common.

I totally love the Everyday Astrology – are these magazine sized? @CrocHntr: Thanks much! Curt Caesar is an awesome artist, and has been an incredible person. His "Romano il Legionario", a nationalist hero, was often and schematically labeled "fascist" while it’s obviously something very different, patriotic in the same way we could say the various "american flag" heroes were, but of course he was no superhero, rather very realistic. These are not comics, and not "obscure", but I guess that for an american they could be. Two issues of the rare 1945 year run of the italian edition of "Signal", the famous german magazine. Note how idyllic and pastoral the imagery is: at the end of WW2 there were still german villages like that, barely touched by war. I can also contribute an issue of the Dell run, and a pair of the insides just to give an idea, including the Jinxes (which are obviously chinese fighting the japanese) by David Berg, author of the awesome Death Patrol on Military Comics.

This and the other issue (#1) are probably the only instances of a wartime comic book publishing material from a german author which shortly after would have served in the german army, and strictly speaking was not nazist by any means (he loathed the SS). Here’s the splash page from the Will Sparrow episode (re-titled "Sky Pirates" in the USA edition). His art was influenced (among others) by Alex Raymond.

This is not particularly "obscure" but contains one of the few italian comics from the era published in USA, by Kurt (or "Curt", or "Corrado") Caesar, which was german and living in Italy, one of our most important artists of the 1930s and 1940s – the story (an episode and a half, IIRC) is from the Will Sparrow series, and features an air pirate, one of the first "anti-heroes" of italian comics, which lasted quite a lot and had an unusually varied publishing history:

BB is a great guy…

But they already changed most costumes by then… BTW, I don’t see any big problem with Iron Man's armor hands: they are not "perfect" but neither badly drawn. Generally speaking, Don Heck work is still great in the early Silver Age, although I am not sure about the author of the cover.

Ooooo… It’s super-nice to me!

Everyone speculates alone? :shrug: no news is good news... now we can collect in peace. Eh, there's something to be said about enjoying seeing the trends in comics. Analyzing, predicting, and having fun with the hobby. One man's annoyance is another's amusement. It’s not about annoyance, it’s about rising prices… Ok, but that doesn't invalidate my reasons for enjoying this thread I know, but in this Internet overtly dominated age it becomes ambiguous… It’s not like it could have been speculating about this on a forum, say… even a few years ago. It’s a lot more "perception driven", and not truly related to content. That’s why I no longer find it fun.

Ooo… beautiful! Is that still possible to find issues in such an awesome shape? I mean, they must not be common, given the poor paper quality.

Everyone speculates alone? :shrug: no news is good news... now we can collect in peace. Eh, there's something to be said about enjoying seeing the trends in comics. Analyzing, predicting, and having fun with the hobby. One man's annoyance is another's amusement. It’s not about annoyance, it’s about rising prices…

Gulp!

Very interesting answers to the question on the first pages…

Are post counts important?

Because you only live once and posting on here s unlikely to be on many bucket lists. Go outside. You say that - by posting on here. He doesn’t have enough post count… :shrug: