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BTW, Unknown Soldier lasts until issue #20, IIRC, the last story features japanese villains.

Not on the Unknown Soldier, as far as I know. I checked them all (public domain scans) as I was interested in the character, but if it’s not in #11 or #13 (the ones I did not check), #12 should be the only episode drawn by Cole. :shrug:

Aaah! Another awesome one among my favorites – I’d love to have that #15!

Besides the pedigree, that is a great cover!

Hoarding Woodgods is not good… You deprive new readers of their copies…

Bill, they are mostly awesome, but your #1 and your #2… Unfortunately some of the pictures of the slabs do not do justice to the copies.

The only question coming to mind is why Stan Lee did it, and whether the collector asked him for it. In both cases, the motive remains a mystery, and we have one less Hulk/Wolverine collector happy.

For some reason, your Photobucket pictures are not showing on this page, on my computer… Very nice… I never saw these. At this point the Unknown Soldier was already gone, and since I was interested in that alone, I never had the occasion to look at the late issues. EDIT: They show, it just takes time – I guess Photobucket is having a slowdown…

I thought it was too much a nice book to be a VG (the grade the seller had it listed at), but when I got it I realized it was brittle, and thus a GD at best. I stopped trusting that seller grade, afterwards… I am on the lookout for a coverless copy with nice PQ if someone has one…

One of my favorite GA books, the previous one to that #13, which I did not know it was the first L.B. Cole cover. The inside story of the Unknown Soldier has L.B. Cole art… Centerspread looks like this, and it’s an original story:

This one has a cool Unknown Soldier story but my copy has brittle pages…

I’ve not enough decent stuff to start a new one, I’d feel embarassed. Here’s my FF#4, with the first Unknown Soldier in title (first Unknown Soldier apperance should be Our Flag #1 or #2): And since it unfortunately has covers detached I can show you the splash page as well…

I think the thread is great, but again, maybe a brand new one would be better? If not, I’ll post some of mine…

Wow, that’s a very old thread – maybe we should start one anew, as most images are lost from the 2007 posts?

Now you have to scan yours and show us the goodness, Trent!

My #2 was just waiting for you, Jim!

Your first copy is very sweet, Dick! Not a hoard, obviously the second one is a reader… So far the issues I kept two copies of are #36, 65, 66, 67 – not really because I wanted but because the best copy has interiors which are printed worse than the "reader". Well, actually they are not readers… I still have to deslab the #2… I was waiting for a special moment to reacquaint myself with the Thing from the pinup, seen first when I was 9 years old.

You just could check your posts: they are all there if you look at them through the menu from your name (not from the menu bar). (thumbs u

I think they were dealing with Kurse or something... I can't remember. Well, if it makes you feel any better I remember really liking Secret Wars 2 so that gives you a hint as to how serious you should take my comic tastes! Well, it also depends on how old were you… I loathed Secret Wars (the whole idea) and always refused to read it, but I was already grown up when I read Power Pack. Yes, the Kurse issues are earlier ones, the best ones start after 25 or so. There are really some great stories and story arcs – one of the best late 1980s series, in my opinion, and most people discard it without knowing it, just out of preconceptions. It’s a series that can be fully appreciated by a true Fantastic Four fan – many are also the tie-ins as Franklin guest stars often… the single episode with the Sentinel is a little masterpiece.

Thanks Dick! I just said myself: let’s get past that tape pull, which is unobtrusive, and let’s buy a nice copy at a price I can somewhat afford before the Skrulls appear in some movie and things go totally out of hand!

Dang John, no Power Pack? It was among my favorite series when I started reading comics in english, in the late 1980s. Maybe they were the early issues (not particularly great compared to the following ones, indeed)?

Time for a due bump and… it finally arrived! I can’t wait to deslab it – it will be a solemn moment…

I arrived here when I restarted getting involved and interested in comic books, in the process of properly discovering the Golden Age for the first time. I thought good and fair to troll a bit the acquired aristocratic manners of GA collectors and my first post was in that vein – boardie tabcom nicely welcomed me and in a while I was a big friend of everyone. Or maybe not…

Surely they were generalizations, but I would not be able to keep my own books slabbed, although I see Stanley’s point: I recently set up a very nice label layout to print and attach behind the backing boards of my books, where I can add all the information I need. Richness is based on how much you earn, not how much you spend… I easily overspent according to my salary for a good number of months…