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"Foreign variants", strictly speaking are not "variants", but "editions", no matter what one wants to call them…

That Detective #31 posted elsewhere still haunts me… so for something different I show you an issue of Topix from 1944. I have purchased a nice year run from 1944-45-46, PQ is not great but price was godd so I am very happy. I hope to find the previous year runs some day… P.S. I like the yellow on that cover: it definitely screams 1945 more than 1950s… and that is good!

Wow! The most beautiful Batman cover – and what a copy! Something to be breathless about…

Beautiful!

Love the hebrew and thai lettering on the Supermens… @Tim: Sweet! But I would have kept the single image scans, so they’re easier to reference. (thumbs u

This really does not make sense. There are some people on these boards who insist treasuries, magazines, paperbacks, and other non-pamphlet formats with comic book content are not comics. So if a character appears in a comic magazine first and the character appears again in a traditional sized comic book, the traditional sized comic book is the first comic appearance of the character. Look at the first appearance of Rocket Raccoon for another example. I know, but this does not change the fact they are comics nonetheless. Some collectors' tastes do not change a fact. They may be less collected but they will still be first appearances (not talking of R.R., as I have never read the original stories, but speaking in general).

That’s awesome!

The artist is Vittorio Cossio. Sheldon’s artwork is more visionary, Cossio is a great storyteller but follows a more realistic approach, as it was in the italian authors' sensibility and tradition.

This really does not make sense.

This is a 1946 flashback story (which ran for over two years on this title) which is set during the previous years (and it is also the very first comics depiction, I think, of gas chambers, although imagined (as people would have seen them just afterwards in actual pictures)

I have just purchased this amazing publication (from 1951) which tries to rebuilt with documants and first-hand material the situation in Italy in 1944-45. It’s awesome and I can’t wait to read it (I have other stuff which should come first):

An happy belated birthday and Epiphany, tab! (thumbs And a happy new year! A question: is the war climate transpiring with explicit references from other stories, besides the Ghost Patrol? 1943… things were getting rougher for Italy’s comics industries. Comics from the late 1943 to early 1945 time frame are very rare here.

Yes, but I generally don’t care, as I look for books that I like, not for numeric values. As much as welcome is professional grading, there are single defects that many people just don’t care about.

These Philippine books are fascinating – they look like they survived a war. Italian edition of Fantastic Four Annual #1 (does not use the original cover):

I inadvertently canceled the inside pages image from my imgur account, so I’m re-posting it for those curious about the L.B. Cole story (the best reason for buying this book):

@Straw-Man: Beautiful books, all three! Cheetah‘s books are breathtaking, this reminds me how cool Airboy is and that I need to get some of the most poignant stories…

This should be the last one (Captain America and Hulk came later as titles):

I do not own them, but out of curiosity I will try to post all the issues from the same month, wich originally came with the super-rare soccer medal attached.

So you’re relativele young (I was born in 1969). Marvels in Italy in 1971-1984 were pretty wonderful, although early and late issues have not-so-good translations (late ones because the publisher was going bankrupt). Sorry to hear about your cousin – you did right in selling what is not of interest, the important thing is to remember him with some books you cherished together. (thumbs u I don’t recall if I posted the italian #50 – and I don’t recall if this is the copy set aside for Matthew, as I have a pair of them… but here it is anyway:

Agreed – I have a deslabbed 8.0 of #36 which looks like a 9.0 or better…

I don’t recall if I posted it, but here’s the Italian #1, from 1971. It does not use the original cover, and came with a poster and a sticker. I have the poster but not the sticker.

It really isn't. The color on that copy is unlike any other #2 you will see. I said "slightly" – it is clear that it’s super-white, and that is pretty uncommon with early Marvels up to issues in the 60s – I am just judging from the label color, the image is slightly overexposed/unbalanced in terms of color, so I was just saying a direct comparision with the #4 is impossible, and chiefly because the #4 has a 60% screen of Yellow or so as the background color, while the #2 has a 100% of it. I am a graphic designer and I have a tendency to look at these things.

So you collect both in your original and the portuguese editions? I ask because, with little exceptions, I no longer collect the italian ones. Of course, certain issues are more relevant, that is why I am still undecided if I should let go my FF #1 in Italian (considered I have other editions of it):

OMG Barbarian – hey, you really have to sell this to Tim.