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I have to tell you all how disappointed I was when I looked through the book and there was no sign of the "Swingin Strip Party" as advertised in the upper right "petal" of the yellow flower. Only later did I realize that I had only read half of the message

This is a book that my sister and I had read when we were kids and it scared the cr@p out of us. We used to buy comics when we were visiting our grandparents out in the country and ended up reading this one night. The lead story involves several people who conjure up the devil. He appears outside and kills one of the group when they go outside. The others take comfort in the fact that they know three things about the devil: He can’t come in unless they open the door for him, he will leave the earth at dawn and he only has one eye. With that in mind they just have to stay in the house until dawn and not let anyone (or anything) in the door. Well…as we all know, things never go that smoothly. I swear, I STILL think about this story now and again.

Here's a book I just picked up recently after around 30 years of searching

I'll have to do some research, but my recollection is that it's kinda like Dell's "Pledge to Parents," where they say that some committee of psychologists and educators has deemed their comic books to be acceptable for children. Which considering the content of some of the early Archie books is a little far fetched See the cover to #11 above.

And, of course the infamous Fast Willie Jackson.

Here is one of the many Archie imitators. Tippy Teen was actually an excellent comic, with art by Samm Schwartz and some really nice covers. It was later reprinted as "Vicki" by Atlas comics.

Thanks for posting pjthib Those are great books!

Everybody was Kung Fu fighting

Very cool! I've never seen that one before.

Very nice!

Great books! That Lulu looks very nice!

Here's an unusual Timely war cover:

Pep 30 is ALWAYS an excellent choice!

Oh, and that is one amazing Archie 3, too.

I love this book. Best pre-Archie cover in the Pep run

If you think the Disneys have a low count in the CGC census, you should check out the census on the GA Archie books. Virtually all of the early Archie books do not even have a single copy graded. I believe that teen books such as Archies were basically bought by readers and were never really highly collected. This has resulted in virtually no available supply at the high-end. Since Archies is only one of three publishers that have been in continuous print since the early 40's, it would not surprise me to see demand picking up on these books. This in turn will result in dramatic price increases due to the extremely low supply of books in existence. I agree! It is very difficult to find HG Archie titles of any sort. I know there are Church copies out there although I've only seen a few--BTW does anyone know where the majority of them are? I think it's easier to find HG Pep and Jackpot issues than Archie itself (although Pep and Jackpot are not easy either!). People who haven't given Pep, Jackpot and Archie a try are really missing out on some of the great GA books IMO. As to prices, I don't think it will take too much in the way of increased demand to increase prices substantially. Many of those books just aren't out there in any grade. Finding Archie 2 or 3 or Pep 22-27 is just tough

I would think you would acheive your goal with that one. Nice book! Is it possible that the pre-Barks books just weren't saved to the extent that the Barks issues were? That would certainly account for some of the scarcity of the early issues (also WW2 paper drives, etc.)

Great books!

Congratulations. Great book!

OK, now that we have 2 strong votes for MLJ, I will post the rest of my list. Many hundreds of years ago when I was young, I was interested in Golden Age hero books but poor . I spent a lot of time looking at GA titles/companies to find ones that were worth collecting but not as expensive as Timely and DC. I finally settled on: 1). MLJ. For reasons given above by both me and Shawn. I ended up collecting near complete sets of Hangman and Pep. Both are great titles--easily as good as anything that Timely or DC put out at the time. 2). Fox. Great early GA superhero books and late GA GGA books. I mostly concentrated on All Top (Rulah, Phantom Lady and the Blue Beetle ) 3). Nedor. Awesome Schomburg war covers and the Black Terror is one of the most stylish characters of the GA. Also the prehero issues of Exciting have some great early SF work in them. And the late GA issues have Xela covers. I also added non-hero books from Dell by Carl Barks, John Stanley and Walt Kelly. And some reprint books such as Tip Top with Nancy and Sluggo and Peanuts. Since that time I have added Airboy (HIllman Pub.) to the list--excellent stories, great covers (especially on Air Fighters) and REALLY cheap! Oh, and Simon and Kirby romance books, too. Great stuff! There are just such a huge number of publishers, genres, titles, characters and artists to choose from in the GA. I would urge everyone who is interested in GA books to pick up a few and see for yourself. You may be very pleasantly surprised.

That is one awesome book! Looks like it would be a 9.6 without the LLC ding. Beautiful!

WOW

Those are some really great Fox books TLC55555 Fox would be my #2 choice with MLJ being #1 (I can't believe that Shield hasn't already hit this thread!). MLJ is one of the very few companies that has had a character (Archie) that was published continuously from the Golden Age to the present. As for artists: Bob Fujitani (my favorite GA artist--if you haven't seen his work, order Shield's Hangman CD--you will NOT be disappointed!), Harry Lucey, Irv Novick, and Bob Montana are all stars. And classic covers abound