CentaurMan

That's a fantastic More Fun 124. I once tried to collect a full run of the More Fun humor issues, because they're cheap-yet-challenging, but I ultimately gave up. The content wasn't good enough to keep my interest up, and most of the copies that I found were real beaters. Your 124 looks superb.

God yes. I'd start an entire thread on them, if they were just easier to get to. I hate opening some of these books all the way to take a good picture. 1930's Centaur centerfolds: Yet another reason to love those comics.

Great Hit Comics, Puny! Those Lou Fine covers are fantastic.

Ok, here's Star Comics #9 from 1938, with the Biro cover. I don't see any evidence of Biro interior art, although there are a ton of single page unsigned strips. Bob Wood contributed a few pages. There's a TON of fantastic Fred Guardineer work. I've taken a couple of interior shots: the centerfold, and a title page for a text story.

I have in my possession eight issues of Star Comics: 7, 9, 12, 15, and 16, as well as Volume 2 issues 1, 6, and 7. It looks like my collection only intersects with Mr. Biro in issue #9. I'll dig it out tomorrow, confirm the artist, and post the scan.

Yeah, I figured as much when I saw that he came from the Chesler studios. I need to go back through my web sites and see if I can find any Centaur stories attributed to him, because I certainly don't remember seeing his work (credited).

If I didn't set artificially imposed limits on my comic collecting, I'd be pursuing virutally every pre-code book in existance. And then my wife would divorce me. Holy smokes!! That's fantastic. I want to support that kind of attitude, even if it's too late to save that publisher. I'll go out and get me a Biro-written Gleason, even though it violates my pre-1941 constraints. When I find one I like and buy it, I'll post it. And obviously it can't be slabbed, because I'm buying it to read it. Nice avatar swap, by the way. If you keep it, I bet a month from now no one will have any clue where you got it from.

Awesome!!! Thanks for showing those interior panels. I can't enough of that type of stuff. The writing in my early issues of Silver Streak is also a cut above that of many other stories published in the 1939-1942 time frame. Some neat twists and excellent characters. If Lev Gleason comics had just come out a bit earlier, I'd collect them voraciously.

Wow, that's awesome! You've got to show us what Daredevil's face looks like. Lev Gleason's have such great covers. From Silver Streak to Boy Comics to Daredevil, they really did a great job. I'm a Silver Streak guy myself, but I think some of the early Daredevil comics are fantastic. A lot more violence in there than people realize. A very undervalued publisher.

Great perspective on that artwork. Underrated cover.

Well done, Pov, combining Abe Lincoln, Clueless, and a throwaway French phrase at the end there. That's one well-rounded liberal arts degree you must be sporting! For my final book of the night I'll move to the year 1940, which for me is the Silver Age. Here's an early, hard-to-find Moldoff:

Next I'll go to a very early Flessel. Although it's not a terribly attractive cover, it does refer to a story in the book, where Speed Saunders has to help track down an escaped gorilla. The purple/yellow logo has always struck me as unusual for this era.

Ok, I sat down at the scanner with a few comics. I'm saving my Centaurs for another thread entirely, but I've got some others that I think show off well. I'll start with one of my favorite non-superhero Adventure covers:

Traveling on business for a few weeks, then came back right in time for earnings season, which always clips a good 10+ days out of my life. I've been keeping up with the Golden Age threads as best I can, although I have to admit that the main board has gotten away from me. Only 7600 unread thread messages since my last peek. Thanks for asking. Y'all will be pretty pleased with my latest round of acquisitions. Lots of rarely-seen 1930's goodies, including a couple more Church copies of Keen Detective Funnies. Blame my wife for the lack of scans. She got me both TiVo and MLB's Extra Innings package for my birthday, and I haven't been able to leave the couch since. I get 3 hours of free time each night between my daughter's bedtime and my own, and I'm wasting it in front of Jerry Remy.

Gorgeous! Nothing tops a Funny Pages Arrow cover.

Page 18 of any thread gets a bit dicey.

Gorgeous. My copy of Amazing Mystery Funnies #1 is more like a G/VG, but I love it all the same. I've got a small trove of Centaurs, including Amazing-Man 5, a full run of Detective Picture Stories, a full run of Comics Magazine, and a lot more cool books. I now have 17 of the 24 issues in the Keen Detective Funnies run as well, including 3 of the Church copies. When I get my scanner up and running again, I'll start putting them up. In general, though, my books won't be near the grade quality of the ones you're putting up. I'm lucky to find them at all, much less in high grade.

Absolutely awesome. Name your price....

My god, that's a @#$%ing gorgeous book. Talk about something you NEVER see for sale anywhere....

Wow, Betty had Boardwalk, Park Place, and all 4 railroads? Veronica and Archie obviously suck at Monopoly.

Wow, look at the boobages on those nurses!! That's not right....

Ocean Pacific jams. Jams were multi-colored shorts -- guys mostly wore them. They were like the Hawaiian shirts only for the bottom. The preppy look for those hot summer mid-80's days!

Ok, fair enough, but where were the words "Who did it?" on the cover? I'm thinking it's an obscure 60's reference that all those cats would've clued into. Myself, I'm clueless. I only get references to such things as Members Only jackets and OP jams.

"Clyde Diddit! Who He?" Am I totally out of touch, or does that make no sense as a caption to the snake charming cover? Or even on its own?

That's a super cool issue! But how about that transparent cover?? Does CGC downgrade for a particularly egregious case like that?