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That JIM #39 is a prime example of how Atlas managed to sustain a sense of menace on many covers even after the code.

Sweeeeet!

it was an ebay win a couple of years ago. Paid over guide, but not too much more.

Mine is a G+ -mainly due to a detached cover that is held on with a spot of glue - it has pretty decent eye-appeal for the grade. I posted it a while back - I'll try and do it again. It took along time to find an affordable copy, so I feel your pain. Whether I sell it (and some of my other favorite books) in the next 6 mos. has alot to do with whether or not I get alot more work this year than I did last year.

Thatt sux - i remember seeing that copy (or one with very similar pencil markings on ebay - raw I believe - in the last year). What was the asking on comiclink? If I ever sell my own low grade copy - you'll be the first to know Silver.

Marvel Mystery is a probably the only major GA title I ever fantasize owning a full run of. I recently sold off a few low-graders that I had, but am keeping #46 & #56 - my two favorite covers in the run. To be honest, as cool as they are - there is a certain redundancy in the covers - and even more so in the stories - though this could be said of most comic titles, GA or otherwise.

Congrats on the pickup - A classic for sure!

I agree - while HG Golden Age books are impressive because it's amazing that they survived in such condition, give me a solid mid-grade any day. By all means, post sweet high grade copies if you have them, but no need to apologize for a book with solid eye-appeal.

For Marvel in particular the 20¢ covers were a departure from the previous look - though I would include thier one-month 25¢ covers as the start of the new look - picture frame covers to be precise. At the time while I wasn't thinking that a new "Age" had begun, the 20¢ era cemented the idea that comics were changing - Kirby was at DC, "Weird" and "Horror" titles were popular, Marvel was cranking out more and more reprint titles, and many of the "relevant" and "hip" books and storylines begun in the 68-70 period were either done with or coming to a close; GL/GA, Hawk and Dove, Captain America's "easy rider" phase, Nick Fury, agent of SHIELD, stories with"Campus" in the title, drug stories, the "mod" Wonder Woman, etc. I think of the Bronze Age as when more 1970s pop-culture trends began to be reflected in comics like Kung-Fu and Blaxploitation movies. While many of the contenders for first BA book have 15¢ covers - by and large the look of comics didn't really change right away when the price jumped up from 12¢.

While there seems little agreement on what the first BA book is - there does seem to be a concensus that the Bronze Age starts around 1970. Collecting in the early 70s, it seemed to me that there was no aknowledgement that the Silver Age had actually ended. I dropped out of collecting around 1974, and didn't return until the 1980s. I don't recall when the term Bronze Age became poular for the 1970s, but certainly the Silver age was long over by then. My question for long time collectors - When did it dawn on you that the Silver Age had ended, and what did you consider the end of the Silver Age at the time?

The holy trinity of Wings bondage covers - well done

The T-Man world tour - keep 'em coming.

Thanks to Fuelman Goody Rickles and Bobpfeff for buying books from me

Why only a 5.0 - looks nicer.

That is a great cover - as much as I like Cole, I find many of his covers, especially on Police, to be somewhat lackluster - #25 is a definite exception!

Looking at the faces - I'd say Wally Wood with someone else's inks.

Atlas. thanks for posting those - that Battle #35 is a flamethrower cover I'd not seen, and the #37 I remember from prowling ebay - but had forgotten what issue it was When I start working again and am doing more buying than selling - I'm going to be searching for more Atlas War - you can't beat them for the price.

The RH on the right hand shore underneath the bridge beam.

Kerry Drakes are great reads - and pretty cheap in low grade! Despite the obvious nod to Tracy, the scripting is often superior to Gould's. One can also pick up the Blackthorne squarebounds from the late 80s to read some of the early and classic Kerry Drake arcs.

I never get tired of seeing Everett covers posted. Keep up the good work!

How many are there? I know of the Voodoo Annual, the G-I in Battle Annual, the Fighting Man Annual. Are there others? I'm guessing there must be a romance one and another funny animal one at least. Pretty cool esoteric collection goal

Beautiful copy!

That's cool - as the other Canadian Timely's I've seen from this era have the Marvel logo replced by the Superior one. One of my favorite pre-code horror covers by the way - even if it isn't that scary.

Another fine example of an Atlas post-code cover that is scarier than most DC pre-code covers.