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My favorite Zip cover Zip 9 And another brain boggler Weird Mysteries 5

Great cover on the Mystery Men 4, Punyhuman. I love seeing all these scans of books I had overlooked when browsing through the Gerber Guides. Sometimes it's hard to gage how cool a cover is until you see a larger image. I also want to thank the rest of you out there for making the Golden Age threads mostly about the comics themselves, and not just about what grades of which books sold for how much (which seems to be the general preoccupation of the Silver Age postings).

Are you sure that #9 isn't a Schomburg cover? I t looks like his style both in composition and execution.

143ksk, Great Peps! I wish I still had my 20, and 34 is on my upgrade list, I only have a FR copy that was too cheap to pass up. I also like the 28, those iconic WW2 covers on the old Zips & Peps are too cool! Wasn't the cover to Pep 32 reused on a Shield -Wizard?

143ksk, That Terrors of the Jungle 20 sure is a nice looking copy, and I think it's the best cover of the run. It's one of the few 50s covers Cole did that competes with his 40s work. It got me thinking of squid covers and here is an underrated one by Edd Cartier

Glad to see there is still alot of enthusiasm for L.B. Cole out there. His late 40s covers are amazing. Here is a Gerber no-show, Capt. Aero 26. It's only a mid-grade copy, but has the deepest color strike of any I've seen.

Beautiful book, the last couple of Mystics make me want to collect Destroyer covers! Please tell us you have a Mystic #9 with the Hitler cover coming next, that one is on my want list.

Beautiful book Timely, you truely have a stunning collection. I love the old Timelys with one-shot cover appearances, especially when they are by Schomburg or Simon & Kirby. Too bad S&K never did a Vision cover for Marvel Mystery - that would be something.

The above copy has P.D.C. printed on the cover , which I believe stands for Printed in the Dominion of Canada. It also has "15 cents in Canada" printed under the 10 cent price. This is not to be confused with being a Canadian copy as all the the ads I've ever seen in a P.D.C. book are for U.S. companies - Cheslers as well as Four Stars. This isn't much different from modern comics today which are almost always printed in Canada. I don't know off-hand if there are both Canadian and domestic printings of any of these books that were both produced for the U.S. market, but it might explain differences in color. Shiverbones - 3x guide for a Good copy of Roly Poly 14 is probably as good a deal as you are going to get unless you find a dealer who is unaware of the real value of this book. I paid $200 for the VG- copy 3 years ago, which at the time was more like 6 or 7x guide. I've had my share of great deals over the years, but this wasn't one of them - but look at it this way, this book guides for barely more than #15! How much relative demand is there for the two books? My guess is that for every person looking for a #15, there has to be at least 20 looking for a #14.

Underrated L.B. Cole cover. While not as cool as the sci-fi cover to 11, I've always liked the cover to this issue of Capt. Flight. If I recall the Gerber Photo-Journal copy has more of an orange background, but I find the red more striking. I've noticed alot of the old Four Star publications with L.B. Cole covers seem to come in varying degrees of color intensity - notably Catman 32 and Capt. Aero 26, which seem to come in pale blue and electric blue variations.

Gor-blimey! It's a a book of MLJ reprints that have nothing to do with the cover!

Love those Scomburg War Cover Nedors, especially the Excitings. Still very affordable when compared to Timleys, even when they sell for over guide. I need to start buying more of them.

My Favorite Marvel Mystery cover. It has a couple tear seals, but I'll take that over tape any day, besides the price was right. Check out the worm in Hitler's ear. http://boards.collectors-society.com/attachments//376185-mmys46.jpg

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