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Ricksneatstuff: Take 56 Done. And thank you. PMs later.

A couple of raw Planet Comics for sale, #40 and #56. I take PayPal and checks. Shipping (boxed, USPS Priority) is $10 anywhere in continental US. Shipping at exact cost for any other locations. #40 - about VG -- $125 #56 - fine -- $175 Thanks for looking. ============ Planet 56 - Sept 1948 ================== One of the better cheese-cake covers IMO. And a women-in-tubes (R) cover! Solidly put together, two staples. Tiny bit of tearing around top of top staple. Creasing on upper corners of front and back cover. ============ Planet 40 - Jan 1946 ================== Nice GGA on this one. Solidly put together, one staple. Vertical subscription crease down middle of book. A 3/8 inch tear on top of front cover, where the subscription crease is. 3/8 tear on right side of front cover, near lady's elbow. 1/8 tear on bottom of front cover, an inch from the spine. Piece missing UL of back cover A little rough on UR of front cover Crease through the T in PLANET. Several scuff marks on the spine.

Speaking of Wonder Comics ... I've been curious about the price differences among some of these. Numbers 13, 14, and 15 are all nice Xela bondage covers. Here they are for reference: So why is #15 so d*** expensive? High-grade copies of 13 and 14 seem to go for about half of similar copies of 15. Huh? And according to the census, 15 is more common (although is therea smaller print run?): 13 33 in the census 9 in 9.0 or higher 14 31 in the census 9 in 9.0 or higher 15 52 in the census 12 in 9.0 or higher Why so much of a premium for #15?

On that Cowgirl Romances, I always thought the girl's anatomy was poorly done. In addition to her oddly drawn posterior, her head is in the wrong place compared to her torso. Her shoulder looks like it's coming out of the side of her head. And yes, I would like some cheese with that whine. gozer --------- We have roots here, Homer. We have friends and family and library cards. Bart's lawyer is here.

I knew I had these somewhere. I missed out on the Planet 34 discussion, so using any and every excuse to show off a bit ... Oh wait, how did that #35 sneak into the picture?

The Wings 101 is a great cover. Nice blocking or layout, the girl's diagonal pose, the airplane screaming overhead, the explosion in the background. And we see that the airplane has shot up the truck, saving the girl, which clearly tells the story. Nicely done. Probably a Lubbers cover ?

There are some pretty fabulous groups of books on display here. Here's my contribution -- for several years, I was focused on Rangers Comics with GGA (Fiction House). Here's my collection, at about its largest (about half of these are spread to the wind now):

>> I have all my National Lampoons from number one (4/70) to >> 12/74 sitting in 5 NL binders What kind of demented crazy person are you??? I had the first 7 years of Lampoon, in those bright yellow binders, for a long time. Finally got tired of lugging them around, and sold them. But it was a great magazine. A lot of talent on display there. - Foto Funnies - Mrs. Agnew's Diary - Tarzan of the Cows - How to Write Good (Michael O'Donoghue) - The New 1896 Sex Catalogue (Doug Kenney, RIP) My friends and I were big fans of Mad magazine. But when I saw an issue of NL the first time (I was 16), Mad suddenly seemed childish, something for babies. And NL seemed so ... I don't know. Subversive. Adult. Smart. I was instantly hooked. gozer Kids, you tried your best, and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.

>> November may be an expensive month for me No, uh ... no it's not. Heritage cancelled that auction, so there's no possibility of spending any money on high-grade Planets. The warehouse where the books were, hmmm, ... exploded. Yeah. They're all destroyed, all gone. Completely. And there's no need to check the Heritage web site either. It's totally gone. Trust me. It exploded too. So just forget any silly notion of bidding on Planet Comics for the rest of the year. No need to waste your time in any dumb old auction. happy to help, gozer

>> if you have a copy of fight 32, post it I might have a ratty old copy around somewhere ...

The color on that 4.5 copy of Rangers 21 is ... incredible! I've got the Lost Valley copy, and those often have eye-popping colors. But the LV #21 is still a bit muted ...

No one has mentioned the dialog between Sen. Estes Kefauver and William Gaines in the April 1954 hearings: Kefauver: Here is your May 22 issue. This seems to be a man with a bloody ax holding a woman's head up, which has been severed from her body. Do you think that is in good taste?" Gaines: Yes, sir, I do, for the cover of a horror comic. A cover in bad taste, for example, might be defined as holding the head a little higher so that the neck could be seen dripping blood from it and moving the body over a little further so that the neck of the body could be seen to be bloody. Kefauver: You have blood coming out of her mouth. Gaines: A little. ------------------------------ Priceless. I'd love to hear this - to hear how Gaines said "A little." For the testimony, see: http://www.thecomicbooks.com/gaines.html

Do NOT trust that cheetah fellow!!! He is a scoundrel ... a villain ... a mountebank. And I'm pretty sure his mother wears army boots. My sad story: There I was, peacefully enjoying my beautiful collection of Rangers Comics. Then, out of nowhere, this cheetah person appears, makes a generous offer for some of them, and before I know what is happening, I've said "OK." What a diabolical plot. Probably mind control of some sort. And I'm left with nothing, NOTHING! (Well, there is that big pile of cash, but that doesn't count.)

I think I may have gotten a bit carried away. An embarrassment of riches... And if you can only keep one, which is it? An 8.5 with nice color or the more muted 9.4?

Just FYI - For the "Out of This World Adventures" pulps, there are only the two issues: 1 - July 1950 2 - Dec 1950 (great cover!) (These are the ones published in the US -- I don't know anything about the Canadian variants) The "32 pages of fantasy stories illustrated" is actually the entire contents of separately published Avon comics, without the covers. The comic section in #1 reprints: Out of This World #1, June 1950. The comic section in #2 reprints: Strange Worlds #1, Nov 1950. gozer

Kelholt -- those two copies of Planet just knock my socks off !!! Wow. Seeing those in 9.4 is just amazing. And like Fuelman, numbers 33 and 35 are two of my favorites also. Space babes in short skirts -- yowza! gozer

Just did a deal with Filter81 - good communication and the book was packed as well as I've ever seen. Thanks Adam. gozer

There hasn't been any action in this thread for a few months, so I thought I'd show a couple of my favorite latest pickups: The 94 has eye-popping color - it's as vivid as the day it came off the press. Number 94 is also one of those odd ones, in the sense that FH covers had an interesting code -- show a damsel in distress, but show the hero on his way to the rescue. But with this one, what possible actions could let the blonde survive? She's tied to a plane, for pete's sake. A plane that's about to be shot down! cheers, gozer

>> But, if ... it is done ONLY ... sometimes Well that's where opinions differ. How much is "sometimes?" If it happened twice a year, or twice a month, ok, no problem. Right now, on JUST the FIRST page of CG, there are 8 obviously OT threads, and a few others that are borderline (and that's not counting the 2 threads that are about OT threads). Is that a lot? The existence of OT posts encourages others to post more OT posts. If so-and-so posts about his favorite baseball team, I'll post about my favorite hockey team. And on and on. Plus, I don't think the issue is how hard/easy it is for someone to avoid OT posts. Yes, it's relatively easy to avoid them. But so what? Why should anyone HAVE to avoid them in the first place? It's easy to avoid stepping in the dog poop that my inconsiderate neighbor leaves on the sidewalk in front of my house. Does that mean it's ok for him to do it? (and boy am I going to get flamed for that analogy) I don't understand why people post OT stuff in the first place. I think it's rude. It's hijacking a common area dedicated for one purpose, for your own purpose. "This is a comic board, but I'm interested in baseball so I'll post about baseball." And yes, I'm aware of the irony that I'm contributing to an entire topic that is somewhat off topic. Oh well. gozer --------------------- I'm starving! Mom, can we go Catholic so we can get communion wafers and booze?

>> I don't see the harm [of OT posts] Not harm exactly, but they do waste your time weeding through them. I find OT posts annoying (and baffling). I think of them as spam. They clutter up the boards with things I don't care about. I come here to read/write about comics. That's the whole SPOONing purpose of these boards. Comics. All sorts of things about COMICS. If you want to talk about movies/sports/whatever, there are a gazillion forums all over the web devoted to any specific topic you can think of. But the PURPOSE for this board's existence is comics. Why can't people stick to that? Why come to a comic board and bring up baseball or cars? >> I would love to see a CWC (Comics Water Cooler) That seems like a great idea. Surely there's a way to set this up without requiring extra work for the mods. My $0.02. gozer ----------------------- Oh, you look lovely this evening. Have you decreased in mass?

Just 3 more to go ... I'm trying to get the last seven issues of the run, all in 8.5.

>> If collectors don't read (or at least look at) the stories, they're >> missing out on a lot of entertainment. I disagree with you about that. I've read about a dozen issues of Planet, and the stories ... uh ... well, hmmm, how to say this politely ... they just s u c k. They're standard space opera, bug-eyed monster silliness. Cardboard characters, generic plots, and lots of women in short skirts or short tunics (not that there's anything wrong with that!). Aside from the novelty value, I don't see the attraction. I've never had a reason to go back and read any of them again. I contrast this with the 1950s EC science fiction comics which came later, which actually did have readable stories, a bit of humor, and the usual twist ending (heavy debt to O Henry). cheers, gozer ------------------------ Welcome futurists, cyberphiles, and the rest of you dateless wonders.

[fading on FH books] >> inks of dubious quality with low pigment content were used resulting in >> copies that vary more widely within a print run I also think that's the likely explanation. The fading exists between issues, but also within a particular issue. And on books with supple, white pages -- which leads me to believe that sunlight/heat is not what creates this. A couple of examples: The vividness of the cover image has become very important to me. I didn't pay any attention to this when I started out with FH books, but now a faded cover is the kiss of death in my eyes. And it is curious that CGC seemingly pays no attention to this in their grading. cheers, gozer --------------------- Founded by prostitutes in 1849, and serviced by prostitute express riders who could bring in a fresh prostitute from Saint Joe in three days; Bloodbath Gulch quickly became known as a place where a trail hand could spend a month's pay in three minutes.

>> Only in golden age comics would you see a space girl >> shooting a robot in the crotch with a blunderbuss. A one-legged space girl !

Paratrooper -- just had to show off a little, this is sitting in my closet: