CongoBill

Beautiful copy!!! Cool book!!!

Here's one of his post-Code covers... NICE! Thanks for posting those.

New here, but as a collector of Atlas PCH I am definitely loving this thread! While I have collected PCH since the mid-1990s, it is only in the past 3-5 years that I have focused more on Atlas titles. Although I did put together a complete run of Menace in the late '90s that included a nice Fine+ copy of Menace #5 that I later sold around 2004 when I was in need of some cash. Ah, regrets! I think part of the reason that both myself and other PCH collectors did not pay much attention to Atlas PCH earlier is, at least for me, there was just too much of it. I was interested in completing runs of PCH series I was collecting and just about every Atlas PCH series has a lot of issues to track down. That's what was so appealing to me about Menace! It only had 11 issues and that seemed more reasonable to try and complete. And then I could say I had every issue of at least one Atlas series in my collection, which at the time seemed sufficient. Another reason is that back in the days when I and other PCH collectors were all looking for Weird Mysteries #5, Black Cat #50, Tomb of Terror #15, etc., it seemed dealers had boxes of Atlas stuff that nobody really wanted. And there was a certain "sameness" among all the Atlas series that made it difficult to really distinguish one from another. So a lot of it didn't really interest me even though I was aware there were some great Atlas PCH covers to collect. Now I know better. Even though such books as Strange Tales #28 and Astonishing #30 can certainly stand with some of the greatest PCH covers, there are many other fantastic Atlas issues to collect, so my approach to adding Atlas PCH to my collection has changed. Now I just try and find Fine or better copies and will usually snag them up if they are priced reasonably. With that said, I am interested to hear what you all think are the top 5 (or Top 10 if you wish) Atlas PCH covers. Please list them here and include pics if you have 'em. Should be fun. And my apologies if something like this has already been done in this thread, but I have not had time to go through nearly 400 pages of posts to see. :-)

Somewhat new here but really enjoying seeing all these great PCH books. Here are some of my recent pickups from SDCC 2014:

Thanks for the welcome, folks! And I like seeing those Congo Bill covers. A 1950s esoteric DC thread would be cool. What other series might be included? Phantom Stranger Congo Bill Frontier Fighters Legends of Daniel Boone Charlie Chan Star Spangled (Dr. 13 issues) Sensation Mystery Others?

I have all the Phantom Strangers except for #4, which I hope to procure sometime soon. Also working on a run of the Star Spangled Dr. 13 issues and (of course) Congo Bill. I love the "esoteric" DCs from the '50s! Sensation Mystery is another cool run, which I used to own but sold off about a decade ago. I'll probably try to collect those again once I finish with Phantom Stranger and Star Spangled. Regarding the Phantom Strangers, I think if you can find them in the VG/F range you're doing just fine. Very hard to find high grade copies of these books.