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It's always good to show Fiction House covers in their early and late states. Rule of thumb: anything "orange" on a FH cover probably started out red.

How old is Robert Overstreet?

Anybody who hasn't seen Jim's "Images" magazine should really check it out. It focused on a lot of great, but forgotten artists from the early 20th century.

Wow, the lady on the right actually took off her clothes for the second pose. And this even though the other pose was too risque!

From Heritage: By Barry Sandoval, Heritage AuctionsThe world of comics and comic art has lost one of the greats in Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr, who passed away last week.If you have collected comics or illustration art for any length of time, Jim's work has affected you in some fashion. Either you have read his fanzines, magazines or books, or benefited from his pioneering artist attributions.I got to know Jim a little over the years, including a memorable visit to his home. I recall admiring a wall of paperbacks and commenting that they appeared to be in no discernible order. "Of course they're in order," he said with a twinkle in his eye. "Alphabetical by cover artist!" Nearby stood a card catalog with his artist attributions for hundreds or perhaps thousands of Golden Age comics. And he was able to do that work thanks to, at that time, owning a complete run of Atlas comics, not something easy to put together even now but a Herculean task at the time he assembled it.What was nowhere in sight at his home was a mylar or a backing board - Jim believed comics existed to be read. He was also very generous when it came to sharing his knowledge of them, and also sharing the comics themselves - a portion of his collection would be loaned out to some scholar or other at any given time. And Jim's tastes were wide-ranging indeed - Millie the Model to Philippe Druillet and anything and everything in-between.A passionate, feisty, prolific man.Rest in peace Jim.

I'v never seen the Thrill Book and the Shadow #1 together in one photo before. You may be the first person to own both.

Best copies in existence? I don't see a flaw.

The Hollywood Women's Club?

I prefer the earlier issues of WS and WF with the Feldstein and Kurtzman stories. There's just a general aura of zaniness and fun in both art and story with those two at the helm. The later issues are also great but too serious IMO.

Most GA comics are far inferior to the newspaper comics of the classic era. That's because the newspaper comics often relied on storyline arcs that could last for months or even years, which holds the readers' attention, encourages character development, introduces a variety of themes and plot twists, etc. No comic book artist was equal to the skill of Hal Foster and Alex Raymond. Wally Wood might have come the closest, but only in the 1951-55 period. Wood is superior to Frazetta and Williamson. Crime comics were an abomination. Wertham was 100% correct in this respect.

As well as "The Scarlet Letter." I believe he discovered the word "eldritch" in this book.

Great to see these.

If you could only own one issue of Weird Tales, and money/value was not a factor, what issue would it be? #1 from March, 1923 Call of Cthulhu 1st Conan Batwoman

Darn, we missed celebrating the 100th Anniversary in March!

If the drugstore owner was writing the code on the cover as a way of knowing which distributor to ship the (unsold) books back to, why was he selling that copy to Edgar Church? It seems like he would only write the code on books that he did not sell. Otherwise, it would defeat the purpose of writing it, no?

How many copies of New Fun #1 exist today?

Drug addicts sure dressed a lot better in the '50s.

Ah, so that's why the cover was censored.

There isn't much of an aesthetic to The Spider covers. Just think of the most horrifying way to torture and kill women, insert The Spider with pistol blaring, and hope he can save a few before they're all massacred. I think I'll stick with Rozen's Shadow.

They show a Prince Valiant comic. That's not exactly a squeaky-clean, violence-free strip, either.

I have a strong feeling this cover is a Peter Driben swipe.

Wow. The original makes the printed version look sick by comparison.

This has the same look and feel as the "Ladies of the Underworld" pulp you posted in the other thread. Both look like 1930s pulps.

I imagine very, very few people possess the comic and the digest.

Thanks, I'll have to check out some of Chase's books. Does anyone know if he wrote for the pulps?