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On 4/8/2023 at 1:09 AM, Flex Mentallo said:

..and in other good news, FG are promising to publish a line of Atlas Comics Library. The first one will feature Russ Heath among others.

https://www.fantagraphics.com/collections/coming-soon/products/adventures-into-terror-the-atlas-comics-library

 

 

Great news. This looks amazing.

Personally, I prefer the Jack Liebowitz's Personal Butler pedigree. 

On 4/2/2023 at 7:22 PM, MattTheDuck said:

Pretty crazy, eh?  They're looking for any "edge" to increase value.

They've really got carried away with the pedigrees. It doesn't mean anything special anymore. 

On 3/28/2023 at 7:57 PM, fifties said:

We can't have this forum falling off the first Golden Age page now can we? 

Just got in a couple of (not cheap) EC's, as I strive to get full runs of the horror titles.  Just now need TFTC 20 (1) and 21 (2), and Vault 12 (1).

 

 

This is probably an unpopular opinion, but personally I never liked Jack's horror covers. The early TFTC covers by Feldtstein and Wood have much greater visual appeal, IMO. 

Jack's forte was humor. His MAD stuff is incredible. 

On 3/9/2022 at 3:23 PM, MattTheDuck said:

This finally showed up today from the previous CL auction.

 

I didn't know "Stan Lee's Personal Tailor" was a pedigree. 

On 3/31/2023 at 5:51 PM, OtherEric said:

And some Ace singles.  A huge thank you again to @Surfing Alien for throwing in the S-93 and D-336 as an incredibly generous bonus!

 

 

 

Never saw this before. Hilarious cover and title. Are there interior illustrations?

On 3/31/2023 at 5:34 PM, OtherEric said:

I'm glad we're near the top of a page, because I've got quite a few books to share today.  I'll start with this pair, which I couldn't resist tracking down after finding the third book:

 

I wonder why it was only years later when the second part of this trilogy ("The Tortured Planet") was published by Avon. Could be that it was too long and Lewis initially did not want to abridge it?

Do Gaines File Copies exist for Modern Love?

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Created in 1942, the WWB was technically a private organization. But, Hirsch writes, it was funded through the federal Office of War Information and essentially operated as a government agency. It worked to avoid heavy-handed propaganda, instead finding ways to place messages in popular media, including comic books. 

Or, to put it more clearly, the government created a fake "private" company as a front organization to create subtle forms of mind control, as they undoubtedly did in every other area of public life, both in 1942 and every year afterwards, right up to now. Not a huge surprise, but it's good to get confirmation. 

Personally, I don't care how "insensitive" the art on WWII books was. War is hell. 

On 3/29/2023 at 1:43 PM, Bugfarm said:

My ‘23 & ‘24 issues.  Three more to go.  It’ll probably take another 20 years.lol

Great to see those classic bedsheet issues together. 

On 2/27/2023 at 11:32 AM, Frisco Larson said:

Nice cover. Severin?

On 3/24/2023 at 11:35 PM, adamstrange said:

Simply beautiful ... best back cover of the golden age?

On 3/24/2023 at 4:46 PM, MrBedrock said:

Rarely seen in any condition, much less 9.6!

On 3/20/2023 at 6:37 PM, Surfing Alien said:

A few more random niceties while I'm sorting books out. I'm also putting some things together to maybe try out a small sales thread on the boards since RD seems to have drummed up some decent interest on his. 

This Dell edition of Vertigo is pretty scarce. One of Maguire's tougher covers.

 

 

 Never saw this before. 

On 3/17/2023 at 8:00 PM, Point Five said:

From the Point Five vaults...

You wanna get crazy? Let's get crazy. 

Nicolas Cage copy of Marvel Mystery #50, formerly slabbed as a CGC 3.0.  

Schomburg's war was so much more interesting than the actual war. 

On 3/15/2023 at 12:37 PM, MrBedrock said:

 

It's refreshing to see high grade copies that are not pedigrees for a change.

On 3/15/2023 at 4:33 AM, Flex Mentallo said:

What book is this from? 

On 3/14/2023 at 9:37 PM, BitterOldMan said:

Journey into Mystery 39

Mystic 52

Journey into Unknown Worlds 51

Thanks. First time I've seen these. Has Wood's Atlas work been reprinted? I mean in a book, not the '70s Marvel reprints.

On 3/6/2023 at 7:57 PM, Robot Man said:

A cool new crime book hit my mailbox today! Every thing one could want in a crime book. Two drug stories. One about kids stealing gum laced with dope and one where a guy goes crazy wearing pajamas with opium infused in the material. A couple of crazy croaked dames and a cool Jack Kamen lighthouse GGA red dress cover. Doesn’t get much wilder.

You don’t get this much excitement if it’s all locked up in a slab…

Grea

Great Kamen cover. And thanks for the scans of the inside!

I'd like to see some scans of Wood's 1956-58 stuff for Atlas. That's some of his most obscure work. I'm not sure how much he did. 

On 3/11/2023 at 5:57 PM, BitterOldMan said:

To those too lazy to look up the comics that I listed,

Dorothy Lamour 2  credited to Wood, but 🤢

 

Good Lord. Who was the inker who absolutely destroyed Wood's pencils? 

That was kind of a sore spot for Wood in his later years, I think. It became a running joke that fans would tell him "your older stuff was better," as if it were a compliment. I think he resented it. 

On 3/8/2023 at 6:07 PM, KirbyJack said:

I would put CSS 22 right in the top 5 or so in terms of current market value.   
I’ll suggest these 

Tales of Terror annual 1

Vault of Horror 12

Crime Patrol 15

Crypt of Terror 17 

Crime Suspenstories 22 

  

It is pretty surprising, in retrospect, that CSS 22 was considered no big deal until recently. I guess most thought of it as just another gory EC cover. Also, CSS was low on the collectible EC totem pole. Most EC collectors were into horror, sci-fi, or MAD.

On 3/7/2023 at 8:20 PM, BriD. said:

Mine says Baker. This might be one of those covers that's still up for debate. 

Several Fox covers from this period could be either Kamen or Baker. Rulah's face and hair on Zoot #14 look more like Kamen's style IMO.