Randall Dowling

That's very interesting...

All I know is that I trusted you and then things went sideways...

@october Great books, as always! Looking forward to the rest.

Some of these crime/detective magazines are shocking. I don't know what this woman did but she clearly crossed the wrong people. The cover reminds me of one night with @oakman29. Never trust that man if he says "I just want to see if this rope fits around you..." And I love the colors on this copy (they don't show up well on my scan). It's from the early 40s and the art has the quality of that era.

Today was a big day. A number of books I've been looking for reasonably solid copies of showed up at once! These 2 are highly sought after (and beggars can't be choosers on some of these books): This is a short run but has some excellent cover art: This book almost never comes up for sale (probably because she seems to like her work a little too much): And this last one I already have a copy of. But this miswrap is so bad, it's taken on a life of it's own...

Several years ago, I gave one of my best friends the Church copy of this book. One of the best covers of the period, IMO.

Uncle Bounty, is this thread going to be mostly or all comics? I guess what I'm really asking is- will there be magazines? Or are you saving those for October (the month, not the board member)? Asking for a friend...

This was the first Warren magazine I ever purchased. Still love it!

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This is one theory. Others think it may be rust from small iron particles in the paper caused by exposure to relatively humid conditions. Or all of the above. Frustrating all the same when it rears it's ugly head.

Believe it or not, Vixen came out a few years after X-men 107 and Iron Fist 15. And her original outfit didn't look like that. I forget when the costume change happened.

Cool books, Mark! That's a wide gamut of golden age comics and ephemera!!

"Where I came from, you had to be bad!"

Cross posting from the this week thread, this is a very difficult issue to locate. It is the actual first appearance of Nick Fury, when he was working for the other guys. I like how somebody thought they'd augment the cover art. It's subtle, but tasteful.

New arrivals. These babies make me purr....

I watched the first episode last night and I'm interested enough to watch a few more. Just hoping we don't get another Falcon and Winter Soldier ending of the season...

@The Lions Den You can answer this better than I.

The Lion is having a sales thread! Some cool books in there.

Agreed, it's a nice looking book. Leave it as is.

+1. Many RPGs from that time period didn't quite make it off the runway. I owned many of them (Star Frontiers, Top Secret, Boot Hill, etc.) but they tended to lack the development and/or having been played out to eliminate obvious loopholes that traditional AD&D had.

Understatement.

My vote is for you to list more books for sale in this thread. You've got some prime material in that vault of yours, Sir Lion! For those that are unaware, Vampirella 14 is reasonably available in grades lower than 8.0. But finding a copy in 9.0 or above is seriously tough. There's only about 40 copies in any grade certified.

That is a seriously tough book in high grade!

That's ambitious... especially with the cream to off-white pages.

These are all sucky things that happened in transit. Others have shared similar views but I thought I'd share my experience also. One of my first serious jobs was shipping manager at a high end audio store. We had to ship fairly sensitive components all over the country every single day (and high end amplifiers aren't very resilient against being bounced around). One of the most important things you learned was never leave extra space in the box that allowed movement of the contents and always have space around the contents to absorb impacts. The problem isn't using the USPS boxes (although double walled boxes are definitely better), it's packing them properly. Unfortunately, I've had lots of comics and books sent to me that weren't packed well. Whenever there is space to move, the object being shipped almost always (9 times out 10) gets damaged. It's one of the reasons books get damaged in slabs sometime- because they have room to move, hence SCS. Having said all of this, there are some circumstances in which no amount of protection will keep the object from getting damaged. If it's placed at the bottom of 8 other boxes, each weighing an average of 60 pounds, your package will get compressed. But if there's no dead space inside, it won't get crunched or flattened, just compressed. If a forklift misses the palette and hits the boxes on top, it will penetrate any cardboard box and probably whatever is inside also. But if there's a little space around the object, it may not get hit.