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Yeah, likewise. Very enjoyable and looking forward to next season. We have multiple storylines that are on cliffhanger status and I'm interested in all of them. Well done!

Wow! That's really cool, Pat! I had no idea. I've come across your dad a few times due to my interest in reading about WWII. My grandfather fought in the Pacific theater as well so it's always been an interest of mine. Thanks for sharing!

You don't see this issue very often.

More girls!

Pretty sure Frazetta's comment wasn't about time spent. It was about lack of focus or attention to detail for the work. Ross treated all parts of the canvas with the same amount of detail. There is no focus, nothing he was trying to communicate. He was just making a landscape, and not very well at that. I think a pretty strong argument could be made that Bob Ross didn't understand light very well, either. Apparently, this planet has multiple suns and some very confusing flora (I don't know what that thing at the bottom right is but it's not a plant that grows on Earth).

Aren't the first two copies here the same printing? I don't believe that Bantam had multiple printings under the same issue number, in this case- F3067 (pretty sure this predates number lines on these books). My guess is that any printing differences are from age or lithographic process. @Surfing Alien, can you confirm (or anyone else that knows more than me, which is pretty much everyone)? As to the question of which one to collect, when I find a particular cover illustration that I like, I try to identify the first printing of it and pursue that. YMMV. Edit: Just looking at Bruce Black's notes on Bantams and it sounds like it's kind of a mess. I guess we'd need to see the copyright page to verify.

I guess P.T. Barnum was right, there's one born every minute.

Cool book! Yeah, anyone that's spent a bit of time collecting these non-comic mags has had the unfortunate experience of terrible packing and arriving damaged. The worst one I got was a package that was sandwiched between 2 pieces cardboard and then had duct tape wrapped around the perimeter. The cardboard was somehow cut to be the exact dimensions of the magazine inside, which was not in a bag of any kind... of course, I didn't know this going in so I took an knife to the edge trying to open it and, to my horror, inadvertently sliced the book before discovering that the duct tape was adhered to all sides of the book. The duct tape did not come off cleanly. It was probably a VF before it was sent. Closer to a VG- by the time I got the book out of that nightmare. It was like a horrible trap that was impossible to see coming. And I paid a lot more than $10 for that book. It's just the nature of buying these mags that people don't realize are collectible. The eBay gods are fickle gods that giveth and taketh away as they please.

Adventure is one of my favorite titles. Lots of amazing covers by great artists. Unfortunately, it's also one of the most difficult to search for.

I've never seen this before. Very cool!

You feel that strongly about it, Dave? You know bugs better than most but I've seen a lot of Warrens from that period with the exact same defect. I always thought it was just poor paper stock that tore at the edge when it was trimmed at production. It's always at the corners on the books I've seen.

I've always loved this cover. Harold McCauley is one of my favorite illustrators of the pulp era. So many beautiful covers for Amazing Stories and many other publications. I first found him by his covers for Imaginative Tales.

I wonder how many of us started our collecting of paperbacks with the Frazetta/Burroughs books in the Ace F series. I know it was the beginning of my interest 30 years ago. Great books, OE! Keep 'em coming!

That looks a lot like typical Warren corner chipping to me.

So is this.

I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more Howell Dodd.

Howell Dodd's the man!

Or Rudolph Belarski, or Rafael DeSoto, or Robert Maguire, or Walter Popp...

I'm really not supposed to talk about it. But yes, Toutain put out a Spanish version of Creepy that both reused some classic covers from the Warren run but also had a large number of original covers by Boris, Corben, Enric, Sanjulian and others. Pretty sure that number "Cero" is the first issue because the Spanish are wacky that way. Despite this, nobody should become interested in collecting them or pursuing copies as you won't like them. Seriously, don't start collecting Spanish Creepys. There's nothing to see.

Those early issues of Cracked are ridiculously tough in high grade. Glad you did well with the sale, Andy!

You got a little bit of uber-high grade magazine envy, don't you, pal?

Recent pulp sales of interest. Still doing well on eBay if the title has "Spicy" in it.

A couple of interesting recent sales. Generally speaking, the smutty stuff is getting very strong prices lately.