Randall Dowling

That's a great copy of one of my favorite covers!

I have retina damage from looking at this thread! That Wings copy is like an acid trip.

This is a pretty book. Tough to find with the white actually being white and not cream or yellow. Very pretty colors. (thumbs u

That's a really cool book. Sweet! Have to put it on my list of books to look out for.

I'm not sure the term "original owner" means much at all anymore for any period of comics. Pretty certain most of the major pedigrees that have surfaced in the last few years all went through the press before they even saw the first auction (or at least the top few 100 books in each collection). The OO term is very over used in my opinion to entice people for the very reason that you describe, that the books may be prime for "improvement". And I think that's probably the case with all books- gold, silver, and especially bronze. Although I do like to dream that there are some books that will come to the market for collectors from collectors without all the garbage in between.

Love it. Nice books, man!

Dear Mr. G.A.tor, Besides the early appearances of Mary Marvel in Wow Comics, do you know of other cover art work done by Marc Swayze for Fawcett (or other publishers)? What is your favorite?

This is a really cool collection of books. I lusted after this particular issue on Metropolis' site until I noticed it was no longer there recently. All other copies just looked washed out by comparison. Could be wrong, but I thought they had it graded as a 9.4. Impressive to see it come back as a 9.6. There are qualities to this cover that look very Baker-esque. Glad it found a good home! (thumbs u