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Weird Science 9 and Incredible Science-Fiction 33 have recently been posted, and WS 19 makes three out of three EC covers in which Wood makes use of the "spaceship interior with large circular window" motif.  Frazetta's Famous Funnies 213 is allegedly an homage to Wood's design.  

A few new ones this week:
 
Still looking for issue #1 but found #2. 

A cool Bondage cover I haven't seen much:

An addition to my Monsters carrying women collection:


 

Oh yeah! I don't own the original version either but am aware of it. I like the inclusion of the spider and web but hate the placement of the bar code as it blocks out that awesome skeleton!

Always a favorite of mine.

Charltons are definitely "hit or miss" but the hits are 

Yup! Always exciting to go to a show with a planned want/purchase list in mind then you look in a box and say " OMG, Star Trek Poster Books!" I haven't seen these in years, gotta get 'em! 

Always a favorite of mine.

Always a favorite of mine.

Yeah, those later Wanted issues started really pushing it. Too bad the code pushed them out of biz. Here are two more real good ones. Both have real rough violence, GGA and drug stories.

One of my first ebay purchases.

Here is my copy located at my other house. Paid $174.99 in 2006. 
 

Although not a big fan of many Centaur books the Keen Detective Funnies series  I always found pretty interesting. The Eye being at least part of that reason. Just as weird a concept as the previous Wolverton work was with his art. The story below is from Keen Detective Funnies #20. But first an introduction to....
 
 

 
(From the defunct
http://www.wellnessadvisor.com/hoohah/vol1_no6/eye.htm) : 
Early in 1939 Centaur Publications began a new series titled “The Eye Sees” in their comic book Keen Detective Funnies. Nicely drawn (and written ?) by Frank Thomas, it scrutinized one of the strangest heroes to appear in comics and certainly was an odd cover feature – real eye candy.
The hero was a disembodied super-powered organ complete with lashes. It spoke and showed no mercy to crime—it was a real eyesore. The Eye would spot fleeing criminals and pursue and destroy them with powerful discharges, and I don’t mean that early morning eyelid crust.
Keen Detective Funnies began with issue No.8 in July 1938. After an inauspicious beginning as an anthology comic typical of its day, Keen Detective became the home of the Masked Marvel. I’ve noticed that people use “Masked Marvel” to describe generic heroes and wrestlers. The Eye Sees finally appeared in vol. 2 No.2 in 1939. (Centaur, like Novelty press, updated the volume number of its publications annually renumbering starting with issue No.1 each year.) 
Thereafter the ocular feature appeared in every issue of Keen Detective, with the two exceptions of vol. 2 Nos.3 and 5, until the title folded in September of 1940 with its 24th issue. Centaur also ogled The Eye for the short-lived Detective Eye comic book (No.1 November and No.2 December 1940). I have not perused copies of Detective Eye comics for myself, but my usually reliable sources (who have) tell me that they contain reprint material from Keen Detective.
These strange Eye stories often began with an introductory speech such as “THE EYE ! That haunting spectre of man’s inner conscience ! Whose presence strikes terror into the hearts of evil men and smashes their deeds !! Time or distance mean nothing to The Eye ! He appears wherever men do wrong whether it be in the Sandy Wastes of the Sahara, or the crowded streets of an American metropolis !!!” (This paragraph needs more exclamation points !!!!!) 
The visual character had a pretty set modus operandi. The Eye would appear before people as a weird apparition and instruct them to do its bidding. It was a chatty orb, and liked to give speeches about how crime doesn’t pay and no one escapes justice and how it needs a Visine bottle the size of a Volkswagon Beetle.
To enforce its edicts The Eye could emit a disintegrating ray from his iris (he was no flower child). The Eye could also levitate objects and often hypnotized its victims bending them to its will. There was not much of a detective style “who-done-it” approach to the stories—just pure eye muscle. Usually the crime and perpetrator was revealed to the readers by page one.
The fun was in “seeing” how The Eye would deal with the evil. Just like most of Centaur’s other features, there was absolutely no character development in The Eye Sees stories, only action.
 









 
 

This thread made me do it!  Until yesterday I had only picked up Vampi comic books, but after seeing so much cool stuff posted here I had to see the mags. I didn't have to dig for this, it was a "wanna see something cool?" kinda find. Going to have to hit the store again and get a magazine box, and maybe more mags too.

 

Starting my Atlas run with these two:
 

If this story from Novelty's Target Comics #10 (1940) looks a little odd, there's a good reason for it.
Archival Press released a SpaceHawk trade paperback in 1978.
Though the book itself featured b/w line art interiors and a color cover, Archival made a deal with Marvel to provide Epic Illustrated a SpaceHawk story in color to accompany an article by Ron Goulart about Basil Wolverton.
Unfortunately, Epic only gave them 8 pages, so the 10-page story had to be edited to fit the page count.
BTW, the hand-coloring, which was photographically-color separated (they didn't have scanners then), was done by Rick Veitch.
It has a wonderful "organic" feel computer coloring just can't match. Atomic Kommie comics (2014).
 

One of my favorite Wolverton stories. Hope no one minds me posting...

One of the  best Batman stories ever.

I thought I’d try a thread on some of the non A listers of the Golden Age of Comics that I find more interesting. First up being a pretty big Basil Wolverton fan I thought I might share one of the Spacehawk stories he did. It’s so un-Flash Gordon and so un-Alex Raymond art but works so perfectly before the forced change in direction later. But first an introduction:

The Spacehawk
The Spacehawk was a super-hero who patrolled the Solar System. The tales mixed super-hero elements, science fiction, and horror aspects in the sinister villains. The science fiction ideas here are fairly advanced for the Golden Age of comics. This series takes place in outer space, and frequently shows us astronomical features of other planets. It is full of alien beings and robots.
It is NOT in the tradition of the influential 1930's comic strip Flash Gordon, which tended to treat other planets as backdrops for tales of exotic adventure in fabulous kingdoms with glamorous royalty. Instead, the sf elements in The Spacehawk are valued for their own sake, as part of genuine science fiction adventures. Basil Wolverton's art style does not seem to be influenced by Flash Gordon's creator Alex Raymond either, also a rarity in an era when comic book artists tended to regard Raymond as their ideal and model. 
The series also avoids that other paradigm of 1930's comics, the "modern-day scientists from Earth who build a rocket, and who have adventures on other planets they visit for the first time". This was the paradigm used in 1939 by the comic book series Adventures in the Unknown; it also shows up in the 1930's comic strip Brick Bradford. By contrast, The Spacehawk takes place in a future era, one in which space travel around the Solar System is almost routine.
The Spacehawk ran in Target Comics, from #5 (Vol. 1 #5) (June 1940), through #34 (Vol. 3 #10) (December 1942). All of the stories were written and drawn by Basil Wolverton. A small collection of Spacehawk tales, reproduced in black and white, was published in the 1970's. It has a highly informative introduction by Ron Goulart.
 
So from Target Comics V1 #5 comes...
 











 
 
 

Most recent Cole acquisition 
"This is one very tough L.B. Cole cover issue to acquire in any condition, let alone one of the Top 2 highest graded that CGC has ever certified. A bright and fresh Fine+ CGC 6.5, this is the highest graded for Popular Teen-Agers #5 and it's one of just 2 ever graded by CGC at this top tier."

I'll second Bill Everett! 

I'm in the 10 camp. 
 
One of my favorite PC covers. 

One of my all-time favorite PCH covers!!!

Mine is raw but it is a solid copy: