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OK, who's ready for 10 more sweet Atlas war books?

My son made a mold from an old GI Joe figure and is doing injection molds using red plastic and then turning them into Deadpools.  Pretty cool.
He 3D prints the swords and sheaths and they fit perfectly into the back pegs and then paints the final details.
If anyone is interested check him out on instagram at Restoration_procrastination

Got this badboy off of eBay the other day. Earliest toy (pre-dates "farmboy" Luke) that I remember my mom giving me as a small child. No clue what happened to my childhood toy but this one brought back all the nostalgia. 

Gentleman,  
 
In a few hours a boyhood dream is about to be realized. “Someone” is not as anxious about this as I am.  Love her all the same for humoring / indulging my enthusiasm 😂.
 

 
 

Happy surprise! I was starting the process of cleaning up all of these toys, and realized that the DK-1 "Red Sunstreaker" had the pilot inside. Score!

Found this raw online, just got it back from CGC today.  
 

Alternative version...

More info from his page. Very interesting, I did not know about this.
This was the final version of the painting that appeared on Eerie # 36 by Enrich but the preliminary painting was used on the cover instead. I wrote James Warren a letter and asked him about this and received a reply on February 24, 2014. This is a portion of his reply: Dear Mike- After studying both renditions and trying to remember what happened here some 43 years ago, this is my thinking: 1) My guess ( and it is an educated guess ) is that when I was first shown the original painting ( The one you own ) , I rejected it because I didn't think the deformed hand was realistic enough. ( It was more like a claw from an animal or zombie, or whatever.) I wanted more of a human hand at the time. 2) I then asked Enrich to give me another version. 3) Enrich then submitted a comprehensive color rough of a new hand. 4) I liked the comprehensive color rough, and accepted it as the final art that would appear on the cover. - OR- 5) I was forced to accept it, and use it, BECAUSE OF A DEADLINE that had to be made. It's possible that we had already gone ahead with the inside painting of the issue, and this inside contained the story (" The Hand of Kane Kinkaid"),which meant that we had to use a ' Hand" painting for this particular issue;- And there was NO TIME to wait for ENRICH to do another big painting. This was entirely possible but as I said, it was 43 years ago, and my mind is not clear on this. If I had it to do all over again, I WOULD HAVE INDEED USED THE " CLAW " ORIGINAL VERSION THAT YOU HAVE - INSTEAD OF THE COLOR ROUGH. THE ORIGINAL IS FAR SUPERIOR TO THE COLOR ROUGH ARTISTICALLY, AND FROM THE POINT OF VIEW AS A " BETTER COVER". 

And my #1 L.B. Cole Men's Shirt is from Top Love Stories #5. The guy on the right has no chance against a shirt like that. 

More info from his page. Very interesting, I did not know about this.
This was the final version of the painting that appeared on Eerie # 36 by Enrich but the preliminary painting was used on the cover instead. I wrote James Warren a letter and asked him about this and received a reply on February 24, 2014. This is a portion of his reply: Dear Mike- After studying both renditions and trying to remember what happened here some 43 years ago, this is my thinking: 1) My guess ( and it is an educated guess ) is that when I was first shown the original painting ( The one you own ) , I rejected it because I didn't think the deformed hand was realistic enough. ( It was more like a claw from an animal or zombie, or whatever.) I wanted more of a human hand at the time. 2) I then asked Enrich to give me another version. 3) Enrich then submitted a comprehensive color rough of a new hand. 4) I liked the comprehensive color rough, and accepted it as the final art that would appear on the cover. - OR- 5) I was forced to accept it, and use it, BECAUSE OF A DEADLINE that had to be made. It's possible that we had already gone ahead with the inside painting of the issue, and this inside contained the story (" The Hand of Kane Kinkaid"),which meant that we had to use a ' Hand" painting for this particular issue;- And there was NO TIME to wait for ENRICH to do another big painting. This was entirely possible but as I said, it was 43 years ago, and my mind is not clear on this. If I had it to do all over again, I WOULD HAVE INDEED USED THE " CLAW " ORIGINAL VERSION THAT YOU HAVE - INSTEAD OF THE COLOR ROUGH. THE ORIGINAL IS FAR SUPERIOR TO THE COLOR ROUGH ARTISTICALLY, AND FROM THE POINT OF VIEW AS A " BETTER COVER". 

Very cool, and it actually makes this issue more interesting to me now. 

More info from his page. Very interesting, I did not know about this.
This was the final version of the painting that appeared on Eerie # 36 by Enrich but the preliminary painting was used on the cover instead. I wrote James Warren a letter and asked him about this and received a reply on February 24, 2014. This is a portion of his reply: Dear Mike- After studying both renditions and trying to remember what happened here some 43 years ago, this is my thinking: 1) My guess ( and it is an educated guess ) is that when I was first shown the original painting ( The one you own ) , I rejected it because I didn't think the deformed hand was realistic enough. ( It was more like a claw from an animal or zombie, or whatever.) I wanted more of a human hand at the time. 2) I then asked Enrich to give me another version. 3) Enrich then submitted a comprehensive color rough of a new hand. 4) I liked the comprehensive color rough, and accepted it as the final art that would appear on the cover. - OR- 5) I was forced to accept it, and use it, BECAUSE OF A DEADLINE that had to be made. It's possible that we had already gone ahead with the inside painting of the issue, and this inside contained the story (" The Hand of Kane Kinkaid"),which meant that we had to use a ' Hand" painting for this particular issue;- And there was NO TIME to wait for ENRICH to do another big painting. This was entirely possible but as I said, it was 43 years ago, and my mind is not clear on this. If I had it to do all over again, I WOULD HAVE INDEED USED THE " CLAW " ORIGINAL VERSION THAT YOU HAVE - INSTEAD OF THE COLOR ROUGH. THE ORIGINAL IS FAR SUPERIOR TO THE COLOR ROUGH ARTISTICALLY, AND FROM THE POINT OF VIEW AS A " BETTER COVER". 

It took me a few minutes to answer because:
The sale was back in 1991 The auction catalog lots were ordered according to some secret sequence only understood by Jerry Wiest The tears I had to keep wiping away as I saw the amazing books and art that went for a pittance of what they would go for today I would think that the Frankenstein was pictured because it was graded nm and indicative of the high quality of that particular lot.  It only graded a 7.0 and the WTOF 8, part of this same lot, only graded 8.5.
The horror books were grouped into lots so it's certainly possible that some of these were lower graded items within the lot.  It's also possible that some damage occurred over the years as 50s books are definitely more susceptible to damage than their "big" GA brothers from the early 40s.

Very cool...thanks so much for sharing!  

An old favorite.

Correction.  Finished version is still available for purchase from Michael Gidwitz. 
 

This is the first time Warren ends up using an Enric preliminary painting for a cover when the finished painting wasn’t in house on time. The finished painting was up for sale at one point. Even finished, not what we expect from Enric. It happens again with Vampirella 32. 
While the Maroto debut is tied to a fairly mediocre script, it’s still exciting to see knowing what is to come. He was pretty well established in Europe at this point in 1971, having done quite a lot of spectacular work with Dracula and Five for Infinity being the most relevant to our crowd. 
 
I am always excited when there is a Bruce Jones art story,as it gets much rarer later as he transitions to writing primarily. I agree, Warren has repeatedly been able to reproduce pencil work brilliantly while few others were able to do it. 

Okay, that’s it for tonight. 10 Marines books tomorrow night, and a couple stragglers on Wednesday evening.
Thank you everyone for the takes and festivities!