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Ray Bolger cover swipe!

Nice, I picked up a few too. I'll rescan when they come in as these scans look uniformly a bit flat so I suspect they'll be a bit brighter in hand. I picked up my first Dime. This is my Galaxy S9+ straight up with no manipulation. It's very vibrant and a sick, twisted cover! Where's that little rail car going?

100% I'd be so happy to have such a bright, flat copy in my box. CGC might actually consider overhang like marvel chipping the more I think about it.

My Argosy stack got a boost in the mail... I'm loving the Zorro but the Franco firing squad stapled wartime cover is amazing. It really feels like a golden age comic.

I'm going out on a limb here because i'm new at this so this will be good for my edumacation. I'd say Fine -/Fine? It looks very fresh and bright and would probably be Fine/VF if not for the torn up overhang. Unless the overhangs are going to be treated like bindery chips. It's way better than a vg but I don't think you can call it Fine or better. If CGC does start to grade these, they're going to have to take a stand.

I'll take it

I'll take it

These just in, I think Wolf Trap Blonde is at the top of the Quarter Books heap with a classy cover composition by George Gross. It's one that never shows up so I had to have it. Infidelity shows up in the Novel Library version but you don't see the Diversey Broadway Novel digest around, especially this clean.

Picked up an insane upgrade copy of one of his rare and best Good Girls this week.

Also has the same type of art composition that some of the late Wings GGA comic books have

It's ingenious how those gold silk space bra's filter the Martian air

I'm really digging the aviation pulps. Not something I thought I would but they are even more amazing when you get them in hand!

Cross posting this here in case any Peanuts fans want this knowledge. I picked up an upgrade of the 1st edition, 1st printing of Snoopy. I snapped the copyright page for reference for anyone who might want to know what differentiates it from the dozens of printings it went through. It's gotta have the Rinehart "R". I have a little write up from various sources that removes some of the confusion surrounding the True First editions of the Peanuts books. I may post it or send it if anyone wants to put this tough run together. They kind of fall in the no man's land between comics and paperbacks so haven't been covered in the usual places.

Picked up an upgrade of the 1st edition, 1st printing of Snoopy. I snapped the copyright page for reference for anyone who might want to know what differentiates it from the dozens of printings it went through. It's gotta have the Rinehart "R".

Beautiful! The Berkley series has grown on me. I never had many of them when I first collected pb's but i've picked up quite a few for my current collection. I'll try to dig out a few later.

Yeah, you just have to scroll through them a lot when you see them. I have picked up a few others besides those two sports covers I posted. This is certainly the only Argosy I have seen with a bare breasted woman on the cover! Combined with a giant octopus and the cover 1st appearance of a major Fantasy author's most famous work, it's a triple play

Thanks. Yeah, i got some things from him off eBay and have corresponded a bit with him by email. I really should get an autograph on something but I'm trying not to be too much of a fanboy. It's hard when you've admired someone's work since you were a teenager like I was when I bought Howard the Duck #1 and Dr. Strange books off the newsstand!

One of the first comic books I bought off the newstand was a Frank Brunner Dr. Strange so i'm honored to have acquired Franks personal copy of Argosy with Abraham Merritts Dwellers in the Mirage. From what I understand it's a hard copy to find in nice shape...

Another very stylistic Robert Maguire Bondage cover. There's quite a few cover gems in the Monarch series. The William Ard PBO's are cool as well. Started reading one and they move pretty quick if you know what I mean. I find the '60's fine drawn covers very appealing. Babe in the Woods is Harry Schaare. Make Mine Mavis is Lou Marchetti. And So to Bed is Marchetti also. Since she's a Jazz Club Girl I'm assigning this one to my JD collection

I think my brain just exploded! Killer books & great history right there

I love MMM's. Here's a couple of classics...

I'm reading Poul Anderson's Captive of the Centaurianess in the March '52 Planet right now. It's funny and definitely a breezier, more compelling read than some of the others.

Plus they're relatively affordable so you can get the satisfaction of putting a run together.

Psyched that i'm closing in on the whole Anderson Space Babe run... Love this style...

Let's just say you and Pat have exceedingly good taste. And love that hell of a row of spines there!