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I think this is one of the best John Dickson Carr/Carter Dickson covers in Pocket Books. Pocket got a little more experimental and daring starting in the very late 1940's This is 1949 by Louis Glanzman, who did some cool comic book work (along with his brother, Sam Glanzman) but this is just a really nice composition and detail execution
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What’s the cheapest anyone’s seen AC 1 or DC 27
Surfing Alien replied to NoMan's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
Wow... My Friends Bookstore... it was an incredible place for kids in Flatbush back then. Always hated that they price marked all the comics they had in the bins in the corner where the CCA stamp was. You could always tell a book that came from there by the magic maker price in the corner. I have a friend who still has his whole childhood collection including hundreds of those books. For years they had a copy of All Star #36 with the Superman Batman cover on top in the glass case up front where they kept the good stuff. I assembled a collection of Spider-Man back to #2 and FF back to #3 from that case. They're long gone but I still remember what they looked like. The bookstore on 86th Street was a similar type place. I think it was near 20th or 21st Avenue. It was still there into the 90's and they had a significant back stock of the Marvel Key Golden Record Reprints for $15-$25 each depending on how the owner felt that day. They must have been from a warehouse as they had dozens of them. I bought several of each back then, including some NM ones, and used them for trade bait. They also still had random hoards of 60's Marvels - I remember a short box of Marvel Superheroes #12 & Ghost Rider (1967) #1's that I picked some out of. I still have one of the Ghost Rider #1's. At the Seuling shows in the mid 70's , we considered it a "good show" if you saw Action 1 and/or Detective 27 there, which was quite often. They were in the several hundreds of dollars and up range at the time. One time a guy was showing a dealer a stack of books, each separated by a piece of cardboard. He started flipping the cardboards over one at a time and we were amazed to see 2 copies of Detective 27 in a row. I'd love to know where they are now. -
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I was raised on the FF in the Silver Surfer age... and I play a little gitar as well... so... Have a great time at the show... sounds killer!
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It's definitely a wild composition - Ironjaw, The Statue of Liberty, and... The He-She... What the heck is going on there??!!
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