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Yeah, Elvgren seems to have emerged as the most iconic of that Big 3 of pin-ups: Petty, Vargas, and Elvgren. That would've been unheard of in the 70's when Esquires were hotly collected and almost nobody even knew who he was. His style is so whimsical and his women so vivacious. Great stuff.

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When compared to Gold Key books, Severin looks like Albrecht Durer. Don't get me wrong: it's tough to beat a Gold Key painted cover, but the interior art is pretty basic.

Without a doubt! I was looking at some Wyatt Earp's today and thinking the same thing. I had first laid out a trio of Maneely Earp's and marveled at their graphic punch, and then a trio of Severin Earp's and drank deep of their grace and craftsmanship.

Issue 17 is shown, not 16 as noted in the text. Great looking copy for the grade, by the way. GLWTS!!

Number 5 has long been a favorite of the genre for me as well.

I'll open for $50 to get things rolling.

The above proposition makes me cringe!!

I'll also take World's Finest 134 at 40% off

Please add Iron Man 58 to my stack at 40% off

Love it. This is spot on, as are all your observations. Run collecting isn't done, and it never will be for me, and I'd wager many others. I still get a thrill of filing away something like a 10 or 12c Tomahawk which fills in a run of eight to ten unbroken issues, or maybe even thirty issues. Then it's on to that missing issue of Strange Adventures, or as you saw, Mystery In Space - or a Superboy, Blackhawk, Jimmy Olsen, or perhaps a missing Adventure featuring the Legion... The non-key covers present a similarly pleasurable assault on your visual cortex every time you pull one out of the box, especially a dinosaur or gorilla cover. Or maybe even a Gold Key painted cover. Comics are perfect little time capsules which fuel memory bubbles.

This assortment proves what you're saying - that there are always deals to be found if you look. There's not a book here that won't be fun to plop down in a chair and savor over.

So cool, and so painful at the same time! I can only imagine what sort of goodies are in those boxes! Man, those were great years to be collecting comics.

Boy, is there ever a tantalizing assortment of golden age here: Captain America 13, Fantastic 1, Powerhouse Pepper 1, great Schomburg Mystery run, Raboy Bulletman, Real Life 3, Blue Ribbon, plenty of Marvel Mystery - even a Capt. Marvel Fun Book on the bottom row! Thanks for the report, Bob! I hope you did well at the show.

I'll take the JLA 110, 112, 116, 142; What-If 5, 8, 9A, 21; Unexpected 23.

I know I should be more excited about Down With Crime... Oh, and that Thrilling Wonder has a great cover - all those nasty little gnomes attacking our fair damsel. Great stuff, and GLWTS!!

Wacky Duck infinity cover (swoon)

Dunwich Horror...

Great thread with stellar books! I learned stuff just looking through the thread.

I'm glad there was finally a reason for saving them all these years! I've probably had them for forty years. Now all I have to do is convince my wife of the utility of having all the other stuff...

Miracle of miracles, I stumbled across one of the aforementioned order forms this past weekend (I would've thought them buried for much, much longer). I'm guessing this was a smaller newsstand - Cerres Confectionery? - but I hope the relative number of copies ordered is of interest to the casual comic historians among you. Strange that I don't see Superman listed, but this group was stapled together so I'm hopeful no sheets were missing. I'll cross-check with one of the other receipt bundles when I find it.

How can it possibly be the best? I used to be able to buy books for 50c to $10 that now cost hundreds. I know an argument can be made for stellar performing stocks being the equal or greater to comics even at the low, low prices in the 70's and 80's, but still - can we really expect that Jetta, Millie the Model, LB Cole, Matt Baker, pretty much any PCH and flamethrower covers to continue to appreciate at anything close to the current rates?? Collect what you like AND what you can afford and don't sweat the long-term prospects as much.

I pretty much do the same. I'll save you a couple minutes at least - first issue of Auto with a cover by movie poster artist Reynold Brown:

Cool! Thanks for saying so!