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Congrats on brining an example of this monster rarity back into the fold. It's just an outstanding trinket.

Here are a few more group shots: A lot of smaller publishers in this shot like Bart, Pony, Lion: A couple of my favorite Pockets in this shot - Red Harvest and Farewell My Lovely:

Yeah, there's sci-fi, horror, romance, humor, mystery - so many of the same genres as in comics, except superheroes. And there's GGA aplenty! The big difference being the classic covers are still affordable!

When I was re-bagging several boxes of my paperbacks earlier this year, I couldn't resist snapping some pics from the random piles. Unfortunately they are lower-res cell pics, but they still look kinda cool:

Church copy of a classic cover by way of the Berk collection: go heavy or go home.

I know next to nothing about guitars, except that they look totally bad-@ss! I wish I played... What year are these? Early 60's?

Good call and a great pick-up. It totally borrows from the Japanese tradition of woodcuts, and Berk provenance to boot.

Grail is right! I'm terribly sorry to disagree with your opening, but I consider this a "heavy-hitter" book. Congrats.

Totally cool books. Awesome that you posted them. I'm 99.9% sure I would've never seen them otherwise. The Crime Casebook reminds me of the detective mags of the 40's and 50's much more so than an American comic book of the same period. (And that Jo-Jo is over-the-top cool and presents so very well.)

I love the Red Ryders! Very cool looking books. Harman was such a stylized cartoonist. If you like his work, seek out a couple of his Sunday comic pages. They present really well and often feature larger panels and even splashes uncommon in other strips.

Don't give in to that sort of thinking!! It's a simple (if sobering) reality that fandom here assembled represents what appears to be a very wide range of budgets. I am as floored as the next boardie by the keys and bigger keys and higher-grade keys and so forth, but on some level, I really appreciate the stuff that the box-divers cull together on a more limited budget. Trust me: if I woke up tomorrow with the winning powerball ticket, darn straight you'd see me holding a mid to high-grade Marvel Comics 1, Cap 1 and Whiz 1 by this time next year, but it's the under-the-radar stuff that really makes me feel over and over again that this is one cool hobby. Remember the old adage that it's the $2 window at the racetrack that keeps it going. That having been pontificated upon to too fine a point, my three favorites on the year would probably all hail from this small group of books I bought from a friend, as this was a very modest year for me in comics. I'm going with the Buccaneers and Strange Suspense Stories in the top row and the Two-Fisted Tales in the second row.

Congrats! What a cool variation on a classic. That Planet is great too. Those later FH all have the richest color palette ever.

The bearer of this card witnessed the detonations of only the fourth and fifth atomic bombs in history at the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, per his participation in Operation Crossroads, in July of 1946. The first detonation of a nuclear device was the Trinity test of July 16, 1945, followed less than a month later by the bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The U.S.S. Haven was a hospital ship of the U.S. Navy and was the lead ship for medical experiments in the Atoll during the course of the atomic tests.

Mine too. There are just too many great Avon one-shots. They sometimes don't get their full due.

I'll heartily second that! He's been collecting stuff forever (sort of like you, RM) and I'm ready to see some of that stuff in color bigger than the small black-and-white pics which appeared in volume one of The Steranko History of Comics, in what was my first exposure to all those great pulps. Indeed, welcome.

Clearly I need a different mailman. ☺

This may be my favorite of the bunch. Lucy looks SO determined and mean. She's quite the killjoy.

I'm sure I'm in the minority, but in a run like this, 19 doesn't stand out as much. Sure it's a great cover, but I think 18 is almost as good. I know women-on-wheels is a genre in itself, so that helps, but there's so much skeletal goodness in the run that any cover could be considered a classic, or at least a great example of the horror genre. Superman 14 stands out so much because other covers have him dodging biscuits or sitting at a typewriter; Marvel Mystery covers blend together as they are all so epic (at least the war years). Runs like these perhaps suffer in the same way? The bar is so high, just like several of the EC runs.

I just love the colors on this book. Winter sunsets are on upon us, so I'm just trying to go with it. (Yes, I know, half of you live in the warm climes. I'm working on it...)

Very cool insight! He does loom rather large on the cover, doesn't he?

I have that and Crazy Clock but not Fish Bait, the toughest it seems in that trilogy of Marvin Glass games. I have Bang Box, Big Sneeze, Bask, Tip-It. Ker-Plunk and several more like those. All big space wasters but great memory triggers.