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There's also the Route 66 aspect as well. Joplin is pretty far west and very close to Oklahoma, and 66 was the lifeblood for both states.

Nice group, RM. I would've kept them all! The beer lot above has some standouts for sure - the Apache, the Hamms/Old Derby, and the Tivoli. Great stuff!

A mighty fine grouping, Batman Fan. At least four of those books I recall from the O'Brien book, The Golden Age of Comic Books: the Mystery Men, the awesome Green Giant, the Hit 9 and the Wonderworld. And no doubt the Tecs, the SS, the LT1 and the other Hit are right at home.

Did you do it with the Overstreets? The early editions had the choicest books, while the later ones started to include more obscure gold and eventually more silver and bronze. OS 6 starts off with Action 1, Adventure 61, All-American 16 and All-Star 4. How's THAT for a line-up? As for my picture, I think you nailed it - at least as I see it. Looking at the bottom row, I guess the DeCarlo guys might like that Irma, and Walt Kelly fans might prefer the Easter Parade. The True Secrets has an Everett cover and there's even a Kurtzman for the EC fans.

I also like old billhead and letterhead. Early ones like this are a bit tougher to find, but there's tons of stuff available from after the Civil War, often under ten bucks.

I love old books that deal with American history: [ Frontispiece and title page from volume 1 of Chief Justice John Marshall's biography of George Washington - published by James Crissy in 1832, on the 100th anniversary of Washington's year of birth.

Sort of like what Dusty Baker did with Kerry Wood and Mark Prior for the Cubbies?

Yep, just another non-descript, recent auction. Nothing to see here...

Great card!! Isn't it insane to think of the workloads of those great pitchers of yesteryear in the era before pitch counts? That's some crazy strain on the arm, man.

Wow, Nerv, we definitely have some overlap when it comes to toys we had as a kid! Are you going to bust out Maskatron or Evel's Stunt Cycle next? I can only imagine how long it would take to find one of THESE with all the pieces. Patience, patience...

Wow... That's the sort of collection I'd expect to see in a museum, not private hands. Bravo!

Who painted that dust jacket? It's a very cool illustration.

You can find some pretty cool graphics on old matchbook covers. If you look on the left, you can see a cover from Mickey Mantle's Holiday Inn in Joplin, Missouri:

Good call - definitely painted. Here's the May 1945 pulp featuring the same painting - one of my favorite romance pulps: Though this one MAY be my favorite:

By the way, this reminds me: the other day I was looking thru a stack of miscellaneous newspaper comics and guess who I spotted in an early 1935 Mickey Mouse Sunday tab? None other than Donald looking every bit like he did in The Wise Little Hen. It's sort of a bonus, just like spotting the Yellow Kid in one of the later Buster Brown strips:

No, but I'm pretty sure that one has one of the best Louise Alston double-page illustrations of the run.

Barks was a genius, no doubt. Artists like him and Walt Kelly especially dumbfound me: somehow, someway, they intuitively knew how to draw anthropomorphic animals and make them look picture perfect. I admire everyone from Alex Raymond to Dave Stevens, Will Eisner to Milton Caniff - but somehow the funny animals seem less intuitive... more of a reach. I'm not explaining it right, but I hope you know what I'm referring to.

C'mon, though, Donald Finds Pirate Gold?? That was one of the big, big books back then. Everything Donald was hot then - Tells about kites, the March of Comics, the Firestone giveaways. Great stuff. If I may, did you manage to hang on to the Four Color?

That's a truly cool, targeted collection. I definitely lack the discipline to pursue something so diligently. I'm guessing many of the film titles deviate slightly from their book inspirations? For instance, I see a "From Emperor to Citizen" which I'm guessing became "The Last Emperor."

Well, if you're only going to have a few, that's a pretty iconic one to have!! Congrats. I'm an EM guy myself, and if I could find an original by Roy Parker, I might even tap into my stockpile of flaky backglasses for trade bait.

I too have been bitten by the pinball bug. I have an El Dorado but it sure isn't restored. I have many projects to keep me busy someday. Right next to El Dorado is a Drop-a-Card: I've had new drop targets for it for over ten years and STILL haven't gotten to it. If you've been to Pinball Expo in Chicagoland, we've probably seen each other...

Really colorful and fun display piece! And I didn't even know they slabbed vintage video games. Does whether or not they work factor into the grade they receive?

I don't have to know WHAT I am looking at to like it! p.s. What AM I looking at?? Spanish colonial?

And who among us could blame you?? That first great battle looms large in our collective (geek) memory. Back in the 70's, the whole gamut of Godzilla versus (insert monster) movies were must sees on late night TV for our whole neighborhood!

You have a lot of tonnage there. I'd hate to be your friend if moving day ever rolls around... Of immediate note are several Archives and Omnibuses such as Legion and Doom Patrol as well as those Tomb of Dracula's. All good reads. I really wanted to buy that monstrous Nemo book when I first saw it, but then I spied the 75 Years of Marvel Comics and had to choose. Someday...