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[LOT] Thrilling Romances 8, 11, 17, 19 - $20Young Love 40, 41 - $5/ea Take all

Take all Young Romance copies remaining except for the dupes: in those cases just choose whatever copy you think best in hand.

This is a pretty obvious one among the Dells:

Great ones! I should’ve remembered those Atlas westerns.

This and Blue Beetle 54 immediately came to mind when I saw the title of the thread.

And this qualifies in the more abstract sense:

Pardon the later date on this one:

I had to dig this out of a “beater” - errr, well-loved - box:

Take ASM 160 and 169

Lots of good winter reading, in addition to the ones you mentioned. I had the most fun last week reading a bunch of Kit Colby - Girl Sheriff stories in some beater Jimmy Wakely’s I picked up here on the boards. I tried reading newer stuff like Secret Avengers, but I actually prefer that older oddball stuff.

So many great covers, from the simple line-drawn to the photo covers, but I have a soft spot for the painted covers and this one is really striking!!

Yeah, I was pretty amazed to see those Motor Age mags. When I was in college, I would always wander the stacks where the endless bound volumes were stored and pull out random tomes like Ariel Age, Scientific American, etc. They had it all - from automotive trade journals to farming to aviation to printing and so on. As for the poopy Chicago area winters, - yeah, mostly it'll be indoor shows for a while, and too many of them not worth going to unless you just want to hang out and talk to dealer friends and hear stories. It does make March all that more exciting, however.

I picked these 50’s comics up at a local antique show. These were reasonably priced; the other guys with comics were all priced at retail. I’m happy with these, and wonder what I missed, as it was a bit later in the show. As much as I like this vintage of comics, I'm equally or more excited by the junque in the second photo. You never find early auto mags like these Motor Age issues from 1907 and 1908, and while I’m probably the only sucker who’d buy that Bozo 78-rpm record set, I’m thrilled to be the sucker that bought that Frank “Bring ‘Em Back Alive” Buck pencil case!

Congratulations! In my world, that’s waaayyyy beyond a reader copy!

That piece was torn out at the printer when they trimmed the edges. Why can Promise books grade in the mid to high 9's with similar defects? This book will receive an 8.0 or higher I believe.

Also take MP 56 at 25% off

Take the following MP at 25%off - 26, 29, 32, 34, 35, 37, 39, 40.

The Fawcett sign refers to their line of paperbacks, hence the smaller bin (note that it has a postcard souvenir folder in it, which are roughly 4 x 6 inches). That style rack dates to the late 60’s to early 70’s. It’s a really cool find! My brother found one they were getting rid of at a 7-11 and carried it walking home from school. We had nowhere to put it, so it sat outside too long and rusted up. What a shame. I wish I had it now.

The other Church….

Yes and no. It depends on the era. I search MCS often for Dells and other 1950’s books. It’s not uncommon for them not to have a single issue in a whole run of an unremarkable, shorter title, and when they do have multiple issues, sometimes they grade no higher than G/VG. Just for kicks, look up Four Color and choose a chunk of fifty - say 151 to 200 - and look at how many holes there are. None of those books are rare, and few could even be considered remotely scarce. They’re just not trading hands at quite the clip of bronze and up.

Yep, I seem to recall having a similar reaction while the Avengers were fighting those alien hordes and the Hulk was running up buildings.

I checked out of most of these movies long ago when I sat gobsmacked watching Iron Man 3, with the seemingly endless and utterly gratuitous fight scenes, where more and more super-powered armored people kept arriving - "please, just make it stop," I thought to myself. And then those feelings were reinforced during Man of Steel when they punched each other through building after building for what seemed like half the movie. I suppose I should be grateful that the fodder for so many childhood memories is being mined like scorched earth by a vacuous and desperate Hollywood, but somewhere along the way as that freight train gained momentum, the plot too often seemed like an afterthought.

I think that's who I was thinking of!

And who do you think it looks like?? James Coburn?