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    Show me your Timely's and I'll show you mine. Have a Cigar...

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    On 11/23/2022 at 5:38 AM, Frisco Larson said:

    WoW!!! Incredible as always!!! I'm on my phone, so not as large an image, but the pencil marking on the 54 looks VERY similar to the Gilboy "G" penciled on many San Francisco copies, except for the fact that the bottom of the letter isn't fully closed. Given the nature of how they'd have likely been hastily marked, it might indeed be a Frisco. The Riley ink stamp on the back covers were consistent thru mid 1943, with VERY few after that time as I recall, so this not having that stamp WOULD be consistent with all of my research. At any rate, it's a spectacular copy! (thumbsu

     wondered that.. The date stamp here on this Torch 8 looks reminiscent to a SF... Thoughts?

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    Show me your Timely's and I'll show you mine. Have a Cigar...

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    On 10/27/2022 at 4:45 AM, Frisco Larson said:

    I talked with Ricky for quite a while today, having a great conversation about artwork and Timelys and he mentioned the same guy you mentioned (I don't know Alex Acevedo) and also having seen some the Church Timelys. Although John himself did tell me that not all of the Church Timelys are high grade, I bet even the issues that are technically below high grade standards are amazingly sharp and beautiful!!! To hold a raw one is to understand. I've only had about a half dozen or so raw Church copies and they were outstanding to hold!! 

    I got to know Alex around the late 80's and at that time he had bought about 40 drawings from me from my studio, unfortunately I didn't start recollecting comics until a few years later and John grabbed all the Mile Highs from him already. I think a few also turned up at that first Sotheby's sale like the Cap 7 if my memory is right.  Alex traded everything, from diamonds to African Totems to real estate. But it seemed his main passion was for American art, specifically American Naturalist landscape painting as in the Hudson River School. I wonder where he is now and if anyone here might know?

     

    Show me your Timely's and I'll show you mine. Have a Cigar...

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    On 10/24/2022 at 4:40 PM, Frisco Larson said:

    I always meant to ask you Ricky, did you ever get to see many/any of the Church Timelys in person?

    I would agree that John's Timely collection would blow even the Promise books out of the water. If graded today many would be serious 9.8's.  I had the opportunity to see some of the Church copies when Alex Acevedo from the Alexander Gallery had them. He used to have his Gallery on Madison Ave. in the late 80's and early 90's. He  exhibited  illustration art as well as fine art then and had one of the first if not the first one person exhibitions of Frank Frazetta and H.R. Giger. 

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    Show me your Timely's and I'll show you mine. Have a Cigar...

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    On 10/23/2022 at 1:33 AM, Frisco Larson said:

    Wow Steven, those are incredible!  (worship) I'm particularly amazed by the page from the second story in Captain America #6!!! What a great highlight in your museum quality Captain America comic collection!!! There is SO little Timely artwork out there and what IS out there appears to be locked down. Thanks so much for sharing this!!!  :applause:

    Thank you so much for those kind words. Cap was my favorite superhero as a kid... maybe because he was the only one my Dad and I could both relate to. I bought a ton or art in the early 70's but then sold it with my comics later on during  college for a months rent and a couch. It wasn't until the 90's that I started collecting again with my kids. Here are  a few Timely's in 9.6 in a group shot..

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