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Nice!

Sweet!

Just in bin, another motorcycle score via eBay. Thanks (again) Blissard!

Gosh darn it, someone sell me an Irma #16! I've always liked that cover too Robot Man.

Indeed, congrats. I really wanted the #32. #60 and #64 in that auction. Wound up with just the #60 - just didn't bid high enough and they slipped away. Who knows when a #32 and #64 will turn up again?

Don't a couple of those issues contain Mickey Spillane stories - Mike Danger (who would evolve into Mike Hammer). Pretty cool for stuff for the history buffs.

A little harder than I thought to force into just 10! I think we have to give some extra credit to superheros, but with I think a total of 5 different books with Captain America and a motorcycle had to trim a few of those out. Path4Play 1 Captain America Comics #27 2 All-Winners Comics #12 3 Fight Comics #23 4 Action Comics #76 5 Mystic #10 6 Murder Incorporated #14 7 Action Comics #66 8 America's Best Comics #26 9 Rangers #18 10 Batman #25 Honorable mention goes to The Fighting Yank #27 and Batman #34. Here was BB-Gun's list from earlier post 1-Cap 27 2-Cap 41. 3-All Winners 12 4-All Select 4 5-Batman 25 6-Mystic 10 7-Crack 9 8-Charlie Chan 6 9-Star Spangled 7 10-Black Cat 1.

Just in bin from Comic Connect. Not a top 10, but I think I've seen enough now to make my picks list this weekend.

That's a beautiful book for sure.

I hadn't heard of "The Brain" before. Interesting he chooses to roll into battle shirtless? A trait also shared by Thunderfist apparently Here is my "this just in from eBay" book. One I hadn't seen before... and interestingly purchased from a Canadian.

This is in my top ten. One of the cool things I find about the Golden Age books is doing some background research. I found the motorcycle shown may well have been a “Type 97.” These motorcycles were built in Japan and were derived directly from the Harley-Davidson Road King. During the height of the Great Depression, Sankyo Company purchased both a licence for the design and equipment for manufacturing it from Harley-Davidson in 1932. Production began in 1933 at a factory near Tokyo, Japan with Harley-Davidson employees on-site as consultants. But Japan’s increasingly militaristic government soon forced the Harley-Davidson employees to leave the country. These bikes proved popular and Sankyo Company named its motorcycle producing subsidiary “Rikuo,” translating roughly into “Road King.” The 4-cycle, 1200 cc, side-valve V-twin engine generated 28 horsepower with a top speed of 97 km per hour. Rikuo built approximately 18,000 motorcycles between 1937 and 1942. Sidecar versions were made for military work and saw active duty in China as soon as they were introduced in 1933. They also saw combat in the Philippines. Solo machines were supplied to civilian police forces. Production would continue right up to the end of the WWII. After a two-year pause, the Rikuo company resumed production of motorcycles in 1947, but the Type 97 design was not among those built. In 1951, under the new ownership of Showa Corporation, Rikuo resumed production of the “Type 97″ Road King design for the civilian market.

Good question. I've often wondered about the grin that Schomburg plastered on Cap's face. 6.5 - nice. That beats my well loved, taped copy by a few points.

In issue #13 artist Lee Elias is featured in a full page biography on the inside cover that states he “worries about faithful reproduction of the latest car models." Thankfully that dedication to the craft expanded into Hollywood models and motorcycle models as well! Black Cat might win for a comic series with the most motorcycles pictured?

I'm going to toss Rangers 18 into the mix.

These just in and out of the cgc box today!

Sorry about crazy large images, figuring this out. This one has "moving parts" too

Thanks for the welcome Robot Man. Indeed, some great "Wheel Men" covers there, even saw a couple I own (Undercover Girl, Cookie, Fight 23, Action 76, Fighting Yank 27). Been looking for that America's Best 26 for several years now...

Wow! I had not seen Mystic 10 before, pretty intense!

I've gotten into collecting some Golden Age covers featuring motorcycles. Cleary Captain America Comics #27 is #1 but wondering who has candidates to fill out the rest of the top 10?