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Hey Chris, you mean something like this?? Except have Fin Fang Foom vs Tim Boo Ba? A Pre-Hero Celebrity Death Match? Gargantus vs Monstrollo! Gorgilla vs Gor-Kill Rrro vs Colossus! Dang, that'd be SWEET!

Those AAFs are SPECTACULAR. You just rarely see them in any decent grade. Thanks for sharing, Adam! Keep them coming!

Botched tape removal attempt. Amazing Adventures #1. no, not the Bronze Age one. The OTHER one. It was a long time ago. It had tape on it and I tried to remove it. I learned the hard way that it's best to leave it on there. And looking back, I have no idea WHY I tried to remove it. I have other books with tape and didn't try to remove them. Aaaarrrrrgggghhhhhh. Ah well. Live and learn.

Yes, those are super suh-weeet. Say Adam, be sure to let me know when you get tired of those and want to pass them along. Wowsee wow wow. I'm still droolin' !

Um, nice books (we need a graemlin for drooling)

Kudos to Red Hook for a absotively, positutely freakin' gorgeous Amazing Adventures 3.

Muchas Gracias to Mephisto for a nice raw mid-grade Strange Tales 89!

Overdue Kudos to: Sfilosa for selling me some of his nice pre-hero books Blazing_Bob for the same reason Red Hook for the same reason Chromium for buying some decent mid-grade Silver from me Fantasyfootballbono for buying a couple slabbed Spideys There will be others.....

I always wondered if Reinman inked a few of those covers....

Yo, yo, yo! Props to the Prototypes....

CONGRATS on 1,000 JAYMAN!!! And great books! We love em all, mint, beat, fugly, it's allllll good!

Another recent acquisition:

Here's another recent acquisition courtesty of blazing bob.... (thanks Bob!)

dum dee dum dee dum .... let's see, what else do we have around here..... Oh, here's a recent acquisition from the vault:

mmmm ok, if you insist....

Yes it is. Toss another rock in the crack pipe.....

Oh, and a couple of those books had higher reserves than I really wanted to go for given what I'd already spent. Maybe I'll bid on 'em next time they come up.

Thanks Steve! I had to stop somewhere so I picked the books I reeeaaaalllly wanted. Plus I just picked up a few books from Blazing Bob. So now I've gotta sell some stuff.... It's a vicious cycle, this collecting sickness, ain't it??

Keeping the thread ALIVE!!

Strange Tales 72 was actually the first time Kirby and Ditko worked on the same story, "I Fought the Colossus"

Strange Tales 67 and Journey Into Mystery 50, right?

My name is Victor J. Avewy, Millionaire, I own a mansion and a yacht and a serum that lets you live fowever but turns you into a howwible cweature!

OK, Pre-Hero Fans, here's the Synopsis: ***SPOILER WARNING*****SPOILER WARNING**** Victor Avery is a rich, handsome, successful scientist, who always gets what he wants. He invents a serum that will allow plants to live forever (how he knows this, we'll never know....) but transforms them into hideous, monstrous versions of themselves. Of course, he moves on to test it on animals and so he gives the serum to his unsuspecting housecat (where's the SPCA when you need 'em) which again, gives it eternal life (sez him), but turns it into a hideous cat creature. Well, being the quintessential scientist, Victor knows the only thing to do now is to find a human to test it on! But as he laments, "Now the final test would be to give it to a human. But how? Nobody would allow themselves to be turned into a monster, not even to live forever!" Ah, but Victor wil soon prove himself wrong. He is smitten by a local debutante who then rebuffs him to marry "a penniless engineer!" However, Hell hath no fury like a rich, handsome, successful scientist scorned and so Victor decides to use the serum on himself (gasp!) in order to carry out his revenge on the woman who rejected him! After all, he reasons, after he has his revenge, he'll have eternity to work on a serum that will reverse the process (hmm, you'd think maybe he'd want to have that done first....). So Victor consumes his serum, which turns him into a hulking monster (hmm, perhaps this is closer to a Hulk Prototype story than its given credit for!!) who searches across the country for this penniless engineer (at first Victor said he was going to take revenge on his girlie because "if I can't have her, no one will!" but later decides that "if not for the other man, she woudl have been mine! So I will remove the other man!"). Apparently the serum also turns you into a murderous stalker! Victor searches the country for Engineer Bill and his new wife (no Google back then), and soon the world hears of this hideous, unstoppable monster that travels only at night, thus dubbed "The Midnight Monster". As word travels, people try to stop him. His super strength allows him to uproot trees, withstand bullets and even shrug off bazookas from the local army! He even destroys their tanks with his bare hands! Wow, that's some serum!!!! So the army issues a challenge to him, saying they have a ray gun that can defeat him and dare him to pit his power against theirs in a showdown in the outskirts of Los Alamos! But our monsterous protagonist shows up and when he stands in front of the vaunted ray gun, the ground beneath him gives way and he falls into "the world's deepest hole". As our story closes out, the army battalion comments that "If he really is immortal, he'll be Alive when he hits bottom." "But he'll be so far down, it'll take AGES for him to crawl to the surface again". They give their thanks to a man, saying "not many men could engineer the world's deepest hole in so short a time! You're a fine techinician, son." And of course, this brilliant hole-engineer turns out to be none other than Bill! We close to see our former protagonists gal standing with Bill the engineer looking into the hole, saying "You know Bill, I wonder about the monster, I mean, I wonder who he really was?" But of course, wise Bill says "no on knows, honey! And I guess now...nobody will EVER know!" THE END! Interestingly, this is considered a "Mr. Hyde Prototype" and it does mimic the Mr. Hyde concept, but the creature also has a lot in common with the Hulk. In any case, fun stuff!