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Jayman-yes, that one is in my collection. WWT was a title that I aggressively went after when I first got into original art. Before I diversified my collection I had about 20% of the non-Kubert covers (all but a couple of Kubert covers are still with the Kubert family). I've still got this one and George Evans' cover to WWT 18, plus about a dozen Death full page intro splashes.

Great books Jeffro! WWT 27 is hands down my favorite Dominguez cover. I've been searching for the original art for 20 years, and the closest I've come is this prelim:

Love it! After the first thirty or so issues, I've found that the ones that really stand out were by Kubert. That's hardly surprising, but a lot of his WWT covers were better than the ones he was doing over at his signature title, Sgt Rock.

That is such a cool cover!

So much cool stuff about this cover-It really hits on all cylinders-the color scheme, the composition, Elias' attention to detail (the shadow cast by one of the dancing skeletons onto the tombstone is a particularly nice touch). Congrats!

Ghosts is probably my 2nd favorite DC horror title, closely behind Weird War Tales. And those covers...man! Cardy for the start, Dominguez for most after that...really great work. And your copies showcase them very well-I've never seen such nice copies of black covers!

Congrats on a great book-TOUGH in grade, like all Farrells!

Absolutely PCH, and awesome! I was tracking this one. It's one of the best covers in the run IMHO.

This one should be in my hands next week. I've liked this cover ever since seeing it in Mike Benton's book on Horror Comics.

Depends on how gritty you like your war comics. DC has their Archive and Showcase reprints which have all of the Sgt Rock, Enemy Ace and Unknown Soldier issues reprinted. For more intense stuff I'd pick up Ennis' War Stories TPBs. The are really great.

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Well, I've just cancelled prior plans for Sunday. Looking forward to buying some Big5 books!

Shep! That's some cool data. I'd love to see what the profit spreadsheet looked like for these titles too, since per your example, in 1968 when OFF was over 50% the talent pool was Kubert, Grandenetti, Andru/Espo, Heath, Novick...by the end the % sold might have been lower but that was when the artists in the Phillipines were being paid a lot less. By the end the only big names left were Kubert on the covers and Glanzman on some of the interiors. Everything else was overseas talent or Kubert School students. I'm betting they were still making good bank on them at cancellation, just not AS GOOD as the long underwear titles. It's a shame; like you said, those numbers would be very impressive today.

I generally prefer to stay in the vg-vf range of comics, but I jumped at this one because Adventure 36 is STUPID rare. I agree that the "safari" covers should be broken out in OPG as well. But this one particularly is impossible to find. Fun fact: there are twice as many copies of Double Action 2 in the census as there are Adventure 36. Remove the Church copy of 36, and you drop down to 2 copies, one at 5.5 and the other at 4.0. Compare that to #35 with 10 copies, and #37 (my favorite non-hero DC) with 15....where are all the copies of 36?

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I've been looking for a copy of this book for just shy of forever. Glad to have picked it up, even if it isn't going to win any beauty pageants!

Tough book in grade esp with that page quality, since most copies I've seen are prone to chipping. GLWS.

Did anyone catch this one last week? Talk about a hot book! $90 OPG in 6.0 and it goes for:

Congrats on a great book! The colors on this one look really sharp.

The mailman delivered this early Christmas present to me today:

Great cover-FYI also one that the original art is still floating around for.

As mentioned earlier, luckily a lot of the Harvey covers survived:

Love it! I'm about halfway thru putting this run together, and so far all of the issues have great content and most of the covers are cool too, this one included.

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