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I've never seen this one-any details? Who published it and when? GREAT find! Thanks! It was published by the National Research Bureau of Chicago, which also published America Under Socialism. No date on it. Can't find any other information about it - unlisted in Guide. Never even knew this existed until I saw it. The guy I got it from got it 25 years ago from the CEO of a public utility. Maybe it was sent out as a sample for solicitation and never widely distributed? That is beyond cool. I thought I knew all of the A-bomb comics but this is one I haven't seen in 20+ years of actively looking for them. This is an amazing discovery.

I've never seen this one-any details? Who published it and when? GREAT find!

I had given up on this with not very much to go on until i came across this http://www.comiclink.com/Auctions/item.asp?back=%2FComicTrack%2FAuctions%2Fauctions%5Ffirst%2Easp&id=1119233 This book actually ticks all the boxes AND the cover has been used again on G.I.War Tales #3. That's a nice copy of a great book!

Congrats-That's an awesome book!

Nice pickup! I was tracking that one. This was my win:

That Tomb 8 is a cool book. Congrats, and welcome to the obsession! Once you start collecting PCH, you might never want to stop!

Nice pickup on the Flash 29. That's a challenging book in grade with that much white in the cover. Plus, you can't ever go wrong with a Moldoff cover!

Crazy stoked to pick this baby up! It was on my list of wants for this year:

Here is my contribution, and the best cover of the run, IMHO:

Jayman I haven't had a chance to read thru it yet but here's the splash page, a nice Grim Reaper infused with Powell goodness!

So, not technically PCH, but I really like the horror theme and I've been after one since seeing it in Gerber 20 years ago. No copies slabbed, but I'm not sure if that's because it isn't a high ticket item or just because it's so scarce:

I posted this over in the Ken Barr art thread-thought I might be appreciated here too:

HOW is this thread not getting any love today!?!

Thanks for sharing those, fifties. I don't have many from this title, but I actually recognize a couple of pages from the reprint/redrawn versions that were produced in the 70s.

Very sweet pickups! Congrats on the wins.

Those are two great books-I don't see Movie Comics 6 up for sale often at all, AND it's a cool early robot cover. That Wonderworld has to be the earliest pure horror cover. I paged thru the monthly newsstand on the Mike's Amazing website (which was fun, by the way, especially if you start with 1935 and watch how month by month the comics medium grew), and I found a few earlier with horror elements, but nothing that was a clear cut, definitive horror cover like that one. Maybe Detective Comics 6 would be a contender if the view were shifted 180 degrees so we could see what that was casting the menacing shadow (it almost looks ape like to me, but even then, would that be horror?). As a side note, I had to read up in the Twilight collection after seeing that slabbed Wonderworld, since I wasn't familiar with it and I'm starting to get interested in pedigrees. Awesome copy!

Gino one thing that the Our Flag has that I never noticed before this thread is the first comic appearance of my favorite horror trope: the hand coming out of the grave. That is one busy cover!

Bedrock that is a stunning book!

Corpses coming out of coffins? That qualifies! SS2 is great-the background details really make it awesome.

You know how you have seen something over a hundred times, but never really LOOKED at it? That was me with MM3. I never noticed the string of skulls-it's on my list now. That has to be one of the earliest by far. Thanks for the suggestion.

Since Eerie #1 is considered the first horror comic, even though there were precursors like Front Page Comic Book with its horror cover and some horror stories inside, here's a fun idea: post your opinion as to the first comic book horror cover. Does Captain America 17 count? What about Our Flag 5? Where did it all begin?

Great score-the grades on both look exceptional! That's what I get for focusing on PCH instead of upgrading DC war. The GIC is especially tough in high grade because the slightest imperfections show well against the dark background. Congrats on two great pickups.

That Beware 10 in 6.5 has the darkest blue I've ever seen for the background of that cover-looks awesome!

Funny that you brought up needing to own every copy of those two comics, because I've been wondering why I keep buying multiple copies of some books. It doesn't even matter if they are upgrades or not, it's like a compulsion. At least yours are considered classics-mine are 2nd tier but I love them! My obsessions are Beware 6, Chamber of Chills 23 (I had 5 at one point!), Mysterious Adventures 6, and Tomb of Terror 16. At least I can rationalize the ToT 16 because I own the cover...but no explanation why I have multiples of the others while not having gone after other more "classic" ones as aggressively.

Thanks for sharing the Mysterious Adventures run, Robot, that's a great series. My favorite is issue #6, and has been ever since I saw a photo of a high grade copy in the color section of the OPG over 30 years ago.