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Very nice copy. Last book before the reprints started (albeit with great covers), then a brief sputtering gasp of new material, and finally with #73, no more. I didn’t mean that to sound so gloomy!

So I guess that means: no deal.

How about my Science 4 for your Punch 12?

If it's Saturday it must be Science!

Hi Jon! Thanks for humoring me! At least I know one person out there is willing to indulge this silliness!

If it’s Friday it must be Fantastic!

Zolnerowich endorses this post!

3rd appearance of The Batman + 2nd cover appearance of The Batman + 1st mad-scientist/super-villain encountered by The Batman = (Double posted from The Pre-Robin Tec Club)

If it's Thursday it must be Thor!

If it's Wednesday it must be Wonderworld!

Cool pickup, well worth the 6-year wait!

It perhaps goes without saying that this my favorite of your three recent slabs.

As they say, buy the book not the... oh, wait. Forget that.

In an alternate universe, yes. But in this one, no.

Meanwhile, a battle of the wits over AMF 2/5...

I can only dream of those long-ago fabled days. You guys actually lived it!

Why so serious jolly, Blue Beetle?

Here is some backstory on the books, for anyone able to stay awake: DETECTIVE 35 The 35 was an “accidental” purchase. I was following a bunch of books in an HA auction 2-3 years ago, probably some Planet Comics or Lou Fine awesomeness, which was my main collecting focus at that time. Previously I’d acquired some of the Batman Joker issues, and had always fancied a pre-Robin Detective Comics, but figured it would never happen, so didn’t generally keep those books on my radar. And then, the live HA auction was underway, book after book rolling out, and I see a couple of the Tecs coming up. And I see the 35 sitting at a not-insane price. I think, wow! for Tec 35 that seems darn reasonable! So the book comes up on the auction block, and I figure, well, let’s throw down one bid, just so I can say I was in the game. A few seconds later.. you know how the story ends. An unexpected load on the finances, and Mrs. Zolnerowich wasn’t pleased! Fortunately, she got over it, kind of. DETECTIVE 29 I have to thank @Gotham Kid for his spiritual guidance on this one. I’d been able to save up some moolah and decided there was no time like the present to buy another pre-Robin Tec. I’d come across a Tec 31 with a married centerfold and trimmed pages. Tempting, sort of, though the resto/ct was not all that precise. Somehow, as luck would have it, I stumbled across a Tec 29 on MyComicShop, and after some back and forth with the kind proprietor of MCS, ended up with the book at a pretty reasonable price. Having read through this thread from page 1, it’s clear that there’s the 29-ers and the 31-ers. For me, 29 wins the day, for its pulp-Gothic combination of bats in front of a full moon, a turbaned henchman giant disarmed of his knife, an array of beakers, flasks, potions, and condensing tubes, the skull, the book of dark arts, the menacing orb and nozzle, the monocled lunatic doctor, and of course The Batman in skinny mode with long ears and the tremendous wing span.

On the occasion of my 2,000th post, it seems like an opportune time to apply for membership in this august club. Here are my two purple tickets:

That — is — awesome.

Thanks for sharing RM! That Liquid Man is somethin’ else!

Agreed. This book (clearly) is very tough in grade, and is arguably one of Joe Simon’s best covers for Victor Fox, if not one of the best of the 1939-1940 Fox books.

Cool backstory about your acquisition of #49. And interesting tidbits about the story pertaining to the cover, courtesy of comics.org: Batman's Arabian Nights! -script ? Pencils Bob Kane Inks Charles Paris Color ? Letters Ira Schnapp Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [ Grayson]; Professor Carter Nichols; The Crier (introduction); Caliph Haroun-Al-Raschid (villain, introduction) Synopsis Spotting what they think is the Joker's face on an ancient rug, Batman and Robin are sent into Arabia of the past where they meet the Crier, who uses tears, not laughter, to steal from the people of his day.

FedEx? You are clearly in the inner circle. My catalog arrives by freight train.