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Fight Comics #12 Splash page: Spencer Steel

Fight Comics #12 Splash page: Strut Warren

Fight Comics #12 Splash page: Rip Regan The Power Man (from the cover)

Fight Comics #12 Splash page: Oran of the Jungle

Fight Comics #12 Splash page: Kinks Mason

Fight Comics #12 Splash page: Joe Gans

Fight Comics #12 Splash page: Spy Fighter

Fight Comics #12 Splash page: Shark Brodie (George Tuska)

Fight Comics #12 Splash page: Chip Collins

My first book in hand for 2019! FUN FACT: This was a Yorba Linda purchase, without having to visit Yorba Linda, courtesy of @Forbush-Man, who had mentioned on the boards a few days before Terry's show that he would be bringing a nice set of Fiction House comics. PM was sent. Forbush delivered! We saw a copy of this book that @mwotka posted here a couple weeks ago. The colors on his copy really sing! I'm happy to have landed a copy. Will post some splash pages of this neat book soon.

Very interesting thread discussion. Put 10 boardies in a room, get 10 different definitions... How to define mega key? I guess everyone thinks of this as more than simply a "classic" cover or storyline. In the context of fiction novels, Gulliver's Travels, Wuthering Heights, Huckleberry Finn, etc., are "mega keys", as these have stood the test of time. Which I guess means people still read these books and still pay to read these books (or put in an effort to go to the library to read these books). With only 85-ish years of the comic book, we don't have much of a time span to assess whether these have stood (and will stand) the test of time. I like Junkdrawer's definition of "mega key" as a book introducing a landmark first appearance. But this still leaves open all sorts of exceptions and loopholes, e.g., Hulk #180(181) is a Bronze Age book that becomes a mega key because it's the first Wolverine appearance. Hulk #180(181) doubly becomes a mega key because crazy people keep driving up the price. Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1 is the first Sub-Mariner appearance, and sounds like it should be a mega key, but the market says no one's paying the big bucks, so it is not a mega key? Detective Comics #31 is perhaps one of the greatest covers ever, but without any key storyline or first appearance, it doesn't qualify as a mega key. (Or is it, given its current value in the marketplace?) Planet Comics #1 was the first comic book title with a dedicated science fiction theme. Sounds landmark to me, but this book is not considered to be a mega key. If the price started climbing into 6 figures, then does it become a mega key? Amazing Spider-Man #121 is about as key a story as there's ever been published (death of Gwen Stacy), but it isn't a mega key. If in another 100 years, lots of people still read X-Men #137 (death of Dark Phoenix), would it qualify as a mega key? Um, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1... Anyhow, I'm just rambling...

Don't we all!

I had a chance to view all of the Church Planets up close and personal. The Church version literally pales in comparison to your supreme copy. It also has tanning.

I knew it!! Just when I thought there was actually a Santa Claus...

Here's a few from '39 that haven't shown up in this cool thread:

Whew! Twilight of the Ghouls!

My friend, with the spectacular color strikes on your Planets, you are truly the life, the sun and the moon, of the party!

I'm the kid who shows up to the party after everyone's gone home.

Attaboy!

Love it Gino! Kudos to posting those awesome splash pages.

Awesome, RM!! Did you find Ann Mason in her bikini at Terry's Con?