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Thanks for the awesome in-depth analysis!! A great way to highlight the two-way influence of the pulps and the comics.

My wife keeps asking the same question! 🤓

Show off!

I prefer the new holder (lower photo), because even though the colors don’t look as vivid, the number in the top left corner is bigger and brighter!

Well, Rick, that's a truly priceless photo. I just hope you recycle all those boxes! But seriously, after such a display, isn't it time to retire this thread? No room for us mere mortals in the golden halls of Valhalla.

Nice one! It's raining #7's in the Jungle these days.

I tend to think Lou Fine was responsible for launching (pun intended) this whole "spear-in-motion" motif. From Oct/Nov. 1939:

I'd contribute some $$ to seeing that guide of yours in good old-fashioned book form...

That’s a great book!! Hadn’t ever come across it before. I agree with that Sqeggs guy: Frank Thomas (1914-1968) did a lot of fantastic covers, but doesn’t get much recognition these days. This blurb is from Lambiek: Franklyn Thomas illustrated the syndicated 'All-American Football' strip in 1938, before working as a comic book artist in the 1940s. He did features for both Centaur ('Chuck Hardy', 'Dr. Hypno', 'The Eye Sees', 'Solarman') and Dell ('Billy and Bonnie Bee', 'Buddies' and scripts for 'Little Scouts', Marjorie Henderson Buell's 'Little Lulu' and Walter Lantz' 'Andy Panda' and 'Woody Woodpecker'.). Also in the 1940s, he made the 'Dinky Doyle' daily. In the following decade, he did the 'Going West' strip (1951-54), as well as 'Hossface Hank' (Al Smith Service, 1955-64). Between 1955 and 1965 he was ghost artist on Mik's 'Ferd'nand' strip.

That’s an amazing example. The ol’ mirror-image switcheroo. But the same hairdresser!

Yep, great price for sure. I should've given you a bit of competition.

Ditto. The art in between the covers rivals the covers. Shame that humans ever invented plastic.

Very nice!! Was that the copy on eBay recently?

Those are awesome covers, those pulps o'yours. Dare I ask... are the stories any good?

Thanks for sharing. Cool story.

Wow, I didn't realize you'd collected that run in such a short period of time! Clearly my 10-year odyssey to complete the run must say something about my incompetence! (Though to be fair, I think it's only been the last 5 years or so when Planets really started hitting the marketplace big time.)

Gorgeous!

Truer words ne'er spoken. But really, you should say that in comic book cover letters.

Wow! Where'd you scoop that up? Big congrats! Looks like you're pretty much in the home stretch now. You're gonna hold the record for completing a Planet run in the shortest period of time in history.

She needs to be written up for an ASPCA violation!

Thanks! I always think of Berk night when I look at this cover, when Berk mentioned this book to me and then adopted the "I've just thrown a javelin through the dragon" pose. True story.

How do you know she doesn't hurt? Those ropes seem kinda tight!

Thanks Rick. Yeah, census shows very few issues, less than 10...