Zolnerowich

Here's the last of my 2017 purchases. There were a total 17 books added to my collection in 2017, including five Rivets (#6, 7, 9, 10, 15), leaving all but one book to complete the Rivet run, and fifteen remaining to complete the whole thing. PLANET #26 One of Doolin's early issues on the title. This cover can have a lot of color variation, and often has a lot of miswrap onto the back of the book. I just noticed all the swirling waves behind the sacrificial podium to the left side of the cover. Just a lot of great GA craziness going on here!

PLANET #45 This book arrived courtesy of Soft-Serve. His goal was to collect Planets with the most ink-dripping colors he could find. This was a true labor of love. When he put his books up for sale in one of the GA threads in 2017, there was fervent buying among us boardies. I was fortunate to land this book. The cover seems heavy with the dense saturation of inks, which might (?) indicate that this copy spun off the printing press very early in the print run. This was Soft-Serve's idea anyhow, which I find plausible given that he is an artist who just might know about these things.

What's in the compendiums? (compendia?)

PLANET #15 Well. Well well. This was the issue I figured might be my Achilles heel. I knew this book had felled finer fellers than I. This book is really hard to find, and when found, it is usually in "assault and battery" condition. I first laid eyes on this copy at NYCC in Oct. 2017, on display in one of the glass cases at the Heritage Auctions booth. I think @comicjack was next to me as we drooled over the book. The colors seduced me. The colors screamed "youmustbuythisbook" again and again, until its spirit stuff seeped into the OCD reaches of my brain. And that was that.

PLANET #72 A post-Berk Berk book! Found this for sale about 4 months after the ComicConnect auction. I do quite like this book! If anyone actually knows what was the kink in the Besselink brain, please post here.

PLANET #57 Hey look, there's a couple of those Freudian burrowing corkscrew drills coming out of the ground!

PLANET #29 Bit of a miscut cover, but nice vivid colors. Girl in a blue dress. Dragon with a spear through the back of his head...

Now to close out the rest of 2017... PLANET #33 Third of the three Lily Renee covers. Toledo copy. This cover often looks pretty washed out; I took a big hurt in landing one with nice colors.

Thanks so much HR! It's a fantastic looking book, and knowing it's recent provenance makes it that much sweeter!! (I'm assuming you weren't the original owner ).

Attaboy -- wasn't he a backup pitcher for Turk Farrell on the Colt .45s in '62?

Who's Sqeggs? And how do you pronounce that anyhow?!?!

Sweet! Is that your copy? Where'd you find that beauty? Interesting resemblance to Planet #10 for sure!

Well, I'll throw my hat in too then. I've had my eye on this issue for a long time, but never managed to bring it home.

Last of this stretch of 4 Rivets: PLANET #7 Bob Powell cover. His first, and probably his only, Planet cover. Lots of fun things to look at, especially the alien in the peep hole.

PLANET #9 One more from the Berk auction. That perplexingly cylindrical object with Freudian nuances would show up on many later Planet Comics covers.

PLANET #6 Good timing with Artboy's copy on this same page! The Larson copy by way of the Berk auction. If a comic book could look preternatural, this would be it. Only seven Larson Planets out there, I think, #1-7. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

PLANET #10 Zolnerowich's first Planet Comics cover. I'd say he was a fast learner. Great cover. @Sqeggs likes to remind me about the SB pages.

My next four books in 2017 were all Rivets. From The Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad: "What more did I want? What I really wanted was rivets, by heaven! Rivets."

PLANET #73 Also from C2E2 2017. Last cover of the series. Winter 1953.

PLANET #68 This was my first deep dive into the 1950's Planets, the issues between #65-73. A completist must complete. Picked this up at C2E2 2017. Fun cover. Goatee beatnik spaceman.

Ooh! That's totally awesome!! Are the cover and page originals or copies? I did something like this for a Lily Renee page from Rangers Comics, and have been procrastinating to do this for the Planet 37.

Gorgeous!!! Looks WAY better than 6.5.

Well, it's nice to know I was in good company! I seem to recall there were a few Planet pages of original art in the Berk auction. Did you take one of those home?

Interesting, I don't usually think of #6 as purple, since my copy looks more blue than purple.

Marching ever on through this space opera. More books from 2017... PLANET #27 Two formidable dames (one of whom is green!) for the price of one book! Now that's a deal. Not so easy to find. Really, none of the post-Rivet books between #23 and #40 show up very often. Sometimes they do pop up in waves, when one sale leads to a few more sales. Sometimes you just get lucky, like I did with this one while perusing a dealer's site at some late hour when I should have been asleep.