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batman annual number 7, a recent junk shop find with a cool back cover

I'd think probably just random for no reason, the comic was laying around and so was a holepunch. Probably the same reason I have lots of comics with doodles on them or defaced covers and pages, phone numbers on them or people adding up numbers on the covers, women using them to "bite" down on to remove excess lipstick etc.

Congrats on that pick up. That book is not that easy to acquire. Agreed, it is one of the hardest Planets. It is noted as scarce in overstreet. Yes, that's a tough one indeed. I love the cover: it's a Will Eisner/Lou Fine co-creator jewel. It looks like someone has made two punch holes in the middle of the cover, and then attempted to mask it with a piece of tape over the 'N'. Why on earth would anyone do that? Great book tho' <3 To hold the circles in place that someone punched out with a holepunch. If those things are laying around it's hard not to want to punch holes in something

I remembered something from a Vince Fago interview I read recently and thought it was interesting. JA: What was Alex Schomburg like? FAGO: He was a very quiet man. I'd give him a cover and he'd disappear. His detail was so amazing. He had insight that the rest of us didn't. JA: Did he ever design his own covers? FAGO: No. We designed all the covers in house. I thought up a lot of the adventure covers. Then I'd ask Mike Sekowsky to give me a rough. He was terrific. Syd Shores did some of the Captain America covers and he also did roughs for Alex Schomburg's covers. JA: Did Schomburg get a higher page rate for his covers? FAGO: Oh yeah. There was no comparison. And he was perfect on deadlines.

I love this cover. I also love how females seem to never be cold or anything in old comics, they walk around on alien planets in short skirts with everything hanging out

On the right side, an Adventure and Star Spangled Also I wonder what was in the spots in front of Mopsy and Ranger Comics, they totally sold out.

Always wanted a Schomburg cover of any kind, but never have gotten one sadly. I always wondered, was there a reason he signed his airbrush covers Xela?

First one that jumped out at me was the Patsy Walker, not sure why. But if I was that kids age and had to pick I am sure I'd go for the Coo Coo or Goofy. Funny too how all those big title logos stick out, no wonder they made the titles really big like that with comics in racks like that. Then the DC's with their tiny titles totally get lost in there, you barely notice them.

I guess technically out of the golden age category, but close enough and its an atlas. I love this cover, which unfortunately has absolutely nothing to do with the story inside, which is just about a frozen caveman not an ice monster.

I finally just watched the trailer and I have no interest. I didn't for Force Awakens either, but I caved in and was dragged to see it and wish I hadn't. This Rogue thing looks like they are trying to make it way to serious and Disney will never ever do anything new, it will all be rehashed original trilogy stuff since they have to forever pander to the prequel haters, the ones that hate anything creative, imaginative or new.

Cool. You don't see anything imaginative, fun or absurd like that in comics any more.

All Mego Falcons have Ape hands, one explanation I'd heard years ago was that the Apes line didn't sell as well as expected and Mego used the returned / overstock bodies for Falcons I think that using pre existing molds for parts was a common thing and a cost saver for toy companies. Just like how the 1991 Robin Hood Kenner figure line was all reused star wars figure molds.

Most of my opinions are very unpopular I am sure. I don't get the obsession with grades, to me it's just people trying to feel better than each other by having some stupid competition with made up grading scales. I think mint, perfect comics are boring. I like loved, used, beat up comics. I love names and stamps on covers and seeing it was used and seeing the history of the comic. I just got a comic that's got lipstick on the pages like some girl was using it to get excess lipstick off, like "biting" down on the pages. I just find the history of an object fascinating and interesting and with a mint comic its nothing and pretty boring, it probably was just sitting in a closet for decades unloved and not used like it was supposed to be. I hate restoration on comics, or anything for that matter, it erases the history of the object and it's all for money or wanting some perfect comic to feel better about themselves having it in better condition than someone else.

Awesome. They are very cool. I love Frank Paul covers, I only have a few I wish I had more.

Not exactly pulps, but cool pulpy paperbacks

Girl in a red dress in peril That cover is awesome and the girl looks like an exact swipe from the cover of Wings #94

Well that's super cool! Yep, the US version is from January 15 1933, the 22nd issue (out of 325). Awesome. At first I thought that was the original, but I don't see the signature. Is it a recreation? By who?

I love the wording