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You like purple, Jack?

Goose to cooked

This just in....doesn't come up much, and the couple times I've seen it I've grabbed it. For all the various WWII covers out there, I cannot think of too many that are Pearl Harbor-themed, much less depicting the attack.

Original Swamp Thing series #1-10

Agreed, and sought-after. I have a sharp one or it would be gone already.

It's a steal, won't last

Ballpark time? (Time zone ?)

I thought they didn't ding for those?

This thread fell to page 3??? Can't have it! Bumping with a #16 picked up today. Alas, not another Beverly Larson, but certainly nice enough for an LTMM under #20.

Any excuse to bump this great thread...tough, late Issue (#51) of an underrated crime series.

The LTMM is #16; it is NOT another Beverly find, but I thought it presented too nicely to pass up despite the cover corners, creases and tape. The Wanted is #51, a tough late-run issue courtesy of the great boardie known as @elibowman thank you!

Cool! Love to hear how it turns out.,it's a gorgeous hen's tooth! Love that date stamp, too.

Grim reaper to merrie conductor

It might take a decade, but it honestly wouldn't surprise me to see Rocket and Groot flying the Milennium Falcon someday. With Disney owning both the Marvel and Lucas universes, this is perhaps the easiest crossover point possible.

This is obviously not Golden Age, but I have never seen it before and cannot find any others out there online, so I thought you guys would be interested in a peek.

Hey Don, any more Wanteds coming?

Dwarf to wharf

Agreed, it shows in your exchange with each other. Cat-Man has great and valid points, but I cannot begin to imagine tackling that breadth and depth of research to do the "overview" thread as I look at the work you've put into profiling one person. Such a thread would truly rely on many contributors, I would think. There is a chapter eventually on what became of Dave's books, right? (I promise to wait patiently for it!)

Loving this thread as a meandering history of one seminal early collector; whether or not OP's hypothesis of first (as in earliest, not pre-eminent) great collector is defensible and/or provable. (Though I'm leaning toward you're doing a helluva job!) While Cat raises many valid points about the number of significant pioneers who have advanced the hobby, none of it diminishes Dave, and a spotlight on Dave diminishes no other deserving collector. I'd read a thread about each of them, boardies or not, and I'd also enjoy a thread about a top 20 or top 100 or some-such. It's all great history of our hobby, and thank you @sfcityduck for this in-depth profile in slow reveal style. So what DID become of this pioneering fiend's books??? (FYI -- I have no higher compliment for a fellow collector than fiend -- that's how the owner of my childhood LCS referred to a subset of his regulars when they came in the door: "Ah! The fiends are here! They MUST have their books!")

@Jaydee elephant alert!

Hiya Sha! Would my 10-year-old girls like it and be able to follow it? Your Nick Fury point reminds me -- I would LOVE to see "Battle Scars" adapted as a MCU production -- The "origin" of Samuel Jackson's character. I really enjoyed that comic, except maybe the Serpent Squad would be too cheesy for the movie version. Someone else had an interesting point about maybe some longtime fans objecting to a B list comic character becoming an A list movie character, but there's other sides to that for the disappointed to consider: all these characters have some level of fanhood (WWBN #32???) and it's kind of cool to see "your" character get their day in the sun. Much as I like Spidey and the X-men, I was more of an Iron Man and Avengers fan growing up, so I might favor MCU movies more than some others. Also, some characters go from B to A over time in comics continuity (Punisher and Wolverine) why not from comics to movies for Ms Marvel? Someone also made an interesting point that the character herself is somewhat enigmatic, and maybe Larson's performance reflects that. Sounds like it was inline with the character in comics -- enigmatic, with a Hal Jordan-like brashness and confidence. At least, tanks how I remember her from the Avengers, my primary exposure to her. Curious to watch it, and it sounds like her performance is reflective of that theory. IF that's the case, that's as true to the comic character Ms Marvel/Carol as Johannsen playing a Black Widow with subtle sexual energy and Gadot playing a Wonder Woman that is powerful, principled and not particularly sexy although attractive. (A few Adam Hughes cheesecake covers aside, WW never seemed to me to be a character with a sexy edge, unlike Black Widow.)

Holy Karp, Brian! If that Little Lulu was a Little Archie with say Moose and Betty, it would be worth a fortune! Also, that western nobody collects -- I kept the same Bobby Benson; it was the only non-CI that I kept after culling that large collection of 16 long boxes that was 85% Classics Illustrated.

Amazing story, congratulations!

Should have bumped this thread last week when I picked this baby up. None on census.

In fairness, it's a niche these days, but within that niche that's a book I'd jump on. as an aside, of the six issues of Blazing, the first five have some awesome original content, including the Green Turtle, a Chinese superhero, drawn by a Chinese-American artist (name escapes me). There are lots of "#5's" out there with various books bound into the Blazing cover as a cache of these covers were discovered and used much later than original publication of the actual issue. The Blazing #5 with the correct, original content (Green Turtle, Black Buccaneer, Jun-Gal etc) is a Gerber 8 and is seen far less often than the ubiquitous #5's containing various different books of later publication date.