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with one of my favorite underappreciated books

And this one I've had since the 1980s.....made a trade in high school with a friend who got a huge SA collection somehow....I forget the story behind his score....anyway, he was an aspiring artist (wound up in Marvel production dept for a while) and gave me Avengers 3-19, ASM 17, a few DD's below 10 and I forget what else (that was most of it) for an OA Byrne page from Avengers 183 (an awesome page, fight scene with the Absorbing Man).

Okay, I'm overdue in punching my ticket...doing it in two posts .... These were acquired in a trade in spring 2016...gave a stack of 18 books, headlined by an ASM#129:

Thank you! I was thinking it looked like Gray Morrow, kinda.

Tales of horror to Tales of Horror

green arrow and yellow hat to red menace

....And batch 2, acquired yesterday: PS, I now need that Detective with Batman and Solomon Grundy.....never saw that before; awesome cover! Do you have a reader? Is it good?

Batch 1, acquired Monday:

Incoming.....two new acquisitions in trades since Monday....

THANK you! I just made a large trade and saw this in the guy's long boxes for $3 and insisted on it as a throw-in. I kinda felt like the Yankees acquiring an 18-year-old Dave Righetti in a 10-player deal (why do I remember that???)

And Thanos' father and brother, as well. Depending upon how the big guy is used it could be looked back upon as a foundational book in the Thanos-related mythos. He has the chance to be the bronze age's transcendent villain key, as Action 23 is to Gold and FF 5 is to silver. Tougher with villains, but it happens. JIM85 also has moved in that direction; will be interesting to see if it can keep up. Problem with villain keys is half the ones with Luthor/Dr Doom-level potential appear first in books that would be keys anyway, though I argue they add to the significance greatly -- referring to Joker and Catwoman in Batman 1 and Magneto in X-Men 1.

Scarlet to sterling

Interior, from the cover story, "Men are Unessential"

Get a load of this cover:

Me neither until I stumbled across it. So I grabbed it. Nice mid-gradish; tough for treasury size. This is actually a little taller, but the cover stock is a bit thicker than Marvel/DC treasuries, at least going by hand feel.

There's a handful on eBay, guys. All 7 issues, I think: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=vic+verityhttp://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=vic+verity

You ducks guys have any love for this treasury? It's SA (1961) but Overstreet calls it scarce.

Awesome! and reminds me...this thread really should've been named Big Swinging Ducks

Yes, I'll that too. Mine aren't that nice, but gun to my head it's (along with Flash 123) the last SA books I'll part with.

Blackhawk to Blackhawk

That's the #1; 1945. Ran 7 issues, CC Beck on lead feature. Would love to figure out artist on Tom Travis (lower right) but no luck. One of those books I suspect is scarcer than Gerber indicates, but mostly just obscure. Not on anyone's radar. Traded it recently in a deal with an LCS; bought it years ago cheap. Kinda miss it.

Thank you! I've long wanted the Ditko Hulk! Fastest trigger pull I've made since my first GA Cap.

A sometimes-forgotten Fawcett for my fetishist friends

T Acceptable to whom? Zero would be my idea of acceptable.