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I'm trying! Thx!

Thank you! Remember my story about the record dealer? This was the last remnant of that OA collection he had acquired. (Except the Tip Tops. Got them from another vendor on the way out of the flea market.)

That GA pile I was looking at this afternoon? Got it!

Over the last two years, I have been acquiring GA from a local vintage record dealer who was handed a small OA collection of Golden Age books when he bought the guy's massive record collection. Today, I got him to part with the final seven pieces. (The two Tip Tops were purchased from a neighboring dealer; low grade but both Peanuts issues.)

Small pile of high weirdness picked up on the way home last night ... The Sandman stack is 47 of the first 49 issues, missing only 19 and 48. Looking at a small pile of GA this afternoon; wish me luck!

Congrats on 4.5, which I can see, though I would've said 4.0. It's easy to focus on flaws, but they clearly gave credit for all the flat, bright and white going on there, as evidenced in your splash page/open cover shot. Congrats on a fair grade on a great book!

Not sure but I don't think anyone answered you about Eisner outside of the Spirit,as you asked. I'd say A Contract with God and other stories, and The Plot. Also, Scott McCloud explained Eisner's brilliance and importance in Understanding Comics, I recall.

I recall similar perceptions of Wolverine; he was more a march to his own drummer anti-hero (closest marvel predecessor maybe Namor) but even then a little more firmly on the good guys' side. I think the badass stuff got exaggerated after the Punisher character was proven popular by being taken over the top. Not sure what it says about our culture that this is the preference (in your face anti-hero vs the subtly of not exactly a hero....the more blunt take strips out much of the morality play for a writer). But As to when, similar to RD, I recall him being increasingly popular within the X-Men from early on but exploding outside the title post miniseries. After they took a chance on their popular team member with a fast-rising star (Miller) he seemed to become more exposed and more powerful too. I remember when he scratched the Thing and thinking, "He needs a certain level of strength no matter how hard the claws are to accomplish that using them. Never thought of him as strong enough for that before." Then the one-shot vs Spider-Man came out in 1987 and I thought claws aside Spidey should have the speed and strength to mop the floor with him quickly. That story really delineated his viciousness as an edge over many others in some combat situations.

Crushed by an elephant to mauled by a lion (not mention this copy looks like it was!)

The serpent Queen to The Chameleon

I read somewhere once that Josie was based on his wife of the same name, and the idea for Josie and the Pussycats came from a cat costume she wore on a cruise they took together, if I recall correctly. At the time that he got the go-ahead for the She's Josie title, he and Stan Lee were jointly trying to market a daily comic strip about a postman named...Willie Lumpkin. So Stan folded they character into the FF cast when they abandoned the project. Wish I could find the source, but that's about how the article went.

Here's a late DeCarlo Josie and the Pussycats story:

Interior from same

Charltons are underrated!

I'm in!

Vic Verity to Vic Verity

Agreed; as a group, SA Archie keys are underrated, imo

This one's known for the woman melted alive panel inside, but the cover fits this bill

WWII to WWII (Pearl Harbor)

Atlas war to 1st Atlas war

Heckuva find! Congrats!

Thank you! I have no idea what the notation in the guide derives from; all things including the BR piece itself point to it being Kirby.

Adventures undersea to adventure in the air

Thank you! I'm pretty confident the guide is wrong in this case, and I've to find someone who disagrees after actually seeing this page. It looks very much like Kirby finished by Meskin and Robinson.

I think all the faces on the page are very 50's Kirby, and the art is quite consistent thru all six issues of Boys' Ranch.