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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.

Didn't happen to me, but my LCS owner shared a story of them doing the same thing with a mid-grade 181 that he submitted on behalf of a customer.

Beyond Zoaster to Timely's roaster

Kav was your cameo account. Kav1 is your first full appearance account. You're worth more now.

I will celebrate anybody's first Timely Cap, and anybody who isn't sure of all the Blonde Phantoms he's got! Congrats to both of you!