Professor K

You're right, not a forgery unless it was written as a goof. Very unlikely. Probably is a coincidence but I still wonder if there is a connection, I mean the writing is just really similar.

This whole Tom Reilly thing. Just when I thought I was out........... Well to me the stamp on the back of some San Frans does say "something" Reilly. The handwritten words on your Jungle 116 look to me like almost a dead ringer to the stamp. A few random things. Only some of the San Frans have the stamp on the back. I have not seen any from 1944/45 with the stamp.Early 1944 maybe. I get that from looking at past sales and some of Mr Bedrocks books he has shown us. I don't think the stamp really tells us anything of use to figure it out. If Tom did exist and he was killed in the Pacific in 1945 he could have started boot camp as late as October 1944 and have been killed by a kamikaze in January 1945. I get that from 2 months basic training at the time. I don't know how sailors traveled to the ships in the Pacific after boot camp but I gave that another month. So 3 months from boot camp to a ship in the Pacific minimum. Kamikazi attacks ended in August 1945 so if he existed he could have left home as late as May 1945. So he could have bought all the books himself up until cover dates of March 1945. I'm not sure what month in 1945 the collection stopped. The signature on your book could be a forgery or a coincidence that it looks so similar to the stamp. Or it could have been written by the same person whose name was on the stamp like you said. And it could be any of those other things you said as well. I really doubt one of Toms parents bought it in 1949.

From 1949?. This could be the missing link. It clearly says Reilly. Possibly Peilly but the odds of having the name Peilly are 1 in 1,041,077,988 . https://forebears.io/surnames/peilly When we think of Reilly we think of Tom. And if the stamp on the back of San Fran books does say Reilly, well it's a reilly close match to what is written on the cover of that book.

Monkey? I thought it was just an ugly dude. Then again we didn't exactly catch him at his best moment. You're right. Most likely he is putting the brain in. Why have the head (body?) hooked up to electrodes during the removal process? That would make no sense! The corpse whether it's man, ape, or something in between is clearly not the freshest. I'm thinking this is just a test run to see if it works. There are two stories in the book that "resemble" the cover a little but neither unvolved brain removal. You guys probably already know that.

Hey that's a really good categorization there. Love the names you assigned, other than Wertham Age. That fool doesn't deserve his name on anything other than a list of well known individual_without_enough_empathys . I wanted to say something pretty much the same in my little post before but I didn't have the mental capacity to word it and sort it out in a way that would make any sense. I was kind of hung up on how to classify the early pre war type Funny books. Books in those years kind of seem to have over lapped each other in a "category" type manner. I didn't think that stating for example "Pre- Action 1" would be accurate. I haven't read all these so I can't know for sure but it seems to me books/series like Funny Picture Stories 1 (1936) and Detective Picture Stories, and maybe 1 or 2 others like pre Sup DC's, although pre Action 1, kind of seem more at home in the Gen-U-Wine Ga group. But man I really do like how you worked that out up there. Perfect.

He really was a perfectionist of detail when it came to drawing animals other than humans. I like this bear cover . https://www.ebay.com/itm/385461011091?hash=item59bf444293:g:ypgAAOSwtaZkBS5g&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwENCdiIOYlOGFokdfuUNiLtTkofyciTEWaHc3TfacIki1FbPx7p2SaiwohUr0dFLJQePg%2Fb4QbmeJDIy2ErqtNeb08IZn2%2FG2Lnsszue%2FPhdVLiDFdMopP2y2PxT0FTUAQReDQXMp6wUvLqVJq2NFzRPIuslgXQlaZqk%2BYypKxhelFFyeymLQ11eNFGm2ZzlIpiTKBLulQDMohlpHCtKWnXYIjSNuQZgDJh4irCoRLf9CVF80wuNb5OY6iGDJy6I9A%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR5Tft7zyYg geez that's a big link. Here's the pic

I wouldn't care much about it not having a grade. Anyone can see it looks perfect. But I would write the boys at comiclink and ask them to change that from CGC NO GRADE to CGC COVER ONLY. CGC "NO GRADE" seems unecessary.

Good golly the ink still looks wet on those. The Daring 6 wow. Mr. B is the stamp of Geo Reisly/Aocc6u/Tom Reilly/Who Knows on the back of the Sensation 35 and the Flash 56?

I was wondering about this but knew nothing about it. Thanks for posting. So they are going to be auctioning 43,000 comics? I see the Nov.9th auction of Batman's and Detective's. Almost all of it is low grade and low grade restored. Nice Flash Ashcan. I was expecting something ...different I guess. With 43,000 books I'm sure a lot will be in raw lots but man that is a lot of books to move. https://pbagalleries.com/auctions/info/id/666

Great pickup! Undervalued book too. I recently sold my 5.5.

Yep. We really only have the April 2022 sale of a coverless to go on as far as I know. and like you said one would probably sell for around 100k right now if it was complete. https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/superhero/detective-comics-27-coverless-dc-1939-cgc-ng-light-tan-of-off-white-pages/a/7270-93021.s What do you or anyone here think a qualified complete both covers married or just front cover married copy would go for? That seems to be the big question related to what this qualified cover will sell for. I don't see any recent or distant examples of a book like that selling. I'm surprised to see there is only 1 qualified example on the census, a 2.5. I could be way off about this but I doubt a low grade qualified complete married cover(s) copy would sell for any more than 200 to 250k these days, maybe even quite less. It probably wouldn't be worth it in a financial aspect for anyone looking to add this comiclink cover to their coverless copy to pay any more than 100k for it unless maybe they think it would be at least mid grade or better with the CLink cover attached.

I see that. I see those exact letters and numbers. No we do not. The first letter/character/symbol/ect does look like an A at first but there is no line through it. I lean more toward a captital T.

This is a good question and it's curious to see how many different points of view there are. I never understood the Showcase 4 reasoning. Ok maybe that marks the beginning of a resurgence of superheroes but I don't see how that would change the "Age". It's all tough to define because from 1933 on it's been an evolutionary process. Hard to say where exactly something began and ended and a lot of it overlapped each other if that makes sense. If I had to choose a definitive beginning and end to the Golden Age I would go with the day Funnies on Parade came out to the day the CCA was created. But in that time period there are a lot of "Sub-Era's" that overlapped each other for a time.

Dude that's awesome. Seems like you have some serious thinking to do. You have the back cover already so if you had the front cover and had it graded it would be qualified - front cover married. I guess that would increase the value of yours in it's current state substaintially. In layman's terms - Brother you sittin on top of a gold mine.

4.0 no doubt for me Tele.

Too much ink on the stamp that's all. Oh I see why you showed that one. July 1942, so bought around May 42 probably. I was wondering about the later issues because if it does say Tom Reilly I could see a young guy with a stamp of his name putting it on his comics. Wouldn't think his parents would do the same and if he was kia in 45 I would think he would have been in boot camp by early 1944 the latest . Just specualtion.

I can't tell if your messin or not but yeah could be. I can't see how the person doing the stamping would change the stamp but I guess , well, uh, um, maybe. If I had to guess what that 1st letter or symbol is I would say more likelty a capital T than anything else. And it does look like the 2nd part is very likely the word Reilly but I can't be sure. Back to the book. You know some people call it the Poor Man's Action 1. But if it's an 8.0 San Fran copy I think Upper Middle Class Action 1 would be more appropriate.

Ok good. So you think it says Reilly? Without getting into the whole conversation of it I notice this book came out around December of 1941. Tom, if he did exist, probably would still have been living at home therefore bought this one himself. I have wondered if any later books from like 43 to 45 still had that stamp on it or if it's just the earlier ones.

Got this today. Cheap. Like half a tank of gas cheap. I'm really impressed with the condition. What do they call the side edge on a square bound book, can't think of the word? That part has some wear but the front cover is beautiful. A young Greta Garbo on the cover don't hurt either. Pages are super white throughout. August 1929. The book is just a little too wide for my scanner.

Ah just joking. I mean not literally everything. I'd be proud to own that book too. Don't blame you for creating a new thread just for it. Gorgeous copy. By the way what do you think that stamp on the back says?

Wow that's a real beauty. So you start new threads for everything?

Love is a burning thing. Real nice copies, the 8.0 looks undergraded.

I kind of remember seeing this Daisy cover Tec 33 somewhere a few years back. Nice clean ,bright cover.

I'm not in the habit of telling complete strangers about my personal life. I guess it all started back in the late 80's when I had this crazy idea to acquire every DC and Marvel comic from Fantastic Four #1 to GSXM #1 (minus romance titles) , an endeavor I pursued for many years. Well I still have massive feelings of regret. I don't think this therapy is working.

Me too. That is concerning. And respect to you for telling us. And cracking it instead of selling it to someone was a very honorable thing to do, not sure if I'd have that same level of honor. BATMAN 9 CGC 2.0 Centerfold Definitely Not Married