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That was the thesis put forward in the Pedrin guide, for sure.

Kudos to Shin and Ernster for recent purchases and thanks to Timmay for the great 40s and 50s books!

That's a very familiar cover to me too as I used to have one and I had the exact same reaction you did.

I agree, Kavalier and Clay is very well done. Especially the first half of the book.

That was a house ad back in the day so I saw that cover at a young age even though I didn't have the book for years later. So yeah--LOVE THAT COVER!

Can you believe he told us that his thugs were "just stereotypes"? I love the rough-hewn Flessel villains.

I had four packages waiting for me today, all from forumites. Kudos to new-member Szelim for trading me a LG GS X-Men #1. This guy knows how to pack comics. Gave me great scans beforehand too. Great to get another box from JMG as part of our ongoing trading. Happy with my lots from ft88 too--those always seem to work out. Haven't opened the one from Lighthouse yet but I'm assuming there are 1000 bags in there... 'tis heavy-ish.

The whole summer season does it to me.

Wow, your post reminded me of the Tank Battle game which I hadn't thought about for 20+ years. Then Friday night my dad tells me they are cleaning up our cottage and he found my Tank Battle game. Coolness! As for Navarone, that is simply unforgettable--the greatest playset I ever saw. Great detail in the soldiers and the multilevel aspect is fantastic. You could just see Rock and Easy storming that thing, preferably drawn by Russ Heath. My parents were making a career change the summer of my eighth birthday and so they were trying to economize. When it was time to open my birthday presents there was almost nothing and I probably looked pretty disappointed and then they said, Oh wait, there's one more thing. And brought out that monster box with the Navarone set. I was overjoyed and I think that set stayed "set up" in the living room the rest of the summer.

I completely agree. We've got another great seller here with Monstro. Marc

Thanks to Deamentia for the Avengers 1, X-Men 94, Captain America 100 and for letting me sop up his excess ASMs in trade! Thanks to Henchman for the Action 242. Thanks to Scrooge for the purchase. Thanks to JMG3637 for the Four Color trade. Thanks to Paperheart for the laughs on Saturday!

You're making good progress!

I was going to say the same thing! Where have those things been hiding? The second one is a high number so that might have something to do with it. (Though I usually have a 1354 in stock.) Great books.

Fun books! Is that the same cat on both covers? Do Annette and Beaver share custody?

Kudos to Pirate for fast shipping and great packing on the Batman 38 and 92 slabs. The box took a good blow somewhere along the line but each slab was wrapped individually with heavy-duty protection. Sweet!

Yow! Fun times in Canada!

Kudos to Bill of TakinShotstoQuit fame for all the bronze genre DCs he sent me plus a purchase. A great email and PM correspondent to boot. Thanks also to October and Hush for the books I purchased fairly recently. Also looking forward to my packages coming from Pirate and Henchman. Appreciate the purchases from Deamentia, Shield Agent, Towards2112, Buck Biggins, Escaflown4, and Parlourguy. Ooh, kudos to Baron Davis for a monster dunk as I was typing the previous. Ouch! Marc

Yeah, points for creativity. I'd accept it.

Special thanks to Mikeyriffhard. Loved the box I got from him, fast shipping, perfect packing, and best of all, terrific grading.

By the way, any suggestions for help in identifying a coverless issue of Crime Does Not Pay? Apparently the GCD has huge gaps still waiting to be indexed. (Katy Keene is worse. )

The post about the longest running crime comics makes me think of FrankMiller's comment that all he wanted to do was write subversive crime comics,which he did clothed in Daredevil's skin-tight costume. One could make an argument that Batman and Daredevil are often crime comics. I'm thinking of some of the Gene Colan inner-city issues on DD, an awful lot of the GA Batman comics, the 1970s Detective Comics which featured a lot of mysteries for Batman to solve.

Scrooge, awesome page of updates! Of course I love westerns and Fiction House, but I especially liked the crime stuff this time around. Couldn't decide which was my favorite, the landlady being described as slatternly in the text story or the description that the private eye "made friends with a circle of human scum." Then I saw the winner, "Don't these cops ever miss??!!"

I bought a bunch of Sgt. Rocks yesterday and enjoyed some of the inventive backup stories, some of which were 1-2 pages. The one where an allied bomber crashes in the desert and sprays fuel all over the sand was great. German commander carelessly drops his finished cigarette and instant toast. I also loved the one where the Indian brave manages to trick his cavalry pursuers into freezing to death. Seems like that one was originally published in the 1970s though. Marc

That is totally killer.