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It's Buck Biggins night at the ol' Cabo Kudosa!

Kudos to Buck Biggins for a great set of tightly graded 50s and 60s books. Thanks to Paratrooper and Shiverbones for all the orders.

I definitely just got a good primer in both Mutt and Jeff and My Friend Irma!

Definitely more fun to read all these carefully selected pieces than just, say, reading page after page of Toonopedia. Thanks to Scrooge, as always.

Btw, the cover galleries you've been posting lately are a great touch and I hope that when you get all of this into a more permanent format that you do the same for each of the titles.

Marc

This is one of the great fan sites about any character by the way: http://www.spiderfan.org/

I have a real soft spot for Mr. District Attorney so I'm glad to see it hit the list.

Who are the biggest crime comics experts on the boards?

Marc

I love that story in X-Men 112 and 113!

>>Early Barks originals are the giant squids of Duck hunting as far as I am concerned.

Great line and great pickup. Congrats.

Marc

Kudos to 143ksk for snaging a hard to find books for me at Chicago Con, and at a great price to!

He found me a great book at Chicago 2005 too! I think he deserves re-kudos for that. Thanks 143ksk!

Marc

Hmm, just going by the grade that could be the copy of #37 I had in high school!

Kudos to Scottish, Paratrooper, and Shiverbones for really nice recent transactions!

Kudos to Marc from HouseOfComics for a bunch of awesome SSOCs and Incredible Hulk issues!

Welcome back to the boards!

More Kudos to Rhino for a very sharp pre hero JIM.When I told Judy that it only cost $ 30 she said,"Don't lie to me,punk!!".

Plus, remember that I have a Master in Materials Science. I spent my early 20's baking YBaCuO and such with / for Bernard Raveau, you know. I spent hours studying crystal structure in my days.

I confess, when I hit latest post and was scrolling up to get the new stuff, I saw that and had to look to see who was posting!

Mopsy is very cool btw. And I loved that GI in the foxhole story.

Truth is, I've only been paying attention to the SA Gunner and Sarge books in the past little while, since I finished my BA runs. I probably saw it on your site, but it wasn't on my want list then.

Yeah, I know. I enjoy the updates you've been giving us on your collection both here and on the Big Five list.

Not "overdue" kudos since I got the package today but thanks to ft88 for three DC war books, accurately graded and shipped quickly.

Marc

Nice looking copy!!! For sale? Lemme know!

 

Shep

It's only been the lead image in our war section on our site for the last two years that you've been reading my posts on the Big Five yahoo mailing list!

However, it sold last night which is why I was reminded of it and posted it. Sorry.

Marc

Speaking of additional details so the kids know who is who...

Never seen that one. I like it.

 

The Haunted Tank fought almost entirely in Western Europe and North Africa against the Germans, though there were some occasional detours to Yugoslvia, Russia, and the China-Burma-India theatre.

 

 

And that one detour to the Alleutian Islands.

I thought I was going to have to mention that.

And Rock's kid brother was in the Pacific.

The irony is that you have now saved that cover for me as it was about my least favorite. Or was until now--with the way cool swastika on skull motif I am growing fond of it.

Marc

Ah, Big Fiver's was even better.

I collect books too. Right now it's mainly books on tennis. Not instructional--tennis history, biographies, and such.

Of course I end up with a lot of military history books too but that's so broad I don't feel I'm "collecting" them.

Maybe in a sense I collect most books by Wallace Stegner, John Updike, and Ernest Hemingway.

I collect books about comics too, of course.

Sooner or later I will build a complete set of Dragon magazine as well.

Marc

Whilst I think Joe Kubert's War covers for DC are exceptional, there's one aspect of his art that irritates me slightly, and tends to detract from those images this is prevalent on . . .

Thanks for ruining them for me! Now I see swastikas everywhere on those covers!

I do agree, it's a very powerful symbol and probably an editorial decision. While I doubt they had them stamped on machine gun barrels, perhaps the swastika was used in a lot more places.

When I was in college we had a freezing rental house (and this is in California). The utility guy came out to relight our horrible furnace that wasn't working. Hey, look at this, he said. I've seen this before. Our old furnace was obviously from the 30s and german-made because one of the little valves had a swastika on it! Just stamped right on as a matter of course.

Marc

Awesome, awesome posts Scrooge!

Yeah, if you can walk into the skull it just doesn't feel right.