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The Famous First Edition of Batman #1. Amazing issue with first Catwoman, great Hugo Strange story, etc. All in glorious over-size format. Cheap reading copies available--everyone should have one in his collection. Second place: Our Army at War 244. "Easy's First Tiger." Best war comic ever. Stunning Russ Heath art job. Marc

Thanks to Stronguy, Aces, and NorrinRadd for recent purchases. It's always pleasant dealing with forum members, buying or selling. Marc

Interesting comparison. Hey, that would be cool. Take the great work and make it even more useable. People would be really thankful if you shared it. I remember the ongoing Watt-Evans survey in his CBG column back in the day. Delightfully old-fashioned. Marc

Great picture. Thanks for sharing. I'm with Scott, Brave and Bold would be great. Marc

I don't have a 302 either (in any grade). 303 was the first I bought off the stands. By 306 my subscription copies were already arriving. As for the circulations, it's inconclusive. For one thing, they were dropping across the board anyway. For another, the yearly figures include issues from both before the change and after. OAAW/Rock did drop during that year from 152,000 copies to 137,000. SSWS/US is trickier. It went up from 124,000 to 126,000 with the change, but was down so substantially from the last full year of SSWS (146,000 or something like that) that it's hard to say whether it was the name change or just a normal dead cat bounce...

Well, that deserves to be posted again so I'll quote it at the bottom of this post. But yeah, it's stunning. Like Shep said, the best work of his career and my favorite war story ever. I'm really more of a -script/plot guy (though the Big Five books always had killer art) but it's the art in this one that puts it way over the top. The Spitfires attack scene is just outrageous too. I think I've posted this before, but the story that Marv Wolfman told at a Wondercon panel a few years ago is that he was at DC at the time and Russ was in Chicago and the parcel with the pages for that issue arrived and they passed them around the whole office in complete awe. Interesting that Russ still has the art. The following year at Wondercon I asked if he ever felt bad about having so much of his GA and SA art destroyed (before companies started giving it back as a matter of course) and he said he never had that problem, if he ever asked for pages they would always return them to him. I thought that was kind of surprising.

I think it's this issue, but one of the digests has a Heath story with a 2 page spread of a Tiger tank that's one of the most impressive illustrations I've ever seen. Are you talking about Easy's First Tiger" that first appeared in OAAW 244? Probably. IT ROCKS. And happened to be the first Rock story I ever read--how lucky is that? Is the cover to this digest an original or did it first appear in the 60s? Marc

Not to mention some very rudimentary but exciting German!

The first one I ever bought off the stands. That was more than a whole week's allowance so you can bet I carefully considered all my options. It was snowy that day and our cottage was on a frozen lake so that probably pushed this one to the top.

Indeed. Thanks for sharing. I'm just starting my SSWS collection and you've definately whetted my appetite. I've always enjoyed them. Some say that the Unknown Soldier is the Batman of war comics.

This thread is fantastic and (under my board settings) approaching 23 pages. Nice job! I will have more to add on Katy Keene soon. Marc

I'm sure that's the reason. Here's our copy of HOM #2 that sold. Obviously a DC. But the DC Romance books are a different story. I'm just wondering if anyone knows why?

Right, just the 10-cent symbol alone screams Fawcett. Like a lot of other publishers Fawcett didn't put its name on certain books. Fawcett shied away from "claiming" its horror books and I believe at one point Harvey did the same thing. Is it the same with DC and its romance books early on? Marc

Of course we do... We also have DC Special 21 (Christmas issue) w/Jonah Hex story and Frank Miller's first Batman story. I think the Albano stories in WWT are very good too. Fleisher is terrific. Marc

Nice books and your comment is dead on. I think they are the best stories in the 1950s too, compared to other DCs. And the 1970s, though I'd put the Weird Westerns up there too. Let's face it, the war (and DC western) books are just more adult than most other genres. For obvious reasons. Marc

Well, this is definitely overdue but I wanted to thank every board member who has bought from us in the past year. Off the top of my head, that includes Povertyrow, Garthgantu, Paperheart, Seank, Wormboy, Norrin Radd, Scrooge, AlexH, FFB, Red Hook, JBud, Jimm94, Jefferykli, Buck Biggins, ArexCrooke, JuliusSeizure, Alberto1975, CrowsQB, and definitely some others whom I've either forgotten to list (Sorry!) or who didn't identify themselves when ordering from us or buying at Bay Area shows. Every single one of these guys is terrific to deal with. Cheers, Marc

Well, that's kind of the context I was looking for to support the spanking but it's very likely that Jayman is right. Marc

Shouldn't that be bend "down" instead of "over" then? I think we have to see what her dialogue is with him throughout the book. Is she mad at him? Does she tease him? Etc. But just from reading that one panel I thought spanking. Kaanga is "branch bearing fruit"? Next you'll tell me that Nyoka is a pun... Marc

Why does this not surprise me... He is The Man. Thanks to everyone for sharing these beauties. It's a treat to see the non-regular comics (magazines and MOC) and the Mexican edtions. Marc

According to the liner notes, Gahan wrote songs 3, 7, and 8. I'm sure he has input on the rest. The stories in this book are pretty great.

man, the lyrics to that song are embarrassing. Dave Gahan should never be allowed to write anything ever again. Martin Gore writes the songs actually. Dave just has to sing 'em. I do think "Precious" from the new album is a really, really nice pop song.

It's true. "W" is a great letter for horror. Check out the Gerber guide for all the titles starting with Weird. I must be on an Elmer Fudd kick lately because my first thought was that the (W)ault of Horror just missed. Actually I know I am because there's a new Depeche Mode song that we started singing ala Elmer Fudd. Evewy Dwess You Weaw is a Loaded Gun, oh Liwwian. Just taking the [embarrassing lack of self control] out of Depeche Mode a little bit.

Wow, it's like all the horror books are concentrated at the end of the alphabet, in terms of the new catalog. Anyway, figured you guys had seen enough File Copies of Witches Tales 19 (devil face) so here's a lower grade one that I hope is new to some.

Another good one. Like the rest, a Harley book. It's nice to take a break from all the tedious work of the catalog/site and actually enjoy the books.

I hope this one isn't too off-topic.