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Awesome! Are you selling that on your site? I found it pretty striking myself. It's actually from the new Harley Yee catalog that we are finishing up. It should go to press next week. It wasn't one that we had on his website so I'm going to find out tomorrow whether he still has it and how much it is. Cheers, Marc

Btw, the stories for the #79 and #80 pictured above are pretty good. Marc

I'm more of a fan of certain one shots with the main war characters. DC Special 26 was my first introduction to Enemy Ace. And I am a huge fan of DC Super Stars 15 w/Rock, Unknown Soldier, Marie, etc. I also remember the latter for being the comic that taught me what an ICBM was... Marc

And the dealers who ordered a copy or two and then ate them because those were such superhero crazy times, threw them in the quarter box. Bagged, maybe. Boarded, never! I know because I was ordering one GIC every month and one Sgt. Rock for my little Saturdays-only store and con business. Never sold a single one! At least I kept for myself the last three Rocks published. Hopefully they are at least 9.2. Marc

Also, they are in Germany. Unless I read it too hastily. Marc

I love that line about Sheena regularly goes through all sorts of hell and back. Seems like POP is a good read--not too dry or shrill. I think everyone reading this thread should resolve to bring one new board member to the thread. I'll PM a couple of my board friends about it this weekend. Marc

Man that looks like a cool house. And in New England? Rich in history and lore! Sweet! You don't happen to live in Innsmouth do you? Or Dunwich?

The first appearance of Mighty Mouse is Terry-Toons Comics #38. We just added a copy, otherwise, "I did not know that." Marc

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! It's been years I have been trying to figure out the name of this cartoon. Remember, I grew up in France and the title translation was nowhere near the english title. I had been trying to describe the show to my wife to no avail. Thanks for the flashbacks. Was there ever a series that was mostly about monsters driving around in customized hot rods? I got an email about same a few months ago and wasn't sure. There is an issue of Teenage Hotrodders with a guy in a werewolf mask, but that's the extent of my knowledge.

You hit him in the back of the head with either a gun butt or blackjack. This knocks him out for about 30 minutes but never causes any permanent damage because he had an early flak-jacketesque cowl. I think Robin was hit in the back of the head much more often, almost always with blackjack. Robin had tough hair so he also never sustained any brain damage. Or maybe he did which is why he's always in the corner looking full of shock and awe. Marc

I had the same thought! Nice to see Batman in the corner of the cover doing nothing for a change...

Maybe it's just that I liked the continuing characters (Rock, Unknown Soldier, and the Haunted Tank anyway) so much, but just about every backup from 1960 on was of no interest to me whatsoever. Even Gallery of War. The story where George Washington has the young boy executed is a notable exception. Marc P.S.--The Glanzman OSS stories are a completely different story. I like those even better than the ones with the DC main characters. Certain backups are obviously of such high quality (Goodwin/Toth anyone?) that it goes without saying that they are excepted as well.

I wonder why Marvel or DC never decided to have a character named Wulf or Lomax...

Btw, I agree about those early Sgt. Rocks you posted. I started buying DC war titles the month before the name changes to Sgt. Rock and Unknown Soldier so these books were huge for me as a nine-year-old. Very quickly I subscribed to Sgt. Rock, my first comics subscription. #306 was the first one I got in the mail and it hit me like a ton of bricks.

Well, you're not skirting it with me anyway. I'm sure I agree with you because my favorites are probably the 1968-1979 issues. I loved how in the last panel of #108 (the only Heath job in archive #2) Rock's face finally looks just like it does in all the Heath issues from the early 1970s (my favorite issues). Another example of how in archive two I feel that the creators are really getting settled in and the character(s) is really taking shape. Best, Marc

Absolutely. Btw, isn't this a "swipe" from a OAAW cover in the 1960s? I agree that the quality is always there in the DC war books. Even the 1950s books that don't have continuing characters are great. I just finished the Sgt. Rock archives volume 2 and by the end of the volume I felt that the stories and art were just tremendous. Kanigher and Kubert had really figured out what they were doing with Rock after 20 or so stories they got EVEN BETTER at it. Super stuff. Marc

That would be hilarious. I'll see what I can do. The book is really trashed. The dust jacket, despite being library covered and reinforced, is long-gone. The spine is showing it's guts. Pages are falling out and have fallen out. Plus, there are definitely signs that it is a library book. I'll try to get to it. Marc

BATMAN:FROM THE THIRTIES TO THE SEVENTIES is what really fueled my appetite for those GA Batman comics when I was a kid. My first issue of Detective was also a 100-pager so those reprints helped too, as well as the Treasuries and Famous First Editions. It all kind of hit together for me and thus I love all eras of Batman. None of them seem ridiculous to me because I read them all during my personal golden age. When I was in high school and had already collected some nice early GA Bats and Tecs and WFs, I got a call from the library that something had arrived via intra-library mail. The librarian from the town we lived in when I was eight had discovered that copy of Batman from the 30s to the 70s in the out-of-circulation bin and sent it to me! So I have the actual copy I read all those summer days. Thank you Joyce Greene, super-librarian. Whereever you are. Marc

Isn't that story in Batman from the 30s to the 70s? One summer when I was seven or eight I would walk to the library daily to read that book. Of course we lived next door... Marc

Me too! Wasn't that a great collection? An early Joker appearance by Bob Kane, a killer Jerry Robinson story, a mid-1960s Infantino, this Adams classic, and a Mike Friedrich/Irv Novick/ Giordano short to boot. Too bad most of the so-called Limited Collectors Editions weren't as tight-- they might have sold better if they'd taken better care in selecting the material. It's the red cover, right? Absolutely the best of the Treasuries, although I loved them all. Even the one with the Tweedledum and Tweedledee story. Marc

For some reason I find this book hard to find as I have yet to purchase one. That is a nice grade copy That's one of my favorites too. There are a handful of really classic Batman/Detective space covers from the 1950s that just rock. Harley seems to have the Tec 208 fairly often. Marc

I love that story. The first time I read it was in the treasury format.

Cool! I will check that out. Marc

I think the DC war and western books are consistently better written (or at least, more adult) than any other genre from the 1970s. They are fantastic. The DC war books from the 1960s are just as good (many say better) but I don't have any opinion on 60s DC westerns. Reading the Enemy Ace SSWS or Archie Goodwin Unknown Solider SSWS or the Kanigher/Heath OAAWs from the early 70s are great places to start. Anything with a Sam Glanzman U.S.S. Stevens backup story goes to the top of the list. Marc