Point Five

Funny enough, the Samson story in Fantastic Comics #4 matches up with #3's classic cover. A deranged inventor creates an army of giant red robots and sells them to a dictator, and Samson has to smash them all. It's an entertaining but pretty typical early Fox story, not a masterpiece but fun enough.

Action #3 in a hurry (no surprise there). Though if the Marvel Mystery were a NM #40 or #44, that would make the matchup tougher for me. I can never get enough of those really early Siegel & Shuster books. Would love to own a single-digit Action in any grade, someday.

Very nice Joker covers, Norinn!

I've purchased 16. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 17, 21, 24, 26, 31, 34, 38, 39, 44 Not every day someone completes a Detective #6-11 run. Congrats.

Thanks for the reply and the additional information! If you would be willing to post some covers of French MLJ comics, I'd love to see them and I'm sure there would be a lot of interest here. We have a thread devoted to MLJ as well...

Hi jmf, Your posts are some of the best I've seen here all year. Wonderful stuff! (And your English is just fine, no need to worry.) Do you yourself collect the French versions of these early comics, or the English versions, or both? Are the French versions of the ones you showed us extremely scarce (i.e. very few copies still exist of each), or are they easy enough to locate with some effort? Welcome to the boards. Hope you stick around!

That's a good point, Paul. Earlier this year, I broke down and got mag-sized Mylars for a handful of my GA books. Especially if GA books have slight spine rolls which make them wider, or "snaggable" wear on the edges, it's great to have Mylars they can slide into easily.

Well said... Tec 27 all the way for me too...

Nice site, very easy to navigate. I'll be back!

Thanks to dmgscr for a nice low-grade Zip 29! Great guy to work with, as always! Quick shipping too...

The Cap #1, but it's a squeaker! A different More Fun cover (say, #54?) might tip me the other way... Nah, I'd probably still go with Cap.

Thanks, Arch! Nice changes.

Many congratulations, Deve!

I think I can hear Danny/MutantKeys frantically going through his sofa cushions looking for enough spare change...

Great book! I was at a NYC convention a few years ago, and someone (from the boards maybe?) presented Jerry Robinson with a copy of this book to be signed as I was looking on. I won't soon forget how Jerry's face just lit up with surprise and pleasure at seeing it again, all these years later.

I'll say!...and when I do see it, it doesn't have colors like that. Very nice copy!

Sounds good to me!

...But FWIW, rules #1-8 sound just fine.

I agree. Also, the part about "threads may not be bumped to the top until a week after they have fallen off of the front page" is a big disappointment. I realize Arch is trying to prevent serial bumping, but a week seems much too long to keep any momentum. Speaking as one of the "little fish" that the guidelines are presumably trying to protect, I would have lost out on most of my sales if this had been in effect before.

A shout out to qualitycomix for some early ASMs. Grading right on; excellent communication and packing; well pleased all around. Thanks, Brent!

Kudos right back at you, Deve! A real pleasure working with you on this transaction. Jon

If you like Farr's work (I do too), look for DC's humor anthology titles. I have All Funny 15 (1947) with a great Super-Sleuth McFooey story. The distinctive art and lettering you mention really shines there -- I think that it's the best feature in the book. He drew Slam Bradley for a while, lots of humor fillers and sometimes used the pen name O. Shux. Try searching him at the GCD. Jack Cool! Thanks for the reply.

Thanks for the info!...& sorry for the misinformation. If you can shed any light on other myths that have sprung up about Fox, please jump right in. Other than the few obvious sources it's pretty hard to find out anything at all about these guys.

Showcase, your book is even more key than you thought: First use of the "gorilla" theme in a 1930s comic....