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I had to pay multiples of guide on this book as well. It probably cost me $3. It came from an original owner who collected every DC comic off the newstand starting around 1969 until his death. He didn't read them and stored them carefully in a cool location, so have they have white pages and glossy covers like Oakland copies. He was not super-picky so some of the copies were just VFs. I picked up about 100 books, but didn't pick up all of the rare romance and humor titles like I could have. (Who would have thought ANYONE would have been interested in those?)

I paid an obscence multiple on both, over 10x guide. The 4 was $50 and the 5 was $35. Those were the days.

More kissy stuff: the back cover of DC 100 Page 5.

It's interesting that the follow-up to the horror reprints was the romance -- they only got around to the superheros in the 3rd 100 page giant. I realize this is a little off-topic, but I have seen the DC Special Romance posted in the thread, so thought this might okay.

I've been enjoying this thread -- a lot of really nice Wrightson, Adams, Kaluta, Sutton etc. I'm still fond of this book in particular as it kicked off the 100 Page series from DC.

WOW! The condition of that copy is as spectacular as the art! Rare, Do you have a particular favorite amongst your Flessel covers?

Re: Talkative. Too much work this week, it's time to play! Re: Nordli has credit with Warner Bors cartoons who I always assumed were in CA. Dell was the printer for Western Publishing, who handled editorial content of issues until their separation/divorce. Carl Barks was in CA providing his work for Western in the 40s. Also, many animators who lived/worked in CA provided stories for the New York comic publishers. Evanier has written about this in his columns. Re: Coloring. I think the green was used to complement the yellow. Wish I could ascribe more thought/intelligence to the colorist, but I just can't find a justification for it. They don't even seem to use very many shades of the primary colors, besides being too lazy to apply different colors to a person's face, coat, shirt, shoes, etc. I do think the colorist on the Capt Marvel pages was fine -- I can't comment on the missing color you mentioned but it does sound like a slip-up.

Nice pickup! Scarecrow was a well-thought out, colorful villain for Batman. Having all 3 of those appearances is quite a coup!

Collect what you enjoy! Collect what I don't enjoy. You'll make me happy. May I suggest books from 1980 or there after? There's always Spawn.

It looks like Avon hired the same cheap colorist to do their books as did a lot of the second-tier Fawcett titles. You would see coloring like on this page where a character is colored a single color for no rhyme or reason, and there might be just a couple other colors laid in the background, without regard to what was actually drawn. It's like you hired unskilled 10 year old to do it. And then told him to do it poorly.

Scrooge: I read the first page of each of these Beck stories in Capt Marvel. Are the whole stories as fun to read as they look?

Ernest Nordli IMDB is a terrific resource -- it and GCD are tops in their respective fields as far as providing credits. It looks like he continued doing regular animation work for years and must have been supplementing his income, like other animators, doing work for Dell and other publishers.

You'll see this on the Bobby Benson 14 -- which, as we know, was from this same month. You finally got me off my duff to look this one up on google and Ore. is the abbreviation for the Swedish krona. Speculation: Maybe a shipment of comics from this month was never sent to the country? Or it was returned, stored somewhere and later sold to a comics dealer? It's interesting that you have a typical US distributor mark and the 50 Ore.

Pre-code, yes, but it fits in with Sterling's.

Nice comics Sterling Those are all very cool books -- and from a very tough time period.

Collect what you enjoy! Collect what I don't enjoy. You'll make me happy.

Another superb posting! A little art, a little history what's not to like? This Ravielli page is wonderful -- nicest work that I've seen by him. How did you come up with the Scott Shaw link? Are you googling or just a visitor to his site and spotted the issue? I hope you are saving these posts as you could use them in your own blog or website.

Very nice books you have there, btw!!! Thanks! You'll see a few near the end of the pre-code horror thread as well. I like a wide variety of comics which is why I was checking out the bronze horror.

Thanks. I'll check out the pre-code thread! I'll post a few more as time permits There are a lot of very cool threads in GA. Watch out! Many enter, few depart.

Those are tough books, Sterling. Thanks for posting. I'm currently browsing through the infinite bronze horror thread, so it was a pleasant surprise to see you posting over here. I'm definitely enjoying your posts over there. Have checked out the pre-code horror thread in GA? http://boards.collectors-society.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=592290&an=0&page=0#592290

I'm afraid I don't have any Flessel books to contribute to the thread, but I'm sure enjoying the copies everyone has been posting. THANKS!

WOW! What an enormous ......... scan And that's a fabulous copy!!!! Thanks for posting.

You right, it is But it's still sweeeeet! Bill Everett! Slabbed? How do you read it?

Is it just me, or does anyone else think that Gor-Kill has the cutest "paws" of any evil pre-hero monster? (Great books, DNAgent)