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Interesting question! On Detective, if this is "shocked" enough, here's the first, Jan 1942 This is the first that really looks shocked, March 1942 On Batman, this one isn't quite shocked either, June-July 1942 Looks like it's an old ploy that didn't become a cliché until the 1950s. Here's a gem from Dec 1950- Jan 1951 It looks like maybe Mortimer started it, Moldoff picked it up and used it as a standard cover element. Classic Moldoff example from March 1957 Jack

I thought he got started showing bottoms of noses when he was drawing Atom. Here are 2 covers in a row but the interior art often showed Atom hurtling up from below to whack the bad guy in the chin (usually) or nose. Jack

That's a relief. There's a coarse grid of dots above the "ghost" of the bottom of the book up to the bottom of the logo too. Must be a scanner or computer glitch. A re-scan should do the trick. Jack

No, I scanned it raw. I can see a faint imprint on the splash page that makes up part of the image, but it looks like the wording is from the cover itself. It must not be clear what I meant. Look at the scan to the left of the "bird" finger and just above the bottom staple. The pattern continues on the black area to the left of the book. The mark can't actually be on the book, right? What am I missing? Jack

What a cool and unusual book! What's that band at the level of the fingertips? A digital watermark? A holder? I noticed that as well after I scanned the book. I think it is some sort of watermark that appeared becaue of the high resolution on the scanner. It's not part of an image that appears overtly on the interior, which is what I initially thought it was. Interesting. It can't be a watermark on the book itself, can it? It extends past the spine. Were you scanning through a holder? Jack

What a cool and unusual book! What's that band at the level of the fingertips? A digital watermark? A holder? Jack

I got very interested in the General Electric Adventure Series/ Adventures in Science series promos, and I still have no idea whether I have them all. Have they shown up in Overstreet or any other guide yet? (I don't have the latest editions.) Are there any experts here with a list of known issues? Maybe we could compare notes. Which is the best forum for this topic? Jack

Sure -- I hope it was clear that I was kidding. I'm also curious what you did about Cancelled Comics Cavalcade 1-2. Did you get first-generation copies? Jack

Thanks! The thought must have crossed your mind to have one copy of "Bat-Levine" created and printed -- cruelly creating your own urban myth and guaranteeing the only complete DC collection in one fell swoop! Jack

Thanks. I wish we had more time to work on it lately. Suggestions of elements in comic books are gratefully accepted. Platinum to modern, although I prefer Gold and Silver Age sightings. Best of all -- provide a page or cover scan! They'll go on a list to be added --- some day. Back to the real topic, does Ian's collection include books (everything from Archives to DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comic Book Heroes) or just "pamphlet" format? That's probably been discussed long ago -- a link would be jes' fine. Jack

Thanks -- just what I needed. There's so much info in the archives that it can be daunting to a new guy. Jack

Of course. And last year they said the Superman/Bradman comic was worth four bucks. And Twisted Metal was something similar. And nobody (including me) has ever been able to get a copy of Supergear at even ten times guide. Could some knowledgeable collector fill us new viewers in on the obscure promo books? I've never heard of Bradman and have no idea why Twisted Metal or the Tooth book are so hard to come by. Thanks, Jack