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We already knew that you were exaggerating when you mentioned reading a text page. What a great-looking book. My favorite Golden Age series. Jack

GEEK PARADISE!! Congrats. Jack

Rocket and his pals sure are happy to be flying through the Valley of Floating Meatballs! Jack even some meatballs flambé

WOW! Well chosen. In the midst of all the Baker and Fiction House, maybe no one else will notice the digests. Those look great! I'd like to finish off the Adventure set some day. Have fun with your goodies! Jack

Did someone already mention that a key scene of Adventures of Kavalier & Clay takes place in the ruins of the 1939 World's Fair? JPS

It wasn't an easy one. The Colan was easier. Sinnott, just 3 issues before (Battle 62 vs. Battle 65), looked completely different. From the page below, I would have said: Robert Q. Sale even though it is Sinnott. The splash is not enough to go on but it's signed for proof. Quite different from the Heath look in issue 65 I wondered about Sale but it didn't seem violent enough -- not confident enough to send the guess. The Sinnott pages do remind me of his work in Treasure Chest about that time, if I remember right. Jack

I think I can translate "Hump...hump...hump..." Jack

Cheyenne, cheyenne He lives in a garbage can... Sorry, uncontrollable reflex Jack

Ivan Reis rocks Very nice, but is DC jumping on the zombie bandwagon about 2 years too late? Jack

I have them. Oh-h, I so wish I could find them quickly; just so I could torment you...you...you Hatlo hater. I bet Scrooge secretly collects Little Iodine comics. Jimmy Hatlo Link All element covers! I buy Little Iodine on the cheap (do I even need to add that last part?) but they don't show up very often. Hatlo must have a reasonably strong fan base, or the issues simply weren't saved like more popular titles. Jack

because if he stands up in a Superman suit with that teacher . . . Rifleman 10 Somebody doesn't think that wooden pencil placement was an accident, eh? Jack

I wonder how many versions of that cover DC used at about that time. This one and Teen Titans for sure, but I think there were more. Jack

ALL FANTASTIC! Overdue to visit the Four Color thread? Do you have series 1 #25 to confirm that the first Jeep page is reprinted there? Jack I think you have Barks on your mind. Should be 127. I have the Popeye with the space ship and FC 113 and a GK giant size, and the Jeep issue but nothing else other than some odds and ends. Eh? I thought that the first Jeep page that you were asking about was probably narrowed down to this book. *No title given or indexed* (Sequence 1 - Story , 67 pages ) Feature Story: Thimble Theatre Credits: Elsie Segar (-script), Elsie Segar (signed) (Pencils), Elsie Segar (Inks), ? (Colors), ? (Letters). Character appearances: Popeye; Olive Oyl; Wimpy; The Jeep; Sea Hag; Swee Pea; The Goon; Poopdeck Pappy Reprinted: From Thimble Theatre newspaper strips (King Features Syndicate) 1935 - 1937. Genre: Humor/Adventure Indexer notes: entire book comprised of 1 page reprints of Thimble Theatre from 1935-1937. Starts on inside front cover (black/red) and ends on back cover. Brutus on cover only--not in book. First appearance of "the Jeep" reprinted? JPS

lol XLNT observations cheetahman! Also, why does the big guy have his shirt on backward?? And why does the cat have five legs? I was wrong, that's a great cover! I love the questions, but I think that one's easy. The second-last one (with only one toe) is his white-tipped tail curled under. Jack

ALL FANTASTIC! Overdue to visit the Four Color thread? Do you have series 1 #25 to confirm that the first Jeep page is reprinted there? Jack

Is he more perfect than a Shmoo? From Wikipedia: They reproduce asexually and are very prolific. They require no sustenance other than air. Naturally gentle, they require minimal care, and are ideal playmates for young children. Shmoos are delicious to eat, and are eager to be eaten. If a human looks at one hungrily, it will happily immolate itself, either by jumping into a frying pan, after which they taste like chicken, or into a broiling pan, after which they taste like steak. When roasted they taste like pork, and when baked they taste like catfish. (Raw, they taste like oysters on the half-shell.) They also produce eggs (neatly packaged), milk (bottled grade-A), and butter — no churning required. Their pelts make perfect bootleather or house timber, depending on how thick you slice it. They have no bones, so there's absolutely no waste. Their eyes make the best suspender buttons, and their whiskers make perfect toothpicks. In short, they are simply the perfect ideal of a subsistence agricultural herd animal. The frolicking of shmoon is so entertaining (such as their staged "shmoosical comedies") that people no longer feel the need to watch television or go to the movies. Shmoo Link well, after much deliberation, Shmoos win considering their enourmously beneficial properties, but I still like Jeep better. Shmoo - Jeep cage match. Winner takes on Hello Kitty. Jack or maybe The Shmoo-Smurf War!

ZZZZzzzzzz Here's an interesting find. (To me, anyway.) Three Mouseketeers 3 (August 1956) -- itself not all that common -- with lots of Sheldon Meyer artwork. Look who shows up in one of the Three Mouseketeers stories! It's Cecil "Spike" Wilson, who had just started appearing in his own book with Sugar Plumm a few months earlier. A little older, speaking much better English, and a budding PETA member, but unmistakably Spike! Jack

Strip is August 9, 1936 Four Color Series 1 #25 reprints Thimble Theatre 1935 - 1937, so it's almost certainly in there. It's not in any of the series 2 books, as far as I know. JPS

The Short Bus hardly stops here any more. Cross-posted from General. Beater of the Week! Two things you don't see very often -- a copy of Real Screen 12 and Fox getting the upper hand over Crow. Jack

I wasn't paying attention to comics at all when this one was published. What a great Sienkiewicz cover! Was he Marvel's best cover artist at the time? Beater of the Week! Two things you don't see very often -- a copy of Real Screen 12 and Fox getting the upper hand over Crow. Jack

JACK! OH NO... NO! I love it. Anyone know who the taxi driver is? Looks like a portrait of Hartley or one of his friends to me. Jack

GGAAHH!! That looks almost like an Eerie Publications cover (Myron Fass) Jack

WHEE-DAWGIES! Overall nice-looking copies, too. A few tougher ones, right? Real McCoys, Alice Unbirthday, Yak Yak (Jack Davis and one of the last few issues) Well done. Now that you have them in hand, care to reveal your source? Jack Thanks Jack! Yeah just a few that aren't great looking but in general great eye-appeal on these. Do you need the Roy Rogers at bottom right, # 177. I already have a copy Yes, I do. (Well, my wife would disagree about "need," but I want it.) Thanks! If that double is the biggest mistake you make this week, you live a charmed life. King of the Royal Mounted #283 looks nice. I see that you ignored my question about source Jack

WHEE-DAWGIES! Overall nice-looking copies, too. A few tougher ones, right? Real McCoys, Alice Unbirthday, Yak Yak (Jack Davis and one of the last few issues) Well done. Now that you have them in hand, care to reveal your source? Jack

8th of August I get Whats the P.M. ? Harold Macmillan pedigree JPS