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as featured in one of your toughest quizzes, if I remember right. Jack

I get a chuckle out of these Dell photo covers with cartoon figures in the background. Distinctive -- do you know who drew them? Interesting cast! Which actor played Borax? (of course the name caught my eye) In the page below, it looks almost like Gabby Hayes. I don't think that could be Ebsen or Pickens. Good stuff! Cool to place a western in Hawaii. We've seen the ranches there -- very impressive. The story was contemporary, right? I've seen that word. Kalaka = truck. I should have known that you'd think of a way to sneak in a pretty girl in a bright sarong! Jack

Yay! Return of the feature that attracted me to the CGC boards. I either owe Scrooge my thanks or he owes me the hundreds of hours I've spent here. I like Harman's sketchy, semi-cartoony style a lot now, but it's nothing that would have attracted me as a kid. I've got a handful of Red Ryders, Little Beavers, etc., in my accumulation, since they often show up cheap in lots. I don't think I've read any of them, nor seen any of the films. That lose-um, play-um, rob-um shtick sure gets tiresome fast. Great write-up, Scrooge. Jack

So, those are women? No one would accuse that of being good OR bad girl art;) No, those are paratroopers. They all look like that, regardless of gender. (I sure am glad Sharon made that comment before any men saw the scans.) Hold on. I thought that you had READ this book before you sent it! Did the scans at least look vaguely familiar? Jack

Jack, sorry to quote this for the dozenth time but I would love to know more about this story. I notice that they refer to the nurse as Russian in the caption. I can't remember ever seeing a WWII story with a sympathetic Russian main character before. Are there further references to her nationality in the story, or is it a fairly generic war story? Any chance we could see another page or two? Very strongly identified as Russian. It's more of a fact piece than a generic war story. Since it was only four pages total, I scanned the rest. Amazing for them Russkies to be heroes in comic books, when just a few years later they'd be vilified in the Cold War comics. Jack

Is this the cover that started your "sexy Wilma" fetish? ?? Sorry -- no embarrassment intended. You're the one that posted them, right? (and/or used them as avatar?) I thought they were funny. Jack

Nice one. This cover has an old-school Dell Four Color look to it. Jack

Nice copies, but these "table of contents covers" just don't appeal to me. Jack

Is this the cover that started your "sexy Wilma" fetish? Jack

Double entendre (double voir?) cover? Na-a-a-ah -- just hungry chipmunks. Jack

Hmm. What kind of a kook would admit to owning, much less indexing for GCD, a lame-oh series like that? Nice copies! Jack (if anyone is interesting in indexing theirs, I'd be glad to help you out)

Jack, sorry to quote this for the dozenth time but I would love to know more about this story. I notice that they refer to the nurse as Russian in the caption. I can't remember ever seeing a WWII story with a sympathetic Russian main character before. Are there further references to her nationality in the story, or is it a fairly generic war story? Any chance we could see another page or two? I'm not ignoring you -- not with malicious intent anyway. Just back from 3 days out of town and will post more info and maybe more scans as time allows after I catch up a little. JPS

Parachute Nurse, .and I never noticed... We're going to have to work on your reading comprehension skills. Jack

Awesome. Just plain awesome. So, I guess when the Beetle isn't busting crime he's drawing the funny books. Did someone just call one of my Golden Age books awesome? I've never used that smileyface before (because I've never needed it). Thanks, Jack (BB should stick to crimebusting.)

Another skypinkblu book added to my meager Golden Age collection. Blue Beetle 22, June 1943. Really amateurish cover, isn't it? Did Quinlan draw it? An office boy? I picked this one to post partly to point out the Parachute Nurse feature to paratrooper. Jack

Golden Age? Atomic Age? I guess it belongs here. Blackhawk 56, Sept. 1952, one of four from the skypinkblu collection. Nice looking reader copy with bright colors, featuring the War Wheel, one of my favorite Blackhawk images from the Cold War era. Jack

Catching up a bit -- busy week!!! Fun page. You can never have too much pyrophoric acid vapors. As a bonus, Wonder Woman punk rocker prototype panel: Right! Now ha, ha, I am an antichrist I am an anarchist Don't know what I want But I know how to get it I wanna destroy the passerby... Jack

Thanks! Utterly bizarre. Jack

Did you scan any more pages of the story, like the one with the Plant-Man throwing the flower? Thanks, Jack

Slam Bradley. Now I recognize him from the back. (thumbs u Holy Fudd! [in Two Billion A.D.: Part 1] (Sequence 11 - story , 13 pages ) Feature Story: Slam Bradley Credits: Jerry Siegel (-script), Shuster Shop (Pencils), Shuster Shop (Inks), ? (Colors), ? (Letters). Character appearances: I: Prof. Kenton, a bird-man, and an orange man; V: A flower-man (I) Genre: detective Indexer notes: Slam and Shorty go to the year 2,000,000,000 A.D. That's a Slam Bradley story? I had no idea that he had time travel / science fiction adventures. I thought he was just a hard-boiled detective. Does the genre label fit this story at all? Good one, BZ! Jack

I did! but I have a feeling that's not quite the copy you mean. Jack I hate to say it, Jack, but even MY copy, is better than that one;) Interesting use of yellows;) Oh, yeah? Well, the cover's attached -- and maybe it's a variant! Jack

I did! but I have a feeling that's not quite the copy you mean. Jack

SpendingMoneyLikeaDrunkenSailor Man Comics #1? Jack

My favorite is #3 (it's got that classical mythology thing going too), but the whole early series is packed with classic covers. Absolutely! BB 28, JLoA 1, 3, 7, 9, 21, 29, 30... Too bad people like to dump on Sekowsky, although I think the quality of the covers owes more than a little to Anderson's inks -- especially the JSA crossover covers. Jack I'm one of those who dump on Sekowsky, although he does grow on you a bit because he is the definitive JLA artist. I just can't help thinking what this series would have been like if Anderson had drawn the early issues...But I love the series despite its imperfections, and the covers are fantastic. Anderson covers would have been even better (but sometimes I think Sekowsky just told him "ink a JSA member right there" on the crossover covers). Jack

GACollectibles, you get a point (no one is keeping track as far as I know, so that means that I have 2,875 points right now), the adulation of your peers and the honor of asking the next question. Jack Congratulations GACollectibles!! Also my 1000th post! I was going to do something special but I guess I kinda blew it.