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Mystery solved. I actually did have some, crappy, pictures of the run. The two isues are #79 and #89. Slight variations to the cover, hair color, dress color, etc, but the gag is identical. You can see most of the #89, but it is enough to compare it to #79 above. #89 is the second from the bottom right in the top picture, #79 is 5th from the right in the bottom row of the second picture. Thanks for the research. Surprising that they'd publish the same cover gag twice so close together. DC was notorious for recycling covers, but usually at least 5 years apart! A couple of books for the want list. Does either book have a story related to the cover? Jack I doubt it, the cover gag usually was just that. But since I don't have them anymore I will have to defer. How could you bear to part with your precious run of Wilbur Comics? Surely a red-hot title! Thanks, Jack

Mystery solved. I actually did have some, crappy, pictures of the run. The two isues are #79 and #89. Slight variations to the cover, hair color, dress color, etc, but the gag is identical. You can see most of the #89, but it is enough to compare it to #79 above. #89 is the second from the bottom right in the top picture, #79 is 5th from the right in the bottom row of the second picture. Thanks for the research. Surprising that they'd publish the same cover gag twice so close together. DC was notorious for recycling covers, but usually at least 5 years apart! A couple of books for the want list. Does either book have a story related to the cover? Jack

Capes, Cowls, and Moons. How can you go wrong Heck, yeah. Batman's even on the LEFT once! Jack Damn it Jim, I'm a chemist not a mathematician! (twice) *Good god!* *CHOKE!* Jack

Capes, Cowls, and Moons. How can you go wrong Heck, yeah. Batman's even on the LEFT once! Jack

Great stuff! Those early Batman covers sure had a lot of variety, didn't they? Jack

Prove it Easy to prove that DCs sucked last year. Just open one up. (The covers do still open, don't they -- except maybe Power Girl books?) Jack (actually has about the first 1/2 of 52 and will probably try reading it soon)

Montclair Art Museum in Montclair NJ. The formal opening for the comic book community was last month and they threw quite a shindig honoring artists like Murphy Anderson, Joe Kubert, Joe Simon Irwin Hasen and a few others. i be there.....here is a picture i took of Murphy..... i will let one of you computer whizs figure how to rotate it once it is uploaded.... jb Murphy Anderson fans -- get over to the Survivor thread on General and stop this travesty! SA ARTIST SURVIVOR SERIES You may choose 2 (145 total votes) Neal Adams 6 04% Murphy Anderson 22 15% John Buscema 5 03% Gene Colan 13 9% Steve Ditko 4 3% Bill Everett 26 18% Russ Heath 10 7% Carmine Infantino 14 10% Gil Kane 2 01% Jack Kirby 3 02% Joe Kubert 0 0% John Romita Sr 6 04% John Severin 15 10% Jim Steranko 2 01% Alex Toth 12 08% Wally Wood 5 03% 8 votes for Severin would do it! Or 9 for his frequent partner Infantino. Anderson not in the top 10 SA artists just plain puzzles me. Jack

I hate to say this, but this is just ONE of the reasons I liked Marvel better than DC!!! The fact that they were NOT more serious is why they sucked!!!! Yeah, but DC "learned their lesson" and became obsessed with continuity (with the help of many fans-turned-writers) to the point that it became an albatross around their necks -- at least from the point of view of the editorial staff that decided to "fix" it with Crisis on Infinite Earths, then again with Zero Hour, then again with..... Don't get me wrong -- I'm a continuity freak too. I liked Earth-1 and Earth-2 jes' fine. When the number of parallel universes gets over a dozen, or the backstory gets so convoluted that every character is someone else's grandparent AND cousin (as it can at Marvel), I lose interest. Interesting to see such a strong "who cares about continuity" reply from Weisinger just before the Silver Age went into full bloom, isn't it? Jack

From the same batch that I was posting a week or so ago, Adventure Comics 264, September 1959. I'm not posting to show off the condition (it's no better than vg-, although attractive DC books from this era are not that easy to find). Mostly I wanted to show this letter and reply from the Smallville Mailsack. Mort Weisinger comments on continuity: "The Atlantis AQUAMAN's mother came from has a different set-up than the Atlantis presented in the SUPERMAN story.... If writers didn't use their imagination to vary conditions, all comic book stories and science fiction movies would become so repetitious you'd soon lose interest." Good ol' Unca Mort. Anyone losing interest yet? Jack

Really cool books. No, it didn't occur to me to look under "Large". Why are two Large Feature books listed 150 pages apart? I'm flattered that you think I own a 2007 Overstreet. Every 2-3 years I pick up last year's for a buck and it's good enough for me. Jack

Very nice! What series are the Tracy and Lone Ranger books from? Jack

You confused me here. You're saying that you were not surprised by the answer. I will agree that once you know the answer it becomes obvious. I meant that since you asked, it would turn out to be someone totally out of left field. Don Heck or Jack Sparling or primordial Rob Liefeld or such. Too much double-think. It's a fine quiz. Carry on. Jack

Let's see if at least you can ID an artist and establish how dorky you are. One and all can guess. Who drew this page? - I cheated and looked it up. I expected to be more surprised. Jack

I'm amazed that you're finding such primo copies of these romance books. Time machine? The guy's hands on that one totally crack me up. "Better not grab -- Barbara's watching!" I really like that logo -- it looks like DC was going for a faux underground look! Were DC romance books popular with some stoners? The boogyin' down mom is hilarious. Jack

Thanks for posting! I actually enjoyed reading that and thought the art fit the rhyming storyline! Guess I'm a short-busser! Ditto. A sappy story, but the pictures of the fish with glasses were fun in a bizarre way. I can imagine sitting down with your kid in your lap and having a good time reading it to him or her. The Alice story looks like it has all the life sucked out of it though. Jack

Yes. My original image was going to be this one, but I thought someone might recognize the glove. Scrooge could have gotten it from this. "Call me weird, but I recognized the orange." Jack

You mean the vignette itself or the story inside? I always thought / assumed that the cover artist also drew the vignettes and I would say Everett. The interior art is not IDed with certainty but the AtlasTales crew put it as Burgos? On second thoughts, I have seen some vignettes clearly not by the cover artist which leads to doubt. Do others think the vignette is also drawn by Everett? It looks all Everett to me. Actually I meant both the vignette and the story but wasn't very clear. As far as I know, the vignettes are sometimes but not always by the main cover artist. I was helping with some Atlas GCD indexing a while back that got very bogged down in "Who did which part of the cover?" Burgos probably did the interior story? Then I'd say that Everett did the vignette. I could believe either Ditko (who apparently didn't touch this book) or Everett, but not Burgos. It's an appealing little image. Jack

Nice pick-up! I probably shouldn't admit it because it's an Everett cover, but I actually like this vignette better than the main cover. I'm more of a science fiction/fantasy than horror fan. The vignette looks to me like Ditko but the story is uncredited at GCD. Does anyone know who drew it? Jack

THANKS! Good page. Unfortunately I only have # 5, 5, 6, 8, 8. Anyone want to trade for my spare 5 & 8 (if I can find them)? More like Th-232! Th-212 is way too light. Possibly the writers didn't know it's a real element, like the DC writers who "invented" promethium. Poor ol' Ming. Do you suppose he'll be back? Jack

And unrestored, of course! Jack (Eeeuuwwgghh -- is that a dreaded GLUE SPOT on my Calling All Kids 4?)

Me too! The joy of Short-Bus books is that you can find out for just a few bucks -- if you can find them. "Icicle the Turtle"? Don't turtles die when they get too cold? He's flying with a tree branch tied to the back of his shell? Jack

*check list* Looks like I've got 5 Calling All Kids and a handful of True Comics and True Aviation, some coverless. I'll have to take a another look at them. Calling All Kids features the animated star, right? Jack

Wow, the ol' Bus don't get much Shorter than this! Must be one of those "kneeling" buses. So many amazingly silly details without even seeing all the interiors: The imaginative name, "Buggsy Bug". "The fish that wore glasses", apparently swiped 20 years later by Don Knotts in "The Incredible Mr Limpet". A buck with forks attached to his antlers. The realization at issue 6 that all the good funny animals were taken, followed by the desperation move of opening the dictionary to O and creating Otto the Oyster and the Ugly Ostrich. These Poopy books look like something I'd buy! Jack

It has a very Creig Flessel pre hero tec feel to it! That's the main reason I love it! There's a straightforward reason. Thanks, Jack

Maybe it is how beautifully drawn WW is? Could be -- the very clean, almost minimalist style? Now we're down to differing in taste. Personally, I prefer Peter's baroque style or Andru's sharp update over Novick's version. Probably I'll have to duck rotten pomegranates if I admit here that I like Bolland's sexy muscle woman Copper Age (?) WW more than Andru's take -- but I don't know what's inside of those covers. Jack