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Phantasmo's thinking is: If you've got it, flaunt it. Errr...you KNOW, I might have to revise my thinking here, he's not HALF bad... Thanks Bangzoom, for showing me the error of my ways... and good night to you all, you've kept me up too late, but I've been smiling! The back half? Jack

I know what you mean. There is way too much cool stuff being posted around here, and I want to go after more of it too! I may have to give up shoes myself... Sharon, this could be the series for you. Not only does it feature crazy Fletcher Hanks stories inside, but all the covers have guys with their shirts off! .... If that's the key, Sharon, you might as well go whole hog with The Funnies issues featuring Phantasmo, the Master of the World. He skips more than the shirt. Jack

I'm posting these 10¢ Lois Lane covers in the Silver Age artist contest over in General and decided to put them here too. Visit General for more comments. Nice Curt Swan cover. Funky copy of (I think) Kurt Schaffenberger's first pencils on a Lois cover. Jack

Very nice! Will you post some individual issues now that they're out? I did two of the (ONLY) four Comics on Parade indexed at GCD -- an Abner and a Nancy. If anyone would like to give it a try but doesn't know how to start, let me know. Jack

Merry Christmas! Bought at a flea market for $10 You are kidding, right? That is awesome. Please explain your good fortune.... And please tell me where this flea-market is! I bet it's in Flee-Marquette. Jack (well played)

But only one Marvel Comics 1. It'll never work. [sigh] Jack Time for you to hussle up some scratch for that second book Jack. There's an "itch" joke lurking around here, but fortunately I have extraordinary self-control. Jack

Very nice! I don't recall seeing this one before. I do have a $2 BTH cover of Jimmy 54 (somewhere). Thanks, Jack

Thanks to adamstrange and Scrooge for the precursor covers -- to me, one of the most interesting parts of collecting. Jack

I bought 'em off the stands up to #66 too, Methuselah. I wasn't sure what to make of Adam's lanky, serpentine figures. I preferred Steranko's pop-art innovations at the time. Now I can appreciate them both, especially since Steranko didn't stay in the game for the long term. Jack

But only one Marvel Comics 1. It'll never work. [sigh] Jack

How 'bout that? Marvel Comics 1 is a genuine chick magnet! Congrats on the purchase. Jack WOW!!!! Congrats (((Rick!!)))

It's a nice clean front cover, for sure. My scanner oversaturates the yellow -- the background should be more pastel than the text box. Tough to adjust the levels without distorting. Mid-grade copy. Edge tear on the back cover, weak lower right corner. Probably vg+ to fn-, but I'm happy with it. Do you have the original pulp or Superboy precursors, or at least cover scans? (I know I've posted borrowed scans here, but no time to hunt for them now.) Jack

I've got to show one of my recent buys from skypinkblu. Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen 53, Giant Turtle Man! Attractive mid-grade copy. This is one of my favorite Silver Age DC books. I know that the cover is a twice-recycled pulp cover, but I love it anyway. Like most old favorites, it's partly the nostalgic buzz of remembering the first time I read the book, sitting on the floor of Aunt Mary Alice's and Uncle Jack's living room floor in Lakewood, OH. A bottled city of Kandor story, a weird transformation story, and a time trave story, all for a dime (well, Sharon made me pay more than a dime). CRRRGGG! Jack

"Exciting things you can do with HIM!" HAW! And another Mercedes Benz pendant, like the Harvey book. I've gotta stop, but these are just too fun. Thanks for posting them. Jack

Gotta comment on a few others. CREEPY! Is she a mutant? She reminds me of the little girl in the Marvels miniseries. Really unusual for a BOY to be the love-torn character on the cover. Sisters are big-time b1tches in romance books, aren't they? I wonder why the writers liked that plotline so much. Jack

Impressive set of high-grade romance books! They crack me up big time. The writers were having too much fun with this one -- obviously the reader is supposed to guess the answer with her major hooters in the foreground. Jack

Thanks so much, Charles, right back at ya!! It was my pleasure:) Jack (apologies that it's a commercial)

Actually, I think the point is debatable. Often the originals are displayed either with the paintings or in the exhibit catalog, and I think that people who show up at a Lichtenstein exhibit do come away with a better appreciation for the strong graphic design of the originals. ARGH! That's really rude. Who is "they"? "They" should have offered freakin' travel expenses or skipped the insulting invitation. Is that documented somewhere? Jack Story was related to me in conversation with Russ. As far as educating the public, I would hardly think they do much as it's not like L. picked the best examples. Going through the web site of all of the swipes didn't send any chills up my spine about the art in DC War comics. At times the art is mundane but there are killers stories by Heath, Grandenetti, Kubert, Severin etc. Lichtenstein wasn't out to educate anyone. In fact, some of the subjects that he and Warhol worked on were picked specifically because they were mundane. (google) Lichtenstein article "What Lichtenstein did with his art was to set the stage for the elevation of the mundane and the popular to the level of DaVinci. All those books that treat shows like The Simpsons and Buffy the Vampire Slayer as seriously as Shakespeare or Chaucer owe a debt of gratitude to Roy Lichtenstein. His genius was in the transformation of representation from the obvious to the sublime. " But I'm not trying to talk you into anything. You like 'em, you don't. All the same to me. Jack

Actually, I think the point is debatable. Often the originals are displayed either with the paintings or in the exhibit catalog, and I think that people who show up at a Lichtenstein exhibit do come away with a better appreciation for the strong graphic design of the originals. ARGH! That's really rude. Who is "they"? "They" should have offered freakin' travel expenses or skipped the insulting invitation. Is that documented somewhere? Jack

Kudos to YOU, Jack, it was SO much fun, you have a marvelous sense of humor and I feel like I made a new friend...(we certainly spent eons together over that list....ummm...it was NOT ridiculous...but I ain't taking one of your classes... Thanks so much for the wonderful communication, the fast payment, and the GRADING...(not comic grading, list related grading.. but I would do it again in a second! Wow. Maybe YOU should have paid ME for all that fun. Jack

Kudos (a big ol' bouquet of them) to Sharon (skypinkblu) for a huge box of ebay and want-list non-ebay comics. She deserves a lot of credit just for plodding through my ridiculous want list. Plenty of BTH readers, just the way I like 'em. The prices were fair and the banter was fun. Jack

Jack, I'm pretty sure that JLA #88 is the only cover that she is on---at least in the first 200 issues. That was my guess. Thanks. Jack

I agree with aman, although it's an endless argument on comic-book boards and the majority is virtually always bitterly critical of Lichtenstein. The most convincing argument that Lichtenstein's work works on its own is to attend an exhibit of his paintings (and I've seen some good ones), stand in front of some of the huge canvases and realize that the effect is totally different from a comic-book panel. Actually, he worked in several styles and media, but the comic-book paintings are the most remembered and discussed. There are some good discussion points on the this page of the Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein site. I'm not biasing toward my own view -- the site is overall very critical of Lichtenstein. Main entry to the site is here. This is the standard "pro-Lichtenstein" argument: Here is how Jack Cowart, the executive director of the Lichtenstein Foundation, characterizes the work of his dead client, the Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein: "Roy's work was a wonderment of the graphic formulae and the codification of sentiment that had been worked out by others. ... The [cartoon strip] panels were changed in scale, color, treatment, and in their implications. There is no exact copy." Yes, it's art-school BS but I like the paintings anyway. I also enjoy collecting the source books. (Anyone have reader copies for sale?) Jack

Blows me away every time! People here are amazingly knowledgable, helpful and willing to scan their books (or dig through their scan archives). Why, I'm so overcome with emotion that I'm breaking out in smileyfaces! Jack

I've got literally hundreds to add, now including that one. (We prefer to add whole pages, not single panels.) Jim (who does the computer work) and I need to set some time aside to do it, and we just haven't found it lately. We need an "express" setup where I can simply add a new scan to an element page without lots of html rigmarole. Jack