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Jimbo, Great story and awesome act of kindness by a fellow board member. Thanks for sharing. That is one awesome looking book. I bet you will treasure it as a keeper. Every now and then I'll see a book that I first saw in that stack and haven't seen since..... usually the D.C. titles..... as I don't think there are any SA Marvels that I haven't seen again. I still remember seeing a Metamorpho cover in the pile all those years ago..... I think it short circuited my young mind, it was so bizarre..... but after that day, I don't think there was any way that I could have turned back from this life long love of the comic book medium. Great stuff, great stories!

Wise. I've noticed that women don't appreciate art or literature like us fellows. So how would he have gone about building a secret room without his wife noticing the "home renovations" in progress?

That cover is exceptionally good! Who did the artwork? Norman Saunders The master! Of Civil War News and Mars Attacks card fame!

Nice early Felix the Cat! Here are scans of mine: 11 4 5 6 7 9 10

Interesting that Felix was in those early New Funnies! I thought the title had featured only Walter Lantz stable characters from its very start.

Oh of course! I forgot what I was posting about and didn't think of Tweety Bird's signature line.

Here then are scans of a bunch of mine: 13 14 File copy 18 20 22 24

I've seen no indication that fifteen centers are against the rules in this thread..

Too cool!

That cover is exceptionally good! Who did the artwork?

Do you have a set of the Pep Cereal comic character pinback buttons from 1945-47?

Here's Lorna in peril:

Great cover gags! Here are scans of my MGM's Mouse Musketeers (not including the Four Colors of course): 14 15 17 19 21

Yes. I too have noticed a distinct tendency on this board for posters to blow their wads within a few days of the start of a thread. Just no staying power.

Yes! And it's lovely. The sweats had great artwork by fellows such as Norm Saunders, James Bama, Charles Fracé, Mort Kunstler and Basil Gogos. Here are a couple from my small collection:

Here are scans of my small batch of Tweety and Sylvester comics: 25 27 28 31 34

Mad paperbacks though seem to be even tougher to find than Mad magazines in identical condition. Of course a lot of the Mad paperbacks were bought by kids as well, and paperbacks stand up to reading even worse than magazines, What about the men's sweat magazines from the fifties and sixties though? They're not at all common.

Wow! Those 1960 issues are really tough to find in such nice condition! How long have you been collecting the title?

Catman is lucky Kitten hadn't put all that weight on her butt yet when he was saving her from all the wolves in the top cover.

Black Cat is such a darling. Here are scans of three of my favourite covers from my collection: 4 Mmmmmm, Baby Ruth! How I admired the Halloween ads Curtis ran for Baby Ruth and Butterfinger candy bars in Life and Post magazines as a kid! Neither were sold in Canaada at the time. 5 9

Sad but very true. While it often annoys me, even on this very board many collectors conflate comics with the superhero genre. Anything else to them might as well not exist. And I think the main drivers of this phenomenon are the Silver and Bronze Age Marvel zombies.

It's quite simply because the comics were the kid stuff. Kids didn't buy pulps and paperbacks. Therefore it's the comics that elicit warm feelings of nostalgia decades down the road. Ergo it's the comics that have become the sought after collectibles.

Here are scans of some more of my Fiction House comics featuring Maurice Whitman's renderings of imperiled women:

Did you use up the Soaky yet or are you keeping it mint?

I still need a copy of that one!