Hepcat

On 5/27/2024 at 9:44 AM, Jaylam said:

Anyway, kudos to you for a fantastic looking set of books!

Thank you! Here are scans of five more then:

Northland copy

Wow! I'd never even heard of Crazy!

To say that kitties like this one are "unexpected" is understating the case:

Four more:

Bethlehem copy

On 4/27/2024 at 2:46 PM, Lee Enterprises said:

I picked up this Harvey beauty a while back. 

Wow! Sweet copy! I have only the #2:

Plus the Aurora model kit:

And the Aladdin lunch box:

Three of my Fox and the Crow comics:

On 5/26/2024 at 8:25 PM, adamstrange said:

Salida

Oh wow! I love MiG covers.

On 5/26/2024 at 7:03 PM, Dr. Love said:

In my mind I see

Death - on wings of flame, so bright

You and I...tonight

Too kinky for me.  I'm much more conventional. A nice unhurried interlude with a  lithesome lass in a clean bed is the sum total of my own fantasy quotient.

On 5/26/2024 at 5:38 PM, adamstrange said:

Mass copy

High grade DC war from '64! Splendid, simply splendid.

On 2/14/2005 at 6:47 AM, tth2 said:

At Adamstrange's request, let's have a thread posting our favorite SA books with 10 cent covers! What's that you say, that would eliminate every Marvel superhero book except for FF 1 & 2? Gee, what a horrible coincidence!

Yes. A terrible thing to be sure....

Incidentally, does anyone know what happened to Stevenrams or Bomber-Bob? They were very regular participants here for years but they've not logged onto this board since March 2017 and May 2020 respectively.

On 5/25/2024 at 4:05 PM, adamstrange said:

Northland contained ACGs.

Fourteen of my twenty Herbie comics are from the Northland collection including these:

NM-

NM

VF+

NM

NM-

Four more of my Tales of the Unexpected:

It's those raging hormones methinks.

Northland copy

Space Ranger had kitty problems on the odd occasion as well:

Methinks it was those raging hormones of Myra's.

On 5/26/2024 at 7:24 AM, KirbyJack said:

Marie Severin's version of The Lizard is my favorite thing about NBE.

I like the cat in #1.

How about half the #10 then?

On 5/25/2024 at 10:48 PM, Ghost Town said:

I'm just guessing here. Maybe they sold those books before the days of CGC and the provenance was lost. 

That could well be the case. I don't think they were getting rich working as the editors of Comics Buyer's Guide. And as comic fans it would have been much less painful for them to sell two or three of those "key" issues fetching seemingly extreme prices than it would have been selling dozens or even hundreds of other comics.

Horsies played a prominent element in several Phantom Stranger stories:

Six more of my Batman comics:

Bat-Hound is another very heroic doggy:

On 5/25/2024 at 7:08 PM, buttock said:

A few more DC examples:

 

 

Oh man, simply sensational!

On 5/25/2024 at 1:41 AM, Ghost Town said:

This website has a nice breakdown of various pedigrees and their key books.

 

"Existence and Grades of Silver Age Key Books From the Major Pedigree Collections"

 

Lots of good info there.

Something else that surprises me is how few of the "key" issues legendary comic fandom pioneers Don and Maggie Thompson had. No Flash 105, no Showcase 4, 8, 13, 22 or even 34, no Brave and the Bold 28 or even 34, no Fantastic Four 1 and 2, no Amazing Fantasy 15 and no Amazing Spider-Man 1. I thought they were very early collectors of Silver Age comics but pre-1962 I see only Green Lantern 1 and Flash 123.

Cool! I was hoping somebody would post a Streak the Wonder Dog cover.

Captain Boomerang already has a deep fan base in Australia but merits celebration in this thread as well: