Hepcat

Five more of my Blue Beetle comics:

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On 7/8/2024 at 1:25 PM, Ryan. said:

The Art of Glamour isn't the first culprit but certainly has escalated the false belief that Baker drew those PL covers. 

 

In terms of simple style drawing, if Baker did draw the covers to PL 17 and/or 23....

 

UPDATE: I just looked and found CGCed copies of PL 17 and 23 and neither of the examples I saw noted Baker as the cover artist....

On 7/8/2024 at 2:08 PM, 10centcomics said:

I looked at the edit history for PL17 at GCD (https://www.comics.org/issue/6644/history/)

Looks like Matt Baker was entered in as the cover artist back when the entry was created in 2002. Though GCD existed pre-Internet so I can't nail down when the attribution to Baker was made and by who.

I don't see why there should be any doubt about Matt Baker being the cover artist for Phantom Lady 17:

He drew the same girl several more times with the same face and the same fake hillocks in place of mammary glands:

My Return of Gorgo comics:

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My covers featuring Abra Kadabra or his villainy:

Sorry about the washed out scan for #170. The comic is actually just as bright as the two above.

That Hulk 182 has such a bad miscut that it would still look butt ugly after cleaning and pressing. Therefore I wouldn't bother.

Huh?!

When in 1979 I started re-amassing the comics I had as a kid, I was as close to Action Comics 1 as we are today to New Mutants 1. Time flies.

On 7/13/2024 at 9:11 AM, ThothAmon said:

It’s my unpopular golden age opinion that by doing this he irreversibly lowered the value of many a collectors collections. 

So sad. Those poor fellows. 

On 7/12/2024 at 7:26 AM, jimbo_7071 said:

For these books, census population stats are far more likely to be understated. EC books were widely collected long before the Gaines File copies surfaced. Many of the nicest copies have likely been locked up in private collections since before CGC was founded.

I agree that they're scarce in the marketplace compared to other EC horror issues, but I don't think that they're as rare as the census might lead one to believe. I think that the census numbers will grow as older fan-addicts age out of the hobby.

I agree.

Purple clad villains to purple clad heroes:

On 7/12/2024 at 10:34 PM, porcupine48 said:

...and sit down at an old Towers or Woolco lunch bar....

Oh man! I remember the lunch counters in the downtown Woolworth, Kresge and Metropolitan stores in London and I miss them so much!

Here's a pic from the 1970's of the Kresge lunch counter in downtown Windsor:

On 7/12/2024 at 10:34 PM, porcupine48 said:

...next to the bubbling 'juice' machines,purple and orange....

I really miss those bubbling juice machines:

Every Harveys and every donut shop used to have them but the last one of which I knew in a Coffee Time shop at Coxwell and Gerrard disappeared about twelve years ago. It seems that every such fast food place has switched to bottled juice.

On 7/12/2024 at 10:34 PM, porcupine48 said:

oh baby.In my dreams tonight if I am lucky,I will find a ultra rare issue of Reptisaurus versus Gorgo king size 25center and sit down at an old Towers or Woolco lunch bar to read with a malted milk next to the bubbling 'juice' machines,purple and orange and a plate of chips and sauce and...

This one?

Reptisaurus the Terrible!

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'Nuff said.

On 7/12/2024 at 9:47 PM, porcupine48 said:

ah Hep,you have so many nice off the path books in sweet shape.

That to me is what collecting is all about! Why would I want my collection to be similar to so many others?

Another multi-panel cover:

On 7/12/2024 at 4:32 PM, KirbyJack said:

Best SS cover to best PHM cover

 

Mmmm, yeah, those are both good ones!

On 5/12/2024 at 4:26 AM, The humble Watcher lurking said:

Imagine telling this to Marvel Zombie fan in the 1970s? They will say people lie or they are foolish.

Huh? What would Marvel zombies say was a lie?

Back to English for more Fury:

Captain Cold, Star Sapphire and the Joker would be among my top choices in villains.

Here are a few of my Captain Atom comics:

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On 7/10/2024 at 6:46 AM, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

Be still, my beating heart

Do you ever think before you post? You might want to do precisely that before you ask for certain things. 

I don't like a lot of the pictures selected for the heroes, e.g. Black Canary, Green Arrow and Batgirl. Worse yet I don't like John Stewart selected as Green Lantern.