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Hopefully back on your feet soon, Bob.

From RicksNeatStuff’s sales thread; methinks KirbyJack posted in the wrong thread since that’s an S&K, not Flessel.

En route to me shortly, from Ricksneatstuff current amazing Sales Thread. To me, this is a classic issue that is just loaded (I used to own a copy in the 1980’s):

When pulling these images off the Internet, could you please identify the issue(s) they are from? Thanks-

Well, that looks like a solid copy - if/when you do upgrade, please give me a shout!

I am SO happy to score a solid Adv 73, origin Manhunter, classic cover, and two S&K stories. Terrific set of books so far, Rick.

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Gorgeous Adv 42, grey tone Flessel. If I didn’t have this issue already (the first GA book I ever bought at SDCC, the memory of the thrill remains strong)...

Happy to see Golden Age DC’s make a strong showing, leave it to Rick to bring these books forward. Personally I believe that DC’s are the foundation of the hobby, at least for the first few decades of comics, and while a plethora of ‘hot’ books will come and go, DC’s will always be relevant.

I believe it was Irene and not a distributor who stamped those book, as to why it’s a mystery.

Love me some New Comics 10 - it’s an issue I’m missing still.

Nova Scotia

That’s a good point, Jimmers - I wish I could show you the CV copy of Mutt & Jeff 5, the book is unbelievable.

This is true - Brian held onto the collection for 13(?) years and then released it for a specific (personal) reason. The CV’s are such beautiful books - bone white pages - the flaw in the collection (if we can call it that) is that he majority of the books are not what we would consider today to be mainstream or ‘hot’ titles.

Let’s have fun with this post and not turn it personal.

Just a few Dean, some had already sold - it is Gary Dolgoff Comics on eBay (who was great to deal with by the way).

Your instincts are no doubt correct, the manipulative shark probably couldn’t bear the thought of a single book slipping through his clutches. Several years ago a local shop owner told me about a nice collection he was about to score; a different NY dealer was out here and he tried to razzle-dazzle and intimidate the shop owner into shifting the collection to him. It didn’t work. I am so glad Gary got the Windy City books.

I did ask the seller who moved these books if he had any such info, alas not.

Iconic book, very affordable entry point.

Thanks Dan, me too. Did some research, Irene became deaf as an infant (illness) and apparently lived her whole life in Dublin, Georgia. She became a fairly well known local photographer, traveling and exhibiting her images. Irene never married. She passed away in 2013 aged 91.

Two new pre-hero arrivals...

The page’s change history link says 2019-10-11.

They have a cover image and note the book as a Canadian issue containing reprints from prior Magazine Enterprises issues. https://www.comics.org/series/151011/

I vividly recall speaking with him as I made my way through a short box of these second-hand Church books, Chuck demonstrably saying that he still had them years later because “nobody wanted them”. Remember this was about four decades ago. Well I wanted them, and I bought a lot - like Robot Man said, they were around $15 each on average... hard to imagine nowadays!