frozentundraguy

Love your comics! You're still the king of Superman collectors on this board. (thumbs u Ive gotta concur, for consistent high quality Superman books, Silver has em!

Here's an example of a cover crossover between DC and Marvel. Tales of the Unexpected #87 March 1965, and Sgt. Fury #43 June 1967. Only a small sweat worked up, at least the car didn't change. Seeing double of Sgt. Fury and the Howlers coming at you is a good reason to work youself into a sweat.

It might be interestring to show comic books with similar covers. In some cases the publisher borrows from itself, or one borrows from the other. Covers could also be similar, but just by accident. Since these two are nearly identical, I suspect someone may have borrowed the cover idea from the earlier issue. #63 Dec 1963 #43 May 1965

Just my luck, a quick check shows I have none of those issues. It seems to me with the cash being strewn about, there would be a few more interested followers. #146

Luthor challenged Superman to a fight on even terms. They duel on a planet with a red sun, so Superman has no powers. Superman goes one step further and makes gravity shoes for Luthor, since the gravity on the planet in question is greater than it is on Earth, to ensure the matchup is equal.

Great copy too. (thumbs u

Hepcat, Thanks! This is my favorite issue in the 160's.

Hepcat, Killer copies on those three issues. I especially like issue 163, where Wonderman temporarily steals Supermans thunder. I have been chipping away on the 160's fairly recently, but am only about 1/2 way complete. I was able to complete all of the issues in the 150's last year.

To date my earliest Strange Adventure. There were many great "earth" covers in the late 50's in this title along with Mystery in Space. #103

Nice run of TTA's . (thumbs u I bought this book from Harley Yee a few years ago at a CON.

My most recent book; Unknown Worlds #39 May 1965

Great acquisitions! (thumbs u I have bought a few books from Harley Yee at comic conventions in Minnesota. A quick check shows another con is scheduled for early October at the fairgrounds.

#113 May 1957 This may be Wayne Boring's last Superman cover. I ran a serach for Boring, then for Swan using the advanced search capability of the GCD site. (in Credits: Inker = Boring then Swan), (in Story fields; title = Superman), and also in Story fileds I chose "cover". The advanced search results were not consistent with what I observed when going issue to issue, as I noticed Swan had credit from issue 117, but the search shows issue 118 as the first for Swan with many gaps from the 120's to 190's and beyond. The GCD site does mention that the advanced search has "known bugs and limitations".

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Neat cover. It appears that the feat of strength increases in inverse proportion to the age of Superman.

Sweet book, (thumbs u kind of reminds me of the Musuem movie. I would venture to guess the Barbarians will not be sleeping long.

No. I only started to peck away at the Rip Hunter title in the last ten years since it wasn't as high a priority as even the Sea Devils, Metal Men or the Challengers of the Unknown for me let alone the DC superhero titles. I still need about ten issues including the first four, plus all the Showcase appearances. Hepcat, I hear you, I have also been pecking away at numerous titles, and am not close to a full run on even smaller series like Rip Hunter or the Atom. I just checked my collection and found I have 13 Rip Hunter issues, 14 if I count Showcase #25.

low distribution doesn't necessarily equate to "less copies today"... 27 is a relatively common 1953 book...there are almost always 6-10 copies readily available in the marketplace, and that is just searching the "tip" of the iceberg... in my experience, I have actually found issue 26 to be much scarcer than 27, yet no "limited" notation is made... that said, the actual reason for the OSPG notation of limited distibution on issue 27 is beyond my recollection, but there is nothing "limited" about its availability today (thumbs u also keep in mind that most early 1950's superhero books are scarce , but my guess is there were as many 27's released/produced, as the surrounding issues ...maybe the ending of the korean war afffected distribution Gator, thanks for the analysis. BTW, I should have checked the OPG, as it states low distribution, not limited distribution. At any rate a check on Ebay shows 4 copies of #27 for sale right now versus 1 for issue #26. When you say the marketplace, do you mean Ebay plus the major on-line sites, like Four Color Comics, Mile High, Pedigree Comics, Metroplis and the like?

Gator, In the OPG Superboy #27 has the comment "limited distribution". Do you have any idea how many copies of this book might still exist? (I was fortunate to have been given a copy as a gift many years ago.)

Hepcat, Beautiful copies of early issues. Do you have the entire run of Rip Hunter books? I did some trading at a local Con a few years ago to get this issue.

One of my favorite Strange Adventures.

Excellent books, they appear to be right off the news stand!

The early issues of Strange Adventures with Captain Comet are incredible.

Just our luck the article in CBM #108, focuses on the end of the Silver Age! I believe the point could be made for phasing in the S.A. for each comic book title, just the as the article does for the end of the S.A. title by title.

What was the dividing event? I can't see any noteworthy change from one cover to the next. The dividing line is arbitrary, as the G.A ends as of September 1956, and the S.A begins as of October 1956. The Silver Age of comics begins with the publication of Showcase #4 in October 56, when the new Flash premiered. In my opinion a better place to start, just for the Superman title would be #117 "The Man with the Zero Eyes", the first cover by Swan, or perhaps #121, "The Bride of Futureman" (this cover has the S.A. look) (thumbs u If your interested I have the back issue of Comic Book Markeplace, where there is an article titled something like, "Carbon Dating the Silver Age of Comics". This might be only for DC books, if I recall correctly. I could check for their analysis on the Superman title.