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I have #4 on up. My copy should arrive tmw from Bob 😀

Yes, Brian, you been researching well 😝

Congrats 🙌🏾 Your copy is better than my deep sea dip 😃💦🪽⛴️

Tonight’s entertainment: Glass Tube Goodness 🧪 👀❣️ (pardon the pulp insert)

Fearsome foursome @Ameri

Just got this in…Classic Norman Saunders “beauty parlor of the future” - A mechanical fountain of youth - cover. Schomburg interior art as well. April-May, 1939

Stunning but it looks like a reprint. Too nice. I need some 1928 dirt on that thing to make it more desirable 😃

I always thought this was the perfect Mike Carbo cover swipe 😆

Here we have an interesting book that I picked up recently: Li’l Kids #10 (February, 1973) It’s the first appearance of a kid named Calvin and was created and drawn by Kevin Banks. Read the link below, but Banks disappeared and nobody can track him down. He did a few issues of Calvin in Li’l Kids #10-12 and that was it. There’s a photo of Banks on that link below as well as some talk of the unknown initials of “N.T.” next to Banks’ signature on Calvin’s school desk on the front cover. Calvin may have been a version of Banks himself when he was a child. For comparison, I’d say Calvin and his friends are older than Charlie Brown and his friends age wise, but younger than Fat Albert and his teen buddies. There are 7 short strip art stories of Calvin. The centerfold is a Saturday morning cartoons lineup full spread. After that, there’s three backup stories reprinted from 1949-1953 Marvels that were no doubt fillers used from original art that was still hanging around the Marvel offices for Roy Thomas to use. The mysterious “N.T.” initials are on the splash page of the opening Calvin story. I like the Kevin Banks look alike floating head at the top of the first story. It seems to be a scarce book.. For time frame reference, Hero For Hire #1 was out about eight months prior to Calvin and Iron Man #55 was released roughly three weeks prior to Calvin… https://nick-caputo.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-mystery-of-kevin-banks.html?m=1 http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix9/calvin_kids.htm http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=56982

Very nice books, Art 👀🔥👏🏾 The spine on the Sensation is high grade level 👍🏾

Red circles were most prominent by Goodman from 1937-39. I do like those pulps, but I also enjoy the historical context of Goodman pulps from 1933-36 as well under his various publisher names Star Magazine, Western Fiction, and so many more.

I’ll say so 😆 you swipester Goodman always trying to save a buck 😝

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You created the All Select 2 monster in me, nearly 25 years ago. If only you could remember 😆

I might agree 😝

8 years since @Point Fivestarted this thread so I will finally post 😝 🗣️ Marvel Comics #1 is The Greatest Comic Book Ever Published ❣️ 🗣️ All Select #1 and #2 are the best Captain America 🇺🇸 related covers in the Golden Age of comics.

shifting is inevitable in hobbies!

Date stamp! Congrats, Art!!!

I didn’t think it looked too awful 😝 I’ll repost your nicer one when it’s ready 😎

Recent acquisition. Big thanks to @silverseeker for being the long time caretaker and for the nice provenance letter 🤓😀

July 4th bump 🇺🇸 ⭐️ 🙏🏾🫡🇺🇸

Although I don’t believe Schomburg meant any intentional sequence with the issue numbers being switched with #7/8, I have thought the sequence of #8 - #7 - #10 (in that order) told a story: Cap landing on the plane ✈️ wing to save Bucky (#8), the two of them parachuting 🪂 down (#7), and finally landing and kicking some butt on the Japanese 🇯🇵 ship (#10) - the “Schomburg Sequence” @Ameri @Badger @GreatCaesarsGhost

Some Cap USAs 🇺🇸🙏🏾