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Kind of makes you wonder what was going on at Dell in 1940-- did someone just say, "Hey, lets try raising the price of a few comics by 50% in certain markets and see what happens?" Seems unlikely, especially since the typical purchasers of comics would be especially sensitive to this sort of increase. What would the reaction have been when distributors/retailers got wind of the fact that the cover price of their comics was increased, yet the prices in other markets remained the same? If it's been established that these were not Canadian copies is it possible they were printed domestically for sale in some other English-speaking country or an American territory? By the way, nice copy of FC4, Montezuma-- it sure doesn't look low grade in the photo.

Very cool! Great that she took the time to turn a beater into something special.

Nice touch that he took trading stamps for payment.

Nice copy of the first Bugs comic, Yellow Kid. Nobody's mentioned yet that today is the 75th anniversary of the release of (arguably) the first Bugs Bunny cartoon ("Wild Hare"). Happy Birthday, Bugs.

+1. Also, "Bugs Bunny Finds the Lost Treasure", FC #51, a wonderful Carl Buettner cover. Any of these covers with rich, deep colors is really jaw-dropping.

Great books, especially the Fire and Blast. I've been looking for a copy for what seems like forever.

Tough book-- good job.

One of my favorites, and a tough book to find in high grade.

Nice copy of one of the toughest Barks' books to find.

Just out of curiosity I dug out some of the MM Magazines from around the time that the Snow White cover (V2 #5, February 1938) was published. Starting with the December 1937 issue there's clearly a tie-in with the movie, with interior pages showing Snow White and the Dwarfs around a Christmas-themed fireplace. In January a three-part serial of the story of Snow White starts, concluding in March. April and May issues have nothing substantive inside about Snow White, but there are still plenty of ads pushing various Snow White toys and whatnot-- MM Magazines were pretty relentless. By June there's not even any ads left; Snow White seems to have pretty much run its course-- but Dopey is still on the cover. Anybody know offhand when Snow White was playing in the theatres?

The only other one I can think of is Four Color 49. There are two other MM Magazine covers with the Seven Dwarfs (V3 #7) and Dopey (V3 #9) but no Snow White.

US 134 isn't censored. Both the "workers paradise" and "strangulation wire" bits are still there. INDUCKS shows that The Treasure of Marco Polo has been reprinted 4 times in the USA-- only the original and US134 aren't censored. And the Savannah copy is gorgeous, Squeggs.

Great triptych!

Beautiful copy of a tough, tough book to find in high grade.

Absolutely amazing book, cheetah.

There had been attempts to film Atlas Shrugged before, and for one reason or another the attempts had failed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged:_Part_I The owners of the rights had to either film when they did or else lose their rights, and Atlas Shrugged, Part I and now Part II were the result. They're both low budget pictures with no big name stars. Scripting, something Rand was apparently quite adamant about having closely follow the book is poor and really doesn't get Rand's philosophy across as well as she probably would have liked. It's certainly worth a look, but I was glad I saw it on Netflix and not in a theatre.

A copy of "The Illustrated Fountainhead" is available new on Amazon.com, for anyone with $175.00 burning a hole in their pocket.

Always a pleasure to see these wonderful books, tb.

What an absolutely gorgeous book, with that deep red and the pure white whites--and OW/W pages to boot. It's back from CGC just in time for its seventy-fifth anniversary.

Thanks for the article, TB. I wasn't aware that there were file copies of Large Feature 16 & 20. I've never seen a copy of either in anything approaching high grade. The copies shown in the photo appear to be very nice indeed.

Incredible collection. Any 9.4 or 9.6 for MMM is amazing, but so many, especially in the early issues, is nothing short of miraculous. Great job in assembling this collection.