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Patrick is one of the good'ns. Friendly communication. Package received well packed and comic in condition described. No doubts about future horse trading. Thanks, Patrick!

Woaaaaah!!!!! Nice copies of those two!!!! The mind boggles at the thought of those two landing in the mail. Those are such tough books in nice shape like that. Great work, Mr. October!!!

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Beautiful books, Chag. Getting a chance to meet these creator heroes was a great honor. Their art was the main reason I collected comics for the last 35 years. Whenever I see the crosshatching and photorealism of Heath and the abstract figures and beautiful inks of Kubert, it's like revisiting defining moments of wonder and revelation from my childhood. Their styles are and will always remain indelible.

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John, love your ideas, my friend! You're hired for the next report. Seriously. We'd love to have your input. Well stated indeed!

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I’m pasting this in from a FB post by my friend, Steve Fears: <<Just wanted to mention that my writing partner, Richard J. Arndt, and I are coming out with a book, OUR ARTISTS AT WAR, in late October/early November. It covers the important creators and creations of war comics from the 1950s to the present. It will be published by TwoMorrows Publications and will be a great book in my opinion. We put a lot of work into this book. Lots of research and art images. You can find it on Amazon and the TwoMorrows Publications web sites. Only $27.95 for a softcover book. For you comics and war comics fans, you'll find this to be an enlightening and informative book. Help support this project by getting a copy for your home library collection. Thank you, Steven Fears.>>

Staggering!! Such a badass book!

Congrats on completing the set, JLA Brad. I've been working on my own high-grade set for more than 30 years and still am about 5 issues shy. No, I don't have a nice #2. They are ALL difficult in grade, but that #2 is in a stratosphere of its own. Love this entire run more than life itself. The Kubert and Heath stories alone are worth it for the price of admission!

That whole run (and especially that FIRST issue) has grown on me over the years. Love that book!

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That's awesome. One helluva nice book to get as a first board-purchase.

Drucker is and always will be a stratospheric rockstar for his indelible work on MAD Magazine. I loved it as a teenager along with Aragones, Don Martin, Prohias, Al Jaffee, etc. But I was surprised to see--as I started to assemble DC war books back in the late 80s--that that same guy who did all those movie/TV parodies was responsible for some utterly STAGGERING artwork in some of the same issues that contained Kubert and Heath artwork. I place Drucker's work in that same echelon. There were a lot of amazing artists that were the "mainstays" of DC, but those 3 will always be my favs from that era. Disappointingly, Drucker was underappreciated by Kanigher and that might explain why he never was chosen to illustrate any covers. To my knowledge, Drucker didn't do much [if anything] in the way of cover work for MAD, either. There IS a western cover that he did for a somewhat obscure publisher--Timor--from the 1950s--Blazing Western #4. It stands out in my mind because it's the ONLY cover I've ever seen that's drawn by Drucker. Maybe he did others (Bob Hope? Jerry Lewis?), but I don't know which of those comedy covers [if any] he did. I know he did interiors, just not sure about the covers. If anybody knows about other covers by Drucker, lemme know. I've always wondered how a guy as prolific and talented as Drucker during the 50s wouldn't get more cover assignments.

Mike, that is an absolutely SPARKLING copy of GIC 91. Sooooooo nice! Love that book. It took me forEVER to score a nice copy of that book. About 30 years to be precise. For awhile there, there was a SINGLE copy that had made the rounds to different collectors and it changed hands to everybody except me (if it fell into my hands, I would've kept it), and then another 20 years passed before I saw a truly nice copy again. It's a 12¢er that--in high grade--is easily as difficult to score as most of the 10¢ DCs from the 5-10 years previous. Just a bear to find by my personal experience. There are still a few 12¢ war books I need in grade (no, I'm not announcing which ones they are), but that GIC 91 is--in my opinion--one of the toughest.

John, you're a bad@$$ for asking that question way back in the day. Started a good thing. . .well before I joined up back in 2007. There have been a LOT of good people who've filtered in and out of [and a good chunk of them stayed for the duration of] this thread over these past 14 years. I've made friends with a number of good folks who I've met in this exact thread. Thanks for getting this off the ground, my friend.