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WOW! Nice. I love that group shot.

Oh, I always post my thoughts on the Karate Kid fights in my commission collection. I sometimes post the artists' thoughts on the fights as well. I like to make up a little back-story for all my all original Suicide Squad commissions and then have the artist work from that. http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryRoom.asp?GSub=105493 It makes me feel like Stan Lee or Julius Schwartz when designing a cover! Bill

OMG, could this be a new Invisible Girl prototype?

My favorite FF epic. I first read this masterpiece in the 1974 Superhero Holiday Grab-Bag Treasury. The story still holds up today!

Here is a book that I bought restored from Solbodian himself. I am going to look into getting it signed by Stan!

Lets rock with some more SA Supes Slabs!

A couple of key Superboy books recently slabbed!

Here is a copy that I had for 20 years that I finally got slabbed. I bought it, restored, from Mr Slobodian -- it looks just great! Maybe if I get Stan to sign it, it will come back a Moderate 7.0 !

I was digging thru my archive and came upon these beats! Wonderful early 60s monster humor from the folks at Archie - these covers are just out of this world!

Nice cover! I bet it has some great Don Heck art on the Torpedo Taylor story.

Did someone say pre-hero B&Bs?

Oh no, poor Mark Merlin takes it in the end -- but like a man! It would interesting to see what would be depicted if anyone ever commissioned one of those "One minute later" sketches for this cover.

Suicide Squad...Kanigher...Andru & Esposito...ahhh. Here's some Cave Carson for ya!

My goodness! I cant believe that this thread has fallen to page 5 with no new entries since Dec 2010. Cant have that! Here is one of my favorite DC wash covers by D ick Dillin:

Ive shown this one before, but its my favorite of the few WMs pre-heros that I own. And here is one of those "lesser" condition WMs I mentioned...just as nice IMO.

The WM pre-hero's are normally nice, but there have been lesser condition copies in that collection that have surfaced. I have a couple of lesser WMs that are just wonderful -- white pages, glossy covers -- except for some nasty Marvel chipping. I also recall reading somewhere (probably here) that there are multiple WM copies of some of the pre-hero books. I have never seen any, but it seems quite possible. Bill

Here are some more dark cover pre-heros! The Strange Tales 75 is favorite of mine - as it has a bit of a washtone effect.

Mars is nice at Christmas time -- Red Skies, Green People...

Not to be confused with this issue:

Here are a few black cover JIMs:

Thats a nice ST 91. I love the ST black covers!

Thanks, here is another Suicide Squad commission -- the Squad +1 are battleing a "Menace".... A great piece by DENNIS Sunday artist Ron Ferdinand.

Here is a recent piece I commissioned from Neil Vokes. Its based on the cover of Tales of Suspense #32. The Original Suicide Squad have been shrunk down to the size of bugs and are being terrorized by some nasty bees -- all this while only a few yards away, a typical 50's family is having a summer BBQ...

I suspect that this was also a Martin Goodman editorial policy, as anti-communist stories are also commonly found in the Magazine Management (Atlas' parent company) Men's Adventure Magazines.

Psst..here is a nice SA Action/Superman sales thread. http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=4587153#Post4587153