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That #55 is a nice copy! Here are a couple more from the same era... Another great robot cover. Jack must have been watching a re-run of KING KONG when he did this one. Nice brown background with a thinly disguised alien standing in for Kong!

Glad to share them (well, the images, anyway)! Here is one of my favorite early JIMs...A very rare Heath pre-hero robot cover! This issue has Wally Wood art to boot.

Here are a couple of really nice Kirby westerns with Severin covers. These guys are tough to classify as they are from that "in-between" period (early post-code, pre-SA hero take-off). Both issues have wonderful interiors by the King. I wonder why Black Rider never took off? Kirby practically cloned him for his take on the Two-Gun Kid. Bill

Here is another HOM...

I double checked, and found out I lied before. I need a 52, too. I am filled with shame. #52 comin' right up! Nice "Vikings from Outer Space" cover.

Thanks for the kind words KJ! Good luck with your quest! Hmmm...Someone should start a thread of dewy-eyed character covers...

JIM from #50-59 are quite hard to find, but I think that those issues really had some of the best covers of the pre-hero run. My favorite JIM cover is #58 A nice Ditko FF#1 prototype cover -- Rro is another Don Heck masterpiece!

Cool!! Which one? 56. Lucky for me, I don't need high grade! Ah, you are talking about ZOG... This is a great Don Heck mini-epic. Typical "ancient alien astromaut stuck in an iceburg, is defrosted and wants to summon his buds to take over the Earth" story.

(thumbs u Wonderful copies!!!

TASK FORCE X appeared in B&B 25-27 and 37-39. All too few books. The original Suicide Squad never get a decent treatment until Darwyn Cooke made them key characters in his NEW FRONTIER series. I would love to see a new series with these characters by Mr. Cooke.

Here is a trio of nice late fifties HOMs...all covers by Bob Brown! The cover story is above par DC Sci-Fi I would go so far to say that the cover story here, by Supergirl artist Jim Mooney, could be considered a prototype for CAVE CARSON (I wonder if this one will take off in value now...?) DC didnt have too many giant monster covers, and this monster does not evoke the fear and awe that a Kirby monster would inspire...but its a nice little story by Mort Meskin

(thumbs u Nice book!

Here is one of my favorite B&B issues - love the Andru & Esposito artwork! In fact, I liked it so much that I asked DEAD@17's Josh Howard to do a recreation. It looks just as good as A&Es!

And a couple of post-hero-non-(super)hero B&Bs... This one is quite rare in HG among Silver Age DCs Great Kubert monster cover!

Here is a nice little short run of those wonderful pre-hero B&Bs!

Here is a recent aquisition of a nice spooky alien abduction cover. Hmm...could this be yet another pseudo-wash tone?

Hmm...I wonder if the PC "powers that be" now consider making fun of Soviet Communists is bigotted?

I agree, very pedestrian. You really don't want that one, go ahead and send it my way. (... grumble grumble grumble... ) Hmmm...Dum Dum Dugan prototype?

I guess DC couldn't resist a robot cover in every series... Hey, thats a great Tomahawk cover! I believe The Big Chop (my nickname for Tomahawk) went up against a couple of giant animated totems during the late fifties/earlyn sixties.

The time has come for me to start letting go of some of my HG SA Superman collection -- Actions (including #252), Superman, Superboy (including 68 &89 1st Mon-el) and pre-300 Adventures (including 260, origin of Aquaman). If you are interested, send me a PM. I would love to sell the bunch as a lot...I have sold many books to many a happy formite..I have been told I am easy to deal with! thanks, Bill

Did someone say Space Ranger?

They were not sold all at one time and I don't recall the story in CB Monthly but if you provide the issue date or some notes from it I may be able to provide more info. Here are some of the ones that have made it into my hands (2 are not WMs). It's hard to imagine...but when the WM's surfaced ,the pre heros weren't all that popular...and were very cheap in the guide. A hundred bucks could pick up a REAL nice copy of most. When I first started collecting them in the early 90's I was snagging solid fines for 25 to 30 bucks a pop...but they were hard to find. They still are in fine or better. Even though Stan recycled the same 3 or 4 stories over and over, I still love finding one that I haven't read. GOD BLESS... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u The pre-hero collecting didnt take off until the about 93-94. It all started with some articles in the old Comic Book Marjetplace magazine that talked about "Marvel prototypes"...then the Price Guide started to list them and demand for these puppies just got greater and greater. It was then that collectors began to realize how rare they were in HG. I got into them in the late 80s, but didnt really start collecting HG copies until the early 90s. Durign that time, I scooped up a bunch of them from the likes of Marnin Rosenberg, Conrad Escheberg, and Joe Krolik. I finally finished the entire run about 3 years ago. Sure the stories have been recycled countless times, but each one is unique in its own way -- especially those Ditko 5 pagers!

Thought about that, but I figured that these guys looked so good together it could squeak by!

Here are a nice batch of CHALLENGERS that found their way to me recently. The CHALLS is one of the most underated SA title. A lot of people dismiss the title after Kirby left, but Space Ranger artist Bob Brown does a fantastic job of bringing the quarter to life!

Unfreakin' real!!! (worship) Just took a quick look at the census: the HGC's are 2 7.5's. I think its safe to say this one's a LITTLE nicer than that. Just beautiful cheetah-man...you showed this book some time ago and I told you this has got to be the HG-ed issue EZ...your move brotha...send that bad-boy in... ( you can always crack it back out and back into a Mylite 2...or if you ever decide to sell...the sky's the limit... That is an exceptionally nice copy of TOS #1...great Don Heck cover! Dont slab it...keep it free, the way Stan ment it to be!