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How about a parade of prototype covers? Lets start out with ... The Thing. Ben Grimm's image had made quite a few appearances before FF #1... here are a few...

Nice early HOS's Bill Thanks Bill! And this one is just for you! Oh yeah baby! Love that book. Wish it really was for me Hey, you dont look so bad...have another... As a purveyor of #23's that one is sweet! Thanks. Its a Bethlehem...

Nice early HOS's Bill Thanks Bill! And this one is just for you! Oh yeah baby! Love that book. Wish it really was for me Hey, you dont look so bad...have another...

Nice early HOS's Bill Thanks Bill! And this one is just for you!

Couple of nice issues of House of Secrets...

One of Kirby's best Stone Monster covers...

guess we can add Negative Man to Kirby's creations... there is a very distinct prototype in this issue (you could even go nuts and say this is a "warm up" for Johnny Storm a few short years later -- ouch!)

She has a funky iron helmet, but she is a HOTTIE!

Wonderful Lady Under Glass cover...

Some more House of Mystery... Great Kirby story in this one...

And, one of the greatest wash-tone covers EVER...

Another great black cover...

This is the comic that started me collecting 50s DC SciFi when I saw it on Sparkle City display many moons ago at the NYC Creation Con...

A great Egyptian princess cover by Moreira...

Here is a nice run of MGAs that I am re-posting.... A great Kirby quasi-wash-tone cover...

Howdy, In many of the early posts in this thread, I used my file space at AOL HOMETOWN to store picture files. In its infinite wisdom, AOL had suddenly & without warning shut down its Hometown storage space -- this has resulted with many of those nasty little red X's in place of those wonderful TOTU covers. I will re-post all the deleted covers in the near future starting with these...

George Papp was most noted for his long run on Superboy titles.

Some new DC Sci-Fi's for my collection...

Here are 2 new additions ot my HOS / HOM collection. Great art by Cardy, Brown, Maneely, and Papp! More fantastic art by Moreira.

Classic Thor vs Hulk and the Origin of Loki...

Nice books! I just adore those brown/orange pre-hero covers! Gotta love Earth-tones!

I've been debating myself to let go of some HG Silver Age Actions, Adventures and Superman/boys...Do you guys think the time is right...or should I wait for the next Superman movie?

Thanks Tom! Maybe I shoud start scanning my early TOS as well...

Welcome to the world of pre-hero Marvels! TTA is a wonderful place to start your collecting. There are so many wonderful Kirby & Heck prototypes and 5 page Ditko gems in that title that it makes one's mouth water. Good luck with your collecting. These issues have been getting scarcer and scarcer in HG since the early 90s. Here is a small sampling of some of my own early TTAs.

Here are a bunch of great HG Silver age Superboys...(with Bizzaro too!) Great stuff! How rare are these early Silver DCs? Seems they dont get the respect (Price-wise) that they righly deserve. Bill