Frisco Larson

A new purchase!

Snagged this the other night.

Several new purchases in this category.

A recent purchase with the good Doctor on the cover and inside!

Recent pick up.

Dangerous looking fish underwater to dangerous octopus coming out of water.

I've always loved this character and Namora#1 was my second Golden Age comic!

Wow, that's just incredible!!! Congratulations on such a beautiful copy and a pedigree to boot!!! One of a handful of awesome Cap motorcycle covers!!!

Above ground grave to watery grave. (Zip 34 for those who care)

All of these pics were taken with the comics laying on a bone white magazine sized backing board, just so you know how white we're looking at here. Sub-Mariner #33

Ok, like I mentioned earlier, I photographed the first two books in artificial light, kind of quickly. Well, I just took pics of a few others in a more natural light type setting and these pics much more accurately show the page quality of this collection. I will likely redo the first two examples. Captain America #78

Thanks so much Peter! Yeah, as I was writing out the story, it occurred to me to keep the reveal of the coverless nature for the end, figuring if I said so up front, most people may just stop reading right there. And that would be a shame, as it's always struck me as a neat, working man's pedigree type of story. Kind of funny too, in that it has the qualifications of being a pedigree in most regards (yes, except the covers being gone) as they came from the exact same source, they were meticulously stored away and preserved and as I understand it, the collection was hefty in size. You're very likely spot on in that if these comics didn't have their covers neatly removed and were stored away in the same manner, they'd have very likely grabbed MAJOR LEAGUE attention when they finally made their way to market! Almost CERTAINLY a pedigree if there were other key books included!

You bring up an interesting point and a thought that has swirled around in my head over the years! There were a LOT of other books from what I was told, and my friend (a DC man) only really grabbed DCs and the Superhero Atlas books, but he said there was a mix, essentially spread across all relevant publishers of that time period. So, my passing thought over the years is, "Where are all of those other comics???" Certainly, the guy knew enough to offer them to other people beyond my friend!!! There aren't any identifying markings on the comics, just that they are flat, clean copies with very nice page quality. If someone say 'purchased a batch' with uniformly consistent characteristics as this collection, I'd tend to believe that they came from the same original source.

Thanks RJ! You've seen 'em up close (and perhaps will again very soon) and you know how fresh they are! Oh, btw, I got tired of calling them the "white page coverless books!"

Thanks @comicjack I really appreciate that! I just shot a few pics of other issues, as I felt the lighting of the first few I shot didn't show the page quality very accurately.

Thanks! In hindsight, I wish I had bought some of the other titles, as I recall seeing a few Batman issues from the same period and those were relatively inexpensive. These Atlas issues were quite a bit more.

Large skeleton guy needling women to creepy skeletal guy just taunting woman