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I've been looking for a particular pinback and have had zero luck in finding one. I'm wondering, do you have one of these in your collection? I can't remember if this was Jon Berk's pic or yours.

The world may never know .... Cold meat to VERY fresh meat.

Incredible copy Ricky!!!

I guess THIS is as close as I'll get to a Daring Mystery #2 for a while. Oh well, at least I get the front cover!

This is fun @bc!!! I'm glad Lou jumped in here too!!!

Dang it!!! It isn't. At first, I was excited, thinking maybe you saw one on there, but when I went to check, no real issue #2.

Veronica on the path to type-2 diabetes to Jughead on the path to bulimia.

I agree Cat, that Cap #37 is an enormous highlight once the comics get small and I'm sure that most would agree that Cap #46 deserves to be mentioned in the same echelon!!! Those are two HUGE examples of there still being great covers after the comics shrink and eventually reduce to one staple (SOMEWHERE in that timeframe! I had two Cap #54s, one had 1 staple, one had 2!). I've only owned one copy of Cap #37 and sold it at the aforementioned time. I never DID acquire a Cap #46, as during my tenure of building the Cap run with enthusiasm, it was always quite a bit more expensive than all of the surrounding issues and just generally expensive in regard to what I was able to lay out cash-wise. The other BIG FAT Schomburg Cap covers we haven't discussed are the first two by him, #3 & #4, both of which are incredible and VERY expensive these days. I've had the 4 (and a nice mid-grade copy of it), but I've never owned a Cap #3.

Probably my favorite early Timely house ad, this is the last page of Mystic Comics #1!!! I wonder, ARE there any other earlier ads in the few Timely comics that precede this issue?

This is the inside back cover of More Fun #21 and it features one of my favorite early Detective covers! I know this thread is mostly Bat-oriented, but I figure the pre-Bat Detective covers are probably ok to post too.

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Your collection was amazing Ian!!! Despite the fact that you miss them and wish things would've gone differently in the sale of them, I'd still like to congratulate you on doing what nobody else has ever been able to do!!! You made history and will likely be remembered in the hobby for all time by doing so!!! Kudos to you Sir!!!

Well, I remember Billy snapping a pic of his entire Marvel Mystery run and he had to get high up (on a staircase, if memory serves) to be able to get them all in the one shot. I'd love to see it if you can find a way to make it happen!

Kid themed Santa to adult themed Santa.

And finally, we arrive at the last of the large sized Schomburg Cap covers in the run. Another home run for me and a cover with the detail work Alex would become famous for!!!

#30 was a Syd Shores cover, but then #31 comes out with a spectacular Schomburg rarity ... Cap saving a damsel in distress!!! Look back over the run (or ANY Cap cover from another run) and see that Cap rarely saves a woman in trouble ... he mostly rescues Bucky! This one is also in my top 5 favorite covers in the GA Cap run!

#29 doesn't seem to get quite as much love as the three preceding issues, but I think it more than holds its own and offers up a rare Timely firing squad cover theme!

I've heard complaints over the years that some think Schomburg's covers all look the same. While I don't agree with that, I will concede that once the Timely books become smaller in width, many of the covers have more of a similar look to them. I much prefer the half dozen or so BIG FAT Timely covers Schomburg did in the Cap run, which is why some of those are the ones I held on to at a time I needed to liquidate comics to take care of life situations. In my opinion, this 4-issue consecutive block is pretty hard to beat!

WOW Jeremy, you are really making some huge progress on your Tec run!!! Well done!!!

In my opinion, one of Schomburg's best covers in the Cap run!!! In the top 5 best of his in that run for me!

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