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not a very exciting promotional piece....

I even forget what I posted.....

 

JB, there are just no words! What a collection! You NEVER see these books come up. Lucky guy

I drifted to esoteric GA......just some great stuff. My column form CBM was

"The Comicbox" (get it "JBComicbox"?

My first article ever for Gary was on Wow, What a Magazine.

Loved doing articles on these titles.....And the best thing was getting Jim Mooney to recreate his early wonderful covers......jb

So digress to Wow (#2 is first Eisner cover)

I even forget what I posted.....

This one's pretty scarce.

 

It is real scarce...never seen one except mine (Rockford)

A variety of others......

This one's pretty scarce.

It is real scarce...never seen one except mine (Rockford)

some more.....

some odds and ends......neat short little runs to acquire

 

Shades of Lou Fine or Reed Crandall...

actually it was Charles Sultan who was "influenced" by Fine....

This recreation by Edd Ashe is huge. Poster sized 36x24

Smash Comics # 14 to # 20's

 

Stories & line-up of note for these issues (for some issues, you get all of these strips!):

 

The Ray by Lou Fine or Reed Crandall

Espionage by Will Eisner or Dan Zolnerowich

Abdul the Arab by Bob Powell

Wings Wendall & Chic Carter, both by Vernon Henkel (when he still cared about his work; i.e., put the work into it)

Midnight by Jack Cole

Magno by Gustavson (sp?)

+ you'll see: Gill Fox, George Tuska, Alex Blum, etc ...

That's a great looking Aman 5 you got there

"Unfortunately", a great restoration job......but still it is what it is.....jb

,,,this and that.....and the Boy Scouts were not amused resulting in a name change...

Jb. I publicly accept your offer to buy all your centaurs!

 

slight digression......

 

These can be tough remainder books to find.......

Jb. I publicly accept your offer to buy all your centaurs!

slight digression......

These can be tough remainder books to find.......

Lots of lookers but very few posters in this thread,needs a reboot

cover

Art....

break out some MMs

[i took the original black & white ad and then I created mini-color covers from Gerbers....

Can't find the missing Aman but found the under copy Arrow 1

 

 

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that would be an upgrade for me!

...and I love the recreation I got Lubbers to do.....No harm in reposting....jb

As a fan of Fu Manchu tales, this is my obvious choice for favorite Craig Flessel cover...

 

 

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That is AWESOME

.....and therefore my favorite Flessel recreation (by the way great looking copy!)

Lou Fine. Tough choice between these two.

 

 

 

 

 

Excellent choice of the Hit 7 with the skull overlay....

Fine is my guy and Mysterymen 3 is the #1 book for me. I know he is shooting a gun (and not doing something "exotic") but look at the lyrical movement brought to the static page........Ready for a "shock", I have never been smitten with the Fantastic 3 or National 7.....runner up would be WW7 (with the "ghoul drool" and Science 2, note that Hit 8 also brings movement to the static page.....and Jumbo 10 which was one of my early Fine covers that made me a fan of his.....jb

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Outstanding looking books....jb

Thanks dude! Not a common issue, funny how some of these books can take years to track down. But all in the thrill of the chase!

 

Very nice #4. One of the three issues along with #6 and #7 that I lack. Very pretty reds on that one.

......neat little Fox title...jb

some end of run Wonderworlds....