TheSurgeon

Kudos once again to sborock. Thanks.

KUDOS to EggsAckley for selling me a great book, and also teaching me a bit about Robert Crumb and underground comix. I would recommend him if you want to learn more about them.

Kudos to sborock for selling me a great copy of "Is this Tomorrow!"

Thank you to comicparadox for selling me MD #2 GFC to complete the series with GFC's (he also sold me #1.)

Kudos to comicgrinder for excellent communication and a flawless transaction!

This was recently graded in the "Buddy can you spare a grade post." It definitely looks better in hand than the scans I took.

Some early Spirit sections from the summer of 1940. #1 is on top left, from 6/2/40, and appeared in Sunday newspapers almost exactly 68 years ago!

That's a cool stack of pulps! Thanks for showing them! Would love to see more! I have only now discovered this thread. Wow! That pulp in the back right has a cover story written by Houdini as he was exposing all the "mediums" in the early 1900's. Many in the general population thought mediums could actually communicate with dead loved ones, and paid good money to have them do it. Houdini would go to those seances with fake hair/beards/makeup so no one would recognize him, then in the middle of the seance, expose the medium as a shill. He was involved in numerous court cases that exposed mediums as frauds, which, at the time, was surprisingly difficult to do. Many potitically powerful people attempted to defend the mediums against Houdini. More recently, didn't Nancy Reagan use mediums to better understand foreign policy?

Amazing collection! How did you acquire the books? One by one over a long time, or all at once in a sale? I am new at this, and I have been buying comics one at a time over ebay or other similar sites.

Ahhh- it's so much fun to imagine that I could actually pick between these two. What a great exercise. Action 1 as is- no further contingencies need removal.

Kudos to Jon at ComicParadox! He sold one of my true grails- MD #1 Gaines File Copy CGC 9.0! Great communication and it was a complete pleasure to deal with you, Jon. Thanks again. David.

Thank you QualityComix for your quick payment on the All-Winners #10. I hope you like it.

Thanks Paratrooper for the nice copy of U.S.A. is ready.

Kudos to comicdey for a beautiful copy of Frontline Combat #4. Thanks Collin!

I just received this great book from comicdey. Beautiful copy. Thanks Collin!

I just purchased and received this from Metropolis- I always wanted one of the old Superman appearances with the old "S" on his chest, and the bad attitude.

This last one I purchased from Heritage- one of their D copies. If you were wondering who was jacking up the prices on those auctions about 6 months ago, it was me. I like the front page- also the shadows and angles of Eisner. By the way, Mark, I really enjoy your site and your collections, especially the cold war collection. I hope you don't mind, but I have used your cold war collection as a template, and have purchased many of those same books over the past 6 months, including How Stalin Hopes..., The H-bomb and You, Grenada, some comics with atom bomb covers, and others including Joe Worker and the Story of Labor, MLK, and Trapped. I am interested in how comics reflect the times in which they were printed. The only new comics I read are the new Spirits, and just finished #10 today. I don't enjoy them too much, but this issue talked a bit about the current fractured political climate in the US and gave a not-so-subtle description of the Fox News Channel. I wonder how other comics handle the war and international relations today, compared to the WW II Marvels, with the Torch fighting Hitler on the cover, or Action Comics and Whiz comics with American Superheroes fighting Nazis and Japanese caricatures, or the comics of the 1950's with an obvious fear of communism and atomic bombs. Someone has probably brought this up in these forums- I will have to look around.

Sorry- I attached the wrong file. I liked that one as I am now collecting "Surgeon Comics" (I recently discovered the EC M.D. comics, which are fantastic- I am looking for Gaines File copies of those.) The following was reprinted in Feiffer's book. I love the shadows of Eisner.

Hi. Thanks for your replies. I have always loved GA superheroes, and I remember reading "The Great American Comic Book Heroes" edited and with a great introduction by Jules Feiffer (which I lost but recently bought on ebay.) Of course, while in Junior High School I could never find any of those GA comics that Feiffer reprinted, included 1st appearances of Superman, Green Lantern, Plastic Man and others, nor could I afford them. Since I started buying again this past year, I have purchased a copy of Police Comics #1 which I love! In Feiffer's book, he reprints the following Spirit Section, which I recently purchased also from Metropolis.

Hi. Thanks for your replies. I have always loved GA superheroes, and I remember reading "The Great American Comic Book Heroes" edited and with a great introduction by Jules Feiffer (which I lost but recently bought on ebay.) Of course, while in Junior High School I could never find any of those GA comics that Feiffer reprinted, included 1st appearances of Superman, Green Lantern, Plastic Man and others, nor could I afford them. Since I started buying again this past year, I have purchased a copy of Police Comics #1 which I love! In Feiffer's book, he reprints the following Spirit Section, which I recently purchased also from Metropolis.

Hi. I have only recently re-introduced myself to comic book collecting after 25 years, and purchased this from Metropolis.