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1950's World's Finest 50-78 on display....

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Larryw7

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wonder why they are so tought to find?

 

A lot of folks speculate that the 15 cent cover price depressed sales during the early fifties.

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Hey Rick, super cool run! Speaking from someone that tried to do a run of World's Finest, these are indeed very hard to find, especially if you want something in the 7.0 or better range with nice page quality. I think almost of the the covers are very "Cheesy" which is actually what I really like about them.

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G.A.tor

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thanks everyone..... took me 3 years to put the little run together, so it was quite a lot of fun! still will try to upgrade here and there :)

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wonder why they are so tought to find?

 

A lot of folks speculate that the 15 cent cover price depressed sales during the early fifties.

 

Makes sense. I think a lot of 50's books are rarer than most.

 

15 cent cover price plus the decline of superheros in the 1948 to 1956 years. When these books came out, crime, romance, and westerns ruled the roost. Not to mention a certain duck by a certain guy named Carl.

 

Again, my .02 worth.

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MrBedrock

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wonder why they are so tought to find?

 

A lot of folks speculate that the 15 cent cover price depressed sales during the early fifties.

 

Makes sense. I think a lot of 50's books are rarer than most.

 

15 cent cover price plus the decline of superheros in the 1948 to 1956 years. When these books came out, crime, romance, and westerns ruled the roost. Not to mention a certain duck by a certain guy named Carl.

 

Again, my .02 worth.

Plus the fact that DC crammed 68 pages into cheaper cover stock with just two small staples holding everything together. For that reason alone an inordinate number of copies of these, and Comic Cavalcade from the same time period, are now coverless or have loose covers.

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wonder why they are so tought to find?

 

A lot of folks speculate that the 15 cent cover price depressed sales during the early fifties.

 

Makes sense. I think a lot of 50's books are rarer than most.

 

15 cent cover price plus the decline of superheros in the 1948 to 1956 years. When these books came out, crime, romance, and westerns ruled the roost. Not to mention a certain duck by a certain guy named Carl.

 

Again, my .02 worth.

Plus the fact that DC crammed 68 pages into cheaper cover stock with just two small staples holding everything together. For that reason alone an inordinate number of copies of these, and Comic Cavalcade from the same time period, are now coverless or have loose covers.

 

plus the fact that the vast majority are retina-detaching, projectile vomit-inducing, IQ-reducing, premature Alzheimer's-catalyzing POS's. but other than that, they're just outstanding.

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wonder why they are so tought to find?

 

A lot of folks speculate that the 15 cent cover price depressed sales during the early fifties.

 

Makes sense. I think a lot of 50's books are rarer than most.

 

15 cent cover price plus the decline of superheros in the 1948 to 1956 years. When these books came out, crime, romance, and westerns ruled the roost. Not to mention a certain duck by a certain guy named Carl.

 

Again, my .02 worth.

Plus the fact that DC crammed 68 pages into cheaper cover stock with just two small staples holding everything together. For that reason alone an inordinate number of copies of these, and Comic Cavalcade from the same time period, are now coverless or have loose covers.

 

plus the fact that the vast majority are retina-detaching, projectile vomit-inducing, IQ-reducing, premature Alzheimer's-catalyzing POS's. but other than that, they're just outstanding.

 

wow...harsh

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wonder why they are so tought to find?

 

A lot of folks speculate that the 15 cent cover price depressed sales during the early fifties.

 

Makes sense. I think a lot of 50's books are rarer than most.

 

15 cent cover price plus the decline of superheros in the 1948 to 1956 years. When these books came out, crime, romance, and westerns ruled the roost. Not to mention a certain duck by a certain guy named Carl.

 

Again, my .02 worth.

Plus the fact that DC crammed 68 pages into cheaper cover stock with just two small staples holding everything together. For that reason alone an inordinate number of copies of these, and Comic Cavalcade from the same time period, are now coverless or have loose covers.

 

plus the fact that the vast majority are retina-detaching, projectile vomit-inducing, IQ-reducing, premature Alzheimer's-catalyzing POS's. but other than that, they're just outstanding.

 

wow...harsh

 

that was as nice as i could go, and only because gator's one of my favorite geeks.

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wonder why they are so tought to find?

 

A lot of folks speculate that the 15 cent cover price depressed sales during the early fifties.

 

Makes sense. I think a lot of 50's books are rarer than most.

 

15 cent cover price plus the decline of superheros in the 1948 to 1956 years. When these books came out, crime, romance, and westerns ruled the roost. Not to mention a certain duck by a certain guy named Carl.

 

Again, my .02 worth.

Plus the fact that DC crammed 68 pages into cheaper cover stock with just two small staples holding everything together. For that reason alone an inordinate number of copies of these, and Comic Cavalcade from the same time period, are now coverless or have loose covers.

 

plus the fact that the vast majority are retina-detaching, projectile vomit-inducing, IQ-reducing, premature Alzheimer's-catalyzing POS's. but other than that, they're just outstanding.

 

lol

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plus the fact that the vast majority are retina-detaching, projectile vomit-inducing, IQ-reducing, premature Alzheimer's-catalyzing POS's. but other than that, they're just outstanding.

I take it you must have read a bunch of them when you were a kid, eh?

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plus the fact that the vast majority are retina-detaching, projectile vomit-inducing, IQ-reducing, premature Alzheimer's-catalyzing POS's. but other than that, they're just outstanding.

I take it you must have read a bunch of them when you were a kid, eh?

 

making fun of near-blind, spastic-stomach victimized, profoundly-moronic people in their second childhood, eh? just about right for a 'Horns fan.

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wonder why they are so tought to find?

 

A lot of folks speculate that the 15 cent cover price depressed sales during the early fifties.

 

Makes sense. I think a lot of 50's books are rarer than most.

 

15 cent cover price plus the decline of superheros in the 1948 to 1956 years. When these books came out, crime, romance, and westerns ruled the roost. Not to mention a certain duck by a certain guy named Carl.

 

Again, my .02 worth.

 

The only successful 15¢ comic from the period was Classics Illustrated because it wasn't the kids buying them!

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wonder why they are so tought to find?

 

A lot of folks speculate that the 15 cent cover price depressed sales during the early fifties.

 

Makes sense. I think a lot of 50's books are rarer than most.

 

15 cent cover price plus the decline of superheros in the 1948 to 1956 years. When these books came out, crime, romance, and westerns ruled the roost. Not to mention a certain duck by a certain guy named Carl.

 

Again, my .02 worth.

Plus the fact that DC crammed 68 pages into cheaper cover stock with just two small staples holding everything together. For that reason alone an inordinate number of copies of these, and Comic Cavalcade from the same time period, are now coverless or have loose covers.

 

plus the fact that the vast majority are retina-detaching, projectile vomit-inducing, IQ-reducing, premature Alzheimer's-catalyzing POS's. but other than that, they're just outstanding.

 

wow...harsh

 

that was as nice as i could go, and only because gator's one of my favorite geeks.

 

Are the stories as bad as the covers?

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wonder why they are so tought to find?

 

A lot of folks speculate that the 15 cent cover price depressed sales during the early fifties.

 

Makes sense. I think a lot of 50's books are rarer than most.

 

15 cent cover price plus the decline of superheros in the 1948 to 1956 years. When these books came out, crime, romance, and westerns ruled the roost. Not to mention a certain duck by a certain guy named Carl.

 

Again, my .02 worth.

Plus the fact that DC crammed 68 pages into cheaper cover stock with just two small staples holding everything together. For that reason alone an inordinate number of copies of these, and Comic Cavalcade from the same time period, are now coverless or have loose covers.

 

plus the fact that the vast majority are retina-detaching, projectile vomit-inducing, IQ-reducing, premature Alzheimer's-catalyzing POS's. but other than that, they're just outstanding.

 

wow...harsh

 

that was as nice as i could go, and only because gator's one of my favorite geeks.

 

Are the stories as bad as the covers?

 

easily my favorite post on the g.a. boards today.

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