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I only have a few # 50 -

 

What an exquisite copy! You must have had to wait months for it (or at least it seemed that way).

 

 

 

Classic Wertham "fetich" cover! Nice, bright colors too.

Perfect example of its genre and era. GCD says

Joe Doolin; Jack Kamen? (on Tiger Girl) (Pencils) Joe Doolin; Iger Shop (on Tiger Girl) (Inks)

Maybe one reason it's so eye-catching is that the central figure doesn't quite match the background. (Yeah, I know there's another reason.)

 

 

Fantastic Reed Crandall Blackhawk cover! Wonderful colors.

I have a few in this range, but this has to be one of the best -- maybe as good as the classic War Wheel (#56 -- I hope I can find mine or a scan of it for that day).

 

 

Jack

 

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And lastly...We don't wanna forget today's Ha Ha!

 

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Funny Stuff 50

 

Love the Funny Stuff 50. Thanks

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Another earth cover.

 

 

Another beauty!

That conductor shows up on a lot of DC covers during this era. Anyone know who he's based on? A DC staffer? A friend of Gil Kane (or Giella or Giacoia)? Someone in the news at the time? Captain Kangaroo?

 

Jack

 

 

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Brave and the Bold starts the switch to team-ups.

 

 

Before they made the mistake (in my opinion) of changing it to all-Batman-all-the-time. It was more interesting to me when they teamed up anybody, including this pair of second- (third-?) stringers.

 

When I was very young I used to wonder which one was the brave and which one was the bold.

 

Jack

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Cool..thanks to Silver, JohnT and another we've seen many 50's DC 50s today. How about someone show a Heart Throbs, House of Mystery, House of Secrets. What other 50's 50s DC's are there?

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First of the Adams Deadman trilogy.

 

 

Very nice!

An issue -- one of 9 in the whole run -- that's been on my want list for years. Is it scarce, or I just haven't been looking in the right places?

 

Jack

 

Jack,

 

I must have 4 high grade copies of Aquaman 50. Wanna trade for one? he he

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I'm enjoying your oversized books, but this one is really "WOW!"

Is it scarcer than the rest? All reprints or some original work? Wonderful Sheldon Meyer cover -- I really like the floating heads on the left, even though I'm not usually a fan of breaking up the cover like that. I guess it works better when the cover's so big. Winky and Blinky make me chuckle -- are they continuing characters in the Rudolph stories?

 

Jack

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It's another DC Unnecessary Exposition classic cover!

 

Jack

"He's pressing the submit button!"

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You don't suppose that Supes is "teaching Jimmy a lesson" about signal-watch abuse, do you?

 

Jack

again

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a DC "bubble" cover:

 

 

The classic Lois Lane cover! Oddball details everywhere.

Lana's goo-goo eyes get me every time.

 

Jack

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Thought I'd do something fun today for #50. Here's some of my 50's 50's.

 

We'll start with some romance.

 

 

Intentionally crowded cover with knock-out coloring to emphasize the central figures! Was the cover supposed to remind customers of Leonard Starr's popular "On Stage" comic strip? It started about 9 months before the cover date.

 

I wonder whether this is one of the finest existing copies of this book.

 

Jack

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The Human Top -- in a men's department.

Then Marvel wondered why the Giant-Man feature never really took off?

 

Jack

"Jan! Stop him before he threatens the haberdashery!"