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Show me your Timely's and I'll show you mine. Have a Cigar...
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Straw-Man

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love these early usa's! among just these several books, we have the larson, chicago, rockford and eldon collections on display, as well as a timely file copy. way to go, guys.

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Scrooge

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Is this museum free, or does a guy gotta pay to see these treasures!?!? (worship)

 

No kidding. It's like a firework of awesomeness!

 

Reading those USA is fun as well. Plenty of goofy Timely fun in dem pages. Thank goodness for the Masterwork series.

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G.A.tor

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My heart is filled with Larsony and old label goodness... :insane:

 

 

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still wish you had of bought this directly from me and saved me the 10% vig :makepoint:
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hockeyboy13

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you don't see many of these and i love that jack kirby cover. i love the yellow background and red logo,

i think the colorist was somewhat limited in his imagination on the rest!

 

does anybody know who the inker was? definitely not kirby. i think this cover was designed and inked as if it was going to be a early Fox book. Inking has the look of the lou fine school perhaps.

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Sqeggs

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Some Chicago's.

 

 

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everytime i see a chicago copy i laugh. because they came from Indiana!

great book and one you never see anywhere!

 

And the SF books came from Piedmont! (Or so BLB assures us.)

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hockeyboy13

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Seeing the thread about the "trimmed" Marvel Mystery made me want to post my Cap 39 which is badly mis-cut and mis-bound. All other Timely's I own are about 1/3 of an inch larger than the Cap.

The interior pages are not large enough (see pictures 2 and 3) and some of the art is cut due to this.

On top of this 2 centerfolds are slightly larger then the other pages and are creased (see picture 4).

I'm wondering if mis-cuts like this occurred often in WW2 Timely's or not (I'm no specialist on the subject).

 

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von hammer,

nice book. remember comics are mass produced. anything can happen in the process of printing and binding! remember they were considered throw away entertainment long ago.

i collect oddities like that book..bring it to SD..or you may not get in!! (insert evil laugh here)

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Another great and sadly overlooked Kirby cover.

I have to agree with this sentiment. I was only going after the Cap USAs but the more I look at the pre-cap USAs the more I like them. (thumbs u

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