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[RedFury]

Picked this up thinking it was a SPIRIT book...quite a resemblance.

 

 

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It's not surprising you were fooled. Midnight was intentionally a Spirit clone. Quality's publisher, Busy Arnold, was worried about Eisner being drafted. Unlike most of the other Eisner produced features for Quality, Arnold did not own The Spirit, Eisner did. Arnold could always hire other artists to continue Blackhawk, Black Condor, The Ray, etc, but if something happened to Eisner, Arnold could not just hire someone else to produce new stories. Eisner might have been gone for years, been killed in the war, or maybe their business relationship would come to an end. So in order to hedge against those risks, Arnold had Jack Cole create Midnight.

[vaillant]

Picked this up thinking it was a SPIRIT book...quite a resemblance.

 

 

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That’s what I thought too, before digging into Quality and discovering Midnight…

[BB-Gun]

Picked this up thinking it was a SPIRIT book...quite a resemblance.

 

 

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It's not surprising you were fooled. Midnight was intentionally a Spirit clone. Quality's publisher, Busy Arnold, was worried about Eisner being drafted. Unlike most of the other Eisner produced features for Quality, Arnold did not own The Spirit, Eisner did. Arnold could always hire other artists to continue Blackhawk, Black Condor, The Ray, etc, but if something happened to Eisner, Arnold could not just hire someone else to produce new stories. Eisner might have been gone for years, been killed in the war, or maybe their business relationship would come to an end. So in order to hedge against those risks, Arnold had Jack Cole create Midnight.

Cole did some great work on the strip. Eisner may have inspired that splash and the cover above.

[Marty Mann]

This splash from SMASH #73 looks like Eisner.

 

 

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[Marty Mann]

I was really pleased the day I spotted this on the newsstand...I had

listened to the ADVENTURES OF JACK ARMSTRONG on radio

for such a long time, it was nice to see what they "looked like".

 

 

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[Marty Mann]

It's surprising going through my collection that of all the comics

I bought, it seems that I only picked up a couple CAPTAIN AMERICA'S.

 

 

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[Marty Mann]

It's also surprising to find that I have 17 various issues of STAR SPANGLED

COMICS in my collection, from #53 with a torn cover to #105...never realized

I had that many. I did enjoy TOMAHAWK though.

 

 

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[BB-Gun]

It's also surprising to find that I have 17 various issues of STAR SPANGLED

COMICS in my collection, from #53 with a torn cover to #105...never realized

I had that many. I did enjoy TOMAHAWK though.

 

 

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I like Star Spangled too. Tomahawk, Robin and Newsboy Legion are my favorites.

Edited March 14, 2013 by BB-Gun

[Marty Mann]

I have none of the above...great collection!

 

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[Marty Mann]

In going through my collection I found I had just six issues of the

MARVEL FAMILY...compared to twenty-two issues of CAPTAIN

MARVEL ADVENTURES...and, six of CAPTAIN MARVEL, JR.

 

 

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[comicdonna]

Very nice!

[BB-Gun]

In going through my collection I found I had just six issues of the

MARVEL FAMILY...compared to twenty-two issues of CAPTAIN

MARVEL ADVENTURES...and, six of CAPTAIN MARVEL, JR.

 

 

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I like the Marvel Family but I wish Fawcett hadn't dumped their earlier group of heroes.

 

[Golden Gurl]

The first comic I bought and still have was 1942's ALL-WINNERS #4

with Stan Lee as editor printed inside the front cover.

 

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Speechless

[Marty Mann]

Thank you...I had it graded and it came back a 3.0.

 

 

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[Marty Mann]

Another title I enjoyed picking up was FLASH COMICS...I have 11 issues

from #70 to #104.

 

 

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[BB-Gun]

Another title I enjoyed picking up was FLASH COMICS...I have 11 issues

from #70 to #104.

 

 

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I have been a fan of the Flash since I read Showcase 4. It was a thrill to see the golden age flash return in Flash 123. I really like that Halloween cover. Is it in your pile?

Edited March 18, 2013 by BB-Gun

[Marty Mann]

Nope...no Halloween issue...as a matter of fact, I had never seen that

cover until now...thanks!

 

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[Marty Mann]

This series was a little different from the rest on the newsstand.

 

 

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[Badger]

Another title I enjoyed picking up was FLASH COMICS...I have 11 issues

from #70 to #104.

 

 

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I have been a fan of the Flash since I read Showcase 4. It was a thrill to see the golden age flash return in Flash 123. I really like that Halloween cover. Is it in your pile?

 

That #78 is really cool! One of my favorites! (thumbs u

[Badger]

This series was a little different from the rest on the newsstand.

 

 

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Nice! I'm always happy when I see a cover for the first time!