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On 2/18/2023 at 10:42 AM, bc said:

Great timing :)

-bc

lol I thought the same thing when I saw yours pop up a split second ahead of mine! For whatever reason this daily number festival has gotten me back into logging in more regularly. Hope it lasts! I do miss the boards, just difficult to take the time some days... :frown:

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On 2/19/2023 at 6:22 AM, Sweet Lou 14 said:

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This cover really sticks out as an oddball in the JIM run.  Nothing exactly like it in tone either before or after.

It looks like it could be, dare we say it, a DC cover. :fear:

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On 2/19/2023 at 6:22 AM, Sweet Lou 14 said:

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This cover really sticks out as an oddball in the JIM run.  Nothing exactly like it in tone either before or after.

Agreed, it’s an odd one. I always blamed that on the alien in the foreground. If you ignore them it’s less odd but still out of place for JIM. May be a pre-implosion issue that they were using up, but this would still be odd for JIM and would have had to come from another title’s back log. That, or they got a head start on the sorts of stories we’d see shortly in very early TOS and TTA. 

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On 2/19/2023 at 6:09 PM, mysterio said:

Agreed, it’s an odd one. I always blamed that on the alien in the foreground. If you ignore them it’s less odd but still out of place for JIM. May be a pre-implosion issue that they were using up, but this would still be odd for JIM and would have had to come from another title’s back log. That, or they got a head start on the sorts of stories we’d see shortly in very early TOS and TTA. 

Another weird thing about this book is that "Three Who Vanished" was used again in Strange Tales #5, just a few months later:

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Does anyone know if they just recycled the title, or if they reprinted an entire story?

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On 2/19/2023 at 8:23 PM, Sweet Lou 14 said:

Another weird thing about this book is that "Three Who Vanished" was used again in Strange Tales #5, just a few months later:

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Does anyone know if they just recycled the title, or if they reprinted an entire story?

Sounds like one could be about them vanishing, the other from the perspective of said vanishers. Either way someone was maybe a bit lazy that month, at least when it came to coming up with a title. 

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