What is your rarest acquisition this year?

[BOOT]

 

What a cracker book

 

Hitler cover, overwhelming action, Bonnett's stamp and that Atlas logo that did not last long before morphing into a smaller and more familiar form,

 

No wonder it took a while to find - I'd be real reluctant to let that go.

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What a great piece of history!

[BOOT]

I could quote every book everyone has posted. Great thread, Bo!

 

Here is a bunch of stuff I picked up, most of which I had never seen before. Bo, hope you don't mind if I post a bunch...who knows which is the rarest?

 

First, several foreign comics...please excuse, one is from the 1970s...

[BOOT]

Here are a bunch of comics I had never seen - most are unlisted anywhere...

[BOOT]

More unlisted discoveries...

[BOOT]

Here are some mini-rarities...

[BOOT]

Here is a cool giveaway with some promotional material...

[BOOT]

This is a handmade booklet pitching a humor/scifi strip.

[BOOT]

Too lazy to move these to a thread in Modern or General...

 

Unlisted Neal Adams promo for hair metal band

Unlisted promo with Sam Keith and Simon Bisley art

Rare comic to promote peace and harmony

[BOOT]

To compensate for that modern drek, these go way back...

 

O'Street lists Sam and His Laugh as "extremely rare"...

[BOOT]

Even older...

 

This one's from 1860. But it's not the first edition, believe that was from 1840.

[BOOT]

More Mr. Pencil...

[BOOT]

Happy to get this Neurotica #3, with Gershon Legman's "Psychopathology of the Comics." Predates his Love and Death and Wertham.

[BOOT]

Also happy to get this original New York State Legislative Report on Comics. Posted lots of interiors from a library copy in this thread.

 

This is an original paperback copy. Page after page of full page illos of the worst from comics of the day, many of which showed up four years later in Seduction of the Innocent. Just a few sample illos are below. Check the link above for more.

 

Thanks to all for a great year of sharing your comic discoveries!

 

Happy New Year to all!

[Tri-Color Brian]

I own the Jungle 98 that last picture is from. "There are pictures within pictures for children who know how to look..."

[Sqeggs]

Some great stuff there, Boot!

[Sqeggs]

A very tough book to find

 

 

Almost impossible pre-hero DC:

 

 

Someone at D.C. had a thing against reptiles. Great books, both of them!

 

Looks like the same guy on both covers. He should consider staying out of the jungle.

[Sqeggs]

I've been getting into promos, many of which -- as Boot knows well -- aren't listed in Overstreet. Most are inexpensive and can be a fun. Their scarcity can be hard to gauge because, I think, they are particularly prone to having substantial warehouse/file stocks surface.

 

I picked up this one very cheap on eBay. That art is by Joe Simon. Kind of interesting that although it dates from 1960, Keating is shown using an old-fashioned dip pen.

 

[buttock]

Here is a cool giveaway with some promotional material...

 

Hadacol was at least 12% alcohol & the guy was a snake oil salesman. Interesting history on that book.

[rjpb]

I've been getting into promos, many of which -- as Boot knows well -- aren't listed in Overstreet. Most are inexpensive and can be a fun. Their scarcity can be hard to gauge because, I think, they are particularly prone to having substantial warehouse/file stocks surface.

 

I picked up this one very cheap on eBay. That art is by Joe Simon. Kind of interesting that although it dates from 1960, Keating is shown using an old-fashioned dip pen.

 

 

 

Nib pens were still considered "real pens" long after ballpoints became dominant, and certainly in the 1960s, anyone with a pretense to sophistication would use one to publicly sign documents. It's telling that Truman routinely used a ballpoint, while most later presidents, including Obama, still used nib pens at at least some public signings.The tapered end of Ken's pen would indicate a dip pen over a fountain pen, but the artist may have just been generically drawing a pen.

 

Keating came from the tradition of moderate/liberal Northeast who completely dominated NY politics in the early 1960s.

 

 

[Mystafo]

This is the first of two rarest comics I picked up this year and they are both Canadian. I will let you decide which is rarest.

 

What the heck is going on on that cover? Great book!

 

Chinese / HAZMAT gift exchange?