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[fifties]

On 7/1/2024 at 7:21 PM, jimbo_7071 said:

I picked this one up on the Bay. The curious thing is the date stamp on the back. The cover date of the book is August 1955, but the date FEB 16 1956 is on the back cover in three places. (Actually, one of the three says FEB 91 1956 because the 16 is flipped.) I have never seen a book with a date stamp that's six months later than the cover date. Is there any way this could be an actual arrival date, for instance if it was shipped on a slow boat to some overseas naval base commissary? Or did someone randomly stamp a date on it six months after it was purchased?

 

 

I would suggest that someone was testing their date stamp, and it has nothing to do with the arrival date.

[jimbo_7071]

On 7/4/2024 at 2:13 AM, fifties said:

I would suggest that someone was testing their date stamp, and it has nothing to do with the arrival date.

That could be. It could explain why one of the 16s is flipped.

[MusterMark]

On 7/4/2024 at 11:54 AM, jimbo_7071 said:

That could be. It could explain why one of the 16s is flipped.

Or maybe the person had dylsxeai

[Robot Man]

Terry O also picked up a huge Atlas collection and debuted them at Torpedo.

A cool guy next to me picked out a large pile but I was more than happy to pick up a few of his leftover Everett covers I need.

I was overjoyed to pick up this fun Burgos JIM #25 flying saucer cover. Been looking for it for years and just never see it. Hoping to upgrade but more than happy to just any copy. 

[analog1o1]

I love this cover and how transitional it is as the series starts to shift to horror. I was happy to cross a nice copy off my want list.
 

Edited July 26 by analog1o1

[AJLewandoski]

Well this was NOT what I was expecting to pull out of a $2 bin today at an antique store. The table was full of 90s dupes of Darkman, Sleepwalker and Legionnaires, but here we are...It was loose, staples are roasted, 1/3 of the back cover is missing, but the front doesn't look too shabby 

[Jayman]

Recent pickups…

[analog1o1]

Those western covers are great.

[vaultkeeper]

A great Zombie cover.

 

[BuscemasAvengers]

Just back from CGC. The TGW 13 came back higher than I had thought it was going to be, and the Showgirls' grade was right where I thought it was going to be.

Edited August 6 by BuscemasAvengers

[Silver Surfer]

I’ve said it before but I’d sure like to see some high grade collections of books from the 50’s come to auction. Seems like they is a shortage of high grade copies in general. 

[Robot Man]

On 8/6/2024 at 11:08 PM, Silver Surfer said:

I’ve said it before but I’d sure like to see some high grade collections of books from the 50’s come to auction. Seems like they is a shortage of high grade copies in general. 

High grade ‘50’s books have always been tough to find. Maybe due to production issues on a lot of publishers and the fact that back then there wern’t that many folks that took care of their books. Most of the high grade books from this era have been locked away for years in private collections. I haven’t seen very many of these collections come to market and when they do, they get sucked away quickly into more long term collections all over again. 

[Silver Surfer]

Maybe because post war life with TV provided other distractions for more kids and young adults too?

[Robot Man]

On 8/7/2024 at 8:09 AM, Silver Surfer said:

Maybe because post war life with TV provided other distractions for more kids and young adults too?

Maybe but not in my case. We didn’t watch a lot of TV. We had one TV and It was pretty much controlled by my parents. In my case, we spent a lot of time riding our bikes, skateboards and playing sports. We did spend a lot of time reading especially comics which every kid in the neighborhood had. They were passed around a lot and nobody ever thought to take care of them. 

[analog1o1]

[jimjum12]

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[Jayman]

 

On 9/28/2024 at 9:27 AM, jimjum12 said:

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-jmbo(a friend of jesus)

Apologies!

Heres some fun Atlas covers featuring old cars. Any others you can think of?

[fifties]

[Jayman]

[MusterMark]

Can’t recall if I posted this one.