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Show Us Your Atlas Books - Have A Cigar
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verygoodplus

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I just looked up the one-and-only Tales of the Marines (#4) on the GCD, and it looks like it consists entirely of Devil-Dog Dugan stories, and so remains in the humor format.

 

 

As you could probably guess by looking at the cover:

 

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Meanwhile here's the next issue, to illustrate the change in title and content:

 

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Better get out while you still can Scott, once you get bitten by the Atlas bug there's no turning back. poke2.gif

 

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Too late! I love these books. This is the kind of stuff (along with pre-hero GA) that I am going to switch my focus toward when I start buying again. Much tougher to find and a lot more impressive in HG than Marvel silver age!

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Too late! I love these books. This is the kind of stuff (along with pre-hero GA) that I am going to switch my focus toward when I start buying again. Much tougher to find and a lot more impressive in HG than Marvel silver age!

 

While I agree with your thinking, at least for me, it's harder to keep focused on a hobby if books that I want rarely come available.

 

I love L.B. Cole covers but haven't bought one in about a year since they are rarely offered for sale.

 

I've also sold a number of Atlas books over the past six months because I realized at this time it relatively impossible to put long runs together in HG. Yeah, I could pay five times guide to a certain dealer for ungraded HG copies, but even graded, the price is way too high.

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Punyman: Here's an untrimmed cover for Strange Tales 60, along with a detail. I admire your taste. By the way, I admire those Heath covers as well.

 

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Thanks for posting , what a great cover to have in your collection!! 893applaud-thumb.gifStange Tales # 60 & World of Suspence # 6 Two of Bill Everett's greatest covers of all IMHO!!! 893applaud-thumb.gifcloud9.gif

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Too late! I love these books. This is the kind of stuff (along with pre-hero GA) that I am going to switch my focus toward when I start buying again. Much tougher to find and a lot more impressive in HG than Marvel silver age!

 

While I agree with your thinking, at least for me, it's harder to keep focused on a hobby if books that I want rarely come available.

 

I love L.B. Cole covers but haven't bought one in about a year since they are rarely offered for sale.

 

I've also sold a number of Atlas books over the past six months because I realized at this time it relatively impossible to put long runs together in HG. Yeah, I could pay five times guide to a certain dealer for ungraded HG copies, but even graded, the price is way too high.

 

It's a trade off though. I lose interest in the thrill of the hunt if the only barrier to getting the book I want is my budget. That's like hunting fish in a barrel. The allure of looking at yet another copy of Spidey #14 in NM 9.4 has diminished greatly now that I've seen several copies in that grade or higher.

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It's a trade off though. I lose interest in the thrill of the hunt if the only barrier to getting the book I want is my budget. That's like hunting fish in a barrel. The allure of looking at yet another copy of Spidey #14 in NM 9.4 has diminished greatly now that I've seen several copies in that grade or higher.

 

I don't disagree there.

 

That's why I don't collect Spidey at this time. 893whatthe.gif

 

But other Marvel titles / issues are much harder to get. Plus, part of the hunt for me is to pay a reasonable price. grin.gif

 

Still, I would love to collect other genres / ages, but I think I would need to be able to get several books at a time, so it would start to feel like a collection (or run) and not just one book from an odd publisher that I find cool. Those books start to lose my interest if I can't get other books similar to them.

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AtlasT, that Journey Into Unknown Worlds 19 is just amazing. Love the story page you scanned too. Must seek this one.

 

Great splash. I'm not familiar with Larry W -- but I would agree that the pencils are atypical of Matt Fox. It could be Matt inking Larry or someone else.

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