sfcityduck Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 (edited) I set out to get myself a copy of a Promise Collection book with the OO's name on it. It arrived today from Heritage. I way overpaid, but it is in my humble opinion it one of the two best books as far as highlighting the name goes. Feel free to laugh, but I love it: The other copy that I think displays the name incredibly well, frankly better than mine: Just a few observations on the "Armand" books: Based on the Grand Comic Database's information regarding DC on-sale dates (which are pretty well known), all of the DC "Armand" (monthly cover dated 8/49-10/49 and bi-monthly dated 7-8/49 to 10-11/49) were on sale between June and August 1949: Makes you wonder "why?". I have my theories. Other publishers have books that are in a slightly different cover date range than the DC cover dates, but they are close enough that the on-sale dates likely fell within the DC range. For Example, my example of the signature, is cover dated 7/49. Here are other examples of "Armand Comics" I've seen. Let me know if you know of others. The name can be hard to spot and I'm sure I've missed some. But it is a small group of books: Edited February 14, 2022 by sfcityduck TheGeneral, waaaghboss, jimjum12 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waaaghboss Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 My takeaway from this topic is that size does indeed matter. comicjack and sfcityduck 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfcityduck Posted February 15, 2022 Author Share Posted February 15, 2022 On 2/14/2022 at 10:12 PM, waaaghboss said: My takeaway from this topic is that size does indeed matter. My takeaway is that it is very strange that the OO's name is only on some books in a three month period, out of 120+ months he collected, of the books he owned. waaaghboss 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 On 2/14/2022 at 11:36 PM, sfcityduck said: My takeaway is that it is very strange that the OO's name is only on some books in a three month period, out of 120+ months he collected, of the books he owned. Maybe the person writing his name was a student that had to return to high school or college after the summer was over... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikefeen Posted February 18, 2022 Share Posted February 18, 2022 My understanding is that it was somewhat common for the few stores that were setting aside new issues for repeat customers in the 40s to write the customers name on the cover as they set them aside. So maybe the OO asked them to stop, since he obviously wanted the comics in high grade. Or it's also possible he changed stores, possibly because of a move, and the new store didn't write his name on the cover. Black Bat and sfcityduck 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Bat Posted February 18, 2022 Share Posted February 18, 2022 (edited) Dude. What an impressively obsessive post! And what a spectacular array of books. A pleasure to peruse. From this time forward, for me, all Promise books will belong to one of two categories. Well done. I like your book too- I agree with the name placement. The Hit wins for me primarily because of the mummy. Ha ha. The JoJo is probably my third favorite. Again well done! Edited February 18, 2022 by Black Bat sfcityduck 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbo_7071 Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 What do you make of this one, @sfcityduck? I haven't seen any other STANGE books. This one went way past what I was willing to pay, but I was tracking it while it looked like it might stay under $2K. Action Comics #141 sfcityduck 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PDGray Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 Yet another fascinating thread by @sfcityduck I am thinking along the same lines of what @sfcityduck and, I suspect, many of the rest of you are thinking as well. PDG sfcityduck 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfcityduck Posted February 24, 2022 Author Share Posted February 24, 2022 On 2/24/2022 at 12:13 AM, jimbo_7071 said: What do you make of this one, @sfcityduck? I haven't seen any other STANGE books. This one went way past what I was willing to pay, but I was tracking it while it looked like it might stay under $2K. Action Comics #141 Masterchief brought this one and a few other oddities up on the story of a promise thread and we discussed them there. jimbo_7071 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
