Fox Comics Appreciation Thread! 20 20

[Straw-Man]

lightening? g.a.tor, get the hell off cat's computer!!

[jbcomicbox]

I have quite a few of the pre-war Fox books (all). I think they are great books even when Fine and Simon stopped doing covers.

 

Over 50% are Church books.....jb

[cheetah]

As my kids would say, OMG!

[Silver Surfer]

Jon thanks for posting these as you rarely see these around anywhere.

[circumstances]

[adamstrange]

I love these large scans -- they really show off these amazing copies!!!!

 

[rjpb]

A question for the Fox fans. One of the mysteries of the Atom Age I've wondered about is the distribution of the Fox properties in the mid 50s. Around 1954 Ajax-Farrell appears to have picked up a few Fox characters, The Flame, Samson and the Phantom Lady, but around the same time Charlton starts publishing the Blue Beetle.

 

My guess is that given their relative obscurity Ajax and/or their packagers at the Iger shop figured the characters were up for grabs and didn't formally acquire them, but the BB was better known, and Charlton, which was also picking up titles from Fawcett, Mainline and Comic Media around the same time, actually did formally gain the rights to the character.

[damonwad]

Those are some awesome books jb. I've never seen the WW 28 before. What a cool book.

[mrmyst]

The MM 10 has killer Kirby art... and the cover's not too shabby either!!!

[Cat-Man_America]

The MM 10 has killer Kirby art... and the cover's not too shabby either!!!

 

[font:Times New Roman]Thanks! [/font]

[mrmyst]

Geez JB, that Fantastic 22 is crazy. I can't believe after all these years I was not aware of that cover.

[HRCostigan]

Here's a pic of my completed Zoot + Rulah GGA run

 

[sacentaur]

Now that is GGA goodness, well done on the runs.

[Twistty1]

Just curious, which one of the Zoot 14 covers is the classic one? I was noticing in the recent Sparklecity auction that they had both versions and both cgc labels were the same.

[HRCostigan]

The March one. The only notes on my May label are "Earlier issue #14 exists." Zoot 16 also has a "classic cover" notation.

[HRCostigan]

Now that is GGA goodness, well done on the runs.

 

Thank you! I'm expecting a big Fox book to be delivered today, will post it after it arrives

[Twistty1]

The March one. The only notes on my May label are "Earlier issue #14 exists." Zoot 16 also has a "classic cover" notation.

 

They both had march listed as the date on them... I think it was just a mistake on the part of cgc to list them the same because my photo journal has your cover listed as 14a with a date of May.

[HRCostigan]

I believe I saw a mislabeled 13/13a in the registry as well. I guess that happens from time to time.

[HRCostigan]

Here is my latest Fox (and my first Gerber 8)!

 

[RareHighGrade]

Here is my latest Fox (and my first Gerber 8)!

 

One of the rarest Fox books. Also Lou Fine's first comic book cover. Congrats!