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I don't know if you have ever said how you ranked DC, Timely, and Fawcett as you were buying books off the stands as a kid.

 

I would say that picking titles off the newsstand I was drawn to DC first followed by FAWCETT,

4-COLOR, HARVEY, QUALITY and then TIMELY which was not all that well distributed.

Of course, if the cover grabbed me I didn't really care who published it.

 

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Seems like DC, Fawcett and Dell probably had the best distribution due to the fact there seem to be the most surviving titles today. That and the fact that they were a little "tamer" than most of the Timely and Nedor stuff. The "Paul" collection had very few Timely's and Nedors but a TON of Dell and DC's.

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Seems like DC, Fawcett and Dell probably had the best distribution due to the fact there seem to be the most surviving titles today. That and the fact that they were a little "tamer" than most of the Timely and Nedor stuff. The "Paul" collection had very few Timely's and Nedors but a TON of Dell and DC's.

 

....That's because "Paul"'s older brother "Sheldon" beat him up and took the Timelys....... GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u

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Seems like DC, Fawcett and Dell probably had the best distribution due to the fact there seem to be the most surviving titles today. That and the fact that they were a little "tamer" than most of the Timely and Nedor stuff. The "Paul" collection had very few Timely's and Nedors but a TON of Dell and DC's.

 

In addition to newsstand distribution, DELL 4-COLOR'S were sold in almost every 5 & 10 Cent

store like GRANT'S and WOOLWORTH and in a lot of rural areas in the smaller BEN FRANKLIN

type stores. For the most part, these were the only comic books these stores sold.

 

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Seems like DC, Fawcett and Dell probably had the best distribution due to the fact there seem to be the most surviving titles today. That and the fact that they were a little "tamer" than most of the Timely and Nedor stuff. The "Paul" collection had very few Timely's and Nedors but a TON of Dell and DC's.

 

....That's because "Paul"'s older brother "Sheldon" beat him up and took the Timelys....... GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u

lol and where are Sheldon's books? Or is this a pedigree I'm not aware of? ;)

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Nice pick up! It's a must for every GGA collector.

 

i kinda agree. in the "best cover in the run, and 2nd place got lapped" category, it's right up near the top.

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