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My beat-up #247.

Just a couple odds and ends for my collection...excited about the Beta Ray Bill of course, but happy about all of them.

My daughter is a paramedic. She can confirm that speedboarding is a good way to meet her.

Flame face to another flame face. Another contender emerges ...

That might be worth a label note!

Disagree. The 10 point grading scale makes no sense if 9.8 is the highest. FWIW, I think that it would have been much more consistent to have 9.0, 9.5 and 10.0 - where 9.0 includes today's 9.2, 9.5 = 9.4 and 9.6 and 10.0 = 9.8, 9.9 and 10.0 (And get rid of 1.8 while we're at it.) Of course, there's less money in the whole business of grading if you do that, which is why they don't.

Added this Spectacular Spider-Man page from issue 86 to my CAF. The page features Black Cat and Spidey. Hope you like it. https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=2011383

Liberty April 4, 1936, cover by Walter Baumhofer, longtime pulp artist best known for covers for Adventure and Doc Savage and *many* other pulps. In the late to mid 30s he began to "crossover" and his covers appeared on Liberty and The American Magazine and his interior illos appeared in the likes of Cosmopolitan, McCall's, Woman's Home Companion and other slicks. Splash within for William James Blackledge's Company of the Damned (hmm, it's Doc Savage heh heh) Also within, the conclusion of James M. Cain's Double Indemnity. Cain began his career as a newspaperman but went to work for H.L. Mencken at The American Mercury. He moved into novels and screenwriting during the height of his popularity in the 30s and 40s and his work would often appear in Liberty. While never writing for the pulps, outside of WWII service propaganda, Cain is often lumped into the noir or pulp category for his brand of crime fiction. Cain did, however, have a couple appearances in early Manhunt crime digests which are pulp in my book and sold many an Avon paperback. Illo from James Montgomery Flagg, who in his long, long illustrious career, to my knowledge, never did appear in the pulps.

I recently purchased a copy of the Marvel Family from Harlan Ellison's personal collection, I don't see a pedigree listing? how do I submit this item?

This Red Circle pulp is on the way to my house, come to papa

FRENCH, ooh la la ah oui oui Frolics Scandals Stories

From ASM 299.

From Incredible Hulk 2.

No, I won't, because I've never actually heard that. However, your comment caused a file mismatch as I pulled this up as the closest match I could find in my brain:

Back on Len, I've posted at length, here and elsewhere, about Miller's distribution of Harvey comics from 1960 to 67, but this book below is still the only T&P stamped that I've seen on my travels for the publisher: The exception that proves the rule, I suppose....

You'll be singing it all day now

From Tales of the Zombie 1.

Skippy, not Snippy. And how the heck do I, a Yank, who has never seen the show, and wasn't even alive when it originally aired, know that off the top of my head?

From Daredevil 115.

Snippy can be handy too.. Wasn't he a bush kangaroo?

Better order an industrial size box of Kleenex....

Ah, I get it now. The story here ties into the diet booklet the publisher is hawking in the issue. I always wondered what was up with the bizarre advertisement marring the bottom left corner of this romance masterpiece. The opening story from Mort Leav is a great one, too.

I hadn't, but it's been a minute since I ran into a listing I wanted to save... For me, it's mostly Peter Wheat related books I can't afford, and they don't turn up very often. My only workaround is to suggest "print screen" to get a screenshot can be your friend. Opening the image in a new tab can help. Yay for higher resolution monitors these days, so you can actually get something semi-useful like that, and my apologies if I'm just telling you tricks you already know.