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What does the cover cartoon mean?

A great book and a great cover. I like the fact that, somewhere in its history, some young man could probably not stand the bare-chested, no-cleavage cover and added a little pencil line. That is the rare case of a cover marking being an actual improvement.

Was it this one? Oh wait, you said water stained. Sarcastic use of græmlins

I've never seen a slabbed copy of this issue. What a beautiful copy! What surprises me is that CGC chose to encapsulate this side of the cover. I assume that is because Kennedy won, but the Nixon side has all the distribution marks and month/year info. I wonder, does CGC give the submitter a choice of which side they want to face the front?

Very cool... Can you imagine the craziness that would have ensued if eBay had existed back then?

The illustration does not do her justice; she's a fox! (Also a sweetheart for letting caterpillars take shelter on her eyebrows.)

This is awesome and hilarious on numerous levels. Gotta love the villain wearing only a diaper and padded armor that protects areas of his collarbone and biceps...so practical. (Is that a helmet or a Sleestack mask?) Then there are the super-wide collars -- those gotta be useful in outer space! I think the the 1970s had nostalgia for the 1950s so they transported vintage Chevy tailfins to their clothing...? Is that a super-soaker squirt gun shooting pee? Why is the man at the top of the trio so much larger than the people below him, and why is he looking away from the composition as if he's bored? Then there's the villainess in the middle -- nice body, but what a "butterface"! Nice widow's peak, and uh, is she about to destroy universes or perform in a Broadway show? Don't get me wrong, it's a colorful, fun and cool vintage magazine. It just brings back some ookie childhood memories. Only 1976 could produce magic like this. Sort of like a Planet Comics fever dream after overdosing on Tang. The funniest part is somebody thought 1999 would be anything like this, but instead of jetting around in space fighting aliens we were hiding in our basements worried our infrastructure would collapse because computers couldn't handle a digit change.

Looks like you have two comics too many. Better give a couple of them to me so you can have a more croppable group shot.

Was it this one? Oh wait, you said water stained.

Nice! Looks like a female take on "Pygmalion," there.

That's so funny that you pinned that down.... So what is wrong with the way the condenser is hooked up? The condenser should cool the ethanol in the gas phase back to the liquid form and the condenser should have a continuous flow of water attached to it to obtain the cooling effect. The small erlenmeyer flask attached to the condenser cooling jacket would fill up very quickly. The second erlenmeyer flask attached at the end of the condenser is for collecting the distillate. Since it has C2H5OH written on it, which is the chemical formula for ethyl alcohol, I guess that is what they are trying to collect. I love this analysis.... I will never look at this comic cover the same again.

That's so funny that you pinned that down.... So what is wrong with the way the condenser is hooked up?

Actually I think the cover might contain a secret message somehow.

I've long been a fan of the cover to Thrilling Crime Cases #49. I think it's one of Cole's best. I love the narrative method he used on this cover. It's one of the few books I own that I felt compelled to upgrade. I agree, it's a great cover. I do have one quibble, which is the shadowing on the woman's nose.

Feared by man and loved by women. Tis the answer to thou's question Great answer though it leads to the paradox of hermaphrodites.

Awesomeness overload = head asplode.

Is it better to be feared or loved?

I don't see the similarity....am I looking at the wrong book? Probably not. At 3 AM, one's mind plays tricks. I saw a guy holding a drowning victim, and thought immediately of Detective 9. I suppose I was hallucinating. I often hallucinate at 3 a.m.

I don't see the similarity....am I looking at the wrong book?

Propagandaccumulator!

Why do magazines come out a month or more before the date published on their cover?

My jealousy just got a booster shot.

love me some ingrid; after casablanca, notorious is my fave. Notorious is great to watch while getting drunk.

Graders Notes: Interested, interested. Very interested, very interested. And then suddenly I lost all interest in the magazine, about 2/3 of the way through. Cream to off-white purges?

They have graded After Hours which is a girly magazine that happened to be published by Warren. And also the aforementioned examples of Sports Illustrated and Playboy. So it really does seem to be open season. The only definitive answer would have to come from CGC; has anybody asked?