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I think you called it! I just read about the Cookeville collection on another site (comicbookpedigrees.com), and it said the owner's name was Leroy Mackie. So apparently the SN was some kind of distributor's mark. It seems like I learn something new about this hobby every day!

SN books (at least those coded similar to Sartre's Cap 67) are part of the Cookeville, TN collection discovered by Overstreet. I guess my Cap 10 is the oddball, with the cursive SN. I'll have to keep an eye out for similarly marked issues.

Interesting! I guess it'll remain a mystery.

I'm always curious about the provenance of books. 12 years ago I bought a Cap #10 from you on E-Bay (after you had upgraded). That book has a cursive "SN" written on the big "M" in pencil. Your #48 has "SN" printed in the same spot. It stands to reason that the books may have had the same original owner. Do you have any idea who that S.N. might have been? (Do you remember the Cap 10?)

I'm not a religious man, but whenever Steve posts I'm reminded of what the good book says: "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's comic book collection."

I don't think that debate will ever be settled; it depends on how much emphasis someone puts on the format. In terms of the complete integration of text and art, I think you could argue that William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience and other works were proto-comic books. Some of them sure resemble comic books to me, and most of them were published in the 1790s. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ttnhMIEFb5E/T5JtPGY3XHI/AAAAAAAAAvo/VOYyYh0c9bw/s1600/William+Blake+The+Chimney+Sweeper+from+Songs+of+Experience.jpg

Happy Easter! Here's Albert Pinkham Ryder's Resurrection to add to the fine art Easter parade!

I agree with you on that point. Paper quality should be the first thing considered when grading a book. I have to shake my head whenever I see a book with cream-to-off-white pages slabbed as NM (or higher!). Of course, I have no desire to see the current trend change. I'm happy to let other people pay big bucks for the 9.6s with cream-to-off-white pages while I collect 8.5s with white pages for a fraction of the price.

I've often wondered how many high-grade books have been "locked up" by 2nd owners since before the CGC census days. I have a feeling that one day we're going to discover that some issues are not as rare as we think.

Thanks! I posted it large-size in this thread a while back , but here it is again.

"Earth Man on Venus" is a great cover (even if the femme is an alien!).

Four Color #56. I bought this comic almost 25 years ago.

Harry passed away many years ago. That's really disappointing to hear, but thank you for the information.

Does anyone know whether a dealer named Harry Thomas is a boardie, or whether he currently has an E-Bay store? The old e-mail addy I had for him is no good.

I posted this before in highest graded, but I guess I can post it here, too. It's my first slabbed pre-code horror comic. I was giddy as a school girl when I bought it in the C-Link auction!

Funny animal books don't get much love nowadays, so I thought I'd post these two Dell file copies I bought from Sparkle City back in 1988.

I don't especially collect Fawcetts any more, but here are two I held onto. The Wow 49 is a Mile High.

I love to see early Timelys with nice page quality!

Some day, it'll be one of those things that guys tell their great-grandkids about, like ivory-billed woodpeckers: "When I was your age, Sonny Boy, there used to be some comic books that wasn't all flattened out and creased along the spine, almost like they didn't bother to iron 'em after they was printed. I saw one myself back in aught-nine at Wizard World. Some say a few might still exist somewheres..." Pressing has been around long before CGC existed. On page 472 of the 17th edition of Overstreet ( 1987 ), there's an advertisement from Fantazia ( Danny Dupcak ), that lists pressing/spine-roll removal among other things. So are these beautiful spines in the old label slabs you're referring to truly untouched or were they pressed 15-20-25 years ago? Can you tell? Depending on the nature of the flaws that are being removed, I think that it's possible to press a book in a way that does not flatten the spine. For example, I've seen books pressed by Matt Nelson in a way that left the spine in its original rounded condition. But, unfortunately, there are a lot of less skilled pressers out there who simply smash the book. And it's become so prevalent that books with spines like Sarte's are becoming as rare as hen's teeth. [font:Times New Roman] +1 Bad presses and poor judgment in respect to which books are suitable candidates for the process are the likely reasons pressing is held in such low esteem by so many folks. OTOH, I have as much respect for the care Matt takes with books as I have for the quality of sartre's collection. Both are first class.[/font] (thumbs u Here's an example of a bad press job. (I have no idea who did it.) http://comics.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=7073&lotNo=93045 The book was a 9.2 before the press (no tear near the upper staple): http://comics.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=804&lotNo=5126

I always knew Spiders liked flies, but this is ridiculous...

Some day, it'll be one of those things that guys tell their great-grandkids about, like ivory-billed woodpeckers: "When I was your age, Sonny Boy, there used to be some comic books that wasn't all flattened out and creased along the spine, almost like they didn't bother to iron 'em after they was printed. I saw one myself back in aught-nine at Wizard World. Some say a few might still exist somewheres..."

wow! that is creepy... and yet I want a copy Freudian slip Either that or I am a little perverse... completely possible since I love torture/bondange... Hmmm, this is really not going well for me Oh I don't know That is one weird funnybook cover. Many of the people I work with are childhood survivors of emotional and physical abuse, which may be why I find this cover so compelling. To me, this is a real horror cover. But it's all in the sub-text, and -probably?- unknowing. Whereas the sub-text of virtually all PCH is a wink "this is all just a story". Hence, the more Grand Guignol, the more cathartic. Or in the case of bondage covers, they are about anything but Kraft Ebbing. They are about the critical moment of rescue. And the damsel is always innocent, and therefore deserves to be rescued. It is in the rare instances where the damsel has no visible means of rescue that they are more disturbing - cf Underworld Crime #7. Whereas powerful women tend to be depicted as evil/and or manipulative, which is pure Cinema Noir. Or if good, then like Phantom Lady shining a light while scantily clad into evil men's darkness. It may or may not be a coincidence that the same tropes seem to emerge in so-called Men's Sweat magazines after Wertham and the demise of the pulps. I haven't done my research, and don't know enough to be sure. I do wonder about the influence of the war on the artists who returned. In real life I am a mental health therapist... so I like covers which depict mental health in some way (hence the Boy #24). I am not sure whether I would call this abuse or just very very strange as the child is getting spanked (not beaten) by an adult size play toy... My feeling is that we read more into the covers than was ever intended. But I could be wrong... I share your doubts. We are so much more media savvy aren't we? [font:Times New Roman]Maybe it's just my warped POV, but I think this is an example of subliminal male fantasy at work. Given the predominantly adult male audience who post here and the broader context of fandom and role playing, Alice isn't perceived as an adolescent girl so much as an adult indulging in erotic cosplay. Had the artist come up with an image of the Mad Hatter punishing Alice I suspect it would've produced even more excitement. My psychological analysis. [/font] All I know is, I'd give 10 years of my life to trade places with that play toy.

I'm starting to think I'll have a long box full of Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1's, 9.8/WHITE Pages, before I'll have a copy of this book in my hands.

That is one cool cover! (The more time I spend on these boards, the more my want list just grows, and grows, and grows...)

A misspelling of Nazi???