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So, having now discussed all of the corrections to my completist checklist, allow me to share some collecting highlights from the past few years.... 2021 In the last half of 2021, on eBay I found a sweet copy of one of the promo books I was theretofore missing: Reddy Kilowatt #1B (1956). [Note: if you want to know more about which Reddy Kilowatt promo books these alphanumeric codes refer to, check out this link: https://www.bipcomics.com/showcase/ec.php ]: So now, the only EC Reddy Kilowatt promo books I'm missing are the two "Southern California" editions of "The Space Kite" (the last two books shown at that link I referenced just above). I laid my books out in the same order as they are shown in the graphic at that link above so that you can see what's what...if you care :

Those are definitely interesting, but it's all about defining the boundaries of "EC Publications." Early on I had to make a philosophical decision about these Superior books...my rationale is that they are NOT technically EC Publications, they are Superior Comics publications (which is an indisputable fact) - see, it says so right there on the CGC Label . I'm sticking with that, and don't try to change my mind!

Hi Andrew! Hope all has been well! It was a little harder for me to find the non-code version, but I think that was probably just the way it randomly played out at the time I was looking. I know others who have the non-code version who need the code version. So, 50/50 is probably a good guess.

Now...what has the collection been up to for the past few years since I last posted? For that, I need to shoot some scans...back later!

Edit: there are a few promo comics that were published shortly after 1956 - upon further reflection, it feels right to include those in my Completist Checklist; however, I'm personally still going to cut off Mad Magazine at issue #30 (December 1956) for reasons discussed earlier. COMBINING ALL OF THIS: let me post an updated Official EC ed's EC Completist Checklist (version 03/12/24, which incorporates all of the updates I discuss in the last couple pages of this thread)...note that there are now 478 issues here, compared to the 470 on the original (incomplete) checklist back on page 1: Promotional Comics (18 issues total): Across the Seas in a War Torn World (*note: published by, but not copyrighted by EC) Church that was Built with Bread (*note: published by, but not copyrighted by EC) Desert Dawn KO Punch (*note: published by, but not copyrighted by EC) Lucky Fights it Through (*note: published by, but not copyrighted by EC) Out of the Past a Clue to the Future (*note: published by, but not copyrighted by EC) Reddy Kilowatt issues 1A, 1B, 1B-reprint, 2A, 2B, 2C, 2C-reprint, 3A, 3A-reprint, 3B, and 3C (*note: published by, but not copyrighted by EC) Wonders of Wire Rope (*note: published by, but not copyrighted by EC) *this note about published vs. copyrighted relates to a post I made some years back...to preserve my sanity, I rationalized that I only "need" to have all the books that were copyrighted by EC...a convenient "escape clause" because some of these promos seem impossible to obtain. But, we'll see how that goes... Pre-Trend Titles (133 issues total): Animal Fables #1-7 Animated Comics #1 Blackstone the Magician Detective Fights Crime #1 Crime Patrol #7-16 Dandy Comics #1-7 Fat and Slat #1-4 Gunfighter #5-14 Happy Houlihans #1-2 International Comics #1-5 International Crime Patrol #6 Land of the Lost #1-9 Modern Love #1-8 Moon Girl and the Prince #1 Moon Girl #2-6 Moon Girl Fights Crime! #7-8 A Moon, a Girl...Romance #9-12 Picture Stories from the Bible Old Testament (1946) #1-2 Picture Stories from the Bible Complete Old Testament, printings 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 Picture Stories from the Bible New Testament #2-3 Picture Stories from the Bible New Testament #1 (1946 reprint) Picture Stories from the Bible Complete New Testament, printings 1, 2, and 3 Picture Stories from the Bible Complete Life of Christ, 25-cent variant, blank price variant Picture Stories from American History #1-4; #2 distributor cover variant Picture Stories from Science #1-2 Picture Stories from World History #1-2 Saddle Justice #3-8; #6 Comics Code seal variant Saddle Romances #9-11 Tiny Tot Comics #1-10 War Against Crime! #1-11 New Trend Titles (284 issues total): Crime SuspenStories #15(1); #1-27 Crypt of Terror #17-19 Frontline Combat #1-15; #9 "yellow" variant Haunt of Fear #15(1)-17(3); #4-28 Mad #1-30 (inc. 3 cover variants of issue #28) Panic #1-12 Piracy #1-7 Shock SuspenStories #1-18 Tales From the Crypt #20-46 Tales of Terror Annual #1-3 Three Dimensional E.C. Classics #1 Three Dimensional Tales from the Crypt of Terror #1 Two-Fisted Tales #18-41 Two-Fisted Tales Annual #1-2 Vault of Horror #12-40 Weird Fantasy #13(1)-17(5); #6-22 Weird Science #12(1)-14(3); #4-22 Weird Science-Fantasy #23-29 Weird Science-Fantasy Annual #1-2 New Direction Titles (34 issues total): Aces High #1-5 Extra! #1-5 Impact #1 (yellow variant), #1 (white variant), #2-5 Incredible Science Fiction #30-33 M.D. #1-5 Psychoanalysis #1-4 Valor #1-5 Picto-Fiction Magazines (9 issues total): Crime Illustrated #1-2 Confessions Illustrated #1-2 Shock Illustrated #1-3 Terror Illustrated #1-2

SECOND: "we" now realize that there are two versions of Saddle Justice #6...one which bears a seal indicating conformity to the "Comics Code" (a predecessor to the infamous Comic Code Authority (CCA)), and one which doesn't. So, this adds 1 book to the EC Completist List. Here are both versions (look under the 10-cent price graphic):

FIRST: we need to revisit my post about the Picture Stories from the Bible minutiae from 2021 (back on page 10 here)...we've figured some other stuff out. Back on page 10, I was still talking about there being 9 printings of Picture Stories from the Bible Complete Old Testament, and that only printings 7, 8, and 9 were "EC publications." Well, long story short, we now think that there are 11 printings, where printings 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 are "EC publications." Of course, this will alter my EC Completist List. If you want the long story (which I won't belabor here), there is a fantastic article by a fellow named Chris Boyko in the recent EC Fan Addict Fanzine #5 that explains everything: Here's a pic of part of the first page of the article (notice the shout out to some fellow named "Ed Owens" in the last line of the first section of text ):

Wow...almost 3 years since I've posted in here! I'm glad this thread hasn't been archived and closed to further comments . It's time for a post, because something astonishing has just happened (i.e., a new acquisition). But, before I reveal what that is, I need to get this thread caught up to speed on a few other matters, which will take a minute...

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Bible Tales for Young Folk/People (Atlas, 1953). SOLD TO thirdgreenham Complete 5 issue title run, $200 to Jimbo, I'll cover shipping (USA and Canada); (I bought issues 3, 4 & 5 from Jimbo himself!) #1 VG (4.0): tearing around staples; cover creasing, looks like a bit of light blue crayon markings on FC #2 VG- (3.5): cover edge chipping; heavy diag. creasing LRFC #3 VG (4.0): general wear, creasing, a few tears along cover edges; "KENDAL" written in ink FC #4 GD (2.0): pretty rough...cover edge tearing; 1" upper spine split; interior cover edge tanning; cover barely hanging on to top staple; heavy spine/reading wear #5 VG (4.0): couple of cover edge tears; small triangle piece missing URFC; weak spine

Weird.

Thanks for the tag...but looks like you all have already gotten to the bottom of this - nice work! I've never seen these before either! Very cool!

A post over on the EC Facebook page reminded me that today, August 12, 2023, is World Elephant Day (the fact that it was a comic book forum that reminded me that today is World Elephant Day makes me think I should re-evaluate my general news consumption habits, but I digress... ), The main point is that it forced me to contemplate what EC comic books have elephant covers. I came up with six of them... The obvious one: Followed by the not-so-obvious ones: HAPPY WORLD ELEPHANT DAY!! (hey, it's as good of an excuse as any to post some comic books )

For about a decade I've had a heck of a time finding an upgrade to my VG'ish copy of VoH #31. Finally, a decent one popped up at Bedrock City . Sure, an 8.0 would have been better, but this one'll do just fine (no pun intended ). Besides, something feels amiss if I don't buy a book from @MrBedrock every so often

As far as I can tell, these are rockets mounted on top of bicycle frames. If not, what is it then?