EdMann2

BA773 - I know you have a preference for DC (as do I) and if you want to have these to read, as well as collect, and you think it is a great deal, then you are in for a treat! The first issue of JLA I ever got, coincidentally, was 95, and I fell in love with it as a kid! I started buying it monthly around issue 168 to 250 or so, when I graduated high school and left for college and stopped buying new comics for several years. In those 7 or 8 years I bought every back issue back to 45 or so... And eventually was able to complete the entire series 15 or 20 years ago. So, obviously, I am a little biased when it comes to 70s-80's Justice League of America - and I know that's not going to be the majority opinion around here. But again - if you are looking to read and enjoy these, and not worry more about condition and flipping and "keys", you have a lot of good times ahead - the re-introduction of the Seven Soldiers of Victory, and old Quality and Fawcett heroes as part of several annul JLA/JSA team-up. And all the great gold and silver age story reprints in the early 70s 52 page and 100 Page Super Spectacular issues! And once you hit the early 80's there are a lot of great covers by George Perez and Brian Bolland. They're not all great - of course - there's lots of good reading and good times in those books! Or at least I thought so from the ages of 10-17 or so.

I just read this issue recently, and I didn't remember any 'drug story'. I checked it again, and sure enough, the word 'opium' is mentioned once near the end of one story. It's funny to me that the notation would be 'Drug Story' for a tale that's not really about drugs, but IS about a killer 'Orang-utan' (sic) and has this as the first panel!

World's Finest wasn't the only thicker/15 cent DC comic in the 40s and 50s - Comic Cavalcade, which ran from 1942-1954, was also thicker (ranging from 100 pages to eventually, I think, 68 or so by the end) with a 15-cent price.

I did a check through the first few issues of Nugget this afternoon, and the only one I could find with Baker art was Vol. 1 # 1 (November 1955). There are at least three illustrations by him in there - including one for a story called "Swamp Fever".... I checked all the other issues up through Vol. 2 # 2 (March 1957) and didn't see any more of his work.

This is the first CGC graded comic I ever bought, and the only .5 I own. And I figured, most Matt Baker romances are just bought for the cover anyhow, huh? I thought I'd just get this as a "filler" until I found a complete copy, but that hasn't happened yet...

Not that is improves the grade of this one or anything, but that square over Lois's face is printed white, not cut out. It's all part of the "Can you guess who she is?" in the text box above her head. Sure, it looks like Lois... but is it? IS IT?!? Only a lucky owner of Superman 131 knows for sure....

... I took the 'Nuff said' to be kind of sarcastic and done on purpose. Most people are aware that Stan Lee often used that phrase. But as far as it being coined by him - afraid not. That phrase had been around for a lot longer than Stan. In fact, one of Boston's biggest fans in the early 20th century had it as a nickname, albeit with a different spelling, but still...: Michael T. McGreevy - Wikipedia One more example of giving him credit for something he didn't create!

...and I was the one you outbid on both of those, dang it! Congrats - glad they went to a good home (besides mine)!

I have been actively buying romance comics for almost 25 years - and I've found that almost any Fox issues are among the hardest to find. I tend to stick to lower grades (1.8 - 3.0, as long as they are complete) because when it comes to romance comics I have more of a "quantity over quality" mindset, and even in those grades Fox issues seem to be few and far between, compared to almost any other publisher. And when they do turn up they are almost always in terrible shape, for whatever reason. I have a tracking sheet for my romance comics that includes the percentage I own by publisher, and Fox is BY FAR the lowest - for all but 5 publishers I have between 50-100%, but Fox is far below the others at under 12%. I just never seem to run across them. Which is especially surprising since they released over 100 romance issues. So, in my particular experience, they seem pretty scarce across the board. And while I'm talking about these percentages - I am one comic away from completing my ACG romances - and it's one I've been trying to find for years (in any grade). So if anyone has a line on a copy of Lovelorn 50, please let me know!

The names are very logical - because they are not describing the size but the speed at which they are played. '45' and '33' (actually 33 1/3) refer to the RPM (Revolutions per Minute) of the turntable for playing each type of disc. Typically, LPs ('long-playing' records) are '33' and singles/7" records are '45' (but, just to make it fun - not always). And let's not even get started on 78s, which are usually an older format than either of these, but the size is in between the other two formats (10", vs. 12" or 7") and they spin faster than either!

Looks like the Captain America story is probably "Seven Sons of Satan" from Captain America # 37 (April 1944)....

Yes - apparently that is true! And when you see the film, it is pretty obvious it was the inspiration for the look, if not necessarily the character himself. Check it out if you can - well worth a watch!

Man... I'm glad I bought mine when I did. And I thought paying $250 for this was crazy at the time (maybe 8-10 years ago)...

Unfortunately, it's not for sale at this time...

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Congrats! That's a tough one to find, and one I have been trying to track down for several years now! It always pays to check out those "Misc" or "Other" or "Various" sections at cons/shows/etc. - I have a found a lot of good, unexpected comics that way too!

This comment just seems ridiculous to me.... A lot of Kirby's art seems "uninspired"? Just look at the partial splash pages for each of the four parts of the story right above your comment - those seem VERY inspired to me, especially considering a lot of the comics coming out at the same time. I don't know, man - seems to me you are trying too hard to discount Kirby. Looking at those pages above it seems to me that Kirby was doing exciting, dynamic stories and art. Plus, also unique for this time (at least for the comics I have read) the story fills a full issue, broken into chapters. I don't know how many comics were structured that way at them time. And the pacing is similar to Fantastic Four #1 a few years later. Was Stan Lee doing any stories like this - or even close - at this time, or any time previous to this? And you can argue that someone else "wrote" this story - but certainly Kirby was at least responsible for the pacing and structure and look of it... Mailing it in? You comment seems based on opinion, and in MY opinion, I disagree.

To be fair, this Matt Baker story was a retitled reprint from Teen-Age Romances #6 from 1949, when he was still getting his feet wet in romance comics. I think his interior art definitely improved later - more interesting layouts, better body language and facial expressions, etc. One of my favorites is from TAR #37, "Thrill Seekers' Weekend" from 1954. By the way - I've been loving these write-ups! The month-by-month approach is really interesting, and the years 1954-55 are right in my collecting wheelhouse! I'm not sure how long you plan to keep going, but your efforts are definitely appreciated by this reader....

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