rodan57

In Ontario, we do have a Welfare Fraud "Hotline" http://www.mcss.gov.on.ca/en/mcss/programs/social/fraud.aspx I am not 100% sure if what Gabe is doing is 'technically' fraud though. Kind of like the same thing where you see people get their checks and head to the LCBO or convenience store and drop a wad of cash on Nevada tickets. Now, if he is not reporting his comic sales, under reporting what he pays in rent, etc., well then we may be in different territory. I'm no lawyer though. The downside of all this is that while what he is doing is not "right", it may not be illegal and/or fraudulent either. It's not a crime to be on Welfare in Canada.

My admittedly brief check had Barton listed as the artist for the flip side, Beyond Earth's Gate -- with Daybreak 2250 as unknown artist.

Andre Norton's first sic-fi novel. Great cover, though the artist seems to unknown.

One aspect of such a statement is an implicit comradery in holding the business of buying and selling to a reasonably high ethical level.

The cover colors and color palate are also unique to most SA books. Who the heck makes a brown cover? Stan Goldberg

It actually is your oldest. FF #14 came out the same month as JIM #91, February 1963 in the U.S. Marvel having two 'cover' months for each newsstand month can occasionally vex. Goodwin did everything he could to confuse vendors into keeping his books on the stands as long as possible.

I like how Romita integrated his signature into the artwork -- an uncommon move for him.

When you are working in entry level jobs, you shouldn't have a personality. You don't like something, just suck it up.

No no no no no - Gabe needs to learn how to get better at estimating FMV - he should not be trading - please - Not even three-way trades where we meet up inside the (imagined) Ontario triangle? I'm obviously missing something about the fmv which I need to learn. I think, rather, the point is not to respond to offers of trade. You are being tested.

I'll just throw my 2¢ in here but it seems to me that if there is a continuous theme to the advice you are being offered --- it is not to trade.

In The Comic Book Marketplace #61 (July 1998) Lee recalls that he wanted to formally use the name, Atlas, in 1961 for the reinvented company. He was overruled by Goodman who had always loved the name, Marvel. I cannot recall the source but I have also read that artists routinely called Goodman's comic book company, Timely, right up to the late 1950s. This may have been from a reminiscence about Bill Everett but the full memory escapes me. It was in Fall 1958 that Lee started to call back select artists to do new work for his reduced line of comics. p.s. The name Zenith was just one of 59 shell publishing companies Goodman created to ease or abrogate any economic or legal liabilities that his business empire might or might not have to face in any possible circumstance -- the Depression era was always strong in Goodman's understanding of business.

A very nice book from a hard to appreciate transition period -- not easy to find books as you noted. I have always found Christopher Rule to be a very clean inker for Kirby. In 1959, Rule would have been 65 years-old compared to Kirby's 42.

No we didn't. Yes, it is.

Golden Age Group Shot Harvey Kurtzman, John Severin and Rene Goscinny

This one's subtle and I like it.