Your Top Ten Most Wanted Comics on DCM

[krankyboy]

  One book I would be delighted to see made available but which probably isn't a priority for anyone else is "Master Comics" #49 which contains the last Minute Man story as well as the second part of the Bulletboy story. Granted, "The Mimic and the Mite" which is the first part of the Bulletboy story isn't exactly classic or even a significant minor story in the Fawcett line but I've always had a movie serial mentality and I'd like to know how the second part turns out. I'd also like to see the last Minute Man story just simply because it was the last one.

 Trivial but true,
 Jon

They've actually got a copy of Master Comics #49 c2c over at Metropolis Comics and Collectibles. It's not too expensive, so if nobody else has it -- I could pick it up and get it over to RH for scanning. I've always wanted to read the second part of the Bulletboy/Tod Drake story as well. Too bad the character didn't show up again after that.

- KB

[Rocket Riley]

I have some I'd like to see that I don't think have been mentioned yet.

Circus...The Comic Riot (1938) 1-3  These are so rare that GCD doesn't have them indexed.  I read a copy of #1 a couple of decades ago.  It has a strip titled Spacehawks by Basil Wolverton.  I believe this also has Jack Cole's first published work. 

Wow...what a magazine (1936)  1-4 Early Eisner and other people

Rex Dexter Of Mars  # 1

Minute Man 1-3  there must be paper copies out there somewhere

Slam Bang 1-7  Ditto

[darkmark (RIP)]

Rex Dexter #1 is supposed to be scanned.  I've seen previews of it on our Facebook page.  Question is, where is it?

[Yoc]

Rex is getting cleaned up.
He and some other fun stuff are going to be showing by the end of the month.

[krankyboy]

I've got something which is going to make jfglade very happy. 

Updated top ten:

(1) Weird Comics #20 (Fox Publications)
(2) Banner Comics #4 and #5 (complete; we've got a partial issue thanks to dsdaboss) (Ace Comics)
(3) The Eagle #1, and a complete #4 (Fox Publications) starring the Eagle and Buddy
(4) Bomber Comics 2 (missing pages), and 4
(5) Exciting Comics #39, 40
(6) Black Terror #1, #3, plus partial issues that need completion (Nedor)
(7) America's Best Comics #3-5, 7-9, 14-15, 25, 29 (Nedor)
(8 ) Green Mask v1 #8 (Fox)
(9) Prize Comics #13-18, 32, 37-38, 40 (better scans)
(10) Thrilling Comics #24, 29, 31-32, 34 (Nedor)

[Yoc]

I've got some top10 books I can think of but can't nail it down to just 10 individual books -

1. Eastern's Famous Funnies #108 - the last of the HG Peter issues needed!
2. G.I. Combat #6 and 16 needed to complete the Quality issues.
3. The first 5 issues of Jumbo Comics
4. Those missing and incomplete Frankenstein Comics we need
5. Reform School Girl! nn
6. Any of the missing America's Best Comics, Best Comics, Exciting Comics, etc
7. All those missing Centaurs - any of them!
8. Those missing Champ Comics by Harvey
9. Captain Fearless #2

[krankyboy]

The Rangerhouse/KB fund has a little surprise coming for you on the Champ Comics front, Yoc. 

Many thanks to RH for picking it up.

[JVJ (RIP)]

And I MIGHT have a surprise re one of the missing Jumbo's, Yoc. Bud Plant is coming by to visit next Monday and he's just picked up two issues that he didn't have. I got a new digital camera for Christmas and I am hoping that it will actually function as a means to capture comics with enough detail to put into a .cbz file for the site. This will be a test if it turns out that he has one of the issues missing from the site. Of course, the snow would HAVE to stop falling in California for these things to work properly....

Peace, Jim (|:{>

Happy New Year. And thanks to Blastaar for all the nice comments.

[Yoc]

Very nice new guys thanks!
Jim, new member CBpop has shown me some great digital picture page scans he's done proving a consumer camera can produce a decent scan if the lighting is perfect.  I'll forward you his email and examples.
-Yoc

[Yoc]

Will do Snard.
Btw, please include '-upgrade' at the end of any improvements like this in the future so people are aware at a glance something new has been added.
I've removed the old one and tweaked yours.

Len (freddyflly) likes to do upgrades on his original uploads so if you spot a cover or have missing pages he welcomes people to send them to him and he'll do the upgrade uploads.  I'll let him know about your latest one and see what he wants to do with his original.

[OtherEric]

I still want the missing Peter Wheat material, Kelly issues in particular.  But hope is fading on those these days; a VG-FN copy on eBay is currently at $125 and that's my threshold on the book right now.  For what it's worth, that's about somewhere around 5x guide...

[krankyboy]

Updated list for me. Thanks to Len for finding America's Best 14 and 15.

(1) Weird Comics #20 (Fox Publications)
(2) Banner Comics #4 and #5 (complete; we've got a partial issue thanks to dsdaboss) (Ace Comics)
(3) The Eagle #1, and a complete #4 (Fox Publications) starring the Eagle and Buddy
(4) Bomber Comics 2 (missing pages), and 4
(5) Exciting Comics #39, 40
(6) Black Terror #3, plus partial issues that need completion (Nedor)
(7) America's Best Comics #3-5, 7-9, 25, 29 (Nedor)
(8 ) Green Mask v1 #8 (Fox)
(9) Prize Comics #13-18, 32, 37-38, 40 (better scans)
(10) Thrilling Comics #24, 29, 31-32, 34 (Nedor)

[darkmark (RIP)]

I can update my list by a bit.
ALL HERO COMICS #1 (Fawcett)
JUMBO COMICS #1, 3, 4 (Fiction House)
TOPS #1 and 2 (Lev Gleason)
BLACK CAT COMICS #2 (Harvey)
CAPTAIN MARVEL STORY BOOK #3 (Fawcett)
GREEN LAMA COMICS #6 (Spark)
KID ETERNITY #14 (Quality)
NYOKA #63 (Fawcett)
BARKER #13 (Quality)
WHIZ COMICS #153 (Fawcett)

UPDATE:  Three of these are gone already.  Go, guys!  I'll have to update.

[joecomix]

The one book I'd like to see on this site is Fawcett's All-Hero Comics from 1943. It was a 100-page 15 cents book that only lasted one issue. The problem was timing. It was intended as a companion to their America's Greatest. But the wartime paper shortage killed it. Pity. Anyone have a copy they can upload?

[KevinP]

...
Regarding the Green Giant, I found this on the net:

"Less than a dozen copies of this incredibly-rare comic, which was distributed only in the New York City area, valued at several thousand dollars each, are thought to still exist!"

...

I posted this on the Public Domain Super Heroes site http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Green_Giant :

According to the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide (2000), Green Giant Comics #1 was an experiment to determine if the company could profitably manufacture and distribute comics with their otherwise idle printing presses. The Moreau Publishing company believes the book was never released to news stands.

What am I missing? GG is available on this site, under Small Press http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=17170