ACTION & MYSTERY – I’VE GOT ‘EM COVERED…

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Contemporary readers could perchance presumably recall a publish I printed some years aid about the ideal memoir of a baby who was born 5 years after his mother’s demise.  I first read a reprint of the Simon & Kirby humorous strip list of it in Dusky Magic #2, aid in 1974, and a few years previously a commenter informed me that there’d been but any other, two-internet page version of the parable associated in The House Of Thriller #196 in 1971.  I no longer too prolonged previously decided I would prefer to read it, however baulked at paying any of the slightly hefty asking-prices that some concerns are listed at on eBay – from as little as £20 to as excessive as £245 reckoning on situation.

Had it been a humorous I after all desired, I would delight in sold a lower-priced copy, however I after all fully wished to meet my curiosity about the two-internet page strip and couldn’t elaborate to myself spending anything over just a few quid on a magazine that wasn’t crying out to me to own, its Neal Adams conceal no longer withstanding.  So I sold a coverless copy for a mere £1.75 fair so that I could perchance presumably read the two-pager.  Then I made up my mind to substitute the missing conceal simply to receive the mag more presentable, so sourced an image of the front conceal online.

There delight in been also glimpses of the advertisements on the inner and aid covers, and I was fortunate sufficient to own a Superboy assign of dwelling with those self same advertisements, which luckily required some minor restore to the conceal, justifying my cautious removal of it it to fix, then scanning it to create a duplicate.  I printed out the front conceal of HOM on glossy photo paper, connected it to a print-out of the Superboy conceal, re-scanned it and printed it on excessive-quality white paper.  Needed to debris spherical with it to receive it more or less the moral dimension, however the cease end result was a total assign of dwelling with conceal, even though obviously my ‘facsimile’ is no longer pretty as lively or as brilliant as an customary.

Just a few years aid I also received a coverless assign of dwelling of Motion Comics #352, which was a little bit tatty and in want of ‘tarting up’.  I’ve since replaced it with a superior situation copy, however was loath to simply discard its predecessor.  So I scanned the exterior and inner conceal of the easier copy, printed it out, then restored and repaired the tatty incarnation, resulting in a total and acceptable situation discovering out copy.

I’ve integrated photos to your consideration, as successfully because the two-internet page memoir which resulted in me to purchase The House Of Thriller assign of dwelling.  If reality be told be cheerful to let me know what you deem, and while you have to always remind yourselves of the Simon & Kirby version of the memoir, you need to perchance presumably be ready to form so by clicking this hyperlink.  (Incidentally, the mags’ customary inner pages behold a little bit too yellowish in the following pics, however I deem that will doubtless be the cease results of being photographed below fluorescent lights.)