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The Old Dark Closet

The Avenger 2-The Yellow Hoard
From 1972, the 2nd volume reprinting the original stories. The Avenger was a joint creation of Lester Dent and Maxwell Grant (the creator of The Shadow). 1st Printing.
Fantasy Classics 5-The Jewel of Seven Stars
Features an abridged version of Stoker's novel, edited, according to the editor, because the original suffered from "excess verbiage." Also contains short stories by Henry Whitehill and W.J. Stamper. Cover by John Pound.
Pardon my Ghoulish Laughter
Vol. 7 of the Dennis McMillan reprinting of Frederic Brown's work.
Paperback from 1987.
Golden-Age Greats 5
The Lev Gleason titles were some of the best of the Golden Age and this volume, from AC, reprints a terrific sequence from Boy Comics #60-62. Comics don't get much better. Probably the best book of this AC series.
The Golden Admiral
Watch Spain take her lumps at the hands of Sir Francis Drake and F. Van Wyck Mason. This is a 1st printing from 1954.
Jimmy Olsen 113
80 pages of the wackiest strip ever created, this time from 1968.
Mickey Mouse Movie Stories
Facsimile reprint of Mickey Mouse Movie Stories, Book 2. Adapts 12 Mickey cartoon shorts illustrated with photos of cels from the cartoons and presented in a Big Little Book format with one page of text per each illustration. Harry Abrams, 1988.
The Pulp Jungle
Gruber's memoirs of his days as a pulp writer. Very insightful. 1st Printing from 1967.
San Diego Comic Con 1992
The 1992 con program featured numerous tributes to Jack Kirby in honor of his 75th birthday.
Strange Tales 1
The 1st issue of the Weird Tales rival from Sept. of 1931. There were 7 issues of Strange Tales published before the Clayton group went bankrupt in 1933.
Superman 171
Another Weisinger era cover from 1965.
From Unknown Worlds
A collection of stories from Unknown Worlds presented as an issue of the magazine with illustrations. Printed in England in 1952.

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