A great bottom tier and some wonderful images of Karen. Excellent Page! 

This is where it belongs, Lee!

You bet, Steve! It will only leave this house over my dead body!

WOW! The Black Widow is unbeatable in the capable hands of Bob Brown and Vince Colletta!

Blue pencils are always nice!

Well, luckily no Comics Code in 1952 :-)

Only The King could dish out a DPS like this. Nothing less than spectacular!

Fantastic top panel. Dan Adkins learned to swipe from one of the best swipe artists:  Wallace Wood!

Señor Donamor is such a creep!

Fantastic splash page!

Great example. Less horses but more female on my Sunday from 1965 :-)

You're welcome, Steve. Trashman Rules!

The signature is interesting. Harvey Kurtzman never owned the story himself and the page must have belonged to the winner of the story in Russ Cochran's EC Art Auction. He then managed to get the page signed by two of the creators. Maybe we'll see a new phenomenon in the future:

The EC Signature Series.

Oh? There's actually a Frank Bolle panel page as well from an earlier issue of Dream Book of Romance in this gallery.  Quite different actually.

Don't forget the Colletta inks!

I have a strange feeling that this won't be your last Ditko!?

Breath-taking Drusilla. Big congrats!

Stellar page!

Nice Kirbyesque/Steranko feel to this page.

Terrific splash worthy of your already fine collection, Lee. Not all collectors are bad guys.

It's great to see that the 1950's legend could still swing a pencil.

Might very well have been used as the front cover. Great.

Thanks for an interesting read. These small comics were very popular in Scandinavia in the 1950's.

One of the first Marvel reprints I read in Denmark was Daredevil #2, so for me Electro will always be a classic Daredevil adversary. Nice to see his origin retold though. Congrats, Mark!

Pun appreciated.

I never read DC comics and I must confess that I am not familiar with Murphy Anderson's art. The Mentachem rod I had to look up as well. This is what I found on the DC Database:

Mandrill (the Matter Master) accidentally discovered a new chemical, Mentachem, which he then fashioned into a wand for his own criminal gain. The wand enabled him to reshape, transmute, or levitate any matter.

Thanks for broadening my horizons.

A smorgasbord of Kurtzman delicatessen.

The artwork is described as "colored pencils" and "animation", but I guess that most people ignored the fine print and who can blame them?

One cannot get enough Kirby. Safer than money in the bank.

WOW!

Best of luck, Lee!

Reed Crandall didn't take any shortcuts here. Instead of zipatone he meticulously inked the fog.

In 2005 at the Orlando Con I shared your experience at the Colan table. What a smorgasbord of great art. Luckily he still had a great many DD pages to choose between.

Definite proof that Vince Colletta was THE inker on Kirby's Thor.

The King unleashed. As powerful as ever!

Absolutely wonderful and nostalgic. I remember reading these small one-tier comics back in the 1950's, where they

were a huge hit in Scandinavia. This one was called "Kaptajn Micky", another one was "Davy Crockett".

I had no idea that these strips were the work of three artists.

Too bad that they have never been reprinted outside Italy to my knowledge.

Long overdue, Kelly!

Great story not to mention the art!

Instant winner! Lucky wife.

I have a Cannon with both gun and a plane. I would be happy to trade, Kelly :-)

Pretty tame for a Pre-Code Horror cover.

Sadly I didn't and I don't recall that he had any original art for sale either.

Very stylish as could be expected from these two giants!

Yeah! Howard for President! Who can forget his last campaign?

There's a Wallace Wood feeling to this page with the vertical panel. Great stuff!

Classic Kirby foreshortening but are you sure that he inked it?

Greta Thunberg wasn't the first environmental protester. Keep searching, Kelly!

Dr. Strange by Ditko! And with a close-up of his hand! Nuff' said!

Oohh! These Collettta-inked women!

It's all so long ago, but I think that I traded it for some Wallace Wood art.

Good luck, Andrew! I know it must be hard to part with this beauty.