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Chugga Chugga Choo Choo!

Category:  Other
Owner:  JerseyJoe
Last Modified:  8/3/2020
Set Description
This is a collection of comic books which have trains featured on the cover. Trains make great visual topics. Superheroes and strong men can stop them, they can create tension if someone is about to be run over by one, they can take you to real or far out places, their roofs are a great place for battles, and of course the riders can panic if the train is derailed by a giant monster.

Set Goals
In addition to being a comic book reader and collector, one of my other hobbies is collecting and operating toy trains. I was thinking about how to decorate the walls of my train room when I came across one of my Marvel Team-Ups with Ghost Rider and Spider-man about to be mowed down by a subway train. I realized that would be great art and I recalled seeing other covers with trains, such as Blitzkrieg. I started searching for others and that is how this set came to be.

Slot Name
Item Description
Grade
Owner Comments
Pics
  Santa Claus Funnies 1 Universal 4.5 View Comic
  Alvin for President nn Universal 5.5 View Comic
  Our Army at War 155 Universal 5.5 View Comic
  Batman 253 Universal 6.0 View Comic
  Life with Archie 4 Universal 3.0 View Comic
  Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 119 Universal 4.5 View Comic
  Incredible Hulk 274 Modern 6.5 View Comic
  Superman 123 Universal 5.0 View Comic
  Midnight Tales 4 Universal 8.0 View Comic
  Adventures of Superman 481 Modern 9.6 Superman tries to catch the death train. View Comic
  Adventures into the Unknown 132 Universal 9.0 A ghost train. View Comic
  Amazing Spider-Man 133 Universal 4.5 Fighting Molten Man on subway car roof. View Comic
  Archie Comics 83 Universal 2.5 Great colors. Great gag. View Comic
  Astonishing 42 Universal 4.0 Subway is vanishing. Title says "They Vanish at Night!", but it is clearly day out and they are still vanishing. What's up with that? View Comic
  Blitzkrieg 4 Universal 8.0 Girl jumping in front of subway train to avoid Gestapo soldiers. View Comic
  Creatures on the Loose 34 Modern 9.0 George Perez drawn Man-Wolf falling from a train trestle alongside a train plunging to its doom. View Comic
  Crime and Punishment 22 Universal 4.5 Criminal trying to escape cops by darting in front of a red subway car. View Comic
  Dynamo 4 Universal 9.0 So strong he can stop the train with only one leg! View Comic
  Forbidden Worlds 87 Universal 4.5 Look out the window. The subway is not on Earth but in outer space. What's Saturn doing there? View Comic
  Iron Man 13 Universal 7.0 Red. 'Nuff said! View Comic
  Journey Into Mystery 49 Universal 4.5 View Comic
  Lawbreakers Suspense Stories 13 Universal 1.8 Pull the brake! Pull the brake! View Comic
  M.A.R.S. Patrol Total War 9 Universal 9.0 Explosive cover! View Comic
  Manhunt 9 Universal Skeleton subway driver trying to run down a girl with headlights.
  Marvel Team-Up 15 Universal 9.4 The one that started this set. Los of action on this cover. View Comic
  Mister Miracle 13 Universal 9.0 Mister Miracle about to get run over by a steam engine. View Comic
  Monsters on the Prowl 13 Universal 5.0 Tragg chasing a man through a subway tunnel. View Comic
  Mystery in Space 50 Universal 4.5 Runaway Space Train View Comic
  Omac 6 Modern 8.5 BMT Subway with mutants chasing OMAC. Reminds me of Beneath the Planet of the Apes. View Comic
  Panic 2 Universal 1.5 Child with evil grin using chemistry set to blow up his train layout. View Comic
  Phantom 531 Universal 5.0 The Phantom jumping off a plane onto a moving train. What's more daring than that? View Comic
  The Spirit 29 Modern 9.8 Great cover. Great colors and great art. View Comic
  Star Spangled War Stories 87 Universal 1.8 My favorite Mlle. Marie cover. View Comic
  Star Spangled War Stories 200 Universal 8.5 Joe Kubert cover. Mlle. Marie appearance. View Comic
  Super-Mystery Comics v8 #2 Universal Rainy night. Train coming across a trestle. Look out!
  T-Man 18 Universal 4.0 Death Rides the Rails. Treasury agent Pete Trask fighting the commies! View Comic
  Teen Titans 18 Universal 4.0 Who is that guy driving the subway? He looks familiar. View Comic
  Tomb of Dracula 17 Universal 8.5 Run the other way! View Comic
  Witches Tales 22 Universal 1.0 Great 1950's zombies scaring a good girl on the subway. Spooky! View Comic
  Witching Hour 23 Universal 9.2 Great cover but that track going up the hill looks odd to me. View Comic

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