BB-Gun

On 7/9/2021 at 6:27 PM, comicnoir said:

A copy of this just sold on Ha in 5.0 for $2050.00

I have always thought the America's Best cover was an anniversary cover that resembles one of Schomburg's earliest covers.  At least the bearded swamis are similar.

On 8/1/2021 at 1:42 PM, Pantodude said:

Oh my goodness.  Pop-up books from that era!  Now that would be a treat!

I think this pop-up page is from an early Mickey Mouse book which was reprinted in a large book about Mickey.

I have a dozen or two giveaway comics from Wheaties and Cheerios.  They have several Mickey and Donald stories in the set plus many other Disney characters.

On 8/1/2021 at 1:10 PM, Pantodude said:

Nice. Were you as pleasantly surprised by the existence of this book as I was?  I only learned of it this year, but I was wowed by the overall dimensions and linen (!) pages in-hand (even putting aside the high-quality art/colors throughout).   

i was pleased by the page quality due to the linen pages.  The book was kind of fun too and very popular back in the thirties, I think.

On 7/31/2021 at 5:25 PM, Pantodude said:

Looking for some size, how about this HUGE 9"x13" Donald!    Donald Duck #978 (Whitman Publishing, 1935).  This is the first book devoted to Donald Duck, and it is made entirely of thick, linen paper.   A recent acquisition, that happened to coincide with last night's CL auction, so I was reminded to post here (before that guy does and steals my thunder!).  

i have two copies. I think one has a little spine damage but the interior is pretty clean.

I lurked for a year or two before I joined in 2007.

My first post?

On 7/29/2021 at 12:29 AM, iggy said:

BB-Gun is that your copy? I need interior pics- the 1st and last couple pages ( including inside front and back covers). I think this giveaway was produced a bit differently to accommodate it’s cover. There is a single leaf glued to the last page at the spine, it’s not a wrap, here’s page 1 and a look at the spine...

On 7/25/2021 at 3:51 AM, iggy said:

Oddball promotional/giveaway for a bank in Marshalltown, IA. Approx. 100 pages, includes a reprint of Donald Duck and the Mummy’s Ring. I believe it dates around 1963-1965 but not sure.

Frazetta published a few other covers and prints that I don't see often.

This one has been photo-shopped a little.

On 4/13/2021 at 5:48 PM, KirbyJack said:

We’re sticking to smaller highways for our current road trip. I had to post this BigBoy wannabe I saw in a little town in Kansas.

He somehow looks like Snoopy and Charlie Brown at the same time.

Never cared for the sandwich but loved the strawberry pie.

you can probably delete this amimated cover if you get dizzy.

(Delete)

OK I stopped the animation cause it gives me motion sickness.

On 7/21/2021 at 9:23 AM, AJD said:

Could be Frank. It's also in Barrier's book 'Carl Barks and the art of the comic book'. (p.68 in my paperback copy.)

He also mentions that there are realistic humans in 'The magic hourglass'.

I think the Arab raiders were human.  By the way, Magic Hourglass was one of the first comics that I read as a youth.  I loved it but cut up the cover to see how the animated cover worked.

On 7/20/2021 at 5:37 PM, Yellow Kid said:

 I have been looking at my ducks and enjoying the memories associated with most of them.  Dangerous Disguise (FC 308) has always been a favorite from the time I bought it at the drugstore and found Barks using real people in the story.  

I like this scene from the comic.  It makes me think of From Russia with Love or "39 Duck Steps".

On 7/21/2021 at 5:23 PM, 50YrsCollctngCmcs said:

Yeah Buettner actually did some great covers on those Four Colors. His duck was really spot on for the covers; probably more so than Barks. But he probably couldn't spin a yarn like Uncle Carl or create the pathos in all those great stories.

I saw this cartoon by Buettner recently and it reminded me of good girl art by Barks.

On 7/21/2021 at 6:36 PM, fifties said:

So is it that the first color scan is the outside BC, and the B/W scan is that of the inside?  If so, these are fine, just LMK if I got that right please.

Yes, the color scan is the outside back cover.  My copy confirms this and the cover is still intact.

On 7/19/2021 at 1:23 PM, William-James88 said:

I'm just surprized that there aren't more low grade slabs around of a key GA book like Whiz Comics 25. Captain Marvel Adventures 18, a similar GA key book, has 29 universal slabs in 2.0 or worse (17 in 0.5) while Whiz Comics only has 2 (and none are 0.5). It's as ideal a book to get slabbed by sellers and when it comes to GA, the most common grade are on the lower end (or so I've read my entire life), so is it just that much rarer? 

I have low grade copies of both Whiz 25 and Capt. Marvel 18 and neither has been graded.  I didn't think lower grades needed grading because they wouldn't get a premium price like the high grade.

These are from Comic plus.  I can make a higher resolution copy of the color back cover but the inside would be difficult due to staple placement.

On 7/20/2021 at 8:51 PM, fifties said:

Any chance you could send me scans of each side of the back cover?

Back cover is easy to scan but not sure if I can get a good scan of the inside.  

One issue has Zoot and the other Rulah (b copy).  There is also a Famous Crimes (b copy) instead of Jo Jo.

Therefore the content varies a little.

On 7/19/2021 at 3:30 PM, fifties said:

The first story, "Cattle Kate", actually starts on it's first page, printed on the inside FC, just like the regular comic issue, and is preceded by a second story, so that = 17 pages total. 

Then 32 pages each of JoJo, Western Thrillers, Phantom Lady, & Famous Crimes.  145 story pages including the inside FC.  Since Fox counted both sides of each cover, that then = the 148 pages they state on the FC. 

If they hadn't basically cut the first western in half, the total would have been 164.  That sectioning would have required extra labor time, so there must have been some reason they chopped it.  Maybe the staple leg length, as they barely make it through the last page (mine doesn't have the BC).

I have two copies and one of them is the same.

On 7/15/2021 at 5:07 PM, fifties said:

New pickup on eBay, cross posting in the Fox Appreciation thread.  As an added bonus that the seller apparently wasn't aware of, there's an SOTI panel in the first story!   

Does your copy also have a Phantom Lady issue?  The western comic seems incomplete in some Almanacs.  

1 hour ago, Robot Man said:

Nope. To be honest, not a huge desire to own that one. 

My Contact 12 is just in pieces.  Picked two copies up from 
Captain Blue Hen (Bob Horn)

I have been very fond of Mac's Dynamic 9 cover since I first saw it in the Gerber guide. 

It is especially nice to find someone has posted the original art                                                            

Edit:  Mr. Tawky Tawny posted a scan of this art on the first page.  My scan has been put through a yellow filter to enhance the contrast.

I think the DC artists spent some time studying the structure of tanks used in WWII.

The movie, Battle of the Bulge, eg., tanks were sometimes inaccurate.  For B of the B, the Germans drove M-49 Patton tanks and called them Tigers.  I think they had a lot of those tanks available and not so many Tigers which were destroyed by Russian T-34s.

I dropped out of ROTC and stopped collecting Sgt. Rock at about the same time but I did like that Kubert art.

I had an original page from OAAW 149 but gave it away (sold for $20) to Dave Reynolds.  My new scanner does a better job picking up the color (HP8020).