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Don Winslow was an extremely popular character. He starred in his own strip, radio show, movies and comic book.

Planet 55 is from Dave Anderson's collection and the table was at Red Fury's house.

Playbills...I saw a lot of these shows....

Games are fun too...

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I like to mix my comics with my Sci Fi collection. Pulps and Science Fiction books and a little ERB and puzzles and board games are all very collectible.

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My copy of Planet 19 is pretty beat up. I placed a facsimile copy of the cover under the original to hold the whole thing together. Easily removed if you are anti-restoration.

Gene is interesting to talk to and friendly. I've seen him at several Philadelphia shows. He is All American Comics isn't he?

I liked those Silver Age Detective comics. Unfotunately my copy of Detective 298 is a little beat up. I noticed there were other appearances by CF at that time.

I remember reading the Emmy Lou strip. She seemed to get younger as I got older.

OK, Superman started as a daily. A teaser origin strip was published when a newspaper picked up the Sunday page. First Sunday strip was Nov 5, 1939. and second Sunday strip was...

The reprint that I posted was from Nostalgia Press. Page is from Vol 1 which starts with the first Prince Valiant Sunday Page.

The reprint that I posted (up top) was from Nostalgia press. It is in volume 1 and the story line starts with the first Prince Valiant Sunday page.

I like all of those strips. Yogi was a new cartoon that filled the void when Bugs and Woody became too exclusive.

Foster art seems to sell very well. I think we discussed on BZ's thread the color changes that occurred when the PV strip was reprinted by different companies.

Did Jon Berk sell his copy? I thought it was in pretty good shape. He had a pile of those when he visited Pons several years ago.

The Dondi strip reminds me of the post-war Christmas Spirit story by Eisner.

Mandrake seems like an awfully popular character when you do a search on line. Phil Davis did some great art that everyone seems to like.

Homeless dogs and orphans and forgotten war heroes and great big sad eyes. Dondi was a a pretty good strip. Didn't they make a movie or TV show about the character?

I attended an American Society for Microbiology meeting in Anaheim many years ago. It is a fairly large meeting that was held at the convention center which is literally across the street from Disneyland, I think. I have only seen the San Diego convention center from the harbor. It seemed pretty large too. edit: OK, that might have been an Interscience Conference of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (aka ICAAC) but the meeting is a large one that only a select group of cities has sufficient facilities. I walked to Disneyland from the convention center but I think the entrance was on the other side of the park.

Gus should also be remembered for his work with Irwin Hasen on Dondi.

Since my son-in-law is a Drexel Dragon, I thought I should mention that they are responsible for an Ed Dodd collection and website. I found this photo of Ed in my 1963 Comics book (edited by Allen Willete).

I posted several covers that I made up several years ago. One of the most popular (one person said they liked it) was the She-Wolf cover. There are a few Canadian publications that have used Baker splash pages for covers too. I remember one but created another.

I have always thought it strange that Jerry Bails sent his collection of microfilm to Michigan State instead of Wayne State where he was faculty. It implies that MSU popular culture academics were more aware of the importance of keeping a collection for future reference. I wonder if the collections have been converted to more permanent digital files or at least a more flexible format. Sunday pages are often difficult to care for and breakdown quickly when not stored properly. MSU had many scrapbooks which were donated by a former collector. I don't remember who that was and don't know if they are still there. We have mentioned a few times that the Chesler collection of art was given to a university in New Jersey.