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The little things that academics fight over are related to their egos which are molehills that have turned into mountains.

I like those Hit covers.

I love those early Tarzan pages. I have several scrapbooks with daily cartoons. This one by Crane and Turner was especially good for the WWII airplane nuts, like myself.

Gump was fairly popular (many toys and games were sold with his name on the box) and art was by Sydney Smith followed by Gus Edson. Landau assisted Edson and eventually took over the Sunday page.

There was another artist named Ken Landau who worked in comic books but Martin only worked on strips or cartoons published in the newspapers...or at least that is what the latest post said.

Sounds like the same guy that owned the place 35 years ago (he was about my age). He yelled at me because I put the Conans back in the wrong order. I tried to shop there while holding my 2 year old son. It was tough to do but his was the closest shop to the Medical Center. I went to the Hilton hotel for comic cons and a few other places for StarTrek conventions. I traded many of my DC comics to Harold Starbuck but didn't get much. I enjoyed the combined scifi-comics conventions and would have enjoyed going to the workshops if I had time.

Sorry to hear that Martin Landau died. He was an artist that worked on the Gumps back in the late forties or early fifties. Not sure if this is one of his from 1946.

Jerry Bails was a big fan of Joe Kubert's Tales of the Green Beret. He mentioned in a letter to me back in the sixties that I should write to the local paper to get better circulation of Joe's strip.

I think the parody was in Nuts 4.

Ace 26 had the first Prince Valiant strip.

I noticed this ad in one of fanzines. Sorry I missed all of those Houston cons. I didn't visit Roys until 1977 or so. GB Love was there but I never talked to him or even Roy. Most of my comics were purchased from the Third Planet.

I am not sure that I have any original first strips but I have found some reprints in comics from the golden age. I have a lot of Prince Valiant pages and enjoyed the origin story found in Ace comics. Gasoline Alley origins was reprinted in small format by Star Comics, I think.

I have found exactly none.

I like picking up those big tabloid size picture magazines with articles about comics.

I enjoyed Andy Capp back in the sixties. I have read several collections and found an autographed photo on ebay.

Someone asked about the value of these first strips. I don't think they sell for more than a few hundred dollars. Print runs were very high for national newspapers and number of collectors is small. They have also been reprinted but I think they are much more fun to see in full size pages that are well preserved. Perhaps a collection of early strips can set a higher value.

So many special books in that pile. Batman and Blue Beetle cost you some cash but an early Pep is hard to find. Did it just drop out of the sky or did you outbid everyone?

Although Adam Link was a character from the pulps, his stories made great reading in Fantasy Illustrated. Art was by D. Bruce Berry. Cover is by Landon Chesney.

I don't have the EC special. I have another which was produced by a separate group. While digging through my fanzine box, I noticed the Comicollector issue published by Foss and Green. The art which was added by Foss and Green was great. I still smile when I see the intro.

I do like those Kirby covers on Charlie Chan.

Here are a few more Blue Beetle comics that I like.

I traded my high grade X-men at around that time for a similar amount. A sad loss but I have made many more.