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Some pages by C.A.Voight who worked on Sir Prize in Prize and a few other comic book strips.

What a great cover...and, I never saw it before! mm I think the actual story was in the next issue of Marvel Mystery.

Supposedly Kneer drew this strip before the Katzenjammer Kids but they were published together in 1914. A very racist Irresistible Rag by the way.

Some of Schomburg's early Marvel Mystery covers were relatively simple and some more complex. The complex covers must have been more popular. I always suspected that brother August might have added a few guns, ships and airplanes.

I noticed this splash while I was looking at some files from Comic PLus. The sign belongs in a Mel Brooks movie.

Nice cover on that Flash. I know I have bid on that one a few times but still don't have one. I'll keep it on my want list.

I would like to have that one. What does the cover look like?

Interior stories are fun to animate too.

I animated this one with photoshop. .

I sliced up this Four Color 291 and set up the animated version back in 1958. My brother, who owned the comic, was not happy. The sliced up version was thrown away and replaced by a new clean uncut copy many years later. My new Magic Hourglass cover was animated after I made a copy of the front and back covers. It makes me dizzy which is why I didn't show the animated photo

I don't know but my impression is that these sorts of covers weren't actually very popular. I don't think most kids went to the trouble of doing the cutting -- as you didn't. There are a couple of Barks FCs that have these sorts of covers and you don't see them with the covers actually cut up. Of course, it may be that copies with the covers cut were more likely to be thrown away. I purchased this animated Mickey Mouse in 1979 at the Comic Book and Sci-fi convention in Houston. It was already cut up.

That is Detective 60, I think.

Last one is not part of a group shot but it is still a favorite of mine.

I do enjoy those Detective Comic splash panels.

I don't see why you would slab that one. The value will never be high and even if it is 9.0 you won't get your money back for a funny animal comic that isn't by Barks.

It might be interesting to pulp fans that the artist for Roy was Harry Parkhurst. Harry was well-known for his illustrations in mystery pulps like the Black Bat. By the way, the white german shepard line is also a holocaust survivor. They were outlawed by Hitler during the NAZI takeover. The solid white coat was considered a mutation (not a pure-blood).

I picked up some Roy Rogers comics recently. Many are incomplete but I do enjoy the Four Color covers. and does anyone remember Roy's other dog? I am pretty sure the darker dog was bullet but was the other named snowball? I like that train cover too.

Thanks, I have wanted to check out the OSU collection for a while.

That CC 23 is a favorite cover in this group.

Superman, Green Hornet and the Shadow had their own radio shows and they were the star of at least one movie each, if not more. They were definitely considered the top characters in the golden age. Captain Marvel and Captain America were the stars of their own movies but no radio. The Timely heroes were featured in stories that remind me more of the Shadow. Horror and murder filled the comics even during WWII. I think the Sub-mariner and the Human Torch were a little less popular because they were not featured in other media at the time. The Torch was not enough to save the Fantastic Four movies even in modern times. I like other heroes like the Hangman and Mr. Justice because of their artists. Cat-Man is the same story. Batman is still the best but I have always enjoyed reading a murder mystery. I would prefer a good Thin Man adventure if someone could write the witty dialogue. I can only watch NYC and Washington D.C. be blown up so many times.

I agree but a page with Flamingo gets the blood boiling.

Both copies have a centerfold and the Black Fury story. He looks a little like the Black Terror. Which came first? Black Fury was a year late, June 1942 vs May 1941. Oops.

I picked up an extra copy of Blue Beetle 12 but only one has a back cover.

Yes, it is amazing.