Seadevils

Here's some more of my pre #30 Animal Antics...

Here's a couple more Peter Porkchops...I really would love to upgrade these....

Great Funny Animals everyone.... I'll try and post some more soon.

Love Pogo...have any more?

50's non superhero DCs really speak to me. We share the same sentiments there... Love 50's DC..the whole spread...especially those short runs... (thumbs u

A while back in this thread I was reading early posts and someone showed the Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love #3 as being a greytone cover. What about #'s 1,2 & 4....would they not be considered as well? We gotta get back to where this thread was a few months back when I wasn't involved. Let's define what makes a book a genuine greytone...or washtone. Some of you were compiling a listing of books. Any updates on that?

Come up with anything yet?

I sure wish there was a Fox and Crow washtone...... I haven't missed one have I? Are there any other DC Funny Animal books with the Washtone effect besides the Mouseketeers and the Panda? Anyone?

Cool books Jeffro!! Didn't know you were a Nutsy fan..

Nice looking copy with beautiful colors. Ken Yes...that is a stunner! Great issue and the only GL washtone.... (thumbs u

Beautiful copy AtlasFan...mine is only about F or F+. I've had it since about 1980 and just never got around to getting a HG copy. I have all 35 Seadevils...natch.. I should post some of those covers. I recall putting my run together back in the early 80's. Paid like $2 per issue..some as low as $1....and a whopping $10 smackers for #1. Most were ordered out of the CBG from individual advertisers. Put my Rip Hunter collection together the same way at about the same time. Those were two titles I was bent on getting completed early on. The Rip Hunter #1 I paid $21 nm guide back then...when I had it slabbed in 1999 it came back a F- .

As you know....50's DC Funny Animals...heck...50's FA's period...are just almost unheard of in anything above VG or VG+. I need only 3 of the 26 issue run of Three Mouseketeers and my best copies are not much better than the few I just posted here the other day. Many much lesser condition. Occasionally I luck upon a F or even F/VF. I have maybe two Fox and Crows in the VF+ range...... But to be honest...I'm perfectly happy and content with a nice vg of most of these type books. I enjoy lying in bed at night and reading an issue or two for some laughs. Don't have to worry about knocking the grade down a point or two from handeling them...

Dang I gotta get some Cavalcades..... I always liked that Fox & Crow cover on RSC..... Beautiful copies adamstrange...

Thanks dude!!

You could go back to many 50's and 60's DC's and find this limited use of the greytone process..I have some others I can post tomorrow...But nothing compares to the full blown stunners like some of the War comics...Westerns... Mystery In Space, etc....

One more...and these are really uncommon... The 10 issue run of TV Screen Comics took over numbering from Real Screen Comics 128... The first 3 issues of this series used a very limited amount of the process... I did not bother with the 130 & 131 as they are extremely limited. This is hte best example..as I guess because it is the first issue.. TV Screen Comics #129 Note the TV tube or screen effect and the purple shadow below our buddies Fox & Crow....I really love this set of books..I only need the final issue to complete my set.

There have been several Peter Pandas shown.. Do not recall seeing this one...and is such a nice example... Note the title logo...the spinning top itself and the landscape below....

And this is actually my favorite...# 13...Another partial process cover with yellow to white fade in the title logo again...The shadows...the light from the cigar embers reflected onto the chubby mouse...and the snowflakes themselves have no hard lines....Even the cigar band.....

Check out #9....Note the yellow to white lighting affect..the shadows and the sunburn affect on our Mouseketeers...and the outline on the "The Three Mouseketeers" logo itself. This is done using partial washtone process...

I've been meaning to check this thread out for some time now. Last night I took the time to look at all 48 pages....Although most all of the good Grey/Wash-tones have been shown....several of you include the partials as well.... I dug out a few Funny Animals from my collection and wanted to share these...the first one we've all seen posted here several times...My camera seems to capture the greytone affect quite well.. Three Mouseketeers 6...

Really has the early fluid style animation feel to it doesn't it... It sure does. And with good reason. Many of the early Funny Animal comic book artists had backgrounds in the animation field. Joe Oriolo, who illustrated the Goofy cover, was a writer and animator for the Fleischer studios and worked on Betty Boop, Popeye, and Gulliver's Travels before he began doing work for comics. "Casper was created in the late 1930s by New York City native Seymour Reit and Joe Oriolo, the former devising the idea for the character and the latter providing illustrations. " Thanks for the info BangZoom and adamstrange... I've always been a big fan of the Fleischer Studios...especially the 17 Superman cartoons of 1941 thru '43.

Too awesome dude!!! (thumbs u

The subject line wasn't enough to tip you off? Seriously, I'm glad that you found your way here and I'm looking forward to seeing your funny animal books. This might be the only thread that I have time to catch up on after a week away. The volume of the others is overwhelming. Take it away, Seadevils! Jack You better go back a week Jack...I posted some awesome DC FA's this past week... Actually after photographing a couple 1000 books while posting in the 365 thread I just have not taken the time to explore the boards. Now I've been posting all over the place..

Really has the early fluid style animation feel to it doesn't it...