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As much as I love Wood's EC work, he was always a little stiff with his figures. I don't recall looking at his Daredevil work, but I'd have thought he'd struggle to get the required dynamism into action scenes in superhero books. Any insights (or a page scan) to share?

Jungle was first by some years. Thank you!

I would guess that the most likely explanation is that the book has been shaken around in the slab after being encapsulated. You are correct - a 9.8 shouldn't have those flaws.

Here's another book sentenced to transportation (back) to Australia.

I really don't like those TV shows, so that has nothing to do with my enduring fondness for Peanuts. For me, the comic strips were Peanuts. You mention Snoopy 'not talking', but his internal monologues lifted what was otherwise a charming observational comedy into something with surreal elements. I still smile when I think about "The beagle has landed" (on the moon) or the Masked Marvel, and there are some beautifully poignant WWI strips - "Curse this stupid war!"

The thing about that photo is that the instrument is actually a cello. Mr Bedrock is a big lad.

I'm really pleased to see this collection here. I saw it "elsewhere" and thought that it would be really appreciated by the crowd here. I suspect that we might sometimes bump heads bidding on Australian books! You have a few that I'd really like to get. You can see my meagre collection here:

I can show you a couple of inside pages of my latest duck arrival.

Cor lummy, everyone wants to see the "books from Blighty". Fine, here's another one then. Fantastic colours on this one (and another pentadactyl cat - though only on one paw?):

We interrupt your regularly scheduled program of dribbling the 'Brit books' out one-by-one to bring you another EC that arrived today. Another one from the SSS series that I might (or might not) be collecting. An amazingly effective cover by Wally Wood on this one, who manages to show both the victim and the driver in a believable way. And I think these figures both have a bit more animation than Wood's usual 'statuesque' poses. That makes 4/18 for me - and one more sitting in a box in Georgia waiting to come this way, courtesy of one @edowens71. Hmm, that will be 5/18 - that's almost a third of the way there. Well, dang.

Buy trade paperbacks to read modern comics. They are cheaper than buying the floppies, and you can read the story arc in one go. Use the money you save to buy quality back issues.

Another day, another drawn out release of my latest package of books, all the better to torture the impatient @Duffman_Comics. The London dealer had a list of American books as well, and this one seemed like pretty good value, so I grabbed it as well. I'm still not sure if I'm collecting the SSS run, though it's looking more and more likely.

Yes, and no... but they will all be here in due season.

Me too - I hadn't seen the bc scan before.

Another book from the same dealer. I had no idea what it looked like until it turned up. The cover is from the US edition Jumbo #125. I don't know what those spotted animals are meant to be - one is drawn like a cat (leopard?), the other like a dog (hyena?). In fact, I think that most of that RH animal is a local addition to the original artwork. Looking at some other US book scans, the word 'HELP' spelled out in sticks on the ground has been removed, and the most of the dog/cat on the right added. The book is about 1cm wider than the US print, which probably explains the add-ons. (Though not why the lettering was removed.) Nonetheless, I like it. I should give @Marwood & I a big shout out here. I posted a WTB ad for Australian pre-decimal comics. I didn't expect anything to come of it, but it costs nothing to try, right? Well, M&I suggested I try a dealer in London. Two weeks later, a nice bundle of seven comics turned up. This one and the Jungle in the previous post are two of them. Nice call

I bought this late Jungle from MCS a few weeks ago. I try to collect FH covers that aren't replicated on Australian editions. No doubt Kaanga is thinking 'that pentadactyl cat is unnatural - I must skewer its mutant paw with this arrow'. Then I bought this Australian edition. I bought it sight unseen (kind of old school dealer) and didn't know what it looked like because it wasn't in the GCD cover gallery then (it is now). Oh well...

Comics may not be for you. Well, maybe not those ones. I'm totes down with talking ducks and all sorts of silliness. I think it's a product of seeing many hundreds of accurate paintings of aviation subjects on model kit boxtops that caused this particular pathology.

My visceral reaction on seeing a purple label is a positive one - ooo, can I get this cheaper? Then I check out what was done to see if it was something I can easily live with.