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Someone noticed! Thanks Frank. But Don Rosa doesn't have any chickens in the family tree. Just ducks, geese, coots and one each of loon and grebe:

Another of the new acquisitions. I can't help but think that the joke here would have been better without the explanation in the yellow box on the cover. Surely "this issue is going to change your whole viewpoint of Mad" and then leave it to the reader to discover why would have been funnier? Maybe they wanted to avoid returns? But, as advertised, here's what greets you when you open the cover: I'm willing to bet that this caused some cursing in the printer's plant. And, without (overt) comment, here's an example of the sidesplitting comedic stylings of Wolverton, Basil.

Note to self: avoid Robot Man's sales threads or a whole new world of collecting hurt will open up! Great stuff Corey. Keep this up and you'll have your own 'junk pile' in no time.

Great book! But the cover reminds me more of Jack Davis than Wally Wood...

OK, another book from the latest delivery. I didn't like it when it arrived, because it was in a plastic shell and i couldn't read it. After a loud cracking sound was heard it was much better. I really like the Tenniel picture on the cover on this one. I note that the GCD credits Tenniel, but clearly someone has very neatly added the Mad comics into the image. And for the 'under the covers' feature, here's an interior page that purports to be current affairs. Any there any Chinese-reading readers of this journal? Heck, are there any readers of this journal, period? If you're wondering what potrzebie means, here's the Cliff Notes version: Mad editor Harvey Kurtzman spotted the word printed in the Polish language section of a multi-languaged "Instructions for Use" sheet accompanying a bottle of aspirin, and Kurtzman, who was fascinated with unusual words, decided it would make an appropriate but meaningless background gag. After cutting the word out of the instruction sheet, he made copies and used rubber cement to paste "Potrzebie" randomly into the middle of Mad satires.

My daughter painted this for me. Acrylic on canvas (and obviously after Carl Barks). I've had it for years - must get it framed!

19.99% Cut it into small pieces the instant you get it. Seriously. And look up "usury".

Can't post this in the ducks thread because gyro is a chicken. (Yes, that's a poultry reason...*) So I thought I'd post it here. *Thank you. I'm here all week.

Love it. It's a tribute to this.

Got a nice box of books in today. I only have time to scan and upload one tonight, but it's a good one. Another "mini run" of Four Colors I'm after is the five Gyro Gearloose issues. I really like the character and there are a few great stories (and some ho hum ones) scattered through these. This is the third for me. All Barks in this issue: And here's the 'under the covers' entry for this one. Gyro invents an unmissable baseball bat for the local team before finding out that he was born on the other side of the tracks. "His" hometown demands an invention, so he designs an unhittable ball. Here's what happens next: Here are my other two Gyros. Dell comics are good comics.

Walt Kelly's take:

I didn't realise I hadn't posted that one... Fixed!

Yep, I'd missed that one. Thank you!

Missed out on this one on eBay, but I thought it was cool enough to post the image here:

Great thread. I don't like the early JIMs at all, although the Tales of Asgard backup is good once it begins. But the series does pick up considerably from about 119 (1st Destroyer) onwards. By the time you get to Ulik the troll, Ego, Galactus etc it has a great space opera feel to it and Kirby's 'cosmic' artwork suits it very well. So hang in there!

Here's another great and uncluttered EC cover. Not a whole lot of inkwork on this, but Marie Severin's colouring is top notch.

FC #1173

I haven't seen any others, but thanks for sharing that one. I must show it to my mother, who spent WW2 putting rivets in aeroplanes for the Royal Australian Air Force.

To put that in perspective, $700 in 1912 = $12,045 in 1999, and $17,340 now. (According to the inflation calculator here.) ERB did OK.

Which reminds me... I'd forgotten to post this one:

Here's a war bonds cover I just got in. It has been a while, and many of the ones I have left to buy are either expensive, hard to find, or both! This one is around, but finding one in the right grade/price range was tricky. I'm happy with it though. I was asked recently if I had a list of war bonds/stamps covers. Here it is. I don't include covers that just have a little logo that says 'buy bonds' or something - I'm really after ones where the war bonds drive is either a part of the cover art itself, or at least works with the art (like the Don Winslow above). 4Most 1.3 flag and war bonds ad Action 58 slap a jap Action 59 war bonds and stamps smash axis tanks too Action 86 7th war loan Animal Comics 9 buy bonds' Batman 12 war savings bonds and stamps keep em rolling Batman 15 keep those bullets flying! Keep buying war bonds and stamps Batman 17 buy bonds Batman 18 insure the 4th of July! Buy war bonds and stamps Batman 30 7th war loan Big Shot 57 letter Blue Beetle 25 war stamp Blue Bolt vol 6 #2 generals and admirals Boy Commandos 2 Give Hitler the bum's rush with war stamps Boy Commandos 11 buy war bonds (on back 'infinity' cover) Boy Commandos 13 7th war loan Captain Marvel 15 competition to win war bonds Captain Marvel 26 war stamps for victory Captain Marvel 37 war stamp Captain Marvel 47 7th war loan Captain Marvel jr 21 war stamp Captain Marvel jr 31 7th war loan Captain Midnight 22 war stamp Captain Midnight 32 7th war loan box Catman 16 Buy bonds, buy stamps, bye bye Axis Catman 19 Buy bonds Champ 25 war stamp Detective 78 the bond wagon Detective 101 7th war loan Doll Man Quarterly 6 buy stamps and bonds Don Winslow 17 war stamp Don Winslow 27 7th war loan Four Favorites 11 fighting war bond Funny Animals 6 war stamp Funny Animals 20 war stamp Funny Animals 30 7th war loan box Green Hornet 18 war bonds parade Heroic comics 25 5th war bond drive Looney Tunes 10 flag cover Looney Tunes 20 buy war bonds' Looney Tunes 33 war bond Looney Tunes 45 letter Magic Comics 44 war bond dagwood Master 52 war stamp Master 62 7th war loan box More Fun 104 war bonds/7th war loan New Funnies 89 war bond New Funnies 101 letter Our Gang 17 'buy bonds' sign on fence Popular Comics 101 war bond Popular Comics 113 letter Power Comics 2 'Back the attack - buy more bonds and stamps' Speed 38 Iwo Jima tribute Star spangled 47 7th war loan Super Comics 74 war bond Super Comics 86 letter Superman 18 japanazis Target vol 3 #8 war stamp Target vol 5 #8 war bond Target vol 6 # 5 war bond True Comics 37 war bond War Victory Comics nn 5c comic WDC&S 20 war stamp WDC&S 22 flag cover WDC&S 30 buy war bonds' WDC&S 31 'buy bonds' WDC&S 46 war bond WDC&S 58 letter Whiz comics 31 fight with MacArthur buy defense stamps Whiz comics 44 war stamps for victory - flag Whiz comics 56 war stamp Whiz comics 66 7th war loan World's Finest 8 'buy bonds' World's Finest 9 knock out the axis Wow 27 war stamp Wow 37 7th war loan box

This just in: I've been looking out for a nice copy of this book for years, and I'm pleased with this one. It was one of those books that's always around but not the copy I want. As an 'under the covers' feature, here's a great interior splash panel: I really like the idea for this panel, even if no pair of binoculars ever looked like that! P.S. Where did Griff go? I was enjoying watching his Don Winslow collection grow.

A few additions to the bookshelf this time around. I went to the LCS to get some mylars yesterday, and looked over the new arrivals. I saw this and was interested (who doesn't love Bone?) but wasn't sure if I wanted to pay A$30 for it. Then I turned it over: For those of us of a certain age, that's a hard to resist image. The new Bone story is a 36 page coda to the main story, and has the Bones heading back through the desert to Boneville. I won't spoil it, but it's fun and very much to the spirit of the original story. If it had appeared then, it would have been a lovely gentle ending. As is, it's nice, but 20 years on it seems a little superfluous. To be fair, I was warned - see the text in the yellow star on the back cover! There's also an article by Jeff Smith that recounts his path to success. It's quite interesting, and I think he's one of the good guys who managed to make it in the business. There's also a 45 page Bone companion' appreciation of the story. It's OK, but sometimes it can't tell the difference between literary criticism and retelling the story. All in all, an OK book to have, but not essential. When I left the LCS, I met my wife at the art store. I was browsing the books there and found this: I haven't read it yet, other than to dip in here and there and some of the captions to the many illustrations, but it looks wonderful. American comics get plenty of space, but there are also lots of 'foreign' comics that show the difference in interpretations of the 'sequential art' form. The book is written in a studious (but not heavy) style, and it seems to bring the sensibility of an art historian to the form. Very much looking forward to reading this one. Finally, also being of a 'certain age', back in the day (late 60s into the 70s) I used to love a couple of British weeklies; 'Look and Learn' and 'World of Wonder'. They were sort of general interest magazines for kids, but L&L had two pages of a serialised story called The Trigan Empire. It was like Star Wars (which wasn't invented then) meets the Roman Empire. There's a reprint volume from the 1980s which for years fetched silly prices. Then I found one second hand for $35. Here's part of the cover (the book is very large, and doesn't fit my scanner: And here's a sample of Don Lawrence's artwork from inside. There's a little of the Hal Foster about the pacing and style of the story, but the art is painted, and mostly gorgeous. TBH, the stories don't read especially well, in part because the original serialisation of them makes them a little stop start (and there's more than a few captured/escaped sequences). But they look fabulous, and actually work better if you only read a few pages at a time (funny that). Thanks for looking! I think there'll be a new comic arriving for me to post this week.

Could "int" mean " internal" - i.e. Are these file copies? They're nice enough to be.

Great book Corey! Who is this ADJ of whom you speak? As it happens, I have one too...