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From the album: Australian golden (and a few silver) age comics
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FWIW, those look like Korean War vintage uniforms on the Americans, so likely some time after 1950. Even more FWIW, that might not be a cover layout - there doesn't seem to be a lot of space for a title, price and logo. A story title might fit there though, so this could be a splash page.
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In less than 8 years both Supes & Bats will be public domain
AJD replied to Chicago Boy's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
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Any follower of the Australian Phantom comics publications?
AJD replied to BA773's topic in Comics General
It almost certainly was. And there's even an index of the comics that covers that period. Not being a collector, I don't have the index volume. @Duffman_Comics - do you have it, or know someone who does? The trouble is you probably have to know the story arc title. Edit: The printed index probably isn't necessary. There's an online Phantom Wiki that lists all the daily and Sunday stories. You can click through the story title and the page (usually mostly blank, unfortunately) has a set of hyperlinks to reprints from various countries. None of the titles suggest the Roman soldier story, but they are all a bit generic anyway. Edit the second: the complete dailies and Sunday strips have all been collected into books, and the Kindle versions are pretty cheap on Amazon, so you could get the 1965-66 volumes and see if you find your story. They pop up rarely, but I think I've seen most of them at some stage - I don't really track them though. To make life more complicated, back in the 90s the publisher started including replica copies with the annuals. The replicas of #1 and #2 were pretty similar to the originals and I've seen a few scam attempts on ebay - "I don't know much about this comic but I know it's very old"... #3 had a small 'R' printed on the cover villain's cufflink and I saw one for sale as an original 'with one small ink stain on the cover'. Guess where the ink stain was? From #4 on they have a barcode, so are easy to spot. -
PGM Marvel Preview 7 1st Rocket Racoon
AJD replied to Average RE's topic in Hey buddy, can you spare a grade?
A tough book to grade. I have a similar standard Uncle Scrooge that has a tape pull about that size and it was a CGC 6.0, which I think sits about right. I'll be interested in what others have to say about it. -
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Sounds about right
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In less than 8 years both Supes & Bats will be public domain
AJD replied to Chicago Boy's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
So would you support Shakespeare's great great great... ... great grandchildren still charging people royalties for any use of his words, plots or characters, or even preventing anyone doing a resetting of his works? I think the existing laws already protect creators more than is probably required to continue to provide an incentive to create. -
That looks a lot like a reasonably common heraldic motif of a cross with crossed swords behind. A bit of Googling shows versions with Maltese crosses, Celtic crosses and even the Bulgarian Air Force circa 1940 used a similar image (below)! So I'd say that's almost certainly been put there by a previous owner who happened to own the stamp, possibly as a 'this one is mine' mark, rather than a store or distributor.
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From the album: Australian golden (and a few silver) age comics
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From the album: Australian golden (and a few silver) age comics
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Where in the world was the Quality Control at CGC???
AJD replied to Wally's Comics's topic in Comics General
That label was meant for an invisible book. -
What are your favorite Detective Comics covers #38 through #120
AJD replied to Okguy's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
While it's hardly a classic cover, my favourite would be this one, as part of my war bonds cover collection. It's also the only Tec I own, so it can also go in a future 'your least favourite Tec cover' thread. -
Cheerios giveaways (1947) Y1: Donald Duck's atom bomb
AJD commented on AJD's gallery image in Other Themes
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From the album: Dell comics are good comics!
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My collection of Dell comics. Dell was an incredibly prolific and diverse publisher, so my collection of mostly funny animal and cartoon characters really just scratches the surface. For example, I have none of their many westerns, war or ghost comics, no Tarzan, only a few of the movie and TV tie in books etc. There are lots of duck books here, including Four Color Comics: the classic Barks stories were run in the Four Color Series for many years, including the first 20 or so Donald Duck stories (until the Donald Duck series started with #26, which wasn't really the 26th...) and the first three Uncle Scrooge issues. Walt Disney's Comics and Stories: #1 was published in October 1940 and the final Dell issue was #263 in August 1962. My focus has mainly been on issues 1 - 100, but I'll pick up nice copies of others when I get a chance.
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From the album: Dell comics are good comics!