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Very happy to get this one in: Has anyone sighted Scrooge lately? I've missed him around threads like this one.

Not a 9.9 among them. I'd be devastated. But seriously folks, how good are those books? Just wonderful specimens. Congratulations Cheetah.

Let me limit myself to just five from Scrooge's very handy list. #99 Quiz Show #126 Financial Fable (One of the absolute best Barks stories and the one I give to non-comic fans to read) #138 Maharajah of Howdoyoustan #145 Bing! #146 Omelet (The 140 s are an extraordinary subrun) Honourable mentions: 86, 92, 111, 127, 138, 140, 141, 144, 149, 158, 170 BTW, I somehow managed to miss Four Color #223 Lost in the Andes in my first list

I'd agree with all of that. Here are a few suggestions, in no particular order. These stories have all been reprinted multiple times. Come back and ask if you need help finding any of them. The Uncle Scrooge stories from Four Color #386, 456 and 495, then Uncle Scrooge #4 - 20 are as good a run of stories as you'll find anywhere. In my opinion they are a bit hit and miss after that, but there are still some beauties (#25 Flying Dutchman and #26 Prize of Pizarro especially). Some of the Donald Duck one shots are priceless. My favourites are: #108 Terror of the River #159 Ghost of the Grotto #189 Old Castle's Secret #199 Sheriiff of Bullet Valley #256 Luck of the North #267 A Christmas for Shacktown #408 The Golden Helmet #422 The Gilded Man You can't go far wrong with the WDC&S ten pagers from about #80 (when he started to hit his stride) to #180 or so - a phenomenal run of quality. Have fun!

Just a stunning copy of a lovely Dell book.

I haven't made a point of going after the Barks Four Color issues this year, but I've grabbed them when the price seemed right and have actually picked up quite a few. (But missed the one I really wanted - a #238 ) Anyway, here's another I got at Heritage today.

One of my favourite Barks ten pagers in that #138 - the Maharaja of Howdoyustan. Great stuff.

Agreed - that's a stunning copy of a very pretty cover. Great pick up!

Great stuff - thanks for making those.

Awesome stuff Peter. I really like getting a snapshot of a previous time, like those subscription books. I have to wonder why they are still in their wrappers, especially since they spanned ten years...?? Why would they subscribe for so long and not even unwrap them? Anyway, that's your gain. And since you mentioned it, here's the Barks estate COA: I only wish it was in a CGC slab. Oh well.

Fabulous - thank you BBG! If only you'd told me before I cut my copy up. Only kidding - do I recall that was an animation of FC 291 as well?

Fixed - the problem was that I was logged into my Inducks account when I copied and pasted the hyperlinks. BTW, I've made my 'virtual collection' public. Feel free to have a look - the best way is to scroll down to the foot of the page and start from 1940.

It's this one. The Italian title is 'Paperino e l'isola delle perle'. One thing I've wondered is why the Beagle Boys have Australian 'slouch hats' in this story (see here). Were they added locally, or did they have them in the Italian original? (And why?) I have some more Italian stories reprinted in Australia. I'll dig them out next time I set the scanner up.

Here's a couple for vaillant. Australian Disneys in the late 1960s often featured Italian stories translated (usually pretty well) for an Australian audience. here's the title page from one of them. I don't know what the Italian title was, but the English version is a play on the title of a famous Australian book 'Robbery Under Arms' This one had a cover that might have been locally drawn: Vaillant: do you recognise these stories?

tb: Here's my latest somewhat more modest pickup from ebay:

Another week, another war bonds cover at Heritage.

Printer's proof from Gerber? Very nice.

Very nice sartre. Here's one of my favourite FH covers I just got in:

I missed this one when I went through Gerber looking for war bond covers, but noticed it in this week's Heritage auction in time to buy it:

Not this time around. The combination of price and eye appeal wasn't quite right for me, and I have my sights on a few goodies for some of my other collection niches right now.

Hi Guys, I was about to post a WTB and get ready to watch the tumbleweeds blow past, and it occured to me I might as well put it out here. Looking for a nicely presenting midgrade Frontline Combat #1. Preferably raw and fine(ish) but will consider lower grade if the presentation is good.

So what is the answer to your query? Are you saying he should eat international shipping which could be $20 - infinity in costs? Or that international customers should receive the value of free domestic shipping? The latter has some cachet with me, the former is abject craziness. Sean, you are smart enough to know that the right answer is the latter. Never said seller should eat international shipping cost in full....only that if they offer free domestic shipping (lets say $10) then it would be a great customer service practice to offer a similar discount on international shipping (lets say $30 minus $8-$10) If I offer free domestic shipping, I offer a discount on International shipping here...I do it to be fair to the out of area boarders, but it's a PITA, . First of all, I think I've only sold one or two slabs in my life, I usually keep those, so most of my books can go out inexpensively here ...and for much less than $10. 2ndly, Paypal fees for out of the US are higher ...and lastly We can have priority international mail picked up, but not first class. I get free priority boxes, but if I want to send something first class I need to find a box, drive to the PO and fill out all kinds of paper work. If I were selling $100 books, I could see it, but usually I'm selling $10 books, unless someone takes a bunch it really is not worth my time to take an extra hour to mail it...and I hate to insist on Priority for out of the US...because of the cost...I've tried it, but I always feel guilty asking. I've tried all kinds of combinations...offering to ship out of the US priority only, offering to ship first class for a minimum purchase...just have not found a happy medium yet.... I don't think it's that people want to be mean to out of US buyers, it's just a small series of inconveniences that seem to add up. What's a bleeding jammer? I appreciated your efforts to mail books to me Sharon, noting the PITA.

Cue the William Tell Overture at Scrooge's place! Great Lone Rangers there. Here's another Kurtzman war cover to enjoy. I love the colouring on this one. Marie Severin did such a great job on EC covers (and insides). Note to self: take that piece of tape off the scanner bed!

And another EC, this time the first Two Fisted Tales with a cool Kurtzman cover. A very nice copy for a 5.0!!