AJD

Cross posted to the duck thread, but I like this one a lot.

Late last year I saw a low feedback seller on ebay listing a bunch of WDC&S which would finish just before Christmas. He had mediocre photos and descriptions of condition either 'great' or 'excellent' (not sure which was higher!) Well, of course I had to have me some of that. The only trouble was that he wouldn't sell to Australia. So I recruited boardie Point Five to my plan, and he was kind enough to act as the middle man. Here's what I got, and the prices I paid. $27 - looks a bit better in hand, probably a 4.5 'excellent' $23 VF- $41 VF+ :banana: So I reckon I'm putting this one down as a win. Let me send out a big public thanks to Jon for his part in this transaction. Cheers, Andrew

And it's a thing of beauty. If I ever finish the 1-100 run I set myself I think I could be tempted to follow through to the end of the Kelly covers. Thanks for showing that one.

Wow, that's a very big price. Mine cost $67 on ebay... --- At the risk of sounding trite, he should opt for the book that gives him the most pleasure to own. I'd be inclined towards your view because of the provenence cachet that goes with pedigrees, but really 9.6/9.8... who cares?

Happy 1943 2012 everyone.

That was one of many reasons that I instantly passed on this copy. It's easy to miss that check box on eBay - the rest of the description is OK. I wouldn't assume this was an attempt to oversell the book.

Kurtzman

Just picked up this very nice Australian Disney. A (minor) curious aspect is that the cover has been redrawn from the one on WDC&S 61 with Scrooge as a replacement for Donald. The reasons for that are no doubt lost in the mists of time - maybe someone thought Scrooge would sell better, or was more credible as a teacher? The frogs are very similar to Walt kelly's originals (traced?) but the ducklings aren't. And the blackboard has had some changes made - the map of North America is gone, as well as other differences. Edit: the spelling of 'Huey' has been corrected from Walt Kelly's original 'Hughie'.

Merry Christmas all!

That's oddly hypnotic!

You might be right...

And, just for a change, a beautiful comic from tb's collection!!! Merry Christmas from me too. (Any excuse to post these four again this year):

Strictly speaking this one arrived last week, but near enough:

I have a hunch that your turtle makes up with quality what it lacks in speed...

Another one bites the dust... The tortoise is inching along my sig line.

Just got this one. Wally Wood's first EC cover. As much as I like his artwork, some of the drawing is a bit stiff (Weird Science 13, for example). For this freshman effort there's no such problem - it has a 'Mars Attacks' sort of frenzy about it that I really like.

Just ticked off another one thanks to filter81. This one's also a Hitler (and Tojo) cover.

Here's a 1918 comic promoting war bonds from World War I - The Third Liberty Loan. Odd giveaway, bound on top, with cartoons from many of the major cartoonists of the day. That's a great item - I hadn't even thought of Platinum Age war bonds books! Thanks for posting it.

Well, half of them are both! They are very nice. I've been toying with the idea of colelcting the Australian versions of those, but they are kind of expensive - about $70-80 each. As far as I can tell, that's about twice the price of the US editions.

Very pretty 4.0 there Mark!

Another WDC&S slightly overgraded (VF- ??) ebay pickup: In the same bundle were these beauties - stolen at a very low price and substantially undergraded. All in all I'm happy.

No problems there as moose and ducks are not exactly closely related in the genetic stakes. And they have to catch one first...

And there are three volumes of Don's 'Captain Kentucky' strip collected by a fan group. I'm lucky enough to have all of them signed by the man himself. Here's #1: One of the characters in here appears in the duck version of the Kalevala. I wonder if I was the only one who thought 'hey, it's J. Fred Frog' when the big splash panel with Iku Turso appears near the end...

There's these Fantagraphics reprints from the 80s as well. I bought mine from Mile High years ago and I notice they still have #1 in stock. (Best walrus stampede in comic history!) #2 has the original omnisolve story. It is very similar to the later duck one, almost down to the last 'glorp'.

Just got this really solid copy in today. It's the 40th of my attempted 1-100 run. (Might be time for a group shot... ) For now I'm concentrating on 50-100, because I think the trend in duck prices is generally downwards still and those expensive early ones can wait. Anyone disagree?