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I might be ploughing a lonely furrow here, but Overstreet breaks them out (sometimes) so there must be a few others out there chasing these. Self interest disclosure: - I'm hoping to identify issues I don't know about through this thread. - Any issues I mention that I don't have can be considered 'want to buy' Let's start with a few Fawcett War Stamps covers: There's three more Fawcetts with stamps I'm aware of - Captain Midnight 22, Funny Animals 6 and 20

And the front and back of some of the Uncle Scrooge cards: BTW, I have a couple of duplicates of the heroes and Villians cards if anyone wants them.

Some great books here lately guys. Hepcat - awesome WDC&S. Duffman - that one will make all my ex-undercopies blush! BB - some great books there and I have the impression that you own a few comics... Point Five - I saw that lot and wondered what the FC 159 was like - nice pickup. Now, here's my contribution. It's been slow on the duck book front the last few weeks, but I have managed to pick up a few items in a side project I have going. When Gladstone published the Carl Barks Library in Color I wasn't going to buy the books because I'd already got the B&W Another Rainbow series. But the cards were tempting... As it happens, I've managed to pick up about 75% in bits and pieces on eBay over the last few years. Here's a selection. I might bite the bullet and pick up the remainders from the publishers, but they are kind of expensive that way, so we'll see. To start off, here's the four Rosa cards: And the first nine WDC&S 'Heroes and Villians' cards: (Confusingly, not all of the characters are from WDC&S, with some from the FC stories and others from uncle Scrooge.)

Unless I've missed something, this appears to be a GLOD based only on PQ, and isn't one of the categories on this list. Link

Since we are deep into aviation artwork territory, I can't help but think it would be a disservice to leave out Roy Cross. While he never did work for comic books, his work was certainly known by the same generations of young boys who bought them. Cross was the main artist for model comapny Airfix during their heyday. Here's two examples of very different interpretations. B-17 Flying Fortress, in trouble but with all guns blazing: and my favourite, the Short Stirling preparing for a mission: This is a very different sort of painting from the usual 'blood and thunder' boxtop, but it worked.

That Messerschmitt 110 panel is wonderful! I had a boxful of Air Aces thirty years ago - they ended up in landfill when my mum did a cleanup.

Just got this one in for my war bonds/stamps collection. I'ver never read a Blue Beetle, so I'm looking forward to seeing how it reads. BTW - I'm thinking of starting a 'Show off your war bonds/stamps/loans books' thread. I couldn't find one, but point me to it if there is already one.

That's really cool. Are they expensive, or aren't there many Barks colelctors after them?

Hard to reconcile the tropical gear and scenery with what appears to be at least localised cold weather... just sayin'.

Congratulations - amazing books! That 'thud' you heard was my jaw hitting the floor. Just amazing books. Oh well, back to my mid-grade ECs...

I have enough of these now to make a group shot worthwhile. I blame Chuck Rozanski for this. One of his emails years ago mentioned EC comics as being the best ever - I'd never seen one and thought I should check them out. I like them all, but have settled on War and Scifi for now. This is the result (so far).

Since we seem to be in group shot mode, here's 29/30 of my WDC&S 1-100. (I have no idea where the other is - I'm going to have to check some other boxes.) I'll do this again when I hit 40. Don't hold your breath. Edit: Found it. It's #77

So not only do we share an interest in Ducks but in nice EC's as well. See my recent purchase of a Weird Science here... Weird Science 11 We better coordinate our purchases to keep the prices down!! PM sent.

Great stuff BB Gun. I often think that we duck collectors have it good - prices are moderate (even if I still can't buy all I want) and the books are fantastic. And don't they look nice in a big group? 40Y: thanks for your insights into those books. Much as I love ECs (and I've been looking for a nice Weird Science 15 for two years now), I kinda regret missing those ones. Oh well - I can enjoy them at a distance.

Here's where I've got to with my Donald Duck FC set. (I know DD26 strictly doesn't fit, but it's the last of the Dell Barks 'story covers' and has a spiritual home here, IMHO. As I said earlier, I really want 199 and 238 but I'm not really a completist these days, so I'm in two minds about some of the others. I think I like these as much as any books in my collection. I bought the Barks library in the 1980s thinking I'd never get to own the originals. My how the internet has changed things.

Wow - is the Tiger-Boy in Unearthly Craptaculars as lame as it looks? Some books are so bad they are good. This may be one of them.

[alec guiness voice] That's not the book you want to keep. [/alec guiness voice] What a beauty!

This one got lost at the local post office for a month. There were a couple of really nice WDC&S in the sales forum recently. Unfortunately I'd blown my entire March and some of April's budget on some nice EC sci-fi comics two days earlier. Oh well, they went to a good home. ( 40y) This is another blue book that looks better in hand. I wonder why my scanner does that? You'll have to take my word on this one - a solid 6.0 in hand. Nice PQ to boot. I'll post some group shots soon. I have to take some pics for insurance purposes anyway, so I'll inflict them on you guys too.

I can resist anything but temptation. I picked these up from MYNAMEISLEGION on the for sale forum. FC 189 is the second appearance of Uncle Scrooge (I think - is that right?) I've never read Malayalaya - I'm going in with low expectations, but sometimes the non-Barks stories are good. I really like the 'Fabulous Fiddlesticks' story, but not so much ones like 'The Crocodile Collector'. Now I have to find nice copies of FC199 and 238.

Those are always the best. The wait makes the eventual find so much sweeter. Congrats!

I just ordered one of these. Some of these stories are excellent. (So good in fact that Barks used some of them again in WDC&S)

OK, time to come out. Over the last twelve months I've found myself picking up the odd FH book now and then, all the while telling myself it wasn't serious and I could give up anytime. Enough is enough. My name's AJD, and I have a problem.

I love the competition on the cover of one of those True Comics 'Win a Rin Tin Tin pup!'

The 29th addition to the family. (Looks nicer in hand. It's a 6.0 - man, my scanner hammers blue!)

Since we are in a Fawcett mode... thanks to Sharon for these: