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Yes, there are those of us who collect GA funny animals.

I guess these belong here. Love these early Mads. BTW - those Dell Indian Chief books are gorgeous.

Based entirely on nostalgia, I have a great fondness for the Australian editions of Uncle Scrooge from the late 60s early 70s. Some were reprints of the US editions (though I didn't know that at the time) and introduced me to Barks. Others, like this one, were local translations of Italian stories. They aren't too bad at all. And this is a beaut I just picked up. You should all be aware that eBay is evil - none of you should ever shop there for WDC&S. Ever. Bad, bad bad. Let me take the bullets for you.

Isn't it just! Wow, these books are extraordinary. I have some mundane ducks to post, but I'm holding off to allow the MMMs to continue to dazzle. Keep 'em coming guys, mine will keep.

Wow - if you are only going to win one book that's not a bad one!

Two new additions. One of four (I think) Fawcetts I didn't have. (Anyone have a Don Winslow 17 or funny Animals 6, 20 for sale?) And this one's a beauty:

Gorgeous book. (thumbs u I'd love to get a few single-digit WDCSs sometime. +1 That is one gorgoeus book!

That's really cool stuff. Thanks for posting it. (thumbs u

I've limited my list to books with a war bond/stamp in the cover art or a buy war bonds message worked into the art work (WDC&S 30, 31, Famous Funnies 131, Our Gang 17 are examples of those). I keep my eye out for them but I wouldn't claim to know them all - this thread has shown me a few I didn't know about. My list has 50ish books on it and I have about half. (The cheap half for the most part...) I have a couple more on their way at the moment - Captain Midnight 22 and a Blue Bolt.

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Fantastic - consider those two added to my want list! You don't happen to have a list of your own do you? I'd be happy to swap notes.

The Stirling has such a dramatic stance on the ground - the use of silouhette here makes it even more so. This is almost certainly the photograph the artist used for reference:

The soft cover Gladstone Carl Barks Library in Color volumes were shrinkwrapped with a trading card in each one. I'll shoot you the duplicates I have in the mail - then there'll be no excuse for further ignorance.

And a couple of other Dells from me - over to you guys. (Thanks Comicdonna!) And this mini comic gets an honourable mention: ... by virtue of the back cover:

And their 1945 equivalents: Target comics ran the 1944 bond again, rather than the letter:

For July 4 in 1944 and 1945 many magazines (not just comics) ran war bonds covers. here's the Reader's Digest from each year: I've got a couple of others and sometimes think a July 1944 news stand display would be cool. Here are some of the 1944 comics:

And here are a couple of other stamps issues - a Dell and a Blue Beetle:

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?