AJD

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:

Not that I'm going to tell you anything you don't already know, but Sharon is AWESOME Seriously, it doesn't get better than this. I threw out a hint that I would like a book I knew she had, and before I knew it, Sharon had offered it - and ANOTHER book I wanted - at cost. Then she worked to minimise the shipping cost to Australia and THEN found an even cheaper way and offered me back the difference. And, of course, every communication was a delight. Sometimes I read the horror transaction threads and wonder about this hobby. But it can't be in bad shape with this lady around.

Thanks to our wonderful Sharon, I can now post this group shot of Marvel Family war stamp covers. I really like these war bonds/stamps covers and I have about twenty from half a dozen publishers now (thinks: group shot, hmmm). There's four more Fawcetts I need: Captain Midnight 22, Don Winslow 17, Funny Animals 6 and 20. I'm buying if you're selling...

Group hug!! I love this one.

Only 3? They were much more popular in Australia then. There were 25 of them in the equivalent of the Four Colour series down here. Here's a link if anyone's interested. I even have one of them: Not because I love LBW so much, but because it has the first ever printing of a Barks' Scrooge one-pager on the back:

Will do - I'm waiting for the 29th and 30th to finish their journey across the Pacific. When they turn up I'll do a group snap. BTW - anyone eyeing the 'high grade PGX' WDC&S books on ebay right now should read this thread. It's times like these that these boards are worth their weight in gold.

The topic of the source of Barks' Egyptian landscapes from FC29 came up in the 'Ask Gator' thread. As most of you duck fans would know, they were cribbed from National Geographic. Here's some examples I scanned in from the first volume of the Another Rainbow Barks Library:

ah, to try to narrow to one "single" greatest is nary an impossible task, as each Barks fan will no doubt have their favorite... for me, as a scrooge mcduck fan, I have to say FC 178...but your milage will vary (thumbs u I prefer the FC 291 story but I think US 5 is a close second. I also read the "Second Richest Duck" story many times. If I had a copy of FC 29 I might be singing its praises but I don't. The Egyptian scenes in the book are great. Did Barks visit England and visit the artifacts in the British Museum or go to Africa? Neither - the Egyptian scenes are cribbed from a National Geographic article. The Another Rainbow Barks Library has comparisons of the panels and the article's photos. But agreed - they are very nicely done. (I'll try to remember to scan them and post a few.) Just posted over in the Show us your Ducks thread.

ah, to try to narrow to one "single" greatest is nary an impossible task, as each Barks fan will no doubt have their favorite... for me, as a scrooge mcduck fan, I have to say FC 178...but your milage will vary (thumbs u I prefer the FC 291 story but I think US 5 is a close second. I also read the "Second Richest Duck" story many times. If I had a copy of FC 29 I might be singing its praises but I don't. The Egyptian scenes in the book are great. Did Barks visit England and visit the artifacts in the British Museum or go to Africa? Neither - the Egyptian scenes are cribbed from a National Geographic article. The Another Rainbow Barks Library has comparisons of the panels and the article's photos. But agreed - they are very nicely done. (I'll try to remember to scan them and post a few.)

Looks like a Barks' name on the box. Was that a Kelly or Carl Buettner joke or did Barks do the cover? I don't think it is a Barks cover - GCD doesn't note it as such - and his only "credit" seems to be something like a tribute from Buettner or Kelly (I'd favour the latter). Legend has it his editor(s) were none too happy with the display, but let it slide on the understanding "never again". It's Walt Kelly - he did some wonderful covers on WDC&S.