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Gotta tell you DMC, I haven't decided yet. I've cracked every other slab I've ever bought, but this one might take some extra will power...

Just bought this on Heritage. Woohoo - my first ever buy on there. I feel almost grown up. Now I just have to work out how to get it shipped here...

Then you are going to love the few pages starting here .

I'm after one of those - if you see another, please drop me a PM! Stunning books BTW.

Great stuff Scrooge - what a wonderfully varied run this is. Here's one that I got today (not new to the thread but I haven't seen it in the 16 months I've been around here). This was the first Pogo and Albert outside of Animal Comics. BTW, dunno if anyone else is surprised, but I did a real double take when I saw the very first drawings of Pogo (Animal Comics #1): Has any character changed more??

I am SO glad I ma happy with readers of these, that high end game is too dicey for me. Agreed - just call me Mr fine to very fine.

Got another 1945 WDC&S. I bought this on ebay and it turned up exactly as graded. Of course, it turned out that the seller was a fellow boardie. Thanks Mark! Colours are better in hand than I could get with the scanner - the shading from medium to light blue is especially nice.

This is the book that got me back into collecting comics. I'd given up for well over a decade until I saw it in the local newsagent. I am very grateful to Don Rosa for picking up Barks' baton.

That really is strange I think it's a German-made film intended for the population of France. The point is that the Allies are talking of liberating France while bombing it. It was probably intended to undermine goodwill towards Britain and possibly to undermine support for the resistance.

Yes, I'll bet the colorist hated Kelly for that one, but did a great job on it anyway.

A good day at the letter box today. Not being able to afford the big ticket items or really high grades, I'm plugging away at WDC&S 50-111 (the 1940s issues I can reasonably aspire to on my budget) in 6.0-8.0 I've gotta say that this is working for me. I'm loving these books. You have to love those Walt Kelly covers - this is one of the best and has the first appearance of Gladstone Gander as well. This one has just turned 60 - I can only hope that I'll be as well preserved when I get there.

Kudos to rube11 for a great package of Thor comics. I was drunk when I bought them, but he didn't take advantage of me.

Great comic Jon! I'm going to get me one of those - one day. (With #s 20 and 46) Are you contemplating sending this one to Matt for pressing? I think it would straighten that copy up nicely.

I know you are all following my Mobil giveaway collection with bated breath. Here's the latest, a nice #3. Looking for 9,10,15,16 now. (I have a few of these for sale now. PM me if you are interested in buying one of these cute little comics before I list them on ebay.)

I've been looking for this one for a while. One of my favourite Kelly covers.

I picked up a 1964 Mobil giveaway comic #1 last week. Not the best copy but complete and with WHITE pages, which is nice. The Australian editors used to go to some lengths to remove 'Americanisms' from the comics and replace them with the local variation. This is a good example. Back in 1964 Australia had a pounds, shilling and pence money system - note the money bags and Donald's pay rate lettered in locally - 'one and sixpence an hour'.

A huge thank you to ciorac for a bunch of gorgeous WDC&S books at a big discount from guide. Just another great board transaction.

Glad you finally got a 9.6 copy of this book! In my experience this is one of the tougher later Gold Key Barks books to find in nice shape. I'm not a chaser of 9.x (though I do admire them) - I'd rather have have more 8.0s for the same $. But this one has been trouble. I recently got a 7.5 and thought I'd done well.

I absolutely agree Jon...30 days is a pretty horrendous effort to pay for a book or ship a book. But what I think the 30 days establishes is the "horrendous" threshold if you will, thus qualifying someone to be placed on probation...even more so if the person is non-communicative and/or brings a pain-in-the-azz attitude about it to the person on the other end of the transaction... This about sums up the purpose. As everyone knows, most books bought and sold here on the Boards are shipped and received within a week. and even with internatonal shipping 30 days is plenty of time (thumbs u Yep - even from Australia. I think 20 days is the longest anything I've shipped has taken, and that was to Greece. The US is more like 10-12.

I feel almost unworthy given some of the recent posts. Not quite 9.6 Four Color goodness from me, but I continue to chip away at my collection of 1964 Australia/New Zealand Mobil giveaway ducks and mice. This one was last week's effort - and a nice copy of a hard to find early release. I won a #11 on ebay yesterday, so I'll subject you to that in due course. 16 down, 8 to go. This one is a NZ edition (it has a staple rather than being glued).

Big kudos to Ciorac for a wonderful Weird Science sent to Australia in bomb-proof packaging. Thanks Bill! Weird Science....

Here's another WWII cover. (Not as nice as Ken's though!) But I like it. I've also put this in the grading forum if anyone wants a go...

Beautiful copy too! I want to put together a mini-theme of WWII WDC&S covers. It would include this one, 46 and 58. I'm waiting on a 58 I bought last week and am watching for the others. Congratulations on your win. Dare I ask how much it cost?

Thanks Peter - I never could say no to Duff.

Cool - there were some Australian covers which 'borrowed' from Dell comics as well. I'll see if I can scan a few. Andrew