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1 hour ago, 1950's war comics said:

This is what a gadzillionare does  

I don't think they'd be bothered with coins very often!

1 hour ago, 1950's war comics said:

is it Grover Cleveland ?

Yes, well done.

It took me a decade to find one of those, but I'm glad I eventually got one.

Yes, it's a very nice copy. It has a smal tear seal and so was discounted at the time.

I think there's trouble all round on that cover. The P-80 isn't going to pull out from there... (one of my pet gripes about a lot of air combat covers - a crash is inevitable as drawn).

On 8/14/2019 at 1:02 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

I like the 'R' stamp. Shouldn't it be 'Z' though? 

R d R R

55 minutes ago, 1950's war comics said:

blowing a dollar sign smoke balloon ! that is genius !!

Not smoke - this is Disney (yes, we do recall the child cigar smokers on WDC&S #13, but we don't talk about that any more...) 

Good question. Actually it happens more on the covers than in the interior stories. I'll post some examples in my journal thread.

44 minutes ago, 1950's war comics said:

nice shade of pink on this one !!

Yeah, isn't it? Not unusually for Fiction House, that colour varies quite a bit between copies.

6 hours ago, 1950's war comics said:

25 cents !!?? what year is this ?? that was a small fortune back then in the 40's

It's July 1950. But the value was pretty good - it's a Dell giant, with 132 pages and card covers.

44 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Isn't she udderly divine 

Ha, they didn't always have the long skirt. In the early days she was udderly unclothed...

On 7/25/2019 at 9:01 AM, 1950's war comics said:

washing his currency  

Money laundering.

On 8/4/2019 at 8:29 AM, 1950's war comics said:

great patriotic cover !!

comic came out right near the time of the glorious victory in the battle of Midway June 1942!!

Yes, one of my favourites. It goes very nicely with the Looney Tunes #10 cover that came out the same month. There were MANY flag covers dated July 1942.

On 8/4/2019 at 8:30 AM, 1950's war comics said:

Disney did their part with another barb wire- war/defense cover

Took me a while to realise that "defence" wasn't spelled the American way in order to make a pun on "fence". The "c" looks fine to me...

2 hours ago, 1950's war comics said:

LOL smoking big cigars so they look like adults

Yeah, pretty sure that one is on Disney's "never to be reprinted" list!

2 hours ago, 1950's war comics said:

i am not familiar with the cow-lady on the cover ??

Clarabelle Cow, sometimes girlfriend of Goofy, and sometimes of the even more obscure Horace Horsecollar (!)

Yep, and I'm lucky enough to also own a very nice printer's proof copy of this cover.

Highest on the census is 9.2 with only a handful of high grade. But the overall numbers aren't very different for issues around that number.

Oh, yeah, I forgot the golf bag on that one!

And it's part of a genre known on the duck thread as 'beak abuse'.

And Walt Kelly slipping in a Carl Barks chicken farmer reference on the box.

Not so many of those, though there's another on WDC&S 140 (which I don't have).

2 hours ago, 1950's war comics said:

fishing covers my favorites !!!!

Are you hooked?

On 7/27/2019 at 8:52 AM, 1950's war comics said:

i have noticed quite a few fishing covers !!!!!!!

Fishing was a common theme in Barks' HD&L and Donald stories, as well as the covers. I've never read that Barks himself liked fishing, but that might be the reason.

3 hours ago, 1950's war comics said:

haha applesauce instead of an apple 

Humour at its core.