Yellow Kid

I started going to Disneyland in 1956 and still enjoy it when I get the chance to visit. So many great memories!

I'm even older than Robot Man, and often think about how lucky I was to grow up with the hobby and know some of the great collectors in Southern California. Congratulations, Frank, the first 50 are the hardest!

The Mickey Mouse Weekly tabloid started on 8 Feb 1936 and nearly always had multiple character covers drawn by house artists. This is one of the great ones. It started as a weekly but over the years it experienced changes in publication frequency, size, and other characteristics.

I'll take it! Thanks!

Don't forget Huff's, How to Lie with Statistics, which emphasizes the visual presentation of data.

Frank, Thank goodness for Google. I looked up Disney Legends and everything you could want is on the internet. You can see who is added each year since its inception in 1987 and the list is both long and impressive. I started to count them and gave up as it looked like there might be around 250 people. It would make a great book with the plaque and the person's contribution on each page. Rich

Frank, Next time you visit the area, please take pictures of all of the plaques. It would be interesting to see who made the Disney Hall of Fame. This is so cool--is it open to the public? Rich

Very cool, I was not aware of this area. Are there any other comic greats in the area? Gottfredson for example. Thanks for sharing.

The owner was Steve Edrington. Along with Leonard Brown and Malcolm Willits at Collectors Bookstore, and Burt Blum in his attic in his father's store, Cherokee Books, Steve was one of the Founding Fathers of the old comic book business in Southern California. Steve knew his comic books and carved out a nice niche for his business. I got my annual Christmas card from him and his wife so he was still with us last December.

Beautiful books, I'll take both of them!

Pasteur said, "Chance favors the prepared mind." It also favors the prepared collector, and no one is better prepared than Robot Man!

Yes, a tear sheet is a page from the published comic section. YK collectibles are generally rare, so even though there aren't many dedicated collectors, the prices can be steep. The exceptions are most of the pinbacks and postcards. Because he only appeared in the NYC papers, merchandising was limited. Only a few years later when Outcault created Buster Brown, it was a national sensation and merchandising was more common. The link to my web site is in my signature line.

It is a shame that such a resource doesn't exist, but there is the Kitchen Sink reprint of the Yellow Kid tear sheets, there are a few book chapters, a couple of journal articles, and my web site. And because I don' keep up with such things as carefully as I used to, there may well be additional sources I am not familiar with. However, given the age of his material and the wide variety of publications he created in addition to Sunday newspaper cartoons, I doubt that such a resource could be compiled. Still, I don't mind as it is very exciting to find a Yellow Kid item that I didn't know existed.

All of Outcault's early newspaper cartoons were either in Pulitzer's The World, or later in Hearst's The Journal. When he was trying to establish himself, he not only tried various series but also did a number of smaller, one panel cartoons of varying sizes less than a full page. He also did these for period humor magazines like Truth and Judge. I have the Outcault family collection of Sunday tear sheets, which sadly is incomplete and doesn't include your piece, which is probably from the late 1890's, a few years before he created Pore Li'l Mose.

I wanted to add that one of the frames in the LFC #20 was expanded, colored, and became the cover for WDC+S #19. The same thing happened with the creation of the cover for WDC+S #9 but I can't remember in which book I saw the original frame, but it had to be one of those very early ones, either the Bubble Pipe or LFC #16.

My experience with her was very similar, and I gave her virtually the same advice. I am sure she will have the books graded but she seemed less certain about having them pressed. Her husband had good taste and left her a nice surprise. However, her experience does point out the need for the collector and the spouse to discuss the collection and how to dispose of it while the opportunity exists.

I bid on it as well, and had great hopes because it was listed as a paint book and not a comic. I contacted the owner and it seems her husband sold most of his collection years ago but that this was one of the few books he pulled to keep. It looked like a very nice copy, almost as nice as the one I have in my collection, but without being able to examine it in person, I got left in the same dust you were in. With about 10 seconds to go, it jumped to about $2,500 and with 1 second to go, it jumped to just over $4,500. A typical eBay auction for a nice item. Somebody got a great copy of one of the rarest ducks!

I was going to add the Land of the Pygmy Indians when I responded but I couldn't remember the name of the story and was too lazy to look it up, but I agree that it has elements of both.

Congratulations on getting a great book. Frozen Gold is a good story, but the second story, The Mystery of the Swamp, is probably better. I think it served as the inspiration for Uncle Scrooge #13 with the Terry's and the Firmy's.

I hope you are first in line when they bring the other half of the collection. The stuff you got is great, but it is always hard not to wonder about what you missed. Good Luck!

The original owner of this book, Chuck McCleary, put his name on the door jamb. He only had a few Dell comics but had almost everything else. I helped sell his entire collection in the 1990's for a very strong price to Bill Ponseti and his group. I still have the only WDCS he had at that time, which was from the same period as your book but had his name stamp on it. This book brings back a lot of amazing memories.

I have a set of the Wooley catalogs and didn't see any mention of a buyer's premium in any of them.

I went to the Houston Cons of the early 1970's and they were great! We'd drive over from New Orleans with some friends, drop our wives off at the Galleria, and spend the day at the con. When the day was over, we'd pick up our wives, eat dinner at Ninfa's, and then go to The House of Pie for dessert. It was such a wonderful weekend that it became an annual event for us

Happy 2018 to you, Bob. Thanks for sharing your collection with us and best wishes for some great finds in the coming year.

Me too!