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So whats more impressive, a high value first appearance or a strong run of hard to find issues. A similar point, if you had, say Superman 1-100 and wanted to raise some money (space wasn't an issue) would you sell the unrestored VG #1 or the VG to VF 2-100 with equivalent value for the same $$$$? Seeing a strong collection has always struck me as much more impressive, but the flipe sid is that there's little WOW factor for tht uninitiated. Show your uncle, the baseball card collector, a Superman 1 and he probably congratulates you, show him 2-100 and he might shrug. In the end what do we individually appreciate more. I would prefer the single key to the larger run. It was one of the reasons I sold off 90% of my Spidermans, I got sick of owning issues from the lat 60's to 70's which had god-awful art and stories. That it got better in the 80's was great but all those books are so easy to find I could never get excited about collecting them.

I can't compete with the headlights but allow me to submit the Warner Bros four colors.

I've shown this before. WDCS 1-33

This was a surprise find in a large lot of Dells. Issue 6 from 1946 vs the outer cover

A Mighty Mouse 2 from 1946.

This just in and I had to share. I believe it may be the first color comic strip of Donald Duck. Its dated 2 17 from 1935 and as the start of a months long story I think it is his first appearance. I'm reading that Donald first appeared on Feb 10th in the dailies but I don't know if that was a black and white or a color. Obviously I'm hoping its the first color but since the 10th of Feb 1935 is a Sunday I don't know what they (Wikpedia) mean when they say "daily". There is a definite difference between daily and Sunday strips. Anyway its a nice item, I've got a few others from this era as well. If anyone has any info or input I'd appreciate it.

Except for the fact that the Brownies later appear in the Four Color line. Your point though is one of the reasons why Platinum "comic books" have never really taken off in price - as ultra rare as they are.

I hope this great thread doesn't fall into a debate over oringal vs new colorists. I do want to say that a fence should be brown and not yellow. And most "Ducks" don't wear red pants. I still can't help being a crumudgeony old man and think that the originals are better even if they really aren't. (check out the fading blue background in the reprints) Sooooo... where can I find the Barks originals for this book?

And playing the newspaper game of comparing pictures - there are plenty of differences. One of the biggest reasons I can't stand reprints and love originals. 1. Brown pants are red and red package is brown. 2. Sidewalk squares in original have blue edging giving them depth. 3. Background Gyro and bicyclist are brown and not colored. 4. Pie smear on Donalds face is purple in original - as it sould be. 5. Yellow hat on Gladstone and darker yellow shirt on Gyro, yellow Duey hat in panel 4, fence is yellow not brown in panel 1. 6. I just like that the original pages are not Elmers glue white and have some wood grain to them. Its a comic - not a business memo. Ed

Even though it was already shown, I wanted an excuse to break out my WDCS 140 and scan the key page. Plus I want to see if the coloring or inks are any different with the original compared to the reprint. One of my favorite comics of all time and easy on the wallet for us Barks/Ducks fans.

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True, and a minor character at that, though he did get his own book. The value of the book comes from the early Barks Scrooge cover IMO. The classic Gladstone 1st app is icing. The trademark of a good comic history are the quality supporting characters. Thats another part of Barks genius is his creation of Scrooge, Gyro, Gladstone, Beagle Boys, Cruella, and few other minors. In addition to his great stories he made great characters. I think thats the way with good movies too.

140 is definitely a first appearance. He has an invention (pogo stick?) as well. He may not be the center of the story but everything about his character is there. I have a loose copy as well and will try and post the pages. Next to FC 386, this is a great great cover of Uncle Scrooge and the boys, probably my favorite of the 1950's.

Jayman, have you posted your Porky's. I haven't seen them and would love to...

Add another Bugs comic to the collection. FC88 from 1945 aka Bugs Bunny #3. BIN was $225 and the start was $200. Since the Church Copy in 9.0 went for over $1000, I was happy to pull the trigger early.

I remember that auction too and wondered what the appeal was. An interesting find but with almost no collectible appeal even without the bundled find. As I remember they weren't perfect copies either as the binding was incredibly tight and the corners didn't look untouched either. Not to say there weren't 50 or so VF to VF+ but even still. At least Thing 16 has a sweet cover and FF 48 is a key book for there being tons out there.

I just got another Bugs comic for cheap. Reliven the Duck thread too. I can't say that I'm a fan of the non-gloss comics which is one of the biggest problems with "Christmas on Bear Mountain" among others. The flimsy March of Comics with the dull paper covers keep them from being highly collectible. Plus the promotional status as not being "real" comics. Anyway I couldn't pass this up and bid about twice the $30 it cost me. Its the second Bugs MOC so not a bad one to buy. I've noticed the non-disney cartoons are picking up a bit from the last Heritage auction.

As always, very impressive with the mags. Question: Do you find that the magazines are more common than the first 30 issues of WDCS? In any grade or in high grade? Neither really show up on ebay and never in high grade. As an aside I bought the Porky Pig 48 CGC 8.0 and am looking for a reader. This came up on ebay and was a bit high for the beater that it is, but I'm getting tired of waiting since I've never read this issue. Sigh. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...W%3AIT&rd=1

I trimmed the top edge off of a Spidey 14 since I didn't like the overhang. I bought it for $54 back in 86 as a "NM" and 10% discount off the $60 price. It was probably a VF+ unrestored and I sold it for nearly $600 fully disclosed about 3 years ago. Not a sob story but sad none the less. A few years ago I bought a collection of Avengers and X-men and didn't look through then very closely but made a lowball offer which the seller accepted. It turned out that there were about ten 12 cent Avengers that graded 9.2 or better and about 20 Bronze X-men grading 9.4 or better. There were also hardback books from the 70's and by Frazetta and other artists of his ilk. The capper was an FF 48 in VF with signatures from Stan Lee and Jack Kirby on the interior. I added Sinnott later. Ed

Perfect low grade. If you don't pop it out of the CGC case you don't have any hair on your sack.

A wonderfully boring 10 cent Wonder Woman.

Thanks to the buyer who bought the WDCS 47 off of comiclink.

You always hear about "Great gloss on cover" but this book had it - now its hidden forever

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