BitterOldMan

Did you get one of those Superman Hot Wheels exclusives?

AJD, good eyes! Cover artist is Carl Buettner. When Carl Barks drew the ducks' eyes, there was always a tiny triangle piece taken out.

Mysterious Time Machine 418 6th Ave & W 9th Street. The owner, Roger, is super duper. The shop is close to many subway stops, 6th Ave stop or W 4th Street stop or Christopher Street/Sheridan Square stop.

Four Color 328 Old California - Donald and his nephews take peyote and go on a "trip" to Old California.

Christmas Parade #1 Letter to Santa Donald forgets to mail his nephews' letter to Santa asking for a steam shovel. As usual, Donald is broke and decides to ask his rich Uncle Scrooge for money to purchase a steam shovel for his nephews. Vacation Parade #1 Vacation Time is one of Bark's longest stories (33 pages). In this great adventure, Donald is resilient, tough, and brave, not his usual mistake prone self.

You are referring to US 15 the Second Richest Duck with Flintheart Glomgold. 143ksk’s story comes from WDC&S 138. Duckburg politicians ask Scrooge for money to build a statue of Duckburg founder, Cornelius Coot. Scrooge chases the beggars away. The Maharajah is visiting Duckburg and provides funds to build the statue. When Scrooge reads in the newspaper that claims the Maharajah is the world’s richest man, Scrooge is offended. Scrooge and the Maharajah build successively larger statues of Cornelius Coot. Of course, you know who wins. The ending is a hoot. Barks was a story telling genius.

See the Incredibles 2 with your daughter, you will love it. I actually live in San Francisco. Have not had a good falafel, since the King of Falafel closed. Try the Impossible Burger. Its vegetarian, but tastes like meat.

The original March of Comics 4 Maharajah Donald can be challenging to find and expensive, but has been reprinted several times, including given away on Free Comic Book Day in 2003. The story revolves around Donald's nephews’ great trading skills starting with a pencil stub, which leads to chaos. Don't forget the great Christmas stories in the Firestone giveaways from the forties.

Robot Man, Great write up as usual. Also great comments from fellow boardies. How many dealers showed up? How long did it take for a leisurely stroll through the dealer room? I am thinking of flying down just for the day and flying out soon afterwards.

I have read every Barks story. Any Uncle Scrooge story written and drawn by Barks is great. My favorites are FC 189 Old Castle's Secret, FC 199 Sheriff of Bullet Valley, FC 223 Lost in the Andes (Square Egg story), and FC 408 Golden Helmet. I also love Uncle Scrooge 59 North of the Yukon from the silver age. US 59 shows that underneath Scrooge's gruff and avaricious nature, he is sentimental and a decent guy. I was fortunate to win the US 59 owned by Carl Barks. Unfortunately, all the OA from US 59 was way out of my price range. Even though I bought many comic books prior to slabbing, I purchased an extra nice CGC copy of these Barks stories for my collection. Raw reading copies of Barks stories are not too expensive. I bought most of my Barks books in the seventies and the prices have not increased except the super high grade books.

The Foosball guy is Phil Schlaefer of Champion Comics in Sunnyvale, CA. If you can beat him in Foosball, you get a discount. Nobody has ever beaten him at SDCC. He used to bring a pinball machine and Foosball table to SDCC.

I also thought that the artist did not draw comics, but upon checking carefully, he did. The Heinlein novel, Sixth Column, is a great yellow peril sci fi book. The Gnome Press books are highly collectible I have most of the Conan books..

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I have not read the ToMb Tales comic books in over twenty years and my memory is not great. I have to figure out where these comics are stored at my other house. I bought these from Gary Arlington's shop in the late nineties. I love the Tomb Tales #5 cover by Al Williamson. I am partial to sci fi. The first cover drawn by Al Williamson was rejected. Here is the story about the cover. https://www.tombtales.com/al-williamson Here is the published cover. Here is the rejected cover used for Overstreet Price Guide #30.

I believe that Jeff Cain, who was the purchaser of the EC Comics from Gary Arlington, is the publisher of ToMB Tales and Grave Yarns, a homage to EC Comics. Many of the original EC artists did covers for ToMB Tales. https://www.tombtales.com/

Yes, as was the box art for the Incredible Hulk.

Angelo, I will be there plus two (Jeff and Cindy).

Robot Man, you are correct. I remember at the last Wonder Con in SF, Gary was looking for a TOT 1. He had several strokes by then and was in a wheel chair. He was a real colorful guy. I always considered him to be the ageless hippie.

I knew Gary really well. I was one of his regular customers since 1971. I was greatly saddened by his passing.

There were eleven issues of G.I.Jane. Issues 1-10 were published by Stanhall and 11 was published by Merit and has the Comic Code Authority stamp.

Rick, Did you watch the Florida Auburn college baseball game last night. What an exciting game with a steal of home and a game ending home run off the Auburn outfielder's glove. Game ended pretty late, so you may have missed it.

Did purchase my NYCC tickets today. Only sat in the queue for a few minutes. Did initially get screen of death code HTTP 404.