OtherEric

Thank you for the heads up on this, I picked one up at my local Walmart today at the $75 price point. I had been planning to save this for Black Friday to contribute to the free holiday set, but 25% off instant gratification was too good to pass up. Happiness is opening the box, discovering there's no sticker sheet (all printed bricks! Yay!) and putting together a classic Red Astronaut Minifig. I really need to dig my original LL928 out of storage soon.

Finally in today. If this is what the seller considers fair/ good I'll take all they've got, looks closer to a VG to me. On the pricing front, there's an 8.0 on the bay right now for $595 BIN... I wonder how long that will last. I would have found one that was just the Road Runner credits, but this is the version I grew up with.

Like I said, I pretty much stole the list right from Wikipedia as a starting point. Per your comments I've added Penelope and Duck Dodgers to the list again. I was already planning to mention the 1st Honey as a Lola prototype when I got to that stage.

Here's step #1: Steal the character list from Wikipedia, remove a couple names I don't consider worth bothering with, and add a couple that I feel do deserve mention. Removal examples: I don't think Penelope Pussycat or K9 warrant mention outside of Pepe or Marvin the Martian's orbit, for example... and I'm reasonably sure neither of them appear in comics until much later, if at all. Pretty sure Marvin doesn't show until the bronze age at the earliest, if not the DC run, but he deserves his spot on the list. Addition examples: Bosko and Ralph Phillips. Bosko didn't show up in comics until after he was no longer with Warner Brothers, but I think he might count as the first LT character in comics with the Funnies #30. I'm not sure if there was ever a Ralph Phillips comic appearance, but I like the character too much to not have them on the list. Anyway, here's my initial list of characters, I'm basically looking for feedback on anybody who should be added to or removed from the list. In general, I think we should err in favor of inclusiveness, although as seen above even then I'm not sure some names need to be on the list. If the character didn't make a GA or SA appearance that we can determine we can later remove them from the master list unless they're major, like Marvin the Martian. Once we have that we can start nailing down first appearances, first cover appearances, first solo books (both as part of the Four Color series and as separate titles), and first headlining appearances, instead of as a supporting character or guest in somebody else's story. Thank you all in advance. Barnyard Dawg Beaky Buzzard Bosko Buddy Bugs Bunny Blacque Jacque Shellacque Cecil Turtle Charlie Dog Colonel Shuffle Daffy Duck Duck Dodgers Elmer Fudd Foghorn Leghorn Claude Cat Mac and Tash Gossamer Granny Hector the Bulldog Henery Hawk Hubie and Bertie Hugo the Abominable Snowman Lola Bunny Marc Antony and Pussyfoot Marvin the Martian Melissa Duck Michigan J. Frog Nasty Canasta Playboy Penguin Penelope Pussycat Pepé Le Pew Pete Puma Petunia Pig Porky Pig Ralph Phillips Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog Road Runner Rocky and Mugsy Slowpoke Rodriguez Sniffles Speedy Gonzales Sylvester the Cat Spike the Bulldog and Chester the Terrier Tasmanian Devil Tweety Wile E. Coyote Witch Hazel Yosemite Sam And one final question for anybody who makes it this far: does Duck Dodgers deserve a separate spot on the list from Daffy in general? That's the only persona I can think of that would deserve a separate, distinct entry from the main character... and even then I don't think they showed until the DC era, although I could be wrong.

In this week:

Just for reference:

I love it... but you know that even without me saying it if you look at my avatar!

Found at a local store today:

Starting to work on a list of first appearances, step #1 will be "Figure out what Looney Tunes characters are important enough to list", then I'll start tracking their first comic appearances. I hope to have an initial list of characters in a day or so for people to critique. On to today's books. I actually already have a copy of 838, it was actually my first ever Four Color issue. But a) I can't find it, and b) it's the ad back cover variant. So was worth a few bucks to get another copy. And the 1046 will come in handy the next time somebody asks me what foxing is.

Two in today. Both firsts, although in the case of the Rip Off it's the only print:

Sorry for my delay in answering. Print variations like this can go for more if you can find the right buyer... and less if you find the wrong one. I'm not aware of any general rule, other than "don't assume a single high sale of an error variant means anything." You want to see at least two or three sales... not asking prices, actual sales... before you can assume there's a premium.

Two in today. If I can average two issues every paycheck, in theory I can keep ahead of the reading club. But I need to aim for earlier issues than these to make that work. I love Lone Star's grading, though... the only seller I can buy without pics and feel I have a good shot at still getting my money's worth:

I don't know much about them, actually. They're the ones from the Warren back issue adds they always ran. I'm not sure exactly what happened when Warren went out of business, but I know the stock did get out into the market. And from what I've heard on these forums (and I cannot recall exactly where), people hoping to find high grade copies were disappointed for the most part because Warren didn't take care of them terribly well. I've got a few Warrens that are like that... they look like they were stored badly but still have the "new book" feel to them. Can anybody else fill in details?

Eerie #7 thoughts Cover: I've said before that I can't call every Frazetta cover for the Warren magazines a flawless masterpiece, because that would get boring and repetitive and not single out the fact that some of them simply are better than others, even if the typical Frazetta is better than 99% of what anybody else ever did. I can still call a few of his covers flawless masterpieces, though. And this is one of them. Monster gallery: Morrow provides one of the better entries in the series. Witches Tide: A strong opener from Colan and Goodwin. It that Lurks: Adkins seems to be moving away from his Wood clone work, which is a good thing overall. It does leave this story a bit weaker than some others, but still a solid piece of work. Hitchhike Horror: Hector Castellon does his first of three stories for Warren. If the GCD is right on his birth date this was drawn while he was a teenager. He doesn't seem to have a huge body of work overall, mostly for Charlton. His work here is inexperienced but quite effective. The Defense Rests: Johnny Craig drops the "Jay Taycee" pseudonym and works under his own name. This is actually more a lavishly illustrated text story than a comic story, reminiscent of some of the EC Picto-Fiction magazines. Not something I would want too frequently but here it works wonderfully. Fly!: A change of pace for Ditko and Goodwin, short and quite powerful but very different from what I expect from them. The Quest: Norman Nodel turns up as "Donald Norman" again for a story that reminds me of some of the non-EC pre-code horror stories I've seen. Cry Fear, Cry Phantom: As usual, Grandenetti is an arist I'm not normally a fan of. Goodwin's -script leans into his strengths somewhat, but still a weak note to end an otherwise strong issue. My copy of the issue has some ink transfer off the cover and a few storage flaws, but also has a very strong new book feel. I think there's a good chance it's one of the Warren inventory copies, which were notorious for being low on technical grade.

Had this as a kid. Loved this as a kid. Not enough to track one down, though. The sticker on the back was not on the original.

This thread might get more attention in the magazine subforum, not the pulps...

I think it was the same book, they sold a 7.0 late last year for $660... and there's only one 7.0 on the census. I really don't get the BIN of 9.99 given that the listing says it's complete. I suppose I'll find out when it finally arrives, they took almost a week to send it. We really should put together a definitive list of the first appearances, I think we've discussed most of them. But they're scattered all over the thread.

Still need the #18, and even by my low standards my #5 needs an upgrade. I need to go ahead and grab the #18 soon, but so many other things going on... Congratulations on the set!

It's too bad they had Sal Buscema redo the face, but still a great cover.

I've seen a few where there are multiple copies ending at nearly the same time have bonkers results, depending on who got or missed the first copy.

I was never trying to seriously suggest the page quality was the cause of the price difference, I was just trying to make a joke based on the only difference I saw where the one book was better than the other.

White pages for the win?

I’ve read all his sf/fantasy stories and all the Travis McGee books. Like you, I read 2-3 more a year so I don’t run out too soon

I'm clearly in an even more silly than usual mood today, then...