OtherEric

The issues are, from the perspective of an adult comic collector, demented and hilarious. I love them.

In today. Space: 1999 seems significantly easier to track down than the other Charlton magazines:

And a few more, even if a couple are clearly placeholder copies. A little more variety:

I can't remember what I paid for my Marvel Super Action #1, but it was probably around $20. The Marvel Preview #2 was 40 cents around 1991 or so, even then it was clearly "The store screwed up" even if it wasn't high grade. I've since had it signed by both Conway and Chaykin; I'm happy with it.

I'm only half joking when I say the first Dominic Fortune is Scorpion #1 from Atlas/ Seaboard.

Outlaw of Torn is the only one in the lot that isn’t the first printing using the cover.

I’m afraid today’s batch is rather repetitive- one author, one artist. I appreciate your indulgence:

Wouldn't it really be simpler at this point to create a thread for Star Wars comics that aren't heating up?

Why do you consider the hype around #1 weird? It's a Spider-Man first issue that predates Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man. If you meant hype around #11, then yeah, that's kinda nuts...

I've said something like this before: I find your research into the pence variants utterly fascinating. I just almost never have anything constructive to add to the discussion. Thank you again for doing these posts!

In today, completing the two issue run. It’s fun to say I have several complete pre trend runs, even if they’re just Picture Stories:

In today, Brundage interior illo in addition to the cover.

Got this one a few months ago. In my experience, this one is stupid hard compared to the other Frazetta Shining Knight issue. Only two on the census, plus another two of the Canadian version... and I don't know if the Canadian version has the Frazetta story. Now I just need #150 for all the Frazetta Shining Knight stories, at least. Throwing in a scan of the Frazetta splash page for fun, as well:

paging @Get Marwood & I

And that's the issue at the heart of this; we have on sale dates but we're not 100% sure how reliable they are 60 years later. Although the difference in the day of the week on release dates isn't that surprising; I've seen release dates in house ads that are on different days of the week. There wasn't really a single release date until comic shops became a thing. I would love to see copies with date stamps; I have both of the issues but neither of them have a date stamp.

A few of my issues, I've got the whole run but not all of them are scanned. Such bonkers fun, one of my favorite books:

I think this is the first comic I ever read, when I was very, very young. I vividly remember being creeped out by the concept of the Lizard at that age.

I started a thread in the Silver forums, asking for opinions on what should be considered the first Pepe, or if it should be a tie. The more I think about it, the more I think the October cover date vs the December is, if not a definitive argument given what else we know, at least worthy of consideration given how the on sale dates from the LOC may not be 100% reliable as to when they actually hit the shelves- even if I do think a 16 day difference is probably well beyond the few days variance that would actually occur.

There has been some disagreement on what qualifies as Pepé Le Pew's first appearance in comics, with most of us on the Looney Tunes thread saying it's Daffy Duck #27 but other sources saying it's Looney Tunes #240. The situation is genuinely complicated enough that I wanted to get some other opinions on the subject, hopefully from people with a bit less of bias, and see what people think, if it's one or the other or we should just call it a tie. Daffy Duck #27: Indicia date October-December 1961, date on cover is simply December. Grand Comics Database has an on-sale date of 1961-08-01, taken from 1961 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress. Looney Tunes #240: Indicia Date October 1961, date on cover is simply October. Grand Comics Database has an on-sale date of 1961-08-17, taken from 1961 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress. So, the situation is: They tie, more or less, on indica date, Looney Tunes #240 wins on the printed date actually on the cover, Daffy Duck #27 wins on the LoC on sale dates. What do people think is best considered the first appearance, or is it a tie? Does anybody own a copy with a date stamp?

That’s 100%, unequivocally wrong. The cover date is the date the book should go off sale, and is generally the date the next book goes on sale. Then you have the legendary on sale date creep of comics, which accounts for the extra month. December as a cover date for a quarterly corresponds EXACTLY to October for a monthly. The rant is directed 100% at kecolletor, not you, @williamblood. Thank you for relaying the message.