OtherEric

Two Fisted Tales #19. This gives me the complete run of Two Fisted Tales, and in fact completes my run of the Kurtzman edited EC's. The only EC war book I still need is Shock #1 if you count it, and I consider that a borderline case. I'm afraid my EC intake is going to go down, since my paycheck is going down for COVID-related reasons. I'm certainly not hurting, but my fun budget is tightening. I wanted to make sure I finished this particular run before the pay cut fully took effect. Since this is a complete run, I'll do my traditional posting of my run. I may upgrade a few issues; better but still cheap copies are definitely an option on my reduced budget and most of my real beater copies were in the $5-$10 range.

I actually considered those two issues when I said that. At least on the Panic #6 and Mad #13, I get the joke they were trying for. The Panic #6, in particular, would work better if Mad #23 hadn't done the roughly the joke, only vastly better and more subtly. Panic 6-8 are all just horribly dull covers.

Is it just me, or does it look like the Shadow is flipping readers the bird on that cover?

VERY nice... even if I think that's a candidate for the worst cover EC ever did. The joke, to the extent I can even figure it out, falls utterly flat.

Thank you. Ironically, I'm fairly sure I've got the issue somewhere... the cover looks incredibly familiar. I'll go check, I think I know where the box with my ducks from that era is. It doesn't look like it's too hard to get a copy, at least.

I wish you the very best of luck. This is the only Mayer art I have, and am elated to have it:

@Surfing Alien : I promised you first crack at this if I found another copy in the wild, which I did today. You can have my old copy (the one with the color loss at the top of the cover) for the $16 I spent on the new copy today and I'll even cover shipping if it's in the US.

Some pick ups, you just need to double post. I would say this easily qualifies. Gratz on the grail page!

Should we turn this into the "Uncertified Signed New Mutants #87" club? I'm pretty sure I know which box my copy is. I got it at a joint signing by Liefeld & McFarlane around the time of the Spider-Man/X-Force crossover they did. Not sure what book I had McFarlane sign, possibly Infinity Inc. 30. (I had already had that issue signed by Roy Thomas.)

Agreed, that the USPS shouldn't be involved with this one. With that said, over the last decade I have had at least 5 packages which were shown delivered by USPS but did not arrive until one or two days later. I'm pretty sure the post office got rid of the one driver who did that on the regular when they were running behind, but I normally give the package an extra day or two to show before I hit the panic button... tracking is far less reliable, in my experience, than it should be.

Nice one! I've got to track down a few more Pre-Trend books; I need a few examples from that era that aren't "Picture Stories from..."

I absolutely love the the book, but my oldest Martian Chronicles PB might be from the 70's, I never did track down an early copy of the book. The Magazines that first published stories that BECAME the Martian Chronicles? I've tracked down most (not all) of those at this point. The Collier's has the first publication of "There Will Come Soft Rains", which is my favorite story from the Martian Chronicles... and the EC adaptation by Wally Wood is my favorite EC story.

As I believe somebody said the last time this cover turned up, it feels very timely for 2020...

I think Moore has said something along the lines of he feels the material is amateurish and he wouldn't feel right charging people to read it these days. But in the past he allowed it to be posted online for free. I've lost the link and have no idea if it's still authorized, but if you look I'm pretty sure it's still out there.

No idea if he's on the boards, I have quite a few books bought from him in person at Emerald City Comic Con and a couple more I got from MCS on consignment. Great guy to talk to, as well.

One of only two Dell Looney Tunes where Bugs isn't part of the main cover gag:

I would have. Note to self: I need to track down a copy of Eerie #81. Such a great Frazetta cover...

If we're breaking out the noted collection books, my Shock #6 is a Gary Arlington book. But we've already seen both the Shock #6 and the Arlington certificate further up the page, so no need to repeat here. (That, and I'm pushing my quota for showing off the Shock #6 for a while, I think...) So here's the other one I have: The Don & Maggie Thompson copy of Panic #6, with the certificate. Like the Shock #6, I got this one from @EC ed:

Fair enough. The comic book Mad is not an easy book for contemporary readers in a lot of ways. It's absolutely stuffed with topical references, just to start. And the content can be a weird mix; Kurtzman was being wildly experimental with the book. Which frequently creates some amazingly funny content, and sometimes falls flatter than the proverbial pancake. And you can't always get two fans to agree with which is which. I find "Cowboy" in issue #20 to be side-splittingly hilarious but most other people aren't as impressed. Never mind the fact that, due to the tight production schedule, there's a surprisingly large amount of filler throughout the run. With all that said, I still recommend that if you do pick up more issues, you read them at least once... I strongly suspect there's at least a few gems in the run you'll enjoy immensely. If nothing else, the art is, as always with EC's, amazing. Just for a point of comparison, how do you feel about Panic? It's edited by Feldstein, not Kurtzman, and the humor is a lot closer to what the later issues of Mad are like once Kurtzman left.

In today. Not terribly major, but as far as I know "Go Slowly, Sands of Time" is the last new Uncle Scrooge story Barks worked on, and this is its first US publication. (If I'm wrong I would love to be corrected.) I know the original version appeared as a text piece, and this is just an adaptation of that. Even with all the qualifiers, still fun:

You may be right. It comes down to do you count global reprints, or just first publication anywhere. I’m finding it fascinating how we’re trying to define what on the surface was a simple seeming question.

If you count global editions, not just US, the Disney Ducks would blow everything else away

Are you specifically asking GA appearances, or all time? The answer could be very different depending.

For me, the weird thing on the Buck Rogers is it's the only one of those cross-publisher treasuries where Western actually produced the content. In every other case it was Whitman (Or Parkes Run, or Modern) releasing a book the other publisher had created. Like I said, my guess (and it's a very weak guess) is a production error, similar to the Marvel Dennis the Menace digests with the DC logo in the UPC. That or Western made a one-time deal with Marvel to use the logo to distinguish between returnable and non-returnable books. Happy to have it in any case. I've still got a long way to go with the actual Marvel Treasury Edition series (I've got less than half), and I don't have any of the Hanna-Barbera ones, but of the other assorted Marvel treasuries I'm down to just Annie on my need list.