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Everything posted by OtherEric
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Is it just me, or does it look like the Shadow is flipping readers the bird on that cover?
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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.
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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.
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WTB - Scribbly Panel Page by Sheldon Mayer
OtherEric replied to alxjhnsn's topic in Original Comic Art Marketplace
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Comics, Pulps, and Paperbacks: Why such a discrepancy in values?
OtherEric replied to Reno McCoy's topic in Pulp Magazines
@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. -
What is Your “Obtainable” Grail Book?
OtherEric replied to Wayne-Tec's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
Some pick ups, you just need to double post. I would say this easily qualifies. Gratz on the grail page! -
How to tell if this is actually signed by Rob Liefeld?
OtherEric replied to Ladic's topic in Modern Age Comic Books
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.) -
Tracking says delivered, ebay buyer open a claim for item not received
OtherEric replied to marmat's topic in Comics General
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..."
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Comics, Pulps, and Paperbacks: Why such a discrepancy in values?
OtherEric replied to Reno McCoy's topic in Pulp Magazines
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...
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The Alan Moore Appreciation Thread
OtherEric replied to Jasonmorris1000000's topic in Copper Age Comic Books
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. -
Is Bud Plant on these boards?
OtherEric replied to William-James88's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
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. -
I would have. Note to self: I need to track down a copy of Eerie #81. Such a great Frazetta cover...
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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:
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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.
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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:
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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.
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If you count global editions, not just US, the Disney Ducks would blow everything else away
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Are you specifically asking GA appearances, or all time? The answer could be very different depending.
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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.
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Some of us like to just leave extra copies of stuff like that for others to find once we have our copies. The cutoff on that would vary depending on how in demand the book is, of course.
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In today. I’ve never understood how this wound up as a Marvel book... to the point I almost wonder if it was a production error. Anybody know the story?
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I think it did keep the prices lower for a very long time. But with our current Golden Age of reprints, more people are turning to the EC’s as the a-list books again. For now it’s heavier on high grade & classic covers, but even that may be shifting somewhat.