OtherEric

Right, I've posted most if not all of these over in the pulp thread in GA before. But I figure I might as well give new people stumbling into the new pulp forums something to look at:

It's a treasury, the picture shows C-56 to C-61. I'll try to dig out the book tomorrow and get a picture for you, I think it's a wraparound cover.

They just wanted to cross-promote the next issue in the numbering! Sorry for the cruddy photograph, but I can't easily get to my box of DC Tabloids right now. It at least makes my point:

You can find a lot of public domain books here: https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/ With that said, it is frustrating when people complain that they can't read their slabbed copy and it hasn't been scanned yet despite being public domain. If you care that much, scan and share it before you slab it!

I love that book, although my copy is the regular version, not the Whitman. So much better than in has any right to be. Still utterly ridiculous, but they manage to actually make it a fair fight with a reasonable result, which is a miracle in its own right. Always loved the one gag on the inside front cover. It looks like Clark Kent is on the front cover, between Ali's legs...but according to the list on the IFC, it's Christopher Reeve, but drawn as the comic book version of Clark.

Missed this earlier, but it's an excuse for me to post this again:

Need to bump the thread back to page 1. Another $10 LCS pickup; sadly there's only 3 Argosies left in that box I've been working through, and one I already have. We'll see if any are left next week. This issue has part 5 of Burroughs' "The War Chief"

Several years ago Yoc and I created a digital collection of the stories Maneely did for Charlton after the Atlas Implosion at the Digital Comic Museum . It's far from his best work, but it's still interesting and it's free if you want to go look at it, all the material is public domain. I think the fact I thought it was worth collecting shows how much I do appreciate Maneely's work. https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=15913

I can verify from personal memory that Star Wars 13-15 came in a single bag, I presume (but don't know for sure) from Whitman. Both me, and my dad when he was looking for them for me, were careful to find the bags with three Star Wars comics in them for me, and I know they all came in order. We never found a 1-3 pack, but I definitely got them in 4-6, 7-9, 10-12, 13-15, and 16-18 bags. Then my subscription started with 21 and we never did find 19-20. I know now that 19-20 didn't come in bags but my family looked for them nearly a year; they even agreed that they would buy a pack with 19-21 despite me already having the 21. My family wasn't poor but we were frugal on things like that; getting them to agree to that ahead of time felt like a big concession on that point. Then a few years later, they ordered some back issues from one of those Mile High ads for my birthday, bringing me almost up to date. That's where I finally got the 1-3, but Mile High was out of the 19-20 and I didn't find them until around 1985 or 1986 when I first saw a comic book store. Ironically, I finally found the 19-20 at Golden Age Collectibles in the Pike Place Market in Seattle, which, had I or my parents known it, was actually already there in the 70's. We actually lived in the same county and got up that way at least once a year. Sorry for the digression; clearly your example wasn't random to me!

Yeah, I'll need to get the 5-7-12 before very long. But 1 is surprisingly affordable and I've got the 2, 3, 6, and 13 so I figure I'm ahead of the curve.

Gratz on completing the run! Shock is the one title I'm pretty sure I'll be able to complete but am not super close on yet. The 15 definitely has some heat on it these days from the listings I've seen.

I suspect it will be a long time, if ever, before we see Breakdowns reprinted. Gerald Jones is pretty much persona non grata these days, with good reason.

Yeah, that's definitely a Gold Key Whitman in the back of that pack...

I'm 99% sure it's the first book with the EC logo, at least. I think Pictures Stories from the Bible #2 came out earlier, and it was from Educational Comics in the indicia but had the All American logo on the cover. I've also seen a couple sources claim that this issue (and maybe the second) were actually published by DC using the EC logo. So it's definitely a candidate for first EC, and I think it's probably the best choice. But the switch from DC-AA-EC was not as clear cut as we might want.

Somewhere in a box, I have Rip Off Comix #8 from 1981, which is the first American comic which reprints some Three Eyed McGurk pages. I find it amusing that Moore's first US publication was as artist, not writer. I'll try to dig it out and scan it later.

The story in the Batman annual is probably the best of the three, they're not bad but not spectacular. The Superman story in the Super Heroes annual has a clever premise, as well. They're worth tracking down if you're a Moore completest but you're not missing anything vital if you don't see them. Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow was very much a piece for a very odd and specific moment in comic history; there's no other point Moore could or would have given that to them.

That is just amazing. I consider myself lucky just to have all the Superboy/Legion and LSH issues outside the bags, much less in them! Has anybody seen ANY of the June 1980 issues in a bag? Given their weird and limited distribution, I wonder if they got out some other way. No idea what that would be, though...

Meant to respond to this earlier, but forgot until just now... You are, of course, correct. I know Don Rosa feels the distinction is very important as well, he is very clear his work has been for Egmont, not Disney. And it obviously matters in that DC can't reprint the material; which I have no doubt they would have if they could. With all that said, I think you can still call it their first DC work, if not their first work for DC; in that it's the first (or very early) time they worked on DC characters. But I'll grant that distinction, no matter how fine it may seem, is important.

Well, since somebody else resurrected the thread, I might as well play. You want to talk Grail Books? The August 1928 issue still blows my mind that I've got a copy.

I see what you did there...

Would like to point out there are actually good book stores out there as well that will do something like that. I know one store where I was a regular customer years ago. Mostly regular books, but some comics. At least twice, I found something on the shelf that should have been priced much higher that I wasn't interested in or already had. When I pointed it out to the owner and they verified it or recognized they had missed it, they figured out what the correct price should be, took their normal "pay 40% of our sell price", deducted the list price, and credited me the difference, as if I had bought the books and then sold them back to them immediately. I wish I lived where I could get to that store regularly still...

As usual, I have nothing to add to this discussion, but I find it fascinating and appreciate everybody who is contributing!

Not slabbed, but this is a John G. Fantucchio book. Loose centerfold, unfortunately; but it was cheap.

Spidey Super Stories is to this day my favorite Spider-Man title!