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This one isn't quite a grail; at least not in the way the June 1936 issue was. Do we have a term for "as high on the want list as it's possible to get without actually being a grail book?" In any case, it's one I'm extraordinarily happy to finally get. Now I just need to track down the March and April issues; but I think this is the hardest of the four Lovecraft Astoundings to get:

Let's see if it will let me upload the 2nd issue now: Oh, good! I'll get this figured eventually. A couple of fun looking books, by the way, Robot Man!

And this thread needs some bumping. I've posted these covers before, but I don't think I've ever actually posted them in the Pulp thread specifically. Picked them both up (the full run) at ECCC a year or two ago; can't wait for this year's show: And... it's only letting me post one, says the file is too big. I'll get the other issue soon.

Got this one recently that had been rescued from a bound volume at some point; might as well use this to test posting an image. Not high grade, but I'm happy to have it:

You can argue that this is both Flash and Buck... at least, it's the actor for both: And thrown in just for fun:

+1 I have a few of the Our Gangs and really like them. I might well end up with a few more of them some time. I tend to rate Our Gang as the least of Kelly's major Comic Book projects, behind Pogo, his Fairy Tale work, and Peter Wheat. The lack of 'fantastic' elements kept him from producing his greatest work. With that said, it's still one of Kelly's major works; and it's a masterpiece. Still need to fill in quite a few issues; 6 in particular is driving me nuts...

I believe that is a very scarce book. I was the one who told Overstreet about it many years ago. The price that was listed, was reported by me. I assume a lot more copies have turned up since then. What's the back story on this book? It appears to be a book sent out to sell newspapers on a fairly new comic strip. It has 10 weeks of daily Pogo strips from 1950 and a 2 page bio of Walt Kelly, plus the cover and a couple pages selling the strip. I'll see if I can scan the non-comic pages this weekend; the comic strips themselves are easy to find. My copy has a printing error in the middle, the centerfold is horribly off-centered (the center pages only, the reverse is fine. So there's essentially one blank page and then one page of strips a page off from where it should be.

Love me some Animal Comics, and those copies look great! One of these days I need to get a group shot of my complete run to show around here... Posted this in the Promo comic thread a few days ago, didn't get any comments. Maybe somebody here has something to say: Not one you see that often, I was quite happy to find a cheap copy.

Just got a (low grade) copy of this one at a local used book store a few hours ago for the extravagant price of $4. Looking forward to reading it, I'm not sure I've actually read this one before.

That fits, with the Fantastic Universe issues being a year later than that, I would say they qualify more as the first throwback to the format rather than a continuation on their own terms. Thanks for the info!

A question for our pulp gurus here: When did the last pulps appear? Yes, they evolved into various other forms, some of which survive to this day. But when did the classic roughly- comic- sized, cheap newsprint format finally go away? The last one I know that looks like the old school pulps is the last few issues of Fantastic Universe, which went until 1960. But even there, I'm not sure the brief non-digest run at the end wasn't actually a throwback to an otherwise-disappeared format; I don't think I have any others later than the mid-50's. (I'm also mostly familiar with the Science Fiction pulps, if the format lasted in other genres I would be fairly clueless.) Anybody know?

I can think of about 4 threads I could post this one in, but here seems as good as any: Not one you see very often...

Just got this one in the mail today... I don't trust Gerber's ratings too much on the 3-D books... a quick glance at the bay shows there's no way Three Stooges 2 or Jet Pup are 7's... but this one is the last of the three 8's I needed, and none of them are exactly common even if scarcity rating is off.

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll poke around inducks; those two stories written by Barks would definitely be on my want list. In the interest of keeping my project limited, none of the Donald Duck stories would count on their own... I'm not sure I'm being clear on what I mean by Scrooge is the feature, as distinct from Scrooge being featured. The FC 178 would definitely not count by that criteria; but since I already happen to have a copy it gets included. :-) One of the very earliest "big" comics I ever owned, and in my mind horribly underrated.

I mean a scan of the Robot_Man copy is the scan on GCD. I don't think I've ever uploaded any scans or info on there, but I probably should. I have copies of books that don't have any info on the stories. Somebody must have stolen my scan but that is what happens when you post on a public forum. Would have been nice if the poster had asked first... You should try scanning complete comics from your collection and uploading them to DCM for free. Quite a few of the users then download it, smack them all together on a CD and sell them as a "collection' on ebay; or even better print them out and sell them as photocopy comic books. And my motivation would be what??? To make copies available to the hundreds of people who DON'T try and resell the material, and instead scan their rare material you don't have and make it available to you and everybody else for free. Seeing people sell my scans is annoying; but that annoyance is nothing compared to the satisfaction I get from knowing people are enjoying the free versions; and from getting to see thousands of books shared by others that I could never afford.

A quick question for the Duck experts here: One of my projects for the year is going to be working on my collection of the Barks Uncle Scrooge issues. I'm not trying to get all the Barks Scrooge appearances, just the Scrooge feature, if that makes sense. With that said, does anybody know off the top of their head where Barks worked on the Uncle Scrooge feature outside of Uncle Scrooge 1-71? I have Uncle Scrooge Goes to Disneyland and Disneyland Birthday Party, but are there any others I should be on the look out for?

Sure, blow my Frontline Combat post away with that... Beauty really doesn't seem like the right word, does it? Let's go with Amazing book.

Snagged at my LCS today... Low grade, but low cost. I only need 4, 8, 9, and 10 to complete the run now, the series is just crazy cheap for classic EC material.

Got this one in the mail this week: Has an early, un-reprinted John D. MacDonald SF story.

http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php Go looking around there, there's a LOT of romance comics posted. Even if you do want to track down the physical books- goodness knows I do if I can- it's a good place to start looking at stuff and see what titles or runs look worth working on.

Not a high grade copy, but I think it's $13.99 very well spent none the less:

What a beauty of a book!

My copy is definitely in need of an upgrade, which is why I still look for it and saw that auction. At least I've got a copy to read, right?

Just out of curiosity, did anybody here get this one? I know the book is hard to find, but it went for a LOT more than I would have expected in the low grade it was in: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1952-DELL-FOUR-COLOR-402-MARY-JANE-AND-SNIFFLES-COMIC-Fair-/361834098153

Something about this thread Bugs me...