OtherEric

Gotta love Jimminy and the Magic Book. Just wish I could find some more issues- including that one!

Picked up at Jet City Comic show in Tacoma today. I want to say it's the only Buck Rogers cover on Famous Funnies (not counting some group shots or cameos) other than the 209-217 run...

Here's a pulp I've had for a few years now. The painted cover makes it a particularly eye-watering effect, to my mind:

Probably with Thanksgiving hot on the heels of this holiday and kids still in school,it doesn't seem like the timing would be as good as the Christmas and summer vacation Giants. I don't recall the Disney gang doing Halloween specials although Huey Dewey and Louie did Back to School Giants (small consolation when that when came out!) it seems like the Western gang had a pretty consistent strategy in the fifties. I wonder why Bugs got Halloween? Maybe because the Looney Tunes were more 'wascally' than the Disney gang Dell thought Halloween was a better fit? Or maybe Disney opposed? Really not sure. Instead of a 5th Halloween issue, they did the County Fair giant instead; which they got on sale a bit earlier than the Halloween issues. I'm guessing they wanted to at least try a Halloween Giant, and they had more obvious candidates for Disney giants, so they went with Bugs, who had somewhat less obvious excuses for giants. Sigh. I wonder which box has my handful of Disney Giants right now...

Sadly, I'm off on the other side of the country. I did see some nice pulps at Jet City Comic Show in Tacoma, WA last year; and that's where I'll be this Saturday. Good luck at the show!

And there's Daffy (on the back cover!!). He got no love on the group books back then. Nice of you to post the back covers along with the fronts Daffy was bizarrely underused in the Looney Tunes books other than his own title, for some reason. And happy to post both sides. Now if I can just track down the 3 Bugs giants where I've got the **** ad version instead of the good one...

And #4 [ It's not like any of the Bugs Bunny Dell Giants are particularly hard to find, but I would say the Halloween issues are a bit scarcer than the others. I wonder if they had a shorter shelf life before being pushed out by the Christmas Giants?

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I said I would post these a few days ago, then never got around to it. Still, I figure I'm in time for the holiday: #1

I've really never understood why there's such demand for The Skylark of Space, Lensman is really a much better series. ( ) Seriously, great pickup. Gratz!

This thread needs a bump... Fresh from Lone Star today:

Well, since I've got them in my Bucket already, and haven't scanned the Halloween issues yet, here's a few Bugs Vacation Giants:

And, one of the odder Bugs Bunny books:

I thought I had scanned the Halloween Bugs Giants before, but apparently just the Christmas and Summer Giants. I'll get to the Halloween ones in a day or so if nobody beats me to them. But for tonight, a couple one-shot giants:

I should dig up the one Silly Symphony giant I have, I want to say I paid $5 for it a decade or so ago. At a flea market.

I wouldn't know, other than the comic issues of MAD I tend to just pick up the paperbacks or magazines at random when I spot them cheap. I would agree that the Mad paperbacks tend to be a bit scarcer than I would expect given how common they were back in the 70's and early 80's. A field almost totally outside my range of expertise, I'm afraid. Other than a copy of the Feb. 1961 issue of Bluebook for Men, which I grabbed for the John D. MacDonald story, I don't have any that even remotely qualify. Even that issue is a borderline case.

I also suspect the survival ratio of paperbacks is 10-100x the survival rate of comics, because as you say adults bought them. (Although I'm sure kids also bought pulps and paperbacks, they were not the primary market for them.) So, even if they were viewed as more disposable than, say, hardbacks, they were much less likely to be abused or casually dumped. If I wanted a copy of Ace Double D-15 in a hurry, I could get one today for under $500; and it's a strong candidate for the most desirable Paperback out there. Pulps, I think, are soft in the marketplace right now because a lot of collections are turning up as the collectors pass away. I've seen more pulps the past decade than I ever did the 20 years previously. Pulps also seem to have survived the paper drives far better than comics; just based on what I see show up it seems people started seriously collecting them in the late 30's- early 40's, and issues from that time forward are fairly easy to locate for the most part. (As always, there are notable exceptions.)

The first issue of Pogo's own title comes next. (I would rank the Albert & Pogo Four Color higher, but this is the wrong thread for it:) The amazing, all-Kelly Fairy Tale Parade is next to the top of the list: But the top spot has to go to Pogo Possum's first appearance anywhere: Are there any other Kelly first issues for Dell (not counting Four Colors or just covers) I'm missing on the list? Adventures of Peter Wheat wouldn't count, since it was produced for Western but not actually for Dell. And anybody want to argue the order?

Mmmmmm. Love me some Walt Kelly too though! OK, we've clearly decided we're all going to go ahead and post Kelly books here despite having the other thread. I'm good with that, as I'm a crazy huge Kelly fan. So, what order would the other Kelly fans prioritize the first issues Kelly did for Dell? (Skipping the Four Color issues for this thread, of course.) I'm also not even counting the Pogo Parade Giant, since that's all reprints. Raggedy Ann and Andy is easily the low book on the list, for me. Still nice. And it gets trickier fast. Our Gang would be next. I know, I really need to upgrade even by my standards, but I got a lot of 1-5 for $40, and it will do until the right copy of OG 1 shows.

21 hours, 15 minutes. Slightly longer than I expected, but still good time. I think Popular 1 is the first Dell Comic- or at least the first inarguable one. Very impressive to see!

And now, a challenge for this thread: How long until somebody can post an older Dell comic? There's at least a dozen issues that could do it!

And here I go, posting Kelly's only cover for the title here despite suggesting his work belongs more in his own thread. Go ahead, call me inconsistent, see if I care!

I love the mix of the line-drawn Ann and Andy against the more realistic cat here.

As promised, a few Raggedy Ann + Andy covers: This has always seemed like a REALLY odd choice for a first issue cover, hiding the main character's face. 16 pages of Walt Kelly in this one.