OtherEric

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.

I think Better is normally considered the same as Standard, and Minoan is associated with Toby. Similar to Timely/ Marvel/ Atlas. Then again, sometimes sorting out what is what borders on the impossible. Trying to sort out Four Star and Superior can be messy, and they're not even based in the same country for the most part!

I love those grey-tone Raggedy Ann & Andy covers. I should dig through mine, see if I've got a couple more for this thread.

with today Sept 24 being international Rabbit Day, it is with great restraint I will keep from posting LTMM as othereric has pointed out, it has its own thread now. So this gem will have to do. Robot Man posted a nice Comedy Comics 18 with Super Rabbit in another thread today so all in all nice 'other' Wabbits! Well, in honor of International Rabbit Day, I just reposted my Comedy Comics 22 over in the Timely thread. I actually got it at the exact same time as the Animal #4. I think there were about 70-80 books in the lot, and as far as I know my LCS owner was planning on sending the rest to be graded; I just snagged those two before he sent them off.

I've posted this before, but it's been pointed out to me in another thread that today is International Rabbit Day, so what the heck, I'll show it again:

Found at a local bookstore today. The 2nd all-Comic Bugs Bunny BLB I have, not sure exactly where the comics are from but I strongly suspect from BB four-colors.

I'll refrain from including books that could fit into other threads beyond Four Color, we already have decent Looney Tunes, Duck, and Walt Kelly Threads that cover those topics fairly well. So, here's one of the 3 Animal Comics without Kelly art- and one of the nicest GA books I own:

The #19 is the gold standard, but these two are pretty high demand as well:

I should have known you would have other pulps with the Atlas globe, Pat! I do find the various fringe uses of the Atlas globe fascinating...

Those Amazings are just beautiful! My most recent find, and the only pulp (well, digest) I've ever seen with an Atlas globe:

Cross-posting this one from over in pulps, since it's the only pulp (well, digest) I've ever seen with an Atlas globe on it:

What exactly is this? It's in Gerber but not most other lists of 3-D comics I've seen.

I did specify it was the May issue that didn't have anything high on my list. I was looking forward to at least a couple items in the July one... including "The Little Black Bag", which I haven't read before.

Perhaps nobody else wants to share theirs, but I've got a few more to show: A very early Richie Rich appearance. For the life of me, I can't remember where or when I got these. They're uncreased, so they were never actually in a comic. An odd one, with Ziggy Pig & Silly Seal in a non-Marvel comic. No idea how or even if the publisher wound up with the rights. Archie's lone entry into the 3-D game.

A couple of digest finds in the mail today: The last Heinlein issue of Astounding I still needed. Now if I can just track down an April 1941 issue of UNKNOWN, I'll have all of Heinlein's work for Campbell. Rarely have I been so happy to get a book I don't care about. There's nothing in this issue I particularly want to read; I just want it as part of my goal of "put together the entire Campbell-edited run of Astounding/ Analog". But, since this is the book that introduced the world to Dianetics, it's one of the trickier digest issues to track down an affordable copy of.

Let's see what I've got handy in the bucket already...

Just realized I actually have a second book that could qualify as a Baker Romance: I think every version other than the 1st is missing 6 pages of Baker art... so glad I have the 1st, even lower grade like this!

I'm still not 100% sure I should count it as a Target, but the Flaming Western Romances issue is crazy hard to find. I have the other 11 Target issues, but that one still eludes me. If I could convince myself it doesn't count it would help... but I can't. The Western Romance issues are definitely not nearly as common as the actual Target issues, though.

Which originally appeared in the pulps as "Sea Kings of Mars": I don't believe "The Sword of Rhiannon" and "The Sorcerer of Rhiannon" are actually related beyond the title. I suppose I should read them and verify that, though...

And one more pickup. Moving from bedsheets to digests:

Lower grade, but all much loved: Air Force... my branch! I did promise back when that I would show this after I unslabbed it. Rest in peace, Mr. Davis. And thank you for decades of wonderful art.

A couple pickups today. Bedsheet Astoundings are always fun to get: C.L. Moore, L. Ron Hubbard, Leigh Brackett, Theodore Sturgeon, and Doc Smith. Not a bad line-up of writers. Also has a fascinating little essay by John W. Campbell, written on 8 December 1941, already discussing some writers who are not going to be writing any more for the duration. An even better line-up, with van Vogt, Heinlein, del Rey, and Asimov.

Gratz on finally finishing the run. For a lot of us, we have to go for the low grade just to own a copy at all:

And, jumping ahead a bit, let's peek at the ending. Gold Key didn't continue the Looney Tunes title when they took over from Dell, and the series went away until the mid-70's. But that version did make it into the early 80's, and DC's version picked up mid-90's, so there have been Looney Tunes comic books every decade since the 40's. Even if I don't bother much with the Gold Key or DC versions, this fact makes me happy. The last issue of the Dell run, July-September 1962: And then in October, Gold Key takes over the show:

As ordered, keeping em' coming! Let's head back to the beach once or twice: