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I think you may have lucked out on this one; even if you didn't get the book the way the seller has been acting would make me feel I dodged a bullet. Although I do hope it gets into the hands of somebody who will share it. The thought of hyper-rare books being hoarded rather than preserved and shared absolutely terrifies me. So even if I think you might be better off having not gotten it, I'm not sure the rest of us are. Here's hoping it pops up somewhere soon.
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Post your Pogos / Walt Kelly Books!
OtherEric replied to 50YrsCollctngCmcs's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
And a recent pickup, pity about the light pencil scribble: I think this one is quite a bit harder to find than the nn Our Gang issue; it's nice to have a copy. -
Post your Pogos / Walt Kelly Books!
OtherEric replied to 50YrsCollctngCmcs's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
That's an awfully nice looking 6.0 from what I can see! I know others will disagree, but I think Animal Comics 1 is very underrated. It's one of the few books I've held where I can just feel the weight of history in my hand. -
Action Comics in the Golden Age
OtherEric replied to Brandon Shepherd's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
My one and only precode issue of Action: There are far worse covers to have as the lone example in the collection! -
Show Us Your Atlas Books - Have A Cigar
OtherEric replied to Silver Surfer's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
Terry, who was back to back with Harley if I recall correctly. -
Show Us Your Atlas Books - Have A Cigar
OtherEric replied to Silver Surfer's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
All the Bill Everett issues of Venus are just stunning, but the 17 may be the high point in terms of the interiors. The cover is pretty impressive too, but it's not quite as amazing as the 18 or 19. Even if I want the originals (and have over half of them now) the 2nd Venus Masterworks can not show up soon enough for me. Just crazy good Bill Everett artwork. -
Show me your Timely's and I'll show you mine. Have a Cigar...
OtherEric replied to Timely's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
Not exactly a beautiful copy with the corner damage, but at least now I can finally say I have an issue of Marvel Mystery; and since this is the issue with Venus I'm doubly happy with it: Torch, Subby, Cap, Venus, and Blonde Phantom. That's one hell of a line-up for a single book. -
Show Us Your Atlas Books - Have A Cigar
OtherEric replied to Silver Surfer's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
A couple books I got at ECCC last weekend: Not a great copy, but even if it's not quite as hard to get as the 18 or 19 it's still pretty tricky, and other than the cover it's in pretty good shape, unlike my 18. The problem is I still need to find a 19 (and 11 others, but the 19 will probably be the hardest...) Wasn't sure if this one fits more in Atlas or Timely, it's somewhat on the edge: -
Post your Pogos / Walt Kelly Books!
OtherEric replied to 50YrsCollctngCmcs's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
And here's a couple more Kelly books I picked up recently (the 244 actually just showed up today): One oddity on the 244: It has Kelly's name, very faintly, right under the logo, as well at at the bottom. It was clearly not quite perfectly removed from its more prominent spot. -
Post your Pogos / Walt Kelly Books!
OtherEric replied to 50YrsCollctngCmcs's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
OK, so this is clearly a placeholder. But since I got it (and issues 2-5) for just over $50 after shipping, I'm quite happy with it for the moment: The later issues are better, and $10 an issue? Perfectly happy at that price, even in that condition. -
Post your Golden Age Adventure/New Adventure/New Comics
OtherEric replied to RareHighGrade's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
One of the handful I have from the double digit era: Always thought this one was a fun cover design. -
Comics, Pulps, and Paperbacks: Why such a discrepancy in values?
OtherEric replied to Reno McCoy's topic in Pulp Magazines
I'm actually trying to put together a complete run of John D. MacDonald's science-fiction stories. He did a total of 53, a handful of which are under the pseudonyms of John Wade Farrell and Peter Reed; all but one of those are because he did more than one story in the issue so there's only about 45 issues to actually get. (Plus, in theory, the first editions of 2 of his 3 SF novels; one appeared in a pulp originally, one was later reprinted in a pulp, and the 3rd was from the 60's and never had a magazine appearance that I know of.) 4 to go, not counting first edition non-magazine versions of the novels. His SF work has a distinctive voice; the best way I can describe it is hard-boiled. It brings a sensibility I normally associate with detective stories to Science Fiction; much more character driven than the normal Hard Science or Science Fantasy stuff you see. It doesn't really feel like what happened in the 80's when people tried it and called it Cyberpunk, though. Fun stuff. -
L.B. Cole cover thread! Post your favorites by the master!
OtherEric replied to *paull*'s topic in Golden Age Comic Books
This one came in a few days ago: And, since I posted it over in the Gerber 7 thread rather than here, I might as well show it off again since it's related to the one above: Both low grade, but neither are what I would call easy to find... -
Let's head inside.... I have two copies of this book (one in a Fox Giant) and scans of a third, all 3 had horrible registration. The version at the DCM is based in part on my scans and took a very long time for somebody to fix the registration on.
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I'll pound you to a "Pulp" if you don't show off yours!
OtherEric replied to mr.schomburg's topic in Pulp Magazines
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I'll pound you to a "Pulp" if you don't show off yours!
OtherEric replied to mr.schomburg's topic in Pulp Magazines
Beautiful! I would love to fill in the rest of that particular run; other than the first two all I've got is the last one rebound: -
I can agree with that phrasing. Kelly wrote almost everything he drew, the only exception that comes to mind off the top of my head is the Pinocchio adaptation. I'm sure there are others, though. It's worth noting that Western/ Dell clearly viewed Kelly as one of their star creators. Kelly got a byline on a lot of comics, including on the cover of most of his Mother Goose issues.
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I'll pound you to a "Pulp" if you don't show off yours!
OtherEric replied to mr.schomburg's topic in Pulp Magazines
And here's some St. John to keep us on track: Perhaps not the best $20 (for the pair) I've ever spent; but definitely somewhere up there on the list... -
I would take great issue with that; even if it's true that Barks is better (and I dislike absolutist statements like that in general) there's nothing simple about it. I think much of the issue is Kelly's best work was either not in comic books or rather scarcer. Pogo never hit its peak in the comic books; the earlier stuff mostly in Animal Comics is clearly him working though a rough draft of sorts that let him explode fully onto the wider stage of the Comic strip. Whereas the later Pogo Possum comic books running concurrently with the newspaper strip was always clearly secondary to the strip. Our Gang, while wonderful in its own way, didn't let Kelly bring in the fantastic elements that were in many ways his greatest strength. His Mother Goose stuff for the most part wasn't actually comics as we normally think of them. Which leaves what I consider Kelly's two greatest comic book works- Fairy Tale Parade and Peter Wheat. Fairy Tale Parade was relatively early, and only ran 14 issues with Kelly stories; it's absolutely beautiful and well written. Peter Wheat is absolutely extraordinary; I cannot praise it enough and issue 26 in particular is one of the best comic books I've ever seen. But it always had low distribution through bakeries and is mind-bogglingly rare. With all that said, I will give you this: when comparing their best known works in comic books (deliberately excluding the Pogo strips), Barks writing was on average better. Although I would say both of them were so far ahead of the average writers of 40's comics as to be nearly in another category altogether.
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I'm really not sure why Kelly is not as popular as Barks; I would say he is easily as respected but there aren't as many people trying to track down the books. Now that I made the "mistake" of sharing the Peter Wheat issues I've been able to get copies of, the price of the issues I'm missing have gotten pretty crazy on occasion...
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Post your Pogos / Walt Kelly Books!
OtherEric replied to 50YrsCollctngCmcs's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
For the small part of it (one essay) that was mine, you are quite welcome. For the rest, I'll relay both of your thanks to Thom. Glad you enjoyed it! -
Post your Pogos / Walt Kelly Books!
OtherEric replied to 50YrsCollctngCmcs's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
And here's a Walt Kelly book I didn't win. But not for lack of trying; the final price surprised me and I was expecting it to be high: http://www.ebay.com/itm/141041167558 By the way, today (the 25th) would have been Kelly's centennial! Here's a tribute a friend put together for the occasion: http://whirledofkelly.blogspot.com/2013/08/birthday-greetings-to-mr-kelly.html -
Just got this in the mail today; and I figure more Sheldon Mayer around here is always a good thing:
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Post your Pogos / Walt Kelly Books!
OtherEric replied to 50YrsCollctngCmcs's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
If you only have one, that's an excellent choice, MM! -
I'll pound you to a "Pulp" if you don't show off yours!
OtherEric replied to mr.schomburg's topic in Pulp Magazines
Now, of course, I just need to polish off the rest of the Operator #5 series. 33 down, 15 to go...