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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...

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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