OtherEric

It may just be me, but I think Mickey Mouse #207 is possibly the most common of the "rare" late 1980 Whitmans.

I don't know. Here's my only LoC copy that I'm aware of:

These, I've posted on the forums before. I'm just not sure if I've posted them in this thread, and they're missing from my folder with my FC scans, so reposting them here.

Nothing actually new here, just trying to get all the issues I do have scanned. The trick is sometimes figuring out where I put them...

You really should. I sometimes do spot checks but have never done an organized look for everything

I'm thankful for everyone in this thread, it's been a friendly and delightful place ever since it started, with none of the disagreements I've seen so many other places on the internet, and even elsewhere in these forums. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving, everybody!

Nice! There are simply lots of sellers who simply don't know about the late 1980 Whitmans, beyond perhaps the US 179 and Black Hole 4... and a fair number don't even seem to know about those two. For whatever reason, Gold Key/ Whitman is still a blind spot for a lot of people. I don't have that many of them, actually, but about half of the ones I do have were from dollar bins.

Sixty years ago to the day:

October 1958. But that doesn't necessarily tell us anything about when it made its way to the UK in the first place.

The glorious season where those that call it grassy knoll time can all get along peacefully with those of us who celebrate Doctor Who eve instead. Here, have a look at something I just noticed on a book I've had for a while: a handwritten 2/6 price. If I recall I picked this up at a comic show several years ago, no idea how it got back to the US:

Wish I had known ahead of time you were the other bidder, I would have stood aside. I’m never willing to go that high on international delivery.

I got it from MCS, if that helps track it...

One small addition today. Always happy to get issues in the 1300's

Two books from MCS today. My thanks to @waaaghboss for calling my attention to the first one. The Planet is a filler for now, but for $10 I couldn't leave it.

Today's book. Thanks to @Surfing Alien for encouraging me to grab it despite a back cover stain, it presents beautifully:

Yes. Yes we did. Variant cover:

Maybe when I'm done with the Warren magazines and the Marvel Magazines... (Warrens, I'm down to single digits...)

I can recreate your first three images if I want to, but my continuous run ends at #106... Also, your copies are generally much better than mine!

So, my regular comic shop offered me the first shot at a stack of over 40 Dells, at roughly $5 a book if I grabbed them all. About half WDC&S and half Raggedy Ann and Andy. I was of course interested in all of those, for the Kelly, Barks, and Stanley stories. Oddly enough, what interested me least was the Raggedy Ann & Andy 4C's, but even then at $5 each they're definitely books I wanted to grab:

Now I’m morbidly curious about trying to find foreign editions of the “missing” Whitmans. I know the stories for Black Hole 5 and Buck Rogers 10 were printed in other countries, and I assume others were as well. Does anyone have a list handy of the unpublished issues we know about?

Back when I had around 150 issues I didn't think I wanted all of them either...

Creepy # 36 thoughts: Cover: I actually do like the Ken Smith covers in isolation, and this one is no exception. But they're getting repetitive, not so much the art itself as the color palette. Loathsome lore: This is actually pretty fascinating, and largely accurate. Neurotic Alcoholic is probably an exaggeration, and the plan was actually burial at sea proper, not in the Thames. I was happy to learn that his skeleton was finally removed from exhibition in the museum. I was less happy to learn that this only happened earlier this year, and even less so to learn the museum still has his skeleton. One Way to Break the Boredom: Decent art, decent story, decent twist, but one of those stories where you know you'll forget the whole thing five minutes after you finish it. High technical competence but no pizazz. Weird World: One of the hoariest SF cliches, but well executed, and a very solid framework for Tom Sutton to cut loose. I'll give them this one because it's the first time I recall Warren using the plot. Frankenstein is a Clown: Some great art by Garzon, and Bill Warren does a good job scripting on both the technical and conceptual levels, but this is another one which I know I'll forget almost instantly. On the Wings of a Bird: A very abstract story, with no explanation of the set-up, but it works. This goes on the short list of Grandenetti stories I actually like. Forbidden Journey: Good art by Bucker, an underwhelming story by Theakston, who has over a thousand credits at the GCD... but this is the only actual comic script I can find. (He's done lots of text features.) If a Body Meet a Body: A very well done story, both in script and art, that doesn't quite execute the twist right. Frozen Beauty: So, after a cameo on an Eerie fan page, we finally get the Warren debut of Richard Corben, and one of his earliest stories period. I barely know where to begin with my normal introduction to a new Warren creator, he is probably the single artist most associated with the Warren mags. The index is right, this is indeed a very good story. Overall, this was a solid but not spectacular issue, with the work by Sutton, Corben, and so help me, Grandenetti elevating the book to a bit over average. And it's hard not to be excited about Corben's introduction, it feels weird realizing it's taken him this long to join the party!

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