OtherEric

A Pyramid with a nice Jones cover and a couple of Avons, one of them a classic:

The Hopley... excuse me, the Irish... excuse me again, the WOOLRICH... is the only one today not from @GACollectibles. It has a fair bit of spine roll but I think it presents pretty nicely none the less.

So, LOTS of books in today, mostly from @GACollectibles. We'll start with the Dells. I've wanted a copy of the Dell First Men In the Moon for a while, for some reason I find a map of the Moon as the Mapback delightful.

Today's addition to the collection:

Purely coincidentally, I got a copy of another Harvard Lampoon parody in today:

I've got the Canadian version; it seems to have either lost the laminate completely or never had it. I can't tell which.

That is indeed the page in question. Inducks shows it as showing up in Brazil and Italy earlier, but that looks like the first publication in English. Awesome!

I didn't know we had a club for that one. A great choice, though!

An extraordinarily generous man. He shared out massive numbers of his books to be scanned and shared at the Digital Comic Museum/ Comic Book Plus. The collections at those sites wouldn't be a fraction as impressive as they are without his generosity. He will be greatly missed.

My scanner's not quite big enough for the 2000 AD issues. I don't really have a lot of issues, here are my two earliest.

OK, I guess there were a few books I was missing for all the Uncle Scrooge as the title of the feature by Barks that I was missing. The WDC&S 262 has an odd vertical half page Scrooge story and the DD 81 and WDC&S 297 both have 1-page stories. The Uncle Scrooge Adventures #19 has a 1-page story that was apparently intended for Uncle Scrooge #19 but deleted at the last minute for an ad. It appeared overseas when it was created, and was reprinted in books, but this is the first US comic appearance of the story. The Uncle Scrooge Adventures has the five missing pages of "Back to the Klondike" restored, I think this is the first time they appeared in an actual comic in the US but I haven't quite been able to verify that.

In today:

Today's mail call:

It really is amazing just how successful Bored of the Rings was- and is- for a parody. It's been more or less continually in print, as far as I know.

I really don’t think either of us could have responded on that one any quicker! But I’m running errands now so won’t be able to jump on the next few so quickly.

Some very good reading in that one. It's not even mentioned on the cover, but it has "Usher II" by Ray Bradbury from The Martian Chronicles as well as the cover stories. And if it's the one I'm thinking of, "Journey for Seven" is interesting, it reads like a superhero origin story plot but that's not even remotely the story MacDonald is trying to tell.

The price was such that I wanted to do a little checking on it first. But happy to have saved you from temptation in this case!