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The ones I like – movies have little to do with it…

Late 1930s moustached heroes, like Timely’s Angel…

I never saw Ink Spots before… art looks great. These american fanzines are very fascinating, it would be great if there was an index of them so one can know the specific content of issues. Just recently I purchased my first issues of FOOM.

Hoppy seems better drawn, that’s why I said possibly the Timely Bunny is an imitation? Anyway, in italian the Fawcett bunny Hoppy is called "Pippo", like Walt Disney’s Goofy, and like another important italian character. "Pippo" is the diminutive for "Giuseppe" (Joseph), and sounds just like a funny name in our language.

I think one influenced the other, probably Timely’s super-rabbit was copied from Fawcett's Hoppy? Anyway, the cool thing is that we had an edition of him and not of Captain Marvel or the GA Timelys…

Fall is probably less accomplished than the Mutant Massacre, but still has great stories. The Power Pack story is probably one of the finest Marvel stories I have ever read. You could always try the first issues, and if you like the story purchase the books for cheap. Omnibuses are weighty, expensive and maybe you are not interested in reading all the issues.

Here, just for you: italian Hoppy the Marvel Bunny (not mine), dateline 1947!

Just so you know, Jimmers: believe it or not, but while 99% of the Fawcett characters were never published in Italy, we have many late 1940s issues featuring Hoppy the Marvel bunny! These More Fun are just breathtaking, Bedrock! I would deslab them immediately…

Wonderful! I love this cover. One of the local comic con finds I assume? Yes, and by mere chance! To reply Jimmers (thanks!), I really can’t tell how many copies of these still exist. Probably some in collections (of this series in full), but since the first two are not part of this series, they are probably even more scarce. They should be four or five in all, here’s an article from the Metropolis site (some things are inaccurate, i.e. no "fascist" publications existed, except very few, the publishers were just subjected to degrees of "censorship" during the war years): http://www.metropoliscomics.com/load_feature.php?article_id=223&type=feature&action=view

Sales thread from now on must include: Where you bought the book How much you paid What line you used to get the book from the old lady How many times it was pressed how many times it was subbed to cgc Maybe "My Heritage" can create a tree of a comics travel. I am sure Ben was talking about a basic sense of honesty. Under ordinary circumstances I don’t care from where a book comes either, but here it was obvious that there was some important information witheld by the seller. Do not underestimate honesty even in the slightest things.

I just slightly upgraded my Defenders #1…

And an upgrade to my ST #104 – Paste Pot Pete…

I finally managed to pick a nice copy of Iron Man #12, an issue I always was attracted to, but never had it in my collection. These issues are great…

And a nice eBay find to start the Vampire Tales collection. About a FN+, but auction went nicely and I am definitely happy with it.

Indeed. The conclusive issue, not from Aaron but from Warren Oates – still a very nice NM- and was surprised by the crazy white pages! (I noticed Warren bought it from a reputable eBay dealer from which I also bought, which is 200% reliable on grading). I had to settle on the MP#7, also from Warren: thanks Warren for letting me have this well-presenting lowgrade copy at an acceptable price. Now that I have browsed it, I can tell the Satana story (which is an important one) looks fantastic, while the first apperance of Rocket Raccoon is a few panels at best. Nice early Keith Giffen art (I read that it’s his first professional work), but honestly who gives a dang about these movies…

Do you have read the Mutant Massacre and Fall of the Mutants? They are solid stories compared to Inferno.

I would say slightly after Inferno. This does not interest Uncanny X-Men alone, but as the New Mutants was getting to a close, and editor Bob Harras indirectly favored Louise Simonson demise, things were already compromised. I can’t say about Claremont, but Claremont between Inferno and X-Cutioner's song no longer resembles Claremont. The stories in the late Uncanny issues and early issues of X-Men (with Jim Lee) seem almost written by another person (Lee was contributing to the plots, this was stated in some interviews at the time).

I finally managed to get a nice copy of this one, which is one of my favorite books. It features the very first italian edition of Fantastic Four #5, and thus the first appearance in Italy of Dr. Doom (here called "Dottor Fato", while later it would have been "Dottor Destino"). From 1967. It is probably the best printed version of this story ever: all black and white and from the original plates, and translation was top notch because this was an adult comics magazine.

As I have explained in an occasion before, Superman was first published in Italy (almost surely unauthorized) in a 1939 album, which presented the origin story traced from the american newspaper strips. After that, the two authors for some reason decided to follow-up with originally created stories, where Ciclone (Superman) is still american, still a repoter working for a newspaper, but has an italian name (don’t ask me why) and three or four episodes were produced, appearing across different formats, titles (and publihers!). This material is very rare more than very costly and this story is particularly odd because it starts in the USA but features an italian pilot attempting an overseas flight to Italy, and the villain is an american banker which, for unknown reasons, wants the flight not to succeed. This italian Superman "doppelganger" – Ciclone – apparently does not fly, his powers are not quite explained and has no big problems in killing (or letting die) villains. If this story was published after 1942 I would imagine the pilot would have been a fascist aviator, and Superman helping him against the even-more-evil american schemers… BTW, it is very well drawn, in a remarkable "modern" and graphic style, reminescent of inter-war artistic movements like Art Nouveau or Deco.

At last – here’s one of the beautiful books I got from him… I will post other acquisitions in the next days.

Not exactly a foreign edition, as it is an original story, but I finally managed to find another one of the few Superman apocryphal stories produced in Italy before and during the War. These are very scarce and this one in particular has an absurd story!

OK, italian "Golden Age", but one of the few, very rare, Superman apocryphal stories produced here before/during the war. Found today, and I am all stoked! Another title from the same series, which intrigued me. Both are black and white and magazine sized.

And with a My Little Pony avatar, no less…

It appears I did not leave feedback so here it is now: I bought a low grade ASM #129 from Dan: a very nice person, and great communication, buy or sell to him with confidence! (thumbs u

Not for every SA book, it all depends on where and how they have been preserved. Grading can be a bit inconsistent but I can tell for sure when PQ is nice, be it W or OW, or even COW. The important thing is that they are not getting brittle.