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Running a small sales thread right now in GA/SA/BA. Some new Marvel duplicates, some relists, and occasional GA/SA/BA stray stuff… http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=9649320#Post9649320

From Heroic Comics #2: I wonder if the lettering is by Everett as well: it’s delightfully done!

Great books both! I’d love to read the Magno story – I must check the eBook at the DCM.

I understand, but I still can’t see it as a negative thing. If that user was not responding to PMs, by posting here he would have been sure that people knowing him would have tranquilized him about his good standing.

If you were actually concerned about his well being then why, of all places on the forum, would you post your concern in the Probation Thread? You want to put pressure on someone to complete a sale, or call them out on not being responsive, fine. But don't pretend your post is about checking on someone's well being. Just does not come across as sincere in any way. Just saying. Or it might just be that he posted here without much reflecting. Why do you have to presuppose insincerity?

What about the silver comics heating up on ebay thread? :shrug: Why in the world would you want to do that, as it would just make too much sense? After all, I hope you do remember this is the CGC boards here. Yea, everything was perfectly unorganized before you came along.

P.S. I have a spare copy of the anastatic reprint which I might offer in my "World War 2 Time Machine" sale I hope to do soon…

Let's hope the most important stories will be published in english at some point… This is the original I should get in December. I wasn’t willing to spend $1000 or more to have a nice copy, so very excited to purchase this from a friend ("Nel Regno di Topolino" #92 is from 1939, and one of the most sought after issues):

Yes, unfortunately all of the italian Snow White stories (and they are a lot!) as far as I know are still unpublished in USA. But IDW is doing an awesome job in publishing several italian classics (recently "Mickey Mouse and the Chirikawa necklace") right now: support them and who knows?

So basically the original story, the movie adaptation was in newspapers first: https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=ZS+3701 and then reprinted in Four Color #49, right? https://coa.inducks.org/issue.php?c=us/OS+++49#02 Here’s how it was adapted in two-colors when reprinted in "Nel Regno di Topolino" #66 in Italy (first italian edition was in journals, and in color like the USA one).

Thanks everyone… In fact the Sorcerer Basilisk is a quite disturbing character: one of the big Disney italian villains… used only once as (like the Witch) he dies in this story. Basically, at the beginning he kidnaps Snow White and the Prince's son (we are briefed at the beginning of the story that they have had a baby after their marriage) to make the child "his heir" by transfering to him his "powers to curse". See this panel: @BB-Gun: No reprint, as I explained. "Snow White and the sorcerer Basilisk" and "The Good Seven Dwarves against the Evil Seven Dwarves" are the two very first original stories created in Italy after the publication of the original story, adapted from the movie. Links to both stories from INDUCKS: https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+PG+++72-B https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+PG++101-B The original story from the movie, after its first edition on comics journals, in Italy was collected in this album, which is issue 66: The follow-up, "Snow White and the sorcerer Basilisk" first appered on the journal Paperino, and then was collected in the same title ("Nel Regno di Topolino") as issue 92: These pictures are anastatic reprints, as found pictures on the web for the originals are tiny or ugly, but they look the same (like your Alan Light reprints for GA material). These two Snow White new stories are also among the very first italian production: his creator and writer, Federico Pedrocchi, which died young because of an allied bombing during the war, was quite a genius and laid the basis for our own school of Disney authors.

INDUCKS entry: https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+PG+++72-B and how it originally appeared (in color) in the italian comics journal "Paperino" (which was devoted to Donald Duck):

Sure, I have Snow White in the italian edition, and also a few years ago I collected all the Snow White follow-up stories realized here, the earliest ones are great. Out of curiosity, most of these were released as syndicated strips first, right? Aside from the Three Caballeros, I guess. The second Snow White adventure, "Snow White and the Sorcerer Basilisk", originally serialized in color in 1939 and then collected in two-color in this wonderful album (this one is an anastatic reprint, it's very pricey and nice copies go for over $1000): Death of the evil sorcerer and end of the story:

That's a really nicely composed splash panel. These stories are incredibly cool and fun. Goofy constantly rationalizes what Hazel does because he refuses to believe in magic and in witches.

They are very different… Each one stands on its own merits, IMO. Keep the suggestions coming: more Mickey Mouse, more comic book significant stories in general, not just ducks…

Thanks guys, keep the suggestion coming! I’d love to get a #26 sooner or later… I would also like to show you more about the italian Hazel stories, as I believe are all unpublished in USA. Here’s some splash pages… I believe I already showed some of them. Unfortunately there is little on the web in terms of scans.

Right – often there are tales acknowledged as classics because of their quality but also their popularity, but there are less known stories which could be classics in their own merit. "Trick or treat", however, is a milestone as it’s the first apperance of Hazel, and our school of authors widely used Hazel in classic stories as opposed to Goofy (I talked about this previously).

@AJD: Thanks much! @Robot: Thanks, but I am trying to avoid the more expensive early WDC&S, and also I believe the first apperance happened in syndicated strips (as with Donald in "The wise little hen") so the WDC&S is de facto a reprint, albeit the first edition in comic book form. As an example: "The wise little hen" appeared first in newspapers, then in Italy it appeared in the very rare and scarce "Topolino supplemento" in 1935, and then in comic book format. I have this last one version of Donald's first apperance, which – in fact – is a second italian edition.

Now this makes sense. Yes Gabe, why posting it here, where you reflect upon your buying and selling?

You americans are SO narrow-minded. There is nothing like "duck books" on a worldwide view, just Disney comics, which in their most accomplished endeavours will always remain classics. You’re their country of origin, and you’re the only country whose kids barely know Walt Disney’s characters nowadays. Of course, it’s a vast cultural problem, the Disney management and choices brought you to this – but no one can deny IDW is doing a great job right now. Now Gabe buys a great book for himself and all you are able to do is posting silly comments? C'mon…

Thanks – I guess this was overlooked. "Christmas for Shacktown" and "Trick or Treat" are surely among the mandatory inclusions. "Only a poor old man" as well. And of course "Christmas on bear mountain" and "Back to the Klondike". Besides "The Terror of the Beagle Boys", do you have other stories to suggest that represented first appearances worth of note? First apperance from syndicated strips as well, indicating the date. And then Mickey Mouse and the other characters… Aside from Four Color #16 (which in the end is a reprint). Thanks much!

Price wise BIG difference. Sold for $47,600. I know Peter, it’s precisely that: I can’t justify such a difference in price for such minimal defects that for me are neglectable.

Pretty disturbing… From which year?

Love it, but for me it doesn’t make much difference between NM and MT.

Great to see Billy relying on raw books as well…