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Arkadin

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  1. I know we all love Kubert round these parts. I've picked up some of his Tales of the Green Berets newspaper strips - as always, great artwork from the master.

     

    Tales of the Green Berets 1966:

     

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  2. Like BB-Gun, I like the postwar tabloid size Spirit sections. Here are a few from the early 50's:

     

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    The 1951 "Rife" magazine parody has some beautiful pinups of classic Eisner femme fatales:

     

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    The tabloid Spirits are BIG. Here's a shot of one with a regular Dell comic book for comparison.

     

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  3. Without a doubt...it was the cover that made me pick this

    one up off the newsstand.

     

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    For me, this evokes reading "All in Color for a Dime" as a kid - the Boy Commandos 24 was included in the glossy color cover gallery in the middle of the book.Those were the first Golden Age covers I'd ever seen! :cloud9:

     

    By the way, congratulations on your latest grades Marty.

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    :o There's Nazi's the cover? Didn't even notice that.. j/k I thought it was kinda funny myself how they could have Nazi bondage branding on one side and then a cute little child starlet on the other...

     

    Yikes, that's no child starlet - that's Fanny Brice as Baby Snooks.

    Dang, she's scarier than The Skull. I hope Doc Savage kicks her butt inside that issue! :sumo:

  5. Hejji is another rare strip. Appearing for only 3 months in 1935, it was Dr. Seuss' only comic strip.

     

    I picked up a near-complete run of the strip on Heritage last year (missing only the first and last strip). The previous owner had put them in "slabs" made out of thick plastic sheets with foam core backings - and Heritage left them that way. In addition to the Hejji's, the auction lot also included a complete 1935 Puck comic section and a Babe Ruth ad, also in home-made "slabs."

     

    When I took these "slabs" apart (to put them in mylars), I discovered that the Puck section contained another Hejji inside in great condition.

     

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    The Babe Ruth ad didn't interest me much. But when I removed it from it's "slab" and turned it over... on the other side was the first Hejji strip!

     

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    Why it had been "slabbed" with the Hejji on the inside is certainly a mystery hm - but now I just need the last strip.

     

  6. Beautiful NM- copy you got there - with a great Enemy Ace story inside, should you decide to do a crack'n'read. (:

     

    You have to admit, the cover makes you want to know what happens next to poor Enemy Pooch!

     

    Schatziiiiiii....!!

  7. Very nice Captain Easy, BB! That title seems to have inspired many of the next generation of comic creators.

     

    Another influential strip - a precursor to Peanuts - was Percy Crosby's Skippy.

     

    Skippy was probably the first comic to become a hit movie, way back in 1931. The Skippy film starred Jackie Cooper (much later to play Perry White in Superman) and won the Oscar for Best Director.

     

    Here's a full page 1930's Skippy from my collection.

     

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  8. When it comes to beautiful full page Sunday comics, Frank King's great Gasoline Alley can't be beat in my book.

     

    Famously, Uncle Walt and Skeezix aged during the strip's decades-long run - but for us comic fans, they'll live forever.

     

    Here's a 1931 Sunday with an incredible King layout.

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  9. I visited The Brandywine Museum many years ago and had a great time. It's a beautiful area around there.

     

    I've got a bunch of William Steig books in my collection. I especially enjoy his cartoons about childhood.

     

    Here are a few from his "Dreams of Glory" series which was reprinted in The Steig Album.

     

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    Since seeing this post, I've become a rabid Steig collector. His cartoons are great - and I also like his advertising work from the 40's and 50's.

     

    Here are a couple of Kellogg's newspaper ads from 1947, featuring his famous "Small Fry" - maybe the closest Steig ever got to doing a real comic strip!

     

     

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    Ho-LEE Crunk!

     

    I've had plenty of sections over the years but never a TAB. I really REALLY want one now.... What areas were they distributed through, want papers?

     

    The only ones I've seen are from the:Philadelphia Bulletin, Philadelphia Record and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Lucky Philly readers back in the day!

  11. Spirit tabs.

     

    Not Spirit sections, mind you - though they're wonderful.

     

    Spirit tabs are - pure and simple - the most beautiful, luxuriously huge comic books ever. Post war Spirit's are the best art and stories anyway - but at 11 x 15 inches they are comic nirvana and sweet sensory overload that you can practically feel yourself diving headfirst into.

     

    Of course, you can't see that just looking at the scans below - to really appreciate how gorgeous a Spirit tab is, you have to hold one in your hands. You have to lay on the floor (preferably on a Sunday morning) with one spread out in front of you and drink in every oversize panel of the Spirit's latest comedy / fairy tale / comic noir adventure.

     

    My latest Spirit tabs, both from 1951. yahoo.gif

     

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  12. Larry Ivie's Monsters and Heroes was the kind of monster mag kids in the 60's would have made themselves if they'd had the means. Lots of neato monster pictures, fun photos from comic conventions of the day, and of course, a rad comic strip, "Altron Boy."

     

    Picked up six issues this week, all in nice shape.

     

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  13. Just in, a nice copy of Spunky #1, from 1949.

     

    This is a terrific book bursting with artwork by the great funny animal artist Jack Bradbury. And if that weren't enough, there are some Frazetta text illo's too.

     

    If anyone's interested, there's a cool Jack Bradbury website with lots of comics, original art and letters that provide some fascinating insight into the production background of this very Spunky book in 1948, and the comic industry in general.

     

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  14. Picked this one up recently.

     

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    This cover seems years ahead of its time - I suppose it's the way the artist suggests real weightlessness with Junior's pose. If a kid could fly, that's just how he'd look "braking" in mid-air, ready to throw a punch. It "reads" as completely natural, yet completely fantastic. Can't think of anything remotely like this in other comics of the time.

     

    What an amazing imagination Raboy must have had to bring a kid's dreams to life so vividly!

  15. Not sure if this has been posted before, but I love this pic.

     

    I wonder if the kid in the awesome costume was reading the book when it was fresh out of print or some time later. Considering Cap America #2 came out only a month after Cap America's first appearance, the kid discovered and liked the character pretty fast and had a very fast sewing mom :applause:

     

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    I seem to remember seeing this photo in an article about comic conventions in an old monster magazine (Monsters and Heroes? Castle of Frankenstein?). So it might be from the late 1960's, and the kid's in costume for the convention.