Arkadin

New addition:

Long ago, I saw this beautiful blazing red S&K cover in one of the Price Guide color galleries, and finally grabbed one yesterday. Think it's one of the highest graded too.

These are all tabloid size and I store them with the Superman Sunday tabloids.

Love those Spirit tabs! Those are all from the Philadelphia Bulletin Fun Book. I just have one example of the entire Fun Book.

 

Superman Sunday pages from Joe's hometown during WWII. It was probably Wayne Boring doing most of the art at that time wasn't it.

That's cool.

Dunno if this has been posted before, but here's a Canadian Heritage commercial about good ol' Toronto boy, Joe Shuster.

Well, it's up to the seller to remove his books from the Exchange if they're no longer available for sale. So if you sell it somewhere else, you simply delete it from your For Sale listings in ComicTrack.

Pretty simple - but I guess some people don't do it, leaving dead listings.

It's very real. The video is Confidential File, a 25-minute TV show that first aired on October 9, 1955, about the "evils" of comic books and their effect on juvenile delinquency.

Got this Spirit section recently.

Clifford by Jules Feiffer was the regular back page strip from mid-1949 to the end of 1950 (thank you, Grand Comics Database).

The one on this section is particularly fun for comic book fans!

Dear

As a collector of tabloid-sized Spirit sections, here's my question.

Were the "Spirit in Outer Space" sections by Wally Wood ever printed in tab size? Have you ever heard of / seen one?

Thanks!

I'm reading The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson.

The 1956 Gold Medal paperback, first print. This cover must have been quite the grabber sitting there on your local 50's drugstore rack!

To this day I get a kick whenever I spot a comic book featured in an old movie or TV show.

Saw "The Good Humor Man" (1950) the other day. It features Jack Carson, a club of Captain Marvel-obsessed kids, and some "ahead of it's time" product placement from Fawcett!

Here's what the well-dressed Big Red Cheese fan was wearing back in the day.

Naturally there's a Captain Marvel comic book too in several scenes - but is this an actual issue, or a prop?

People of the Black Circle was one of my favorite Conan stories when I was a kid - quite eerie. "Eery" too.

A couple of Johnny Comet Sundays.

These strips are really hard to find - in fact, it's easier to buy Johnny Comet original art than the dang clipped strips.

So if anyone has some nice Comet tear sheets, either sell 'em to me or at least post 'em!

A few Spirit tabloids I picked up recently. Dreaming of having a complete run of tabs one day - should only take a few decades!

Added some Flash Gordon to my Sunday strip collection. These are both from 1934, the first year of the strip.

Iconic stuff - in glorious full page size with Jungle Jim toppers.

Dancing green slave girls three decades before Star Trek.

It's Sunday, so time to post some Sunday comics. Today, a hodgepodge of esoteric strips.

First up, Bruce Gentry, Ray Bailey's nifty aviation strip. This 1948 half-page has it all, from planes to dames - and a generous Sunday helping of cheesecake.

Next, a couple of oddball "cave-kid" strips.

Peter Piltdown, by Mal Eaton (1938)

And a pair of Rocky the Stone-age Kid strips from 1943. Frank Engli, who drew this pretty darn charming strip, also worked on Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates - just like Ray Bailey,mentioned above.

Took two prisoners in the latest C'link auction.

Star Spangled War Stories #115. Boston pedigree dino issue.

Our Fighting Forces #93. Frogmen on the cover, white pages inside.

So Marty, did you send away for any of this stuff?

As a Silver Age brat, I sent away for the Revolutionary War soldier set, and the Vick Lawston magic catalog. I wanted the kid-sized submarine, but no luck on that one!

Time for a

Here are a couple Dennis tabs from 1952, the great first year. Henry really has a short fuse in these!

I am still a fan of Marcoux and his Supersnipe strip but it is nice to see other things that he drew.

 

Thanks for posting that strip.

 

I'd read in one of Ron Goulart's books about Marcoux's work on Toddy but I'd never actually seen one before now.

Better late than never - here's another Toddy from 1938. Pretty obscure strip, and the only one I have.

Before he did Red Ryder, Fred Harman drew another cowboy strip, Bronc Peeler.

These are really beautiful Sunday pages that include large Western action scenes that remind me of Remington.

Here are a couple from 1935.

Killer cover! However methinks the location of that last train car on the right is very oddly placed....

Fred...? Fred Wertham, is that you?

New in my Silver (OK, borderline Bronze) Age collection this week:

Those are very cool, Ark - were the strips ever collected in reprint format?

Steve, there were some reprints from Blackthorne, in black and white.

Here's a couple more outstanding examples of Kubert's artwork on the strip - in glorious color.

Not super high grade, and not worth much - but you gotta admit, that's a nice cover.

A few more Dennis Sunday's from 1952, the first year of the strip.