David P Hartman

The one I worked on the longest was the Tarzan Dell/Gold Key/DC series. There are/were 2 Four Color issues before starting it's 258 plus 11 annuals run. Charlton managed 4 issues before having to cease and desist. All before Marvel gave it a go in 1977. I had bought them off the stands as a kid, during their Gold Key years, picking up the occasional older ones when they would turn up. And number 8 turned out to be the last one needed. The real challenge is the full page Tarzan Sunday strips! Those started Mar. 15th, 1931. I'm missing 4-17, 5-1, & 5-15 from 1932. A bunch from 1933! 3-11 & 4-15 from 1934. 3-10 from 1935. 3-22 from 1936. I need a lot of the end of the year strips in 1937. But have 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, complete! I pick up the Tip Top & Sparklers with Tarzan covers, when I see them. And there's still some early March of Comics to find. There are just over 20 Tarzan Big Little Books, not counting premiums. And my copy of Tarzan Escapes did! I'll replace that one, and eventually find the premiums! I do need the Large Feature Comic 5, and the Single Series 20 (Hal Foster) books still! And, with any luck those and All Story Oct. 1912 will show up some day.

I knew one from thePhilippines. She was a Manilla Folder.

And making good gooder is not a reference to overgrading! This time.

Good show(s) Terry! Sat. was interesting, as well! Thanks for the hospitality, and refreshments! I even managed to chat with your wife, about your Portland exploits with the Gulacys! And, if Will, the guy collecting Teen Titians stuff, from up in Ventura, that was possibly going to stop in Bellflower on his way home sees this... I also have the original art from Teen Titians #38, pg 12. (Tough getting all the back story in one little run on sentence...almost.) It may be time to take this to the next level, Terry! Cosplay girls in costume! (If that's redundant, don't read it twice.) Another observation.... Maybe CGC should add more personnel for their submissions? Or get a DMV type...."serving number....blah blah blah"....? Their line being literally 'out the door'! Good time! Good job! You make good gooder! And it did rain! All that money you made!

Giving you a heads up for logistics, on Saturday. Myself and a friend will stop in and see what's presenting itself. Seems to always rain on that 'Sunday', anyway!

Oh..... I didn't see the crack option!

So what do you call a bad tattoo artist? Why would anyone call a bad tattoo artist? OK, I regret that one. Can I start the penitence here, or is that a different thread? I'll check compunction junction function and get back to ya.....

Since no one offered up any info on the Vampi 1972 Annual cover artist, yet.... Alain Aslan was/is the pinup artist in all those early issues of Oui (lui), also in the early thru mid '70's! You'd only get the one page per issue, but was their version of Playboy's Vargas. At one point in 2012 Previews offered up a soft cover pin-up book (8x11, 126 pgs for 49.99). But beyond that, the Oui(s) and '72 Vamp cover are the only published examples I've seen of this artist's work, outside of a few reproductions in The Pin-up (Babor) hardback.

You may as well take the plunge, and go for all his paperback cover work! Now, there's just a few movie posters, and some '50's funny animal books with text story illos, his Johnny Comet strips, and then I hear he did some work for EC, that'll drive you Mad! There's also that American Artist issue he was cover featured on (May 1976), with the Death Dealer cover! And the Spa Fon interview issue. There's more than one High Times cover, by the way. And don't forget his Playboy Little Annie Fanny contribution! I remember back in the '70's, you could buy original sketches for a $100 or so, from Cockrun at different shows! Back in the mid seventies I was driving back from NYC (to Illinois), but was taking Val Mayerik back to Youngstown (Ohio) first. Well, we stopped in East Stroudsburg, Penn. and Val gave him a call (he was in the phone book). Well, the inlaws were over that evening. But he did invite us over, the next day! But that wasn't in the cards! I'll have to ask Val if he ever did finally meet him?

My thanks for the dual dose of Frazetta II unopened packs! I'd bought a box back when they were released ('93), and have the base set in the 9 pocket card holders along with the S1,S2,S3,C2, & C3 inserts for this set. I'm not even going to open the two you sent. The elusive C1 card is there. Looking back through the set, it does have some stunning work... the Ace paperback Tarzan covers, I see Lancer paperback covers, SciFi book club stuff, a Playboy piece, Squa Tron, Death Dealers, dinosaurs, Ellie nudes, the movie characatures a la Jack Davis! The first card set featured more of his (Frank's) finished paintings, than this set. But I'll take Frank any ole way he shows up! Again, my thanks! Just an observation. The package weighed just under 2 ounces. So shouldn't you have been able to send it for the cost of two first class stamps? The metered postage cost was $2.67? This gesture on your part, really is a needed reminder that there are good people doing good things. For the right reasons. Philanthropic topic, on the Fritz

I'm just saying Miss Piggy looks better in lipstick. But why do they call it Marvel chipping, when it's the same presses in Sparta, Illinois that turned out the DC books? Shouldn't there be an equal amount of DC chipping? Why would the cutter/trimmer machines be more 'dull' just for the Marvel runs? I guess I was a little negative. The back cover looks nice! I'd just acquired a Captain Marvel Adventures #9 that was given a 3.0. Yes there's a rolled spine and detached cover on one staple, but it's still intact (no chipping). But that's a Fawcett from a different valve. Or at least the wrong metaphor for a three point five. I'll admit this. I'd like to have it (AAF15)!

So $235 later, to get the 'same' grade? You can put lipstick on a pig, but that doesn't fix the color breaking creases. And Marvel chipping is looking more and more like leprosy.

This cover is ridiculous! You couldn't hear what the raccoon is saying in outer space! And an articulate Hulk is disconcerting! To be any more gulable, we'd need wings? Sure, send it to the cleaners, before taking someone there.

Buck Rogers swinging like the Dodgers (Frank knows baseball). And they both got their start in Brooklyn, right? Anyway, wish my copy looked this good. But all that color breaking spine dings add up. I'm thinking 5.5 plus or minus a .5 perhaps? No one else offering numbers on this?

What do buckets and vampires have in common? Their always pale. Now I'm complete.

Free Frazetta? Needn't ask me twice!

I remember those RBCC (Rockets Blast Comc Collector) color covers before Warren printed a piece in a letters page! Your still scaring us Bernie!

It's interesting how many are so quick to call it all junk and more trouble than it's worth.... and then go on to suggest it's been cherry picked already..... as if to imply things are missing? It already intimidates people by it's sheer volume. And the more that's added, beyond this point (and points way before) actually are 'viewed' as burdensome. And the logistics of 'having' that much inventory.... is overwhelming! Just to separate the Hot Wheels, from the character watches, action figures, and then the sports cards... sounds like a job for Hake, rather than a 'comic' dealer? If you ad up the apparent value of just the OPGs, they'd probably get to a grand. But I too think there's bookcase full of comics. But they may all be missing their value stamps! If you were in the LA area, I'd say lug it out to Frank and Son and let all those dealers tell you how worthless it is! I don't know how those philanthropists stay in business? It's good thing they're only open 2 days a week in which to lose money!

I look forward to seeing you there Terry! Sounds like this show is trying to expanding beyond just Sunday, with or without ya? A main hall that would hold all the dealers would be nicer (than overflow rooms and outside setups) in my opinion.... Maybe even open the stage area to accommodate 4 or 5 booths? Sounds like there will indeed be a good handful of people from these boards, in attendance! Of course putting faces to 'names' would be the challenge. So, bring me some more good 'jungle' books, and catch ya on the 29th!

I remember ordering the Passaic Catalog, maybe 1968 or so. And it was big! 8 1/2 X 11, but it seemed to list everything except the # ones, or origin issues! I think they simply didn't want to commit to a printed price on these 'hot' books.... I remember the cover had a drawing of a jungle cat guy, tail and all.... Anyway, they did seem to have the largest catalog. But not the largest selection. Anyone else ever order back issues directly from the Marvel offices? I recall getting an Amazing Spider-Man annual 2, Marvel Tales #1, for a quarter each. Seems like Flo Steinberg was handling this dept. at the time. Another guy that use to sell through lists was Howard Leroy Davis. As I recall, he at some point had bought the publishing rights to some 1950's John Severin western material... possibly Prize Western? I think he was an architect in 'real life'? But, it is funny how much time and effort went into ordering just the lists. And or the fanzines that supplemented them! But, it was speculated that fandom had a core group of around 5000 people.... The 'science fiction' community looked down on us.... EVERYONE looked down on us! But man! By today's standards..... everything was cheap. But you could be looking for years to find that last issue to complete whatever set(s) that had eluded you thus far.

Howard, and Robert (Bell) had been issuing sales lists for a few years prior to Alan Light putting out The Buyers Guide. Gordon Love had been putting out Rocket's Blast Comic Collector for a few years already as well. And TBG must have been just ahead of Overstreet's white first price guide, by a year or so.(The blue version being the 2nd printing.)

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Wasn't Goldwater on the ticket against Kennedy?

That's the one Bob. Seems like the blue is muted a little.... Possibly glare off the bag? It wasn't till I spotted the 'Paul' name written on the cover and a deja vu moment before recalling letting that one go. Nearly the entire run of Startling Stories has just drop dead gorgeous gga with its SciFi twist, and really underrated in the pulp world (which is already underrated). But the Spicy titles get the love and attention. Bergey really had talent, and must have utilized models? The tone values are so subtle. Maybe it's just the contrast to the constant barrage of colored line drawings that is comics? Less is more? ( I'm a closet Buddist? No. I don't trust minamalists! Their motivation is not 'tangible' or quantifiable. I'm pretty sure that Enoch Bolles was reincarnated in Richard Corben.... DNA be damned. Another observation after seeing SNL with Benedict Cumberbatch I'm constantly reminded of Val Mayerik! Val does not have the English accent of course. But the mannerisms and in the eyes! Anyone else see it? Another is the Christy character with the speech em pediment on Big Bang reminds me of Paul Gulacy (looks only). Thanks for the prairie update there mark. So in Hoopeston the football and basketball high school team(s) are called... the Cornjerkers! Pretty impressive on a letter jacket (blue and white) on those out of town games. The foundation for a life of humility perhaps? Anyway, haven't heard of Cropsey? Must be a crossroads.. Like Woodworth, just east of Milford. Where my dad's father own farms, on one of which I lived till about age 5. Then off to the big city of Hoopeston. Population 5000. Four drug stores and one five and dime that had comics. I always saw more Big Little Books than comics, and hardly ever saw pulps... Except in Chicago. But your right about perceptions of space, and throwing things out. Those damp summers and freezing winters are brutal. Staples rust. I had just met R.C.Harvey, who lived in Champaign, just prior to moving west (in '78). There was one bookstore in Danville, actually more of a smut shop. Half of it for adults only type of place, a few blocks east of the main drag, by the pawn shops that arranged to buy my 'duplicates' through a couple other guys I met. Paying 50 percent of what would have been Overstreet's 3rd or 4th guide, it came to a little more than a grand. If Sparta hadn't been on the other side of the Land of Lincoln, I would have been all over that as well! So, I'm still getting acclimated to using paragraphs.... Which means 'false writing'? Salutations for now.

Nice Enoch Bolles Breezy cover, for those not knowing jack (o'lantern's artist). You should have reposted the Startling Stories Mar. 1950 witch, on a broom, shooting lightning from her finger tips cover, Bob. That one's worth another gander. Now I better go find the Esquire Petty broom rider as well. That's calorie free candy? (You'd think they would customize those broom handle seats...) (and why are their bosoms so cold?) Hey markseifert. I was born in Danville, and grew up in Hoopeston, then in Rossville (by the Country Club golf course). I graduated HS in '73, and moved to SoCal in '78. Were you even born yet? Not much 'pickin's' out there in the prairie, in my experience (in collectibles... and delectables). Bob, are you doing Terry O'Neil's show this year? And did I understand that your not doing the Nov. or Dec. Vet's Stadium shows?