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I also collect postcards and especially souvenir postcard folders. They fly under the radar even among postcard collectors and since I like almost anything to do with roadside America, I can't resist!

9 minutes ago, Sqeggs said:

Amazing that that connection would be enough to attract people in Joplin to a motel was his name on it.  I guess it's an indication of the extent of his fame at a time when baseball really was the national pastime.

OT: But I looked up the leaders in career WS homers.  As you might expect, seven of the top nine are Yankees (Ruth is second with 15).  One is a Dodger (Duke Snider) and the other non-Yankee is Frank Robinson.  I think you could win serious money betting against people coming up with Robinson's name being in that group.  

There's also the Route 66 aspect as well. Joplin is pretty far west and very close to Oklahoma, and 66 was the lifeblood for both states.

18 minutes ago, Robot Man said:

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Nice group, RM. I would've kept them all! The beer lot above has some standouts for sure - the Apache, the Hamms/Old Derby, and the Tivoli. Great stuff!

On ‎7‎/‎31‎/‎2017 at 8:32 PM, batman_fan said:

Updated group shot of some of my favorite books. 

 

A mighty fine grouping, Batman Fan. At least four of those books I recall from the O'Brien book, The Golden Age of Comic Books: the Mystery Men, the awesome Green Giant, the Hit 9 and the Wonderworld. And no doubt the Tecs, the SS, the LT1 and the other Hit are right at home.

30 minutes ago, Readcomix said:

I loved doing that as a kid too! I'll play.

If you could magically send me a duplicate of one from each row....the Suspense cover from the top row jumps out at me, Gotta go bondage in the center, and from the bottom I'll say Super Magician because I have none and they always look so cool when I see them. Lots of underrated Street and Smith, IMHO. But I am also tempted to say Monster 1 because it looks like an upgrade over my rough copy.

Did you do it with the Overstreets? The early editions had the choicest books, while the later ones started to include more obscure gold and eventually more silver and bronze. OS 6 starts off with Action 1, Adventure 61, All-American 16 and All-Star 4. How's THAT for a line-up?

As for my picture, I think you nailed it - at least as I see it. Looking at the bottom row, I guess the DeCarlo guys might like that Irma, and Walt Kelly fans might prefer the Easter Parade. The True Secrets has an Everett cover and there's even a Kurtzman for the EC fans.

I also like old billhead and letterhead. Early ones like this are a bit tougher to find, but there's tons of stuff available from after the Civil War, often under ten bucks.

I love old books that deal with American history:

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Frontispiece and title page from volume 1 of Chief Justice John Marshall's biography of George Washington -  published by James Crissy in 1832, on the 100th anniversary of Washington's year of birth.

9 minutes ago, Robot Man said:

 Dodger staff had a bad habit of burning out pitcher's arms up until only a few years ago.

Sort of like what Dusty Baker did with Kerry Wood and Mark Prior for the Cubbies?

1 hour ago, Robot Man said:

I have always loved that one. Midnight by Crandall cover. Reminds a lot of the Wally Wood Spirit stuff. Here's mine. Just one of a few I got from a recent auction.

Yep, just another non-descript, recent auction. Nothing to see here...

23 minutes ago, BitterOldMan said:

Robot Man,

Remember 1963.  I remember how dominating Koufax was from 1962-1966, until he burned out his arm throwing so hard for 200+ pitches a game. 

Great card!! Isn't it insane to think of the workloads of those great pitchers of yesteryear in the era before pitch counts? That's some crazy strain on the arm, man.

8 hours ago, N e r V said:

It also took some time finding one of these complete with all parts and instructions that still work too. These were a lot of fun for kids back in the day.

 

Wow, Nerv, we definitely have some overlap when it comes to toys we had as a kid! Are you going to bust out Maskatron or Evel's Stunt Cycle next?

I can only imagine how long it would take to find one of THESE with all the pieces. Patience, patience...

2 hours ago, EBE said:

 

Wow... That's the sort of collection I'd expect to see in a museum, not private hands. Bravo!

1 minute ago, Flex Mentallo said:

I suspect many hardcover editions had small print runs. Here are a few. The Ted Chiang book has become very pricey, and seems to be quite scarce nowadays. I haven't actually read this yet, but loved the movie.

Who painted that dust jacket? It's a very cool illustration.

You can find some pretty cool graphics on old matchbook covers. If you look on the left, you can see a cover from Mickey Mantle's Holiday Inn in Joplin, Missouri:

11 hours ago, Sqeggs said:

Crippen copy. She reminds me a bit of June Allyson. GCD says photo cover, but it's clearly painted.

Good call - definitely painted. Here's the May 1945 pulp featuring the same painting - one of my favorite romance pulps:

Though this one MAY be my favorite:

28 minutes ago, BitterOldMan said:

The cartoon was ...      I purchased the poster for $60, which was plenty for a poor undergraduate.  I have two copies of Four Color 9, but never found an affordable copy of the poster again.  The RKO cartoon posters rarely come up for sale or auction.

By the way, this reminds me: the other day I was looking thru a stack of miscellaneous newspaper comics and guess who I spotted in an early 1935 Mickey Mouse Sunday tab? None other than Donald looking every bit like he did in The Wise Little Hen. It's sort of a bonus, just like spotting the Yellow Kid in one of the later Buster Brown strips:

10 hours ago, porcupine48 said:

not a lot of comics in this one...

No, but I'm pretty sure that one has one of the best Louise Alston double-page illustrations of the run.

9 minutes ago, BitterOldMan said:

 

Barks was a genius, no doubt. Artists like him and Walt Kelly especially dumbfound me: somehow, someway, they intuitively knew how to draw anthropomorphic animals and make them look picture perfect.

I admire everyone from Alex Raymond to Dave Stevens, Will Eisner to Milton Caniff - but somehow the funny animals seem less intuitive... more of a reach. I'm not explaining it right, but I hope you know what I'm referring to.

5 hours ago, BitterOldMan said:

 I purchased an old RKO Walt Disney Donald Duck cartoon poster from Bob Beerbohm and traded for a Four Color 9 around 1975.  Never could find the Donald Duck poster again at a reasonable price. 

C'mon, though, Donald Finds Pirate Gold?? That was one of the big, big books back then. Everything Donald was hot then - Tells about kites, the March of Comics, the Firestone giveaways. Great stuff.

If I may, did you manage to hang on to the Four Color?

6 hours ago, Straw-Man said:

being an inveterate movie buff, here are the group of books that all spawned best film winners. 

That's a truly cool, targeted collection. I definitely lack the discipline to pursue something so diligently.

I'm guessing many of the film titles deviate slightly from their book inspirations? For instance, I see a "From Emperor to Citizen" which I'm guessing became "The Last Emperor."

6 hours ago, BitterOldMan said:

Williams Medieval Madness! 

 

 

6 hours ago, Bronty said:

 

Well, if you're only going to have a few, that's a pretty iconic one to have!! Congrats.

I'm an EM guy myself, and if I could find an original by Roy Parker, I might even tap into my stockpile of flaky backglasses for trade bait.

6 hours ago, BitterOldMan said:

I also have a large collection of manufacturer's pinball literature.  I have a restored 1975 Gottlieb El Dorado in my living room.  Yeah, I know, purple label, not blue label.

In college, I played six straight hours on El Dorado for 25 cents.  When I left, I had the maximum nine replays that I sold for fifty cents.  The owners of the arcade did not want us playing.  After video games came out, pinball pretty much died out, but now there are pinball conventions all over the world.

I too have been bitten by the pinball bug. I have an El Dorado but it sure isn't restored. I have many projects to keep me busy someday. Right next to El Dorado is a Drop-a-Card: I've had new drop targets for it for over ten years and STILL haven't gotten to it.

If you've been to Pinball Expo in Chicagoland, we've probably seen each other...

6 hours ago, Bronty said:

nintendo (and sega etc) memorabilia and OA

 

Really colorful and fun display piece! And I didn't even know they slabbed vintage video games. Does whether or not they work factor into the grade they receive?

7 hours ago, 143ksk said:

These...

I don't have to know WHAT I am looking at to like it!

p.s. What AM I looking at?? Spanish colonial?

6 minutes ago, BitterOldMan said:

I love King Kong vs Godzilla 1962.

Lobby card

 

If you see somebody at a comic con wearing a tshirt with this scene from the movie, it is probably me.

And who among us could blame you?? That first great battle looms large in our collective (geek) memory.

Back in the 70's, the whole gamut of Godzilla versus (insert monster) movies were must sees on late night TV for our whole neighborhood!