Robot Man

If West says it isn't that's good enough for me.

I didn't want to ask Beerbong I might not live long enough to find out.

Now, what con is Harley at this weekend? He's got some 'splaining to do!

Bought this from Harley a few years back. He sold it to me as such. Has no Riley stamp on back. I have a few others with the stamp but the others have numbers with the "G". The "G" looks the same on all of them but no numbers or stamp on this one. Whaddya think?

Got a few Okajima Camp Books for you guys today. I hear they are popular here. Was digging through the pedigree boxes today and will show some other ones when I get the time. Steve Ritter told me that the Capt. Marvel Advs #28 was the earliest Okajima he had seen. Might even be in his book if it ever comes out...

OK, come on, don't ANY of you guys have a Great Comics with an ad for this club? They can't ALL be entombed in plastic...

Per your request

 

Thanks so much! Now I know what to look for. When I turn one up, I'll post it here!

Comicjack Could you possibly do me a favor? Somewhere in this book is an ad for the Phantom Creeps pinback button. If you could carefully take a picture of the page, I would love to see what it looks like. I love this book but have never owned a copy.

1930's Betty Boop uklele. I mean who doesn't love Betty Boop? So cute, yet so saucy. Check out the "Old Man of the Mountain" cartoon with Cab Calloway if you get the chance. Worth the search on utube! Enjoy!

My two most favorite Spider Pulp covers! The Spider is one of only a few pulps I actually read. The stories are as sick as the covers. (I mostly collect pulps just for the covers) And these two are dooseys!

My two most favorite Spider Pulp covers! The Spider is one of only a few pulps I actually read. The stories are as sick as the covers. (I mostly collect pulps just for the covers) And these two are dooseys!

OK gang here's another cool pinback. The Great Comics Victory Club button featuring the Great Zarro. So what's the big deal you say? Consider that Great Comics only ran 3 issues. Didn't give much time to get this club running. The comic probably didn't sell very well anyway (thus only 3 issues). I used to have #3 but was foolishly seduced by dead presidents (which I no longer have). I have never owned #1 or #2 so I don't know how many issues this club offer appeared in. If any of you have a copy of the book that it was offered in, I'd love to see it posted here. So rare that the only other one I've ever seen was once in a Hakes auction. Even Walter Koenig who is one of the biggest collectors of these comic pins had never seen one. You gotta figure most comics are available if you got a big enough wallet but some stuff like this you just can't buy... (sorry for the crappy photo. This was VERY hard to photo)

One more scarce Don Winslow item. The rubber stamp set from 1940. Sorry, Griff, that's all folks!

 

 

 

Just getting caught up with this wonderful thread.

 

And I gotta say... that stamp is way cool, and by posting it you inked an answer for me.

 

Being a Navy man, I was curious about the stamped anchor found on a few Golden Age books. So I kept some images of books I'd admired with it, wondering about the stamp's backstory and how/why they came to be.

 

As a result of your post, I did a little digging and apparently the anchor stamp with an individual's two initials was a promo offered during the Don Winslow of the Navy radio show. The excerpt below is from an old radio program titled Radio News Tower published by Radio Station WOW, Omaha Nebraska, with a print date of July 1, 1938. It mentions the stamp as a special offer on WOW.

 

Anyway, hope you don't mind me posting images in your thread. Yours is a good one. And I echo the thanks for sharing your nostalgic time capsule with us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glad you are enjoying the thread. NICE Action #15! If you look back a couple pages in the Fawcett thread some one showed an early Whiz with this stamp on it. I'm sure most people would have no idea what it is. Earlier in my thread I posted some more early Don Winslow premiums.

There were very few Timelys that I know of. Ed got about 5 real nice later Cap issues. I don't know who he sold them to. I only know of a few others. He sold a beautiful MM #26 on the bay. I went for the Nedors, MLJ, and all the odd titles like Suspense ect. There were a lot of DC. Must have been Paul's favorite. I mostly snapped up the later more scarce issues of Flash, All Flash, Green Lantern, Star Spangled, Sensation ect. I only got one Batman and a few Detectives that Ed missed. Got a lot of '50's sci-fi, crime, horror and misc good cover books. You're lucky to even have had a chance at the Timelys. I would have snapped them up for sure!

Hey, how 'bout them Mets?

Why don't you take this over to the sandbox of General?

We're supposed to be the "big kids" here...

Just a couple more today.

First off is this ceramic robot. I put paper clips in it on my desk. Got it on fleabay from a guy in Sweden. Don't know what "gas base" means and he didn't either. This style robot in the tin toy world is known as a "zoomer". Unusual and only one I've ever seen.

Next is "Robot Sam Answer Game". Love the huge friendly robot on the cover of the box. He is featured inside. It is a quiz game. Put a battery in it and his nose lights up when you answer correctly. Great graphics!

Never seen the new funnies..great cover

I think I'm kinda liking the Tracy #37 cover. Pre-code crime in kind of a cartoonish flavor. How about the lady crying in the foreground.

Some War Bond "Paul" goodness!

Going through my box of comics I started getting in the new year I found a pile of "Pauls". Still love getting these when I can but the pickings are becomming a little slimmer in the areas I collect. Still some cool ones and they were way under guide on most of them.

MATT BAKER!

Capt. Marvel War Bond cover

Another War Bond cover!

I'm not a big Tracy fan like Bill but I couldn't pass these up especially the bondage one...

True Life Secrets 18

this issue gets bid up hard when it surfaces - has a Toth feel to it

 

It ought to feel like Toth ...

 

http://www.comics.org/issue/9411/cover/4/

 

Busted!

Nice catch Scrooge.

I'll still take both though.

 

Toth does the better cover, but points to Charlton for somewhat creepy dialogue.

Wow, these all seem to have black covers. Must be near impossible to find high grade copies. Then girls/women probably took better care of their books than guys did...

This is a hard to find series published by Gernsback Publications.

 

Pirate Stories (November 1934)

 

v1#1

 

 

 

Cover illo by Sidney Riesenberg

 

 

Cool, I've never seen any of these. I like this one a lot! Probably a pretty rare title.

I thought I would share some pictures I took at the great EC reunion in 2000 at SD con

 

Pic 1 Jack Kamen,Jack Davis,Mrs. Kurtzman,Al Feldstein,Al Torres,Will Elder,Marie Severin and

AL Williamson.

 

Pic 2 Jack Davis signing autographs

 

Pic 3 Will Elder talking with fans

 

pic 4 Jack Kamen talking with fans

 

pic 5 shot of Crypt Keeper and some of the displays

 

pic 6 art work from tales of terror book

 

pic 7 art from Christmas party

 

pic 8 cover art pic 9 more cover art

Awesome photos Hap! I was there too but didn't even think to take any photos. Monumental event, thanks for sharing!

Freaks of time department. I kinda love books like this. They really show "character" people either really loved these or hated them but they are really unique. They have a special place in my collection.

 

I give you Submariner #32. Not only is it in pretty low grade but somebody used it for target practice! There are 3 45 caliber bullet holes shot clean through. I got it years ago for $25. at the San Diego con. Everybody laughed at me but I love it anyway. Too bad it's a "key"...

 

 

I remember that book! You got it from Chris Pedrin, no?

I don't remember it was quite some time ago. But you are probably right. There can't be more than one of these so ugly!

 

Awesome book. Love the colors on the cover. Does that "C" indicate a pedigree? Seems like I have seen that mark before.

I'm not sure in this case that the "C" indicates any specific pedigree. The Ohio collection had many books with a c- written code but they look different than this.

Yeah, that's the one I was thinking about. I have a couple and they all have the numbers with the "C" I believe. Great book either way.

Rat Finks, Weird Ohs and Nutty Mads oh my! Any other of you geezers (except Hep Cat) play with these as a kid. My favorite is the Mr Gasser slot car. Oh, so hard to find...

Rat Finks, Weird Ohs and Nutty Mads oh my! Any other of you geezers (except Hep Cat) play with these as a kid. My favorite is the Mr Gasser slot car. Oh, so hard to find...

Next is a Heckle and Jeckle bound volume from the same source. It contains Blue Ribbon (#1) through issue #10.