catman76

This is amazing. I want a copy.

Yeah I don't know where people are getting that Cole had anything to do with the insides at all. That's all 100 percent Chambers for sure. Now the cover was almost certainly inked by Cole and penciled by Chambers.

Probably one of the biggest coincidences ever is two comic strips with the same exact name debuting on the same exact day on opposite sides of the world, March 12 1951...

serves ya right. Read your comics and stop being a slave to some meaningless, made up grading scale. It's really pathetic.

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The Hot Stuff is #56 from October 1963...

That Hot Stuff comic is #56 from October 1963...

The pretty boring code approved 1956 original and the 1962 British reprint with the cover partially redrawn and made much better...

There are lots of threads here on foreign comics but I don't think there has been one for showing US and foreign editions together side by side, so I am making one. So if ya got em post em together. I have many, but this Australian edition of Cosmo Cat #7 is the one I have out right now. It's interesting how much bigger it is than the US version and it's printed on the thinnest newsprint I have ever seen...

from Hup #4, "A person_without_enough_empathyin' Bod'!" by R. Crumb...

I put every image through a few image translators and none came up with anything, except one says the first row on the bottom image says "deputy bump" in Thai. But when you look at the actual Thai letters for those words it doesn't match at all so I don't what it's talking about.

Looks just made up to me. I would be very, very shocked if anyone put that much time and thought into a throwaway kids comic in 1940

Depends on the person and what they are collecting. Some people collect something because they enjoy it, reading it, listening to it, whatever. Some people it's more of a hoarding thing, just having to have tons of a particular thing for who knows why. Some people it's a competition thing and they try to have more than other collectors or have something better or in better condition of whatever it is or the prestige that comes with having something no one else can have. With others its a money thing, investing and that's it. It's too much of an individual thing for one answer. I agree with Robot Man, with me it's always been just whatever I like I accumulate and also the thrill of the hunt is a huge part. The digging trough antique shops, junk shops, garage sales, flea markets and finding stuff that grabs me and i need to have. Most of the appeal is the hunt, the adventure to get it, the fun of digging through attics and being covered in dust and dirt, the smells. I can't be Indiana Jones so this is what I got. Why so much of the appeal is gone nowadays since there's nothing to find in flea markets and places really any more, they are all new crud or just don't exist anymore to go to. I buy comics, records, toys etc that catch my eye online mostly now and it's really no fun though I still love the stuff. I just know I got it on ebay. not very memorable or exciting. Not like the comics I can look at and love and also have that memory of when I got lost on back country roads and ran across this junk shop and found it in a stack of rotting newsprint and the thrill when I came across this comic I never knew existed before.

These kinds of comics are almost like 60s and 70s undergrounds, so weird and great. The O'Brine Twins comics are all really oddball stuff and great...

Yeah I just mean the style and everything got really reigned in by 1950 and it was because of the immense popularity of Disney comics and other dell titles like New Funnies and andy panda and all that. So of course publishers tried to emulate that and actually started caring about what they published instead of not caring and having heir funny animal comics be like something from the art brut museum. Which is a shame. Same thing happened to animated cartoons in the early 30s when everyone stopped making imaginaitive creative crazy cartoons and started copying Disney and everything became slick and boring. Really only Terrytoons didn't do that because paul terry just did not care so you have crazy great jim tyer and connie rasinski animated terrytoons cartoons well into the late 50s. Same thing happened with comic books in general in the early days fo the late 30s to about 1942 when they just published anything and didnt care and then it all got reigned in really fast. Someone like a Fletcher Hanks would have never been published past 1941 or 42.

I don't know about that. I mean Jack Cole blew his own head off, I know of one at least comic artist that got whacked by the mob in the 50s and so many people that worked in comics in the 40s and 50s died penniless and alcoholics and no one cares about them or knows about them today.

Definitely was drawn by Chambers and inked by Cole. Hi-Ho #2 is definitely Chambers drawn and Cole inked too even though it's not signed. Taffy #1 too. When Cole drew a cartoon style cover all himself you can tell it's his, it looks much different than this,more stiff and just different. The 50s Star publications funny animal covers by Cole are 100 percent Cole. Cole learned to draw cartoony from Chambers and copied Chambers double line style for his cartoony covers. .

As far as finding comics there have been many strange places over the years. Back in the late 80s and early 90s I used to put up an ad saying old comics wanted on those bulletin boards that used to be in grocery stores where you could put up an ad for anything you were selling or wanted. Are they still around? I don't know. I got a call once from a guy with a bunch of 60s and 70s comics that he had stored in boxes on shelves in the middle of his machine shop. Most of the comics were fine surprisingly and only a few had damage from splattering oil and coolant that soaked through the boxes. I stupidly left behind a full box of 70s ghost rider comics for some reason there too. He also had boxes of world war 2 stiuff his father had collected, german helments, japanese grenades, ration kits. All this stuff was in a dirty machine shop. It was weird. There were also nude pinups hanging all over the shop, and I mean hustler style pinups Another time a guy called and I show up at his house and he has comics piled inside a canoe hanging his garage. I left behind old 60s Hot Rod magazines that were in that canoe too. Now I wish I would have bought them too.

Now if Warner Brothers, or whoever owns the good original prints of these, would only do a 4k scan of these it would be great instead of doing fake 4k. Or even other great prints that are out there. Dave Butler of Bosko Video had the best prints of these cartoons outside of the ones Warner Brothers has and the VHS tapes he but out in the early 90s are still the best quality transfers of these cartoons I have seen. Butler died in like 2001 and I have no idea what happened to all his films. He had great prints of almost everything. Someone needs to do 4K scans of this stuff since they are public domain anyway.

They also had 7 cent versions in 1955. The 1955 ones are all ACG reprints from Ha Ha and Giggle comics but ACG is mentioned nowhere, just Modern Store Publications. The 6 cent 1953 ones are all Eastern Color/Famous Funnies reprints and the publisher is listed as Food Store Publications. They probably were sold in grocery stores I am guessing

Good luck trying to find one of these...