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The postal regulations and fees thing was the reason I always heard was why publishers always avoided starting new titles if they could, just continued numbering from another title or starting a title at number 10, all to avoid paying whatever fees they had too for new titles. Ziff Davis did that with all their titles in the 50s and started every title at number 10. Also why comics all had text pages in them, another thing to avoid some postal regulation where the fees were lower if there was a minimum of two all text pages in any magazine, or something like that. I never have been able to find what the exact rules or regulations were or much about it ever.

4 hours ago, Buzzetta said:

So I am going through some comics that I am going to list.  Like a good boardie, I go through the books to make sure the pages are all there and nothing is clipped out.  Since it is a Marvel Tales book, I wanted to see what issues they pulled the stories from... then I notice the following from Marvel Tales 16 from 1968.

Spider-man reprinted courtesy of Non-Pareil Publishing Corporation 1964

Thor reprinted courtesy of Atlas Magazines Inc. 1964

Human Torch reprinted courtesy of Vista Publications Inc. 1963

Marvel Boy reprinted courtesy of 20th Century Comic Corp 1951

What gives with the different 'rights' concerning the 1963-1964 stories?

Sorry if this is a silly question... but I figure someone here knows the history. 

Publishers used to have many different companies they published under, I don't know the exact reasons but I am sure financial reasons, ways to get around taxes and stuff like that. It seems to have been really common in the 40s and 50s , sometimes from issue to issue the name of the publisher in the indicia will change, even if there's the main publisher name on the front cover. Plus those are Marvel comics and Marvel had so many name changes over the years.

I never have really sold anything, so my regrets are all comics I passed up. Like an antique shop that had a box of early Archie comics for like a buck a piece and I said nah, they will be there still in a week when I am back that way, of course they weren't. Or the time I could have bought almost the entire run of Marvel Ghost Rider for like 40 bucks and I passed. I could have sold them for way more than that, they were hot at the time I think in the 90s. Oh and a Batman #20, I think it's 20, the one with the batmobile bursting out of the cover. I could have got it for 75 bucks, but no that was too much for me at the time. Stupid.

35 minutes ago, Chicago Boy said:

Tec 38 ? Got me thinking. I don't see a lot but used to see at least one at a con per show and 1 on eBay.   Just saw a nice 3.5 at Age of comics. Ps I ordered the indexes !  

It's a 5

I never thought there was this many underwater covers. First one I thought of was this one....

I keep most in sleeves just for protection against anything, but comics all are better totally free of any plastic and naked to flip through and look at and feel and smell. I could care less about presenting a comic or what it's in. I also have hundreds of comics totally naked stacked neatly in photo boxes and other boxes, which probably horrifies most people, but there's nothing like going through a stack of old comics all free of any plastic and .

Wouldn't surprise me if it happened eventually. Fewer and fewer corporations are in control of everything and the choices you have are getting smaller and smaller. Soon everything there is will be owned and controlled by one corporation.

1 hour ago, Chicago Boy said:

I don't remember seeing pence books discussed like I have in the Silver Age forum.....

I have some british comics from the 40s that are reprints of american comics, but they are totally different than the American versions, there's not just a price difference on the cover, they are british printings and almost always in black and white.

1 hour ago, Chicago Boy said:

I'll start if off (thank you to everyone who has the journals in advance and are willing to help out !)

Captain America Comics #1

 

 

5

I love old sunday comics pages and how gigantic they are. It's such a different experience than seeing them reprinted less than half the size in books. Seeing this thread made me want to dig out my stacks of Buck Rogers pages. Next I have to dig out my Krazy Kats.

I could care less what color the pages are, as long as it doesn't crumble in my hands when read it, but even then I will take it. Comics smell better when they are all yellowed anyway.

On 2/27/2009 at 6:33 PM, selegue said:

Toy Town 1 with a hyperkinetic L. B. Cole cover

 

 

and the splash page of the bizarre, full-length (anti-)morality tale inside. The interior looks to me like Cole at the beginning and Many Hands taking over. Highly recommended.

 

 

The cover was drawn by Ellis Chambers and inked by LB Cole I am sure. The entire insides are by Ellis Chambers, who would do these entire issue stories over a weekend while doing speed and pot. His style varies widely, even within the same story, probably depending on what drug he was on at the time. His stuff can be really clean and neat, like lots of his Cosmo Cat stuff and then sometimes totally insane in stuff like these early Toy Towns or Hi-Ho issues

On 1/26/2017 at 8:08 PM, MrBedrock said:

I don't think many animators worked for Nedor (or Pines). Certainly the big companies had some great creators and some brilliant material came from that. But this particular publisher was lacking in quality creators early on and it shows through in the product. By the end of the war Nedor's humor comics were much better, though still not anywhere near as enjoyable as the topline titles.

They are full of animators I recognize, a lot of Fleischer/Famous and Terrytoons animators. Jim Tyer, Ray Patin, Lynn karp, Jack Bradbury, Dan Gordon, Dave Tendlar, Manny Perez, Gil Turner, there;s a million of them. Goofy, Coo Coo, Banyard and Happy are full of them from the very first issues. Fleischer studios was right down the street from Nedor's offices and all the animation studios and comic publisher offices were all pretty close together in New York so lots of New York animators made some extra money doing funny animal and humor comics on the side. Most are unsigned or under some made up name, probably cause they did so much for multiple publishers at the same time and to hide it from the animation studios they worked for. I know Jim Tyer did, he was doing funny animal stuff at nedor, fawcett, Timely, ACG, Fox, all at the same time all through out the 40s and 50s. Ellis Chambers was another guy that did an insane amount of stuff for everyone, he created Cosmo Cat and did tons of Fox comics and pretty much every other publisher. His style varies widely, depending on if he was whacked out on heroin or smoking pot at the time. He taught L.B. Cole how to draw in that comic animation cartoony style. Most funny animal covers credited to Cole were really only inked by him, Ellis Chambers drew them.

1 hour ago, 143ksk said:

Pep 32. Bentley of Scotland Yard splash page.

That's it. They added even more blood for the cover.

10 hours ago, 143ksk said:

This cover was taken from a panel in another comic. I just ran across it recently, but I can't remember what one it was.

Whatever someone is willing to pay for it.

I miss comic conventions like that, no stupid costumes or anything that has nothing to do with comics, just comics piled around to dig through.

I never liked the term collector, I just search for things that I like and catch my eye and just am drawn to for some reason and have them because I enjoy them, they make me feel good, give me a sense of wonder, inspire me etc. To me collector and hoarder are almost the same thing, most collectors need entire runs of a comic or everything with Garfield on it or whatever. Collectors to me are hoarders with just a more defined focus on specific things they hoard, while a hoarder just hoards anything and everything.

With the title I assume you meant just the medium of comics, which will be fine, there's probably more being made now than ever before, the amount of self published comics and comics outside the mainstream superhero marvel/dc stuff is bigger and more diverse than ever. Now the money collector side of it? Who cares.

The Murder Morphine and Me story is reprinted in the jack Cole plastic man book, I think that's the only time it's ever been reprinted.

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #4 has the complimentary copy variant. There's some funny animal comics with variants, I forget what they are and most people probably don't care about those.