catman76

Most Dell comics are not numbered normally on the cover or indicia and you have to hopefully find the actual number on the first page written tiny somewhere, sometimes not. It's a huge pain trying to find a particular issue because of it. Lots of 40s and 50s comics are like that or Ziiff-Davis titles that will start at number 10 then  go to 11, then issue 3 and go from there, sometimes there will be two issue 10s.

All this was really a huge pain in the pre internet days getting mail order catalogs and not being able to see the comic itself to know if it's the right issue I was looking for.

I know it's a great comic. Read it and find out.

On 9/5/2021 at 1:31 AM, Courageous Cat said:

ugliest store stamp known to collectors. It's been the ruin of many a book 

I don't mind ink stamps at all. I like them actually. But I'd say these are the worst kind...

There's more to comics than mainstream marvel/dc/image crud and who cares about that corporate sh*t anyway? There's so much great stuff being done today outside of that, that I don't know why anyone bothers with any of the marvel/dc sh*t. They are the ones ruining comics not any artists. Just go look at other comics where artists are doing their own stuff and aren't being a slave to some corporation hacking out some stuff as a job. That's the problem.

On 8/28/2021 at 11:33 PM, Rip said:

One of the more heated debates in Art history class studying overseas used to be... Which is more important to save in a burning building, the Mona Lisa, or the security guard inside?

You wouldn't believe how many said the painting is more important than the person.

Bad example. The Mona Lisa is boring and ugly and is only famous because it got publicity for being stolen 100 years ago. No one cared at all about it before that. So I'd choose the security guard for that one. Now if it was between all my comics, records or toys and someone that wasn't my family or close to me, sorry you are dying in that fire and I am saving my stuff  

Why do you care? You don't own it and how is it destroyed? it's still readable and intact so it's fine. It's sure better than just a name scribbled on it. I'd rather have a drawing from an artist not some scribble. I think it's pretty cool

I don't think all Whitman were sold in bags. Whitman versions were just distributed to retail stores by Western Publishing, while the regular versions were distributed on newsstands by DC

Robert Crumb has talked extensively in interviews and made comics about the "sickness" of collecting, the obsession. There's a great interview with him and Terry Zwigoff where they talk a ton about record collecting and the obsession of it all but I can't remember what that was in. But here is a good interview with Crumb about his record collecting that covers most of it....

http://matsgus.com/discaholic_corner/?p=2048

There is a also CD compilation called "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made of" that has liner notes that go into the obsession of record collecting too that is a good read if you can find track that down.

For just the actual title itself, Keen Detective Funnies

Wow rich people are paying even more and getting ripped off. Good. Who cares.