BLBcomics-migration

Does any one have a better copy of this they are willing to sell or trade off?

This is one of my personal favorites:

Here is another one, this one with a decent Lou Fine cover, also for sale:

I only have a few Fox comics currently. Here is one of them:

Tillies, Winnies, yes, indeed - good stuff, Maynard Those two titles i have complete Moon Mullins also sell well on eBay as there a couple of those i still need and keep getting outbid on I always wondered why there were only 4 Barney Google and Sparkplugs published 1923-1926 as it surely was one of the top 5 newspaper strips what with the International Derby Sparkplug was running in hoopla back in the day

Some one asked me re LB Cole where i had posted on another thread, I began collecting LB Cole in the late 1960s, long before the craze hit Back in 1975 at the El Cortez Hotel, LB Cole began coming to the San Diego comicon. he came every year until circa 1981 when i think his diabetes took its toll and he stopped coming. LB Cole I first met at his first San Diego comicon in 1975 as he was making the rounds up and down the rows of tables in the dealers room. I proudly announced to him i had some 400 comic book covers by him and inquired how many he drew. he responded with "over 1500 covers" I go so depressed that i would never be able to collect that many covers, i sold off my LB Cole cover holdings The next year i talked with him again, and he clarified that the 1500 number was his total cover output in comic books, PBs, the digest mags he worked on, etc The 400 was his comic book total and i almost had all of them so, i began collecting his covers again then the LB Cole craze hit...................

what is the URL for the LB Cole thread? I got the straight scoop from LB Cole himself - he was a huge comics fan - and i figure he only stopped coming to San Diego when his diabetes got too bad - he had a lot of fun matriculating at the comicon - one of my regrets was not buying a cover repro commission from him back then

MUTT AND JEFF BIG BOOK #2 1929 Cupples & Leon 144 pages came with a dust wrapper

DEADWOOD GULCH #1 Dell 1931 52 pager - a scarce comic book of original material by Charles "Boody" Rogers. Pre-dates Detective Dan by a couple years DEADWOOD GULCH was published by Dell, and contained material that was originally slated for THE FUNNIES 1929-30 series, the first news stand original material comic book. This is an original material sleeper, see also Bug Movies and Clancy The Cop #1 and #2, also published by Dell 1930-31. Dell was one of THE major forces in creating the news stand comic book, a concept that most collectors still do not understand properly. DEADWOOD GULCH is a rare comic book. Boody Rogers created SPARKY WATTS which ran in BIG SHOT COMICS as well as 9 issues of his own title, a beloved favorite of a number of collectors, under the radar of most collectors, though - i like Spark a lot. Boody also created BABE, DARLING OF THE HILLS which ran 11 issues

HAPPY HOOLIGAN #1 from 1902 by Fred Opper - pretty scarce these days and runs some 86 pages Happy Hooligan newspaper strip ran from 1900 thru 1932

Harlan still buys comics from me - he is still filling in holes from the 1940s. I remember when LB Cole used to come every year to the San Diego comicon from at least 1975 thru 1981 - every year - it was great chatting with him. My first time i met him at his first SD Comicon in 1975 as he wandered thru the dealer's room at the El Cortez i proudly informed him i had some 400 comic book covers by him and thought i had them all, ot close to it, and asked him how many covers he had drawn. LB Cole replied he had drawn some 1500 covers - got me very depressed as i thought i would never be able to chase them all down, so i sold off my collection. later i learned he meant ALL his covers: comic books, PBs, digests, etc so, i happily went back to collecting him again. then the rest of fandom caught on.............

harlan Ellison's piece in Real Fact #6 is a letter in the LOC page I believe his first published comic book work is a few scripts for EC right at the end I taped an interview with Harlan some time ago - the very first comic book he bought with his own money was NY World's Fair 1939 - an dhe still owns that same copy bob beerbohm

Here is Steve's high grade COMIC MONTHLY - this one with sequential story telling and not four single panels per page like the Goldberg FOOLISH QUESTIONS issue

Around the same time that Carter decided to run "the First Superman Cover" in CBM, the Thompsons also ran a similar piece by me in Comics Buyer's Guide See, Jerry Siegel had just died - and i had sent a solicitation to both pubs who sat on the article. When Jerry died, they both rushed to print both edited out about a third of the piece to fit their respective mags each cut out a different section to read the whole thing, you need to get both versions Carter placed some of my data in his piece on clues comparing that Superman cover i had rescued to Detective Dan - one also might want to track down CBM #50 with my "Big Bang Theory of Comic Book History", as well as "DC's Tangled Roots" by Will Murray in CBM #51 - these give more data as then known a decade ago on origins of how Superman came to be on many levels Yes, it is entirely possible that Norman Marsh should be "up there" with the other gents you mention - time for comics archeologists to get into gear, wot?

Here is the copy from SCOOP back about a decade ago, i wrote an article in Comic Book Marketplace #36 titled "The First Superman Cover" and discussed attributes re Shuster's first Superman cover. There is mention by Jules Feiffer in THE GREAT COMIC BOOK HEROES in a foot note regarding THE FUNNIES #1 as being 1929 and DETECTIVE DAN being 1933 We do know that Jerry & Joe began creating The Superman for Humor following a meeting with "the publisher" who came to Cleveland from Chicago for a business meeting with NEA, a newspaper syndicate. I think that publisher was none other than Norman Marsh, who lived in Chicago He was the creator of Detective Dan Jerry & Joe were still doing their fanzine SCIENCE FICTION, last issue #5 dated May 1933 if i remember correctly, don't want to go look at my files right now By Sept/Oct 1933 Dan Dunn Secret Operative 48 began as a newspaper comic strip distributed thru Cleveland based NEA Around that time, Humor's unknown "publisher" returned the Superman comic book to Joe, who, in a fit of angst ripped up the original art and thru it into the fire - so the story goes, Jerry retrieved just the cover out of the fire and that is what i restored and had double size posters printed up back in 1971 Everything we do have in the public record leans towards Detective dan being the first of the three known published Humor books - but we will never know for sure, the Rosetta Stone on this will most likely never be re-discovered.

SECRET AGENT X-9 #2 1934 david McKay, Publishers, a comic book 8x7 124 pages by Alex Raymond I do not own this #2, I have a #1, was bidding on it and spaced out its auction end date on eBay yesterday bummer, nice copy

I just went back and looked at the earlier postings - yes, I agree, WILLIE AND HIS POPPA is wonderful Opper - one of my faves as well - I also have the Nye comics history Opper pumped so much juice into - my favorite Opper piece i have is 1924 original Opper Sunday for Happy Hooligan with the Maud topper piece And i do not yet have that Alphonse & Gastone, one i have been hunting for a while how

Thanks. I think I'd have a hard time coming up with something you don't have, but some of my best plats are posted earlier in this thread (Mose, Alfonse and Gaston). My favorite plat is Willie and His Papa (also posted earlier in this thread). The BB and his Pets 26-pager is C&L. Here's a pretty nifty one--guest starring the Chinese Yellow Kid. Well, right off the bat here you go - a book i have never had before - will have to beat dem bushes around 'til i come up with one - this is a nice BB item - I like it, thanks for posting it!!

BUSTER BROWN AND HIS PETS not by Outcault 1913

BANANA OIL #1 by Milt Gross, creator of HE DONE HR WRONG, a graphic novel comic strip with no words - this OIL comic book published in 1924 is original stuff, not newspaper reprints, scarce please pardon the slightly skewed cropping on the scan

'ERBIE AND HIS PLAYMATES by Fred Opper - rare issued in 1932 by the Democratic National Committee

LITTLE SAMMY SNEEZE #1 bt Winsor McCay came out at Christmas 1905 - to me, the coolest Plat comic book cover of all time - and this is a nice copy!!

I just looked up what you ask about - that is just an omission - i had meant to come back to fill in a price and will make sure it is filled into the next Guide - who was the publisher? Stokes or C&L? sounds like you have a nice collection as well - can you post some of your treasures?

one of Steve's Yellow Kid at Mcfadden's Flats Outcault 1897, only early collection of the newspaper strips first super star

Here are Steve's Brainy Bowers 1905 daily strip reprint comicbooks - there are a few other versions out there as well - it must have been a good seller