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Some of you may know me, some of you may not. Started doing comics thru the mail back in 1966, first comicon in 1967, opened my first comic book store in 1972. I am in dire need of hip joint replacement operations slated now for Oct 15 in LA - and can use your help buying a book if you find something which interests you. Am taking reasonable offers on a wealth of vintage comic books, original art, pulps and assorted related material in my eBay store http://stores.shop.ebay.com/BLB-COMICS Thanks for looking - a lot of fun varied stuff in there - and, again, am accepting any and all reasonable offers on anything listed. I have to finish raising a few thousand more dollars to pay for this myself. Was canceled by HMO Aetna them citing "undisclosed pre-existing condition" BS when asked by the surgeon if i had ever been in a vehicle accident and i related the story of being a passenger in a van accident coming out of Houstoncon 1973, written up as "On The Road" in the Dark Horse book Between The Panels. can you help me by buying a book? piece of art? something. deadline approaches Robert Beerbohm http://stores.shop.ebay.com/BLB-COMICS http://www.facebook.com/robert.beerbohm http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/public/default.asp?t=1&m=1&c=34&s=262&ai=81492 01 402 727 4071 mostly 9 AM to 6 PM daily - Or Leave a message http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYyttEu_NLU&feature=relateß

Ok boys & girls, was away from here for a bit, unpacking from heroeson, prepping for San Diego, etc - thought this thread would grow? wha' happened? was enjoying this immensely tis a fact America's first comic book was in print almost continuously from 1842 thru at least 1904 Heck, you never got to the and Fitzgerald editions which take over once Ben Day Sr (his son Benjemin Day Jr) invented benday dotted sheets for toning pic printing here, more fuel to play with Robert Beerbohm Comic Art PO Box 507 Fremont NE 68026 www.BLBcomics.com eBaystore: BLB COMICS ComicConnect http://www.comicconnect.com/?surl=19464 http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/public/default.asp?t=1&m=1&c=34&s=262&ai=81492 01 402 727 4071 mostly 9 AM to 6 PM daily - Or Leave a message http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYyttEu_NLU&feature=relateß

Steve Meyer was kind enough to send me this link (Mucho thanks, friend Steve) This thread story is a lot of fun, thanks for spending the time, would luv to sewe some of these other Flee stories referenced by others Am set up at Heroescon this week end, already seen a bunch of CGC-listeer regular types Just to set the history correct, Topffer's first version of this issued in Geneva Switzerland in 1828, first hit Paris in 1833, first English translation by Tilt & Bogue in 1841, those very printing plates brought to America summer of 1842 and then almost continuously being reprinted in America as late as 1904. Twas also issued in other Euro countries contributing to the origins of comic books all over the place, not just America.

early Plat stuff generally does not need backing boards

Ah, the question that has haunted me for years. Got an email, went to the web site, clicked the CGC THREAD on the left hand side, here i am, and how has every one been? me, my busted hip joints in need of replacement are accelerating in disintegrating - but all plans are still on for NYC comicon next week, booth 2503 leaving out Monday - they say they will have people there to unload my stuff. All that aside, my memory is very distinct, there were Nedors in there, like there was DC, Marvel, Fawcett, MLJ, Fiction House, etc - the kicker is not all the books had the Reilly stamp, many of the books had no Gilboy markings, and there are still plenty of collections accumulated in the 70s & 80s which are not slabbed, nor have they come onto the market I just noticed the WINDY CITY batch of #1 issues only has 3% of its numbers listed in the CGC directory - so sez this pedigree web site. Been in a lot of pain last few months, looks like i should get cracking on finishing up compiling the Tom Reilly chapter story - if you still want it best robert

and here is another Standard, and am wondering what the consensus might be whether it is Schomburg as well. Sure looks like it to me, but was unsigned:

Here is a fun Nedor i recently acquired - also with an Alex Schomburg XELA cover:

This is how we all like to buy a pile of old funny books, stack em up !!

and life is not complete in the eyes of most comic book collectors unless their get their daily Segar - so check out Beerbohm's version of "Have A Cigar...." with delectable Segar: From Sonnett Publishing 1931, this is the first Popeye book Here is a 1932 Popeye Segar from McLaughlin - has comic strips to paint in your self, with half the book pre-printed in color on the left, you fill in a B&W version on the right and here we have the back cover to Segar's Popeye and the Gold Mine Thieves 1935 published by David McKay, - this is one of the very last 10x10 format comic books

Here is a nice 1905 Stokes published The Tricks of the Katzenjammer Kids

Both from 1906. Antics published by Frederick Stokes BB and His Dog Tige & Their Jolly Times was the first BB comic book from Cupples & Leon same year. This is the first print 68 page edition.

Here you go Mark - some real Plats i picked up here and there last year This Outcault comic book published by Cupples & Leon came out in 1906 reprinting a decent selection from the strips short-lived run thru most of 1905 - a cross blend between the grittiness of Yellow Kid and the more homogenized Buster Brown, which had gone national a few years before. Outcault's Pore Lil'l Mose was published in 1901, not so much a sequential comic strip as RFO's latter stuff

i might be up for it once i recover from upcoming hip replacement operations

hey!!!! don't get all hyper technical with me....let's say...-shall we- that these titles along with the Comic Magazine titles were Centaur 'precursors' in that when the Centaur imprint started with books cover dated March 1938 that features and themes continued from these existing titles.. view it as the Chelser tributary and the Comic Magazine tributary merged into the Ultem babbling brook then became, when combined with the "fresh" water from the many new Centaur titles, the mighty Centaur River Babbling Berk (trust me- 'just go with the flow') I go with the current out into the Bay, sitting on the dock sometimes, My first Centaur i ever got, back in 1968 at that summer's Dallascon, was Star Rangers #15 with a long Eisner story i liked - and by the late 1970s had amassed about 100 of them including many of the fun ones, when Siegel & Shuster were discovered to have Superman proto in what became Centaur River, then collecting them really took off, and i had fun trading Byrne Xmens i had in depth to the tune of 8000 copies of each of many of them bought at 17 cents each half cover then trading "retail for retail" at upwards of $10 each, it was easy as shooting apples in a barrell trading Gold was out, SIlver was slow, Xmen crazy was upon us - and Byrne Xmens became better than gold to trade for all kinds of GOLD, so some 300 dealers were sending my comics company Golden age comics is trade for Xmens they could sell same day they showed up - the demand was insatiable, at one time i had gotten upwards of 300 Mile High books from Chuck in trade for multiple copies of Byrne Xmen - i miss that batch of Centaurs i had once amassed Thanks Jon, for looking this Killer McGee page up for me as being from Star Ranger #6. I think it neat to own a page from this most interesting of comics companies. It was a real detective hunt figuring out all the myriad layers what turned into Centaur. My 2nd Centaur i remember getting was i think CMO #2 which might be like their last book if i remember correctly I remember many fond talks with Lane and Gary Carter along with Bruce Hamilton and others way back when as some of us pondered how all so many disparate pieces of data fit together during trading buying selling sessions at the early comics shows. Exploring the books was fun, at that early stage seems no one bothered to examine the SWAP PAGES until one day some one buying & selling comics was discovered in one - then other early collector dealing ads were found. For those of us then exploring how comics fandom evolved in various incarnations over the decades, it was fun to learn. I think the history of the company has been ferreted out as best as we are ever going to do it, with Chesler also circling around the Major - and Chesler was a huge comics fan as witness his once proud collection which got broken up by people inside Farleigh Dickenson University NJ in the early 2000s.

Thanks Jon, my warehouse was moved a year ago, my Keltner index is not yet unpacked i still would have been in Star Ranger 6-12 with Keltner So, This Killer McGee page is from Star Ranger #6 Sept 1937 ?? So, this still doesn't prove you have them all, just that you maybe knew who to call - It is going to be up for sale, want a fair price for it, i am putting bucks together to get over to India for a hip replacement operation soon - can't afford America, HMOs are a bane upon this country, bumped me from insurance plan citing "undisclosed pre-existing condition" due to a van accident i was a passenger in back in 1974 - long story short, i am going thru stuff figuring out what might be going out the door in the short term till a reach my goal. so, am i on the wrong thread then? i should be on the Chesler thread? is there Chesler thread?

Thanks Joe, i was sorry i forgot the end time of your MM mag auction - bummer, nice Donald cover mid teens is what i want to remember on this Centaur page, good to know for sure it is not part of the first six issues. Maybe Rick or others can look thru a few issues as if it is hard to read their books -

Hello, I bought this Killer McGee Centaur page at an auction some years ago, but i misplaced the documentation which stated which Centaur this was published in. I remember Star Ranger being the title - twas wondering as those of you with nice collections of Centaurs peruse your stuff, could you maybe see which ish this was printed in? I would surely appreciate the effort

Hi Crowzilla Thanks for the numberID - twas later than i thought any body have ideas on the first one i posted of that couplet a couple pages back? , just got back a couple days ago from time in California following a good Wondercon in San Francisco wherein i always meet up with a ton of long time friends as well as make new ones Robert Beerbohm www.BLBcomics.com eBay store: BLB COMICS

I got these coverless Funny Pages a few years ago, they went into a box, my warehouse was moved a year ago, and these resurfaced while going thru boxes prepping for Wondercon. I was wondering if any one knew the number and month year date for each of these gems. Mucho Thanks This first one has its back cover: and this one is completely coverless with a tiny part of its front cover hanging like a chad at the top staple with the first page of The Clock story scanned here Robert Beerbohm www.BLBcomics.com ebay Store: BLB COMICS

This is true - BZ is a true fan - and from what i remember, youse guys ain't seen nuthin yet But to those fortunate enough to have gotten into Collector's in its heyday, it will always remain the most in-depth stocked comic book store there will ever be - and i know some will think that absurd, but then, they would have had to have seen the place, been in it, asked for different issues - these were the guys who pioneered "high grade" concepts as the only way to buy & collect and, for a select few, some of us got to go inside that vault - i saw a foot of Superman #1, more than a foot of Superman #2, a long time ago now in that galaxy far far away

Collector's Book Store, on Hollywood Blvd,was first comic book store to operate out of an old bank - Bank of America, in this case - they kept their good stuff in the walk in time vault Leonard Brown and Malcolm Willits were the owners, opening it in 1965, thereabouts Leonard passed on a few weeks back - Malcolm is still with us. Malcom was the guy who discovered who Carl Barks was for comics fandom, back in 1958

Just picked this one up: Robert Beerbohm www.BLBcomics.com

What is neat about this book to me, as a comics historian, is the June 23 arrival date stamp, when the distributor got it in to place out for sale. Sept cover date June 23 arrival three month lag time So many times i see references from people who date the books to when the date is printed on the book, what ever that may be When ever one sees a printed cover date on a comic book, always date it at least two months prior, and in many cases 3 months prior to cover date, for when it was on the stands initially for sale to be enjoyed by fans & readers. It is a rubber stamp for this arrival date - can't quite make out the letters following? Is that So. N.C. ?? - mostly i think one sees hand written arrival dates - rubber stamp usage this early indicates a busy distributor trying to save time = money Some times one is trying to date the appearance of some new technology debuts to when that same tech concept begins to be used in the comic books of the time span under scrutiny. A good example is when Atomic Bomb pics began in the comic books late 1945 - a huge avalanche soon after the two used in World War Two over Japan. But one has to date the stuff in the comic book several months in advance for proper context. This Capt America 6 was on the stands almost six months before Pearl Harbor. Stuff like this got American teens all worked up and PH was merely a trigger. June 23 - got on stands maybe a week later after processing Thanks BZ, more pieces of the puzzle fit into recognizable shapes by looking at the books, every new book which hasn't been shared contains some bit of data which helps one examining the arcane nature of comics archeology

the only one coming out of DC who won big in the end was the one who lived to be 100 years old: Jack Liebowitz every one else got screwed, ultimately