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    Have a Cigar! Golden Age only....!

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    On 4/3/2024 at 2:22 PM, The Black Hand ® said:

    https://stevenbrowerwritings.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/hello-world/

    Goof article on George Olesen

    There are few comic book creators whose careers span 60 years, and they are generally well known within the comic book culture. Even more rare are those who both wrote and illustrated their own stories. George Olesen fits that bill, yet rather than a household name with the comic’s community, his name barely registers. Although he illustrated The Phantom syndicated daily strip for over 40 years, he began it as a ghost for fellow artist Sy Barry.

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    Olesen was born on December 6, 1924, in Bay Ridge Brooklyn, New York.  His mother registered him late for kindergarten at PS 102, and as a result there was no desk provided for him. “Two kindergarten teachers came to me and bent over and they said they were sorry but I didn’t have a chair. But that changed my whole life. They were sorry but my mommy brought me too late for a chair. So I had to stand up and draw on the blackboard and they showed me how to draw on the blackboard. And therefore I had a special place.” The result of this was that Olesen soon became the “school artist” for the entirety of his public education experience.

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    Olesen attended Manual Training High School (now Brooklyn Technical High School), where he continued his art studies, creating murals for various productions of Gilbert and Sullivan. He also worked on the school magazine and yearbook. “I got a real broad education. I just got a great deal of more training then I was scheduled for and it came in very handy when I got to New York and my actual work where they paid me.”

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    Immediately following graduation he enlisted in the military service at age 18. At 6 ft 1 1/2 inch he was too tall to fly fighter planes so he was trained as a B24 pilot on fuel supply duty. Soon he was flying across the globe supplying gasoline to the US Army Air Force. “My first major flight was across the Atlantic to Greenland, from Greenland to Scotland, to Wales, to Italy, and then across North Africa, to Cairo, to Bethlehem to Southern India to Western India and then into Middle China, and then I went back. My base was in Western India and I flew from there on a day to day basis,  (providing) aviation gasoline into four of the major airbases.” While stationed there his talent became know and upon request began drawing cartoons that parodied officers and enlisted men on the base. These were soon hung up in the officer’s mess hall, and became a big hit. So much so, that when Olesen didn’t provide one on a daily basis, his superiors would seek him, and would inform him who they wanted him to characterize. “If I didn’t put in a cartoon every once on a while, they came by and hinted that they hadn’t seen a cartoon. They would say, ‘What happen

    That's a great post, full of nice info on it :)

    This week in your collection?

    in Comics General

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    On 3/4/2024 at 4:03 AM, JTMasterJedi said:

    Recently won these for absolute steals in bids. These are my first graded comics in my collection. The foil variant for Vader #1 was a Brazil exclusive, and honestly I feel like it is one of the best covers out there for the 1st phase Vader #1. Pictures don't do it justice. The foil makes it look gorgeous. And I only recently learned that it is a Pop 1 too. Shadows of the Empire #1 is one I really wanted to add to my collection as well. I love it.

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    Nice. Once I sold a copy on Ebay.

    ComicConnect's Next Event Auction has started posting books !

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    On 3/4/2024 at 6:17 PM, szav said:

    Were you given a payment date ahead of time?  HA takes a while too but it’s very explicitly stated well ahead of time on what date you’ll be paid.

    No, I wasn't. The main problem was with their payment method, something called bill.com (that no one told me was going to be used when I consigned). It continued requesting me a document number that only companies have (even though there was an option to choose if you are a person or a company)

    After one month of several email exchanges and complaints, someone from CC did himself my registration and on bill.com. After that I was informed that two of my books were not sold and if I would like to keep waiting for the payment or to do something else with them. It was also said the payment would go through a review process. I then asked which books were not sold.

    That was a week ago. There was no answer about which books were not sold. In the meanwhile I contacted the consignments guy and he answered my question. A few minutes ago I sent another email asking about the current status of the payment's review process.

    Comic book collecting with a foreign variant focus

    in Comics General

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    It's interesting how some ideas can repeat themselves after long time periods. Not only they can re-surge after decades, but also in far away locations, dozens of thousand of kilometers apart.

    Take for instance this Brazilian The Phantom n°15 that I acquired more or less recently. As can be clearly seen, the basic idea is to show a big Phantom on the background, watching over a lonely ship traveling through ocean waters (continues in the comments):

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    By the late 80's, the Australian The Phantom magazine had recently changed their design style and started to produce covers with greater variety of themes and visual styles. A few years after such change, the Australian artist "" had a practically the same idea as Lutz had thirty five years before. Once again, one could see a big Phantom in the background, albeit just from neck and above this time, watching (more explicitly now) the lonely ship crossing the danger waters of the ocean :)

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    I would say the bigger difference by far is the darker color scheme adopted in the Australian publication.

     

    P.S: I  just did a selling thread comprised mostly by foreign comics, in case anyone is interested:

     

    Comic book collecting with a foreign variant focus

    in Comics General

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    On 2/18/2024 at 9:13 AM, BuraddoRun said:

    Found this at a lcs Friday.

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    A Russian comic on a local comic shop?  Might will never happen. Very nice cover for a first issue :)

    On 2/20/2024 at 11:00 AM, GermanFan said:

    2 German issues from 1968 and 1974.

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    Two expensive books!

    On 2/19/2024 at 7:05 PM, Yorick said:

    I'm always on the look-out for Matt Baker (artist) issues.

     

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    On 2/19/2024 at 7:05 PM, Yorick said:

    I'm always on the look-out for Matt Baker (artist) issues.

     

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    I think one of his covers was used here. I will check latter.