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Jack, here's an update on your berries. I was reading my Buzz Sawyer collection by Roy Crane this evening and came across more berries which I'll share with every one - Thanks for lettin' me in on the hot cob, Scrooge. Includin' the butter and salt. Jack (lovely strip)

Nice overview and selection of details, as usual. Also as usual, colorful dialog to sneak into conversations! Who could resist, "Hey! Let me in on the latest hot cob!" and "...the leader of this cokey bunch of Reds...."? (What the heck is "cokey" besides its contemporary drug meaning?) Jack, the live man with size 13 shoes

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Gustavson is known for cool covers marred by distracting perspective problems. Take at look at this Funny Pages and tell me how many things you see wrong with it: Is that 2 Left hands on the guy with his arm twisted behind his back a the cage door? Sure is. Better not ask him for the next dance. Jack

Contortionist Comics!! Quite a long-legged hero-- or has he been nipping at the gingold again? Jack

But it's puzzling! Is that some kind of radioactive glow from the main green Nazi gorilla's gut, or a yellow and red halo around AM? And even odder, is that the main green Nazi gorilla's right leg in the foreground center? The beaver-shooting (to the delight of the Nazi officer and the assistant green Nazi gorilla on the right) woman has her leg behind it, yet AM is somehow in front of it while behind the main green Nazi gorilla's left leg, managing to punch his nether regions at the same time. The strange perspective is giving me a headache! Jack

Thank you. Nothing better than some Robin bondage and some meeeeooowww early Catwoman! It is of course the March 1952 issue (insert broken record here). Nothing like 50s Bat goodness! You're narrowing down the list. What's the count of the books you still need? Was this Batman one of the priciest ones? Is Four Color 386 #1? Jack

Nice! Unusual palette of colors. Whodunnit? Whitman?? Jack (world's worst art spotter)

HAW! great find. Maybe a little too much information. I can picture some forumites standing in line for Mr. Farmer's job though. Jack

Dagwood seems way off-model here. (What do you think?) Anyone know who drew the orginal material for the comic books? Jack PS. I like the angry fish. Looks like something out of Dr. Suess!

SEE!!! Even his Funny Stuffs are killer grade!!! It really is a fine cover that wouldn't be allowed on any short bus I know about! So if you ever run into one of those awful things, adamstrange, just send it my way to get it out of your sight! GCD says Ron Santi (?) cover, a cartoonist I know nothing about. Toonopedia says that he also created Bulldog Drumhead. Jack

How 'bout that Wayne Morrison? "First comic-book geek flame war (1947)" -- somebody call Overstreet! "I think Ghost Squadron is the berries" -- HAW! and apparently it's GOOD to be the berries Good find, Scrooge. Jack (strictly hubba-hubba stuff)

No Doiby Dickles, a big plus! Cool cover. Reinman don't get no respect, but he was good when he put his mind to it. Do you think that the planetarium hardware is a straight photo tracing? Jack

I recall seeing some type of art from Western publishing by Allan Anderson so it's possible he did comics work for them. Allan and Norm Saunders did almost all of the ZD covers. Thanks. Anderson seems right to me -- in fact, I've seen similar art IDed as his before. I'll remember all those artists names eventually. Jack I quickly checked Dave Saunders checklist of Anderson's work in the recent issue of Illustration # 18 but no mention of any Dell work was made. Back to "mystery artist"! Thanks, Jack

ROWR-BAZZLE!! My favorite cartoonist of all time! "Why, you goggle-gaited ol' gull!" Who else would turn a phrase like that? I'm reading some ca 1960 Pogo reprints now -- wonderful stuff. That back page seems really off-model. I wonder whether Kelly did layouts only or it was all by assistants.

I recall seeing some type of art from Western publishing by Allan Anderson so it's possible he did comics work for them. Allan and Norm Saunders did almost all of the ZD covers. Thanks. Anderson seems right to me -- in fact, I've seen similar art IDed as his before. I'll remember all those artists names eventually. Jack

Your FC collection continues to blow me away. Does anyone know who painted (airbrushed??) these Bozo covers? The quintessential rosy-cheeked kid. I used to dislike them but now I see them as strong archetypes of their style. Same artist that did many Ziff-Davis covers? Jack

Was John Buscema saving himself some time here, or is that just a Mighty Standard Thor pose? Jack

Oopps, forgot you had to own it to show it. It's just a book ending today on eBay. I saw it and immediately thought about the short bus! If that rule is enforced, I'm gonna suddenly get mighty quiet. Jack

The little giant! I'm glad that he cheered up after the defeat enough to draw this demented monkey. Jack

I like the crazed monkey! He has sort of a cubist face. Should I have heard of Stephen Douglas? Jack

Harold again! How extensive was his collection? It's not a for-real pedigree, is it? And why is that dog disguised as a kangaroo? (Maybe that's the joke.) Jack

He's carrying a box just like young Gunga -- but he's a mime! ... You know what tipped me off? His mime partner, the woman in the magenta jump suit, is trapped in a glass box. What I can't figure out is why they're all so HAPPY to find a giant spider delivering her litter on the path in front of them. Are they all grinning, or that just the resolution of the scan fooling me? Maybe they're entomology students working their way through school as street mimes. Jack (A bee in his bonnet could explain how the back mime is levitating his hat. Maybe it's Michael!)

How strange! I wonder why they did that? Do you suppose that either the comics or the text stories were already prepared for another format and they just pieced around them? GCD can be excruciating at times, but this would be a good case of asking for forgiveness rather than permission. The 5 features would be listed in the order they first appear in the book. Pages look like a 60:40 split, so the page counts would be Cicero = 0.6 x 8 = 4.8, Frog Prince = 0.4 x 5 = 2.0, and so on. If you had it scanned cover to cover, I'd index it! Another good write-up of a title I'd never looked at. Jack

He's carrying a box just like young Gunga -- but he's a mime! Jack