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Holy Fudd -- fantastic.

The slavering commie spider is over the top!

From "American Security Council Press" -- any idea who was behind them? John Birch Society?

I'll have to watch for this book. Apparently there was an earlier edition (according to Overstreet).

Thanks,

Jack

Sorry, no gold...1968

Omigod, a kindred spirit!

As far as I know, this is the very first GE Adventure Series (the original title, before Adventures in Science).

GEC-174 from 1946, Adventures in Electricity Number One, "How Magic is Born…and How it Travels"; Roussos art (signed)

Jack

Here's another GE from 1954, The Story of Light

Okay, let my submissions begin...

 

Bill, are you sure you're down with the theme of unloved comic books here?

I'd love to have the two Alice books -- spanking cover, "The Giant Who Loved Coffee" -- great stuff!

In fact this Lars of Mars with the molecular structures in the background just landed on my want list. I'll satisfy myself with the nice scan for now.

 

I've posted the last two before. The Lash got one insult, the Super went uncommented on...

 

 

Your comic books are making my Adventures in Science books jealous!!

Jack

(except maybe Super Comics -- not too many people love strip reprints)

More Power to You!, the only comic book devoted entirely to an organometallic compound, tetraethyllead -- the compound in leaded gasoline that polluted the entire earth with lead. This 1951 promotional comic book from Ethyl Corporation sings its praises. Amazingly good art by John Rosenberger, the same artist who churned out lackluster work for the Archie superhero comics of the 1960s.

Jack

(Who can stand more of these?)

A home for all the misfit GA books that get no love....

I feel like I've been sitting on the Jeopardy panel for a year, and Alex just announced my category!

Two favorites from the General Electric series here:

Adventures in Science Series 17-5

Adventure Series 2

Jack

from the Isle of Misfit Funnybooks

Thanks for posting that. I'd never seen it before.

And it reminded me of something.

Yahoo! More mixed-genre covers!

Where's their ray-guns?

Jack

as Sif and the gang look on saying, "I sure hope that's his thumb!"

Jack

An odd promotional book request.

Does anyone have a good scan of Weird Organic Tales, a comic book produced for a theater company in Chicago?

Thanks,

Jack

Did this image ever appear? Is the host down?

Keep posting those oddball promo comics!

Jack

I could bump this topic every day for the next three years - I keep saying I'll scan every promo I've got (1000+) and put up a website for all to enjoy - one day. I'll throw them here from time to time while I'm working on that...

 

this one's a quasi-comic, harder than hen's teeth to find in grade, gotta compete with model train enthusiasts (sheesh - why would anyone collect that junk?)

 

"Fantastic amazing"

 

Does that say "bat raids"? Those pages must be a hoot.

 

Jack

 

Jack,

 

"bat raids" ; nothing new about bat raids really - October 1933 G-8 issue -

 

HAH! Fantastic amazing Bat-Staffel! There was a whole squadron of those bat-things?

Sorry about the temporary hi-jack.

And a temporary hi-Scrooge back atcha.

Thanks Sacentaur for pointing out that one of the Centaur books has reprints from earlier Centaurs. I never knew that. Keep on posting.

Jack

"Fantastic amazing"

Does that say "bat raids"? Those pages must be a hoot.

Jack

Here's the opening splash from AMF 1/2 (Everett's first published story).

 

Got this in the mail yesterday. Was a present from a lady friend of mine, she won it from VA Dave on eBay. Wasn't that sweet of her?

 

 

 

Can I have her number???..

Looks like #14 to me.

Jack

happy to help

Some new Atlas books from 1952.

Miss America by 1952 was all comics, with incredibly bright color and no oil transfer stains on the cover.

Great stuff!

The pink heart thing on the front of the boat looks obscene!

Jack

[can't blame Buzz for trying]

Nice book. I see the chains but what are those mines/spaceships hanging down from?

A. The logo.

B. Same thing that Spider-Man's web swings from.

C. Same thing that Daredevil's cable swings from.

D. Wonder Woman's invisible plane.

Jack

To get this thread back on track...

Good idea. Sorry to derail it.

Holy fudd! The little guy stabbing the artist looks like he could have come from R Crumb's pen 30 years later.

Jack

Shows what I know. I'm clearly outvoted by the regulars with 10x my posts and those that actually have Centaur books. Personally, I enjoyed Bob's runs of ACG covers, many of which I had never seen.

Jack

Don't other dealers post scans from their inventory?

 

In general, no they don't. Are their exceptions, sure. I wouldn't have mentioned anything about the couple books he posted here except that he already posted quite a few in the ACG thread with the explicit mention of them being for sale. Nor would I make any comment if Bob used some inventory book to illustrate some point about an artist or comics history.

 

I would prefer that this forum not turn into the marketplace forum as, having visited them on occasion, I believe it would make this forum less interesting. The architect created various "For Sale" forums to support board commerce and to leave other forums primarily commercial free.

Well said.

 

Agreed - I'm 100% with Adam on this one.

 

STEVE Got Larson?

Are we seriously telling Bob not to post on-topic covers in this thread? I'd MUCH rather see his cover scans than cute in-jokes or

Who cares whether they're scans of his stock or "personal collection", whatever that means for someone whose livelihood is built around old comic books? How would his cover scans contribute to this very interesting thread if he were to post them over in Marketplace, a forum that I never look at? Don't other dealers post scans from their inventory? Isn't every book here potentially for sale if the price is right? How often have we read,

"Is that for sale? "

" PM me."

Of course I haven't contributed anything but a pair of eyes to this thread. How do people posting their wonderful scans feel about it?

Good luck with the hip replacement, just the thing for schlepping long-boxes of comic books cross-country. I fear that one's in the cards for me some day too.

Jack

How uncalled for. Robert Beerbohm is an esteemed member of the comic community as an overstreet advisor and the person who found the tom reily (san Fransisco) collection with over 25 years experience in the industry and a very nice individual on top of that. He posted a few cool pieces it this thread the fact that he added that they were for sale should be overlooked unless you wish to purchase them.

 

I'm sure someone as thoughtful and polite as Bob would be happy to follow forum guidelines. There is a thread for members/dealers/anyone to list books that they have for sale on their website.

 

well, maybe i over-reached a bit on this forum. I am gearing up for a hip replacement operation which has dampened my going out of town to all the shows i had been doing. need to raise bucks

 

do i want to P.O. anybody off? of course not

The Metamorpho part of the cover is straight out of Jack Cole's Plastic Man play book, isn't it?

JPS

GCD credits Mystery Men #7's cover to someone named Charles Nicholas. I don't know who that is.

You've seen his work -- but which Charles Nicholas??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Nicholas_(comics)

"Charles Nicholas" is the pseudonymous "house name" of three early creators of American comic books for the Fox Feature Syndicate and Fox Comics.

Probably this one: Charles Nicholas Wojtkoski. He's also the Nicholas of "Nicholas Alascia" on about a zillion Charlton books.

Jack

Great-looking book.

Are the "headlights" on the couch arms a visual gag?

Any idea who drew the cover?

Jack

... It's also a rather risque cover. It looks like a cover gag that Marvel may have stolen from one of their adult magazines. ...

...

I claim foul. Even if it is a monster attacking you... you can't shoot him there.

Pre-code. No holds barred.

Jack

If I could have a full run of any title from any publisher, not considering the monetary value of having full Action or Detective runs, I'd take New/ New Adventure/ Adventure Comics. Even without the precursor titles, I'd probably still choose Adventure. Great covers and great variety in the contents. Even during the mediocre years of the late 70s to early 80s, it kept up the variety because it was either an anthology or couldn't hold on to a feature -- then faded out with those nifty little digests that have a strange appeal. (Probably some people here don't count those as comic books.)

I'm enjoying the wonderful scans of high-grade copies!

Jack

 

It's funny, the Flessel covers for pre-Batman Detective Comics are widely known as classics and are in heavy demand. Yet I believe his work on the pre-Sandman Adventure Comics is equally impressive, maybe even more exciting due to the broad range of subject matter (Flessel stuck to the "Detective" vs. "Adventure" themes very nicely). But for some reason, these early Adventures don't sell for the same premiums as the early Detectives.

 

I think they're a good bit scarcer, which is part of the problem. People don't even know of them except as a vague run.

...

 

What's strange is that she apparently wandered over from Standard Comics -- Moronica appeared in at least one issue of Starlet O'Hara in Hollywood (#1 Dec 1948 - #4 Sept 1949). I have #4 and she's in there. Did ACG buy up some inventory from Standard? Can you tell who drew the feature for ACG? (Maybe Odgen Whitney worked for Standard or Owen Fitzgerald moved from Standard to ACG??)

PS

GCD came back up.

Owen Fitzgerald drew the feature for ACG, and probably for Standard. Was Standard a precursor company to ACG?

Jack

 

You know you're really charting a path for your child when you name her Moronica.

What's strange is that she apparently wandered over from Standard Comics -- Moronica appeared in at least one issue of Starlet O'Hara in Hollywood (#1 Dec 1948 - #4 Sept 1949). I have #4 and she's in there. Did ACG buy up some inventory from Standard? Can you tell who drew the feature for ACG? (Maybe Odgen Whitney worked for Standard or Owen Fitzgerald moved from Standard to ACG??)

Jack

 

Interesting to see the borderless panels. I've read that those were mostly found at Dell/Gold Key because of their better printing facilities. Is that a myth, or did ACG also have access to higher quality presses and better craftsmen?

 

I don't think it has to do with production quality, the use of borderless white panels is key. Production-wise they can certainly do it with no background color and art-wise, it's simple great use of white space by Whitney who liked to do that (See Toth's comments for more on that).

...

I see -- it was borderless color panels that I was remembering. Carl Gafford is the one who gave me the information, quoted here:

http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/html/ds_2_23_h.html

Toth's commentary is a bit hard to read, isn't it?

Jack