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I wonder how many "Robin Corner Shock" covers there are?

 

Maybe he's just shocked by the folded up lower right hand corner?!?

Interesting question!

On Detective, if this is "shocked" enough, here's the first, Jan 1942

This is the first that really looks shocked, March 1942

On Batman, this one isn't quite shocked either, June-July 1942

Looks like it's an old ploy that didn't become a cliché until the 1950s.

Here's a gem from Dec 1950- Jan 1951

It looks like maybe Mortimer started it, Moldoff picked it up and used it as a standard cover element. Classic Moldoff example from March 1957

Jack

As to why this became common in Kanes' work only when he went to Marvel, I'm wondering if working on Spiderman had anything to do with it. Just as Kane brilliantly showcased (pun intended) GLs aerial acrobatics, so to might he have used odd perspectives to capture Spidey's angular abilities.

I thought he got started showing bottoms of noses when he was drawing Atom.

Here are 2 covers in a row

but the interior art often showed Atom hurtling up from below to whack the bad guy in the chin (usually) or nose.

Jack

 

Gotcha Jack. Sorry, I didn't understand. Now that you point that out I am reconsidering what this might be. Somehow I think actually this is a double image that the scanner created. As I examine the imprint it is identical, both in wording and image, to what is on the cover itself. It might be a scanner issue.

 

I'll re-scan it and see if it happens again. We'll solve the mystery!

That's a relief. There's a coarse grid of dots above the "ghost" of the bottom of the book up to the bottom of the logo too. Must be a scanner or computer glitch. A re-scan should do the trick.

Jack

It can't be a watermark on the book itself, can it? It extends past the spine. Were you scanning through a holder?

 

No, I scanned it raw. I can see a faint imprint on the splash page that makes up part of the image, but it looks like the wording is from the cover itself.

It must not be clear what I meant.

Look at the scan to the left of the "bird" finger and just above the bottom staple. The pattern continues on the black area to the left of the book. The mark can't actually be on the book, right?

What am I missing?

Jack

...the French-Canadian version of "Is This Tomorrow". ...

 

What a cool and unusual book!

What's that band at the level of the fingertips? A digital watermark? A holder?

 

I noticed that as well after I scanned the book. I think it is some sort of watermark that appeared becaue of the high resolution on the scanner. It's not part of an image that appears overtly on the interior, which is what I initially thought it was. Interesting.

It can't be a watermark on the book itself, can it? It extends past the spine. Were you scanning through a holder?

Jack

My latest acquisition for the collection: the French-Canadian version of "Is This Tomorrow". Not the best copy in the world, but then again this is a Gerber "8" so I wasn't taking any chances of missing an opportunity to pick it up.

What a cool and unusual book!

What's that band at the level of the fingertips? A digital watermark? A holder?

Jack

....

 

Thats absolutely right. Every year I find comics that are either unknown and not listed in OS. Or have just been overlooked. Unknown or forgotten books are a big thing I have in my collection. ...The biggest problem with trying to collect unknown comics is... no one knows. There's nobody to ask. Its not like ya can go up to someone and ask if they have a unknown comic. Every time I find one it by chance. Shear luck. I would guess its probably easier if your a dealer but I'm not and I've had pretty good luck at finding them.

I got very interested in the General Electric Adventure Series/ Adventures in Science series promos, and I still have no idea whether I have them all. Have they shown up in Overstreet or any other guide yet? (I don't have the latest editions.) Are there any experts here with a list of known issues? Maybe we could compare notes. Which is the best forum for this topic?

Jack

...

A complete DC collection has to be the ones made for sale.

Basically, they did so many promos, premiums, and custom comics (Silly Putty, Lightning Racers, Superman/Bradman, Flash Force 2000, Looney Tunes for Tyson chicken, McDonalds Commandrons, Captain Action, Loaded, Reloaded, Pryzm, Swordquest, Centipede, Happy Tooth, Twisted Metal, K-Mart Tasmanian Devil giveaway, Iron Giant, etc etc etc), that no-one, least of all DC themselves, can ever know them all. ...

One fact is indisputable - I may not have them all (no-one could ever be sure they did anyway), but I most absolutely certainly have the best collection of them in the world.

Sure -- I hope it was clear that I was kidding.

I'm also curious what you did about Cancelled Comics Cavalcade 1-2. Did you get first-generation copies?

Jack

....

 

In a nutshell, the Bradman family had a custom pressed comic drawn by Curt Swan with their son Daniel, his friend Andrew, and Superman on the cover. ....

 

I have no idea why the Twisted Metal or the Happy Tooth comics are so rare, but neither have ever cropped up on e-Bay, not even once in the last four years. But the Aquateers Meet The Super Friends comic has also never cropped up either, and I still don't have that one. It was a giveaway with snorkels and flippers.

 

Twisted Metal has a fan site, and forum, and the comic is so rare that they all think it's an urban myth.

Thanks!

The thought must have crossed your mind to have one copy of "Bat-Levine" created and printed -- cruelly creating your own urban myth and guaranteeing the only complete DC collection in one fell swoop!

Jack

Pretty wild site you have their Jack. Elementary fun, I'd say. Welcome to the boards.

 

Red

Thanks. I wish we had more time to work on it lately.

Suggestions of elements in comic books are gratefully accepted. Platinum to modern, although I prefer Gold and Silver Age sightings. Best of all -- provide a page or cover scan!

They'll go on a list to be added --- some day.

Back to the real topic, does Ian's collection include books (everything from Archives to DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comic Book Heroes) or just "pamphlet" format?

That's probably been discussed long ago -- a link would be jes' fine.

Jack

read this thread.

Thanks -- just what I needed. There's so much info in the archives that it can be daunting to a new guy.

Jack

What's the story on that one Ian? The guide says it's worth 3 bucks

 

Of course. And last year they said the Superman/Bradman comic was worth four bucks. And Twisted Metal was something similar.

 

And nobody (including me) has ever been able to get a copy of Supergear at even ten times guide.

Could some knowledgeable collector fill us new viewers in on the obscure promo books? I've never heard of Bradman and have no idea why Twisted Metal or the Tooth book are so hard to come by.

Thanks,

Jack