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HAW! Makes you wonder how the poor guy chews his ambrosia in the afterlife! Great piece of Barks memorabilia. I'm surprised that it didn't sell for more. (The auction title really did make me wonder what I was going to see.) Jack

Watch it there -- some of us think Peter Porkchops IS funny! Of course, everybody loves Dodo and the Frog, right? Jack

My favorite of your nice batch. Thanks. Nicest copy for sure, but Yogi never appealed to me much. The painted Santa cover is more of a grabber for me. 124 -- Nice early one. Of course, you can have them back for a me-e-e-elion dollars, now that they're in big demand. Jack

I don't know where to put these. Here? Short bus? Duck thread? Bangzoom's thread? I stopped at The Great Escape on my way out of Bowling Green, KY, last night. Nice shop with about half comics and half music. They were doing a brisk business. I spent a while pawing through the cheapo bins then looked at some misc -- I couldn't resist these Peter Porkchops. Reasonable prices after 20% off for buying a good-sized stack. Peter Porkchops 21 May-53 Peter Porkchops 38 Jul-55. Unusual cover with all the empty white and light blue space. (The light blue didn't scan well but the scanner made a little light foxing look like advanced leprosy.) Peter Porkchops 45 Sep-56. I like this one best of the bunch even though it's sort of wordy. Already posted on the calendar thread in General. Peter Porkchops 51 Sep-57. Nice, simple cover with very "thick" inks. Reminds me of the fan favorite cover of Donald Duck shooting a bee off his beak. Jack

Fabulous! I agree about the covers -- do you think this one is a team effort with Peters on Man o' Metal and Everett on Hydro-Man? Not as gooped up with captions and logos as some GA covers -- at least they're out of the way. One of the few Golden Age sets that I'd consider chasing. Far enough off most collectors' radar that the prices aren't too crazy. (OK, maybe I'd wait and buy each issue after ciorac has it -- working on a full run or just selected issues?) Jack jack, a couple are hard; i've had one hole missing in the 1-15 run for a LONG time now, and never a sniff at it. So much for that half-baked idea. Billy P can't find one = no way in the world I could accumulate a set. What's the tough one, or would you rather not draw attention to it? Jack

I should just give up on shopping Four Color until Scrooge is over his manic acquisition phase, but I stumbled onto some nice ones at a shop in Bowling Green, KY, yesterday. I bet I could have found more if I had looked under the book titles, but it was getting late and I had a drive ahead of me. FC 1266, Feb-62, Spike and Tyke Not posted here before. Too bad about the edge tears -- worn but clean copy with nice pages. These have been pictured here before but as long as I'm at it: FC 1104, Aug-60, Yogi Bear goes to college, one of the cleanest issues I have in that number range. I had a tough time trying to make the scan colors look like the book colors. FC 1154, Dec-60, Santa Claus Funnies, goofy painted Santa Claus cover. Almost as nice as Yogi. FC 1354, Jun-62, Calvin and the Colonel, last issue. I thought this issue was scarce, but Gerber only gives it a 5. And three ebay wins: FC 1181 FC 369 and 392 -- element covers! (sort of) Nicely done painted covers. Jack

Fabulous! I agree about the covers -- do you think this one is a team effort with Peter on Man o' Metal and Everett on Hydro-Man? Not as gooped up with captions and logos as some GA covers -- at least they're out of the way. One of the few Golden Age sets that I'd consider chasing. Far enough off most collectors' radar that the prices aren't too crazy. (OK, maybe I'd wait and buy each issue after ciorac has it -- working on a full run or just selected issues?) Jack

Interesting style. Who's Who says SILVERMAN, LAWRENCE MAGAZINE ENTERPRISES JUDY AND THE MAGIC CHALK (pen/) late-1940s > 47 48 49 Interesting career. I don't want to quote the whole bio, but he animated for about 10 studios including Disney, Terrytoons and Fleisher. That must be where Judy's Betty Boop look comes from, plus an Out of the Inkwell-type gimmick. You mention Harold and Gandy Goose, but Winsor McCay's Gertie predates them all (came up on another thread -- or was it here? -- recently). Jack

Scrooge's splash must be from 85-87, you think? My scan is deceiving somehow but on the actual paper copy, it's clearly readable as 85 not 88. D'oh! I read it as 88. Gassy Half-Pint?! Fortunately, not a suitable nickname for anyone on these boards. Jack

WOEfully underindexed. No info at GCD or Overstreet. I only have 3 Popular Comics, none in that range. Scrooge's splash must be from 85-87, you think? Great splashes, but I like Kelly's Gremlins better. Thanks! Jack

Very hard pressed. Once you get past the goofiness, he is tops! Not another pressing thread. Is he trimmed too? Jack On second thought, please don't answer that

good to very good range? Probably a legitimate half-guide price. Very nice indeed! Jack

Depends half-off of what starting price ... Nice pick-ups all around (thumbs u This could have been from Mile High, eh? 10 x guide x 1/2 Jack

IN THE HALF-OFF BOX?!?!!? Now I'm jealous for sure. Jack

What are you going to do about "Series 1"? Ignore it? Second mortgage? Jack At this point, it probably seems obvious. Yeah, it's been on the back of my mind for a while but never got started. In December I picked up a stack of 20 to see how I liked it. I did. Then in January I bought a lot of 32 off eBay and I liked them. Last weekend at a local con, I picked up another 20 and still liked it. Yesterday and the day before, I cleaned out the back stock of a local shop and picked up a stack of 270 (the above books I posted yesterday and today are just the tip of that huge stack. I only scanned those we hadn't posted yet). Flatrock is sending me a few and Jack generously is trading me some of his doubles ... so, yes, I've been bit At least, over this past week, I picked up or arranged to pick up about over 300 of the 1,322 books in the series. I feel better with the headstart.

This one actually made me laugh -- great cartooning! The bubbles somehow make it funnier, but why are there bubbles? Am I missing a visual cue? Jack

Beautiful! Who did that distinctive lettering like the Danger sign? Ernie Hart? Vince Fago? Jack

These are terrific! This one seems like it would be pretty scary to a child, but then again, it's no nastier than classic fairy tales like three little pigs and little Red Riding Hood. Jack

Nice bunch -- I was hoping we'd see more detail than the group photos. Of course I like the Picture Stories from Science -- yours look sharp! (Mine are down in the fair to good range.) I don't have the World history 2. Who's the character in blue behind Black Cat? Great Plastic Man! Jack

Thanks -- you are really on a roll! It's amazing how the covers with really sharp cartooning like these two shine next to some of the lackluster (in my opinion) covers like Taffy and that embarrassing ersatz Krazy Kat. This painted cover has a lot of appeal too. Jack

I've read that some of the later ones, when the series was sputtering out and numbers are missing, had very low distribution and are scarce. Most notoriously, Andy Griffith #1341 is apparently one of the last books that Four Color collectors usually find -- Gerber 7. The only other 7 I see at the end of Gerber's list is Nellie the Nurse #1304. Jack

Quite a Four Color score you've had lately! It's so aggravating to have to actually pay money for some of these titles. Are there actually Lolly fans out there? Always one of my least favorite strips as a kid. This one I like better -- maybe partly nostalgia. I liked the cartoons as a kid (the mysterious planet Mulimula) -- the comic books that I've seen are nicely drawn and the stories aren't bad either. Jack

and here're the rest of 'em. What a bizarre cover! Exactly what force is it making the icicles droop "down"? The nearest gravity would, I suppose, make them point toward the Earth and Moon. Odd, and a surprisingly DC-like cover. Is that a signature at lower left? GCD says "Joe Maneely?" w/ data from expert Mike Vassallo, but the signature doesn't look like Maneely to me. Jack Does not look like Maneely art. The sig is typical of Mort Lawrence (capable of very good stuff) and that's who AtlasTales credits. Thanks. Even though I'm the World's Worst Art Spotter, I didn't think it looked like Maneely, which is why I was trying to read the signature. Mort Lawrence matches the letters I can read. That must be an transcription error at GCD, since there's no way in the world that Doc V would misattribute a Maneely cover. Many Atlas Tales credits are his too. Jack Still no reason to cancel the sale, Billy. What time was that?

and here're the rest of 'em. What a bizarre cover! Exactly what force is it making the icicles droop "down"? The nearest gravity would, I suppose, make them point toward the Earth and Moon. Odd, and a surprisingly DC-like cover. Is that a signature at lower left? GCD says "Joe Maneely?" w/ data from expert Mike Vassallo, but the signature doesn't look like Maneely to me. Jack i guess i'll get the run up over in the marketplace later tonite in light of this observation. Pennies on the dollar is my advice. What time? Jack

and here're the rest of 'em. What a bizarre cover! Exactly what force is it making the icicles droop "down"? The nearest gravity would, I suppose, make them point toward the Earth and Moon. Odd, and a surprisingly DC-like cover. Is that a signature at lower left? GCD says "Joe Maneely?" w/ data from expert Mike Vassallo, but the signature doesn't look like Maneely to me. Jack