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It's odd but it's funny right? I mean, I laughed out loud when I saw that panel. Does that make me ... strange? ... No, I believe it makes you ... odd but funny... I laughed too. Jack funny but odd

Thanks. I try to find stories you guys would like. I'm not 100% sure about this one but I loved it. The cartooning is superior and the inking is super-slick. The humor works for me. I can't ask for more. The GCD credits this art to Al Walker,* a name I've never heard before and that's a shame - *For the Al who walks. Very strange story, Scrooge! I had no idea that there was material like this in Planet Comics, but since it all happened on Pluto it certainly qualifies. The penguin pulling a hat out of a rabbit is one of the oddest panels I've ever seen. Thanks, Jack

"How else to near the tower unnoticed?" Yeah, this get-up is sure to blend right in, Futura! The "woman in tube" cover was my first thought too, BZ. Thanks for posting this bizarre story, Scrooge. Jack

The line is funnier if you imagine it voiced by Sean Connery. Thanks for keeping this thread alive. Imagining it from Brian Keith, aka "Uncle Bill" of Family Affair, is funny/creepy enough for me. (Aren't you going to answer any of my questions, Scrooge? If you don't, who will? Do I have to borrow an award from BangZoom?) Jack

Finally, three photo covers. FC 921 I wasn't much of a western fan, and wouldn't have been likely to buy this one off the newsstand. FC 1199 I loved the Absent-Minded Professor movies. I was such a nerdy kid! (Who said, "Yeah, now you're not a kid!"?) Does anyone else remember that Flubber was sold as a toy? A translucent, Silly Putty-like polymer than tended to make a mess out of anything you left it sitting on too long. The sequel, Son of Flubber, was released after the end of the FC series but had a Movie Comics adaptation. FC 1210 What red-blooded American boy of the right age didn't have a crush on Hayley Mills? This was the movie that sealed the affair for most of us impressionable young lads. They even managed to have two pictures of her in pajamas on the cover! For those of you too old or too young to know the movie, Hayley played her own twin with fancy camera work, sort of like the Patty Duke TV show, which started soon after this movie. Unabashed review of the book is here. I've got to include this panel. Has slang really changed that much since 1963 that he could say this to his daughter? Jack

FC 349 There are some great Uncle Wiggily covers in the FC series -- this isn't one of the best. Does anyone know who drew this? No information (yet) at GCD. It doesn't look like Howard Garis or Walt Kelly (who was gone from the FC series by this time, right? The back cover is probably Garis. I like the artwork better than the front cover. Garis had a great old-fashioned style, even with the "modern" cloud-seeding gag. Jack

Same here. I got a dozen Four Colors this week, mostly in about VG, and am suprised that seven of them haven't been posted yet. These aren't knockout copies like most of the ones posted here, but solid, respectable readers. First three: FC 243 FC 289 Does anyone have a mutilated book with one of these "animated covers" working? Maybe you can post an animated gif! GCD shows Ralph Heimdahl (Pencils) Ralph Heimdahl (Inks) ? (Colors) ? (Letters) FC 307 Very heavy inks on many of the Warner Brothers covers like 289 and 307. GCD shows Heimdahl again. It's great to see that Alberto Becattini's long-promised data are showing up there. Jack

or maybe a Kuna-slapping cover. Why the backwards swastika? Because the US hadn't entered the war yet so it wasn't the "real" Nazis? Or just an error? Jack

Neat cover - and Black Orchid prototype? I've long wondered if Neil Gaiman may have been inspired by this cover when he came up with the human plant origin for Black Orchid. Not to forget Seymour Krelborn. Jack (FEEEEED me)

Sure. Nice dog ... except sometimes he does steal food from the table ... Y'know, you're supposed to cook those spleens before you serve them. Jack

Come to think of it, the Hydro-Man story may actually be continued from the Rainbow Boy story earlier in #15, not from #14. I remember reading about the unusual, early double-crossover. Man O'Metal is in #19 too, the only other pages I've ever seen. Very stylish look to the strip and quite a prototype -- Molten Man (from Spider-Man), Ferro Lad (Legion of SH), Colossus (X-Men), etc., but Doc Savage beat him to the punch, right? Thanks, Jack Thanks and RATS! Looks like the story is continued from 14 (true?), and those two are (I think) a bit harder to get. Onto the long-term want list they go. Jack (That #15 in the subject line was a clue, right?) Absolutely. I don't have issue 14 so I don't know if it's a continued story. Here's another feature in # 15.

It's in 15. (thumbs u Thanks and RATS! Looks like the story is continued from 14 (true?), and those two are (I think) a bit harder to get. Onto the long-term want list they go. Jack (That #15 in the subject line was a clue, right?)

HELIUM THIEVES in Hydroman? Woo! Which issue is this story from? I hope it's #19, because then I just have to dig it out. It could also be 14, 15, 17, 25 -- others? (You can always spot the helium thieves because they sound like "Stick 'em up!") Thanks, Jack

"De Structo & the Headhunter" Stardust story that thankfully was reprinted in the Fantagraphics Hanks book I Shall Destroy All Civilized Planets (a must have item, btw). Apparently the first print ran out quickly. I've been trying (not too hard) to find a copy for a couple of months and it's backordered everywhere for a second print. Who'd have imagined Hanks as a runaway best-seller 60-some years later? Jack

Once you pass 50 you'll learn the handshake -- you don't need to be part of the club. It won't be a secret though. Jack

Supergirl got back! Great run, well worth keeping. Jack

Infra-red vision. Sheesh!!! Was this its one and only appearance? Sharp copy! Jack

Can you imagine how collectible those pamphlets would have been? And if they had glossy covers and newsprint pages they would have been "real" comic books!! G-8, you batard! Jack

He means this quite literally, of course. He's already demonstrated that BZ HQ includes a time machine, which is how he got all these newsstand-fresh funnybooks. He'll probably stop by to visit Buck Rogers and use his Scan-and-Post-a-Tron to send them to us from the 25th Century. Jack

Jack, I have had most of these books for many years. When CGC first came around everyone was saying "you oughta get those slabbed, imagine what they would grade out as". I resisted for a long time. I liked having them handy and readable. Then some personal stuff happened and I realized that I should probably get them graded just to quantify what I had. So I broke down and did it. And I kinda like the fact that now that the books are holdered, my geek friends can't leave grubby fingerprints on them. Now you are asking if I am going to break them out and read them! And I really want to! Fletcher Hanks mania started after I sent them in. I am SOOOOO confused!!!!!!!!! My work is done here. Jack

So there is a reason I can't see them. Apparently Safari 1.3.2 and Firefox 1.0.5 for Mac do something similar. Thanks, Jack

Wow, amazing! No surprise that 9-10 with oven/concentration camp covers are highly sought. Flexo the Rubberrobot/man looks especially bizarre. He was only in #1-4 and never showed up again? I don't suppose you're going to break yours out of slabs to scan them, huh? Does anyone have story pages scanned? Thanks for showing these. Jack

... If you can't see that, then you may need to update your web browser, or the browser you're using doesn't support whatever he's doing. Hope you can see those images soon though, because they're quite nice. Andy I can't even see his single images in other messages. I can see the tabbed pages here, but no images on them. Maybe his server is blocked from here. (RedRaven, has anyone else mentioned having problems with your links?) Thanks, Jack

Can other people actually see RedRaven's images, or just empty spaces and frames like I see?Jack Okay, whatever you just did, that was awesome! ...oh, and those books are kickin' as well! Andy

Abiline? Good ol' Manhattan Stan probably hadn't been west of the Mississippi at that point. Jack