Hepcat

Why? :shrug: Every discerning collector has a copy Yeah, but every obsessive-compulsive discerning collector would be looking to upgrade that copy.

Now why would you want one for fifteen cents when you can get the same comic for a dime?

Pity. They're good.

Legendary Winnipeg Blue Bomber coach Bud Grant's name was added to those of QB Ken Ploen, OL Chris Walby, FB Gerry James, WR Milt Stegall, QB Dieter Brock and HB Leo Lewis.on the Blue Bombers' Ring of Honour at halftime during Friday's game against the Edmonton Eskimos: Here as well is a video clip of Coach Grant's appearance when his statue was unveiled outside Winnipeg's Investors Group Field in October 2014: Here are some excerpts from Bud's simply phenomenal career: 1. He had poliomyelitis as a kid. He accordingly took up sports to help strengthen his leg muscles! 2. He lettered in three sports at the University of Minnesota - football, basketball and baseball! Twice he was All Big-Ten in football. 3. He was drafted in the first round by the Philadelphia Eagles in 1950. But he was also drafted in the fourth round by the Minneapolis Lakers though! He chose basketball and played 35 games for the Lakers in the latter part of the 1949-50 season. He stayed with the Lakers for one more season in 1950-51. 4. He then realized he would never achieve much in the NBA. He elected to switch to football and joined the Philadelphia Eagles for the 1951 season. He played defensive end that season leading the Eagles in sacks. 5. He switched to wide receiver for the 1952 season and was second in the NFL in receiving yards with 997! He then thought he merited a healthy salary increase. The Eagles disagreed and told Grant to take it or leave it. He opted to leave it, and instead signed with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers for more money. 6. He played both defensive back and offensive end for the Blue Bombers for the next four seasons. He led the Western Interprovincial Football Union in receiving yardage in 1953 and 1956, pass receptions in 1953, 1954 and 1956, and was named a W.I.F.U. all-star in 1953, 1954 and 1956. 7. He still holds the CFL record for most interceptions in a playoff game with five! 8. In 1957 he was named the head coach of the Blue Bombers at the age of 29! When later asked how long it took his former teammates to realize that he was now the boss, he replied "About five minutes." 9. He coached the Blue Bombers to a Grey Cup berth that very first year in 1957 and then again in 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962 and 1965 with the Blue Bombers emerging triumphant in 1958, 1959, 1961 and 1962. Ironically all six of those Blue Bomber Grey Cup games were against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. 10. The custom of Blue Bomber linemen playing games in sub-zero November temperatures with bare arms against their similarly bare armed rivals with the Edmonton Eskimos may have originated during Bud Grant's tenure in the fifties. Simple intimidation "What, you call this cold?" Those were the days when the Western final was a best of three game affair played over the course of eight days. Football players were tough in those days. 11. He was offered the job of head coach of the Minnesota Vikings in 1961. He turned it down at the time, but relented and accepted the position in 1967. 12. He then engineered a rare trade between teams in the separate leagues when he acquired QB Joe Kapp from the British Columbia Lions in exchange for Canadian WR Jim Young. Young would go on to earn the appellate "Dirty Thirty" with the Lions and was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame after retirement. 13. He wouldn't allow heaters along the Viking sidelines during games. He wanted his players to stay focused on winning the game and not warming up by the heaters. When you saw the Vikings standing like ice giants along the sideline in their purple cloaks while the other team huddled miserably by their heaters, it was pretty obvious which team would win the game! 14. When many players took to celebrating TDs with outlandish antics in the end zone in the late seventies, Viking players did not. When a reporter asked Bud whether there was a team rule prohibiting such celebrations, his reply was "No, there's no such rule. They just better not." 15. Bud Grant didn't like to see players fidgeting during the national anthem. He thought that standing respectfully at attention would earn not just the respect of the fans but also of the players on the other team. He accordingly had giant defensive end and former National Guardsmen Carl Eller lead his Viking teammates in national anthem practices. 16. The player Bud Grant considered to be the best he ever coached in either league was Leo Lewis who played halfback for the Blue Bombers between the years 1955 and 1966. Leo had rushed for 8861 yards with a remarkable average of 6.6 yards per carry. You can therefore imagine Bud's astonishment in 1981 when he was told that a fellow named Leo Lewis had walked into the Vikings' training camp asking for a tryout. The applicant was the son of the Leo Lewis that Bud had coached in Winnipeg. Leo Lewis III not only made the roster that year but played for the Vikings as a wide receiver and punt returner until 1991. 17. Bud Grant had a fear of flying. His Blue Bombers (and of course Vikings) always flew to their games though. "The players sleep more restfully in a hotel than they do on a train. I don't matter." was his explanation. 'Nuff said. Here are some scans of CFL cards from my collection featuring Bud Grant: 1954 Blue Ribbon 1963 CFL Coins 1964 Nalley's CFL Coins

I just can't abide H.G. Peter's art, period.

By the end of the run in early 1949 the artwork in Flash Comics was getting pretty good and foreshadowed that of the early Silver Age.

Here are six more of my Tom and Jerry comics: 205 Random House File copy 207 208 209 210 Random House File copy 212

As a general rule I really dislike photo covers. One of the reasons is that they appeal to the movie/TV groupies who otherwise have no interest in comics. Me though I actually like comic art.

This should be good! Looking forward to it.

Good eye! I think you're right.

That's a great looking copy of the first issue (even if it is one of those dirty, rotten Four Color's). Oh no! I'm sorry. I goofed.

Here are scans of my only comics cover dated June 1956: 96 143

Back in 1959, the first and only two comics I can remember buying were Dells. Here are scans of my present day copies:

Silver is boss cool! I have only this one though and it's not among the better covers:

I imagine we all loved cereal premiums as kids. I mean what red-blooded kid could resist the lure of the words "Free Inside!"? The first one I remember coveting and getting in 1958 or so was the baking powder powered submarine. I remember how I excitedly got my mother to fill its fuel tank with baking powder and then watched with wonder after letting it loose in the bathtub! These days there are only a few cereal premiums I actively collect. The oldest would be my set of 86 comic character pins that were distributed as a premium in Kellogg's Pep cereal in the 1945-47 period. Then I collect the Disney comic booklets that were included in Cheerios in 1947 such as these Br'er Rabbit ones: Then the Disney comic booklets that were included in Wheaties in 1950-51: Since I avidly collected the 1962 Post Cereal Baseball, 1962 Post Cereal and 1963 Post Cereal CFL cards as a kid, I still collect these today: 1962 Post Baseball 1962 Post CFL 1963 Post CFL I also collect the Flag coins that were distributed within General Mills' cereals in the mid-sixties: And the Kellogg's Monkees coins from 1967 (not because of any liking for the Monkees but only because I collect all premium coins): One of these days I'd like to acquire a bunch of Twinkles cereal story boxes because I collected the stories avidly for a few months in 1960-61: I'd also like to take up collecting the hockey photos that were printed on the back of Chex cereal boxes from 1963-65: What's put me off collecting these so far is the difficulty of finding really nicely cut cards, plus the preponderance of Maple Leafs and Canadiens in the set with no Rangers or Bruins at all. Then of course the Nabisco dinosaur figure premiums from the late fifties are tempting: In the meantime, I have these two books: The books unfortunately don't necessarily exactly reflect how it was in Canada at the time. Moreover I just don't remember too many of the cereal premiums overall. Because they were in stores for a couple of months and then disappeared, they didn't burn themselves into my memory as strongly as did the comics, magazines, bubble gum cards, premium coins, model kits, etc. that have been the main focus of my collecting efforts to this point. Neither have cereal premiums been as well catalogued as board games or lunch boxes let alone the other collectibles I mentioned.

Here are scans of six more of my Tom & Jerry comics: 193 195 196 199 200 202

While I've bought a lot of comics including perhaps some of the Daffys from Harley over the years, we're not related. The Bugs Bunny 1 I bought off the wall at Dragon Lady Comics here in Toronto around thirteen years ago.

Like you I just continue pecking away at my Want List, to which I often add as well. But I don't even set long range targets, whether ten or however many years. I just keep buying the comics and other collectibles I like and thus adding to what I have.

Wow! That's a really nice old one.

I dunno.... That's a Duck comic if I've ever seen one.

Rootie Kazootie rules, and in 3D to boot! Awesome!

I can't say I have any of those but I have these additional ones: 94 96 103 105 107 109

Mmmmmmm, wow!

its a good addiction...run with it! I've always told myself that comics were preferable to heroin or cocaine. I've not been able to find any hard evidence to support my thinking though so I'm soliciting expert opinion.

Alright then. I'll drop my asking price to $75,000.