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I believe that the Lone Ranger strip was also being carried in the Saturday London Free Press when I first started delving into the comic section in 1958(?). As a result the Lone Ranger remains among my very favourite cowboy characters. Dell's Lone Ranger title featured magnificent painted covers from February 1951 to September 1957 in issues #32-111. I have nineteen of these in my collection. Here are scans of my ten earliest Lone Ranger comics: 41 42 43 44 48 52 58 61 72 76

Trying to post about D ick Tracy on this board is also a struggle since the program objects to D ick. Incidentally, a roller derby babe in the Toronto area a few years ago was calling herself Dickless Tracy.

Another strip that was carried in the London Free Press in 1958-59 that I read avidly until 1968 when it was dropped was D ick Tracy. I seem to remember that it was actually on the front page of the Free Press comic section for a number of years. Harvey published D ick Tracy #25-145 between early 1950 and early 1961. I'm still a big D ickTracy fan but sadly I have only a few D ick Tracy comics in my collection: Of course I hope to add several dozen more over time!

Bloody hell! What a struggle! What should have been a five second copy-and-paste turned into a monumental battle. First of all I guess my linked pictures were http as opposed to the https the program here wants. I saw the warning and changed links to https. Still didn't work. Evidently the damn program wanted me to feed each block of text and each https image in piecemeal. Otherwise the program got confused as to what it should be formatting. For &*@^#~* sake! Screaming at the thing didn't help.

Scream! This posting program is just plain stupid. It gets confused when a poster attempts to post multiple images. You have to feed the images in one at a time like this 21st century computer is no more capable than a circa 1935 parking meter. Hmmmmm. I'm pretty good at working around the programming quirks of individual forums but so far my various efforts to work around whatever it is that the CGC posting program hates have met with failure.

My first exposure to comics was probably in the comic section of the Saturday London Free Press in the late fifties. My family didn't have a TV yet so print media was very important to us. The first strips to capture my attention were probably the Mickey Mouse strip and the Uncle Remus and His Tales of Brer Rabbit strip. Here are a couple of examples of the latter: The strip actually began on 14 October 1945 and ran in various newspapers until 31 December 1972. Paul Murry was the initial penciller on the strip but handled the job only until 14 July 1946 at which point he went to work for Western Printing. He was the artist of record for the first Dell comic mag based on Song of the South and also worked on the General Mills Brer Rabbit premium booklets. Murry was succeeded by Moores on the newspaper strip. By the time I encountered it the strip was being pencilled by Riley Thomson (1951-59), under whom Brer Rabbit acquired a less cutesy and more rascally look evident in the example immediately above. Bill Wright (1959-62), Chuck Fuson (1962) and John Ushler (1962-1972) followed on the strip. I'm still a fan of the Uncle Remus characters after all these years and I have dozens of copies of the strip in my collection today. I also have several Golden books, records and cassettes devoted to the Tales of Uncle Remus plus these two Brer Rabbit comics: Plus these three General Mills Brer Rabbit premium booklets: Best of all is this custom stained glass window featuring Brer Fox and Flower from Bambi in the door beside my model cabinet leading from my collectibles room to the upstairs balcony: This is the original image on which the stained glass window is based: And hanging on the opposite wall from the stained glass window is the original art for the 1972 rerelease of the Song of the South movie poster which I acquired through a Hake's auction about thirteen years ago:

Love those Tastee-Freeze premium comics. So cool!

I still love those Harveys! I'm going to have to have to scan through this thread though to determine which of my Harvey comics I've not yet posted.

You're correct in thinking that Hostess Fruit Pies (in fact any Hostess snack cakes) weren't generally sold in Canada back in the 1970's. Twasn't the Hulk though that I remember as being the top pitchman for Hostess in the Bronze Age. Aquaman and Mera were the ones that had me considering driving to Port Huron or even Detroit for American confections or whatever:

The serious issues with my Photobucket account that weren't resolved until earlier this month acted to keep me away from here. Potentially even more serious employment (or retirement) problems have also been an issue for me in the last month. My decision though is "Screw the bastiches! No, I won't be retiring either from this board or in the real world despite the far reaching conspiracies to make my life difficult. My plan is to keep fighting!"

We name our stuffed animals.

I just love DC funny animal comics including of course all the ones that are being posted in this thread!

Very impressive indeed!

Random House released this Xmas themed Dr. Seuss book in 1957: It's become an all-time classic and was turned into an animated movie for TV in 1966: Here's the trailer: All I can add is "Merry Xmas to one and all!"

I now suspect that Photobucket is trying to meet profitability targets for 2019 by reducing bandwidth expense in December. That's why I'm being denied the bandwidth usage for which I've already paid.

Iphone? What is this iphone thingy of which you speak?

Here's a good write-up on Al Fago: https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/fago_al.htm How/why some prefer Jim Lee and Rob Liefeld is beyond me.

That's what most annoys me about CGC. The company's existence has made the comics I want the most even more difficult to find.

A noble quest to be sure! I'm wondering though whether Flash 128 is special for you in some way? Myself I remember looking upon the half-page house ad for #128 as a kid with wonder and longing:

And with good reason!

And in my book they should be right up there battling Green Lantern, Simon & Kirby's Newsboy Legion and Sandman, and Black Cat for first!

Facebook? I can do better than that! I'll give ALL his posts "Likes" right here on this board. In fact I'll give out the little Trophies every time! Atomic Rabbit and Atomic Mouse comics are worth any and all smilies to me.

I'm not sure what Atomic Mouse 26 might fetch these days, but 68 "all new" pages for fifteen cents was an incredible value in 1958! I mean "Wow"! I would have been all over that as a five year old had I ever had fifteen cents in my pocket (which I never did).

MrBedrock: I've managed to secure access to a copy of Jim Lee's ultra rare X-Men #1! Yes, one of those highly coveted Marvel superhero X-titles! And because you're one of my very favourite posters on this board, I'm willing to trade you said X-Men 1 for those four Atomic Mouse and Atomic Rabbit comics you've pictured above. I know, I know, few comic fans these days value Charlton funny animal comics more highly than Marvel superhero comics, but I'm among those very few unenlightened comic fans. Therefore I'm willing to make you the type of offer you don't get every day!

You have a copy of Jim-Lee's ultra touted rare X-Men 1? Wow! I don't think that's one you'll ever be able to part with.