Hepcat

Isn't Sparkle City Comics still around? The company had big ads in the Overstreet Price Guide for many years.

Evidently it's a problem that's all due to a power outage at Photobucket. Hopefully I'll be back in "business" in a few days.

What the hell is wrong with Photobucket now? The Search function stopped working about a month ago and now everything seems to be down. It's even taking minutes to access the site and even longer for me to log into my account from both my personal computer and the library down the street. I'm in Canada. This is what I see in my Account Status: Account Type Plus50 — Get More Storage Member Since 18th Dec 2010 Your account is set to recur payments Yearly — Your next payment is on 12th Feb 2020 Please contact plus@photobucket.com to cancel your subscription Total Files Uploaded 13753 Storage Used 38.6 GB (51.09%) 75.6 GB Get more! Bandwidth Used 0 25.00 MB Go unlimited! Is the company doing updates or something? Has anybody heard anything?

Mmmmmm, those are nice! Especially the Atomic Rabbits.

Groan. Maybe some day. I really have to be in the mood to mess with my camera and uploading from the camera to Photobucket which over time has become quite the chore.

Yes, most Charltons were indeed printed on substandard paper which has a distinct tendency to tone with age. But when I checked the interior pages today of my two Atom the Cat issues which are from 1958-59, I was very pleasantly surprised. No dust shadows and they're off-white to white!

I've been participating in the TSN CFL Fantasy League for the last four years and I'm not afraid to say that I'm really good at it. At the start of the CFL Fantasy season in June my goal was to finish in the top fifty out of the 16,000+ participants I expected. But when I'd cracked the top forty with six or so weeks to go, I decided that I should be targetting the top ten. Then when I got to #13 with three weeks to go I realized that a finish within the top three was within my grasp! I had by this time noted that my seven weekly picks and those of the other top players had been almost identical for several weeks and it would come down to picking player A rather than B and player C rather than D in the last three weeks. Well I was the one who picked the bums while certain other top participants picked the guy who burned up the stat sheet! My three sub-par weeks in a row at the end of the season dropped me down from #13 overall to #23 out of 16,488 participants. And most annoying of all was slipping to second or third in specific sub-Leagues (such as One Empire in which I slipped to #2 out of 443 participants) after I'd spent all those weeks climbing the ladder to the top. Arrrggghhhh!!! While my late season slide knocked me down to second or third in several major sub-Leagues, I still managed to keep my grip on top spot in a number of very large sub-Leagues including these: 2017 CFL Fantasy (39 participants) Eskimo Empire Podcast (70) The Angry Birds (180) The Den (285) Ticat Fans (318 ) TSN 1040 Vancouver (197) I know I should be very pleased, but with 2033.1 points I was within 43.4 points of a top five finish! Had I avoided blundering with a couple of picks in any of the final three weeks including last week I could have got it done! But my crystal ball wasn't good enough and I didn't get it done. So I'm still racked with "would of, should of, could of" thoughts. Just goes to show that a fellow is never satisfied. Some say that's a good thing but....

Very, very true! And more Angel please!

While the fellow above is still part of my self-image, unfortunately my hot rodding days may be over and done. I had to give up on my decades long dream to get my 1973 Dodge Charger back on the road last month.

Deputy Dawg, one of my very favourite cartoon/comic characters!

Has anyone else been having problems with the Search function on Photobucket in the last few weeks? For example when I type "Batman 199" into the Search box, the Photobucket program translates my Search request into gibberish, i.e. "Batman%20199", and my Search fails.

Yes. That about sums it up in a nutshell.

Yours I hope! Then you'll be able to free it from its cruel and unfair imprisonment.

Overrated: Captain America Underrated: Fly, Jaguar, Rex the Wonder Dog, Howdy Doody, D ick Tracy, Blondie & Dagwood, Fox & the Crow, Goofy, Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost, Heckle & Jeckle, Brer Rabbit, Lorna the Jungle Girl, Kid Colt Outlaw, Wyatt Earp, Cave Carson, Sea Devils, Space Ranger, Felix the Cat, Deputy Dawg

Mmmmm! Joe Kubert goodness!

Here from my Adventures of the Fly 1:

I always admired the Kenner Presto and Sparkle Paint sets when I was a kid. Whenever I had money enough to buy one though, I'd always opt for a model kit instead. These days though I have a rather nice collection of the Kenner paint sets visible here on the right hand side of the pic below: Here are close-up shots of some of the individual sets:

A cool one shot:

My #128:

Hmmmmm. Well then I guess that some fellow overpaid for the ComicLink copy. These things happen when you really like a comic. And hopefully he does.

For whatever reason I picked up this outlier for my magazine collection some fifteen years ago: I must have had a pocketful of spending money that day I guess....

Wow! A 9.8 from 1950! Simply incredible.

Those factors seriously reduce that comic's eye appeal.

Unless of course the owner realizes that completing a run of Detective Comics is much too daunting (and expensive) a task and decides instead to refocus his collecting efforts on All Star Comics, Tracy, Felix the Cat, Blondie and Dagwood or Walt Disney's Comics and Stories.... Or model trains and pop bottles for that matter.

Here are a few scans of Four Color Comics featuring a favourite Disney character of mine: File copy File copy