Weird Paper

Picked this up at Long Beach Comic Con over the weekend - Bill Everett story and text illos, plus 2 Tarpe Mills stories.

 

Thanks to Terry's Comics for the excellent deal on this mid-grade book (decent paper for the title, too), one that I can't ever recall seeing in person before.

 

Just added an Al Williamson Eerie #5 page to my CAF gallery:

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=692272&GSub=105525

I put a mess of stuff on my website (Adam Hughes, Sal Buscema, etc) but thought I'd show these here as I'm kind of fond of them and I think they're pretty different from the usual stuff we see. Both are from 1939. Not every day you see a self portrait of Uncle Sam (James Montgomery Flagg) in a bathing suit!

 

 

 

The top one is commenting on an incident that happened with Flagg, a famous photographer and a beauty pageant contestant that wound up being a relatively famous actress in the 40s. The incident was written up in Time magazine and I have the article, explanation and a picture of the girl on my website.

Posted this one before, but finally in hand today. D copy, I believe it was previously a 7.5 before someone cracked it out. I'll send it back and hopefully it will garner another 7.5 label, but not before I flip through and smell the pages.

 

Murder, Morphine and Me. My favorite non-EC crime story.

 

Jack Cole was wicked!

but it was in #2.

I've recently added two new pieces to my CAF gallery.

First, the Bernie Wrightson cover to the variant edition of Vertigo's American Vampire #2. Thanks directly to Bernie for this:

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=678658&GSub=62059

Also, even though I think grail is an overused word, this is one for me. I've wanted a Will Eisner Spirit page for as long as I've been collecting art. There's no femme fatale on this page, but it has just about everything else I wanted from a Spirit page: a good punch, a crutch-borne tackle, vulture abuse and a darned fine explosion.

Thanks to Mitch I. for the opportunity to add a piece by this legend to my gallery.

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=682571&GSub=104298

 

interesting...but what are the reasons?

 

I am guessing the "reasons" are quotes from Shakespeare's plays.

 

 

 

 

the new owner, i'm sure, thanks you. mine no longer.

 

Didn't that used to be mine?

 

for 17 minutes.

Please add comicseekers ( also did not follow thru on a purchase )

 

WOW! that makes him a repeat offender.

hasn't there been enough on him for HOS status?

Congrats Bill (thumbs u

 

Thanks Richard

 

It fits very nicely into the mini run I'm assembling. 54 - 76 (I know, for the third time ). At least this time I've excluded 52 and 53 from the quest

 

Now I need to find affordable copies of 54,55,56. And by affordable I mean priced similar to the 57 I got from Gator . When these are done, I would like to upgrade the 58 to a GD or VG if possible. The one I have is rough, to put it midly

I've sold to Sharon in the past, and she's so nice and gracious that she gives comic collectors a bad name.

It's not a Dr. Fate page, but I did just add a very cool WW2 era superhero page from Green Hornet comics to my CAF gallery, complete with classic politically incorrect caricatures.

Spirit of '76 battling the Japanese.

I'm becoming a true GA collector. Saw this book and said, "That's too cool a cover to sell for that little."

 

 

Love WWII covers.

 

Missed that one and have been looking for it for my war bonds collection.

 

Great cover!!

 

that is a cool cover. and i just realized that you didn't get ALL my targets---i've still got this one!

 

 

 

Love that Target...it's a real gem!

Another pearl of wisdom from our resident wit.

Thanks Bill

 

pages like this are hard to come by. At least in my experience

No, white buffalo and Guttenberg Bibles are hard to come by. Pages like that pretty much don't exist. Color me jealous--I'm selling my Guttenberg Bible and setting my white buffalo free.

Sometime between my seeing it and commenting on it, Photobucket decided the Lorna Doone pages were inappropriate?

Sharon was nice enough to find these gems for me ... Sorry about the flash.

 

 

 

Baker Gee, that's swell!

 

 

 

Four Mystery Men issues and an early Hit in one fell swoop! You sure have nice friends, Ms Sharon!

 

I do, I have very nice friends, I'm very lucky ...I also picked up some artwork...this was my favorite...I know it doesn't belong here, but I thought I'd share anyway:)

I know this isn't generally the spot to link a sales thread, but it fits here.

I've posted a bulk lot of pulps--mostly 40s and early 50s Weird Tales--in the sales section. These are all very solid copies with good spines and supple paper.

WP's Pulptacular Pulpstravaganza

 

Great pickups!!

 

Talk about jumping in with both feet. I mean, I am still trying to sneak up on a decent FC 386

 

Sometimes you just need to jump in. I've actually been quietly bidding on nice copies of FC 386 for maybe a year and a half. It had always been one of my favorite covers. ComicLink has had a number of them come through and I've noticed Ducks do far worse there than Heritage.

 

Now I need to find a nice 3 and 4 and then I am likely done with Scrooge as I do not really like the solid background covers although #7 looks great. I may selectively try to get some of the Donald Four Colors if the price is right.

On the subject of FInlay pulp illos, does anyone know where this was printed? I've been looking in every pulp I've picked up for the last ten years.

 

 

Haven't come across it yet. It looks like it had a more refined printing than the typical pulp page. Where did you get the image? I've noticed that Finlay had some portfolios produced for popular consumption, because they were advertised in some of the pulps I've picked up. Maybe this is from one of them?

On the subject of FInlay pulp illos, does anyone know where this was printed? I've been looking in every pulp I've picked up for the last ten years.

A big heartfelt thanks to Roger (Weird Paper) for the beautiful Startling Comics #3. It brings me another step closer to my goal. And I have to add how well packed and protected t book was.

 

Thanks Roger (thumbs u

 

Got a nice box of Fun yesterday from a buddy of mine, who is also a stalwart member of the GA boards.

 

Thanks again brother for a great batch of books!

 

 

I'll second that on CIORAC--he's always a great guy to do business with!

Found a fairly nice Pogo Parade and four other later issues of Pogo at an antique store last week.

Difficult Frazetta... sell it to me.

 

can't be that diffucult....i have them after all....and it's only text illos....