Weird Paper

Thanks. Some of those got cut off, so here's another shot.

Frazetta books (covers and/or interior)

Nobody could tease ya like Feldstein.

 

hello all...

here is a shot of a batman run I am putting together for a customer...

thanks

rick

This makes me think back. In the late 70s, didn't Camelot in Houston have a couple of headboards with Batman 1-10 and Superman 1-10 encased in them? I only went there once, and I remember being overwhelmed (Frazetta art, etc), but I know I saw something like that.

 

Did anyone see this other Kelly Freas preliminary for Witchcraft #5?

 

Freas prelim

He's done a recreation of that cover so I would suspect that to be either a prelim for the recreation or a more primitive recreation (I recall the recreation as being done tonally, in ink wash but I might be wrong about that). Is there any indication as to when that piece was done?

It's in Bill Howard's gallery on comicartfans.com. Very, very nice.

Here's the final issue of Keen Detective Funnies from 1940:

 

 

Tells you how primeval Centaurs are when the final issue of a 24-issue run was in September 1940, before most other superhero publishers had even gotten into a groove.

That is a wicked cool cover.

A side note - did you read the sellers rant against countries that circumscribe freedom of speech? I find his examples a bit telling - the dude has issues.

.** IMPORTANT NOTICE : I WILL NO LONGER BE SHIPPING TO ANY COUNTRY WHERE A HUMAN BEING CAN BE PUT IN PRISON FOR MERELY "DENYING THE HALOCAUST" "OR CRITICIZING HOMOSEXUALITY" OR "ANY" OTHER FREE SPEECH ATROCITY...GERMANY..AUSTRIA..FRANCE..ETC. "PLEASE DO NOT BID..CREEPS WHO USE VICTIMHOOD TO VICTIMIZE OTHERS,AINT TOO COOL....CLEAN UP THESE LOSERS..

...I was going to make a smartaleck comment about the "halocaust," but thought better of it...

It's distinctly possible. Is it super clean under the dj? I had traded it to John Fairless sometime around 1998.

 

Pretty clean. I would rate the actual book a VF-.

That sounds about right. You know, I was thinking about that book, and I remembered it had a very distinctive musty smell. No foxing or water damage, just a subtle, but distinct, smell.

Here's a big gaping white space in the Gerber guide.

[Also, a really tough find is the 1936 yellow book with a dust jacket. I let mine go

years ago in trade for a JLA 1 (which I regretted)

 

The 1936 book is scarce enough but seldom seen with the dust jacket. Here is my 1936

copy with dust jacket (posted earlier in this thread. I outbid ebayer mamanook for this book.

Was this your copy at one time?

 

It's distinctly possible. Is it super clean under the dj? I had traded it to John Fairless sometime around 1998.

Weird Paper,

 

The Wise Little Hen is on my pickup list. I have seen several DD 978s but I

have not seen this book surface as often.

The linen book seems to be extremely common compared to the WLH. Though WLH dust jacket seems impossible, though. Also, a really tough find is the 1936 yellow book with a dust jacket. I let mine go years ago in trade for a JLA 1 (which I regretted)

Pardon the weird reflection from the mylar. The book doesn't have leprosy.

...and Donald's first appearance in the book...

First appearance of Donald Duck in print. Before the linen book, before the yellow book.

This is actually the 1935 edition.

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no, what are the jamboree covers?!?!?!?! Please enlighten me!

I've got 2 of the 3. Overstreet says there's a #3, Gerber just lists 2.

...and now for something completely different.

Have any more from that series? A great run.

 

That may be one of the finest covers of the entire genre. Nice one.

This is a book that has been a personal grail in nice shape for many years. Not expensive, not too hard to find, but I couldn't love it more....

 

Nifty cover. Have you seen the black Jamboree covers?

Nice WTotF books! Is that issue # 4 the one with the "Brain Bats" story?

Nope, that's Mister Mystery 7, reprinted (chopped up and retitled) in WTotF 7. I have heard this referred to as the "brain bats" cover, though.

Origin of the Viking Price.

Jon,do you still have your Marvel run that was used in the Gerber journals.I know this isn't the right forum,nor is it really any of my business,just womdering.GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

 

yup, i do.....

A classic...

Here's a great Lou Fine cover. Doesn't get the love that #3 gets--but, hey, turns out he's naked behind that thing.

First Wolverton Spacehawk. And an (uncredited in Overstreet, but most certainly) Everett cover.

 

WP, that is an amazing TARGET. I love that cover (definately an Everett), and the colors on your copy are excellent. The line up inside looks pretty "swell"... Burgos on White Streak, Wolverton on Spacehawk... is there an Everett story inside as well?

 

Congrats!!

 

Thanks. It does have an Everett interior story. I can't tell you which, because it's now in a slab--the 8.5 in the census. I always scan them before I send them off.

 

Did you get "white" pages? They were superb on that copy if I remember correctly.

 

There is no Everett story.

My bad on the Everett story. I didn't remember, so I had to go by Overstreet who says he's in 1-9. I know better than to challenge your Everett acumen, though.

I got off-white to white pages. I wasn't disappointed in the grade, but I did expect to get the white pages tag. Maybe the florescents were dim that day. The paper's still excellent and bright, without absolutely no scent of acidity.

Yeah, it's the Church copy, so I wasn't going to read it in the bathtub or while eating pizza. I did leaf through it gingerly to see that Cole also drew the cover story.