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Spotlight on the 1930s & 1940s! TPs, HCs, and other reprints from the GA/pre-GA!

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Hey all...gonna be out of town tomorrow, so no FS post on Sunday night during my usual time. Not much left to sell anyway!

 

Still, there are a few remaining items: some new, and some that were buried in last week's thread -- but ALL related to the comics' most formative decades: the 1930s and 1940s! Great stuff here for historians of the medium, or just reg'lar ol' fans (like me) who want to learn more about the earliest days (and pre-history) of their favorite four-color fantasies!

 

As usual, :takeit: rules, and all prices include domestic US shipping.

 

Stay tuned...

 

 

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America's Great Comic-Strip Artists: From the Yellow Kid to Peanuts HC: By Richard Marschall. A BIG book and a MAJOR historical retrospective -- easily the best treatment of classic American newspaper strips ever published. Combines biographical data on the creators, a keen critical assessment of their work, and LOTS of illustrations and full-page strip reprints from the best of the best: McCay, Segar, Crane, Foster, Raymond, Caniff, Kelly, Schulz and more. Comic books BEGIN here, folks!!

 

Oversized HC w/dj, 11x13, 298pp., color and b&w. Sharp copy, very minor shelf wear. 1997. Published at $45.

 

$25 shipped in the US

 

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New Yorker Magazine: April 19, 1999: Fantastic illustrated essay and bio piece on Jack ("Plastic Man") Cole by Art Spiegelman. Essential reading? I think so, especially if you consider Cole (as I do) as one of the all-time greats, and every bit as worthy of serious critical scrutiny as Kirby, Eisner, and Barks...

 

$4 shipped

 

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Big Little Book Price Guides: More like full-color checklists for collectors! Profusely illustrated with hundreds of color cover repros. The flip side of the pulps for kids in the '30s, and thus also relevant for comics people!

 

$7 each shipped, or $12 shipped for both...

 

Big Little Books: A Collectors Reference and Value Guide (Larry Jacobs, 174pp, 1996, FC, SC)

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Price Guide to Big Little Books (104pp, 1995, FC, SC)

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What would a '30s thread be without some Pulp-age?!?

 

Those Macabre Pulps oversized TP: compiled by Darrel C. Richardson. Awesome, detailed checklist/artbook with series, author, and story information for some of the coolest, sleaziest "weird menace" pulps from the '30s - '70s. Heavily illustrated in full color. 112pp. Adventure House, first print. NM copy.

 

$15 shipped in the US.

 

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Terry and the Pirates: Raven -- Evermore?: By Milton Caniff. This unusual 1979 TP (with a new introduction by Caniff himself!) reprints--in its entirety--one of the most famous sagas ("The Death of Raven") in newspaper comics history, and one which (if I remember correctly) heavily influenced John Romita as he participated in Spidey's "The Death of Gwen Stacy" storyline. Fantastic b&w reproduction, and published by the Chicago Tribune itself!

 

If you think all old newspaper strips are lame, dated, boring, and total BS...you don't know what yer missing here! Caniff was an absolute MASTER of the comics form. Comparing him to today's comics "creators" is like comparing Spencer Tracy to Brad Pitt -- these new school guys just don't stack up! We'll never see Caniff's like again! VF/NM copy.

 

$15 shipped in the US.

 

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And because one cool book by Caniff deserves another one...

 

Terry and the Pirates: Meet Burma!: by Milton Caniff...another complete classic episode from the greatest adventure strip ever! 97pp. b&w, Nostalgia Press, 1975. VF/NM.

 

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Anything that deals with comic art?

 

Not sure what you mean. The first book I listed is basically a big coffee table artbook, with a sharp focus on the life, work, style, and historical significance of the 16 best comic strip artists ever...

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And speaking of the best of the best...how 'bout another book spotlighting the great JACK COLE?!?

 

Focus On: Jack Cole TP: 78-page b&w trade paperback featuring great GA reprints (crime, "Plastic Man" and more!) and a career retrospective essay written by comics historian Ron Goulart. Fantagraphics, first print, 1986. F/VF copy w/shelf wear.

 

$8 shipped in the US.

 

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Anything that deals with comic art?

 

Not sure what you mean. The first book I listed is basically a big coffee table artbook, with a sharp focus on the life, work, style, and historical significance of the 16 best comic strip artists ever...

 

 

Something that doesn't focus so heavily on strip artists (Caniff, Raymond, etc), as opposed to comic book artists(Kirby, Fine, Schomburg).

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Anything that deals with comic art?

 

Not sure what you mean. The first book I listed is basically a big coffee table artbook, with a sharp focus on the life, work, style, and historical significance of the 16 best comic strip artists ever...

 

 

Something that doesn't focus so heavily on strip artists (Caniff, Raymond, etc), as opposed to comic book artists(Kirby, Fine, Schomburg).

 

Ah, understood, thanks. Sorry, all sold!

 

(:gossip: the strip artists exercised a HUGE influence on the first generation of comics artists, nearly all of whom were aspiring strip artists themselves: e.g., compare Roy Crane's work to Joe Shuster's, Caniff's to Bob Kane's, McCay's to Cole's, and Fine's (Eisner's, Crandall's, and Moldoff's too!) to Raymond and Foster. I'm sure you knew this...just getting it out there!)

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Did somebody mention LOU FINE...?

 

Jerry Iger's National Comics #1: 1985 squarebound b&w trade contains GA reprints from the classic Quality Comics title, featuring artwork by Lou Fine. Blackstone Publishing, 72pp. VF/NM.

 

$5 shipped in the US.

 

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And finally tonight, the real thing (NOT a reprint) from 65 years ago...the complete 16-page color Sunday tabloid comics section from the New York Sunday Mirror, dated September 20, 1942. Superman versus Nazi Saboteurs! Also features other popular strips of the day, including Joe Palooka, Li'l Abner, Captain Easy, and others. Great stuff, and already framed and ready to hang!

 

$25 shipped in the US.

 

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