cheetah Posted September 28, 2013 Author Share Posted September 28, 2013 Better copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheetah Posted September 28, 2013 Author Share Posted September 28, 2013 That's it for a bit. Thanks for looking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciorac Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Thanks for sharing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tb Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 That's it for a bit. Thanks for looking. Cheetah, I am really enjoying this thread. Your own remarks about the quality, scarcity, etc. along with your anecdotes are priceless. It's so obvious that you are doing this because you genuinely appreciate the runs and want to share them with us for all the right reasons. Btw., I took a look at the census population for Planet this morning and was very surprised how few copies have been graded. This makes your projects even more challenging than I had thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beige Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Super thread - made my morning reading. Oddball question. The lightning goes from the cover to a name on the cover, to disappearing all together. What happened to the character? Did he die out or get moved to another book, as the lightning cover you posted earlier looked great. Cheers Was this like, a really hard question... In the early days it looks like Fiction House flirted with a number of genres in Jumbo Comics prior to Sheena dominating the covers. I dont know precisely when Lightning ended, but he lingered on for a while. Evidently Sheena was the USP when all around lay competition in the super hero market - at least that is what I infer. Thanks for that mate - appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spillred Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Great Jumbos! I love this cover in particular, and love the bright colors on your copy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Great Jumbos! I love this cover in particular, and love the bright colors on your copy I sold Jeff many Jumbos over a period of time and this and #36 were the hardest to part with. Their true scarcity can be judged by the fact that, several years on, even a collector as dedicated as cheetah hasn't managed to upgrade them - or indeed a fair number of others I recognize. I have no idea if there is another complete set from #9 upwards, frankly I doubt it. Anecdotally, virtually all of the ones I sold Jeff came from a direct purchase of an OAC I pried out of the hands of an Ebay seller who was listing them one or two at a time - by which time there were gaps, but amounted to about 35 issues.And just to be clear, the average grades on display here are way higher, so lots of upgrading has been going on. Do I regret selling them to Jeff? Naw, he's a great guy (and I used the funds to get into high grade Planets, which would otherwise have been next to impossible, so I was grateful). Consider that Jeff has completed the Jungles, and is within just a couple of truly difficult issues of completing the Planets, and it a remarkable, epic endeavor, especially in this day and age... I've been waiting for this thread for a long time - it's one for the ages - and I cant wait to see the other titles! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciorac Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Chuck McCleary had assembled the entire Fiction House line of comics and I was able to purchase them back in the mid 90s. It was the only complete set I had seen until Jeff's amazing collection started coming together. Clearly Jeff's sets are the best assembled since Edgar's I'd imagine. Chuck's Jumbos had an average grade of 6.0 if I recall correctly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheetah Posted September 29, 2013 Author Share Posted September 29, 2013 Thanks for all the comments, guys. It's been an interesting journey to getting the runs together. I would really like to add more of Edgar's copies to the set but I don't really know where they are. I tracked down the Jumbo 9 thanks to Billy and Richard, but they didn't really respond to my inquiries. I think it was my question about restoration that might have done it. Fishler has most of the Church Jungles and all (or mostly all) of the Planets. My inquiry into whether he might sell the Jungles was denied. I probably wouldn't want to pay the price, anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicjack Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Was there a Planet 15 in that collection some people are looking for that book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheetah Posted September 29, 2013 Author Share Posted September 29, 2013 One could argue that this is a skull cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheetah Posted September 29, 2013 Author Share Posted September 29, 2013 Probably one of the finest booty shots of the golden age. I'm not as familiar with Baker's work but I assume it was his hand that drew it. Ricksneatstuff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheetah Posted September 29, 2013 Author Share Posted September 29, 2013 A rhino cover. Not as rare as a warthog cover, but still not as common as a vulture cover. Kidding aside, this cover calls up an interesting issue related to 'good' colors. Fiction House used the background orange on a lot of covers. Also, when the reds are weak, you get this same orange. So, how do you tell if it is really orange or just faded red? For me, the telling sign is Sheena's outfit. In well-colored copies, her leopard skin is always highlighted with red. In poor-colored copies, it is just yellow. That would mean that the Jumbo artists were really intending an orange background. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheetah Posted September 29, 2013 Author Share Posted September 29, 2013 I already posted this one but it shows the use of both red and orange on a single cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheetah Posted September 29, 2013 Author Share Posted September 29, 2013 Sheena and lions just do not get along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheetah Posted September 29, 2013 Author Share Posted September 29, 2013 Brings a whole new meaning to 'toe jam'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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cheetah Posted September 29, 2013 Author Share Posted September 29, 2013 Sheena has a generally good relationship with elephants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheetah Posted September 29, 2013 Author Share Posted September 29, 2013 A weakly colored but structurally beautiful Big Apple copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
