AJD Posted October 20, 2017 Author Share Posted October 20, 2017 16 hours ago, Point Five said: On 10/19/2017 at 1:47 PM, AJD said: I have to say I can't get too enthused about that - the figure in the foreground framed by the ammo feed is great, but given the proximity of the enemy fighter, there's no way that scene doesn't end with a mid-air collision about a quarter of a second later. There are a lot of Wings covers I can't bring myself to collect for the same reason - either a crash into the ground or a collision is inevitable given the 'pose'. See Wings 27 , 35, 48 and 59 for a few examples (there are many others). At least #20 gets it right! Comics may not be for you. Well, maybe not those ones. I'm totes down with talking ducks and all sorts of silliness. I think it's a product of seeing many hundreds of accurate paintings of aviation subjects on model kit boxtops that caused this particular pathology. 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted October 20, 2017 Author Share Posted October 20, 2017 I bought this late Jungle from MCS a few weeks ago. I try to collect FH covers that aren't replicated on Australian editions. No doubt Kaanga is thinking 'that pentadactyl cat is unnatural - I must skewer its mutant paw with this arrow'. Then I bought this Australian edition. I bought it sight unseen (kind of old school dealer) and didn't know what it looked like because it wasn't in the GCD cover gallery then (it is now). Oh well... 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted October 21, 2017 Author Share Posted October 21, 2017 Another book from the same dealer. I had no idea what it looked like until it turned up. The cover is from the US edition Jumbo #125. I don't know what those spotted animals are meant to be - one is drawn like a cat (leopard?), the other like a dog (hyena?). In fact, I think that most of that RH animal is a local addition to the original artwork. Looking at some other US book scans, the word 'HELP' spelled out in sticks on the ground has been removed, and the most of the dog/cat on the right added. The book is about 1cm wider than the US print, which probably explains the add-ons. (Though not why the lettering was removed.) Nonetheless, I like it. I should give @Marwood & I a big shout out here. I posted a WTB ad for Australian pre-decimal comics. I didn't expect anything to come of it, but it costs nothing to try, right? Well, M&I suggested I try a dealer in London. Two weeks later, a nice bundle of seven comics turned up. This one and the Jungle in the previous post are two of them. Nice call 1950's war comics and Get Marwood & I 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duffman_Comics Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 So, there are five unposted comics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted October 21, 2017 Author Share Posted October 21, 2017 2 minutes ago, Duffman_Comics said: So, there are five unposted comics? Yes, and no... but they will all be here in due season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duffman_Comics Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 6 minutes ago, AJD said: Yes, and no... but they will all be here in due season. Political post. Mods notified Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Get Marwood & I Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 9 hours ago, AJD said: Another book from the same dealer. I had no idea what it looked like until it turned up. The cover is from the US edition Jumbo #125. I don't know what those spotted animals are meant to be - one is drawn like a cat (leopard?), the other like a dog (hyena?). In fact, I think that most of that RH animal is a local addition to the original artwork. Looking at some other US book scans, the word 'HELP' spelled out in sticks on the ground has been removed, and the most of the dog/cat on the right added. The book is about 1cm wider than the US print, which probably explains the add-ons. (Though not why the lettering was removed.) Nonetheless, I like it. I should give @Marwood & I a big shout out here. I posted a WTB ad for Australian pre-decimal comics. I didn't expect anything to come of it, but it costs nothing to try, right? Well, M&I suggested I try a dealer in London. Two weeks later, a nice bundle of seven comics turned up. This one and the Jungle in the previous post are two of them. Nice call You're welcome @AJD - glad they had some books for you. Are there any particular books you are hunting that you can never find? I could always keep an eye out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted October 22, 2017 Author Share Posted October 22, 2017 Another day, another drawn out release of my latest package of books, all the better to torture the impatient @Duffman_Comics. The London dealer had a list of American books as well, and this one seemed like pretty good value, so I grabbed it as well. I'm still not sure if I'm collecting the SSS run, though it's looking more and more likely. 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duffman_Comics Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 Hello. Wot's this email from the Boards? Like Betelgeuse, only without the repetitions. Now that's a comic book. If you are not a condition "nut" these are pretty available and affordable - with the exception of the very desirable #6 - the KKK issue. It's interesting that "back in the day" the #12 was considered the star of the run (the "Monkey" drug story and cover) but seems to have lost favour in the last thirty years. What is great about EC's is that the stories are generally top notch. 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted October 23, 2017 Author Share Posted October 23, 2017 We interrupt your regularly scheduled program of dribbling the 'Brit books' out one-by-one to bring you another EC that arrived today. Another one from the SSS series that I might (or might not) be collecting. An amazingly effective cover by Wally Wood on this one, who manages to show both the victim and the driver in a believable way. And I think these figures both have a bit more animation than Wood's usual 'statuesque' poses. That makes 4/18 for me - and one more sitting in a box in Georgia waiting to come this way, courtesy of one @edowens71. Hmm, that will be 5/18 - that's almost a third of the way there. Well, dang. 1950's war comics and Get Marwood & I 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Lime Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 That is a great cover (a 4.5/5 from me) and I feel that as you have 5 out of 18, you might as well get them all. I mean it's only another 13 to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Get Marwood & I Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 22 minutes ago, AJD said: We interrupt your regularly scheduled program of dribbling the 'Brit books' out one-by-one to bring you another EC that arrived today. Another one from the SSS series that I might (or might not) be collecting. An amazingly effective cover by Wally Wood on this one, who manages to show both the victim and the driver in a believable way. And I think these figures both have a bit more animation than Wood's usual 'statuesque' poses. That makes 4/18 for me - and one more sitting in a box in Georgia waiting to come this way, courtesy of one @edowens71. Hmm, that will be 5/18 - that's almost a third of the way there. Well, dang. I like the sparse use of red colouring on our unfortunate lady here - lipstick, hat, bag, earrings. There'll be more red inside once he's run her over a few times I shouldn't wonder... Now, back to Brit dribbling please @AJD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted October 24, 2017 Author Share Posted October 24, 2017 23 hours ago, Marwood & I said: Now, back to Brit dribbling please Cor lummy, everyone wants to see the "books from Blighty". Fine, here's another one then. Fantastic colours on this one (and another pentadactyl cat - though only on one paw?): 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Get Marwood & I Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 6 hours ago, AJD said: Cor lummy, everyone wants to see the "books from Blighty". Fine, here's another one then. Fantastic colours on this one (and another pentadactyl cat - though only on one paw?): That was all the claws in his contract would allow @AJD. Ha ha, ha ha ha Sorry. Harry Lime and AJD 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted October 25, 2017 Author Share Posted October 25, 2017 Here's another book sentenced to transportation (back) to Australia. 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Lime Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 Did Jungle Comics transpose into Kaanga Comics or vice versa? I must admit to never seeing any in Britain but then again I don't get out much. If I do I'll give you a heads up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted October 25, 2017 Author Share Posted October 25, 2017 45 minutes ago, Harry Lime said: Did Jungle Comics transpose into Kaanga Comics or vice versa? Jungle was first by some years. 45 minutes ago, Harry Lime said: I must admit to never seeing any in Britain but then again I don't get out much. If I do I'll give you a heads up. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted October 26, 2017 Author Share Posted October 26, 2017 Still a couple of books from the UK batch to post. Again, bought sight unseesn, and nothing (then) in the GCD to check it against. Judging by the covers around it, I was pretty sure that Rangers #24 would have an aircraft cover. Indeed it did - from the Fiction House title Jet Aces. While I was looking up Fiction House titles, I came across one I didn't know of, called War Birds. Aha! #2 is where this previously unplaced (by me) cover came from: 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted October 27, 2017 Author Share Posted October 27, 2017 The last of the Brit books. When I saw 'Planet Stories #4' in the catalogue I thought I'd get one of these. I even asked in my email 'what volume is this from'? The seller seems to have ignored that - probably didn't understand my confusion - and sent... this: Humm. Not what I expected. It turns out that this series is the third or fourth round of UK FH Planet reprints. Still, it wasn't without a little interest. Given my model building hobby, finding a 1961 Airfix ad on the back cover was kind of cool: And according to the GCD, it reprints stories from Planet #3 and #38. The printing quality isn't great though. here's the splash from the Mysta story from Planet #38: Oh well, live and learn. One of the pitfalls of buying from a list with no scans of the books. 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted October 29, 2017 Author Share Posted October 29, 2017 I bought something dumb in a recent MCS auction (coming soon to a thread near you), but the transaction was redeemed by a couple of books I found in their catalogue. The SSS #4 above was one of them. This was the other. This book has content that goes from the sublime... ... to the, err, not so sublime. I haven't seen this sort of thing in a FH book before. I haven't missed it. And have I ever mentioned that I love the tight grading @mycomicshop ? Satisfied customer here. 1950's war comics and Point Five 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...