Comics With Balls - Golden Age Sports Comics

[BB-Gun]

 

OK, so this is my new favorite book, and I just bought one yesterday from the bay. Question BB, is your scanner auto cropping, or did you crop the cover after scanning it? And, where did you find such a nice copy?

 

My copy was part of the Arlin Ira Fegley collection. Most of the books that I have from that collection are in pretty nice shape. The top of my scan was photoshopped because it was used in Alter-Ego. The book has a smaller look than some of the other golden age. It is smaller than DC but more like later Timely issues. I added Robotman's copy for comparison. My copy had more room at the top and his copy showed the entire foot at the bottom.

[BOOT]

GREAT THREAD!

 

 

mm

 

That would be a tough lineup to beat! Picture trying to score on an all-Flash defense!

Seriously! That just ain't fair! Great book, MM!

[Tri-Color Brian]

 

OK, so this is my new favorite book, and I just bought one yesterday from the bay. Question BB, is your scanner auto cropping, or did you crop the cover after scanning it? And, where did you find such a nice copy?

 

My copy was part of the Arlin Ira Fegley collection. Most of the books that I have from that collection are in pretty nice shape. The top of my scan was photoshopped because it was used in Alter-Ego. The book has a smaller look than some of the other golden age. It is smaller than DC but more like later Timely issues. I added Robotman's copy for comparison. My copy had more room at the top and his copy showed the entire foot at the bottom.

 

So, you're saying it's a little skinny, like other Street & Smith books? Glad you explained the scan because it looked kinda strange and I thought, just maybe, that you had just lifted it from the Internet... Nice copy...

[BOOT]

What a great cover! Thanks for posting all those.

[BOOT]

Can't imagine being in goal without a mask.

 

Apologize for being off-topic, but this is a simply great comic book about Jacques Plante, the first pro goalie to wear a mask. A Canadian giveaway for McDonalds. Really worth a read!

[BOOT]

A few L.B. Cole covers...

[BOOT]

I think Sport Stars is the first issue and then the title changed...

[catrick339]

[catrick339]

[catrick339]

[pmpknface]

 

Gotta love this one...

 

 

What are you doing Jamie, copying me and collecting all the Targets? Bad form old sport, bad form...

 

Hey man! You don't own the Target market! Those scans are all from comicvine, I don't own them, just wanted to post some.

 

BOOT - Thanks for posting the LB Cole Sport covers. I have that run too, but haven't scanned in my copies yet.

 

There's some nice 4MOST and D|ck Cole sport covers too.

[Marty Mann]

 

mm

[BOOT]

Boody Rogers' character Babe had some great stories with sports. Some of the weirdest, funniest comics ever made.

[Tri-Color Brian]

 

Gotta love this one...

 

 

What are you doing Jamie, copying me and collecting all the Targets? Bad form old sport, bad form...

 

Hey man! You don't own the Target market! Those scans are all from comicvine, I don't own them, just wanted to post some.

 

[Tri-Color Brian]

Here's some of mine (a few silver thrown in too). I may be out in left field on this one, but I'm going to guess that BOOT is a sports cover collector...

 

 

 

 

 

[BOOT]

Here's some of mine (a few silver thrown in too). I may be out in left field on this one, but I'm going to guess that BOOT is a sports cover collector...

 

You might be off base. Maybe I'm a VEP collector...

[BOOT]

Is fishing a sport?

[Tri-Color Brian]

The title says comics with balls...now, what does fishing have to do with balls? C'mon...and what is a VEP collector? I'm not gud wit dat Imnernet slang thang yet...

[BOOT]

The title says comics with balls...now, what does fishing have to do with balls? C'mon...and what is a VEP collector? I'm not gud wit dat Imnernet slang thang yet...

VEP

Victor Pazmiño

A bit crude but great funny cover and interior cartoonist. Should have his own thread!

 

Here are some other VEP covers from GCD...

[BOOT]

Bob Powell took over producing True Sport Picture Stories for Street and Smith in 1949, about a year before he started producing his great run on their Shadow Comics in 1950. Wonder if these were his tryouts that convinced S+S to let him do the Shadow?

 

Here is a bunch of True Sport Picture Stories... Please excuse if some of these have already been posted but it's fun to see them together. These are fat comics full of great sports stories, a mix of then current sports, sports history, biographies, and features from famous coaches on how to improve sports skills.

 

Have a few more somewhere...