selegue Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 Posted in Golden Age earlier this evening, but it's borderline Silver Age. I posted some DC Jackie Gleason books here a while back, and this might be interesting for comparison. Jackie Gleason 2 from St. John, October 1955, in glorious BTH condition. Some but not all of the artwork appears to be by the same hand as the DC books. I really like the caricatures of Gleason's characters. Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
selegue Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 "And To Think That I Saw It On Ditko Street!" Another interesting one from yesterday's box. Two attractive, early Ditko stories in this June 1957 Charlton book. Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blind Owl Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 "And To Think That I Saw It On Ditko Street!" Another interesting one from yesterday's box. Two attractive, early Ditko stories in this June 1957 Charlton book. Jack Nice Selegue; I've got only one issue from this run but it's a 68 pg. 15 center!!! I love the early Ditko work!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
selegue Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 "And To Think That I Saw It On Ditko Street!" Another interesting one from yesterday's box. Two attractive, early Ditko stories in this June 1957 Charlton book. .... Nice Selegue; I've got only one issue from this run but it's a 68 pg. 15 center!!! I love the early Ditko work!!! Thanks for looking. I was out of town all day and am catching up a bit. This is the only book in the run I have -- in fact, I've never seen the 15¢ issues. My expectations for Charlton books are very low, so this was a pleasant surprise. Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blind Owl Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 "And To Think That I Saw It On Ditko Street!" Another interesting one from yesterday's box. Two attractive, early Ditko stories in this June 1957 Charlton book. .... Nice Selegue; I've got only one issue from this run but it's a 68 pg. 15 center!!! I love the early Ditko work!!! Thanks for looking. I was out of town all day and am catching up a bit. This is the only book in the run I have -- in fact, I've never seen the 15¢ issues. My expectations for Charlton books are very low, so this was a pleasant surprise. Jack Hi Jack, here's Out of This World #8; a GIANT 15 cent issue from 1958. Not an easy issue to find!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
selegue Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 Nice Selegue; I've got only one issue from this run but it's a 68 pg. 15 center!!! I love the early Ditko work!!! Thanks for looking. I was out of town all day and am catching up a bit. This is the only book in the run I have -- in fact, I've never seen the 15¢ issues. My expectations for Charlton books are very low, so this was a pleasant surprise. Jack Hi Jack, here's Out of This World #8; a GIANT 15 cent issue from 1958. Not an easy issue to find!!!!! Good one! Very minimalist cover -- it's not Ditko, is it? (Hard to tell.) Is it signed at the bottom of the right hand? Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blind Owl Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 Nice Selegue; I've got only one issue from this run but it's a 68 pg. 15 center!!! I love the early Ditko work!!! Thanks for looking. I was out of town all day and am catching up a bit. This is the only book in the run I have -- in fact, I've never seen the 15¢ issues. My expectations for Charlton books are very low, so this was a pleasant surprise. Jack Hi Jack, here's Out of This World #8; a GIANT 15 cent issue from 1958. Not an easy issue to find!!!!! Good one! Very minimalist cover -- it's not Ditko, is it? (Hard to tell.) Is it signed at the bottom of the right hand? Jack Don't know if it's Ditko or not. There are two Ditko stories inside though. That's not a signature on the cover. Oh yeah by the way, this is a square-bound book, like an early Marvel Annual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blind Owl Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 ACG's are not seen every day!!! Here's one of their covers that I enjoy!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monstro Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blind Owl Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 Nice copy Monstro!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tth2 Posted November 17, 2007 Author Share Posted November 17, 2007 ACG's are not seen every day!!! Here's one of their covers that I enjoy!!!! Cool cover! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nearmint Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 Got this the other day and posted it in General, but not here. I've been looking for an attractive, reasonably priced copy for quite some time, and this one fits the bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze_rules Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 ACG's are not seen every day!!! Here's one of their covers that I enjoy!!!! Cool cover! Second that. Wish I could find more of these undervalued beauties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze_rules Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 Used bookstore pickup. Had a lot of beat up 10 centers, like whiz 9 (some pages missing though). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blind Owl Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 Used bookstore pickup. Had a lot of beat up 10 centers, like whiz 9 (some pages missing though). Just $2.95!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
selegue Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 From the same batch that I was posting a week or so ago, Adventure Comics 264, September 1959. I'm not posting to show off the condition (it's no better than vg-, although attractive DC books from this era are not that easy to find). Mostly I wanted to show this letter and reply from the Smallville Mailsack. Mort Weisinger comments on continuity: "The Atlantis AQUAMAN's mother came from has a different set-up than the Atlantis presented in the SUPERMAN story.... If writers didn't use their imagination to vary conditions, all comic book stories and science fiction movies would become so repetitious you'd soon lose interest." Good ol' Unca Mort. Anyone losing interest yet? Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blind Owl Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 From the same batch that I was posting a week or so ago, Adventure Comics 264, September 1959. I'm not posting to show off the condition (it's no better than vg-, although attractive DC books from this era are not that easy to find). Mostly I wanted to show this letter and reply from the Smallville Mailsack. Mort Weisinger comments on continuity: "The Atlantis AQUAMAN's mother came from has a different set-up than the Atlantis presented in the SUPERMAN story.... If writers didn't use their imagination to vary conditions, all comic book stories and science fiction movies would become so repetitious you'd soon lose interest." Good ol' Unca Mort. Anyone losing interest yet? Jack I hate to say this, but this is just ONE of the reasons I liked Marvel better than DC!!! The fact that they were NOT more serious is why they sucked!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
selegue Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 ... Mort Weisinger comments on continuity: "The Atlantis AQUAMAN's mother came from has a different set-up than the Atlantis presented in the SUPERMAN story.... If writers didn't use their imagination to vary conditions, all comic book stories and science fiction movies would become so repetitious you'd soon lose interest." Good ol' Unca Mort. Anyone losing interest yet? I hate to say this, but this is just ONE of the reasons I liked Marvel better than DC!!! The fact that they were NOT more serious is why they sucked!!!! Yeah, but DC "learned their lesson" and became obsessed with continuity (with the help of many fans-turned-writers) to the point that it became an albatross around their necks -- at least from the point of view of the editorial staff that decided to "fix" it with Crisis on Infinite Earths, then again with Zero Hour, then again with..... Don't get me wrong -- I'm a continuity freak too. I liked Earth-1 and Earth-2 jes' fine. When the number of parallel universes gets over a dozen, or the backstory gets so convoluted that every character is someone else's grandparent AND cousin (as it can at Marvel), I lose interest. Interesting to see such a strong "who cares about continuity" reply from Weisinger just before the Silver Age went into full bloom, isn't it? Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze_rules Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 sitting in the grading section, if anyone wants to take a crack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.A.tor Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 Got this the other day and posted it in General, but not here. I've been looking for an attractive, reasonably priced copy for quite some time, and this one fits the bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
