Show Us Your Ducks! 16 16

[sfcityduck]

On 5/1/2024 at 9:39 PM, tth2 said:

It's only propaganda if you're on the losing side.  As the saying goes, history is written by the victors.

History IS written by the victors but our history was pretty frank about recognizing propaganda. Bill Mauldin won a Pulitzer for this cartoon in Stars and Stripes calling out US home front propaganda:

That a soldier-journalist could not only draw that for an Army newspaper during wartime but get his country”s highest journalistic honor is why America was and is a great country. That is the difference between the US and fascist countries that value the “dear leader” or “strongman” mentality. Because our history includes not just propaganda but efforts like GI Roundtable Education Manual 2 which was intended to ensure that US soldiers returning to civilian life knew how to recognize fascist propaganda and to reject authoritarianism. Great stuff. Other EM’s included these:

Back then people understood the value of a democratic government and how America could use the government to pull people up through educational efforts like these.

Edited May 2 by sfcityduck

[sfcityduck]

Back to duck. I was surprised to see this pop up on eBay for less than I sold it on Heritage. It is, to my knowledge tied with one of its brothers for the highest grade given to a subscription variant.

 

Here is the brother:

This run’s OO was in Oregon. But his books were dispersed by a dealer. You see them around. The WDC&S all have the OO name and address. There were also incredible Duck Four Colors - census topping. 

 

I sold an incredible US 2 to Richard Olson b/c he told me it was his favorite book.  Anyone know what is happening to his collection?

Edited May 2 by sfcityduck

[Bigphatpaulie]

Figured I'd show you all my Duck Collection (At least the Graded Books).  Going from oldest to most current.  Doing this because I've been thinking of trading my collection for a particular grail.  Its mostly Copper to Modern Keys (ASM #300, Batman #423, Batman Adventures #12) but hesitating because not sure I want to give up the Duck Books.  Some are really tough to find in a good grade.  That's what makes them unique treasures to me.

 

 

Edited May 2 by Bigphatpaulie

[Bigphatpaulie]

Part 2 of the Ducks

The Donald Duck #3 Retail Incentive Cover is actually my favorite Donald Duck Cover.  Donald is my favorite cartoon character of all time, the Sword in the Stone is my favorite Disney Movie, and Disney World (I know that castle is from Disneyland but close enough) is one of my favorite places.  I also like the story it tells.  Donald of course would try to pull the Sword and fail with hilarious results, Huey would say hi to the crowd, Louie is the more mischievous of the three nephews so he's enjoying the spectacle and Dewey is the most intelligent of the bunch so he's stoked to see Merlin

It was a quest to get that one in a 9.8.  Finding the book raw was a challenge on its own (I think it was 1 in 10 copies), then I had to find a 9.8 candidate, CGC returned it as a 9.6, then found out about clean/pressing and the re-submission came back as a 9.8!

Also, is Ducktales #1 the first appearance of Launchpad?

 

Edited May 2 by Bigphatpaulie

[Bigphatpaulie]

On 4/6/2024 at 7:25 PM, Bigphatpaulie said:

Four Color #386:  https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/cartoon-character/four-color-386-uncle-scrooge-dell-1952-cgc-nm-92-white-pages/a/7369-93082.s?ic16=ViewItem-BrowseTabs-Auction-Archive-ThisAuction-120115

 

Looks like the buyer is trying to flip it (or had a change of heart):  I think he had it at $7990 a few days ago:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/256490641306?itmmeta=01HX05EXKAVKMZDM01K5DM6ZA1&hash=item3bb808979a:g:teYAAOSw~8ZmEaBr&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA4NbRVpRf1HAVlPUMh6mmN8XkHyjFDibFO4WTMhPSiuXqqPaIZiHhhfBZ%2BuY0NG0naH0h%2B6ZuNqfMzhnHz6ZX3IZlT%2B98Ullgyf8egkjn%2BESTXJwFqfnx%2BTWVKe0%2B2mdSA2OwHMRCLn6L7k2Nja5TpYolc8PN2NZF%2FywjMBkEx38TDgODEkcXICaB3ZlOUqOM62g%2BD%2B%2Ff35rQWyXyonsRBUU5JgP55Iw2Td7wOm05Sgxtb%2Fd68jnoSfTnOQcYkwAacNuQt0J2SsDVmVZso9YQ2Rn4Ll32H4qnVkAkwJuI63ot|tkp%3ABk9SR97Zu4XoYw

I'd love to own this book someday, and MIGHT be interested in purchasing it for the sold heritage auction price (for that particular copy).  The writing on that cover is really distracting for me

Edited May 3 by Bigphatpaulie

[Transplant]

Buying a big Duck book at Heritage in an auction and then trying to flip on Ebay a month later is .....  a choice. 

[Kromak]

On 5/1/2024 at 1:23 AM, sfcityduck said:

Instead, the first appearance of Donald Duck, the character we love, in print was in the Good Housekeeping magazine Silly Symphonies cartoon page for "The Wise Little Hen" in the June 1934 issue which hit the stands even before the appearance of the cartoon.

So it precedes the first newspaper daily strip? Very interesting. Not impactful as it, but it has superb printing quality, unlike they:

Perhaps some other newspaper printed it better?

 

[Kromak]

On 4/23/2024 at 11:32 PM, Bigphatpaulie said:

I have a question.  Four Color #16 is considered the "First Mickey Mouse in Comics"

Well, more or less. There are other older Mickey mouse comics outside newspaper strips. FC vol1 n°16 can be seen as the first US Mickey comic book in a fairly modern format. Older US publications in different format or foreign publications came before.

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What about Donald Duck?  I never found a definitive answer:

This one precedes it:

As with Mickey, there other US publications that precedes, sometimes not comic focused ones, or comics focused but with different formats, or foreign publications

 

 

 

 

Edited May 19 by Kromak

[DavideD]

In fact many countries published MM comics in modern format (no newspaper) in the 30', mainly in Europe and South America. On top we have the Mickey Mouse Magazine, that as of 1937 (or smth like this) started to republish MM and DD strips.

About DD, I agree with Kromak, first one is DD #1 aka the Bubble Pipe (mine is exactly the one showed by Kromak) published in 1938. But again it is a reprint of strips from 1936-37.

 

It all depends from the criteria you'd use... MMM #5 is the first with DD on the cover page (a lovely one, one of the best in this early times).

 

Edited May 27 by DavideD
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[Bigphatpaulie]

Appreciate the feedback on Donald's First Appearance

Some interesting Duck Sales on Comic Link.  Did not think Disney Books racked up big sales on that site but they look like solid numbers:

WALT DISNEY'S COMICS AND STORIES #20

CGC 8.0 Sold for $3400.  A CGC 9.0 sold on Heritage back in 11/03/2022 for $2280

WALT DISNEY'S COMICS AND STORIES #22

CGC 8.5 Sold for $2300.  A CGC 9.0 sold on Heritage back in 03/22/2021 for $1740.  I wanted this one.  Its one of my top three World War II Covers.  Lost the auction though.

 

Edited May 30 by Bigphatpaulie

[Kromak]

On 5/30/2024 at 7:13 PM, Bigphatpaulie said:

Appreciate the feedback on Donald's First Appearance

Some interesting Duck Sales on Comic Link.  Did not think Disney Books racked up big sales on that site but they look like solid numbers:

WALT DISNEY'S COMICS AND STORIES #20

CGC 8.0 Sold for $3400.  A CGC 9.0 sold on Heritage back in 11/03/2022 for $2280

WALT DISNEY'S COMICS AND STORIES #22

CGC 8.5 Sold for $2300.  A CGC 9.0 sold on Heritage back in 03/22/2021 for $1740.  I wanted this one.  Its one of my top three World War II Covers.  Lost the auction though.

 

No way to see the back cover or am I doing something wrong?

[50YrsCollctngCmcs]

On 5/30/2024 at 3:13 PM, Bigphatpaulie said:

Appreciate the feedback on Donald's First Appearance

Some interesting Duck Sales on Comic Link.  Did not think Disney Books racked up big sales on that site but they look like solid numbers:

WALT DISNEY'S COMICS AND STORIES #20

CGC 8.0 Sold for $3400.  A CGC 9.0 sold on Heritage back in 11/03/2022 for $2280

WALT DISNEY'S COMICS AND STORIES #22

CGC 8.5 Sold for $2300.  A CGC 9.0 sold on Heritage back in 03/22/2021 for $1740.  I wanted this one.  Its one of my top three World War II Covers.  Lost the auction though.

 

Both beautiful copies of iconic covers! Prices seem about right for these books.

[tth2]

On 5/31/2024 at 8:17 AM, Kromak said:

No way to see the back cover or am I doing something wrong?

It's Comiclink.  You have to request to see the back covers.  And such request may or may not be granted.

[dikran]

Those Scrooge bound volumes signed & sketched by Barks look really cool on Heritage! No clue if they'll go for 1000$ or 100,000$...

[Badger]

On 6/5/2024 at 10:14 AM, dikran said:

Those Scrooge bound volumes signed & sketched by Barks look really cool on Heritage! No clue if they'll go for 1000$ or 100,000$...

I've been drooling over those too. I'd love to see the other sketches!

Edit: Heritage has now posted pics of all the interior sketches. They do not disappoint! 

Edited June 10 by Badger

[Robot Man]

Very fun score at a local show on Saturday. The young dealer had mostly copper and modern books. At the end of his table was a large cardboard box of unbagged "10 centers". very little in the way of superheroes, PCH, GGA stuff but mostly Funny Animal, Westerns and other oddball low demand books. He told me they came from an estate sale a couple days earlier. They were price very low at "each" prices. I stacked up a nice pile then saw these at the bottom. Bought all the real early ones. This little group sure helped out my collection of the earliest Barks Ducks. Got a bunch of early Archies back to #15 was well. Made my day and was shocked to get a deal like this at a comic show. I always say, there is always that "one guy" at every show you just got to find him. 

[tth2]

Someone (not me, unfortunately) got a steal in the most recent Heritage weekly auction, picking up Uncle Scrooge #11 in 9.4 for only $1080.  This is a book that is surprisingly hard to find in grade.

[50YrsCollctngCmcs]

On 6/10/2024 at 8:34 AM, Robot Man said:

Very fun score at a local show on Saturday. The young dealer had mostly copper and modern books. At the end of his table was a large cardboard box of unbagged "10 centers". very little in the way of superheroes, PCH, GGA stuff but mostly Funny Animal, Westerns and other oddball low demand books. He told me they came from an estate sale a couple days earlier. They were price very low at "each" prices. I stacked up a nice pile then saw these at the bottom. Bought all the real early ones. This little group sure helped out my collection of the earliest Barks Ducks. Got a bunch of early Archies back to #15 was well. Made my day and was shocked to get a deal like this at a comic show. I always say, there is always that "one guy" at every show you just got to find him. 

Nice score Bob; those early Barks ducks are just hard to find in general. Great reader copies for you!!

[Duffman_Comics]

On 6/11/2024 at 1:34 AM, Robot Man said:

Very fun score at a local show on Saturday. The young dealer had mostly copper and modern books. At the end of his table was a large cardboard box of unbagged "10 centers". very little in the way of superheroes, PCH, GGA stuff but mostly Funny Animal, Westerns and other oddball low demand books. He told me they came from an estate sale a couple days earlier. They were price very low at "each" prices. I stacked up a nice pile then saw these at the bottom. Bought all the real early ones. This little group sure helped out my collection of the earliest Barks Ducks. Got a bunch of early Archies back to #15 was well. Made my day and was shocked to get a deal like this at a comic show. I always say, there is always that "one guy" at every show you just got to find him. 

Fantastic buys.

Maybe things are cooling off with regard to some funnybooks. I sure hope so.

Can someone explain the gag on the cover of WDC&S Vol 2 #3, Donald threatening a roast chicken? (Fowl on fowl abuse)

[AJD]

On 6/11/2024 at 9:35 PM, Duffman_Comics said:

Can someone explain the gag on the cover of WDC&S Vol 2 #3, Donald threatening a roast chicken? (Fowl on fowl abuse)

I think he has overcooked the turkey and it's too tough to carve.