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[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 Sunday at 12:26 AM by Kromak