143ksk Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 Those are two of my very favorite Barks books Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiverbones Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 ! Glad you like the 256 too, its one of my favorite adventures! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiverbones Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 thanks Scrooge! VG with white pages is really my favorite condition for barks books. I like to read teh originals and not have to worry about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tth2 Posted October 11, 2006 Author Share Posted October 11, 2006 ! Glad you like the 256 too, its one of my favorite adventures! Mine too! Thanks for posting it, it's one of the Four Color Ducks we haven't seen posted here yet. In fact, there's a bunch of Four Color Duck issues that still haven't been posted here. Let's see 'em if you got 'em! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonds25 Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 Not Christmas, but cold weather! A story I really like, but no one seems to mention much. Probably one of my favorite Barks covers - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adams Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 I think Diamond Galleries has the #256 in the form of a proto-type ceramic piece that was never marketed by Another Rainbow/Hamilton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mica Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 Not Christmas, but cold weather! A story I really like, but no one seems to mention much. Beautiful, and for the time being my new wallpaper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tb Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 Playing with my new scanner... This book sold at Greg Manning back in 2000. Last I looked, it was still the highest graded copy in the census. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ft88 Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 Aah yes, the HDL communist gloves cover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiverbones Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 hahaha! Communist gloves! Thats the 1st I am really looking at that cover up close & I LOVE the color in the sky, its really a beauty. Great scan! Its going to take me forever to get all the WDC&S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ft88 Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 WDCS is a great line to collect. Never go out of style and they can be as tough or as easy as you want it to be. The #1 is a true key that will always impress and the single digits are tough as beans to even find. There are just enough minor keys like issue 22 31 88 98 134 140 so the guide looks interesting. Never fun to see the Richie Rich titles that have nothing to them for 200+ issues. Great stopping points if you don't want the whole line. 140 is an easy end point or 100 or 31 or just collect the Barks covers etc etc. Up until about 1950 the covers by Barks and Kelly are some of the best cartoon covers there are. Plus with millions produced they are the type of books that older non comic folks may even remember owning. Just a fun line with collectors in Europe out numbering collectors in America. Ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tb Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 Here's a book that I was pretty excited to pick up: the first Firestone giveaway from 1943 (thanks to "thebigloo") in the nicest shape I've ever seen. It's all about the interior in this case: the story is reprinted from WDC&S 32 and was only Barks' 2nd 10 pager. Just really fun to think that this happened in the months when Barks was just starting out as a comic book artist. Today, there would probably be tens of thousands of Duck stories to pick from if anyone wanted to print one, but back then there were only two that would have fit the format. This book is just so incredibly hard to find in nice shape... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tth2 Posted October 13, 2006 Author Share Posted October 13, 2006 Wow, that is gorgeous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ft88 Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 Unreal Firestone. At the risk of jinxing myself, I have a lead on high grade Donald Duck MOC, Firestone, and Kite books.from a collector who bought these in the 60's. I'll no more Sunday, wish me luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tth2 Posted October 13, 2006 Author Share Posted October 13, 2006 At the risk of jinxing myself, I have a lead on high grade Donald Duck MOC, Firestone, and Kite books.from a collector who bought these in the 60's. I'll no more Sunday, wish me luck. Cool! If it doesn't work out for you, there are some sweet Duck MOCs that will be on Heritage in November (you can check them out in the previews now). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiverbones Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 What A nice firestone! I love christmas giveaways! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiverbones Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 ft88 - Yeah, its a very versatile run to collect. I have decided to focus on WDCS#1-150, and the 1st 15 Uncle Scrooges. I'll take it from there I guess. Thats still a huge pile of books, but I am usually happy with nice paged GD to VG books. If I can afford nicer ones when they come up , I do. The Europen fan base is startling. Its a good thing they exist in the numbers they do, or it would all be cost prohibitive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worldsbestcomics Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 This thread is a real gem for me. I am mainly a bronze collector - mostly Spider-Man and X-Men - so I have never ventured into the gold forum before. But I love Ducks, especially Uncle Scrooge, so when I stumbled across this thread the other day, I got to catch up on over a year's worth of amazing posts all in one sitting. And I felt like I had to contribute. My collection is modest but it has a few goodies courtesy of tth. Our paths crossed right when I first decided to put together a Scrooge run and Tim has been a great help in getting me started. I really owe him a debt of thanks and I am fortunate that I hooked up with him before he sold all his Duck books! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvers24 Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 (edited) Like this. Nice book btw Steve. Edited October 13, 2006 by Silvers24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
