adamstrange Posted April 21, 2012 Share Posted April 21, 2012 I knew that. I just forgot to type "Pluto" before the word "story" in my post (now corrected). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted April 21, 2012 Share Posted April 21, 2012 Love those large feature books YK - thanks for showing them off. I don't think I've ever seen the Daisy Duck first appearence before. I wonder why Gladstone/Gemstone didn't run those. I know they did reprint the first HD&L. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 Last night I was looking through my early Disney comics and thought that you might enjoy seeing the covers of the quartet of Large Feature Comics. These were oversized books, about 11 3/8" x 8 1/2", with very flimsy covers and coarse interior paper for the black and white comics. They are all hard to find, and some are truly rare, if not almost impossible to find in high grade. When I first met Matt Nelson years ago, the LFC #20 was one of the few remaining books he needed for his collection of missing covers for the Gerber book. I like the books because they just look old, and the back covers of the first three are especially interesting and hardly ever seen. LFC #16 introduces Daisey Duck in a one-page color story on the back cover, with only the front and back covers having color, which was characteristic of the series. LFC #19 is one of the two Disney comic paint books in the series. It also has a great back cover of a clown from Dumbo's circus that most people have never seen. LFC #20 is the other comic paint book and it is best known for introducing Donald's nephews. It also shows Donald sitting up on a tree limb on the back cover, which was a most unusual setting, perhaps suggestive of his regression to the behavior of a wild duck. Finally, LFC #7, Pluto Saves the Ship, is now accepted as containing the first work of Carl Barks in comic books. As you can tell, all of these books have historical significance as well as beautiful early Disney art. The clown is one of my favorite pieces of art in any Disney comic book. Wow, Rich! Most impressive, I have not seen most of those! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 It turns out to be hard to get a decent group shot of 50 books, so let's try a different approach for my first 50 of the WDC&S 1-100 run. They are all clickable thumbnails and feel free to troll through my photobucket images if you are so inclined. I'll have the first few of the next fifty in the next week or two. Thanks for your kind words along the way everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duffman_Comics Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 Lovely stuff, Andrew. I have a real soft spot for the #78, largely due to the "story behind the cover" and yours is in so much better condition than my "reader". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 It turns out to be hard to get a decent group shot of 50 books +1 unless your place is set-up like Strawman's, a decent group shot of that many books is not going to turn out. Thanks for the scans! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Point Five Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 Amazing lineup, Andrew! --Ye cats, a 7.0 #25. What did that happen? --I'm still green with envy over that sharp #28... --And I'm not focused on collecting the #51-100 run right now, but seeing them in these grades sure makes me want to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow Kid Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 Beautiful books! You are off to a great start. With Donald, Mickey, and the others, I think it is one of the best series ever published. Good Luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david20009 Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 It turns out to be hard to get a decent group shot of 50 books, so let's try a different approach for my first 50 of the WDC&S 1-100 run. They are all clickable thumbnails and feel free to troll through my photobucket images if you are so inclined. I'll have the first few of the next fifty in the next week or two. Thanks for your kind words along the way everyone. Just a great set of books. You might just have some competition as this might be my next project Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Finally, LFC #7, Pluto Saves the Ship, is now accepted as containing the first work of Carl Barks in comic books. Not only that, but Barks collaborated with Jack Hannah on the Pluto as he did on Pirate's Gold. INDUCKS cites Hannah with co-writing credits with Barks and Nick George. Dunno enough to know if Hannah did pencil work on that as well. INDUCKS credits with (?) Hannah on some DD in OS 13 (Reluctant Dragon) and without (?) a DD 10-pager in WDCS 37 and 8 pages for Sears, Roebuck & Co. (WDC) Christmas Giveaway 1 (1943) as well as on Cheerios Premiums (Giveaway) W 1 - DD and the Pirates. I only bump this as I was reading an interview with Jack Hannah by Jim Korkis from 1978 & 1981 in Didier Ghez's Walt's People vol. 1 last night where Hannah describes the process through which he and Barks worked on Pirate's Gold. Hannah states that "I pencilled about a page and a half to two pages a weekend. We would draw it up in blue pencil and then it would have to be seen by the publishing company before we went ahead with the inking." He also recalled that "We didn't have any difficulty synchronizing our style. We both fell into it easily and I think we were both surprised at how close the drawing was, especially since we were doing it in two different homes." As for Pluto saves the ship, Hannah states: "I did another comic story with Carl, Pluto Saves the Ship, which we cranked out together over a hot weekend without air conditioning." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Point Five Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 INDUCKS credits Hannah ... a DD 10-pager in WDCS 37 Hey, I just picked this issue up. The story is maybe a bit underdeveloped compared to most of the Barks ones, but the art style is indeed pretty close to early Barks... very fluid and pleasing to the eye, and much better than the majority of the 'Barks fill-in' artists of the 1950s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 INDUCKS credits Hannah ... a DD 10-pager in WDCS 37 Hey, I just picked this issue up. The story is maybe a bit underdeveloped compared to most of the Barks ones, but the art style is indeed pretty close to early Barks... very fluid and pleasing to the eye, and much better than the majority of the 'Barks fill-in' artists of the 1950s. Well, I don't know what training the 'Barks fill-in artists' had but by that point, Hannah had already spent 5 years as a Disney artist, as an in-betweener and an assistant, before joining the Story Department so he had the practice of the animator and the ease of drawing in addition to his formal training at Otis and Chouinard + some commercial work before joining Disney in 1933, on January 31 to be precise with a starting salary of $16 a week, to be raised quarterly by $2 if you stuck around. Hannah was a mere 20 when he joined Disney (Born January 5, 1913). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 INDUCKS credits Hannah ... a DD 10-pager in WDCS 37 Hey, I just picked this issue up. The story is maybe a bit underdeveloped compared to most of the Barks ones, but the art style is indeed pretty close to early Barks... very fluid and pleasing to the eye, and much better than the majority of the 'Barks fill-in' artists of the 1950s. Well, I don't know what training the 'Barks fill-in artists' had but by that point, Hannah had already spent 5 years as a Disney artist, as an in-betweener and an assistant, before joining the Story Department so he had the practice of the animator and the ease of drawing in addition to his formal training at Otis and Chouinard + some commercial work before joining Disney in 1933, on January 31 to be precise with a starting salary of $16 a week, to be raised quarterly by $2 if you stuck around. Hannah was a mere 20 when he joined Disney (Born January 5, 1913). And don't forget that there was no guarantee any of the artists working for Western as fill-in folks had any training at Disney. Western was run independently although there was editorial control from the studio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Point Five Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Here's a new pickup. These early ducks have been hitting the sweet spot lately... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Point Five Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 ...and the back: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Cool Jon. That back cover image is great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Transplant Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Nice book P5. Are all the early WDCS 3 staple books? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Point Five Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Nice book P5. Are all the early WDCS 3 staple books? Thanks guys. The early ones are all 3-staple books. Not sure when they switched to 2 staples. I have WDCS #4 and #8, and both are 3-staple. (I'm waiting on a #15, and am looking forward to having that additional data point in hand...!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrchocholat Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Heres a lucky find my brother and i ran across... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
