Weird Paper Posted July 4, 2006 Share Posted July 4, 2006 (edited) Weird Paper, The Wise Little Hen is on my pickup list. I have seen several DD 978s but I have not seen this book surface as often. The linen book seems to be extremely common compared to the WLH. Though WLH dust jacket seems impossible, though. Also, a really tough find is the 1936 yellow book with a dust jacket. I let mine go years ago in trade for a JLA 1 (which I regretted) Pardon the weird reflection from the mylar. The book doesn't have leprosy. Edited July 4, 2006 by Weird Paper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvey Dude Posted July 4, 2006 Share Posted July 4, 2006 [Also, a really tough find is the 1936 yellow book with a dust jacket. I let mine go years ago in trade for a JLA 1 (which I regretted) The 1936 book is scarce enough but seldom seen with the dust jacket. Here is my 1936 copy with dust jacket (posted earlier in this thread. I outbid ebayer mamanook for this book. Was this your copy at one time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvey Dude Posted July 4, 2006 Share Posted July 4, 2006 "This just in - Repatriated in trade from Europe. Of course he got some other Disneys from me, but I like the high grade Kelly covers" I love the WDC&S #87 cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weird Paper Posted July 4, 2006 Share Posted July 4, 2006 [Also, a really tough find is the 1936 yellow book with a dust jacket. I let mine go years ago in trade for a JLA 1 (which I regretted) The 1936 book is scarce enough but seldom seen with the dust jacket. Here is my 1936 copy with dust jacket (posted earlier in this thread. I outbid ebayer mamanook for this book. Was this your copy at one time? It's distinctly possible. Is it super clean under the dj? I had traded it to John Fairless sometime around 1998. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvey Dude Posted July 5, 2006 Share Posted July 5, 2006 It's distinctly possible. Is it super clean under the dj? I had traded it to John Fairless sometime around 1998. Pretty clean. I would rate the actual book a VF-. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psiknight Posted July 5, 2006 Share Posted July 5, 2006 Hmm, it's been a while since I've been on this thread. Dang school work and all! I'm eying up a few books in that Heritage auction, so I'm sure I'll get none of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weird Paper Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 It's distinctly possible. Is it super clean under the dj? I had traded it to John Fairless sometime around 1998. Pretty clean. I would rate the actual book a VF-. That sounds about right. You know, I was thinking about that book, and I remembered it had a very distinctive musty smell. No foxing or water damage, just a subtle, but distinct, smell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 ...and Donald's first appearance in the book... Wonderful quality to the illustration in that book -- it looks like they involved one of their animation background artists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tb Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 Just got this back from CGC. Bought raw from Metropolis in spring of '05 as raw "VF/NM" . Census has one other 9.0, none higher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonds25 Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 Nice book! (why the screename change?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juggernaut Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 Four Color #300 - Donald Duck (Canadian Edition) Is there any other Four Color Donald Duck (Canadian Edition) in existence? Just curious!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tb Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 > Canadian reprints You can see some Canadian Four Color submissions in the CGC census. Listed under "Wilson Publishing" or something like that. I'm sure someone here has a complete list. > Nice book! (why the screename change?) tb from my eBay id (timrous_beastie). A bit more incognito since everything posted here goes on permanent record. Here's another book I think is cool. This '39 giveaway is one of the most fragile Disney books ever - very hard to find this nice. Mickey Mouse Mag V3#3 for comparison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crawdad Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 Can anyone post a scan of the cover of Don & Maggie's zine, COMIC ART #6? It started me collecting Barks... I haven't seen a copy in many years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psiknight Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 Just got this back from CGC. Bought raw from Metropolis in spring of '05 as raw "VF/NM" . Census has one other 9.0, none higher. I love it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidcolt Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 The older Christmas covers are awesome. Every Christmas I would look forward to the Disney Christmas special on TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psiknight Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 The older Christmas covers are awesome. Every Christmas I would look forward to the Disney Christmas special on TV. Christmas for Shacktown (FC 367) is a fantastic story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonds25 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 Not sure if I've posted this yet, but here is one of my few high grade Ducks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tth2 Posted August 11, 2006 Author Share Posted August 11, 2006 Not sure if I've posted this yet, but here is one of my few high grade Ducks Sweet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psiknight Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 I just picked this beauty up for what I considered to be a great deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tb Posted August 20, 2006 Share Posted August 20, 2006 The Heritage auction featured one of my most wanted grails and I was very excited to be able to add this to my collection. It is probably hard even for seasoned Duck fans to see what makes the rejected cover art to Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 96 so special so I thought I'd explain a bit more about it. First, the drawing is from 1948. This makes it one of only 11 1/2 pages of Barks' comic book art from the 1940's to have survived (and the oldest of all surviving covers). A while back, I posted the original page from the rejected "Silent Night" story (1945) that I was able to purchase a few years ago. These are the only two examples of 1940's Barks art that to my knowledge have surfaced in the last decade. This particular piece last sold at Howard Lowery in 1993 (when I was a poor undergrad). It was purchased by Bruce Hamilton who later consigned Barks to do the coloring. Even more remarkable (and sad) is that the drawing is the one and only piece of inked comic book art to have survived from the period between August 1945 and May 1951. Aside from two surviving covers from 1951 (including the one to FC 367 which is now in Steve Geppi's collection), this spans the period between Four Color 62 ("Frozen Gold") and Donald Duck 26 ("Trick or Treat"): the time when Barks was at the very peak of his career. The cover dates from March 1948, the same month as "The Sheriff of Bullet Valley" story from FC 199. The resemblance in style between the two covers is striking. Barks' work from the late '40s is easily recognizable and any Duck fan will be able to date drawings from 1945, 1948, and 1951 instantly. For an original art collector, it is heartbreaking to consider that this one drawing is the only one from the Golden Age of Barks' comic book production still in existence: everything else was burned. So, in the case of early Barks artwork choice is a luxury that does not exist. The cover may not be the greatest (it only survived because Barks got the proportions wrong and had to redraw it) and most OA fans will surely agree that coloring a unique 1948 cover is not that great an idea (to put it kindly). At least it was Barks himself who did it - he also colored the FC 367 cover around the same time. Still, for me collecting just doesn't get any better that this! Early Barks originals are the giant squids of Duck hunting as far as I am concerned. Fortunately, this scarcity also means that very few people have had the privilege to see them and get addicted . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
