50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 35 minutes ago, Jasonmorris1000000 said: That is one of my favorite of the Duck Four Color covers drawn by Barks! tth2 and Jasonmorris1000000 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow Kid Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 In 1973 a St. Louis collector, Tom Kelley, commissioned R. Beaubien to paint ten oil paintings of Barks FC covers. The paintings are such accurate reproductions that the images must have been transferred to the canvass board mechanically and then painted. Like so many senior collectors, Tom began selling his collection a few years ago and I got the pick of the litter: FC 199. Badger, AJD, adamstrange and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kromak Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 On 5/30/2021 at 6:02 PM, Yellow Kid said: The Price Guide states that five copies of the Complimentary Copy of WDCS #4 are known, making it the rarest duck book known. The Price Guide lists it at about a 50% premium to a regular copy of WDCS #4. Some people think it is worth less, some people think it is worth more, what do you think? I thought it would be interesting to see what a you think as most of you are active collectors. It should be worthy more, given the massive disparity in scarciness. That being said, I believe many people are desinterested in it due to the yellow rectangle size. It is a bit too big and that makes it is too intrusive. If it was a small yellow rectangle, it would make all the difference IMO. By the way, there are other ducks books outside the US that are probably on similar level of scarciness or perhaps even more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavideD Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 On 5/30/2021 at 11:02 PM, Yellow Kid said: The Price Guide states that five copies of the Complimentary Copy of WDCS #4 are known, making it the rarest duck book known. The Price Guide lists it at about a 50% premium to a regular copy of WDCS #4. Some people think it is worth less, some people think it is worth more, what do you think? I thought it would be interesting to see what a you think as most of you are active collectors. A friend of mine has the CGC 4.5, but he has all the WDCS plus everything about Disney that is on Overstreet (as he said once, Overstreet 2003). Nice copy to add if you have all the others, indeed. It's certaintly something that would sell quite high on HA or at other auctions houses. Pickie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post APDallas Posted June 7, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 7, 2021 Here is my brother's copy of UNCLE SCROOGE #1. I love the cover by Barks. Stingrayiii, Badger, tth2 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted June 8, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 8, 2021 Because it's Tuesday and you can never get enough ducks! I've been resorting boxes and this bunch is staged to be slated in one of the Disney boxes. Thought it would be fun to take a shot of these books; the late forties were really a highlight of this series with Barks firing on all cylinders and some fun cover work by Kelly to boot! AJD, Jasonmorris1000000, OtherEric and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 Oh and has anyone ever figured out if there is a pattern to the choice of color for "Comics" or is it just to complement the background color. The yellow on blue above seems pretty striking and appears on three of the four blue backgrounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jasonmorris1000000 Posted June 16, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 16, 2021 OtherEric, Pickie, Stingrayiii and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post AJD Posted June 16, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 16, 2021 Always a favourite. Here's the 1971 Australian reprint edition in which I first read that story, aged 8. Australian books were 32 pages including the covers so one page had to be cut. It was many years later that I first got to see the guy with the bird wings who got in Donald's way. Jasonmorris1000000, Pickie, Foxtrot70 and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickie Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 8 hours ago, AJD said: Always a favourite. Here's the 1971 Australian reprint edition in which I first read that story, aged 8. Australian books were 32 pages including the covers so one page had to be cut. It was many years later that I first got to see the guy with the bird wings who got in Donald's way. Such a great cover! I like the colors on the Australian reprint even more. @AJD Do you know if there were any newsstand posters in Australia showing covers of those Disney books? (I collect comic book advertising posters from all time frames, preferably in the dimensions of approx. 29,7 cm x 42,0 cm = 11,7 in x 16,5 in.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 11 hours ago, Jasonmorris1000000 said: One of the all time greats! Since Barks was an egg farmer for awhile I bet he drew a lot of inspiration from that experience for this story. Side note - we buy fresh eggs out in a place called Chino CA some weekends. I always wondered how they always seemed to have plenty of eggs because from the outside the place doesn't look so big. So I asked how many chickens they had. 35,000 chickens and 20,000 eggs per day was the reply; guess the place is a whole lot bigger than it looks with coops out of site in the back. That's a lot of chickens! Never got a square egg though. Badger and Jasonmorris1000000 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasonmorris1000000 Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Marvel should do a What If? issue entitled: What if the Red Skull's Cosmic Cube was Really a Square Egg? (Sorry I don't have Photoshop for full effect) AJD 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 10 hours ago, Pickie said: Such a great cover! I like the colors on the Australian reprint even more. @AJD Do you know if there were any newsstand posters in Australia showing covers of those Disney books? (I collect comic book advertising posters from all time frames, preferably in the dimensions of approx. 29,7 cm x 42,0 cm = 11,7 in x 16,5 in.) I've never seen one. They were always just on a rack in the local newsagency when I was buying them. And I've never seen anything like it on the secondary market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 18 hours ago, AJD said: Something I just noticed here - the Australian book has different colour caps on HD&L while the Dell edition has them all the same. I'm sure that's significant, somehow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickie Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 15 hours ago, AJD said: I've never seen one. They were always just on a rack in the local newsagency when I was buying them. And I've never seen anything like it on the secondary market. I haven't either ... Thanks for the heads-up! 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Transplant Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 On 6/6/2021 at 10:56 PM, Yellow Kid said: Like so many senior collectors, Tom began selling his collection a few years ago and I got the pick of the litter: FC 199. "selling his collection" is doing some heavy lifting here. Was this part of the first auction or the second or privately? No disrespect intended to Tom or to you. It's just that the story of at least one of the times Tom sold off comics is a fun one. I chuckle every time I think about it. I've met him and he is/was? a nice guy and sold me one of my first early Barks books I ever owned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow Kid Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 I don't know Tom, I just saw a painting on ebay and asked him if he had more. He sent me pictures of ten covers and said he was starting to sell his collection. I got the one I liked the most, so I was happy. Transplant 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Yellow Kid Posted June 19, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 19, 2021 Somewhere out there is a duck collector with very deep pockets who really wanted the FC 178, CGC 9.6, in yesterday's Heritage auction. It made me take a look at mine which sadly reminded me that the cover had experienced a production error and wasn't cut straight. Obviously not a CGC 9.6 but I have always been happy with it. Transplant, tth2, OtherEric and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tth2 Posted June 19, 2021 Author Share Posted June 19, 2021 That's a very nice book! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow Kid Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 Thanks, I've always treasured Disney comics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
