tth2 Posted October 13, 2021 Author Share Posted October 13, 2021 On 10/12/2021 at 10:59 PM, Badger said: I have a thing for pedigree Duck books. It seems like most Pedigrees did not collect ducks so selection is rather scarce. Too true, unfortunately. I've been struck by the relative absence (so far) of Duck books in the Promise collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 On 10/12/2021 at 7:57 PM, tth2 said: Too true, unfortunately. I've been struck by the relative absence (so far) of Duck books in the Promise collection. I'm sure you and I are not the only ones keeping a close watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 Walt Disney Comics Digests were a favorite of mine when I was a kid. I've been trolling EBay looking for the occasional copy that pops up that looks nice or unread. I found this one last week and it arrived yesterday. These digests had some fantastic reprints from Western's vast library. This particular issue reprints the entirety of the post Four Color Mickey Mouse Album from Dell and an Alex Toth Zorro story from Four Color 1003. As usual a Barks tale from WDCS kicks things off. The cover feature, The Biscuit Eater is actually an illustrated text piece and not a comic; it's never been reprinted. It's hard for my eyes to read these stories in this format today but as a kid this was one of the greatest ways to find and read the old Dell comics. Badger, OtherEric, Stingrayiii and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Stingrayiii Posted October 13, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted October 13, 2021 Picked up some great books today. A little dirty, but can be dry cleaned. super flat and crisp. Maybe a 9.0 - 9.2? Once again a little dirty, but can be dry cleaned. An 8.0 - 8.5, if pressed and cleaned maybe higher. Almost flawless for this old of a book. I would say a 9.4. Will send these out next year to get graded. DavideD, OtherEric, Badger and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BitterOldMan Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 On 10/13/2021 at 9:32 AM, 50YrsCollctngCmcs said: Walt Disney Comics Digests were a favorite of mine when I was a kid. I've been trolling EBay looking for the occasional copy that pops up that looks nice or unread. I found this one last week and it arrived yesterday. These digests had some fantastic reprints from Western's vast library. This particular issue reprints the entirety of the post Four Color Mickey Mouse Album from Dell and an Alex Toth Zorro story from Four Color 1003. As usual a Barks tale from WDCS kicks things off. The cover feature, The Biscuit Eater is actually an illustrated text piece and not a comic; it's never been reprinted. It's hard for my eyes to read these stories in this format today but as a kid this was one of the greatest ways to find and read the old Dell comics. My favorite issue of the digest reprints four great Barks stories. I had many of the originals, but after reading digest #44 many times, decided to collect a set of Barks Four Color originals. Whitman reprinted this digest under their label. tth2 and AJD 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavideD Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 (edited) On 10/14/2021 at 1:38 AM, Stingrayiii said: Picked up some great books today. A little dirty, but can be dry cleaned. super flat and crisp. Maybe a 9.0 - 9.2? Once again a little dirty, but can be dry cleaned. An 8.0 - 8.5, if pressed and cleaned maybe higher. Almost flawless for this old of a book. I would say a 9.4. Will send these out next year to get graded. Very nice ones!!! Well done! Sure you want to grade them? They have so nice stories inside that I would love to read again and again... Edited October 14, 2021 by DavideD grammar error Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavideD Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 On 10/9/2021 at 9:11 PM, dikran1 said: Anybody pick up anything from the Cloud 9 collection? I’m debating a couple books but the shipping to Canada is astronomical 😭 I got 3 books from Ken (waiting to receive them soon): however many of them were in the low grades, so I picked up a very rare one, plus other two. I'll post them as soon as they're in my hands dikran 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 On 10/13/2021 at 6:37 PM, BitterOldMan said: My favorite issue of the digest reprints four great Barks stories. I had many of the originals, but after reading digest #44 many times, decided to collect a set of Barks Four Color originals. Whitman reprinted this digest under their label. That was a big deal when it came out. I still have my Whitman copy. I believe I had read about it in the Buyer's Guide and went looking for it but by then Gold Key comics had already started to be sporadically distributed so I found the Whitman copy in a discount department store. By that time I had already managed to pick up some very rough originals of the four color series but Mummy's Ring would not have been among them. The Best of Walt Disney Comics series that came out the following year was an even better format and I got to read Frozen Gold and Ghost of the Grotto for the first time. Only a Poor Old Man was also reprinted but I had read that already. I still have those books too along with the Dynabrite series a few years later. The high end Barks reprinting had started! Badger and Yellow Kid 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stingrayiii Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 (edited) A few more picked up. Hope I can get a 9.6, But will be happy with a 9.4. Hope for a 9.4. Edited October 19, 2021 by Stingrayiii OtherEric, tth2, Badger and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stingrayiii Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 (edited) Sent all five out today to get slabbed. Keeping my fingers crossed. Edited October 19, 2021 by Stingrayiii tth2 and Badger 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tth2 Posted October 19, 2021 Author Share Posted October 19, 2021 On 10/19/2021 at 11:43 AM, Stingrayiii said: Hope I can get a 9.6, But will be happy with a 9.4. Beautiful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 On 10/18/2021 at 8:43 PM, Stingrayiii said: A few more picked up. Hope I can get a 9.6, But will be happy with a 9.4. Hope for a 9.4. One of the best stories in the series and a beautiful copy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jimbo_7071 Posted October 25, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted October 25, 2021 waaaghboss, Foxtrot70, Badger and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 On 10/25/2021 at 11:15 AM, jimbo_7071 said: Beautiful copy; must have been disappointing to buy off the stands with such a great cover and find the story wasn't by Barks! Barks seemed to have a thing for rubber plantations though; I recall more than one story involving them. Maybe his source material had a bunch of articles on them or something; National Geographic perhaps. And I guess every Octo-Mega-Gazillionaire like Scrooge would have to own some rubber plantations! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Maybe that one is relatively easy in grade precisely because it doesn't contain a Barks story and wasn't read to death! Mine is a (deslabbed) 8.5 too. jimbo_7071, waaaghboss and Badger 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post AJD Posted October 26, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted October 26, 2021 I was doing some collection maintenance today and got a few books out for the first time in a while. I thought I'll give them an airing here too. Badger, Robot Man, 50YrsCollctngCmcs and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin James Kelly Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 On 10/26/2021 at 4:30 AM, AJD said: I was doing some collection maintenance today and got a few books out for the first time in a while. I thought I'll give them an airing here too. Absolutely gorgeous cartooning. These Barks covers are some of the best comic covers I've ever seen. That sailboat one is gorgeous - and your copy presents like it's high grade, even!! AJD 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dikran Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 (edited) So are WDCS #4 & 5 the only covers with dialogue on them? Edited October 26, 2021 by dikran1 oops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 On 10/26/2021 at 10:19 AM, dikran1 said: So are WDCS #4 & 5 the only covers with dialogue on them? No some of the early sixties Gold Keys had dialogue. Part of the transition. They also had square word balloons in those early Gold Key issues. dikran 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 On 10/26/2021 at 12:57 PM, 50YrsCollctngCmcs said: No some of the early sixties Gold Keys had dialogue. Part of the transition. They also had square word balloons in those early Gold Key issues. Correction I just went on GCD and looked and I did not remember properly. Those early Gold Key covers had multiple story taglines on multi panel covers but no word balloons. They did have square balloons inside though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
