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[showcase4]

This is a copy of Comic Monthly by Embee from 1922.(click on the attachment above ) Only 12 issues were printed, and all are rare. Comic Monthly was the 1st 10 cent monthly comic book

Edited August 25, 2006 by showcase-4

[showcase4]

interior pages of Comic Monthly ( click the attachment above)....please note that use of word balloons, which should keep everyone on this thread happy

[showcase4]

This is the copy (click attachment above) of the VF restored Yellow Kid in McFadden's Flats sold on Ebay last year for $10,500. I miss it very much

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BUSTER BROWN AT HOME 1913

 

Hey Bob, either Buster Brown is a midget, or that is one big turkey!

 

That's Baby Huey -- the oversized, yellow doofus finally got what was coming to him.

 

Jack

[or his cousin Big Bird?]

[Theagenes]

This is a copy of Comic Monthly by Embee from 1922.(click on the attachment above ) Only 12 issues were printed, and all are rare. Comic Monthly was the 1st 10 cent monthly comic book

 

Very cool!

Now there's a book I could truly call the first comic book, without using any qualifiers or asterisks and without losing any sleep over it.

I'd love to acquire one of those issues someday.

[BLBcomics-migration]

Why would that be a comic book and nothing else posted here is?

 

because it is a folded-over saddle-stitched stapled pamphlet?

 

you did not qualify your term

 

i bring this up because the Rube Goldberg FOOLISH QUESTIONS Comic Monthly is a series of un-inter-related single panel cartoons, four to a page, no continuity betweenst the panels

 

- kind of like picking on Dennis the Menace which was at least recurring characters

 

oh, must be the word balloons, but also used in 99% of everything i posted so far,

[Theagenes]

because it is a folded-over saddle-stitched stapled pamphlet?

 

Bingo!

 

I don't really have a problem calling the rest of them comic books either, it's just that in the back of my mind

there's this little voice that keeps saying "well, technically it's more like a graphic novel." The voice sounds

a lot like Comic Guy from the Simpsons.

 

But I'm tired of arguing over nomenclature. I'll concede - they're all comic books at least in a broader

sense of the term (and in a literal sense as they are actually books unlike the comic magazines

the term usual refers to today). You win.

Edited August 25, 2006 by Theagenes

[showcase4]

the book on the left ( click attachment above) is called Brainy Bowers and Drowsy Dugan. It is the 1st newspaper compilation comic book from 1905, and quit scarce.

[BLBcomics-migration]

just for clarification, Brainy Bowers is the first DAILY newspaper comic strip compilation

[Weird Paper]

James Montgomery Flagg in 1904, long before Uncle Sam.

 

Bob, I sent you info on this last year for possible inclusion in the guide. Do you want me to resend it or did it just not make the cut?

Edited August 25, 2006 by Weird Paper

[BLBcomics-migration]

James Montgomery Flagg in 1904, long before Uncle Sam.

 

Bob, I sent you info on this last year for possible inclusion in the guide. Do you want me to resend it or did it just not make the cut?

 

I missed it i think - never on purpose. Sometimes when i am out of town at some comic show for a week, emails pile up and i can miss stuff in the download dump

 

- please resend the data to Robert@BLBcomics.com

[BLBcomics-migration]

 

YELLOW KID MAGAZINE #4 1897

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LIFE'S LITTLE JOKES #1 by Rube Goldberg 1924, excuse this scan, it be cropped sadly

[BLBcomics-migration]

 

American-Journal-Examiner Joke Book #2 Dec 17 1911 during the short time Bud Fisher worked for Hearst - a supplement insert placed inside newspapers - 16 pages

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Publisher & Fitzgerald comic book from the 1870s,

a reprint of the 1852 original issued by Garrett,

an original American home grown comic strip creation by ALC

- we do not yet know his real name, probably never will

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Publisher & Fitzgerald comic book from the 1870s,

a reprint of the 1852 original issued by Garrett,

an original American home grown comic strip creation by ALC

- we do not yet know his real name, probably never will

 

I hope I'm not missing something obvious, but doesn't the cover say Avery at lower right?

Is it Avery 52? Avery SC?

 

JPS

[esquirecomics]

Bob, forgive me if you mentioned this before, but are these copies from your personal collection or scans of books that you have sold over the years (and retained the scan) or items currently in your inventory for sale?

[showcase4]

SPECIAL MUSEUM PIECES....the 3 books in the attachment (above - just click) will ultimatley be displayed in The Victorian Age Comic Book Museum (info in my website found below- click the "musuem info" tab ).

 

These are 3 of the rarest and most historically important comic books of the entire Platinum/Pre-Golden Age era. Detective Dan Secret Operative no 48, Detective Ace King, and Bob Scully the Two Fisted Hick Detective. All 3 are from Humor Publishing Corp., and were printed in 1933.

 

These were the 1st newsstand comic books with original art, the 1st of a single theme, and the direct inspiration for the conversion of Superman from a fanzine evil character into a comic book superhero.

 

All 3 of these books virtually never come up for sale in any venue...they don't get much tougher to find than this.

Edited August 26, 2006 by showcase-4

[Theagenes]

SPECIAL MUSEUM PIECES....the 3 books in the attachment (above - just click) will ultimatley be displayed in The Victorian Age Comic Book Museum (info in my website found below- click the "musuem info" tab ).

 

These are 3 of the rarest and most historically important comic books of the entire Platinum/Pre-Golden Age era. Detective Dan Secret Operative no 48, Detective Ace King, and Bob Scully the Two Fisted Hick Detective. All 3 are from Humor Publishing Corp., and were printed in 1933.

 

These were the 1st newwstand comic books with original art, the 1st of a single theme, and the direct inspiration for the conversion of Superman from a fanzine evil character into a comic book superhero.

 

All 3 of these books virtually never come up for sale in any venue...they don't get much tougher to find than this.

 

[Theagenes]

You know this is the first time I've seen these three books together and I didn't realize that Detective Dan was slightly larger than the other two. That would seem to suggest that DD was printed first, then the size was reduced for the following two, perhaps to cut costs. I've wondered about the order of publication of these Humor books. If DD came first and Ace King has the ad for Happy Mulligan, which may or may not have ever been printed, then it would seem that a tenative relative chronology for them would be:

 

1. Detective Dan

2. Bob Scully

3. Ace King

4. Happy Mulligan (?)