Giants, Annuals and other Big Fatties!

[Robot Man]

From Dell...

 

 

to Fox...

 

 

Maybe not far in the alphabet, but miles away from each other in content!

 

What are the interior stories? I have two copies and they are different but they both have the Phantom Lady issue.

 

 

These are all made up of issues that didn't sell and contents are all over the place. I have 2 or three of some of the Fox annuals and they all have different contents.

[Robot Man]

1944

 

 

Another real oddity. Don't think I have ever seen that one!

[Robot Man]

and I am a big fan of World's Finest...

 

Here's my favorite World's Finest. And yes, pretty dopy stories.

 

[EC ed]

[EC ed]

[porcupine48]

Or Horror???

 

i love it..

[50YrsCollctngCmcs]

OK not exactly Golden Age but the content certainly counts; this Gold Key reprint from 1965 proudly proclaims, "GIANT" perhaps to distract you from the lack of gloss covers. They would have been better off reprinting cover reproductions of the two classic stories inside. I vividly remember owning this comic as a kid bought off a second hand rack (I was always a value shopper) due to the fact that it contained the half page splash of Scrooge's money erupting from a dam. Oddly, I don't remember the Mummy's Ring reprint also in this issue.

[Robot Man]

 

Nice ED! But might as well finish 'em off...

 

 

 

[EC ed]

Nice, Robot!

 

You wanna talk about FAT, though...let's try 232 pages on for size:

 

[Ltpink2002]

 

[50YrsCollctngCmcs]

Nice, Robot!

 

You wanna talk about FAT, though...let's try 232 pages on for size:

 

 

That's an odd price on that book Ed. What year is that from? 232 pages for 65 cents. The Peter Pan I posted from 1953 gave you 212 pages for 50 cents. Of course you did get the entire Old Testament for those extra 15 cents!

[Bo_Hogg]

I need to put this book on a diet!

 

 

[Bo_Hogg]

I am putting this one on NutriSystem!

 

 

[Bo_Hogg]

This one is going on Jenny Craig!

 

 

[Bo_Hogg]

I am going to make this one run a couple of miles!

 

 

[Bo_Hogg]

This one is getting liposuction!

 

 

[EC ed]

Nice, Robot!

 

You wanna talk about FAT, though...let's try 232 pages on for size:

 

 

That's an odd price on that book Ed. What year is that from? 232 pages for 65 cents. The Peter Pan I posted from 1953 gave you 212 pages for 50 cents. Of course you did get the entire Old Testament for those extra 15 cents!

 

That there's the 8th printing...from 1947. A couple years earlier (i.e., 5th printing and before), the book was indeed 50 cents. Max Gaines was mainly selling this book to schools and churches...I guess it was easier to get them to pony up that extra 15 cents...probably would have been a tough sell to the average Joe Here's the back cover.

 

 

 

[BB-Gun]

OK not exactly Golden Age but the content certainly counts; this Gold Key reprint from 1965 proudly proclaims, "GIANT" perhaps to distract you from the lack of gloss covers. They would have been better off reprinting cover reproductions of the two classic stories inside. I vividly remember owning this comic as a kid bought off a second hand rack (I was always a value shopper) due to the fact that it contained the half page splash of Scrooge's money erupting from a dam. Oddly, I don't remember the Mummy's Ring reprint also in this issue.

I purchased that one off the news stand and still have it. It didn't start my Disney collection but kept it alive.

[BB-Gun]

This one is getting liposuction!

 

 

 

I have a few of those Mighty Mouse annuals. Some are easy to find and others are not, according to Gerber.

Robots are always great on the cover.

[BB-Gun]

 

and I am a big fan of World's Finest...

 

Here's my favorite World's Finest. And yes, pretty dopy stories.

 

 

I don't think the stories were particularly dopey. Some are mysteries and some are bizarre. WF 7 had a pretty good Simon and Kirby story.

I like the Superman splash in WF 6.