The Finite One-Shot Thread

[PovertyRow]

Btw, why the dislike for painted covers? I adore the Ziff-Davis stuff...I think a run of Z-D books would be killer! Deliciously pulpy books.

 

Not sure why. Just that most seem, somehow, tamer. At least in the realm I collect. Something about the hard lines of a "regular" cover, the blacks, I think, I respond to more than the softer painted covers.

 

Now I HAVE seen (and this be one of them) some painted covers I really love but most I just do not respond to (not to be repetively redundant). What to say? :: I know this is a failing on my part. ::

[shrunkenhead]

Btw, why the dislike for painted covers? I adore the Ziff-Davis stuff...I think a run of Z-D books would be killer! Deliciously pulpy books.

 

Not sure why. Just that most seem, somehow, tamer. At least in the realm I collect. Something about the hard lines of a "regular" cover, the blacks, I think, I respond to more than the softer painted covers.

 

Now I HAVE seen (and this be one of them) some painted covers I really love but most I just do not respond to (not to be repetively redundant). What to say? shrug): I know this is a failing on my part. ::

 

 

Nah, no failing, though I feel a "painted cover" GA thread comin' on!

[rjpb]

I know where you're coming from Pov when it comes to painted covers - despite some great ones by Saunders - painted covers on old comics just don't look right - on pulps YES!, but comics should have line-drawn covers. (although on moderns they often look just spiffy). But I'll take painted covers over photo covers any day ( not only were they usually incredibly lame - but it's just WRONG!)

[shrunkenhead]

On that we're in total agreement. Just about all of my least favorite comic covers are photo covers. Bleagh.

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[Scrooge]

Mark,

 

I have always wondered what the contents were in that 'Remember Pearl Harbor' book. Could you possibly give us a run-down? Thank you.

 

Scrooge

[1st-and-keys]

[Metarog]

These one-shots are not just the only issue for the title but the only issue for that publisher.

 

 

 

 

 

[shrunkenhead]

Love that Mysterious Traveler book, it's been on my want list for well over a year.

 

What a coinkydink, here's a one-shot that just landed today, purchased from our very own Rjpb. Thanks, bud!

 

This isn't one that I'd bust out at the cocktail party, but it is a pretty fascinating/disturbing piece of pop culture history. Haven't researched this (yet), but I see this book as potentially being a pre-wertham reaction to "violent" comics---I'm thinking timelys, here, specifically. Yet here's the rub: this return to childhood innocence in comics is so shockingly steeped in full-on racism, as you can see.

 

[esquirecomics]

Mark,

 

I have always wondered what the contents were in that 'Remember Pearl Harbor' book. Could you possibly give us a run-down? Thank you.

 

Sure, I'll re-read it and post a description.

[Scrooge]

 

SHead, do you have a date / year on this book?

[shrunkenhead]

Overstreet lists the year as 1944....has a weird description in the guide too, "Humorous situations involving Negroes in the Deep South."

 

I mentioned to RJ that I was surprised this book is so unknown and guides so low. Only guides at $125 in 9.2.

[PovertyRow]

Love that Mysterious Traveler book, it's been on my want list for well over a year.

 

That rascal grabbed my attention too!

[Scrooge]

Something different - One-Shot 100-Pager from 1952 with some Kinstler art from Ziff-Davis, all comic stories. I present to you some Thrilling Romances for Adults in Women in Love -

 

[Norrin_Radd]

A roll in the hay.

[PovertyRow]

A recent ebay acquisition - only one of its title.

 

[Jayman]

Very cool Pov! Too bad the text box covers up those two heads on the wall! I hate when this happens.

Especially since one seems to have pig tails!