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[VintageComics]

2 minutes ago, Sqeggs said:

His exact words were:  "It's yours if you top Roy's offer by $1." 

I'll give you $2 extra for it then.

[Sqeggs]

3 hours ago, VintageComics said:

3 hours ago, Sqeggs said:

His exact words were:  "It's yours if you top Roy's offer by $1." 

I'll give you $2 extra for it then.

Not to add insult to injury, but he accepted payment in Canadian dollars. 

[VintageComics]

39 minutes ago, Sqeggs said:

4 hours ago, VintageComics said:

4 hours ago, Sqeggs said:

His exact words were:  "It's yours if you top Roy's offer by $1." 

I'll give you $2 extra for it then.

Not to add insult to injury, but he accepted payment in Canadian dollars. 

I should have offered it in BITCOIN !!

[Flex Mentallo]

38 minutes ago, VintageComics said:

I should have offered it in BITCOIN !!

Or ransom ware

[path4play]

Pretty high grade for me. 

[Point Five]

46 minutes ago, path4play said:

Pretty high grade for me. 

 

Looks great! I've always thought this one was underrated.

[29dukedog]

First bought this one at a local show in '92... had graded in '03... at the time it was the sole highest graded.  Sold it a few years later.  Since then, another 9.2 has appeared, as well as a 9.4 and a 9.6. 

Love the neatly penned "1948" near the top. 

"Ultimate phallic symbol cover".    

 

 

 

[Ricksneatstuff]

32 minutes ago, 29dukedog said:

First bought this one at a local show in '92... had graded in '03... at the time it was the sole highest graded.  Sold it a few years later.  Since then, another 9.2 has appeared, as well as a 9.4 and a 9.6. 

Love the neatly penned "1948" near the top. 

"Ultimate phallic symbol cover".    

 

 

 

One of my favorite Planets. Great copy!!

[29dukedog]

3 minutes ago, Ricksneatstuff said:

One of my favorite Planets. Great copy!!

Yep- great cover, first Baker on Mysta of the Moon... outstanding issue.

[Robot Man]

1 hour ago, 29dukedog said:

Yep- great cover, first Baker on Mysta of the Moon... outstanding issue.

I love that short Baker run in Planet. Is there such a thing as a "bad" Planet cover?

[29dukedog]

4 minutes ago, Robot Man said:

 

2 hours ago, 29dukedog said:

Yep- great cover, first Baker on Mysta of the Moon... outstanding issue.

I love that short Baker run in Planet. Is there such a thing as a "bad" Planet cover?

 

I've never seen one.

[Zolnerowich]

14 hours ago, path4play said:

Pretty high grade for me. 

Never noticed that one before. Very impressive. Great composition, along the diagonal from her right hand to left foot. And her leg seems to go on forever. And in a rare twist of fate, it's the girl rescuing the guy, who's about to be spun into mincemeat. To summarize: I like it!!

[MrBedrock]

On 5/26/2017 at 8:36 AM, Sqeggs said:

On 5/25/2017 at 10:10 PM, VintageComics said:

On 4/18/2017 at 6:42 PM, Sqeggs said:

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I tried hard to pry that book from the seller's hands but he told me it was already taken. I had it a feeling it was you.

His exact words were:  "It's yours if you top Roy's offer by $1." 

Wow! You got that book cheap!!! Congrats

[Zolnerowich]

I posted this a few days ago in the Pre-Robin Tec Club thread, figuring they'd find the cross-fertilization of Bob Kane an interesting thing. Apparently not -- maybe it ruined the moonlight glow of a certain book.  

Anyhow, maybe the Fiction House thread is a more natural place for this tidbit --

I was perusing Comic Book Plus, looking at Jumbo Comics #1, cover date of September 1938. Here is page 1 of Peter Pupp, by Bob Kane. Check out panel #7. Remind you of anything? I suppose self-swiping isn't such a fault... If the answer isn't obvious, the spoiler can be found below. Apologies if this has been discussed a 1,000 times before.

 

Spoiler

 

[catman76]

1 hour ago, Zolnerowich said:

I posted this a few days ago in the Pre-Robin Tec Club thread, figuring they'd find the cross-fertilization of Bob Kane an interesting thing. Apparently not -- maybe it ruined the moonlight glow of a certain book.  

Anyhow, maybe the Fiction House thread is a more natural place for this tidbit --

I was perusing Comic Book Plus, looking at Jumbo Comics #1, cover date of September 1938. Here is page 1 of Peter Pupp, by Bob Kane. Check out panel #7. Remind you of anything? I suppose self-swiping isn't such a fault... If the answer isn't obvious, the spoiler can be found below. Apologies if this has been discussed a 1,000 times before.

 

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Kane did like to swipe pretty much everything, isn't pretty much everything in the first batman story swiped from Flash Gordon and big little books? He probably used the same castle in his swipe file for both.

[Sqeggs]

14 hours ago, Zolnerowich said:

I posted this a few days ago in the Pre-Robin Tec Club thread, figuring they'd find the cross-fertilization of Bob Kane an interesting thing. Apparently not -- maybe it ruined the moonlight glow of a certain book.  

Anyhow, maybe the Fiction House thread is a more natural place for this tidbit --

I was perusing Comic Book Plus, looking at Jumbo Comics #1, cover date of September 1938. Here is page 1 of Peter Pupp, by Bob Kane. Check out panel #7. Remind you of anything? I suppose self-swiping isn't such a fault... If the answer isn't obvious, the spoiler can be found below. Apologies if this has been discussed a 1,000 times before.

 

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Cool find! 

[Zolnerowich]

13 hours ago, catman76 said:

Kane did like to swipe pretty much everything, isn't pretty much everything in the first batman story swiped from Flash Gordon and big little books? He probably used the same castle in his swipe file for both.

 

57 minutes ago, Sqeggs said:

Cool find! 

Interesting Catman, I haven't read much about Kane's art "connections" to the Flash Gordon and big little books. Do you know of any representative images?

Yes, it's always fun to "discover" these things in one's serendipitous meanderings through the interior pages of the GA. A little bit history, a little bit archeology (Sqeggs, I know you want to add, "and a little bit rock and roll" -- so I'll do it for ya!)

[catman76]

42 minutes ago, Zolnerowich said:

 

Interesting Catman, I haven't read much about Kane's art "connections" to the Flash Gordon and big little books. Do you know of any representative images?

Yes, it's always fun to "discover" these things in one's serendipitous meanderings through the interior pages of the GA. A little bit history, a little bit archeology (Sqeggs, I know you want to add, "and a little bit rock and roll" -- so I'll do it for ya!)

There's a lot about it here and how much of a jerk and liar Kane was.... http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/389/ 

[rjpb]

16 hours ago, Zolnerowich said:

I posted this a few days ago in the Pre-Robin Tec Club thread, figuring they'd find the cross-fertilization of Bob Kane an interesting thing. Apparently not -- maybe it ruined the moonlight glow of a certain book.  

Anyhow, maybe the Fiction House thread is a more natural place for this tidbit --

I was perusing Comic Book Plus, looking at Jumbo Comics #1, cover date of September 1938. Here is page 1 of Peter Pupp, by Bob Kane. Check out panel #7. Remind you of anything? I suppose self-swiping isn't such a fault... If the answer isn't obvious, the spoiler can be found below. Apologies if this has been discussed a 1,000 times before.

 

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Why do I get the impression that probably every panel in this piece was probably swiped from a Floyd Gottfredson Mickey strip?

[catman76]

2 hours ago, rjpb said:

Why do I get the impression that probably every panel in this piece was probably swiped from a Floyd Gottfredson Mickey strip?

Probably. That and other comic strips. I think in other ones there's some Buck Rogers swipes. The style varies from panel to panel in a lot of them. He would copy parts from other strips and even copy the style and crosshatching and the drawing style varied within same panel. Reading stories about the guy, I wonder if he ever actually drew anything completely himself.

Edited May 29, 2017 by catman76