Do these books exist? (Adventures of) Peter Wheat #65 and #66 0

[OtherEric]

And continuing with a nice solid run of Walt Kelly's work on the book:

 21 and 22

[OtherEric]

23 and 24

For some reason, 24 is stapled, not glued like the rest of the series:

[OtherEric]

And 25 and 26:

Issues 24-27 are actually one continued story, and issue 26 in particular is one of the best comics I've ever read.  Walt Kelly just gives a masterclass in storytelling with it.

[AJD]

Loving these books. You've made me want to read some now.

[OtherEric]

7 hours ago, AJD said:

Loving these books. You've made me want to read some now.

If you don't mind digital copies, all of my issues are scanned and up at the digital comic museum.  Glad you're enjoying the covers!

[jpepx78]

1 hour ago, OtherEric said:

If you don't mind digital copies, all of my issues are scanned and up at the digital comic museum.  Glad you're enjoying the covers!

Hermes Press has released the first volume collecting the first 16 Peter Wheat stories this year.

https://hermes-press.myshopify.com/products/walt-kellys-peter-wheat-the-complete-series-volume-one-pre-order

Perhaps the author of this book may have insight as to whether issues 65 & 66 do exist.

[BOOT]

18 hours ago, AJD said:

Loving these books. You've made me want to read some now.

Ditto. These are really great and it's a treat to see them in one place. Thanks for posting them!

[OtherEric]

And, my computer completely crashed today, so will be a day or two before I can rescan and continue posting.  Sorry about the delay!

[OtherEric]

On 6/14/2017 at 1:02 PM, jpepx78 said:

Hermes Press has released the first volume collecting the first 16 Peter Wheat stories this year.

https://hermes-press.myshopify.com/products/walt-kellys-peter-wheat-the-complete-series-volume-one-pre-order

Perhaps the author of this book may have insight as to whether issues 65 & 66 do exist.

Looking forward to the collection when it comes out; I have no idea how much meaningful info will actually pop up. They didn't talk to me, when I offered assistance.

If they're doing 16 issues, it's going to end on a cliffhanger, though.

My scanner is back up and running, but it's too late for me to rescan a whole stack of covers I lost in the crash.  Here's a scan of one oddity, though:  It's the Peter Wheat 4 in 1 Fun Pack Vol. no. 4.  It's actually one long piece of paper, that stretches out to 5 panels across; so it's roughly 4 feet long.  I presume they count the comics as one layer of fun and the games & such as another, so 4 x 2 (layers) x 2 (sides) gives you 16 feet of fun.  The comic is actually an edited reprint of Peter Wheat #9 by Kelly.

There's photos of a copy of #1 floating around online, Overstreet mentions vol 2 (and only vol 2); and I've got a high-grade copy of #4.  And other than those three specific copies I have never seen any indication of a #3, or even a 2nd copy of 1, 2, or 4, anywhere in 10 years of searching.  This thing is RARE.

[OtherEric]

Right, got my computer and scanner back up and running, so let us continue where we left off earlier this week.

Here's 27 and 28.  27 is my favorite cover of the whole series:

[OtherEric]

29 and 30

[OtherEric]

32 and 33.  The 33 is a file copy, and was a 9.6 before I pulled it out of its case.  I'm afraid I slightly lowered the grade when I scanned the whole thing, but it's still just a beautiful book.

Comments elsewhere to the contrary, 33 is the last Walt Kelly issue.  I have no clue who did 34 other than there's NO Kelly in the issue and lots of it isn't Hubbard either., 35-up is Al Hubbard.  You might convince me Kelly had some slight input into the 35-37, but it wasn't much.

More tomorrow.

[Sqeggs]

On 6/16/2017 at 3:54 AM, OtherEric said:

Looking forward to the collection when it comes out; I have no idea how much meaningful info will actually pop up. They didn't talk to me, when I offered assistance.

If they're doing 16 issues, it's going to end on a cliffhanger, though.

My scanner is back up and running, but it's too late for me to rescan a whole stack of covers I lost in the crash.  Here's a scan of one oddity, though:  It's the Peter Wheat 4 in 1 Fun Pack Vol. no. 4.  It's actually one long piece of paper, that stretches out to 5 panels across; so it's roughly 4 feet long.  I presume they count the comics as one layer of fun and the games & such as another, so 4 x 2 (layers) x 2 (sides) gives you 16 feet of fun.  The comic is actually an edited reprint of Peter Wheat #9 by Kelly.

There's photos of a copy of #1 floating around online, Overstreet mentions vol 2 (and only vol 2); and I've got a high-grade copy of #4.  And other than those three specific copies I have never seen any indication of a #3, or even a 2nd copy of 1, 2, or 4, anywhere in 10 years of searching.  This thing is RARE.

This is very cool.

[OtherEric]

11 hours ago, Sqeggs said:

This is very cool.

I think so, too. 

Onward with more issues, 34 and 35:

Edited June 18, 2017 by OtherEric

[OtherEric]

36 and 37

[OtherEric]

38 and 40:

[porcupine48]

I'm really digging this thread.Thank you for sharing.

 

[OtherEric]

22 hours ago, porcupine48 said:

I'm really digging this thread.Thank you for sharing.

 

Glad you're enjoying it!

41 and 42

[OtherEric]

43 and 44

Edited June 19, 2017 by OtherEric

[OtherEric]

45 and 46.  #46 was one of the books that was missing from that large Heritage lot: