[Closed Thx!] Cool odds and ends for serious and quirky collectors 5 5

[sfcityduck]

All the usual rules apply.  Shipping included.  I desire payment by check, so keep that in mind if you are trying to make a time sensitive purchase (e.g. no last minute shoppers for birthdays!).  

Went through some boxes and found some stuff that deserves a good home outside of my storage.  No "big" or trendy books, just stuff for collectors who really dig this hobby, including its history and fringes.

First "take" wins.  Then PM me for payment and shipping arrangements.  

I will be rolling stuff out slowly over the weekend, so check back as items will spool out as I'm doing this on short breaks from other things.

Returns allowed (at your return shipping cost unless I'm reasonably convinced the fault is mine) as I am collector hoping to spread happiness, not a dealer concerned about future biz.

Edited March 7, 2022 by sfcityduck

[sfcityduck]

How often do you see this?  

Our Navy, Mid-April 1945 (during WWII).  The article the "Gyp Joint" is about stores on ships.  And, lo and behold, the cover features a pricelessly cool pic of a sailor reading an awesome Shadow Comics skull cover with Young Allies, Startling Comics, Air Ace, etc. in the background.  I'd call this a "Good" because this particular magazine is prone to some color flaking (does not go through the page) on the covers (true for every copy I've seen or own).  But how often do you see a cool WWII magazine photo cover of a sailor or soldier reading a comic, especially in glorious full color!?!  

Rare, cool, and perfect for framing on the wall of your comic room or office!  Seriously, someone need to hang this great bit of history up as it's a conversation piece.

$75 (shipping inclusive) or best offer.

[Comical Situations]

That's pretty cool!

[IngelsFan]

That’s awesome!

[sfcityduck]

Peanuts collectors, and it sure seems like there are more and more Peanuts cover chasers, are largely unaware of this special cover Schulz did to honor Yellow Kid (the only color cover in the run) for Inks: Cartoon and Comic Art Studies.  Inks is not a fanzine but an official publication of the Ohio State University cartoon library (Inks was funded by a generous donation of Charles and Jeannie Schulz):

Calvin & Hobbes collectors can't chase many C&H covers on comic related publications because there aren't that many, but of the ones that exist this may be the grail they most want to locate (but usually can't):

And Bone collectors, who don't mind B&W at all, probably have no idea this cover exists:

They are part of the complete run from v. 1 no. 1 to v. 4 no. 3 (12 total issues) of Inks: Cartoon and Comic Art Studies I'm offering here today (plus a bonus exhibit catalogue). 

There is a grand total of one copy of an issue of Inks on the CGC Census, not surprisingly the v.1 no. 1 Calvin & Hobbes cover.  

Does anyone here have a run of these?  These are loaded with articles on comic and cartoon history, academic books reviews, etc.  Best for someone who really likes to dig deep into comic history and knows you'll never see a set like this again (or for a dealer who wants to be out in front of the still growing tsunami of nostalgia C&H and Peanuts which is going to make rare covers like these increasingly desirable as people realize they exist).

I'm calling condition on average "fine."  As you can see in photos, there is some minor yellow spotting on some issues. No rips or folds.  Grade would quickly go up if you hired someone, like the paper conservator I use for woodblock prints, to eliminate the spots - a surprisingly inexpensive undertaking for something like this which is printed with standard inks in b&w.

$300 (inclusive of postage) or I will consider offers.

[gunsmokin]

On 3/4/2022 at 5:53 PM, sfcityduck said:

Peanuts collectors, and it sure seems like there are more and more Peanuts cover chasers, are largely unaware of this special cover Schulz did to honor Yellow Kid (the only color cover in the run) for Inks: Cartoon and Comic Art Studies.  Inks is not a fanzine but an official publication of the Ohio State University cartoon library (Inks was funded by a generous donation of Charles and Jeannie Schulz):

Calvin & Hobbes collectors can't chase many C&H covers on comic related publications because there aren't that many, but of the ones that exist this may be the grail they most want to locate (but usually can't):

And Bone collectors, who don't mind B&W at all, probably have no idea this cover exists:

They are part of the complete run from v. 1 no. 1 to v. 4 no. 3 (12 total issues) of Inks: Cartoon and Comic Art Studies I'm offering here today (plus a bonus exhibit catalogue). 

There is a grand total of one copy of an issue of Inks on the CGC Census, not surprisingly the v.1 no. 1 Calvin & Hobbes cover.  

Does anyone here have a run of these?  These are loaded with articles on comic and cartoon history, academic books reviews, etc.  Best for someone who really likes to dig deep into comic history and knows you'll never see a set like this again (or for a dealer who wants to be out in front of the still growing tsunami of nostalgia C&H and Peanuts which is going to make rare covers like these increasingly desirable as people realize they exist).

I'm calling condition on average "fine."  As you can see in photos, there is some minor yellow spotting on some issues. No rips or folds.  Grade would quickly go up if you hired someone, like the paper conservator I use for woodblock prints, to eliminate the spots - a surprisingly inexpensive undertaking for something like this which is printed with standard inks in b&w.

$300 (inclusive of postage) or I will consider offers.

I’ll take it

[sfcityduck]

On 3/4/2022 at 4:00 PM, gunsmokin said:

I’ll take it

Sold!  You scored my friend!  PM me so we can nail down the details.

Edited March 5, 2022 by sfcityduck

[october]

Nice buy

[SOTIcollector]

On 3/4/2022 at 5:20 PM, sfcityduck said:

How often do you see this?  

Our Navy, Mid-April 1945 (during WWII).  The article the "Gyp Joint" is about stores on ships.  And, lo and behold, the cover features a pricelessly cool pic of a sailor reading an awesome Shadow Comics skull cover with Young Allies, Startling Comics, Air Ace, etc. in the background.  I'd call this a "Good" because this particular magazine is prone to some color flaking (does not go through the page) on the covers (true for every copy I've seen or own).  But how often do you see a cool WWII magazine photo cover of a sailor or soldier reading a comic, especially in glorious full color!?!  

Rare, cool, and perfect for framing on the wall of your comic room or office!  Seriously, someone need to hang this great bit of history up as it's a conversation piece.

$75 (shipping inclusive) or best offer.

Too cool to pass up!  

[sfcityduck]

On 3/4/2022 at 4:15 PM, SOTIcollector said:

Too cool to pass up!  

Sold!  

[sfcityduck]

More to come in an hour or two.

[Robot Man]

Looks like possibly a fun thread!

[path4play]

On 3/4/2022 at 7:15 PM, SOTIcollector said:

Too cool to pass up!  

Really really cool.  I want one.

[CGC Mike]

Hello

Please add a return policy to your terms of sale.

Thanks

[Robservations247]

On 3/4/2022 at 6:53 PM, sfcityduck said:

Peanuts collectors, and it sure seems like there are more and more Peanuts cover chasers, are largely unaware of this special cover Schulz did to honor Yellow Kid (the only color cover in the run) for Inks: Cartoon and Comic Art Studies.  Inks is not a fanzine but an official publication of the Ohio State University cartoon library (Inks was funded by a generous donation of Charles and Jeannie Schulz):

Calvin & Hobbes collectors can't chase many C&H covers on comic related publications because there aren't that many, but of the ones that exist this may be the grail they most want to locate (but usually can't):

And Bone collectors, who don't mind B&W at all, probably have no idea this cover exists:

They are part of the complete run from v. 1 no. 1 to v. 4 no. 3 (12 total issues) of Inks: Cartoon and Comic Art Studies I'm offering here today (plus a bonus exhibit catalogue). 

There is a grand total of one copy of an issue of Inks on the CGC Census, not surprisingly the v.1 no. 1 Calvin & Hobbes cover.  

Does anyone here have a run of these?  These are loaded with articles on comic and cartoon history, academic books reviews, etc.  Best for someone who really likes to dig deep into comic history and knows you'll never see a set like this again (or for a dealer who wants to be out in front of the still growing tsunami of nostalgia C&H and Peanuts which is going to make rare covers like these increasingly desirable as people realize they exist).

I'm calling condition on average "fine."  As you can see in photos, there is some minor yellow spotting on some issues. No rips or folds.  Grade would quickly go up if you hired someone, like the paper conservator I use for woodblock prints, to eliminate the spots - a surprisingly inexpensive undertaking for something like this which is printed with standard inks in b&w.

$300 (inclusive of postage) or I will consider offers.

I’ll take it. 

[sfcityduck]

Since SOTIcollector scored the last "take," I'll list something rare that he has no interest in (since he's already got the only other one I know of).  

Frederic Wertham was an academic.  When academics write articles for academic journals, the journals give individually printed (and often bound) copies of their article for the academic's distribution as they see fit.  Old Fred wrote a decent amount in academic journals and various of his articles have surfaced.  Most recently, four of these Wertham articles came for sale at an auction of a very impressive PCH collection at a regional auction house (which also included incredibly rare ECs) and sold for between $160 to $500 dollars.  They were Wertham's articles entitled "Psychopathology of Comics" (1948), "What are Comic Books?" (1949), "Are They Cleaning Up Comics? (1955), and "Comic Books and Education" (1958).  (Heritage sold long ago "The Comics ... Very Funny" for less than a $100 and in the last few years "What Parents Don't Know About Comics" (1953) for $900 to $1050.  Never auctioned by anyone is this pamphlet, of which as far as I can tell only two copies survive - SOTIcollector's copy signed by Wertham with handwritten interlineation (correction), and this copy also with the same interlineation by Wertham:

In it, Wertham attempts to thread the needle between his anti-comics tirade and calls for censorship.  I think he fails.  But a great bit of comic history!  This is rarer than rare.  If you want to run with the big dogs in the SOTI arena, its time to start looking for items like this sought out by the advanced SOTI collectors:

$300 but will entertain offers.

 

Edited March 5, 2022 by sfcityduck

[sfcityduck]

As anyone who has read Dean Mullaney's "King of the Comics: One Hundred Years of King Features Syndicate" knows, King Features Syndicate had the coolest newspaper comics of them all.  They also had some really cool promo items and merchandising.  One such item is this:

The complete "Popular Comics" set of Christmas cards with their original envelopes.  These really deserve a home where someone will frame them up and hang them on the wall during the Yuletide Season.  eBay sellers price these for from $10 to $63 per card (depending upon image).  THIS IS A COMPLETE SET OF ALL 16 CARDS! The cards present beautifully on the front cover and inside illustrations (almost never pictured by anyone trying to sell these things):

The box looks fantastic head on, but each corner does have a rip, with this being the worst:

And this being representative of the other three corners:

The back of some cards have a bit of envelope glue transfer in evidence but that does not impact the art one iota:

If you like classic newspaper cartoons, this is a must have set.  I'm only selling because I don't have a way to incorporate these into my (wife mandated) Christmas decorations.  They deserve a better home!

$300 (less than $20 per card for a COMPLETE set) but I will consider offers.

Edited March 5, 2022 by sfcityduck

[sfcityduck]

Yet another item that deserves a different collector.  A Golden Age Classics Illustrated rack sign that would look great in a comic room.  Could also be married to a signless rack (which are not that hard to find).  Paint is bright and vibrant.  No cleaning has been attempted.  Back of rack has a light rust, almost dust like, that would clean off and I think poses no threat to the structural integrity of the rack sign:

  

A steal for the right collector at $150 (again offers considered).