The GA "Short Bus" Thread Post your unpopular books! 2 2

[Doctor Svord]

Thanks Scrooge. (thumbs u

 

I guess it'll remain a mystery.

[selegue]

No other good-fit threads for these 2 so ... onto the short bus they go.

 

First is Danger # 8 with another Heck of a cover and then I scanned a page from the Pat Morisi story. I still can't get over the fact that Morisi was cop by day and artist by night. The page was selected for its goriness of course

 

WHOA! What a nasty page.

 

Jack

[selegue]

Next up is another Crime book, Crime Must Pay the Penalty in ok condition and with a Lou Cameron story inside. The page is the second from the Cameron story. If Cameron had been born earlier, I would have loved to see what he could have done on The Spirit in collaboration with Eisner: Ahhh, the possibilities ... -

 

Whoever wrote the story saved Lou a lot of work by covering half the page with text. Yakety-freakin-yak, like some EC stories.

 

Jack

[shiverbones]

I got a few tickets to ride the short bus in the mail today....

 

[shiverbones]

This is an upgrade. It's a gerber 7, and it really is harder than the surrounding issues, so maybe it's right. I have had 3 over the course of 20 years, and have bought every one I saw.

 

[shiverbones]

One of the best GA comic logos. This appears as an overstreet picture every few years, so it's always been on my want list. There is a funny animal hanging panel (a first for my eyes) & a dinosaur story inside

 

[shiverbones]

Such a cool book! 3 stories relate to xmas, unlike the Funny Stuff #30, which has NONE. Also, one has a ghost dressed up like a christmas tree. Pure beautiful surrealism!

 

[G.A.tor]

some of these short bus books really aren't all that "short" on action and coolness (thumbs u

[selegue]

What a great Short Bus set!

This is my favorite cover of them. Maybe if you were more careful where you set your comic books down you wouldn't have to keep buying this one!

I wouldn't mind seeing the hanging funny animal and ghost Christmas tree if you could scan or photograph without damage.

 

Jack

 

This is an upgrade. It's a gerber 7, and it really is harder than the surrounding issues, so maybe it's right. I have had 3 over the course of 20 years, and have bought every one I saw.

 

[rjpb]

This is an upgrade. It's a gerber 7, and it really is harder than the surrounding issues, so maybe it's right. I have had 3 over the course of 20 years, and have bought every one I saw.

 

 

way too cool a halloween cover to be on the shortbus thread

 

Pretty much any Halloween cover doesn't really belong here - Christmas covers - yes, bah humbug, but Halloween covers should have to be exceptionally lame to be posted here.

[rjpb]

No other good-fit threads for these 2 so ... onto the short bus they go.

 

First is Danger # 8 with another Heck of a cover and then I scanned a page from the Pat Morisi story. I still can't get over the fact that Morisi was cop by day and artist by night. The page was selected for its goriness of course

 

Let's see, the sadly maligned (by Marvel Zombies) Don Heck in his Comic Media prime, graphic art by the underrated Pete Morisi, and a cover with the phrase "Kill!, Kill!, KIll!" on it - NOT a short bus book!

[Bonds25]

[selegue]

 

Never a shortage of Short Bus books here.

 

Two recent wins (seller scans, not in my hands yet).

 

Mister District Attorney 54. That's one big fly!

 

 

 

United Comics 18, although the seller mentioned that Fritzi strips down to her skivvies on page 1.

 

 

Be sure to check the fairly new Silver Age Short Bus thread for a fix. I posted there recently, but there isn't much traffic.

 

Jack

[rjpb]

 

 

Mister District Attorney 54. That's one big fly!

 

 

 

Jack

 

 

The fly and the cubes are normal sized - however the D.A. has already ingested a couple of "sugar cubes" and is having an "Alice in Wonderland" moment.

[shiverbones]

I really like Mr. District attorney, lots of cool cover. It is a short-busser through & through!

[PokerKid]

I really like Mr. District attorney, lots of cool cover. It is a short-busser through & through!

My only Mr. DA, but a cover I really like. (Perhaps he does have a lot of "Alice in Wonderland" moments) I like the covers for this series overall.

 

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[adamstrange]

That's pretty cool for a short bus book.

[Forbush-Man]

That's pretty cool for a short bus book.

 

It's way cool!

[PokerKid]

I'd been wanting this book since I lost out on a beater copy the first time I came across it nearly a year ago. Then two dealers put up similar copies within a few minutes of each other on the same day on eBay. I snagged the nicer of the two. Odd how things work.

 

[selegue]

Cool cover, esp. for your theme.

A sneaky-looking, cigarette-smoking green duck probably wouldn't pass muster today.

 

Jerry Bails' Who's Who says

 

BRADBURY, JACK

BETTER PUBLICATIONS

LUCKY DUCK (pen/ink/) 1952 > 52

 

SPECTOR, IRV

BETTER PUBLICATIONS

LUCKY DUCK (pen/ink/) c1947-c49 > 47 48 49

 

Yours is 1953, so Bradbury? Anyone know his style?

 

Jack

 

I'd been wanting this book since I lost out on a beater copy the first time I came across it nearly a year ago. Then two dealers put up similar copies within a few minutes of each other on the day on eBay. I snagged the nicer of the two. Odd how things work.