MrBedrock Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttock Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 That'll earn you a cigar AND scotch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcupine48 Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 Thanks for blowing my Bulletman up there Richard!Beauties....as always... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nearmint Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 Spectacular! Congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frisco Larson Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 AWESOME to see in person a few days ago Ricky!!!! Only the best copies in the world!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Surfer Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 Goodness gracious. Time for a group shot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhwolfman Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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vaillant Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 OK, italian "Golden Age", but one of the few, very rare, Superman apocryphal stories produced here before/during the war. Found today, and I am all stoked! Wonderful! I love this cover. One of the local comic con finds I assume? Yes, and by mere chance! To reply Jimmers (thanks!), I really can’t tell how many copies of these still exist. Probably some in collections (of this series in full), but since the first two are not part of this series, they are probably even more scarce. They should be four or five in all, here’s an article from the Metropolis site (some things are inaccurate, i.e. no "fascist" publications existed, except very few, the publishers were just subjected to degrees of "censorship" during the war years): http://www.metropoliscomics.com/load_feature.php?article_id=223&type=feature&action=view Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaillant Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 And my meagre offering...Im very pleased with it. Just so you know, Jimmers: believe it or not, but while 99% of the Fawcett characters were never published in Italy, we have many late 1940s issues featuring Hoppy the Marvel bunny! These More Fun are just breathtaking, Bedrock! I would deslab them immediately… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaillant Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 Here, just for you: italian Hoppy the Marvel Bunny (not mine), dateline 1947! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcupine48 Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 Looks a lot like Timelys Super Rabbit!Very sweet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaillant Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 I think one influenced the other, probably Timely’s super-rabbit was copied from Fawcett's Hoppy? Anyway, the cool thing is that we had an edition of him and not of Captain Marvel or the GA Timelys… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcupine48 Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 With some of that eras Fawcetts,I believe they were redrawn by Canadian artists to be sold on Canadian market..recreated really...in b/w!Weird eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaillant Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 Hoppy seems better drawn, that’s why I said possibly the Timely Bunny is an imitation? Anyway, in italian the Fawcett bunny Hoppy is called "Pippo", like Walt Disney’s Goofy, and like another important italian character. "Pippo" is the diminutive for "Giuseppe" (Joseph), and sounds just like a funny name in our language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcupine48 Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 Hoppy seems better drawn, that’s why I said possibly the Timely Bunny is an imitation? Anyway, in italian the Fawcett bunny Hoppy is called "Pippo", like Walt Disney’s Goofy, and like another important italian character. "Pippo" is the diminutive for "Giuseppe" (Joseph), and sounds just like a funny name in our language. Anyone relation to the Pippa comics I have then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 Wheaties giveaways are usually a beat up good. In many cases they are just poor and some guy named Joe seemed to sign the Hawkman story in the Flash giveaway.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RareHighGrade Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 All I can say is . . . Wow!! (worship) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batman_fan Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 All I can say is . . . Wow!! (worship) +1, that 65 is just plain amazing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcupine48 Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 Wheaties giveaways are usually a beat up good. In many cases they are just poor and some guy named Joe seemed to sign the Hawkman story in the Flash giveaway.. Super awesome! I just love promotional comics...and these are the greatest!Sweet...except that Joe guy scribbling inside.... Always admire your books,cool.stuff lives in your collection.Is there a story behind these? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
