BB-Gun Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 Another Texas Trio publication added to my collection. Cover by Buddy Saunders This one was sold today and I missed it! You Snooze you Lose! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 Speaking of fanzines, Mr. Door Tree posted a batch of scans that he and Marble River made of his collection and I was knocked out by the Don Newton covers. Here are a couple he did for RBCC and thanks again to DT and MR for the scans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 Love this Luthor cover too but maybe I got this ad mixed up with one of the other fanzines. Fans may have thought that things were complicated by the OSPG but it helped provide information about the hobby and stabilize prices. Well maybe not that stable 30 years ago. bb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
123penny-migration Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 do you have and april 1941 iron man comic better comics maple leaf, if shown what page. I recently got one. very good shape Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Black Hand ® Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 This was posted in the WC. Forgive me if you've already seen it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Captain Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 This was posted in the WC. Forgive me if you've already seen it. That really is strange Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 And a special scan for the 4th of July. Minute Man knew how to celebrate. Fawcett superheroes were classy compared to Fox and Timely but not as popular to collect these days. People don't remember these guys but perhaps DC should bring some of them back again. Original scan by Marble River and cleaned up a bit with photoshop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Fawcett superheroes were classy compared to Fox and Timely but not as popular to collect these days. People don't remember these guys but perhaps DC should bring some of them back again. Isn't DC bringing back some of the Quality guys (again ...) Rescuing this from Page 2. I recently picked up a complete run of Golden Funnies to get some Don Dixon strips but I find that Tailspin Tommy is also a nicely illustrated strip. Here's the bottom panel of the May 3, 1931 Sunday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted July 7, 2009 Author Share Posted July 7, 2009 I love the old adventure strips. It's a shame so many of them have been forgotten over time. Here is a photo of the Tailspin Tommy pulp that was published in 1936 V1#1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted July 7, 2009 Author Share Posted July 7, 2009 BB, I was looking through a box of my old fanzines the other day and found a copy of Star-Studded Comics #1 (September 1963). Another Texas Trio publication added to my collection. Cover by Buddy Saunders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 I love the old adventure strips. It's a shame so many of them have been forgotten over time. Hi BZ, nice to see you around. The funny thing is that when I looked up Tailspin Tommy in 3 references (The Comics by Waugh, Yellow Kid by Harvey and 100 Years of Strip by Horn), the art by Forrest was univocally derided as barely adequate and scoffed at for the poor figure handling and here I called it "nicely illustrated" The interesting part to me was to see such a detailed (as it is) adventure strip ahead of Tarzan and other contemporaries. As we move away from the period and the "classics" are revered, we fail to place them in correct historical perspective. The sequence I am reading while lumbering plot-wise is generally attractive to the eye, esp. in the large format of The Golden Funnies. Heck, even Tracy looks so much better at close to actual size than in the recent reprints. Now, I wish I had access to some reprinted Tim Tyler's Luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 This was posted in the WC. Forgive me if you've already seen it. That really is strange I think it's a German-made film intended for the population of France. The point is that the Allies are talking of liberating France while bombing it. It was probably intended to undermine goodwill towards Britain and possibly to undermine support for the resistance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sardo Numspar Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 I love the old adventure strips. It's a shame so many of them have been forgotten over time. Hi BZ, nice to see you around. The funny thing is that when I looked up Tailspin Tommy in 3 references (The Comics by Waugh, Yellow Kid by Harvey and 100 Years of Strip by Horn), the art by Forrest was univocally derided as barely adequate and scoffed at for the poor figure handling and here I called it "nicely illustrated" The interesting part to me was to see such a detailed (as it is) adventure strip ahead of Tarzan and other contemporaries. As we move away from the period and the "classics" are revered, we fail to place them in correct historical perspective. The sequence I am reading while lumbering plot-wise is generally attractive to the eye, esp. in the large format of The Golden Funnies. Heck, even Tracy looks so much better at close to actual size than in the recent reprints. Now, I wish I had access to some reprinted Tim Tyler's Luck I love how you can't say Tracy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted July 8, 2009 Author Share Posted July 8, 2009 This was posted in the WC. Forgive me if you've already seen it. That really is strange I think it's a German-made film intended for the population of France. The point is that the Allies are talking of liberating France while bombing it. It was probably intended to undermine goodwill towards Britain and possibly to undermine support for the resistance. I wasn't familiar with that cartoon. Thanks for posting it, BH. Here are a couple of relevant links. Link1 Link2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted July 8, 2009 Author Share Posted July 8, 2009 I love the old adventure strips. It's a shame so many of them have been forgotten over time. The funny thing is that when I looked up Tailspin Tommy in 3 references (The Comics by Waugh, Yellow Kid by Harvey and 100 Years of Strip by Horn), the art by Forrest was univocally derided as barely adequate and scoffed at for the poor figure handling and here I called it "nicely illustrated" In The World Encyclopedia of Comics, Maurice Horn described Forrest's artwork as being awful. I like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted July 8, 2009 Author Share Posted July 8, 2009 Now, I wish I had access to some reprinted Tim Tyler's Luck I have a couple of Tim Tyler originals. This one is from 1933. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 In The World Encyclopedia of Comics, Maurice Horn described Forrest's artwork as being awful. I like it. Glad I am not the lone loony out there. I know I have a rep to give props to most artists but Horn's a little harsh. Here's a non-adventure half-Sunday of the strip and I've seen far worse by a long shot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 I love the old adventure strips. It's a shame so many of them have been forgotten over time. The funny thing is that when I looked up Tailspin Tommy in 3 references (The Comics by Waugh, Yellow Kid by Harvey and 100 Years of Strip by Horn), the art by Forrest was univocally derided as barely adequate and scoffed at for the poor figure handling and here I called it "nicely illustrated" In The World Encyclopedia of Comics, Maurice Horn described Forrest's artwork as being awful. I like it. That's certainly a handsome panel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theagenes Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 In The World Encyclopedia of Comics, Maurice Horn described Forrest's artwork as being awful. I like it. Glad I am not the lone loony out there. I know I have a rep to give props to most artists but Horn's a little harsh. Here's a non-adventure half-Sunday of the strip and I've seen far worse by a long shot Man, I really like his work. I wasn't familiar with it until now. Looking on Wikipedia, it says that Tailspin Tommy began in 1928. So why doesn't it get credit as the first adventure strip since its debut predates Tarzan and Buck Rogers? :shrug: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 In The World Encyclopedia of Comics, Maurice Horn described Forrest's artwork as being awful. I like it. Glad I am not the lone loony out there. I know I have a rep to give props to most artists but Horn's a little harsh. Here's a non-adventure half-Sunday of the strip and I've seen far worse by a long shot Man, I really like his work. I wasn't familiar with it until now. Looking on Wikipedia, it says that Tailspin Tommy began in 1928. So why doesn't it get credit as the first adventure strip since its debut predates Tarzan and Buck Rogers? :shrug: Probably b/c whoever decides those things didn't like Forrest's art Joking aside, it's probably because Tailspin is thought of as an aviation strip (same as SkyRoads and others) that got its start one year almost to the day after Lindbergh crossed to Paris. When it started Tailspin was focusing on relating the daily experience of commercial aviation: transporting freight, ... (think Bright Eyes or even Steve Canyon for that matter) instead of being pure adventure, it isn't until the '30's that the strip took its turn to adventure.* * - info based on Horn's description of the series content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
