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Cheerios giveaways (1947) Y1: Donald Duck's atom bomb
AJD commented on AJD's gallery image in Other Themes
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From the album: Dell comics are good comics!
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My collection of Dell comics. Dell was an incredibly prolific and diverse publisher, so my collection of mostly funny animal and cartoon characters really just scratches the surface. For example, I have none of their many westerns, war or ghost comics, no Tarzan, only a few of the movie and TV tie in books etc. There are lots of duck books here, including Four Color Comics: the classic Barks stories were run in the Four Color Series for many years, including the first 20 or so Donald Duck stories (until the Donald Duck series started with #26, which wasn't really the 26th...) and the first three Uncle Scrooge issues. Walt Disney's Comics and Stories: #1 was published in October 1940 and the final Dell issue was #263 in August 1962. My focus has mainly been on issues 1 - 100, but I'll pick up nice copies of others when I get a chance.
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From the album: Dell comics are good comics!
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From the album: Dell comics are good comics!
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From the album: Dell comics are good comics!
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From the album: Dell comics are good comics!
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From the album: Dell comics are good comics!
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Meanwhile, up the shallow end of the pool... the set of 16 Cheerios giveaways from 1947. I really like these fun little comics. (Set completion thanks to @Point Five )
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My daughter is a paramedic. She can confirm that speedboarding is a good way to meet her.
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Disagree. The 10 point grading scale makes no sense if 9.8 is the highest. FWIW, I think that it would have been much more consistent to have 9.0, 9.5 and 10.0 - where 9.0 includes today's 9.2, 9.5 = 9.4 and 9.6 and 10.0 = 9.8, 9.9 and 10.0 (And get rid of 1.8 while we're at it.) Of course, there's less money in the whole business of grading if you do that, which is why they don't.
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They sold more in the first place. No mystery there.
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I'm a bit suspicious of those 'Dell file copies'. I have other Dells that are file copies, and are clearly marked as such by a large rubber stamp: But others are designated as file copies but have no distinguishing marks at all as far as I can see. Here's one I own, cracked out. It's a nice copy, for sure, but I'm not convinced it ever lived in Mr Delacorte's filing system.
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I might be an old curmudgeon*, but that Marvel blurb sounds pretty dire. I'm hoping it's better than I fear. *Narrator: yep, he is.
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The same bad man preparing to hurt the same kitties, Canadian variant
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From the album: AJD's "other" golden age album
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Since I already have a fair chunk of my collection in albums, I thought I'd put up the rest just for fun. My EC, Australian, Dell ducks and war bonds covers all have their own albums. This one is a category I have imaginatively called "other". In it you'll find various things, including a Fiction House collection that almost got its own album, and selected covers by Golden Age greats - L. B. Cole, Wolverton, Schomburg and even a Baker or Two.
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Preparing?
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Any follower of the Australian Phantom comics publications?
AJD replied to BA773's topic in Comics General
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Any follower of the Australian Phantom comics publications?
AJD replied to BA773's topic in Comics General
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Any follower of the Australian Phantom comics publications?
AJD replied to BA773's topic in Comics General
I'm not a Phantom collector, but I've been dipping into the series from time to time for about 50 years. I still buy one every now and then, and usually buy the 200 page annuals. Here are some answers to your questions as I see it. They are a mix of reprints of old stories, compilations of the still ongoing daily and weekend strips and new specially drawn for comics stories from various parts of the world. There are many similarities between the stories, though some of the recent ones have gone into new territory, like the Sunday series last year set in an underground civilisation of 'almost humans'. Yes, about 600 years of it, from the first Phantom on. The Phantom has aged verrrrry slowly, but he has married and had children in the time since the character first appeared. They have been around all my life and as kids we used to get them as giveaways in bags of goodies at local fairs. The comics haven't changed much at all, other than the production quality and the layouts of the stories produced for comics. -
1939 NEWSSTAND PIC TIME MACHINE JOURNEY INTO THE PAST
AJD replied to ajaxfarrell's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
On top of the pile up and right of his head is this one.