Sharpshooter-migration

Here's all I can afford. Book of Planet Comics: The Photo Cover Guide to Planet Comics 8.5" x 11" SC with no text and mostly full page cover reproductions of the entire run of 73 issues The thing is, I bought it off ebay and when it arrived, I discovered it was in black and white.

I was inspired by shiverbones to purchase this. Holiday Comics #7, Animal on Parade For me, this is an unusual purchase. I don't collect funny animals nor do I have anything to do with westerns, much less rodeos. I liked the busy & colorful cover. I wouldn't have paid any notice if it hadn't been for the wonderfully playful covers of shiverbones THX. L.B. Cole was the tipping ingredient. An aside: Someone from Emigre magazine should pick up on these types of lettering and develop/kern a font to sell to some of these ignorant, (by that I mean unknowing) masses of modern magazine art editors. These kinds of typography are straight out of those "Trademarks of the 30's & 40's" and "Trademarks of the 50's & 60's" books. Collect & collate the data, write the book, tweak it, write the code, copyright it and you've got an ebay perpetual motion money machine. Who needs a publisher? Just post the money to your bank account - ad infinitum.

Yes, diaries would be best. Paper ephemera like payroll books, editor's notebooks, and the day-to-day correspondence of editors and publishers of GA comics would be quite a historical find. Not only would unknown artists be revealed, but the writers as well, many of whom may have been women. In the GCD I often find credit alterations noted with " . . . based upon the editorial notebooks of Julius Swartz" or " . . . Giordano" The Connecticut Historical Society recently obtained the payroll and cost logs of Eastern Color Printing....which includes material it published for comicbook companies from the 1930s and payment for specific titles Now that's what I'm talking about. There's a book waiting to written by whomever wants to wade through all those documents for a year. If I lived close by, I'd do it. Oh, and probably another year tracking down some of the people mentioned in the documents. Those that are still alive, or their families if they aren't, for clarification and elaboration.

Yes, diaries would be best. Paper ephemera like payroll books, editor's notebooks, and the day-to-day correspondence of editors and publishers of GA comics would be quite a historical find. Not only would unknown artists be revealed, but the writers as well, many of whom may have been women. In the GCD I often find credit alterations noted with " . . . based upon the editorial notebooks of Julius Swartz" or " . . . Giordano"

I'm ambivalent regarding manga, but I love Adam Hughes' artwork, (AH!). This has been one of my grails ever since I first saw it. It's fairly uncommon: popping up on ebay around 3-5 times a year, it would seem. The Dirty Pair: Run from the Future #1 (Adam Hughes variant) Dark Horse It reminds me of Planet Comics #1, (Dave Stevens) on steroids.

You have a absolutely stunning collection, Bangzoom. Congratulations. Is anyone familier with these? Fantasy Times (fanzines, 1949)