Get Marwood & I Posted October 7, 2018 Share Posted October 7, 2018 "Racist Parrot Weekly". Only 9d from all good newsagents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Get Marwood & I Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 AJD and Harry Lime 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Point Five Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 On 10/7/2018 at 8:57 AM, Get Marwood & I Live! said: "Racist Parrot Weekly". Only 9d from all good newsagents Man, I am not having THAT delivered to the office anymore. Lesson learned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Get Marwood & I Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 1 minute ago, Point Five said: On 10/7/2018 at 1:57 PM, Get Marwood & I Live! said: "Racist Parrot Weekly". Only 9d from all good newsagents Man, I am not having THAT delivered to the office anymore. Lesson learned. Good move. May I recommend Barney the Bigoted Bear as a replacement? He hates everyone equally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted October 10, 2018 Author Share Posted October 10, 2018 On 10/6/2018 at 11:11 PM, Get Marwood & I Live! said: So we never get to see the Wizard Apes of Inkosi-Khan? By popular demand ... here is the first appearance of the Wizard Apes of Inkosi-Khan: Although... Spoiler (Cra_p printing in original - not my scanning skills!) 1950's war comics and Sqeggs 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Get Marwood & I Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 4 hours ago, AJD said: By popular demand ... here is the first appearance of the Wizard Apes of Inkosi-Khan: Although... Hide contents (Cra_p printing in original - not my scanning skills!) Yay! The Wizard Apes are here at last Thanks for circling them AJD - not sure I'd have found them otherwise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post AJD Posted October 11, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 11, 2018 We interrupt the Cheetah collection to bring you this item I picked up earlier in the week. Nice Schomburg underwater cover and it's a really clean and flat copy, other than the obvious corner issue. Also a page tear inside where there was a partial 'siamese page'. But very nice to have in any case. Did you ever wonder where the ancient Assyrians went? Well, wonder no more. (Gotta say I'm impressed with Terry's ability to quickly distinguish exactly which ancient civilisation he's just fallen into!) n2wdw, Point Five, pmpknface and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duffman_Comics Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 Aren't those Schomburg air brushed covers lovely? You have a gorgeous copy (disclaimer: I have none). Deconstruction coming. A crater (and on this planet they are either volcanic or meteorite caused) has "burned out ages ago". I lean towards volcanic. Exposed to the elements "for ages" it still maintains a lot of "soft ash" to cushion the fall. Seems unlikely, what with all the rain, wind and compaction over the "ages". Oh well. Next, it might be just me, but if I saw tunnels leading from a natural crater, my immediate thought would be "manufactured". Good to see it only took Tygra a panel and the observation they were dug to work that out. Lastly, Terry is not just crash hot at identifying ancient cultures, he really can see around corners! Great book, Andrew - I hope the rest of the stories measure up. 1950's war comics and AJD 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted October 11, 2018 Author Share Posted October 11, 2018 On 10/10/2018 at 4:16 AM, Point Five said: Man, I am not having THAT delivered to the office anymore. Lesson learned. But don't worry. It has been renamed these days. I think it's called 'Breitbart'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagii Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 @AJD Didnt want to interrupt the flow on the Gold Connections Thread, but have to know: Did you nab a copy of that Capt. Atom giant baby cover issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted October 12, 2018 Author Share Posted October 12, 2018 9 hours ago, sagii said: @AJD Didnt want to interrupt the flow on the Gold Connections Thread, but have to know: Did you nab a copy of that Capt. Atom giant baby cover issue? I wish. No, it was a scan I pinched from an overpriced eBay listing. 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted October 18, 2018 Author Share Posted October 18, 2018 Another GA beaut landed in my mailbox today. Not a #105, alas, but you can't have everything! And here's a handy pickup line from Basil Wolverton - "the only stimulant I need is you". pmpknface, sagii, 1950's war comics and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Point Five Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 23 hours ago, AJD said: Another GA beaut landed in my mailbox today. Not a #105, alas, but you can't have everything! 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted October 19, 2018 Author Share Posted October 19, 2018 It's raining comics in my mailbox at the moment, so I'll try to list one a day for a little while. Here's my first new EC for a while. It's funny how you sometimes notice something that you must have looked at 100 times. I have many copies of this ad on the back of ECs, but until today I didn't notice that it's not an ad for stockings, but an an ad for people to go out and sell stockings. You too can buy a new Chevvy in only four months by flogging hosiery! But then why does the application coupon require that you state your "hose size"? Do you have to go model them for prospective customers? sagii 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telerites Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 25 minutes ago, AJD said: It's raining comics in my mailbox at the moment, so I'll try to list one a day for a little while. Here's my first new EC for a while. It's funny how you sometimes notice something that you must have looked at 100 times. I have many copies of this ad on the back of ECs, but until today I didn't notice that it's not an ad for stockings, but an an ad for people to go out and sell stockings. You too can buy a new Chevvy in only four months by flogging hosiery! But then why does the application coupon require that you state your "hose size"? Do you have to go model them for prospective customers? I'd take the stockings or at least what's in them instead of the car myself. AJD and 1950's war comics 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted October 20, 2018 Author Share Posted October 20, 2018 Today's offering is a Frazetta cover that caught my eye recently. The interior art is all D-ick Ayres. Gotta say I'm not a big fan. He seems to have stepped up whenever he had to draw the Ghost Rider himself, but a lot of the other figures look phoned in to me. sagii, 1950's war comics, Sqeggs and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted October 21, 2018 Author Share Posted October 21, 2018 WARNING: post contains graphic images that may stress some comic geeks One of the war bonds covers that has been on my list for a while is Our Gang #17, which has a Walt Kelly cover with a "Buy that extra bond" sign on the fence. I recently bought two copies of Our Gang at Heritage - #17 and #26. The Heritage description said "Our Gang Comics #17 and 26 Davis Crippen ("D" Copies) pedigree (Dell, 1945-46) Condition: Average VG. Includes the Davis Crippen "D" copies of issues #17 and 26. Artists include Carl Barks and Walt Kelly. Approximate Overstreet value for group = $50." Here's the 26: Yeah, OK, that's acceptable enough as a VG. And it has the merit of containing work by Kelly and Barks. Here's an excellent sight gag from the Barks Barney Bear story: Now to the #17. Both books came with the Crippin CoA, which was nice. Here's the one for #17 Well, this book might have been a VG+ when Heritage first sighted over a decade ago, but here's what I found when I unpacked it. And here are the "staples" that I picked out of the wreckage. To be fair, the lower staple damage was visible in the partial picture of #17 in the action listing, so part of this is on me, but there is no way these books average out at VG. For the price ($60 for the pair) it's really not worth shipping them back to the US (and the 26 is ok anyway). I actually wonder if the grader even took the books out of the bag when assigning grades for the auction - maybe they just looked at the grades on the CoAs? The great pity is that a pedigree book has been trashed to this point. My plan now is to use it as part of my learning experience in paper restoration, including rust stain removal (reduction more likely in this extreme case), piece infill and maybe even leaf casting down the track. I had been planning to buy some wrecked Dells for that purpose - just not one I wanted for my war bonds collection! For the record, here's the #17 and another Barks page: 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duffman_Comics Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 What a bummer. I agree that it is kind of pointless seeking a refund, but I'd still let Heritage know what's happened, if only so they feel obligated to re-check the grades of books offered. It would seem in this case they simply looked at the COA and said "that'll do" and cheerfully listed it. 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted October 21, 2018 Author Share Posted October 21, 2018 23 hours ago, Duffman_Comics said: What a bummer. I agree that it is kind of pointless seeking a refund, but I'd still let Heritage know what's happened, if only so they feel obligated to re-check the grades of books offered. It would seem in this case they simply looked at the COA and said "that'll do" and cheerfully listed it. Good idea. @HeritageComics please note the above post for quality control purposes. I should also say that this is my first real problem in ten years as a customer. 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted October 21, 2018 Author Share Posted October 21, 2018 On a happier note, this was also in the Heritage parcel. It was slabbed (7.5 OW) but looks much nicer in a mylar - and TBH, looks a bit nicer than 7.5 in hand. I'm slower "renovating" my Scrooge collection. I'm also in the market for nice copies of 10, 20 and 27. 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
