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On 9/18/2019 at 5:30 AM, AJD said:

as Val and his entourage traverse the Alps from France to Italy on a quest to recruit missionaries to take Christianity to the benighted Norsemen

That Prince Vaillant is a long way from the motion picture starring Robert Wagner!

 

 

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On 9/29/2019 at 6:38 AM, tv horror said:

That Prince Vaillant is a long way from the motion picture starring Robert Wagner!

 

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Odd spelling on that poster. Here's another with the right spelling.

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1 hour ago, AJD said:

Odd spelling on that poster.

It's a French or Belgian release.

Here's a Belgian poster -

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and a French poster -

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For the purpose of the movie, they use "Vaillant" since it translate "valiant" as in brave rather than as a name.

Ever since then, reprint projects of the strip have been alternatively using Valiant or Vaillant in the title.

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39 minutes ago, Scrooge said:

It's a French or Belgian release.

Here's a Belgian poster -

 

For the purpose of the movie, they use "Vaillant" since it translate "valiant" as in brave rather than as a name.

Ever since then, reprint projects of the strip have been alternatively using Valiant or Vaillant in the title.

Ah, it crossed my mind that it might be Italian, as with the boardie @vaillant, who I haven't noticed around much lately.

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So... this was going to be part 3 of 'swing and a miss", but it has a happy ending after all.

Roughly 70 days ago Mr X, a US-based boardie sent off a package of books for me, including some that I bought from him and some he kindly acted as middle man for. I won't embarrass him by calling him out for a big thank you, only to say that 0.4 < X < 0.6

The tracking went as per normal for a week, until it got stuck here:

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And there it sat... and sat... until I called the Post Office, who told me it was in Customs... so I called Customs, who said they never received it. The USPS shrugged it off and said they couldn't provide any information beyond that. That was about three weeks ago, and I'd pretty much written it off.

Today I got home and found the box sitting on the porch, undamaged, but with a nice sticker on it:

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The box had been in 60 day quarantine for biosecurity reasons. I also found this inside (the box was very neatly sealed and I had no inkling that I wasn't the first to open it:

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All a bit of a mystery. But then I realised what must have happened. I think one of the books must have spent time in a comic shop @Get Marwood & I has farted in. I just hope the quarantine sniffer dog is OK. :eek:

But enough silliness. I know you're all dying to know what's in the box (other than a trace of Marwood's lunch from two Novembers ago), so here's the first book. Extra! #5 - the last in the run and it completes my set as well. From Jim Payette, graded 4.5 and clearly a stone cold 6.0 or a little better.

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Always a pretty lean series for quality stories, this issue is a good reason to stop here. But I do like the Egyptology on display in this splash by Reed Crandall.

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Though the EC lads let their usual high standards of research slip in the last panel:

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Anubis? This guy, with the head of a jackal?

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Pretty sure the statuette is actually Horus, with the head of a Falcon:

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1 hour ago, AJD said:

All a bit of a mystery. But then I realised what must have happened. I think one of the books must have spent time in a comic shop @Get Marwood & I has farted in. I just hope the quarantine sniffer dog is OK. :eek:

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Next up from the box o' Marwoody goodness is this very nicely aged copy of an early WDC&S.

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This is a great book. As well as a bunch of Donald shorts by Taliaferro, it has a big hunk (23 pages) of a Gottfredson Mouse serial 'Robin Hood' and some more Gottfredson dailies. So pretty much a reprint book of newspaper strips, but quality from go to whoa. Like many of the best Barks stories, the Robin Hood yarn has an extensive build up that involves growing and shrinking potions a la Alice in Wonderland:

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And we're a full dozen pages in before a shrunken Mickey gets lured into Sherwood Forest in a book on his shelves (by a mechanism that is never quite explained):

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All good fun though. And here's a one pager I liked, in which Goofy appears to be pretty shrewd after all:

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I'm glad you all liked the WDC&S. :taptaptap:

Today's offering is MD #3, the last I needed to complete the run, as was the case for the Extra #5 above.

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I like MD, probably because i have a daughter in paramedicine and we talk about the 1950s treatments. This issue has a couple of stories with pretty questionable medical ethics. This page is from a story about a young man with mental health issues variously described as "reactively depressed" and "manic depressive". I don't know what the DSM said at the time, but these days they would be classed quite differently. In any case the treatment is electroshock therapy (is this a Medical Shock SuspenStory?). Electrodes are placed on the patients temples and four men hold him down while...

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The attending doctor "accidentally on purpose" leaves the door ajar so the boy's parents - whose constant bickering is blamed for his condition - see what's being done to their son. They later explain to the doctor that they understood that he meant for them "to get shock therapy of their own" by witnessing it and vow to be better parents. Well, that's all right then... :eek:

There's also a hillbilly story where the "mountain folk" are blithely killing another with quack remedies because "ya can't trust no city doctor folk"...

For the record, here are group shots of the two runs.

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15 minutes ago, AJD said:

I'm glad you all liked the WDC&S. :taptaptap:

I liked it. But then again, I am an org.PNG.0bfe9f01c34937a84f85069e26f5265c.PNG in that respect. Yes, I erupt at 12:00 every day. You can return the favour over at Brent's if you like :taptaptap:

 

15 minutes ago, AJD said:

Today's offering is MD #3, the last I needed to complete the run, as was the case for the Extra #5 above.

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I like MD, probably because i have a daughter in paramedicine and we talk about the 1950s treatments. This issue has a couple of stories with pretty questionable medical ethics. This page is from a story about a young man with mental health issues variously described as "reactively depressed" and "manic depressive". I don't know what the DSM said at the time, but these days they would be classed quite differently. In any case the treatment is electroshock therapy (is this a Medical Shock SuspenStory?). Electrodes are placed on the patients temples and four men hold him down while...

 

You can't beat the medics can you. And they always insist on their weird hippocratic symbols don't they...

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:gossip: not sure about that middle symbol Steve...

Anyhoo, here's a book I bought a few months back but forgot to post here. Something I didn't plan to buy, but I bid on a whim when it popped up on a Heritage auction. Unusually for me it's staying in the slab, at least for now.

I think Albert is meant to look friendly on this cover, but it looks for all the world like he's about to eat Churchy...

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Other than the high grade, one reason it can stay in the slab is that @OtherEric kindly uploaded a copy to the Digital Comics Museum, which lets me read it and extract some inner pages for us to enjoy. TBH, I can't get excited about it as a read, other than the Pogo story. Even then, this is early Pogo, complete with accented dialogue that Walt Kelly would later apologise for. It's not without a crude charm though. Here are the first and last pages.

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(lots of mayhem about preparing for a storm between these)

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6 hours ago, AJD said:

:gossip: not sure about that middle symbol Steve...

Anyhoo, here's a book I bought a few months back but forgot to post here. Something I didn't plan to buy, but I bid on a whim when it popped up on a Heritage auction. Unusually for me it's staying in the slab, at least for now.

I think Albert is meant to look friendly on this cover, but it looks for all the world like he's about to eat Churchy...

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Other than the high grade, one reason it can stay in the slab is that @OtherEric kindly uploaded a copy to the Digital Comics Museum, which lets me read it and extract some inner pages for us to enjoy. TBH, I can't get excited about it as a read, other than the Pogo story. Even then, this is early Pogo, complete with accented dialogue that Walt Kelly would later apologise for. It's not without a crude charm though. Here are the first and last pages.

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(lots of mayhem about preparing for a storm between these)

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Glad I could help you out by making the contents available.  I find the early Pogo stories in Animal Comics fascinating... you can see Kelly developing the characters, so once he starts the comic strip he's got almost everything figured out and it starts at an incredibly high level of quality.  The comic stories are much more variable, although not without some absolutely hilarious bits at points.

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It has been a variable week in the mailbox as far as comic book themes go. We're back to the jungle with this very, very nice copy of the Australian series of Jungle Comics. Given the quality of the 1-10 run I got from Cheetah, I now consider it my duty to build as high grade a run of this book as I can. When this one I didn't have popped up on eBay there was only going to be one winner, anatomically incorrect pentadactyl lion or not...

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Now, it might be just my slightly pervy Wertham-worthy imagination at work here, but does Anne's shadow in the second panel look like it's doing a striptease reveal?

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Here's another Australian jungle GGA title. Sheena had a longer run in Australia (at least 21 issues) than in the US (18 issues).

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For a look inside it was hard to go past this gladitorial zebra scene! (Sorry about the scan quality.)

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More Jungle-themed fun today. A while back I bought my first early(ish) Jungle with a Zolnerowich cover. I liked it, so I bought another couple. Here's #38, with an excellent "battle of the beasts" cover. (Although the dentition on that rhino is pretty suspect...) Nice JAN5 1943 date stamp on this copy too. :cloud9:

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This issue has some excellent splash panels too. This classic "king of the jungle" is very nice.

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But (not for the first time) the Camilla splash takes the blue ribbon.

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In today's episode of "Andrew talks to himself about comics", we'll take a look at this early Australian Fight Comics.

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The splash panel for the Señorita Rio story is a little bid odd... what's going on here? Are those birds phoenixes, are they being stoned by flaming crows...? It did it's job and got me to read the story to find out.

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It turns out that General Zapata was the bad guy, and the United States was not in fact interfering in the politics of Latin America. (A preposterous notion... ) Anyway, Zapata kept a collection of stuffed birds in his office and his collecting habits later came back to roost (see what I did there?) - complete with a dousing of thermite!

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1 hour ago, AJD said:

In today's episode of "Andrew talks to himself about comics", we'll take a look at this early Australian Fight Comics.

I would have watched it Andy but it clashed with "Steve talks to himself about comics" on the other side. 

P.S. Long live the rurals. 

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8 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

I would have watched it Andy but it clashed with "Steve talks to himself about comics" on the other side. 

P.S. Long live the rurals. 

I'm always listening to you both,sirs :sumo: 

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