Duffman_Comics Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 (edited) Any idea where the original stories appeared? I've had a run at the usual sites (GCD, Ausreprints etc) but they are very spartan with regard to detail. Edited March 28, 2018 by Duffman_Comics Peer Pressure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted March 28, 2018 Author Share Posted March 28, 2018 15 minutes ago, Duffman_Comics said: Any idea where the original stories appeared? I've had a run at the usual sites (GCD, Ausreprints etc) but they are very spartan with regard to detail. All Atlas reprints from Justice Story 1: The crook who couldn't be caught Story 2: Lead-pipe cinch Story 3: On parole Story 4: The syndicate strikes 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Point Five Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 4 hours ago, AJD said: Perhaps the most notable feature of this comic is that it has an ad for the first appearance in print of @Point Five - and I'm not making that up! A lot of people don't know that "Pistol Packing Professor" was my first choice for a screenname. (Taken though.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1950's war comics Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 7 hours ago, Point Five said: A lot of people don't know that "Pistol Packing Professor" was my first choice for a screenname. (Taken though.) i thought maybe you might like being called point five because thats the grade of most your comics 0.5 Lucky Baru 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Point Five Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 3 hours ago, 1950's war comics said: i thought maybe you might like being called point five because thats the grade of most your comics 0.5 Correct, that is my origin story. Actually, when I first discovered the GA forum, board member 'nearmint' was kind of a big player there and had a lot of high-end books to show off. I said to myself 'well if that guy is Near Mint, I should be Point Five!' My collection has come quite a long ways since then, but the name kinda stuck. AJD, porcupine48 and 1950's war comics 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1950's war comics Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 15 hours ago, Point Five said: Correct, that is my origin story. Actually, when I first discovered the GA forum, board member 'nearmint' was kind of a big player there and had a lot of high-end books to show off. I said to myself 'well if that guy is Near Mint, I should be Point Five!' My collection has come quite a long ways since then, but the name kinda stuck. Good story and i may have to change my name now to,,,,,, Mr 9.9 ComicConnoisseur 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted March 29, 2018 Author Share Posted March 29, 2018 6 hours ago, 1950's war comics said: Good story and i may have to change my name now to,,,,,, Mr 9.9 And I'm "Mr-would-prefer-6.0-but-increasingly-settle-for-4.0" Point Five 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post AJD Posted March 30, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 30, 2018 My first love in comics was Australian Disneys. When I first bought into the G series (a bit like the Four Color series, with Disney characters, movie adaptations, TV show spin-offs etc) in about 1970, it was up to #470. I recall wondering what the early ones were like and thinking how cool it would be to get some. I found some second-hand books in the 300s at one stage, but that's as close as I got. Thanks to eBay, I'm now slowly picking up early ones. Here's the latest - the first Australian printing of this wonderful story. The cover price of a shilling 1/- (or 12 pennies - roughly the equivalent of a dime) was a lot when most comics were 6d or 8d. But these were in full colour and printed on pretty nice paper. As a result, they have often aged more gracefully than their contemporaries. The PQ in this one isn't unusual. Rune, porcupine48, Get Marwood & I and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duffman_Comics Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 Many, many years ago I was aware that US collectors had a fondness for Australian reprints precisely because of the superior paper quality. Take a look at that last panel, a great Barksian seascape, complete with puffins. Another aquatic bird. Just lovely. Get Marwood & I, FoggyNelson and 1950's war comics 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Baru Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 19 hours ago, Duffman_Comics said: Many, many years ago I was aware that US collectors had a fondness for Australian reprints precisely because of the superior paper quality. Take a look at that last panel, a great Barksian seascape, complete with puffins. Another aquatic bird. Just lovely. I've never seen an Australian book. How is the paper different? FoggyNelson and 1950's war comics 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Baru Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 On 3/28/2018 at 8:09 PM, Point Five said: Correct, that is my origin story. Actually, when I first discovered the GA forum, board member 'nearmint' was kind of a big player there and had a lot of high-end books to show off. I said to myself 'well if that guy is Near Mint, I should be Point Five!' My collection has come quite a long ways since then, but the name kinda stuck. That's a great story! Point Five, 1950's war comics and FoggyNelson 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duffman_Comics Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 23 hours ago, Lucky Baru said: I've never seen an Australian book. How is the paper different? Hmmm. OK I'll take a run at this. "Back in the day" in this context means pre 1975. No "Baxter" paper with any funnybooks and the US comics were printed on newsprint - not a lot different than the Daily newspaper (what's that grampa? ). The OZ reprints have a slicker paper. It is not the same calibre as Baxter paper, but the structure is noticeably "finer" i.e. it has a less "pulpy" texture and it has also been treated at the time of manufacture with some sort of "sizing" that results in a semi-gloss finish. The use of this paper also results in far less browning/fading and no brittle books of which I am aware. Someone with a greater background/knowledge of the topic (I hope) will chime in here. Lucky Baru and 1950's war comics 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted April 1, 2018 Author Share Posted April 1, 2018 7 hours ago, Duffman_Comics said: Hmmm. OK I'll take a run at this. "Back in the day" in this context means pre 1975. No "Baxter" paper with any funnybooks and the US comics were printed on newsprint - not a lot different than the Daily newspaper (what's that grampa? ). The OZ reprints have a slicker paper. It is not the same calibre as Baxter paper, but the structure is noticeably "finer" i.e. it has a less "pulpy" texture and it has also been treated at the time of manufacture with some sort of "sizing" that results in a semi-gloss finish. The use of this paper also results in far less browning/fading and no brittle books of which I am aware. That's it in a nutshell. It's also a thicker paper, and the sizing allows for a deeper colour strike, which also adds to the visual appeal. Here's a photo that hopefully shows the difference. The Dell issue is underneath, and the Australian edition on top. 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hepcat Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 That's game, set and match on the vintage comic front to you Aussies! Point Five and AJD 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted April 6, 2018 Author Share Posted April 6, 2018 Still have a few from my last shipment to post. This is the only copy of Ghost I have, but it's a good one. It got the 'Mrs AJD seal of approval'TM too. Alas, the cover is easily the best aspect of this book. Coming near the end of the Fiction House era, pickings get a little lean. It was hard to pick out an UTC entry that was worth the electrons, but this half-splash will have to do. 1950's war comics and Lucky Baru 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1950's war comics Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Those Ghosts sell like hotcakes when offered on these boards !! nice affordable example you have there !! Lucky Baru and ComicConnoisseur 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted April 6, 2018 Author Share Posted April 6, 2018 3 hours ago, 1950's war comics said: Those Ghosts sell like hotcakes when offered on these boards !! nice affordable example you have there !! Nice polite euphemism you have there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Lime Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Nice pins on the Ghost cover! Is that pre-Seven Year Itch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Get Marwood & I Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 4 hours ago, Harry Lime said: Nice pins on the Ghost cover! Is that pre-Seven Year Itch? I'll say! She can blow my trumpet of Valkyrie any day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted April 8, 2018 Author Share Posted April 8, 2018 Here's another late Fiction House book that @1950's war comics can charitably describe as 'affordable'. Nice colours though. The UTC this time around isn't a splash, but a page that contains one of those lines of dialogue that I particularly dislike - "Help, I'm falling!" I always hated that about Marvel and DC comics. "That wall! Falling on me! It will crush me, unless I can..." The dialogue in a world with physics would actually be more like "Oh f- <mangle, crush, flatten>" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...