Sqeggs Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 2 hours ago, Scrooge said: Agreed. Here's mine. IIRC, this was one of my very first purchases on the boards, 10+ years ago now - I've had a number of copies over the years. Here's my current one. Badger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 12 hours ago, Ricksneatstuff said: Any chance to show off my copy again (which at 7.0 doesn’t look much better than your Great presenting 2.0). Barks and Eisner, to me, are the two primary complete well-rounded writer/artists geniuses of Comic books. There are many other greats but I think they stand apart and for my money Barks is tops. I'm with you, particularly when you consider the isolation in which Barks worked. I think I'd add Kirby to the writer/artist Rushmore, although his rep seems to be in eclipse these days. Ricksneatstuff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 Does anyone here not have a FC178? 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaillant Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 1 hour ago, AJD said: Does anyone here not have a FC178? Myself. I have almost nothing of Disney in original language. I mean serious stuff. I started collecting with Disney in 1984 and always collected most of it in italian. Since money and space aren’t unlimited, there are choices to be made… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duffman_Comics Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, AJD said: Does anyone here not have a FC178? Of course not. It's odd how many copies have problems Lower Right Front Cover Corner. And shouldn't you be busy chatting with the fourth estate, advocating a nuclear arsenal in the South Pacific? Edited January 14, 2018 by Duffman_Comics Badger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaillant Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 On 11/1/2018 at 9:42 PM, Duffman_Comics said: About time AJD The panel above is one I have often shown to non-comic folk, explaining that this is the first appearance of Scrooge in any medium, anywhere. I point out that Barks has managed to establish his persona (albeit a little closer to Dickens' offering initially) in a single establishing shot with a sole thought balloon. I mention the "bits of business" that Barks has inserted and that were consistently present in most Duck stories. I then stand back and have been universally underwhelmed by the indifferent reaction. Comic folk get it. Non-comic people just don't get it. I gave up trying to explain stuff to "lay" people many years ago. Anyway, congratulations and I agree the absence of staples should have been mentioned. If there’s an advantage in having had one of the most renowned and well-established school of Disney comic artists and writers in Italy, it’s that you can talk with "normal" people of these things and in a good number of cases they understand the importance/artistic quality/relevance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duffman_Comics Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 Just now, vaillant said: If there’s an advantage in having had one of the most renowned and well-established school of Disney comic artists and writers in Italy, it’s that you can talk with "normal" people of these things and in a good number of cases they understand the importance/artistic quality/relevance. True, but there's also a lot of other non-comic advantages available in Italy. And they're not confined to pizza and gelato. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaillant Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 50 minutes ago, Duffman_Comics said: True, but there's also a lot of other non-comic advantages available in Italy. And they're not confined to pizza and gelato. Some of the alimentary ones went down the WC when Nestlé incorporated Motta in its multinational. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 3 hours ago, AJD said: Does anyone here not have a FC178? A coworker of mine came back from a garage sale down the street from him in Glendale California in the late nineties with a copy of FC 178! So apparently everyone in America has access to a copy of FC 178!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickie Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 17 hours ago, AJD said: Does anyone here not have a FC178? Sure Here's my -only- representative copy of the FC run, my favorite Barks cover: And I like the stamp "Colonial Book and Stamp Store" ... Badger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 18 hours ago, AJD said: Does anyone here not have a FC178? One of the revelations to me when eBay got rolling was just how common Dell Ducks were in mid-grade and below. People bought them, read them, and kept them. And I understand why! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 6 hours ago, Pickie said: Sure Here's my -only- representative copy of the FC run, my favorite Barks cover: And I like the stamp "Colonial Book and Stamp Store" ... You picked a great copy to start; certainly one of the more iconic covers. Back in 1978 my high school friend and I put together a fanzine called Fandom Playhouse. I included an article on Barks and as an homage I used the cover of Bullet Valley to recreate the pen and ink drawing shown below! Scrooge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 11 hours ago, Pickie said: Sure Here's my -only- representative copy of the FC run, my favorite Barks cover: And I like the stamp "Colonial Book and Stamp Store" ... One of my favourites too. If you're only going to have one, that's not a bad choice. I like the stamp too! 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 I'm very pleased to be able to show this one off. I got this from Heritage. It is a VERY solid 5.0 and I'm glad I held my nerve in the auction. With this I now have 90/100 of the WDC&S 'first 100'. Realistically, 1-5 aren't likely to happen, but I'd really like to find copies of the others - #10, 11, 14, 18 and 35. LMK if you see one around, though it will probably be buried under a pile of FC 178s! BTW, the stamp on the cover identifies this book as previously belonging to Duane Mrohs. I have a few others from Duane's old collection: #s 27, 29 and 30, though he upgraded his rubber stamp on those ones: I figured that "Duane Mrohs" might not be that common a name, so I asked Mr Google. As near as I can tell (and if it's the right one) Mr Mrohs was a musical technician (photo of him in that article) who worked on some jazz records in the 1960s, and was attached to the music school at Ann Arbor in the 1960s and 70s. All of the references place him in Michigan, including a 1987 death notice. With that info, I found this record, which includes a birth date of 1930 - about right to have been buying a duck book in 1942 or 1943. Scrooge and 1950's war comics 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickie Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 13 hours ago, 40YrsCollctngCmcs said: You picked a great copy to start; certainly one of the more iconic covers. Back in 1978 my high school friend and I put together a fanzine called Fandom Playhouse. I included an article on Barks and as an homage I used the cover of Bullet Valley to recreate the pen and ink drawing shown below! Cool, we don't have those Fan-Mags anymore, do we. It's all in virtual forums and not guaranteed to stay up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BitterOldMan Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Posted these again. Original pictures lost due to photobucket fiasco. Purchased several years ago at SDCC from Metropolis. I saw the FC199 on the Metro website, but they did bring the book to SDCC. Frank had the comic book shipped overnight to SDCC. AJD and Badger 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 On 1/11/2018 at 5:20 AM, AJD said: Given that the Barks Uncle Scrooge run from FC386 to Uncle Scrooge 71 was the first run I put together about 10 years ago, it's surprising (to me at least) that I waited so long to add this one to the fold: I got this from Heritage, graded at 2.0 It seemed significantly nicer than that in hand, so I leafed through to inspect it carefully. It took me a little while to notice that the book has no staples! They had evidently rusted a bit, and there are small migration spots in the CF and the covers. So it makes sense to have removed them for conservation. I'm OK with all of that - in fact I'm delighted with this flat and nicely presenting book with OW/W pages. And I think 2.0 is fair enough... but don't you think that it should have been mentioned in the auction description? I happen to have some 1947 Dell staples that I have cleaned up after taking them out of a cheapie Smilin' Jack, so they'll probably end up in this book. Here's the main reason for owning this book: Some nice touches here that I'm not sure I really noticed before - the lamp in particular, but also the statue, portrait and bookend. Love the lamp! Never noticed it before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 On 1/13/2018 at 3:20 PM, AJD said: Does anyone here not have a FC178? Somehow I have never picked up a copy which is nuts considering that I have hundreds of Scrooge comics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 1 hour ago, BitterOldMan said: Posted these again. Original pictures lost due to photobucket fiasco. Purchased several years ago at SDCC from Metropolis. I saw the FC199 on the Metro website, but they did bring the book to SDCC. Frank had the comic book shipped overnight to SDCC. FC 189 is one my favorite stories. I remember as a kid reading the reprint in The Best of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge 1, with the cover redrawn by Tony Strobl to put Scrooge front and center. Somehow, I never noticed that the cover had been redrawn from Barks's FC 189 original until somebody on the boards pointed it out to me a while back. I remember thinking it was one of the best comic book stories I had ever read (and I had read a lot, even at that young age!), despite being a huge Marvel fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 16 hours ago, AJD said: I'm very pleased to be able to show this one off. I got this from Heritage. It is a VERY solid 5.0 and I'm glad I held my nerve in the auction. With this I now have 90/100 of the WDC&S 'first 100'. Realistically, 1-5 aren't likely to happen, but I'd really like to find copies of the others - #10, 11, 14, 18 and 35. LMK if you see one around, though it will probably be buried under a pile of FC 178s! BTW, the stamp on the cover identifies this book as previously belonging to Duane Mrohs. I have a few others from Duane's old collection: #s 27, 29 and 30, though he upgraded his rubber stamp on those ones: I figured that "Duane Mrohs" might not be that common a name, so I asked Mr Google. As near as I can tell (and if it's the right one) Mr Mrohs was a musical technician (photo of him in that article) who worked on some jazz records in the 1960s, and was attached to the music school at Ann Arbor in the 1960s and 70s. All of the references place him in Michigan, including a 1987 death notice. With that info, I found this record, which includes a birth date of 1930 - about right to have been buying a duck book in 1942 or 1943. Good sleuthing! I love knowing the provenance of comics. Too bad about Mr. Mrohs having died comparatively young. Looks like he kept good care of his comics and his heirs knew enough not to pitch them (if, in fact, the books came to market after his death). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
