Sqeggs Posted March 26, 2018 Share Posted March 26, 2018 3 hours ago, 40YrsCollctngCmcs said: 13 hours ago, sacentaur said: Good to see you at the show! I was very happy with the nice copy of WDC&S 32 I obtained from Terry. Good to see you too Steve. Post your book if you'd like; some of those early Barks' stories didn't get reprinted in the comics. WDC&S is a GA key, imo, as the first Barks DD 10-pager. The Buettner cover is also great -- and appropriate to the season! sacentaur and Badger 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricksneatstuff Posted March 26, 2018 Share Posted March 26, 2018 Picked this one up for a very fair price OtherEric and Badger 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted March 26, 2018 Share Posted March 26, 2018 30 minutes ago, Ricksneatstuff said: Picked this one up for a very fair price Nice! Would also go in the Four Color thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
First Upgrade Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 Just returned from Sarasota... AJD, Sqeggs and Badger 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tth2 Posted April 5, 2018 Author Share Posted April 5, 2018 Nice! Congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duffman_Comics Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 Didn't the Dell duck books in the fifties have lovely covers - large characters, plain but gently coloured backgrounds, total lack of word balloons and "blurb" allowing for simple but effective gags. Beautiful book. Point Five 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 On 3/21/2018 at 9:16 AM, First Upgrade said: Working through four magazine size boxes of Duck books, Four Color, WDC & S, Dell, Gold Key, which are predominantly from the Golden Age...original owner books with many featuring subscription stamps, or subscription creases, & all in various conditions... Wow! I dream of finding a collection like this. Some day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 I posted this in my journal, where it sparked a little discussion, so I thought I'd put it here as well. This is the first Australian printing of this story, about 6-8 months after the Four Color version. These Australian Disneys typically had better producktion values than the Dell versions - better paper of heavier and whiter stock, and (probably because of that) a better colour strike. Here are the two in a comparative shot (Australian on top): Badger, porcupine48, Sqeggs and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 On 4/5/2018 at 9:13 AM, Duffman_Comics said: Didn't the Dell duck books in the fifties have lovely covers - large characters, plain but gently coloured backgrounds, total lack of word balloons and "blurb" allowing for simple but effective gags. Beautiful book. I think I remember reading in one of the Barks interviews that not being able to use any words on the cover often posed a challenge to him -- one that he nearly always met! I much prefer the Barks covers to the earlier Kelly covers, much as I like Kelly. Badger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 16 hours ago, AJD said: I posted this in my journal, where it sparked a little discussion, so I thought I'd put it here as well. This is the first Australian printing of this story, about 6-8 months after the Four Color version. These Australian Disneys typically had better producktion values than the Dell versions - better paper of heavier and whiter stock, and (probably because of that) a better colour strike. Here are the two in a comparative shot (Australian on top): For a minute there I was thinking the U.S. version actually looked better until I realized that you didn't mean the Australian version was at the top of the frame but was lying on top of the U.S. version. The paper is certainly whiter and the reds are a lot more vivid. The Golden Helmet is such a great story. If someone was unfamiliar with Barks and skeptical that a Donald Duck story could possibly have appeal to an adult, you couldn't do much more to convince them otherwise than to give them this story to read. Yellow Kid and Badger 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
First Upgrade Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 Dreams do come true... This Donald Duck #26 was in that same original owner collection & like the Uncle Scrooge #12, it is just back from Sarasota... Badger, AJD, Larryw7 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
First Upgrade Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 Four Color #386...White pages. This example was first from that original owner collection to be graded. It now resides in a new collection... Like that of the DD #26, the subscription crease is prominent... Ricksneatstuff and Badger 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricksneatstuff Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 Very happy to upgrade my 1st Gyro FoggyNelson, Badger and Sqeggs 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcupine48 Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 5 minutes ago, Ricksneatstuff said: Very happy to upgrade my 1st Gyro love it Ricksneatstuff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 I'm very fond of duck books and giveaway comics. That makes this a must have for me. Took a while, but now I have one. Badger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duffman_Comics Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Very nice Local pickup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 15 minutes ago, Duffman_Comics said: Very nice Local pickup? Nope, a Heritage buy, purchased in increasingly expensive USD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 That's one I don't have. I've always loved the cover on that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 10 hours ago, AJD said: I'm very fond of duck books and giveaway comics. That makes this a must have for me. Took a while, but now I have one. Very cool. Iirc, it was only reprinted once (although maybe it's been reprinted other times since) and I remember tracking down a copy of the reprint to read it because my copy was slabbed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 7 hours ago, 40YrsCollctngCmcs said: That's one I don't have. I've always loved the cover on that one. I would have preferred a Barks cover. I'm not the biggest fan of Buettner's ducks. I'd have preferred Barks on the cover of FC 108, 147 and 178 too. One thing that surprised me when I opened this up was that the story is in colour. I guess that shouldn't have been surprising, but I'd only seen it in the B&W Barks library. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
