June 25th is the day on the calendar furthest from Christmas. Every year the Christmas season gets earlier and earlier. If it ever moves before the Christmas Equinox, it will trigger armageddon.
Over the weekend I went to a thrift store in Fallbrook, CA which had someone's comic strip collection for sale. It included 12 volumes of Terry & the Pirates hardcovers (color Sundays only) and most if not all of Fantagraphics' Prince Valiant softcovers, bvut the cream of the crop was 27 volumes of Kitchen Sink Press's Little Abner, from the beginning up through 1961 (at which point KSP went bankrupt) in hardcover. They were asking $125 for the set. that's less than $5 per volume. Cover price was $40, but such a volume today would run probably $50 or $60 at least. I can't stop thinking about them. But I didn't get them because I already have the entire set in softcover. Plus I had no easy way to get them home.My nephew-in-law said they've been on the shelf for a long time and that I could probably get them for $100 or even $75. I wouldn't even care; $125 is more than reasonable.
Captain Comics > Jeff of Earth-JJune 27, 2024 at 12:10pm
Yikes! I also have those 27 volumes in softcover. But for $125 I'd buy the HCs and sells the SCs.
That issue of Fawcett's Funny Animals is, unfortunately, the first issue in which Hoppy is, unexplainedly, no longer the Marvel Bunny. It was the only issue of the series I saw.
Captain Comics > PowerBook Pete, the Mad ModJune 27, 2024 at 12:31pm
I have the SHIELD and Rima issues, which are probably 1970s artifacts, and I was buying comprehensively then.
But I never bought any Millie the Model comics, with the 1960s ones pre-dating when I was buying comprehensivley and the 1970s issues looking (to me) like bad Archie comics. (I never cared for Al Hartley's work. If Dan DeCarlo had been drawing them, I might have bought them.) From the outfits, and pre-Archie look, that Modeling with Millie is probably mid- to late 1960s. I don't think any of those titles lasted past the early 1970s.
I've never been into funny animals in the slightest, but since that Funny Animals is a Fawcett book, it's pre-Silver Age! No later than early 1954, when Fawcett got out of the business. I don't know anything about Atomic Rabbit, but the corner triangle logo identifies it as no later than 1962. Charlton went to a full box in 1963, then the bullseye logo in the mid-1970s. The Comics Code seal IDs it as 1954 or later, so the window is 1954-62 for that issue.
Fawcett's Funny Animals #69 - February 1951 Atomic Rabbit #5 - October 1956 Modeling with Millie #49 - September 1966 Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD #1 - June 1968 Rima, the Jungle Girl #5 - January 1975
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HAPPY CHRISTMAS EQUINOX!
June 25th is the day on the calendar furthest from Christmas. Every year the Christmas season gets earlier and earlier. If it ever moves before the Christmas Equinox, it will trigger armageddon.
Over the weekend I went to a thrift store in Fallbrook, CA which had someone's comic strip collection for sale. It included 12 volumes of Terry & the Pirates hardcovers (color Sundays only) and most if not all of Fantagraphics' Prince Valiant softcovers, bvut the cream of the crop was 27 volumes of Kitchen Sink Press's Little Abner, from the beginning up through 1961 (at which point KSP went bankrupt) in hardcover. They were asking $125 for the set. that's less than $5 per volume. Cover price was $40, but such a volume today would run probably $50 or $60 at least. I can't stop thinking about them. But I didn't get them because I already have the entire set in softcover. Plus I had no easy way to get them home.My nephew-in-law said they've been on the shelf for a long time and that I could probably get them for $100 or even $75. I wouldn't even care; $125 is more than reasonable.
Yikes! I also have those 27 volumes in softcover. But for $125 I'd buy the HCs and sells the SCs.
Oh, man, what a find!
We took a day trip to Corinth MS, and I picked up what you see in the photo.
I've never seen a Millie the Model, Modeling With Millie, Chili, Patsy Walker or Hedy Wolfe comic in my life!
I had never had one, so I bought it.
That issue of Fawcett's Funny Animals is, unfortunately, the first issue in which Hoppy is, unexplainedly, no longer the Marvel Bunny. It was the only issue of the series I saw.
I have the SHIELD and Rima issues, which are probably 1970s artifacts, and I was buying comprehensively then.
But I never bought any Millie the Model comics, with the 1960s ones pre-dating when I was buying comprehensivley and the 1970s issues looking (to me) like bad Archie comics. (I never cared for Al Hartley's work. If Dan DeCarlo had been drawing them, I might have bought them.) From the outfits, and pre-Archie look, that Modeling with Millie is probably mid- to late 1960s. I don't think any of those titles lasted past the early 1970s.
I've never been into funny animals in the slightest, but since that Funny Animals is a Fawcett book, it's pre-Silver Age! No later than early 1954, when Fawcett got out of the business. I don't know anything about Atomic Rabbit, but the corner triangle logo identifies it as no later than 1962. Charlton went to a full box in 1963, then the bullseye logo in the mid-1970s. The Comics Code seal IDs it as 1954 or later, so the window is 1954-62 for that issue.
Don't mind me. This is how I have fun.
Fawcett's Funny Animals #69 - February 1951
Atomic Rabbit #5 - October 1956
Modeling with Millie #49 - September 1966
Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD #1 - June 1968
Rima, the Jungle Girl #5 - January 1975
Good work, Cap!
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