Thanks for these new scans Eric!
A new wrinkle to the Kelly career. The Glob book was another fun find on usenet last year.
He must have done other book and magazine work. Just to find them...
-Yoc
LOL,
Jim, I should have asked you first!
Now, are those things PD?
And is Complete Nursery Song Book reprints from Fairy Tale Parade?
-Yoc
Is anyone interested in the WWII language pamphlets I mentioned above?
Is there any question I want to see the Kelly material? ;D
I'm pretty sure the pamphlets you posted covers of are reprinted in one of the later Fireside Pogo books, Jim. Not nearly as fun as the original, of course. But a bit easier to find. I don't think I've ever seen the language items, though.
On another tangent, I need some input from my fellow Kelly fans and I need it soon. How rare is an unused copy of the Peter Wheat Coloring Book going to be? The bidding on the one on ebay is already over $75; and I need to figure out how likely another clean copy is likely to show up before I can figure out if I want to go any higher.
Given how rare all the Peter Wheat stuff seems to be I imagine a unused copy of the coloring book is even harder to find.
I don't regularly (or even as often as seldomly) go looking for coloring books, but finding an uncolored coloring book is quite rare indeed.
I'm not asking advice on how much I should spend, that has to be my decision. What I'm asking is how rare you think it is, which is something where I would trust your opinion. I do know $75 is definitely hitting my limit if the issue was just getting a copy for myself; but since the book is in the public domain there is a real question to my mind if another chance to make it available to everybody will come around any time in the foreseeable future. That's what I'm wondering; and why I might be willing to spend more. Given how rare all the Peter Wheat stuff seems to be I imagine a unused copy of the coloring book is even harder to find.
What I'm wondering now is if I have the last existing copy of 43; since they were made to be cut up and all the usual suspects don't even know issues over 36 exist. It doesn't seem impossible! I'll be very happy to post this one so it's safe from destruction if my house burns down or something.
Does anybody here know how to inform the GCD that we're dealing with two different titles and set it up so I can post the covers I have? Would it even consider these comics as such?
I suspect the thread is so popular because I'm obsessively trying to find out anything more we can about the series. The fact that I seem to have meaningfully contributed to the information we have about it in the few weeks since I discovered it suggests that it's horribly unknown for a major Kelly work.
The top part of the Fun Pack pages may be Kelly reprints but the bottom portion appears to be redrawn by others. It's hard to tell on the scans. By 1949, Kelly was working on editorial cartoons and a local version of the Pogo daily strip for a New York paper and had very little time to do comic books. Be very suspicious of any comics you see attributed to Kelly after 1950 (except Pogo Possum, of course).
I remember Al Hubbard from growing up reading his Mary Jane and Sniffles work in the Looney Tunes comics. He also did many Disney movie adaptations. Peter Wheat News #43 shows he is still using Kelly's model sheets. Later on, he worked more in his own style.
Thanks for the great find and new information.
You're very welcome, I take a great deal of joy in sharing stuff with people.
Isn't it great that we have a batch of fans here who share that joy of giving so we spend our time sitting by a scanner just to think of the smile on someone else's face. Yeah we are nuts but it is a good kinda nuts.
Tops Comics is listed as an 8 and at least three people here have it.
Crop and shrink Eric.
GCD has instructions when you click the upload link.
Hey I love the passion behind it
Heh. It's a series that deserves a lot more attention than it's gotten in the past; even some of the really hardcore Kelly fans don't seem to know much about it beyond what I've posted. Call it a rare case of finding a project that a) Needs research, b) Deserves research, and c) I can afford when it shows up, at least occasionally.
I'm seriously debating taking out a 1/4 page ad in Alter Ego offering to buy copies- or, in the case of News, even paying for scans.
See how much Slabbing helps your investment!
I'd respect the CGC a lot more if they also offered scanning services so you could get a disk with scans on it as well as the slabbed book. I know legally it's impossible but heck, why not collect stamps if you're never going to open the slabs? If you are allowed to copy a DVD as long as you own the original shouldn't you be able to scan a current Marvel as long as it's in your collection and you don't sell or share them?
Thinking out loud here.
Spawn meets The Flintstones #1
To use that service to artificially drive up the price of a readily available book for strictly speculation reasons - the idea turns my stomach.