Hello everyone! My name is Robb (Rob) Klein. I am a comic book storywriter/Storyboard and magazine cover sketch artist for Disney Comics in The Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, and Norway. I live in The Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Canada, and USA for a few months each, every year. I grew up in Canada, The Netherlands, and USA during the late 1940s, and the 1950s, reading mostly Disney, WB, MGM, and Walter Lantz funny animal comics. Lately, I have started collecting scans of all the US funny animal an cartoony Human-character comedy series from the 1940s and 1950s.
I joined this website so I can read and download scanned pages of comics from that period that I don't yet have. I hope, also, to become friendly with whom I will be able to privately swap scans of our personal comics that are yet not uploaded onto The Internet. I also joined to meet other Golden Age comic fans and learn more about the artists, writers, publishers, and different comic book series from that period, especially those that weren't sold where I was. For example, The Canadian Government prohibited importation of US comic books into Canada from just after we started fighting in WWII, in 1940. So, from 1940-45we didn't get US comics. Even starting in late 1945, when they returned I never saw Creston/ACG, or Better/Nedor/Standard funny animal comics in Winnipeg. I found out there were 3 issues of "Merry-Go-Round Comics" distributed in Canada in 1947-48. But they never got to Manitoba. Maybe they were only distributed in Ontario? But, I never saw comics from either company in Chicago, either. So, in USA, maybe they were only regional, On The East Coast(other than SuperMouse)? Those 2 companies used Ben Sangor's Studio of ex-animation artists for producing all their stories (as did many other small, independent companies, and DC (for their funny animal series) as well. Their production, with really high-quality artwork, is the main reason why I became a member here.
I also can provide information about funny animal and comedy comics in USA, Canada, The Netherlands, and Scandinavia, as I've been reading that material just about 70 years, and working in that business for the last 35 years.