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Thursday 29 November 2018

Geronimo Jones (#01 – #09) 1971 – 1973 Complete Series [Charlton Comics Collection]

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Series 1971
Publisher: Charlton

Publication Dates: September 1971 – January 1973
Number of Issues Published: 9 (#01 – #09)
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
Publication Type: magazine
Pages 36 Indicia        frequency bimonthly

Authors:

Script:
Tony Tallarico (signed), Nina Tallarico
Pencils:
José Delbo (signed), Tony Tallarico (signed)
Inks
José Delbo (signed), Tony Tallarico (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?








Links: Geronimo Jones  (#01 – #09) ⇲⇲

Monday 26 November 2018

Wild West Picture Library (#001 - #114) 1966? - 1971? IPC - 82 issues



Wild West Picture Library

IPC, 1966? Series
Published in English -  United Kingdom

Publication Dates: 1966 ? - 1971 ?
Number of Issues Published: 114 (#1 - #114)
Color: Colour cover; Black and white Interior
Dimensions: Digest-size
Paper Stock: Glossy Covers; Newsprint Interiors
Binding: Squarebound
Publishing Format: Was ongoing      Publication: Type:magazine
Pages: 68    Indicia frequency:  Each Month

Tracking:
Change is to have the start year as 1966. If you are going to keep the year ending as 1971, 
you need to add skeleton records for 113 and 114.
Notes
These were published two a month and the date of publication ie Month and Year are on the last story page. The insider covers would be an advert for the other one that month and for the two titles for the next month. Working back from the issue I own, I calculate that the first two would have come out in May 1966 and that the last two (113 and 114) would have been published in January 1971.

Authors:
Script, Pencils, Inks and Letters ?








Links: 82 Different numbers  ⇲⇲

Saturday 24 November 2018

Dell Movie Classic Collection. First delivery




Movie Classic   (1962)

Publisher: Dell

Publication Date: May/Jul 1962 - 1970

Country: United States

Language: English 


This is a somewhat "invented" title. In truth, each issue was published as a one shot, and came out roughly when the movie of the same name did. Despite the fact that these are essentially one-shots, convention amongst those who collect these issues is that they're all generally grouped together under the only words that appeared on the cover of all issues, Movie Classic. This "title" is consistently seen across a wide variety of referential and common usages, including The Overstreet Price Guide, the Michigan State University comic library, auction listings, specialized fan sites, and many comic review sites.

Cracking the code

Despite the wide usage of the term, "Movie Classic", there is great justification for viewing each issue of this "series" as a one-shot within its own title. In the first place, no issue bears an indicia which includes the words, "Movie Special". The titles given in each indicia are particular to the issue in question. Indeed, the strange numbering system on each cover reveals that they were clearly one-shots.
Each number is given in terms of an eight digit code: PP-TTT-YMM.
The first two digits had to do with the price. If the issue cost 15¢, it got the code "01". If it cost 12¢, then it got the code "12".
The next three digits were a numeric code based upon the title of series. This code was relative to the title's position in the alphabet. Hence Zulu was given the relatively high number of "950", while Around the World Beneath the Sea got the much lower "030". Titles beginning with letters of the alphabet between "A" and "Z" got numbers in between.
The final three digits were coded for the last digit of the year, plus two digits for the month. Therefore, a number ending in 010 would have been released in October, 1970.
When looked at in full, The Prince and the Pauper's code of 01-654-207 thus meant "a 15¢ issue with a title beginning with the letters "PRI" whose last month of release was July 1962."
Since the system applied across all Dell titles, the implication of no two issues of Movie Classic having the same title code is that they should be considered as separate titles.
However, this code was so deliberately obscure that most collectors weren't aware of its meaning until scholarship long after Dell stopped publishing. Thus, the words "Movie Classic" seen on every cover gave rise to a tradition of grouping these issues together. It is that tradition, more than strict indicia accuracy, that we respect here.



The series' run

Beginning and ending dates for this title are speculative and incomplete. Finding the complete list of everything that could be considered a part of this title is difficult, because of the ephemeral nature of these issues; they were tie-ins to movies that, generally, led to no further comic stories. Indeed many of the films that received treatment here are now themselves mostly forgotten.


Four Color "Movie Classics" vs. Movie Classics

Just to add to the confusion, Dell released a number of issues of Four Color with the words "Movie Classic" on the cover. However, Four Color Movie Classics are distinguishable from this series by a difference in the way the words "Movie Classic" appear on the cover.  If the issue is a Four Color Movie Classic, the words "Movie Classic" appear in somewhat stylized type within the Dell logo box. If they're a part of the Movie Classic series, they appear elsewhere on the cover, in a simple sans serif font.
Also, the numbering system is different. Four Color Movie Classics are in the format XXXX-YYY, whereas "genuine" Movie Classics have the format PP-TTT-YMM. (For Four Color Movie Classics, this XXXX-YYY format is truncated to just XXXX on the cover, whereas the cover number for Movie Classics is the full PP-TTT-YMM code.)

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  TITLES:

 A Dog of Flanders 
Around The World Under The Sea
Battle Of The Bulge 
Beach Blanket Bingo
Ben - Hur 
Bon Voyage
Cheyenne Autumn 
David Ladd's Life Story
Die Monster, Die!r
Dinosaurus
Dondi 
Dr Who and the Daleks
Dracula
Ensign Pulver 
Frankenstein
Greyfriars Bobby
Hatari!
Hercules Unchained
Horizontal Lieutenant
Huckleberry Finn






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Thursday 22 November 2018

Cowgirl Romances #01-#12 (1950 -1953) Complete series [Fiction House Comics Collection 01]


 1950 Series
Published in English (United States)  United States
Publication Dates:  1950 - Winter 1952-1953
Number of Issues Published:    12 (#1 - #12)
Color:   Color
Dimensions:   Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock:   glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding:  saddle-stitched
Publishing Format:   Was Ongoing Series
Publication Type:   magazine

Pages 52         Indicia frequency:  Quarterly


Authors: 

Script
? [as Royal Roberts, [as Walt Cross], John Mitchell ?,  [as John Starr], Augustine Martinez
Pencils
Jack Kamen ?, [as Royal Roberts], Maurice Whitman, Iger Shop, Pete Morisi, Ken Battefield
Inks
[as Royal Roberts], Maurice Whitman, Iger Shop, Pete Morisi, Ken Battefield,
Colors and Letters   
 ?

Cowgirl Romances was first published by Fiction House in 1950, the series would run for 12 issues ending in Winter 1952.

The title was an attempt by Fiction House to enter the romantic comic market. It is a slightly bizarre cross genre mix of western and romance.

Many of Fiction House's titles featured strong willed and beautiful heroines who quite capable of looking after themselves. Examples include the star of Fiction House's stable Sheena, Queen of the Jungle and also Firehair, a white woman member of an Indian tribe. Cowgirl Romances carried on with this tradition.

The stories were mostly one-offs, but for the first three issues there was a regular feature Calamity Jane, by Royal Roberts. The tag line was 'The Cowboys Called her TONY TYLER ... but FATE named her - CALAMITY JANE!!', which even for the liberties that comic books took with the truth is extreme. The character bears absolutely no relationship to the real Calamity Jane, whose real name was Martha Jane Cannary Burke.

Contributors to Cowgirl Romances included: Kim Bartley, Curt Langdon, Cliff Hanson and John Stark.

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Links: Cowgirl Romances  #01 - #12⇲⇲

Wednesday 21 November 2018

The Fiction House Comics Story [Links to all collections Includes]




Fiction House


Fiction House was an American publisher of pulp magazines and comic books that existed from the 1920s to the 1950s. It was founded by John B. "Jack" Kelly and John W. Glenister.
 By the late 1930s, the publisher was Thurman T. Scott. Its comics division
 was best known for its pinup-style good girl art, as epitomized by the company's most popular character, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.


The company's original location was 461 Eighth Avenue in New York City. At the end of 1929, a New York Times article referred to 
John B. Kelly as "head" of Fiction House, Inc., and a new location of 271 Madison Avenue.

In late 1932, John W. Glenister was president of Fiction House and his son-in-law, Thurman T. Scott, was secretary of the corporation. By the end of the 1930s Scott had risen to the title of publisher.

In January 1950, the Manhattan-based company signed a lease for office space at 130 W. 42nd Street.

History


Pulp fiction

Fiction House began in 1921 as a pulp-magazine publisher of primarily aviation, Western, and sports pulps.According to co-founder John W. Glenister:


In association with J. B. Kelly, I put out our first fiction magazine devoted to adventure stories. That was in 1921. Within four years the magazine sold 150,000 copies an issue and we began four other outdoor magazines and several others."
During their first decade the company produced pulp magazines such as Action Stories, Air Stories, Lariat Stories, Detective Classics, The Frontier, True Adventures, Wings, and Fight Stories. Fiction House occasionally acquired other publishers' magazines, such as its 1929 acquisition of Frontier Stories from Doubleday, Doran & Co.

By the 1930s, the company had expanded into detective mysteries. In late 1932, however, in the midst of the Great Depression, Fiction House cancelled 12 of its pulp magazines — Aces, Action Novels, Action Stories, Air Stories, Detective Book Magazine, Detective Classics, Fight Stories, Frontier Stories, Lariat, Love Romances, North-West Stories and Wings — with the stated goal of eventually reviving them.

After a very short hiatus, Action Stories resumed publishing through this period (lasting until the fall of 1950). In addition, Fiction House relaunched its pulp magazines in 1934, finding success with a number of detective and romance pulp titles. The cancelled pulps Fight Stories and Detective Book Magazine were revived in spring 1936 and in 1937 respectively, with both magazines publishing continuously into the 1950s. Fiction House's first title with science fiction interest was Jungle Stories, which was launched in early 1939; it was not primarily a science fiction magazine, but often featured storylines with marginally science fictional themes, such as survivors from Atlantis.
At the end of 1939 Fiction House decided to add an sf magazine to its line up; it was titled
Planet Stories, and was published by Love Romances, a subsidiary company that Fiction House created to publish the company's romance titles.








List of Fiction House pulps

Aces [3]
Action Novels[3]
Action Stories (225 issues, September 1921 - Fall 1950)
Air Stories [3]
Detective Book Magazine (65 issues, Apr. 1930–Sept. 1931; 1937–Winter 1952/1953)
All Adventure Action Novels
All-American Football Magazine
Baseball Stories
Basketball Stories
Black Aces
Bull's-Eye Detective
Bull's-Eye Sports
Bull's-Eye Western Stories
Civil War Stories
Detective Classics [3]
Fight Stories (47 issues, June 1928 – May 1932; 59 issues, Spring 1936 - Spring 1952)
Football Action
Football Illustrated Annual
Football Stories
Frontier Stories[3]
George Bruce's Aces (Glen-Kel)
George Bruce's Air Novels
Jungle Stories
Lariat[3]
Love Romances[3]
North-West Romances
North-West Stories
Planet Stories (71 issues, Dec. 1939 - June 1955)
Soldier Stories
Tops in Science Fiction (2 issues, Spring–Fall 1953) — vehicle to reprint stories from Planet Stories
True Adventures
Two Complete Detective Books (Real Adventure)
Two Complete Science-Adventure Books (11 issues, 1950–1954)
Two Western Books
Two Western Romances
Wings (133 issues [11+ volumes], Jan. 1928–Spring 1953)


List of Fiction House Comic Books (selected)

"The Big Six"

Fight Comics (86 issues, Jan. 1940–[Jan.] 1954)
Jumbo Comics (167 issues, Sept. 1938–Mar. 1953)
Jungle Comics (163 issues, Jan. 1940–Summer 1954)
Planet Comics (73 issues, Jan. 1940–Winter 1953)
Rangers of Freedom Comics / Rangers Comics (69 issues, October 1941–Winter 1953)
Wings Comics (124 issues, Sept. 1940–1954)

Other titles

3-D Circus (1 issue, 1953)
Cowgirl Romances (12 issues, 1950–Winter 1952/1953)
The First Christmas (1 issue, 1953; 3-D)
Ghost Comics (11 issues, 1951–1954)
Indians (17 issues, 1950–1953)
Ka'a'nga, Jungle King (20 issues, Spring 1949–Summer 1954)
Long Bow (9 issues, 1951–Winter 1952/1953)
Man O' Mars (1 issue, 1953)
Movie Comics (4 issues, Dec. 1946–1947)
Pioneer West Romances / Firehair (11 issues, Spring 1950–Spring 1952)
Sheena, Queen of the Jungle (18 issues, Spring 1942–Winter 1952/1953)
The Spirit (5 issues, 1952–54)
Wambi, Jungle Boy (18 issues, Spring 1942–Winter 1952)


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