Showing posts with label ephemera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ephemera. Show all posts

Sunday, July 06, 2025

Flea Market Finds, with some modern bootlegs

As regular readers of the blog know, I look for comics and cartoon oddities, especially at antique shops and flea markets. Here's this weekend's haul, with hi-res scans of some to come on Flickr later, and donation of the postcards to the Library of Congress later this summer.

  A flyer from the Dunes casino is Las Vegas - is this by Frank Frazetta?

 

 

A 1938 tearsheet by Jimmy Swinnerton of Canyon Kiddies. I don't usually buy tearsheets, but it was a dollar. I'm no purist though; I tearsheet the newspaper and New Yorker regularly.



A Disney World postcard, probably circa the 1970s

 
...and a few I didn't care about but bought to get a deal... 

but this one is interesting...


 
It's a stupid pun, and not a great drawing, but the reverse of the card says, "This is an original etching by W.M. Standing Noted Indian Artist." More research is needed, but not on a Sunday night.
 

 
 
This was the card that caught my interest.  It's signed H. Empie and credited to Empie Kartoon Kards in Arizona. Again, more research is needed.
 

Another dumb scatological cartoon, only of interest for the the reverse noting "Not for mailing. Suitable for framing." By who? I guess you could put this under doctor cartoons (aka graphic medicine) though.



 
A weird 19th-century trade card "Playing Bank President Dining with a Wall St Bull." selling crackers and cakes in Reading, PA
 
 


 
Another trade card, and I think this is a gag cartoon, "A Long Tramp." It's advertising H.F. Brammer  Manufacturing Co. of Davenport, IA which would sell you a washing machine, refrigerator, and step ladder.
 
 
 

 
Percosi, a book, in Italian, which I don't read, about Giorgio Cavazzano. 

 
A truly lovely #37 issue of Marvel Fanfare by Charles Vess, which I bought new, but couldn't say no to a second time. Marvel should really reprint his work for them.

 
A reading copy of Sidekicks, a graphic novel by Dan Santat, of more interest after I saw him speak this year. 

 
I originally bought some of these Bob & Bobette British reprints of Willy Vandersteen's Suske and Wiske in the 1980s. They're lovely, stupidly fun comics. I couldn't remember which ones I had so picked three that seemed unfamiliar.
 
 
 
Another Herblock cover for Time magazine. this time of Khrushchev and Castro visiting New York in 1960.
 
 
A couple of little books of military gag cartoons that need more research. Prost by Niles (above), and You've Had It (below)

 
 Some American comic books...
 
 
The anti-Nixon cover of this has fascinated me for years. I think that's Murphy Anderson art. 

Abbie an' Slats by Raeburn ... a successful comic strip, now completely forgotten. 
 
 

 
Two issues of Titan's Undersea Agent, which I think was in the THUNDER Agents universe, back when starting a new comics universe was really rare. The art in one of them is by Frank Robbins, and definitely not Wally Wood.  



 
I almost certainly have this Weird Wonder Tales 19 already, but I'm a sucker for character introductions (or at least I was when they were rarer), and it's a Kirby cover.
 

Speaking of Kirby, Our Fighting Forces 161-162 featuring the Losers had Kirby interiors but Ernie Chan and Joe Kubert covers. 162 sees Kirby returning to his perennial comics interest in kid gangs. As you'd expect in the Silver Age, the covers misrepresented the stories. The story in 161 is a particularly demented story of a dream-haunted British soldier 


 
This is a seriously beat-up copy of second issue of the Marvel Treasury-sized reprint of the first Star Wars movie adaptation. Actually, it's a reprint of a reprint because it's Whitman's version which were usually sold in discount stores, aka Five and Dimes. Oddly enough, I think these really did become collector's items.



I bought these children's stamps when they came out years ago because an argument could be made that Seuss and Falconer were cartoonists. Again, it was a dollar. I'll find a stamp collector friend who needs it.

And I got some 3-D stuff too.


 
This Best Dad in the Universe mug shows how much Superman's iconography has penetrated the world. 

 
An Avengers Endgame metal popcorn bucket for when they could be re-used as trashcans and weren't the head of Deadpool or Galactus. 

 
A couple of the 1970s Sunday Funnies drinking glasses featuring Brenda Starr and  Terry and the Pirates. I think these were promos for the NY Daily News. 

Something not bought (it happens) - 2 posters signed by Joe Quesada. I really enjoyed The Ray, but who has the room. 


 

And finally the modern bootlegs. Green Kush marijuana is probably not a licensed Green Lantern product, and I'm also thinking that Kevin, while an excellent firework, isn't really part of the official Minion merchandise. I love a good counterfeit though.


Monday, June 23, 2025

Hi-res scans of golf cartoon blotters from Minnesota Mining & Mfg. Co., aka 3M

Golf cartoon blotters from Minnesota Mining & Mfg. Co., aka 3M. Identified (on 6/25) by DD Degg of the Daily Cartoonist as Divot Diggers cartoonist Vic Forsythe (of Joe Jinks fame) with a 1926 example.

600 dpi scans at



These will be donated to Library of Congress' prints and photographs division in summer 2025.

Sunday, June 08, 2025

This weekend's Civitan flea market comics and cartoon finds (need some artist ID help)

This weekend's Civitan flea market comics and cartoon finds. Most were under 2 dollars. The comics and fanzines will go to the Library of Congress as will most of the ephemera. If anyone can help ID the World War II cartoonist, I'd appreciate it. And the golf blotter cartoonist.  


Signed first issue of Sex Criminals by Chip Zdarsky and
 Amanda Connor variant cover of Star Wars Princess Leia

Golf cartoon blotters from Minnesota Mining and Mfg Co by unknown cartoonist. 
Being donated to Library of Congress after hi-res scanning


Signed Herblock biography; these are still fairly easy to find around DC.

Dreams I fanzine cover. The Hobbit by CC Beck.

There's one copy at Bowling Green University library. Copies will be going to LoC and OSU soon.

A collection of fantasy illustrations by Frank Frazetta, Roy Krenkle, Robert Crumb, Harvey Kurtzman, Neal Adams, Jim Starlin, R. Crandall, Jeff Jones, Al Bradford and Martin Grimes, Berni Wrightson, and Vaughn Bode

Dreams I fanzine back cover. Flash Gordon by Al Williamson.

                                                                  Dreams I fanzine title page.


Adventures of Big Boy 288

Adventures of Big Boy 263, in New York City

Adventures of Big Boy 266, with Superman

Adventures of Big Boy 257

ERBdom 27 fanzine from 1969.

Draw! 16 with Howard Chaykin

Draw! 18 with R.M. Guera.

The Acid Test political cartoons by William Sanderson.   

Avengers Assemble featuring Captain Citrus #1.

Copies of these are going to LoC and OSU (if they want it)


Avengers Assemble featuring Captain Citrus #2.


"Tony's Sports Comics" Kellogg's cereal giveaway.  Published by DC Comics in conjunction with Sports Illustrated. Cover titled "Nolan Ryan in The Winning Pitch." Art by Angelo Torres, according to Rodrigo Baeza.

 

Jimmy's Coloring Book cover by Neal Adams.

Jimmy's Coloring Book inside page by Bob MacLeod?

Peanuts to President by Blanche Ackerman with cartoons by David Suter. Silver Spring, MD: Adam Publishing Co., 1977.  Only held in 4 libraries.




Fisherman's laugh book. [Baxter Lane Co.], [Amarillo, Tex.], [©1973] 1 copy in 1 library.  
  

Unidentified WWII cartoonist photocopy
 
Does anyone know who this is drawn by? There's a symbol in the lower right. When I used Google image search this is the slop it gave me:
 
 

Gib Crockett original cartoon of Franklin Roosevelt saying "My Country First" into a microphone

 
German cartoon print on fashion in women's hats, probably removed from a magazine. Translated title as Fantasy of Fall Styles, 1882.



Justice League movie mook.