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Post by tartanphantom on Jun 11, 2023 9:34:11 GMT -5
Because it would have to be named Eastern Dudes and Dandies by the standards of the old West. Hm, yeah, but that's a picture of Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and the rest of the Wild Bunch, a very Western gang of outlaws. The equivalent of the Western gunfighters in the East in the late 19th/early 20th century would have been the various 'ethnic' gangsters (Irish, Italian, Jewish, etc.).
Yes, it's a famous pic; I used it mainly to simply illustrate the "city slicker" style of dress vs. range wear that is normally stereotyped with gunfighters in comics. As we know, "The Sundance Kid" was the only member born east of the Mississippi, and even then he was raised in Colorado from childhood.
I'm also purposely not equating the term "gunfighter" with "outlaw gangs" or "gangsters" because the terms are not synonymous (hence, my used of the terms "dude" or "dandy").
There are plenty of gunfighters who wore "white hats" or carried a badge.
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Post by tartanphantom on Jun 11, 2023 9:36:40 GMT -5
Happy belated birthday ( 60) tartanphantom . I think I'll mail that Youngblood #3 ( first Supreme) to you as soon as I can. 
Thank you sir, for thinking of me. It was a good one for sure... two days later and I am still celebrating while I can.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2023 15:49:35 GMT -5
Back home from the Jim and Dan show. Still have to sort, process and take pictures of everything but I came back with a couple of piles of stuff. These are the books I over the last few months form the FB group run by Gem City organizer Jesse Noble who was at the show, so I was able to pick them up from him. All these were acquired via credit for some stuff I traded him earlier this year...  This is the pile of stuff I picked up at the actual show...  I'll post pics of actual books and not piles when I get them all processed. -M |
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Post by berkley on Jun 11, 2023 16:00:13 GMT -5
Hm, yeah, but that's a picture of Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and the rest of the Wild Bunch, a very Western gang of outlaws. The equivalent of the Western gunfighters in the East in the late 19th/early 20th century would have been the various 'ethnic' gangsters (Irish, Italian, Jewish, etc.).
Yes, it's a famous pic; I used it mainly to simply illustrate the "city slicker" style of dress vs. range wear that is normally stereotyped with gunfighters in comics. As we know, "The Sundance Kid" was the only member born east of the Mississippi, and even then he was raised in Colorado from childhood.
I'm also purposely not equating the term "gunfighter" with "outlaw gangs" or "gangsters" because the terms are not synonymous (hence, my used of the terms "dude" or "dandy").
There are plenty of gunfighters who wore "white hats" or carried a badge.
It is a great picture, and I love their stylishness, which I think looks very sharp without straying over the line into excessive dandyism. But =of course that's how it looks to me today, I'm not at all sure how it would have looked to their contemporaries.
Wasn't Billy the Kid an easterner? Though without looking it up to check, I seem to remember that he was a coward who shot people in the back that he was afraid to confront face to face.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2023 17:22:20 GMT -5
Alrighty, I am going to do this in batches as I get the photos processed and uploaded to an image hosting sight. Here's the first batch of stuff from Jesse's FB group, it's the DC stuff and some comic strip reprints... Let's start with a lovely Jay Scott Pike cover on Secret Hearts #124  and a pair of Sea Devils issues...  an issue of Scooby Doo Team Up...  Kyle Baker's Plastic Man mini  The first issue of Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier and a random Batman/Superman Annual  some modern Looney Tunes, a couple with sports motif covers  some Mandrake strip reprints...  some Rip Kirby reprints  some Jungle Jim reprints...  a couple of Silver/early Bronze Superboy issues for a buck each...  a pair of 10 cent Lois Lane's also a buck each...  some Jimmy Olsen's. also a buck each...  Detective Comics then and now (yes the now is a foil cover)  a couple modern Batmans  one of the Batman animated based comics and a novelty Joker book from the late 89s  That's batch one, more later. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2023 17:56:03 GMT -5
Alrighty, time for batch 2, the rest of the Gem City group books, this time the Indy and Marvel stuff... Let's start with some Groo stuff  I already had a copy of #1, but I couldn't pass up a high grade copy for $2. The Groo Chronicles are reprint collections. A different barbarian, one of the Ablaze English translations of the French Conan comics...  and the first Solomon Kane mini from Dark Horse  I had a couple issues of this already, but the set was only $2 so I snagged it to get the rest. a totally different prehistoric warrior, the first issue of Jeff Smith's Tuki-I have the GNs from the kickstarter, but the singles were a rough draft and slightly different than the final version in the GNs  and a pair of variants for the last Hangman series form Arche/Red Circle, I just dug the Francavilla and Hack covers here so nabbed them for a buck  and a reprint of some classic EC stuff  and now for some Marvel stuff... a 80s X-Men with dragons... and a Peach Momoko book, she a relative newcomer to comics but I adore her stuff  Jesse was selling batches of Marvel True Believers reprints in lots of 4-5 for a buck, and I grabbed a few of those lots...  a couple of Starlin/Lim era Silver Surfers...  a batch of Bronze Age Spideys...  and some more Spidey stuff...  some Marvel Snapshot issues including a Namor story by Brennert & Ordway  and two more Marvel books  and that's it for the Gem City group books. This is about 4 months worth of acquisitions, and most of them were $1 or $2 books, with a couple of lots being a little higher. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2023 18:31:46 GMT -5
Alright, last batch, this is stuff I actually got at the show. As I walked in, artist Jeff Austin was selling books from his personal collection to get him through a dry spell, and I picked my first book of the day from him, Wrightson's The Mutants for $15...  I then walked through the entire dealer room to see what was there, and found someone selling vintage paperbacks. They had 2 of the 3 volumes of the Phantom novels I needed to cmplete the run, so I snagged those two at $10 each...  and that pretty much was about half of my budget for the day already spent, so the rest of my time there was spent bargain hunting. I picked up 2 $2 books, and a $3 book, and everything else was either 50 cents or a buck. The Battle Stories was a $2 book and the 2 Dark Mansion issues were $5 combined   The Battle Stories is one of those IW Super Comics unauthorized reprint issues I mentioned in another thread here. The rest were bargain bin finds... A couple of fantasy warriors...  a couple of D&D comics...  a pair of Uncle Scrooge issues...  a couple of Horror books, including a red dress cover...  some randomness, the Phantom 2040 features interior art by Ditko...  not quite a red dress, but I couldn't pas this up for a buck...  a quartet of Ghosts issues...  can't pass up 10 cent dells for a buck  some Legends of the Dark Knight issues, most of these were 50 centers...  some Batbooks, the Year One issue has a cover tear, hence it was in the dollar bin...  four random Archie issues, all with Veronica in a red dress of some sort...  I adore the comics based on the DC animated series, like these three Justice League issues.  Another book I already had but I couldn't leave it behind for a buck...  and that's that. Nothing huge, no keys, but some interesting stuff. First show in a few months for me, so it was just fin to get out and dig through boxes again. -M |
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Post by tartanphantom on Jun 11, 2023 19:11:28 GMT -5
All in all, that's a pretty sweet haul, @mrp!
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 11, 2023 21:15:16 GMT -5
Back in the 80's/90's I had a pretty long run of Batman LODK. I sold them off but started buying some of the first 50 back in recent years. It was a solid book that didn't require you to have to follow month to month continuity. It featured top talent and it's cool to see the ones you picked up.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2023 21:31:10 GMT -5
Back in the 80's/90's I had a pretty long run of Batman LODK. I sold them off but started buying some of the first 50 back in recent years. It was a solid book that didn't require you to have to follow month to month continuity. It featured top talent and it's cool to see the ones you picked up. I'm focused on the first 50 issues of LODK as well, but #51 had a Kubert cover so I snagged that one as well. -M |
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Post by berkley on Jun 11, 2023 22:19:51 GMT -5
Don't think I ever knew about that Wrightson book, The Mutants - was it a graphic novel, a collected series, or what?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2023 22:28:21 GMT -5
Don't think I ever knew about that Wrightson book, The Mutants - was it a graphic novel, a collected series, or what? It's a collection of a lot of obscure Wrightson stories from zines and other small press stuff from the early 70s. GCD has the specifics of the source material. -M |
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Post by Rob Allen on Jun 12, 2023 14:44:38 GMT -5
I'm also working on a complete series of Warren Publishing's The Rook. Aside from his self-titled magazine, The Rook actually got his start in the pages of Eerie, and also appeared on rare occasion in Vampirella. Ah, The Rook. Thereby hangs a tale... The Rook was created by Bill DuBay and Budd Lewis, based on a request from Jim Warren for a cowboy character. DuBay had recently stepped down as editor of Warren's magazines and Lewis had been writing for Warren for five years or so. DuBay scripted the ongoing series and it was pretty successful. Fast forward a few years, to 2010. We were still on the old CBR board. Someone started a "where are they now" thread about people who had left the comics industry, and none other than M. W. Gallaher posted an article about Budd Lewis from the Huffington Post: www.huffpost.com/entry/former-middle-class-coupl_n_778267. He told me later that he'd read a Budd Lewis-written story at diversionsofthegroovykind.com and got curious about what became of Budd. He did a google search and came up with the HuffPost article. The article said that Budd was in Portland, where I am, and that he was in dire financial straits, supporting himself with a hot dog cart that did well in the summer but not the rest of the year. So I did a few things. First I contacted Warren uber-fan Richard Arndt. He tracked down the writer of the HuffPost article and got Budd's contact info. Then he contacted the Hero Initiative and he & I both sent them information about Budd's situation. I got in touch with Budd himself, and then put him together with local newspaper columnist and comics fan Steve Duin (co-author of Comics: Between the Panels with Mike Richardson of Dark Horse). Steve wrote a column in the newspaper about Budd: www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/steve_duin/2011/01/a_creepy_almost_eerie_turn_of.htmlThe Hero Initiative gave Budd enough money to stave off homelessness, and Steve's column inspired a local landlord to give Budd a couple of months free rent at a downtown food cart pod. Steve wrote a short follow-up piece about it: www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/steve_duin/2011/06/downtown_the_return_of_the_dom.htmlThings were looking up for Budd. I emailed my entire office about the opening of the Domo Dogs cart - got in a bit of trouble for that - but opening day was a bust because someone parked in his space. The pod was also a parking lot. That seemed to be an omen. His cart didn't succeed in the downtown pod. As delicious as they were, he was offering grab'n'go hot dogs in an environment geared to full plate lunches. His health was declining too. I last heard from Budd in December 2011, and he died in August 2014. Bringing this back to the Rook - Budd told me that when he fell into financial difficulty, Bill DuBay made him a lowball offer for Budd's half-interest in The Rook, and Budd was desperate enough to take it, but it left him feeling bitter toward DuBay. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 14, 2023 17:19:35 GMT -5
So, I clearly can't be trusted with free time. Amazon is having a deal where on select items you can buy two and get one free. So on that deal I picked up... The Team-Up Companion by Michael Eury  Genius Illustrated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth
 The Best of EC Stories Artisan Edition
 I basically ended up paying $20 a pop for the three of them. But then I made the mistake of going through my wishlist and checking the marketplace (something I haven't done in a while. And bought the following...all at $11 or less including any shipping. Prince Valiant Vol. 23: 1981-1982 - I cannot pass up any hardcover strip reprint book that's around $10.  Bravo For Adventure (hardcover) - Yeah, I'd never gotten around to picking this up.  The second and third of the books that collected the Dennis the Menace comics   Two volumes of the Complete Peanuts; 1973-74 and 1993-94 - I've slowly amassed about half of these. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2023 17:28:24 GMT -5
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