What comics did you buy today?

[felneymike]

Two Boys' Friend Libraries, both sold at around the same time on Ebay from different sellers, but both from the first half of 1934!
The first is No. 416 "What Price the Rovers?" and the second is No. 430 "The School of Snobs", the latter featuring a "Pork Pie Millionaire"...brilliant!
Both are in pretty bad condition, the School of Snobs has been re-covered with card and had a colour photocopy of the original cover glued on. The other has had the spine repaired with a strip of leather and presumably a lot of glue. It's held well together.

Also a big book called "The Boys' Realm of Stories"

[ISPYSHHHGUY]

Was the first colour film 'Flowers and trees' [a 1935 Disney cartoon], Alan? That was a short film, obviously: I don't know what the first colour feature-film was, though........

[blaing]

Flowers and Trees (Directed by Burt Gilett) was made in 1932, and was by no means the first colour cartoon (it was the first three colour Technicolor cartoon, however) There had been colour cartoons before that (Ub Iwerks' 'Fiddlesticks' and Walter Lantz's King of Jazz sequence for the movie of the same name)

[ISPYSHHHGUY]

Thanks for that, blaing: 1932 is right enough now you mention it: Disney had the patent on Technicolor for a few years in the early talkie-cartoon days, and I have seen some of the two-colour cartoons put out by other studios. The ones I have of the two-colour technique [like 'Fiddlesticks' by Flip the Frog'] are not all that clear but maybe they were fine back in the early 30s.


Even MGM were forced to put out two-colour versions of their cartoons early on [some of the Harman-Ising early entries].

Just thinking: wasn't the first-ever full-colour feature film an Errol Flynn-like swashbuckler?

[I'm deliberately not looking it up on Wiki, coz I am totally anti-pedantry, especially after a pretty bad example on here today.]



ISPYSHHHGUY Posts: 100% 'anti-pedantic, and proud!'

[Kashgar]

I'm pretty sure the first full colour film produced by Warner Bros was the Errol Flynn swashbuckler 'The Adventures of Robin Hood' in 1938 but this had been preceded by several other colour features produced by other studios including, what may well have been the first, the film version of Thackeray's 'Vanity Fair' renamed, after its heroine, 'Becky Sharp'.

[ISPYSHHHGUY]

sounds familiar, kashgar: thank you for that.

[alanultron5]

The first `Full colour` (Three strip Technicolour) Feature film was titled "Becky Sharp" released by RKO in June 1935. It starred `Miriam Hopkins` as the titular star as well as Alan Mowbray and Cedric Hardwick. It was a loose adaptation of Thackery's "Vanity Fayre"

Second ever full colour was "Trail of the Lonesome Pine" (1936) by Paramount, shot mostly outdoors and starring Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray and Sylvia Sidney- nowt to do with "Laurel & Hardy"

Third ever full colour was "The Dancing Pirate" RKO, which is still `lost` to this day!

The first full colour Horror/Sci-Fi film with colour special effects was Paramount's "Dr Cyclops" (1940) It starred Albert Dekker as the villianous "Dr Cyclops"

Back to comics! I got my set of `Jet` comics today! This means I can put on sale my 16 copies I already held! Please refer to the Buy & sell section anyone interested!

[STARBOY]

I picked up the new Comic Book Heroes today, my first one aa at £7.99 for me it too expensive but this issue had lots of stuff I liked - ha articles on some of my favourite characters/creators/comics : Green Lantern (forget the Spidey, Cap America and Thor films this look amazing), Archie comics, Mike Kaluta, Milo Manara - a fair amount of UK interest wit Judge Dredd and an article on Girls Comics etc the "free" (at £7.99 its hardly free imho) book has nice art (XIII The Day of the Black Sun) but not my kinda thing - Sidekick the preview mag looks a good idea with some nice pages of coming comics etc though most for me were of no interest (made up by the inclusion of forthcoming John Severn book) the main mag hover looks brilliant for me at least as almost ever article has interest for me (Barry W smith Machine Man etc) will def pick this up again especially if it has stuff that interests me very nice package indeed.

[ISPYSHHHGUY]

I've seen 'DR CYCLOPS', Alan: you seldom ever hear of it/ see it today. I think it was an RKO Merian C Cooper job.

[Raven]

What with your taste in the old black and white horrors, ISPYSHHHGUY, are you a buyer of this fine periodical:

http://www.monstersfromthevault.com/

sold in the UK by Hemlock Books, on their website and Ebay shop, and in some branches of Forbidden Planet?

[ISPYSHHHGUY]

I've heard of the name of this release, Raven: but no, I haven't bought it. My house has been seriously cluttered until lately, and I have to cut right back to the 'must-have' items only. This mag you reccomend does look like a worthy enterprize, though.....that's a fantastic Bride of Frankenstein cover featured.


Here's that link I promised to the FRANKIE STEIN topic I posted on a US site about 3 weeks back, [it got a pretty poor response overall] .....I'm posting on this site under the moniker SKULL ISLAND ESCAPEE easily as often as I am on here;

enjoy!:

http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuk ... from-1960s

[felneymike]

A couple of issues of Schoolgirl's Picture Library. They have a more "modern" look than the classic "yellow border" style, and feature an adventure story with a sports car-driving, plane-flying girl plus a sci-fi story. They are priced at a shilling still, though. I presume they're from the late 60's.

Also "Battler Britton Book 2", which looks like an ordinary hardback from the outside, but inside it features several picture-library style stories (presumably reprinted from Thriller Library), as well as some illustrated text stories (the illustrations are great) and a few short articles about flying. It has a dustjacket that has been repaired by sticking it to paper and then wrapping the whole in plastic. The art on the jacket is brilliant! Very early 60's, in the same style as Ken Barr Commando covers or 60's Sexton Blake Libraries.

The shop also had a "Combat Annual 1962" which is very similar but has stories from Combat Picture Library. I might get that one next week if nobody else has!

[blaing]

in the last couple of days, I got four issues closer to completing my Cheeky Weekly collection with the following issues I won off e-bay...

29/4/78
12/8/78
2/9/78
9/6/79

[Raven]

I've heard of the name of this release, Raven: but no, I haven't bought it. My house has been seriously cluttered until lately, and I have to cut right back to the 'must-have' items only. This mag you reccomend does look like a worthy enterprize, though.....that's a fantastic Bride of Frankenstein cover featured.

It's very good indeed and uncovers all sorts of stuff.

Look at some of these back issues and topics covered:

http://www.monstersfromthevault.com/BackIssueInfo2.html

What about that issue 18 ... ?

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Alas, no real reaction to that Ken Reid posting of yours on that thread.

[paw broon]

At the Glasgow comic mart yesterday, I bought 4 Beanos from 1969, Valiant Annual 1965, Hotspur Annual 1976, Beano Book 1970 and Beano Book 1968