I learned something just now about comic collecting, when I searched for this cover.
It’s from 2012, by Al Jaffee, and is something called a retailer incentive cover…. specially designed to be harder to obtain so the comic will sell for more money.
What I consider a fake collectible…
But it works for some people, so to each his own.
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To me “collectible” is a designation that something earns by being wanted and hard to find, not because someone says so, and very rarely because it was designed to be collected.
When comic books started out no one dreamed the first issues would be valuable a century later, so few were preserved… And that’s the main reason they became valuable.
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The regular cover for this issue was done by someone else… I’ll post it below.
To get this one, comic book dealers had to sell a certain number of regular covers per incentive cover they could order… Sometimes 10, sometimes 20 or 100.
Then they could charge much more for those more “collectible” covers… the more “rare” the higher the price…. Usually several times the regular retail, which isn’t a dime any more, by any means.
Some buyers will buy both just to have both in their collections… And maybe even another copy of the regular one to read without messing up the ones they’ll preserve.
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Like I said… to each his own. Or her own.
Besides… this modern Popeye and Olive Oyl just don’t look right to me… Even aside from Popeye being hot pink.
Do you suppose he felt bad because his cover was the regular one and not the special, more expensive one?
That’s not very nice!
Here’s the description of the issue:
Roger Langridge (w) * Ken Wheaton (a)
Schtuff! You can’t get enough! Schtuff! It makes you feel tough! Schtuff! WHAT THE HECK IS IT?? Time for Popeye and the gang to take a trip to Goon Island to take on that ol’ stinker, Bluto – and for Alice the Goon to go native! PLUS: More nuttiness with Sappo and Wotasnozzle!
“Owl Kitty”?
PerkyCat?
Nah, more Owl Kitty to me…
EV Nautilus is at sea right now doing a series of dives.
I’m looking forward to the videos.
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Placebo spinach?
I learned something just now about comic collecting, when I searched for this cover.
It’s from 2012, by Al Jaffee, and is something called a retailer incentive cover…. specially designed to be harder to obtain so the comic will sell for more money.
What I consider a fake collectible…
But it works for some people, so to each his own.
…
To me “collectible” is a designation that something earns by being wanted and hard to find, not because someone says so, and very rarely because it was designed to be collected.
When comic books started out no one dreamed the first issues would be valuable a century later, so few were preserved… And that’s the main reason they became valuable.
…
The regular cover for this issue was done by someone else… I’ll post it below.
To get this one, comic book dealers had to sell a certain number of regular covers per incentive cover they could order… Sometimes 10, sometimes 20 or 100.
Then they could charge much more for those more “collectible” covers… the more “rare” the higher the price…. Usually several times the regular retail, which isn’t a dime any more, by any means.
Some buyers will buy both just to have both in their collections… And maybe even another copy of the regular one to read without messing up the ones they’ll preserve.
…..
Like I said… to each his own. Or her own.
Besides… this modern Popeye and Olive Oyl just don’t look right to me… Even aside from Popeye being hot pink.
Okay, here’s the regular cover, by Ken Wheaton.
Do you suppose he felt bad because his cover was the regular one and not the special, more expensive one?
That’s not very nice!
Here’s the description of the issue:
Roger Langridge (w) * Ken Wheaton (a)
Schtuff! You can’t get enough! Schtuff! It makes you feel tough! Schtuff! WHAT THE HECK IS IT?? Time for Popeye and the gang to take a trip to Goon Island to take on that ol’ stinker, Bluto – and for Alice the Goon to go native! PLUS: More nuttiness with Sappo and Wotasnozzle!
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I suspect this is not a good sign.
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Is the deployed spacesuit at the top attached to the vehicle by the nose? I can think of at least one thing wrong with that.
Maybe cos the cable is also the air hose?
Made in Japan, tin with afaik no plastic.
By the 70s Japan had mostly stopped making this type of toys for export, and completely tin toys weren’t considered safe for kids anyway.
So this was probably made in the late 50s or early 60s.
At that time, it was purely futuristic!
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fluffy pancakes
“Fluffy”?!? Those are some overgrown mutant cakes!
There are Japanese pancakes like that.
Pop would have called those silver dollar pancakes.
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It sure looks like the block is rockin’!
Aaawwww. Poor guy.
You comin’ or not?
Elizabeth Montgomery and Dean Martin in “Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed” – 1963.
Looks like we’re gonna need a bigger comic!
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