Wrong CAPTION, or wrong PHOTO... You decide...
If they're COMICS, I don't recognize any of the characters! But the ART seems to be good, even if a tad small! And wouldn't those POSTMARKS devalue the comic's condition from a FINE/NEAR MINT to a GOOD MINUS?
But the worst thing about them is that they look VERY DIFFICULT TO READ! ...Kinda skimpy on PAGE COUNT, too!
...Maybe they're COMICS DIGESTS? ...But VERY SLIM comics digests!
Unlike this one...
Now, let's just try to keep it safe from those nasty, grade-devaluing postmarks!
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Sheesh… They could at least have used a picture of cartoon- or comics-themed stamps…
Like these: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/204454484151
Or these: https://www.mysticstamp.com/31383535-1997-2007-warner-bros-collection-of-5-panes-with-imperforate-stamp/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign={campaign}&utm_id=22034127764&utm_content=&utm_term=&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22038035650&gbraid=0AAAAAD_rcn2qx7pZWP9GtpaoVofHPqTio&gclid=Cj0KCQjwxdXBBhDEARIsAAUkP6jP019CLfsT7Xpq-_NrMAGX_fb9pzspK7zI9OfkgWuZAYXBJPBQNcEaAiuSEALw_wcB
Or these: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1265541976/rare-herge-1907-2007-belgium-book-stamp?gpla=1&gao=1&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_us_e-art_and_collectibles&utm_custom1=_k_Cj0KCQjwxdXBBhDEARIsAAUkP6hOxaOmYOdsk32IyfAcPvjhi9SYVvr0uih63NvVqsvVEL2FWxNb8v0aAilAEALw_wcB_k_&utm_content=go_21500568624_167985810879_716809480534_pla-314954651933_c__1265541976_5554824303&utm_custom2=21500568624&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21500568624&gbraid=0AAAAADtcfRIMjek6yGYUjdl4jU-yrKNhM&gclid=Cj0KCQjwxdXBBhDEARIsAAUkP6hOxaOmYOdsk32IyfAcPvjhi9SYVvr0uih63NvVqsvVEL2FWxNb8v0aAilAEALw_wcB
All right, I will be the first to make the obligatory pun: it's a good thing those *aren't* comics characters, because we don't want any of the characters we love to be cancelled!
This brings back memories! I will never forget opening a 12-cent issue of Uncle Scrooge and finding that delightful ad! From that moment, I could not wait until May 21st! I started saving money for the big day. Everybody helped. My grandparents gave me several quarters and my aunt gave me more money, plus my parents gave me some money as well. By the time the big day arrived, I had not only enough for the Walt Disney Comics Digest, I bought other comics as well, including a Tom & Jerry, a Tweety & Sylvester, and a Mickey Mouse.
It was a very public event. My best friend from school was with me that day, along with his younger brother who was friends with my younger brother and my mother herded four rambunctious boys to the grocery store. I remember my friend's brother making the comment--"Wow, you sure buy a lot of comics!" They didn't quite realize that this was a rare treat, a special occasion.
Not only was the acquisition of the digest very public, so was the first reading of it. We got to our house, all four of us boys, and immediately plunged into perusal of the Digest. We read the lead story, a Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge adventure, together, taking turns reading it aloud to each other. We read that entire story through until it was dinnertime and time for our friends to go home. Of course the rest of that evening I was "lost" in the world of that first Walt Disney Comics Digest. I didn't realize at the time that it was far from being a one-shot, but was the precursor to a whole series. Although there were some perils and pitfalls along the way, I did manage to collect the entire run.
Regarding that picture at the top, sometimes I wonder if non-comics readers even know what a comic book is. These days young people don't seem as comics literate as they once were. Some of the Free Comic Book Day comics even include a tutorial on how to read a comic book! What?
“Little” subject draws big comment yield! Let’s get to ‘em!
Sergio (you write):
“Sheesh… They could at least have used a picture of cartoon- or comics-themed stamps…”
This is just another of those (probably unintentionally) misleading ebay ads that I run across so very often. However, this mistake is SO egregious that it was probably generated by AI – which ebay now allows you to use!
But all too often, in the collecting space that *I* inhabit – comic books, there are too many people trying to sell them that don’t know enough about them that their descriptive text is inaccurate – or even outright wrong! I don’t attribute it to dishonesty, but rather to ignorance – and such ignorance undoubtedly misleads potential buyers who are less immersed in that collecting space than myself and most others who read this humble Blog!
But, THIS ONE? No! Not even an ignorant human could make that kind of error! …And that’s why we’ll always be better than AI, even when they achieve total sentience and crush us beneath their fearsome cyber-feet! :-)
HERE are Sergio’s links for your viewing pleasure:
HANNA-BARBERA 65 YEARS
1997-2007 Warner Bros.
Hergé 1907-2007
Let’s hope these work, ‘cause not tryin’ ‘em again with 64 pages of Fantagraphics stuff to work on today! …“Horrifically Busy”, and all that sort of rot! …Sorry, I’ve just been watching a few BRITISH CRIME FILMS this week!
Elaine:
I would be honored to have you “be the first to make the obligatory pun”! And a jolly good one (…Sorry, British crime films again!) it is, too! Let me take a decidedly lesser stab at returning the compliment by retorting that, if any of those stamps were from The Czech Republic, might they be classified as “Cancelled Czechs”?
Scarecrow:
You would probably not be surprised to learn that the discovery of that particular ad was a delightful event for me as well!
[Long-Winded Recollections Warning] May 21st, 1968 was a school day and a Tuesday (recall that back then new comics were released on Tuesdays and Thursdays) so, right after school, I lit out to the most reliable newsstand/candy store within walking distance with Grandma Millie – and that store was on the extreme end of “walking distance” to boot! So, thank you Grandma Millie for indulging me in ways my parents couldn’t… or wouldn’t!
As it was 1968 and I still lived in the “recently-turned-dangerous” neighborhood described in THIS POST, one that we would leave ten months later, we went immediately after school rather than be out too late.
Picking it up that early (early for a weekday, anyway) allowed me the pleasure of sitting outside at the far back end of our “house-and-yard-length” driveway and reading the entire digest cover-to-cover! Funny how I can still remember that day so clearly!
Unlike your experience, there were no other comics purchased on that day – just that wonderful digest that presented me with a most amazing Uncle Scrooge adventure – divided into two parts and dubbed “Secret of Atlantis” especially for this (rather tiny) printing!
Also, unlike your experience of a “public” event, aside from the company of Grandma Millie – both for the long, two-way walk and the “financial assistance” – mine was a private, solitary affair, as most things were for me back then. Imagine living through the wonders and glories of the Silver Age in complete isolation… but that’s the way it was in that neighborhood, at that time. Things, of course, would get much better once we moved.
But, like you, I, too, was "lost" in the world of that first Walt Disney Comics Digest… only on a cloth-stripped outdoor folding chair, in the far back end of a driveway! The experience remains wonderful, no matter the surroundings – which the sheer delight of WALT DISNEY COMICS DIGEST #1, made very easy to shut out!
Thank you for the story of your experiences! I really enjoy hearing things like that, especially if they are joyous! I hope mine, while “joyous” in a different way, does the same for you and the TIAH-faithful!
I’d say that non-comics readers “know” what a comic book is but, depending on their age, their conception of them would be as they were in the ‘60s, ‘70s, or ‘80s. (maybe ‘90s might creep in by now). Considering how their presence in mainstream outlets has completely vanished, the reaction I most often get is: “Do they still make those?”
…Understandable, even reasonable, I think!
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