I LOVE LUCY 2 Comic Books. #1 & #2 HARD TO FIND COLLECTORS ITEMS FOR THE FANS OF THE TELEVISION SERIES!
I Love Lucy was one of the first indisputable hits of the then-new television medium in the early 1950s. Starring the real-life married couple, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez, as Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, with perennial sidekicks William Frawley and Vivian Vance as friends and neighbors, Fred and Ethel Mertz, this comical battle of the sexes went on to virtual immortality via its continuous presence in reruns.
Its popularity lead to a daily comic strip by writer Lawrence Nadel and artist Bob Oksner under the byline Bob Lawrence. Oksner was able to portray a genuine likeness of the characters, (an absolutely necessary component when a strip is based on real people), with his deceptively simple style. Bob Oksner would become familiar to comic fans as the artist for The Adventures of Jerry Lewis and sometimes Supergirl (1st Series) and Superman’s Girl Friend Lois Lane in the 1970s.
In 1990 Eternity Comics collected the newspaper strips and reprinted them in a landscape format
This item was not available for sale in any mass market retail outlet and could only be found in comic book specialty stores.
Featuring the banned, never before reprinted, politically incorrect earliest comic strip adventures of Mickey Mouse from the 1930's! "A Classic Collection of Uncensored Floyd Gottfredson Comi Strips from the 1930's."
Illustrated by Floyd Gottfredson, edited by Chris Ulm. Eternity Comics, April 1989. First Edition. This is a comic book reprint of unexpurgated Mickey Mouse strips from Disney Studios originally produced in the 1930s. It is accompanied by a concise history of these early Mouse strips by noted historian Bill Blackbeard. Now disregarded by Disney Studios, as not in keeping with the current image of Mickey Mouse, this may be your only chance to see these stories in print. 40 pages. 1st print,
Floyd Gottfredson's classic strips had been sporadically reprinted in the past, but in almost every instance, they had been heavily censored. Eternity Comics was taking this opportunity to present the strips as they originally appeared.
Eternity titled the book The Uncensored Mouse, and had the covers all black. They only mentioned the fact that they were collecting classic Floyd Gottfredson comic strips. Finally, they were sealed in a bag so that a casual reader would be unable to pick up the book and confuse it for a Disney product.
This publication offered reprints of the daily Mickey Mouse comic strip, starting with the first one (Jan. 13, 1930). Since the strips themselves had not been registered with the Copyright Office and Eternity provided the notation, “Mickey Mouse is a registered trademark of Walt Disney Productions,” Eternity hoped there’d be no legal difficulties in the project. Moreover, the strips were accompanied by a wealth of Mickey Mouse historical material provided by Bill Blackbeard, who also provided an article. The April 20, 1989, Entertainment Tonight TV show featured the controversy, the title was quickly pulled.
RARE and OUT OF PRINT COLLECTORS ITEM. SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
COMPLETE AND UNCUT!
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s brilliant, eccentric detective Sherlock Holmes has been adapted numerous times in books, plays, movies, television, and comic books.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s brilliant sleuth and master of condescending repartee comes to the world of comics in this collection of newspaper strips from the 1950s reprinted by Eternity Comics. Since the series was originally published in newspapers, the panel layout is horizontal and necessitates the book be printed in “landscape” orientation.
Accompanied by his faithful, but often befuddled aide, Dr. Watson, Sherlock Holmes retains all of the incredible powers of observation and deduction that he is famous for from books and movies. The strip was written by Edith Meiser and drawn by Frank Giacoia, who went on to ink such luminaries as Carmine Infantino and Ross Andru.
THIS ITEM WAS NOT SOLD IN ANY MASS MARKET RETAIL OUTLETS AND WAS ONLY AVAILABLE IN COMIC BOOK SPECIALTY STORES.
RARE and OUT OF PRINT COLLECTORS ITEM. SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Representing THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES from May 1961. COMPLETE AND UNCUT!
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s brilliant, eccentric detective Sherlock Holmes has been adapted numerous times in books, plays, movies, television, and comic books.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s brilliant sleuth and master of condescending repartee comes to the world of comics in this collection of newspaper strips from the 1950s reprinted by Eternity Comics. Since the series was originally published in newspapers, the panel layout is horizontal and necessitates the book be printed in “landscape” orientation.
Accompanied by his faithful, but often befuddled aide, Dr. Watson, Sherlock Holmes retains all of the incredible powers of observation and deduction that he is famous for from books and movies. The strip was written by Edith Meiser and drawn by Frank Giacoia, who went on to ink such luminaries as Carmine Infantino and Ross Andru.
THIS ITEM WAS NOT SOLD IN ANY MASS MARKET RETAIL OUTLETS AND WAS ONLY AVAILABLE IN COMIC BOOK SPECIALTY STORES.
RARE and OUT OF PRINT COLLECTORS ITEM. SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s brilliant, eccentric detective Sherlock Holmes has been adapted numerous times in books, plays, movies, television, and comic books. One of the first graphic treatments of the character was by illustrator Leo O’Mealia during the 1930s. O’Mealia’s pulpbook, black-and-white, drypoint style was supplemented with blocks of typeset text from the actual Sherlock Holmes stories, making the strip more of an illustrated narrative than a comic strip per se.
Eternity, a division of Malibu Comics, reprinted the stories in a series of handsome, 32-page, black-and-white issues, with the participation of the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art. Each features a complete story of Holmes and his faithful friend Dr. Watson solving crimes through observation and deduction. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
THIS ITEM WAS NOT SOLD IN ANY MASS MARKET RETAIL OUTLETS AND WAS ONLY AVAILABLE IN COMIC BOOK SPECIALTY STORES. Published in 1990 by Eternity Comics.
UNCENSORED MOUSE #1 COMIC BOOK!! The series reprinted Mickey Mouse comics from the 1930s, though the strips were published without Disney's permission. As result of this, Eternity Comics printed the comic with totally black covers, bag and boarded (to prevent casual buyers from flipping through the comic), and the inside of the comic had a printed notice "Mickey Mouse is a registered trademark of Walt Disney Productions" so as not to confuse the market that it was an authorized Disney production. However, Eternity Comics had not violated any copyrights due to the fact that strips had fallen into public domain. Regardless, Disney brought a lawsuit against the company and the series was cancelled after two issues.
The strips were reprinted un-cut and as such contained racial stereotypes, language, and other things deemed inappropriate. Content such as this was more commonplace when the strip was first puplished in the 1930s.
Once upon a time (actually early 1989), the Mailbu Graphics group (Scott Rosenberg, Dave Olbrich, Tom Mason, Chris Ulm) was publishing the Eternity Comics line of independent black and white comic books.
Eternity Comics were able to reprint many of these classic comic strips thanks to the collections of the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art. The San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection was the life work of author and collector Bill Blackbeard.
Many of the classic comic strip collections published in the last thirty years are thanks to Bill Blackbeard's accumulation efforts which resulted in a source for some of the only existing copies of American comic strips. Supposedly, Blackbeard's research revealed that the copyright on the early MICKEY MOUSE comic strip had not been maintained and of course, Malibu Graphics thought this was a wonderful opportunity.
So Malibu Graphics through its Eternity Comics line would reprint the earliest MICKEY MOUSE comic strips under the title THE UNCENSORED MOUSE.
Each issue would have a totally black cover and no where on the cover or the backcover would there be a mention of "Mickey Mouse." There would be references to "a classic collection of Uncensored Floyd Gottfredson Comic Strips From the 1930s." Inside the comic book, there would be the notice that "Mickey Mouse is a registered trademark of Walt Disney Productions" to demonstrate that they were not trying to challenge that fact. In addition, each issue would be bagged and sealed so that a casual buyer couldn't flip through the comic book and mistake it for a Disney comic book. Basically, Malibu tried to do everything to indicate that while it may have had the right to publish the early comic strip, it was not intending to confuse the marketplace that this was an authorized Disney production.
Bill Blackbeard wrote a wonderful introduction for the first issue entitled "How Walt Disney Gave A Mickey to America-and Floyd Gottfredson Gave Us A Classic Mouse." That first issue was also supplemented with some great extras like reproductions of an OAKLAND POST-ENQUIRER (the nation's only newspaper to carry the strip from its start) page featuring the comic strip, the first Mickey Mouse Sunday page, a publicity drawing by Gottfredson for a 1936 issue of the HONOLULU ADVERTISER and more.
THE SHADOW CRIME CLASSICS 40's COMIC STRIP COLLECTION
RARE and OUT OF PRINT COLLECTORS ITEM. WALTER GIBSON
The Shadow is one of the most enduring fictional characters of the 20th century, first appearing as a radio drama in 1930. The phrase “Who Knows What Evil Lurks In The Hearts of Men?…The Shadow Knows!” is still so well known, it’s almost a cliche’. Following the success of the radio show, the character came alive on the printed page through the talent of Walter Gibson, who wrote hundreds of Shadow adventures under the pseudonym Maxwell Grant. Besides writing 282 pulp novels for The Shadow magazine, Gibson also plotted Shadow Comics for seven years and wrote newspaper strips as well.
This series, presents the original adventures from the 40s, complete and uncut, allowing modern readers to experience the stories as they were first envisioned.
The classic comic strip collected for the first time! COMPLETE AND UNCUT!
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
THIS ITEM WAS NOT SOLD IN ANY MASS MARKET RETAIL OUTLETS AND WAS ONLY AVAILABLE IN COMIC BOOK SPECIALTY STORES. Published in 1989 by Eternity Comics.
COLLECTING CLASSIC POGO COMIC STRIPS. PUBLISHED BY SIMON AND SCHUSTER.
COLLECTOR'S ITEM! Highly sought after.
The best collection of Pogo material ever put between a single set of covers. Walt Kelly was at the height of his powers and working outside the comic strip format, presenting stories told in graphic narrative, illustrated prose, and even poetry. The subjects range from Mother Goose (as portrayed by Albert the Alligator) to pulp detective novels (Albert playing the fleabitten private eye) to the Cold War space race (the main Pogo cast stepping up to skewer socialist rhetoric and discover what the Moon was really made of), with a side trip into the world of children and how they interact that rings truer than the whole of "expert opinion" on the matter. If you don't laugh throughout the gleeful nonsense of "The Bloody Drip Writhes Again", then you might want to take your funnybone in for a checkup!
Featuring the banned, never before reprinted, politically incorrect earliest comic strip adventures of Mickey Mouse from the 1930's! FACTORY SEALED IN PLASTIC! "A Classic Collection of Uncensored Floyd Gottfredson Comi Strips from the 1930's."
Illustrated by Floyd Gottfredson, edited by Chris Ulm. Eternity Comics, April 1989. First Edition. This is a comic book reprint of unexpurgated Mickey Mouse strips from Disney Studios originally produced in the 1930s. It is accompanied by a concise history of these early Mouse strips by noted historian Bill Blackbeard. Now disregarded by Disney Studios, as not in keeping with the current image of Mickey Mouse, this may be your only chance to see these stories in print. 40 pages. 1st print,
Floyd Gottfredson's classic strips had been sporadically reprinted in the past, but in almost every instance, they had been heavily censored. Eternity Comics was taking this opportunity to present the strips as they originally appeared.
Eternity titled the book The Uncensored Mouse, and had the covers all black. They only mentioned the fact that they were collecting classic Floyd Gottfredson comic strips. Finally, they were sealed in a bag so that a casual reader would be unable to pick up the book and confuse it for a Disney product.
This publication offered reprints of the daily Mickey Mouse comic strip, starting with the first one (Jan. 13, 1930). Since the strips themselves had not been registered with the Copyright Office and Eternity provided the notation, “Mickey Mouse is a registered trademark of Walt Disney Productions,” Eternity hoped there’d be no legal difficulties in the project. Moreover, the strips were accompanied by a wealth of Mickey Mouse historical material provided by Bill Blackbeard, who also provided an article. The April 20, 1989, Entertainment Tonight TV show featured the controversy, the title was quickly pulled.
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