comics and other GE ephemera

[jake_fink]

My interest in the Golden Era includes paper ephemera, packaging, postcards, train and hotel brochures, all of that, but also (and you only have to look at my avatar) pulps and newspaper comic strips. I'm guessing I'm not the only one around here who feels that way. I'm also guessing, given the popularity around here of a certain crusading archaeologist, that the most popular type of strips (and pulps) would be adventure.

So, what do you think, if anything about Scorchy Smith

http://www.axelkah.de/scorchysmith/intro.html

or Terry & the Pirates

http://www.coconino-world.com/sites_auteurs/caniff/
(click on "english version," then click on the red plane in the pop up to see a 24 week story)

or Caniff's other great strip, Steve Canyon

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0971024995/103-9749976-4633452?v=glance

or the Phantom

http://www.deepwoods.org/misc/intro.gif

or anything by the amazingly talented Alex Raymond. He created Jungle Jim Secret Agent X-9, Flash Gordon, and his greatest work (which falls just outside of the Golden Era as it's defined on this forum) Rip Kirby.

http://profmendez.tripod.com/html/ripk.html

There are also Tarzan, Prince Valiant, Dick Tracy, Lil' Orphan Annie and dozens more. And I'm not even touching the "funnies" yet, Krazy Kat or Popeye or the Katzenjamer Kids or Gasoline Alley... You get the picture.

So.... back to the question. What do you think, if you think about this stuff at all?

 

[The Wolf]

Now you are talking my language

and my level of reading.
I have books reprinting Batman, Li'l Abner and Terry and the Pirates from 1946 as well as The Phantom and Prince Valiant from the golden age.
I have a lot of old pulps, reprints and PDFs of Doc Savage and others.
Some of the comic characters I like are The Green Hornet and The Blue Beetle (not to mention the Doc Savage story , The Green Eagle. Oops, I did mention it).
I have found some nice reprints of Golden Age comics available to view on the internet, also some pulps.

The Wolf

 

[Mycroft]

I am getting to be a fan, starting with the old Sandmans.(see avitor)

 

[Zach R.]

If I may ask, where on earth did you get the Prince Valiant reprints? I've been looking for them for years.

 

[The Wolf]

In reply to Prince Valiant reprints

Yes, Zach, you may ask.

The Wolf

 

[Zach R.]

“Ho ho, very funny. Ha ha, it is to laugh.�

So, where did you get them?

 

[The Wolf]

I missed part of the question

I'm sorry there's more. I have an Austrian reprint of the 1958 Prince Valiants that was printed in 1978.
It is wonderfully done; hard-bound, large size and the English page on one side in black and white and the same page in German on the back of the page. I believe the reprints began with the beginning of the strip and each volume following was a years reprinting.
I hope that helps.

The Wolf

P.S. In German his name is Prinz Eisenherz

 

[Zach R.]

That sounds really cool.

BTW, I just found these when I was browsing:

http://www.io.com/~norwoodr/order.htm

I dunno if I'm prepared to spend 150 bucks a piece for them though.

 

[jake_fink]

Prince Valiant reprints at Bud Plant...

Here's a link for Prince Valiant reprints:

http://budplant.com/search.asp?ss=Valiant&bhcd2=1119894092