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For Sale: CARTOON COMICS from 1962-65 Not rated, but priced with a respectful eye on Overstreet Northern Virginia and DC transactions only, please...

All images in this document are of the actual comics being offered for sale. Please send any inquiries to [email protected], and thanks for your interest...

OPEN with a SPACED-OUT SET ... First 17 Issues of ... $250 firm On Sept. 23, 1962, THE JETSONS premiered on ABC-TV; it went off the air one year later. Back then, certain "sitcom" and TV cartoons quickly spawned comic books. That's what's offered here — the first 17 issues of THE JETSONS. Modeled on the TV series, these comic-book escapades are different. The characters were altered, too. Elroy often displays an "attitude." Rosie the Robot turns into a neat freak and chases with a broom, something we never saw on TV.

1 I bought these 17 month by month and, after Issue #4, stopped making pen marks on them. (You're glad, and I'm relieved.) Overstreet's comic-price guide values THE JETSONS debut issue at $171 as long as it's in "very fine" condition. MY first issue is no more than "okay." Issue #2 is the only dilapidated specimen: Sadly, it has NO FRONT or BACK COVER. July 1964 to September '65 (which is #17 and the last one here) are good, very good, or fine. BTW, the rating pros say "fine" beats "very good." (They have their methods...) You might be a trader, or an original Jetsons TV viewer, recalling the 1960s with ease by being in your sixties today. In any case, I need $250 to turn over all 17 issues. Since I'll be delivering in person, you'll be able to evaluate the rise in quality from the opening few all the way to Issue #17. NOTE: This original JETSONS comic-book series ran all the way to a 36th issue in 1970. Acquire this set of 17 and you'll own 47% of the vintage series! ------From here on, single issues are named in bolded blue all-cap text. SETS are bolded and all-cap, too, but they're the color of purple...

BUGS BUNNY — from Issue #89 (June 1963) to #98 (March 1965), with issues 90 and 96 missing. Published bi-monthly. Bugs needs no introduction, but remember that this rabbit was a late-'30s parody of the "Bugsy" mobsters then enflaming headlines. As a role model for young boys anticipating the world's ways — So long, Screwy, see ya in St Louie! — no harsher a term than "con man" could be affixed to this legend. Bugs wasn't human, but the lesson is that one need not be a timid bunny. For these eight issues, $50.

BUGS BUNNY SHOWTIME — Gold Key 30000-210, Issue #86, October 1962. A double issue — they ran 80 pages! — with all the Warner Brothers regulars plus Pepe Le Pew, Henry Hawk, Mary Jane & Sniffles, and Speedy Gonzales. I thought this issue would be a rarity, but...no such luck. Am asking just $20.

DAFFY DUCK — Gold Key, offered quarterly. This set covers March '63 to June '65, numbers 32 to 41, except for the missing #35. Two of the covers are shown on page five. Daffy did his job as the foil for Bugs during half a century. For these nine Daffy issues, overall in good shape — $100.

CAVE KIDS — a Hanna-Barbera creation, published quarterly by Gold Key. I can't even remember buying these seven issues, which is okay, given how they now seem a mundane attempt to play off — a linkage that justifies violating alphabetical order to help this document flow...

2 Issue #2 — 10044-305; MAY 1963 — dog-eared, guest Issue #3 — 10044-311; NOV 1963 — two copies, condition just OK Issue #4 — 10044-403; MAR 1964 — Getting better, but cover "F.G" Issue #5 — 10044-406; JUN 1964 — Boundary lines on back cover Issue #6 — 10044-409; SEP 1964 — B+ and completely clean Issue #8 — 10044-503; MAR 1965 — cover scrape, top right Issue #10 — 10044-509; SEP 1965 — B (also for Bullwinkle "ad") For these seven of the first 10 comics — $100

FLINTSTONES, The — Every month Gold Key pumped out another issue to take advantage of a cartoon show that cracked the national Top 25 during its first two seasons. Among my survivors — they start with Issue #10 from April '63, and quit in July '64 at #19 — several months are missing, and half of the stack is in an unimpressive state. As for content? The show pretty much went to Hell after Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm arrived — and some of these issues appear to have been through Hell... Looks like this set has led to confusion. So, how about this: If you'll take the 17 JETSONS comics for their $250 asking price, you can have these 18 "Flintstoners" for free.

HECKLE and JECKLE — Gold Key 10015-211 — Issue #1, November 1962. Debut issues have extra value, but not this one. It's raggedy enough that anyone who buys $50 of anything else shown here can have it for free. The copyright for this series debut was held by "Terrytoons," a division of CBS Films Inc. Known back then as the Magpies — "long-tailed often black- and-white birds related to the jays" — Heckle and Jeckle are closer to all BEAK. In fact, for my 12 cents in late-'62 currency, they're the crudest- looking birds ever committed to comic-book antiquity. And how rough a shape is this issue in? The binding is rickety, the edges dinged up, and the cover has the tracings of a 7 1/2-year-old on his way to knowing better.

Special issue, September 1964: HEY THERE, IT's ! — "based on Yogi's first full-length motion picture." Price: $30. The back-page pin-up, featuring Yogi gazing at love interest Cindy, differs from the front, which has sidekick Boo Boo on Yogi's back as he peddles a unicycle AND carries Cindy. As a six-year old, I assumed that football coach Yogi Berra was a take-off on the cartoon character, rather than the other way around.

Mr. and Mrs. J. EVIL SCIENTIST — Issue #2, Gold Key 10093-502, FEB 1965. Price: $100 (with two debut issues thrown in). A whopping 15 months

3 separated the debut issue from the one spotlighted in this entry. (You can infer how the industry managed supply & demand!) The wife of Mr. Evil is named Goonda; she is drawn like a cross between "Natasha" on Rocky & Bullwinkle and Carolyn Jones's "Lucretia," who from September '64 on was wife to John Astin on The Addams Family. Issue #2, for which I'm asking $100, is in very good condition. Give this #2 a good home, and you can have two crummy copies of the #1 issue (dated November 1963) for free.

JONNY QUEST — Issue #1, Gold Key 10139-412 — $150 for this Hanna- Barbera standout. Probably the most internationally minded set of cartoon characters from the 20th century, Quest deserved more than the single season it got from ABC during 1964-65. This debut issue — in good condition and something of a rarity — leads with "The Mystery of the Lizard Men."

KING LEONARDO and his Short Subjects — Just four issues comprise this Gold Key series, yet it was a brilliant array of Saturday a.m. TV characters… Issue #3 — 10001-303 — March 1963 — uses tape for binding Issue #3 spare — even worse — no cover — pages are loose Issue #4 — 10001-309 — September 1963 — shows a lot of use Published quarterly, copyright "Leonardo Television Productions." I've got only two of the four to sell, condition weak. Free for any good customer.

KRAZY KAT — Gold Key 10098-401, Issue #1, January 1964 — Price $20 Needs to be rebound — as in restapled — otherwise, condition good

LITTLE MONSTERS, The — "Orrible Orvie and Awful Annie" were insipid attempts to milk the mid-'60s popularity of The Addams Family and The Munsters. K.K. Publications holds the copyright; hard to discern the schedule, and all I've got is this one issue: Number 2, Gold Key 10130-502, from February 1965, in very good condition. Asking just $15.

MISTER MAGOO — Issues #3 and 4. Condition is good on both. As for content? Talk about milking a physical gimmick! As a half-blind millionaire, Magoo tries to water-ski on a beach, mistakes a NASA-like command post for "an enemy sabotage cell," thinks every statue in a wax museum is a real person (and warns Napoleon not to hurt anyone with that sword), assumes he's exploring a cave while in the subway tunnel — and so on. This Magoo era is Dell, not Gold Key; UPA Pictures is the copyright-holder; and both of these two issues, from the Spring and Summer of '63, can be yours for $30.

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5 — Gold Key plus Hanna-Barbera; these four for $100

Issue #1 — 10116-405 — May 1964 — has a couple of markings Issue #4 — 10116-503 — March 1965 Issue #5 — 10116-505 — May 1965 4, 5 and 6 are very good Issue #6 — 10116-508 — August 1965

PETER POTAMUS, Introducing Breezly and Sneezly, the Arctic Cut-ups — Gold Key 10137-501 — January 1965 was the premiere, as well as the end. Which makes this the one and only specimen. Again, no comic book being offered here has been professionally graded. But, if and when we meet, you'll be able to handle and evaluate any item of interest. This Potamus rarity happens to be in very good shape; the price is $100.

PHANTOM BLOT, The NEW ADVENTURES Of — Issue #1, October 1964, Gold Key 10126-410; and Issue #2, April 1965, Gold Key 10126-504. For the premiere issue, Disney and Co. wisely adhered to the cops & robbers mode. The cast is Mickey Mouse, Uncle Scrooge, Goofy (he never had a last name), Donald Duck, Chief O'Hara (did he have a first name?), the Mysterious Mister X, and of course the BLOT. Issue #2, though, set in the Wild West, is ridiculous: "The Phantom Blot Meets Super Goof." This comic-book line expired after seven issues. My two are okay to good. Price: $60 for both.

QUICK DRAW McGRAW FUN-TYPE ROUNDUP — Gold Key 10056-407 from July 1964 — Issue #14 of a series that rotated the lead among the daytime (meaning not prime-time) Hanna-Barbera characters. This issue includes Augie Doggie and Doggy Daddy, Snooper and Blabber, and (of course) Mc-

6 Graw's sidekick Baba Looey: "You are the law around here, Queekstraw!" My copy is in great shape, making this another offering priced at $100.

ROCKY AND HIS FIENDISH FRIENDS — Issue #4, June 1963. For cartoons, unusual economic parody: Boris Badenov becomes malevolent stockbroker Lyle A. Billity. Long-time investors will be rallied by the action. Price: $30.

SNOOPER and BLABBER — Gold Key — Quarterly — $20 for the four

Issue #1 (10021-211) — NOV 1962 — two copies, both weak Issue #2 (10021-302) — FEB 1963 — okay; no scrawls, no tape Issue #3 (10021-305) — MAY 1963 — condition same as #2

TOM and JERRY — Gold Key quarterly, Issues 216 thru 222, from August '63 to February '65. Seven issues, no chronological gaps, condition fair to good. On the other hand, I see nothing scarce or imaginative about comics, regardless of era. You can walk away with all seven for $30.

WOODY WOODPECKER — Seven issues, numbers 76 thru 82 with no misses, June '63 to December '64. Quarterly. Same as the prior: All seven for $30.

Unlike many '60s cartoon characters — especially from the creative shop of and or the two geniuses (Jay Ward and Bill Scott) behind Rocky and Bullwinkle — Woody, Tom and Jerry were from an earlier period when the quest for fast video action made the language component worthless. A kid could learn nothing useful by watching the smart-ass woodpecker, cat and mouse dart around engaging in tricks and violence. Hmmmm, not unlike the majority of post-1980 movies.... ______

The worthwhile parts of this comic-book collection will take years to distribute, the same way my various medical bills will require time to be settled. That's the logic behind going slowly, using my own website plus the D.C.-area Craigslist, as opposed to setting up tables at conferences.

It's not a good idea to be shipping comic books to people who haven't looked them over in person, nor am I set up to use PayPal or bank on personal checks. As the header atop page one suggested, Northern Virginia and District of Columbia transactions only, please.

Before signing off, here are additional cover images of sale items...

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If you remember the 1960s more for its adventure and situation-comedy gems, a different array of classic comic books can be found below — at least, the goal is to have them on-line before the midpoint of 2019... 1960s SITCOMS and FANTASY SHOWS -- they led to comic-book versions, too http://www.ExactingEditor.com/More-1960s-Comics.pdf

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