Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Wizard Of ID (1/19/71)

Another classic Wizard Of ID gag scanned from the 1975 Fawcett Gold Medal Book, "We've Got To Stop Meeting Like This". Originally published in newspapers on Jan. 19, 1971.

Friday, January 3, 2014

Wizard Of ID (2/1/71)

Another classic Wizard Of ID gag scanned and reformatted from the Fawcett Gold Medal Book, "We've Got To Stop Meeting Like This". Originally published in newspapers on Feb. 1, 1971.

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Wizard Of ID (1/25/71)

Another classic Wizard Of ID gag scanned from the 1975 Fawcett Gold Medal Book, "We've Got To Stop Meeting Like This". Originally published in newspapers on Jan. 25, 1971.

Friday, November 15, 2013

The Untold Legend Of The Batman (1982) (Tor Books)

Front cover (Artwork by Josè Luis Garcia-Lopez & Dick Giordano.
Back cover.
Title: The Untold Legend Of The Batman
Cover Art By: Josè Luis Garcia-Lopez (Pencils) & Dick Giordano (Inks)
Writer: Len Wein
Penciller: Jim Aparo, John Byrne
Inker: Jim Aparo
Letterer: Jim Aparo, John Costanza
Editor: Andrew Helfer, Paul Levitz (Original series)
Genre: Superhero
Printing: First
Printing Date: August, 1982
ISBN: 0-812-50353-8   Can ISBN:0-812-50352-X
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates (Tor Books)
Book TypeMass Market Paperback.
Price: 2.95 U.S. * 3.95 Can.
Pages: 160

  • Interior design and production By Bob Rozakis, Jodi Saviuk & Alex Saviuk.
  • There are printings of this book from July, 1989 and July, 1992.
  • This is a reformatted to fit paperback size, black & white reprint of the 1980, three Issue mini-series from DC comics, "The Untold Legend Of The Batman".
  • There is an ad on the last page for a Tor Books New Teen Titans paperback.
  • The cover for this book is also the cover for The Untold Legend Of The Batman #3, Sept. 1980.
  • This story was also reprinted in June 1989 in standard comic size with audio cassettes by MPI, in a special audio edition.
  • This story was also reprinted in 1989 in standard comic size in a special Batman cereal edition.
  • Tuesday, November 12, 2013

    Wizard Of ID (1/19/71)

    Another classic Wizard Of ID gag scanned from the 1975 Fawcett Gold Medal Book, "We've Got To Stop Meeting Like This". Originally published in newspapers on Jan. 19, 1971.

    Sunday, November 10, 2013

    Wizard Of ID (1/30/71)

    Here's a classic newly colored and reformatted Wizard Of ID gag I scanned from the 1975 Fawcett Gold Medal Book, "We've Got To Stop Meeting Like This". The dry humour is clearly on display here.

    Scanned from "We've Got To Stop Meeting Like This", Fawcett Gold Medal Books. (1975)
    Originally published in newspapers on January 30, 1971.

    Saturday, November 9, 2013

    Wizard Of ID (Fawcett Books)

    On November 9, 1964, The Wizard Of ID began appearing in newspaper strips. Created by B.C. creator Johnny Hart & Brant Parker, The Wizard Of ID was set during medieval times in the Kingdom Of ID, following many characters such as the dwarf sized, King ID, The title character The Wizard, Rodney, the King's main Knight, & the alcoholic court jester, Bung, among several others. Most of the strips are one a day gags but on several occasions  they have tended to story arc the gags for weeks at a time.While the humor is usually broad, dark and dry and not everyone's cup of tea, the strip has managed to last 49 years and is still being published as of this writing.
    In 1969 until 1986, Fawcett Gold Medal books began publishing 24 paperback collections of the strip featuring around 130 pages or so in each. A few of these are scanned below:

    The King Is A Fink! (Book 1)
    Fawcett Gold Medal Books.
    Published 1969, Featuring strips from 1964 & 1965.
    The King Is A Fink! (Back Cover)
    There's A Fly In My Swill! (Book 5)
    Fawcett Gold Medal Books.
    Published 1973, Featuring strips from 1967 & 1968.
    There's A Fly In My Swill! (Back Cover)
    Yield (Book 7)
    Fawcett Gold Medal Books.
    Published 1974, Featuring strips from 1968 & 1969.
    Yield (Back Cover)
    Long Live The King! (Book 9)
    Fawcett Gold Medal Books.
    Published 1975, Featuring strips from 1970.
    Long Live The King! (Back Cover)