Jon's Random Acts of Geekery: 5/3/09

Saturday, May 09, 2009

Movie of the Week: The Adventures of Captain Marvel!

Well, okay, it may not be a movie in the traditional sense, but it's my blog, I can set the rules my way, okay?

Here's the trailer for this serial:

Mexican Lobby Card

By the 10's: Funny Stuff!

Funny Stuff was DC's premier funny animal book of the Golden and at least early Silver Ages... if you are a fan of Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew, you may recognize some of these characters!

Here's issue 10, I believe those are the Three Mousketeers (or at least one of the groups calling themselves that, anyway).

Issue 20's cover features the Dodo and the Frog -- the Frog did make an appearance in the first series of Captain Carrot!

And from issue 30's cover, it appears the D&F were considered the stars of the book at this point!

Here's issue 40...it looks to me like the characters have been evolving!

I don't know who the cover usurpers on issue 50's cover are!

Issue 60's cover demonstrates the cartoon maxim that any air blown or pumped into something resembling a balloon will transform into hydrogen or helium!

And with issue 70's cover, that wraps this up!

Next by the 10's, we dip back into the Marvel well again!

Friday, May 08, 2009

So, just in case you're curious as to how my latest round of eBay sales is doing...

After reducing the price on the TwoMorrows mags, I've sold 12 of them (but still plenty left). I've received a fair amount of bids on the action figures, more than I really expected this early! So far only two of the Big Little Books have bids, and a number of items have no bids at all... but a lot of the auctions have people watching 'em!

If you've been enjoying the Monster Book installments of Children's Book Theater, don't forget I have two books up for grabs... Dracula's Daughter and King Kong, and as with all the stuff I'm offering this time around, it's all low starting bids!

Cool Stuff: More DC Stuff!

Man, I wish they made these air fresheners today... although come to think of it, do I really want to know what scent they think the Joker or the Penguin are, to say nothing of Batman or Robin?

These Play Lites are an interesting idea, perhaps they just picked the wrong characters? For example, Iron Man might've worked better, with the uni-beam and all...