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Show Us Your Ducks!
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Some fun new ducks flew in today compliments of Kramerica

 

:)

 

 

 

donaldduck27jpg.jpg

 

I was showing my daughter my duck collection last weekend and I have a nice copy of the 27 too. The color gradation on the book really caught my eye and I wondered how they did that. That is common today with computers but back in the fifties when this came out that would have been a labor intensive effort. I guess that is why Dell comics are Good comics!

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They had gradient dot screen they could use for a blend like that. The yellow would be flat color, and they would use a transparent gradient dot screen for the Magenta plate. At least that is how it was done when I worked at a paper in the pre-computer days

Makes sense. (thumbs u

 

Some of the ECs from around this time ('53-'55 or so) achieved some amazing and subtle effects with dot screens and texture screens. Check out some of Wood's & Williamson's later EC art (among others).

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The market for high grade Duck books is getting downright bizarre. Comiclink just listed a WDCS 43 9.4 that sold for roughly 13x guide in 2007. The owner must sure have loved that book when he bought it.

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The market for high grade Duck books is getting downright bizarre. Comiclink just listed a WDCS 43 9.4 that sold for roughly 13x guide in 2007. The owner must sure have loved that book when he bought it.

:o

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The market for high grade Duck books is getting downright bizarre. Comiclink just listed a WDCS 43 9.4 that sold for roughly 13x guide in 2007. The owner must sure have loved that book when he bought it.

:o

 

maybe he ended up with an upgrade or a duplicate? (shrug) how does the current listing price compare to the 2007 price?

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The market for high grade Duck books is getting downright bizarre. Comiclink just listed a WDCS 43 9.4 that sold for roughly 13x guide in 2007. The owner must sure have loved that book when he bought it.

:o

 

maybe he ended up with an upgrade or a duplicate? (shrug) how does the current listing price compare to the 2007 price?

 

I hope so. There are many other books listed that sold for record prices in 2006 and 2007, though. Hopefully this is not a fan who got discouraged after seeing Geppi's wholesale.

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