All Top Comics #15
If you love good girl covers as much as I do, don't overlook All Top Comics #15. This Golden Age gem features Rulah the Jungle Goddess front and center, ready to strike her adversary. This comic also features another good girl icon, the Phantom Lady. All Top Comics originally featured funny animals on their covers (and in their stories) before switching to jungle girls (and more high-energy stories) starting in issue number 8. This particular cover was done by legendary Golden Age good girl artist Matt Baker -- who is primarily associated with Phantom Lady.
This blue label CGC 6.0 with off-white pages is beautiful. The colors still pop, and these types of books are very collectible. The last time a 6.0 copy sold was in 2011 when it sold for $258. This comic will easily go over $350, which is a steal for this book.
Bringing Up Father #1
A personal favorite series of mine, Bringing Up Father is one of the best Platinum Age cartoons of the era. This slice-of-life cartoon gives us a glimpse of what everyday life was like for an Irish immigrant family. The cartoon ran from 1913 until 2000, a truly impressive feat. The series also inspired a few Broadway shows between 1914 and 1924, a radio show, some silent animation shorts, and a handful of live-action adaptations. The characters from the strip were wildly popular during their time, and should still be celebrated today.
This Platinum Age book contains newspaper reprints, and Heritage notes it as being in FN/VF condition. It wouldn't surprise me if this book went for over $500 given the item. While Platinum Age books aren't hard to find, they don't exactly come up for auction every week.
Four Color #758
Four Color #758 features Walt Disney's Bear Country, which was originally a documentary by James Algar, and released by Walt Disney Productions in 1953. This documentary was a part of Disney's True-Life Adventures as he wanted to expect beyond animation. Bear Country would be published as a comic in 1956, and in Disneyland, there was a Bear Country area that opened in 1972. The land offered guests a place to view American wildlife and relax during an otherwise busy day in Disneyland.
One of the only remaining attractions from the original Bear Country is the Country Bear Jamboree, an animatronic show featuring bears. The land would close in 1988 to retheme itself alongside the new Splash Mountain -- which is now closing in just a handful of days as of this writing (January 2023).
This blue label CGC 9.6 boasts white pages and an impressive overall history. If you're a Disneyland fan, don't pass up on this book. While it won't take you back to the park, it's a fun reminder of how Disney was a big-picture person.
