Set Description:
These books are memories from my childhood and very possibly from yours. I remember picking them off the rack in the local convenience store as three packs of my favorite comedy animals and character books for .59 cents. The toy stores also sold these Whitman (Gold Key variants) three packs and two packs but NOT the comic book stores. Children were the audience and children abused these books with the crayon decoration and brutality that most children enjoy giving to their favorite toys. This abuse along with low distribution in the ending months of 1980 and 1984 are why some of my collection are top highest grade at only 9.2 and second highest at 9.0 with as low as five graded over all.
If you seek information on rarity and history of these books simply google Doug Sulipa's Whitman page or use this link:
http://www.dougcomicworld.com/INVENTORY-WhitmanComicsSite.html
I confess that I have not been gathering these books since my childhood as I am also guilty of coloring in and ripping up Bugs Bunny's face in those days. I have been seriously collecting my favorite characters since 1996. Thanks to Bert Shannon (bert5122013) on e-bay,Doug Sulipa, and a few others, I have found very rare books over the years for this set. Now I have all 183 books some at great cost such as,my Black Hole #4,CGC 9.8 for $6,250. Black Hole #4 is out of character for most of the books in this set, yet it is one of the variants that Whitman distributed in low volume during the 1980's. Black Hole #4 is included along with other rare pre-pack only Sci-fy books in this set. I cherish my collection and worry about its safety before any of my possessions. I live on the San Andreas Fault Line and a few times I have awaken with nightmares of my 18 year long collection being smashed to pieces in seconds. Even if something happened to my collection I will always have fond memories of finding these rare books and reading about the looney funny characters. The memories of Mickey Mouse,Bugs Bunny, and all of these characters are ingrained in our hearts and the future hearts of children worldwide. These memories can not even be destroyed by the X-men and super heroes of modern culture because funny characters created comic book culture and funny characters rule! Culturally, many consider Popeye a precursor to the superheroes who would eventually come to dominate US comic books.
Like a number of other animated cartoons from the 1930s to the early 1950s, Tom and Jerry featured racial stereotypes. After explosions, for example, characters with blasted faces would resemble stereotypical blacks, with large lips and bow-tied hair. Perhaps the most controversial element of the show is the character Mammy Two Shoes, a poor black maid who speaks in a stereotypical "black accent" and has a rodent problem. Joseph Barbera, who was responsible for these gags, claimed that the racial gags in Tom and Jerry did not reflect his racial opinion; they were just reflecting what was common in society and cartoons at the time and were meant to be humorous. Nevertheless, such stereotypes are considered by some to be racist today, and most of the blackface gags are censored when these shots are aired, even though Mouse in Manhattan was shown uncut on July 25, 2012 on Cartoon Network. Mammy Two-Shoes' voice was redubbed by Turner in the mid-1990s to make the character sound less stereotypical; the resulting accent sounds more Irish. One cartoon in particular, His Mouse Friday, is usually kept out of television rotation because of its depiction of cannibals. If shown, the cannibals' dialogue is censored, although their mouths still move.
There were many cultural influences from these cartoons some positive and some negative.
In spite of all of the controversy and negative cultural influences of the funny characters in my collection I remain proud to boast that these characters are the root of our good nature and sense of humor. I credit Looney Tunes with my own sense of humor as I proudly remain faithful to them and to their legacy.
Thank You,
The Whitman Lady.
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Alice in Wonderland 1 |
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Alice in Wonderland 1 |
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CGC |
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1027884004
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Highest Grade! -W- 10 books graded.Reprint of the comic book adaptation of the Walt Disney animated movie version of the book "Alice In Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll. Story and art credits: unknown.Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre.
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Bambi 1 |
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Bambi 1 Universal |
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CGC |
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0134946001
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Highest Graded! and Only .75 Canadian cover price.Not only the highest grade Canadian book but THE ONLY ONE GRADED AT ALL ! Very Rare Reprint of the comic adaptation of the classic Walt Disney animated movie "Bambi." Story and art credits: unknown. The main characters are Bambi, a white-tailed deer, his parents (the Great Prince of the forest and his unnamed mother), his friends Thumper (a pink-nosed rabbit), and Flower (a skunk), and his childhood friend and future mate, Faline. For the movie, Disney took the liberty of changing Bambi's species into a white-tailed deer from his original species of roe deer, since roe deer do not inhabit the United States, and the white-tailed deer is more familiar to Americans.
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Battle of the Planets 7 |
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Battle of the Planets 7 Modern |
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CGC |
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0123551009
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Second Highest Graded. Enemy Within, script by Gary Poole, art by Winslow Mortimer; Zoltar launches a new attack by sending his operative Ivar the Cunning to infiltrate Center Neptune. Ivar knocks out Garth (a trusted guard) and, using a mask, moves freely throughout Center Neptune; He steals some secret plans for a new defense technique and plants them in Jason's room. Invasion of the Ant Creatures, script by Gary Poole, art by Winslow Mortimer; Jason is arrested for stealing secret plans and G-Force is grounded; Jason sneaks out of his jail cell to confront Garth, the man who accused him; Garth, who is really Ivar the Cunning in disguise, stuns 7-Zark-7 and tells Zoltar to begin the invasion.
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Battle of the Planets 8 |
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Battle of the Planets 8 |
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CGC |
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0625949004
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Surprise Surrender, script by Bob Langhans, art by Winslow Mortimer; Zoltar allows G-Force to blow up Black Nova, Spectra's most advanced war machine, to give them a false sense of security; He then sends in a robot of himself (called Abbas) to surrender; Once on board the Phoenix G-Force finds out that Abbas is a robot with a bomb inside. The Tidal Wave; 7-Zark-7 is warned that the temperature in the computer core has risen to the danger point so he sends G-Force to investigate; They track the source of the problem to Tiki Atoll, an island with an extinct volcano; When they find the Heat Generator causing the problem they realize it is a trap.
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Battle of the Planets 9 |
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Battle of the Planets 9 Modern |
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CGC |
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0121995003
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Comic book based on the Japanese sci-fi cartoon which aired in the United States in syndicated television in the late 1970s. G-Force in "G-Force Divided" in which the team battles Zoltar's plan to separate G-Force by creating four separate natural disasters. Story by Ms. Charlie Seeger and art by Winslow Mortimer. Based on the classic syndicated cartoon by Sandy Frank.
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Beep Beep the Road Runner 91 |
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CGC |
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0221784011
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Will Wile E. Coyote finally catch that Road Runner? Find out! Some issues are concurrently published by Whitman and it takes over the last issues of the print run Very rare in high grade.Wile E. Coyote (also known simply as "The Coyote") and The Road Runner are a duo of characters from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. In the cartoons, Coyote repeatedly attempts to catch and subsequently eat the Road Runner, a fast-running ground bird, but is never successful. Coyote, instead of his species' animal instincts, uses absurdly complex contraptions (sometimes in the manner of Rube Goldberg) and elaborate plans to pursue his prey, which always comically backfire with Wile normally getting injured by the slapstick humor.
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Beep Beep the Road Runner 92 |
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Beep Beep, the Road Runner 92 Modern |
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CGC |
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0278553002
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Second Highest Graded with only one book graded higher. Low Print Run Some issues are concurrently published by Whitman and it takes over the last issues of the print run, Very rare in high grade.Wile E. Coyote has also unsuccessfully attempted to catch and eat Bugs Bunny in another series of cartoons. In these cartoons, the coyote takes on the guise of a self-described "super genius" and speaks with a smooth, generic upper-class accent provided by Mel Blanc. While he is incredibly intelligent, he is limited by technology and his own short-sighted arrogance, and is thus often easily outsmarted, a somewhat physical symbolism of "street smarts" besting "book smarts".
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Beep Beep the Road Runner 93 |
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Beep Beep, the Road Runner 93 |
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CGC |
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0227562020
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Second Highest Graded only one book is higher! Wile E. Coyote (also known simply as "The Coyote") and The Road Runner are a duo of characters from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons.The Road Runner Show was an animated anthology series which compiled theatrical Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner cartoons from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, which were produced by Warner Bros.
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Beep Beep the Road Runner 102 |
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Beep Beep, the Road Runner 102 |
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CGC |
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0226602025
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Highest Grade! The characters were created by animation director Chuck Jones in 1948 for Warner Bros., while the template for their adventures was the work of writer Michael Maltese. The characters star in a long-running series of theatrical cartoon shorts (the first 16 of which were written by Maltese) and occasional made-for-television cartoons. It was originally meant to parody chase cartoons like Tom and Jerry, but became popular in its own right.
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Beep Beep the Road Runner 103 |
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Beep Beep, the Road Runner 103 |
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CGC |
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0913962001
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The Second Highest Graded! Only one book is higher! Sometimes the coyote is allowed to hang in midair until he realizes that he is about to plummet into a chasm (a process occasionally referred to elsewhere as Road-Runnering or a Wile E. Coyote moment). The coyote can overtake rocks (or cannons) which fall earlier than he does, and end up being squashed by them. If a chase sequence runs over the edge of a cliff, the Road Runner is not affected by gravity, whereas the Coyote will realize his error eventually and fall to the ground below. A chase sequence that happens upon railroad tracks inevitably results in the Coyote being run over by a train. If the Coyote uses an explosive (for instance, dynamite) that is triggered by a mechanism that is supposed to force the explosive in a forward motion toward its target, the actual mechanism itself will always shoot forward, leaving the explosive behind to detonate in the Coyote's face.
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Beep Beep the Road Runner 104 |
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Beep Beep, the Road Runner 104 Modern |
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CGC |
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0257198002
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Beep Beep Road runner "From Bad To Verse" cover story. with guest appearances from none other than Tweety and Sylvester.Will Wile E. Coyote finally catch that Road Runner? Find out! Later because he will not in this issue. Stories: "Close Escape"," The tricky Trap"," Caught Napping" and "Tragic Magic".
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Beep Beep the Road Runner 105 |
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Beep Beep, the Road Runner 105 |
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CGC |
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1200459005
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Highest Grade only one!Guest-appearance by Foghorn +Leghorn and the Chickenhawk. In Soup or Sonic, the "beep, beep" of the Road Runner is also given the pseudo-Latin name "beepus-beepus". It might also be noted that in this cartoon, Wile E. finally "catches" the Road Runner; however, he has been shrunk down to minute size and is dwarfed by the Road Runner. Recovering from the shock, he then turns to the viewer and holds up a sign reading: "Okay wise guys, you always wanted me to catch him. Now what do I do?"
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Black Hole 4 |
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Black Hole 4 |
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CGC |
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1197970002
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Highest Grade! Last Issue.This issue was written by Michael Teitelbaum and drawn by Dan Spieglem, with a painted cover art by Chuck Liese. The issue was titled "Another Earth - Another Universe!" and follows on from where the disney movie ended (issues #1-2 adapt the movie; issues #3-4 have the word "Beyond" next to the title and contain new adventures).
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 9 |
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 9 |
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CGC |
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0227285013
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Highest Grade! Comic book version of the 1970s TV show which starred Gil Gerard and Erin Gray. Issue features Buck Rogers, Story by Paul S. Newman and art by A. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is an American science fiction adventure television series produced by Universal Studios. The series ran for two seasons between 1979–1981, and the feature-length pilot episode for the series was released as a theatrical film in 1979 entitled Buck Rogers in the 25th Century before the series aired. The film and series were developed by Glen A. Larson and Leslie Stevens, based upon the character Buck Rogers created in 1928 by Philip Francis Nowlan that had previously been featured in comic strips, novellas, a serial film, and on television and radio.
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Bugs Bunny 221 |
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Bugs Bunny 221 Modern |
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CGC |
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0133908006
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Owner Comments
Characters are Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd.Bugs is an anthropomorphic gray hare or rabbit who is famous for his flippant, insouciant personality, a pronounced New York accent, his portrayal as a trickster, and his catch phrase "Eh... What's up, doc?", usually said while chewing a carrot. Though Warner Bros. first began experimenting with a rabbit character in cartoons during the late 1930s, the definitive character of Bugs Bunny is widely considered to have made his debut in director Tex Avery's Oscar-nominated film A Wild Hare (1940).
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