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So, the question is: how many whitman rares are there?
I can remember reading an article on them, probably published in an old CPG, which, of course, I no longer have.
I know of the five disney (because I have them):
Super Goof 61
Uncle Scrooge 179
Mickey Mouse 208
Donald Duck 222
Comics and Stories 480
So, are there more whitman titles of that era, which are considered rare?
Bugs?
Tweety?
Little Lulu?
Chip n Dale?
I'm guessing here.
I figure the Disney are the most sought after, but what else is there?
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| You are probably remembering the list by that fantastic dealer Doug Sulipa that appeared in the Overstreet Guide several years back now. Two initial points, the list was the (very well informed) opinion of a single dealer and the article prompted many of the issues on the list to come to market after it was issued so more are now 'out there' than would have been had the article not been published. I am not that informed on the Disney's but I do collect the DC Whitmans and there is a big difference in availiability of those with the Warlord and SGt Rock issues being among the most difficult to find. Some think the following are the most rare of the cartoon titles... Battle of the Planets #7
Beep Beep Roadrunner #92
Beep Beep Roadrunner #93
Black Hole #4
Bugs Bunny #221
Daffy Duck #130
Huey, Dewey and Louie #66
Little Lulu #62
Looney Tunes #35
Mickey Mouse #208
Popeye #158
Super Goof #61
Super Goof #62
Tom and Jerry #331
Tom and Jerry #332
Tweety and Sylvester #105
Winnie the Pooh #20
Winnie the Pooh #22
Woody Woodpecker #191
Yosemite Sam #68
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Earl Davis (5/19/2009)
You are probably remembering the list by that fantastic dealer Doug Sulipa that appeared in the Overstreet Guide several years back now. Two initial points, the list was the (very well informed) opinion of a single dealer and the article prompted many of the issues on the list to come to market after it was issued so more are now 'out there' than would have been had the article not been published. I am not that informed on the Disney's but I do collect the DC Whitmans and there is a big difference in availiability of those with the Warlord and SGt Rock issues being among the most difficult to find. Some think the following are the most rare of the cartoon titles... Battle of the Planets #7
Beep Beep Roadrunner #92
Beep Beep Roadrunner #93
Black Hole #4
Bugs Bunny #221
Daffy Duck #130
Huey, Dewey and Louie #66
Little Lulu #62
Looney Tunes #35
Mickey Mouse #208
Popeye #158
Super Goof #61
Super Goof #62
Tom and Jerry #331
Tom and Jerry #332
Tweety and Sylvester #105
Winnie the Pooh #20
Winnie the Pooh #22
Woody Woodpecker #191
Yosemite Sam #68 You would think that most of those would be sets of three...since that's the way they were bagged. For instance on the Battle of the Planets...#7, #8, & #9 were all bagged together (that's where my #7 is from)...and should all be of the same rarity. If they were only sold in bags... ...but they also issued a #10 which was sold solo to shops...so they could have sold #8 & #9 on a solo basis also, which would account for more being available. I have several of the Whitman bags...some are one title, some are a mix of titles...but when I had my shop in the late 1970s, I don't remember any of the distributors offering the "bagged" books, but many of the solo issues were available from direct distributors and through the jobber agencies...
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It's only natural that after an article comes out on something rare like that, more hit the market. On the opening page of CPG you recently had an article about how the auction of action #1 turned up another copy. The information that this was something which had value, finally got to the person who knew he had one.
Who knows what lurks in basements, attics, old boxes, or trunks across the U.S.?
It's all part of the fun.
Thanks for the info.
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| There are actually more rare Whitmans and the list goes as follows: Battle of the Planets #7,8,9
Beep Beep Roadrunner #91,92, 93
Black Hole #4 (the rarest of them all even though some say no but there are no copies graded by CGC yet)
Buck Rogers #8, 9 Bugs Bunny #221, 222, 223 (40 cent variant) Chip N Dale 67, 68, 69
Daffy Duck #129, 130, 131
Daisy and Donald #45, 46, 47 Daffy Duck #129, 130, 131 Donald Duck 221, 222, 223, 224, 225 (40 cent variant) Flash Gordon #30 Huey, Dewey and Louie # 65, 66, 67 (40 cent variant)
Little Lulu # 260, 261, 262 (40 cent variant)
Looney Tunes #33, 34, 35
Mickey Mouse #207, 208, 209
Pink Panther 75, 76 ,77, 78 (40 cent variant) Popeye #158, 159 Porky Pig #97, 98 Super Goof #60, 61, 62, 63 (40 cent variant)
Tom and Jerry #330, 331, 332
Tweety and Sylvester #105, 106, 107 Uncle Scrooge 179, 180, 181, 182 (40 cent cover variant) Walt Disney Comics and Stories #480, 481, 482, 483, 484 (40 cent variant) Winnie the Pooh #20, 21, 22
Woody Woodpecker #190, 191
Yosemite Sam #68, 69, 70 The 40 cent variants are from Whitman issues published in 1/81 and are NOT Canandian Price Variants (nor are the 50 cent versions). They seem to have been printed in error and were changed during the print run. The rest of the Rare Whitmans were published between 8/80 and 12/80. There are 2 cover prices as well for Bugs# 222 and Flash Gordon #30. The 50 cent versions of those books are reprints printed in Jan 1981. You can tell by the difference in the ads. They match the other 1/81 issues and not the original printings.
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There are actually more rare Whitmans and the list goes as follows: Battle of the Planets #7,8,9
Beep Beep Roadrunner #91,92, 93
Black Hole #4 (the rarest of them all even though some say no but there are no copies graded by CGC yet)
Buck Rogers #8, 9 Bugs Bunny #221, 222, 223 (40 cent variant) Chip N Dale 67, 68, 69
Daffy Duck #129, 130, 131
Daisy and Donald #45, 46, 47 Daffy Duck #129, 130, 131 Donald Duck 221, 222, 223, 224, 225 (40 cent variant) Flash Gordon #30 Huey, Dewey and Louie # 65, 66, 67 (40 cent variant)
Little Lulu # 260, 261, 262 (40 cent variant)
Looney Tunes #33, 34, 35
Mickey Mouse #207, 208, 209
Pink Panther 75, 76 ,77, 78 (40 cent variant) Popeye #158, 159 Porky Pig #97, 98 Super Goof #60, 61, 62, 63 (40 cent variant)
Tom and Jerry #330, 331, 332
Tweety and Sylvester #105, 106, 107 Uncle Scrooge 179, 180, 181, 182 (40 cent cover variant) Walt Disney Comics and Stories #480, 481, 482, 483, 484 (40 cent variant) Winnie the Pooh #20, 21, 22
Woody Woodpecker #190, 191
Yosemite Sam #68, 69, 70 The 40 cent variants are from Whitman issues published in 1/81 and are NOT Canandian Price Variants (nor are the 50 cent versions). They seem to have been printed in error and were changed during the print run. The rest of the Rare Whitmans were published between 8/80 and 12/80. There are 2 cover prices as well for Bugs# 222 and Flash Gordon #30. The 50 cent versions of those books are reprints printed in Jan 1981. You can tell by the difference in the ads. They match the other 1/81 issues and not the original printings. Thanks for the additional info...
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I figure the Disney are the most sought after, but what else is there?
Actually the last time I looked the Little Lulu #261 (if I remember correctly) is easily the hardest one to locate and realizes around the same or more than the Uncle Scrooge 279 which is more common.
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Hi All,
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Some Whitman’s are rare?
My grandparents used to buy me at least one bag of them a week from the mid-70’s until until 1981 or so. When I first seen the Whitman logo I used to think that I was getting an inferior comic. I would ask my grandma to try to buy the “real” Gold Key comics. She often got me duplicates. If I remember correctly there were many different titles with the Whitman logo. Mostly I got Disney’s but there were also Looney Tunes, some Star Trek, and other comics in the mix.
I will have to dig through my collection and see what Whitman’s I have. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to do it any time soon but I will try.
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Hi All,
New poster here. (I just discovered this website a few days ago and have much to read. I shall see if there is a “Who I am” page where members tell a little bit about themselves so I can properly introduce myself.)
Some Whitman’s are rare?
My grandparents used to buy me at least one bag of them a week from the mid-70’s until until 1981 or so. When I first seen the Whitman logo I used to think that I was getting an inferior comic. I would ask my grandma to try to buy the “real” Gold Key comics. She often got me duplicates. If I remember correctly there were many different titles with the Whitman logo. Mostly I got Disney’s but there were also Looney Tunes, some Star Trek, and other comics in the mix.
I will have to dig through my collection and see what Whitman’s I have. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to do it any time soon but I will try.
First off Whitmans are not reprints or "inferior" in any way. Whitman and Gold Key were both imprint under the Western Publisher banner. One was for newsstand distribution and one was for direct sales (ie comic book shops). I don't remember which was the direct imprint and which was not.
I believe in 1980 they discontinued the dual imprint and went just with the Whitman imprint. That year there were several months where Whitman distributed several issues of all their titles via what were called "Pre-Packs" where two or three books were poly-bagged together. Most titles with a September to December 1980 cover date are the ones that are hard to find because they had "low distribution". This is a bit of a head-scratcher though considering records from Western show that they never printed less copies at the time. Therefore some believe that this "rarity" may be false and over time the record will be adjusted. However, since it became widely known I don't think there has been an ever increasing number of these "rare" issues show up.
What I suspect is that most copies (many thousand) got purchased by parents for kids or by kids themselves and they basically read them to death. I remember my Mom buying some pre-packs (well before 1980 if I remember correctly) and while I still have most of them somewhere they are beaten and worthless. So most of these books are probably lost to dumps and recycling bins long ago so that very few remain (much like Archie comics).
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