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Coming Soon: Fox Giants
John C:
--- Quote from: OtherEric on June 24, 2010, 06:33:46 AM ---Would there have been returns of books from the distributor level, or would they destroy them as well?
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That's something I hadn't considered at all...but also don't have any idea how that might work.
Though in the vein of "keep it cheap," and keeping in mind how many companies nearly went out of business after a dispute with the distributor, my guess would be that they trash the surplus and refuse to pay for it.
What I mean is that there's a lot of evidence that distributors don't pay until after THEY sell, and that a lot of their business practices revolve around saying "would I lie to you?" But any conclusion drawn from that (like mine above) is just a guess.
Henry Andrews (fox_centaur):
--- Quote from: OtherEric on June 23, 2010, 03:55:10 PM ---Most of the Fox Giants are remaindered books, Yoc. It's just the 1948 Almanac of Crime that isn't that I know of. I think it's one of the first- if not THE first- Fox Giant.
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It probably depends on how you define "Fox Giant". One of the 1946 variations (or two of them, depending on whether you count by covers or by contents) of Everybody's Comics is a rebound surplus copy of either the Ribtickler giant or the 1944 giant issue of Everybody's Comics. Of course, these were published by various surrogates, not by Fox itself. Except that the 1946 new cover used to rebind the 1944 issues has the winking foxhead and is © Fox Feature Syndicate, Inc. (but has no publisher listed, just copyright). One of the most vexing and confusing titles of the Golden Age. I have the 1946 version that is a rebound 1944 issue, and tried to sort it out at the GCD.
http://www.comics.org/series/7434/
OtherEric:
True enough, fox_centaur. When I say "First Fox Giant" I mean specifically the standard "throw four random coverless books together" type; there were several others earlier I don't know that much about. I suppose in that context the Almanac is something of a transition between the two types; the earlier ones were produced as Giant issues while the later ones were random. This one has a small new section and a simulated random mix, even if it really wasn't.
OtherEric:
And I'm now working on the Variety Comics giant. This one is more clearly from leftover, stripped books: there were even small (less that 1 inch) chunks from at least one of the original books.
A quick request: if anybody with good search-fu is bored, could they try and locate a cover for My Love Memoirs #12? GCD doesn't have it; Heritage had a group of three issues from which I have pulled a scan containing roughly 15% of the cover. The only good thing about it is it gives me a frame for a note begging for a better copy of the cover!
darkmark (RIP):
It's great to know that a major TV network started out as a publisher of comic books. ;-)
Errr...we *are* talking about the same Fox, aren't we??
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