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Title: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: Yoc on June 15, 2012, 10:54:34 AM
Hey gang,
lets all give our newest benefactor Phil Barnhart a big thank-you for letting Rangerhouse scan several books from his collection!
Keep watching this topic as his books start to show up on the site.

Thanks to Rangerhouse for reaching out to Phil and getting this all started.  There's some exciting books on the horizon.

Stay tuned!
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: movielover on June 15, 2012, 12:50:11 PM
Now uploaded, the first of the Phil Barnhart Collection

Dynamic Comics 009 (c2c)

Scanner:  rangerhouse
Edits:  Movielover
From the Phil Barnhart Collection (with much thanks)

Yoc, Geo, you can mark Dynamic as complete.
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: rangerhouse on June 15, 2012, 06:43:43 PM
WOW,  very nice

Captain Aero

Now

Dynamic

what next..

Thanks Again Phil.....   Thanks for sharing.
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: Geo (RIP) on June 15, 2012, 07:11:11 PM
Thanks Guys. It looks as if Yoc or Other Eric has already changed/marked it as complete.
Job well done.

Geo
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: rangerhouse on June 15, 2012, 09:06:26 PM
When I first started their was many titles that I said they will probable never be completed.

I see Catman being completed before year end.  HOPE..

great job everyone.   
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: JonTheScanner on June 15, 2012, 10:31:23 PM
Well if we're really going to call Dynamic Comics complete, we either need to get 25 and 30, or move the Superior issues elsewhere.  But it's great to have as many as we actually do.
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: darkmark (RIP) on June 16, 2012, 12:22:34 AM
Thanks a bunch!  Another one bites the dust...
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: Yoc on June 16, 2012, 06:15:11 AM
Right, still need those two last Dynamic issues.  Correcting the listing now.
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: rangerhouse on June 16, 2012, 01:43:26 PM
Hey Overstreet and Gerber do not have/list issues 25 and 30.   Do they really exist?

I know GCD has a cover of 30 and lists 25 with no info but might it not be a proto type or unpublished.

HA.com no record never sold a 25 or 30.  (I also see no record of these issues never being sold on ebay)

I say series complete!  and remove the 25 and 30

Unless somebody has better info?
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: John C on June 16, 2012, 03:17:26 PM
Keltner's index says:

Quote
Note: The existance of an
issue #25 is suspected but
cannot be verified at this
time. Overstreet lists it,
but Gerber’s PHOTO-JOURNAL
does not mention it.

For what another data point is worth, at least.  His listing ends at #24.  It's unfortunate that he doesn't list the grounds for suspecting it exists.

You know, maybe I'm about to ask an obvious question that everybody knows but me, but a thought crosses my mind and it's very lonely up there.  For all the paperwork involved (and the number-shifting and text-pieces done to avoid it all and re-class the comics) in publishing a periodical at the time, is it possible that the Post Office might have records on which books actually existed?  Would those records be centralized and/or still exist?  I doubt they're computerized, but if they exist at all, they should be fairly conclusive.
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: movielover on June 16, 2012, 03:53:42 PM
Doing some looking around, the LOC has the series ending in May 1948 with #25, but I've yet to find an institution that has #25. Aside from GCD, there is no mention of a #30.

As for the post office, not a clue.
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: rangerhouse on June 16, 2012, 05:39:15 PM
Ok,  my vote is series complete...     We will not be able to find the two issues nobody owns...
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: JVJ (RIP) on June 17, 2012, 07:37:33 AM
A very warm welcome to Phil and I hope we inspire many others to keep Rangerhouse bush turning our paper into scans. Glad to have some company in making your collection available for DCM. Good to have you here, even if only by proxy.

Peace, Jim (|:{>
Hey gang,
lets all give our newest benefactor Phil Barnhart a big thank-you for letting Rangerhouse scan several books from his collection!
Keep watching this topic as his books start to show up on the site.

Thanks to Rangerhouse for reaching out to Phil and getting this all started.  There's some exciting books on the horizon.

Stay tuned!
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: John C on June 17, 2012, 09:07:29 AM
I see I forgot to ask before.  Is this Phil Barnhart as in the Oregon Congressman?  Not that I have more than a neighborly interest in his "true identity," and thanks are clearly due regardless, but his was the only use of the name I spotted on a quick web search.
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: rangerhouse on June 17, 2012, 05:14:43 PM
 Not that I know,  he lives in CA.  I won't give up any more info unless he wants to be known.

and since I was the only one that voted,  Dynamics is COMPLETE !!!
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: rangerhouse on June 18, 2012, 10:06:57 AM
Next to coming soon from Phil will be Scoop Comics #1 and #3...      WOW..    :o

They will go with my Scoop #2 that I'm working on now
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: rangerhouse on June 18, 2012, 10:09:20 AM
Next to coming soon from Phil will be Scoop Comics #1 and #3...      WOW..    :o

They will go with my Scoop #2 that I'm working on now
(Besides the Scoop 1 and 3 I asked for Suspense Comics 1-3)
FROM PHIL  :
No problem on the Scoops.  I have to think about the Suspense issues a bit.  My #3 is missing the centerfold story which is apparently very common for that issue.  The first few issues of Suspense, Terrific, Catman, and I think even some Capt Aero books all had this weird page count (56 pages).  They glued a half folio to the front side of a folio spread on 3 folios for those books.  My own theory is that Suspense #3s’ with and without the centerfold story present are both complete issues, some of them just did not get bound with that centerfold story.  Either the entire story is missing or it is there.  So why don’t we see that with a bunch of other books constructed the same way?  When I talked to L.B. Cole about that he expressed surprise, he said why would you even do that?  That would just be inefficient and take more money/time for binding each book.  I think Suspense #3 is the last book built that way, and this was about the time L.B. Cole became the art director there.
 
Coincidentally that centerfold story was done by L.B. Cole, 83 Days on a Life Raft.  Suspense #3 is April 1944.  Cole’s first cover in comics was Terrific #3, May 1944.  Suspense #4 is June 1944, also a Cole cover.  You may have noticed the odd page count if you scanned any of the early Terrific issues.

I have a document written up that covers the entire Suspense and Terrific runs, page counts, titles of stories, etc…   I will provide a copy of that to you.
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: Yoc on June 18, 2012, 03:12:10 PM
Very interesting read - an I did notice the strange page count in the past and wondered how or why.
I hope he lets us scan them one day.
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: rangerhouse on June 19, 2012, 10:46:01 AM
From Phil:  I took a look at the Scoop #2 and it has a King Kola add, the x-ray machine version.  This is the same add that is on the back cover of Dynamic Comics #3.  So if you have the Dynamic #3, then you have a scan of this ad.  Guess I should have looked at the inside of the back cover too, you don’t have that I imagine.  I brought all my old notes in.  I will run them through the scanner here at work and turn them into acrobat files.
 
I had the entire run of Captain Aero at one time.  I was doing some research to write an article about Charles Quinlan for the Comic Book Marketplace, but never got around to completing it before Gary Carter left the magazine.  I had shared some information with his son (Quinlan) and wife, and actually sent them a few of the Captain Aero comics, they surprisingly had none of his original art or any of the many published comics.  So anyhoo, from #1 through #10 they are all 64 page books.  Then with #11 (September 1943) they go to this wonky 56 page book count, this is the weird glued in single page to 4 folios construction/binding method.  They stay as 56 page count books until #15 (June 1944) and then they go to 48 page count books.   
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: Yoc on June 19, 2012, 01:13:03 PM
Thanks for the info Phil, wish you'd join us here!
Title: Phil Barnhart - Suspense and Terrific notes.PDF now up!
Post by: Yoc on June 20, 2012, 10:43:14 AM
Hi Gang,
Phil has given permission for us to share his very detailed notes on the Holyoke Suspense and Terrific Comic series.

ATTN Narf and Henry -
This has got a lot of info in this that GCD will especially want to integrate into their records.

It even includes a comment from L.B. Cole himself about his first cover work for the publisher!

For now it's in the Holyoke section but this might change if Phil decides to send more items like this.

Enjoy!
-Yoc

NOTE - this is a PDF document, you will need an app to read it.
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: narfstar on June 20, 2012, 10:53:34 AM
I got it thanks. With CB+ I don't spend much time on GCD any more but I will try to get info up
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: Yoc on June 20, 2012, 02:16:15 PM
Thanks Narf.  I'm sure if you can't add it to GCD you know who to pass it along to that will.
Some Very informative info here, especially about the odd-ball 56pg issues they did.
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: JVJ (RIP) on June 20, 2012, 03:56:36 PM
Thanks Narf.  I'm sure if you can't add it to GCD you know who to pass it along to that will.
Some Very informative info here, especially about the odd-ball 56pg issues they did.
These war-time, non multiple-of-16-page comics were much more common than you're making them out to be, Yoc. Fiction House for one had many such issues. Not really so "odd-ball" at all, but simply a reaction to war-time paper rationing. And I'd have to check my Temersons, which I'm unable to access at this moment, but I believe the method was not to "glue pages to tabs" but to have the "tab" extend over the staple fold so that a book could still be machine collated and stapled. It was VERY unlikely that there was "hand assembling" done. BUT, that is the way it DID work at Fiction House - Temerson might have been different.

Peace, Jim (|:{>
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: Yoc on June 22, 2012, 12:01:27 PM
Now up from Phil's Collection -
Another Cat-Man!

Cat-Man Comics #28 - c2c - from rangerhouse and loftypilot


Enjoy!
-Yoc
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: rangerhouse on June 22, 2012, 12:03:36 PM
Nice,  Cat-Man getting close... 
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: Yoc on June 22, 2012, 12:11:03 PM
19 in our future.... after a Master is finished.
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: movielover on June 26, 2012, 03:07:57 AM
Now uploaded

Scoop Comics 001 (2c)
Scanner:  rangerhouse
Edits:  Movielover
From the Phil Barnhart Collection (with much thanks)
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: movielover on June 26, 2012, 08:12:55 AM
Now uploaded

Scoop Comics 003 (c2c) (diff ver.)
Scanner:  rangerhouse
Edits:  Movielover
From the Phil Barnhart Collection (with much thanks)
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: Yoc on June 26, 2012, 08:42:48 AM
Thanks very much ML!
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: movielover on June 26, 2012, 09:09:44 AM
You are welcome

Now uploaded

Scoop Comics 008 (original)
Scanner:  rangerhouse
Edits:  Movielover
From the Phil Barnhart Collection (with much thanks)
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: darkmark (RIP) on June 26, 2012, 10:58:40 AM
Really appreciate the Dynamic stuff!  Hope Scoop #2 comes up soon.
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: movielover on June 26, 2012, 04:09:21 PM
We will have to see about Scoop 2

Now uploaded

Toytown Comics 006 (c2c)

Scanner:  rangerhouse
Edits:  Movielover
From the Phil Barnhart Collection (with much thanks)
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: rangerhouse on June 26, 2012, 04:28:39 PM
Phil is still thinking about the Scoop #2.  He could never replace the book, happens to be Overstreet’s copy that he let go.  It is it very very nice shape.  He will probable be sending Punch Comics 9, 12, and 14-19 via next package.

Thanks RH
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: movielover on June 27, 2012, 03:15:35 AM
now uploaded, 2 from Phil

Toytown Comics 001 (diff ver.) (c2c)
Choice Comics 001 (diff ver.) (c2c)

Scanner:  rangerhouse
Edits:  Movielover
From the Phil Barnhart Collection (with much thanks)
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: Yoc on June 27, 2012, 07:07:01 AM
RH, would Phil happen to have the missing Famous Funnies between 91 and 103? 
I'd love to see the Fearless Flint run completed!
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: rangerhouse on June 27, 2012, 02:24:18 PM
I will ask,  also YOC I purchase from ebay if I see any near guide prices
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: Yoc on June 27, 2012, 04:18:37 PM
Thanks very much RH, you've become an integral part of DCM, the JVJ Project and our hobby!
We really are lucky to have people like you and Len on the team.

And as I always say - 'without you scanners out there DCM wouldn't be alive today.  Bless you all for your generosity and dedication to our hobby.'

Scanners rock!
:D
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: narfstar on June 27, 2012, 10:03:49 PM
Ranger you look for near guide. I look for less than half guide or one or two bucks.
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: rangerhouse on June 28, 2012, 10:36:30 AM
Phil is going to complete DM request to give us all the detail and index Scooop #2 (he will complete after the 18th of July). He has a new box that will ship today.   It has;
·         Punch #9 & #12

·         Keen Detective #20

·         Silver Streak nn

·         Hit #11

·         Blazing #6 (both US & UK)

·         Exciting #2 & #5 (#5 missing centerfold)

·         Blazing #5

 Phil's Notes:
The Blazing #5 appears to be as common as a house fly.  You see them for sale all the time.  But the vast majority of them are rebound remainder comics.  It took a lot of searching to find this one.  This one is the real deal, it has a Green Turtle story in it, and it is not a remainder of the first 4 issues either, all new material.  So I’m guessing the one you have scanned is probably a remainder of some sort.  (looking forward to see if issue DCM has is different from Phil's #5)

THANKS PHIL,  great stuff!
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: Yoc on June 28, 2012, 12:08:30 PM
Wow, sounds very exciting, especially the Blazing 5!
Thanks for the update RH.  :)
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: narfstar on June 28, 2012, 03:15:12 PM
No Ranger Blazing 5 is a great Green Turtle issue of mine. Took some time to get it but I got it and scanned it.
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: darkmark (RIP) on June 30, 2012, 02:04:30 AM
Thanks a bunch!!
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: movielover on July 02, 2012, 07:47:58 PM
Now uploaded

Punch Comics 09 (c2c)

Scanner:  rangerhouse
Edits:  Movielover
From the Phil Barnhart Collection (with much thanks)

12 probably tomorrow
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: Yoc on July 02, 2012, 08:18:29 PM
Nice job ML, loving these!
:)
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: darkmark (RIP) on July 03, 2012, 04:34:47 AM
Looks great, and hope to see the next one soon.
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: movielover on July 03, 2012, 06:58:18 AM
Thanks and you're welcome.

Now uploaded

Punch Comics 12 (c2c)

Scanner:  rangerhouse
Edits:  Movielover
From the Phil Barnhart Collection (with much thanks)

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now uploaded

Blazing Comics 005 (diff ver.) (c2c)

Scanner: rangerhouse
Edits: Movielover
From the Phil Barnhart Collection (with much thanks)
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: Geo (RIP) on July 03, 2012, 09:14:47 AM
Thank you ML for both.

Geo
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: movielover on July 03, 2012, 09:24:32 AM
Now uploaded

Blazing Comics 006 US (c2c)

This is a remaindered version with a issue of unpublished Will Rogers from Fox

Scanner: rangerhouse
Edits: Movielover
From the Phil Barnhart Collection (with much thanks)
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: Geo (RIP) on July 03, 2012, 09:41:38 AM
Thanks for the Blazing ML.

Geo
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: movielover on July 03, 2012, 01:21:03 PM
Now up

Blazing Comics 006 UK

Scanner: rangerhouse
Edits: Movielover
From the Phil Barnhart Collection (with much thanks)

Fox reprints
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: Geo (RIP) on July 03, 2012, 02:32:18 PM
Again, thanks T.

Geo
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: movielover on July 04, 2012, 05:08:55 AM
now uploaded

Silver Streak nn

Scanner: rangerhouse
Edits: Movielover
From the Phil Barnhart Collection (with much thanks)

looking at gcd covers, this could be #22

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Now uploaded

Hit Comics 011 (diff ver.) (all paper) (c2c)

Scanner: rangerhouse
Edits: Movielover
From the Phil Barnhart Collection (with much thanks)

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and more Now uploaded

Exciting Comics 004 (diff ver.) (c2c)

Scanner: rangerhouse
Edits: Movielover
From the Phil Barnhart Collection (with much thanks)

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Exciting Comics 002 (diff ver.) (paper+14fiche) (c2c)

Paper copy with fiche fills for the first two pages and the last two pages of the first story and the entire second story from the darkmark upload.

Scanner: rangerhouse
Edits: Movielover
From the Phil Barnhart Collection (with much thanks)
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: Yoc on July 04, 2012, 09:19:53 AM
Wow!  Amazing work guys, thanks again.
I'm going to mention #22 to the listing of the Silver Streak book.  It'd be great to see that series done someday.
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: darkmark (RIP) on July 04, 2012, 02:14:23 PM
Two words:  IN-CREDIBLE.  Thanks, guys.
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: movielover on September 15, 2012, 10:54:05 AM
Now uploaded, more from Phil

Exciting Comics 005 (paper+4fiche) (c2c)

scanned from a book missing its centerfold, so the CF is from fiche

Scanner:  rangerhouse
Edits:  Movielover
From the Phil Barnhart Collection (with much thanks)
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: jfglade on September 15, 2012, 11:39:47 AM
Now uploaded, more from Phil

Exciting Comics 005 (paper+4fiche) (c2c)

scanned from a book missing its centerfold, so the CF is from fiche

Scanner:  rangerhouse
Edits:  Movielover
From the Phil Barnhart Collection (with much thanks)

 This is a nice book, and I enjoyed the Thesson story as well as the early Mask story. Except for the centerfold, the scans are very tasty. It great to see such early work from Better.
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: rangerhouse on September 15, 2012, 12:35:52 PM
The last 6 comics from this batch from Phil's Collection where all near white paper quality.  You can see it in movielovers Exciting Comic edit.   5 more coming all pretty rare stuff.  Movielover, YOC, and Loftypilot working away..  ?????

Thanks RH
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: movielover on September 15, 2012, 03:34:14 PM
yeah, working away. So much so, I bring a Quality paper replacement for a fiche title  :)

now uploaded

Hit Comics 005 (paper) (c2c)

Scanner:  rangerhouse
Edits:  Movielover
From the Phil Barnhart Collection (with much thanks)
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: Geo (RIP) on September 15, 2012, 05:45:10 PM
Thanks Guys, keep it up.

Geo
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: movielover on September 16, 2012, 07:16:50 AM
now uploaded, the DCM premiere of

Hit Comics 017 (c2c)

Scanner:  rangerhouse
Edits:  Movielover
From the Phil Barnhart Collection (with much thanks)
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: Yoc on September 16, 2012, 10:47:35 AM
Thanks very much ML!
:)
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: jfglade on September 17, 2012, 01:21:40 PM
now uploaded, the DCM premiere of

Hit Comics 017 (c2c)

Scanner:  rangerhouse
Edits:  Movielover
From the Phil Barnhart Collection (with much thanks)

 I was delighted to see copies of both Hit #17 and Hit #05 from the Phil Barnhart Collection. I hope there are more Quality books to come.
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: rangerhouse on October 31, 2012, 11:16:49 AM
PHIL

Thanks you so so much for providing me these issues to scan!

Cat-Man 1
Rex Carter 1
and
Flame 1

without your books we may have never scanned Catman and Rex..

Thanks rangerhouse
Title: Re: From the Phil Barnhart Collection...
Post by: Yoc on October 31, 2012, 11:21:04 AM
I second the motion!
Thanks Phil!!

And ANYONE else out there interested in sharing their comics on the site but no way of scanning or perhaps no time - Please Consider letting rangerhouse here handle the chore.  He's scanned hundreds of books now on his very impressive professional level scanner.  A scanner which does NOT crush your comic under a lid!  Ranger can scan an entire comic in 10mins and have your books back to you in almost no time at all.
Use the CONTACT US link below our banner if you'd like more info on working with DCM and rangerhouse to get your books on the site!
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