tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31910743.post5135072856255926517..comments2024-02-10T02:02:05.278-08:00Comments on Ronn's Big Pile of Stuff: Little Golden Book Monday #181Ronn Roxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09872626036211109440noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31910743.post-86530829961318145562020-03-26T01:54:49.023-07:002020-03-26T01:54:49.023-07:00It's kinda funny because I had both of these a...It's kinda funny because I had both of these and had obviously seen both covers, just not at the same time, so had never noticed they were different.<br /><br />As for comic books, the old bait and switch with a great cover artist and terrible interior art was a think when I was a kid and still happens today all the time!Ronn Roxxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09872626036211109440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31910743.post-22608121745323593672020-02-11T12:24:46.575-08:002020-02-11T12:24:46.575-08:00Would be interesting to know if other old Golden B...Would be interesting to know if other old Golden Books had cover updates. Here it seems to be an effort to lose the "old fashioned" fonts and illustrative style and match Donald Duck to the current model.<br /><br />Cover updates are a long-standing tradition. I've seen reprints of late 1800s Horatio Alger stories with cover art placing the hero in a "present day" setting (that is, the 1920s and even 1930s). The texts themselves remain unchanged, firmly rooted in the post Civil War era.<br /><br />As a kid in the early 60s I remember DC Comics's "80 Page Giants", with the latest versions of Batman or Superman presiding over the cover while the content would be decidedly dated postwar stories.DBensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01144515471557731622noreply@blogger.com