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Ian_Levine

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  1. When I was seven years old, my interest in comics first began way way back in 1960, several years before I properly started my DC collection. My very first initial interest in comics was a British children’s comic called “Buster”, which came out weekly. It was a black and white newspaper style comic, and it contained a weekly comic strip inside, all about “Maxwell Hawke Ghost Hunter”, which utterly fascinated me at the impressionable age of just seven years. It was fascinating and dark and gothic, with this rugged heroic man, teamed up with his beautiful assistant Jill Adair, who would fight all of the supernatural ghosts, demons and surreal creatures, from out of the dark shadows of the most creative imagination, and they would always find a solution and a logical explanation for the hauntings, by the end of the serial, and expose the fraud that had been so cunningly perpetrated. But this was truly dark and atmospheric and chilling, full of creepy old gothic haunted mansions, riddled with cobwebs and secret passages leading to danger. I can remember a bed, which flipped over to plunge its occupant onto deadly long sharp spikes, and a secret chamber of giant eyes behind a rotting old curtain. I used to collect this comic strip each and every week, and I used to purchase the comic, cut it up into bits, and stick down all the panels into an old school exercise book, with glue, so that I could keep and treasure my own personal collection of them, never stopping to realise that by doing this, I was irrevocably damaging the value of the original comics. In the 1970s, longing to see them again, I went to the British Newspaper Library in Collingwood, where I paid to photocopy them. You weren't allowed to photocopy more than ten pages, so I made at least twenty trips back and forth, then bound them into one huge volume which I still have. Looking at the artwork brings on waves of nostalgia.
  2. I once offered Overstreet to list them all, but they weren't remotely interested
  3. I adored part one, got bored for part two, vehemently hated part three.
  4. NOW TV and HBO Max have created the most AMAZING three part series about eighty five years of DC comics. full of video interviews with legends who are now dead. It's the best program about comics I have ever seen in my lifehttps://www.nowtv.com/gb/watch/playback/vod/A5EK3JXxfMHsPgYK8UXpw
  5. Mine came from the actual family themselves. I bought three. Gave one to Jerome Wenker and kept the other two.
  6. But I had over 90% of them including ones so obscure nobody even knew they existed.
  7. This is pretty much the crux of it. But I have never regretted anything so much in my entire life. My insistence that I never wanted the collection to be split up was callously ignored after Sotherby's abject failure to find a buyer for the entire set. The entire business makes me feel sick. But I do still have an enormous collection of Disneys, Harveys, and Gold Keys.
  8. The hardest is a full set of Adventure Comics starting with New Comics, then New Adventure. But then, surprisingly, it's Game Time, and Beautiful Stories For Ugly Children. Then the Dirtminator promo comic is in a league of its own, way rarer than Supergear.
  9. The owner is not the kind of man to be influenced in any way. He has told me to keep out of it, and for various private reasons, I dare not go against him. DARE not.
  10. Was it really so terrible to post on the world's greatest comic forum to try to find the last twelve comics that I needed to complete the entire DC Collection ?? You're treating that as an abuse of the forum back in 2003 and 2004