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Collecting in the 60's

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>>Actually I have a copy of ASM #26 in a similar condition.

You didn't lose one of your books around 1976 did you?<<

 

I never lost one back then, lent 1 or 2 which I never saw again. If you find yours then maybe we can slab them together and send them to Geppi's museum.

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Originally asked; "Were any of us guys collecting during the silver age."

 

I was right there when SHOWCASE #4 came out. Right there for Brave & Bold #28 1st JLA. Right there when Marvel started their superhero line.

Yep! I collected during the silver age. Bronze age. And Modern age. But not as much of the modern stuff that is out. I use to buy just about anything that came out. Man! Those were the days.

 

Oh yes! I murdered a few comic in my days too.

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>>I was right there when SHOWCASE #4 came out. Right there for Brave & Bold #28 1st JLA. Right there when Marvel started their superhero line.

Yep! I collected during the silver age. Bronze age. And Modern age. But not as much of the modern stuff that is out. I use to buy just about anything that came out. Man! Those were the days.<<

 

Man, you beat me by a couple of years! What was your weekly allowance for comics? I had a dollar to spend.

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Hi, Ron! Long time no see. Here's a test of your memory: do you remember me? I'm Joanna Sandsmark.

 

Just thought I'd add a lovely example of wrecking a book from my childhood. I believe I was a bit enthralled with the big arrows the local weatherman used to draw during his newscasts. The book has the added attraction of having beards and mustaches on all the men in every interior panel. The villain got horns, hooves and a tail. Very special.

 

The book is Batman 220, with a nice Neal Adams cover. The back cover was a Joanna original.

 

Batman220.jpg

 

 

Apparently, I also wanted to sell seeds.

 

-- Joanna

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Of course I know who you are! Actually noticed your name sometime ago, wasn't sure if you'd remember me.

 

Mr. Nasty? How could I forget!

 

Have you been by the old "neighborhood"?

 

Nope, haven't been there in years.

 

Glad to see you also took good care of your comics back then!

 

I was brutal. If it was a favorite, it was read to death (absolutely thrashed-looking books). Otherwise, I drew all over it. I was never as big of a Batman fan as Superman, so Batman 220 got the brunt of my tendancy to doodle. I remember when I got back into comics that I found it so strange that people actually put comic books in bag&boards. Condition had been absolutely meaningless to me in my youth. I suppose that colored my collecting, as well. I always went for quantity over quality.

 

-- Joanna

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I stopped collecting for a few years by the end of 1969. Didn't care much for Ross Andru doing Superman covers or that guy who did those romance comics doing Superman and Batman covers. And the price had gone up to .15c!

 

By the way, that romance comics guy was Neal Adams.

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Awesome post, Ron! Brings back the memories for me. Most of my comics in the 60's got read 3 or 4 times and then out came the SCISSORS! I had the bottom bunk and I can tell you that some serious ASM #1-20's were cut up and pasted to the bottom of my siblings bed. I'd go to sleep each night watching Spidey beat the out of Superman!

 

Of course those memories literally bring tears to my eyes now...cause if I had bagged and boarded those comics, I'd be a rich man! Oh well, I can still see those Green Hornet, Invaders(rember that TV show?), ASM, Superman, Silver Surfer, and Batman comics now! Yep, 10.0 when I bought em, and cut to shreds 2 weeks later.

 

A friend of mine in Jr. High had a wonderful collection of bagged & boarded comics that he had kept since he was a child in the 60's. Believe it or not...I couldn't figure out who the hell would want to keep their comics in such a pristine state! Now look at me...geez...I'm just another comic geek.

 

Faster, Kato

David S.

 

PS>I just got the Green Hornet TV shows on VCD...awesome!

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Hey, another one of the "kids" I grew up with!

 

I used to cut out the Spider-Man logo on the first page and tape it to my bike's headlight, my own Spider-Signal! Same thing with the Green Hornet comics. Most of my comics were read and re-read, took better care of them by 1968 but also started to lose interest.

 

The first time I went to New York City (1974) I happened to walk by a comic store, somewhere on 42nd/8th? Anyway, I was kinda shocked at the prices they had on comics from the 60's, some were more than $2.00! Man, what a rip-off! Yes, all those DC and Marvel comics from just a few years ago and they wanted more than cover price.

 

I still have the Green Hornet cards and stickers from 1966, and the cards' box plus one wrapper! An old man in the neighborhood had a small store in the back of his house and sold all the Superman, Man fron UNCLE, Marvel Super-Heroes, etc., cards. When he was done with the boxes he'd throw them away, I'd pick one up just to keep my cards in them. Still have all the Batman cards from back then too.

 

I took better care of the Beatles stuff than comics. But if you left stuff at home and your mother got hold of it after you left, well, you know the story.

 

I'm glad I grew up when I did.

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Oh Geez, Ron!... You mentioned "Man From Uncle"...OMG...yes. Just hit a collective memory cell with that one. I had all the early Man from Uncle cards & comics. I even had the Man From Uncle camera that turned into...shazam! ... fumble, fumble, dangit... yes... now it's a GUN! I left that one lying around my front porch and some kid made off with it. That was the best toy...EVER! Now that I'm regressing back into my 7 year-old brain...I remember collecting "Dennis the Menace" comics and "Batman", "Spidey", and "Superman", but they all got trashed when "Green Hornet" came out. Was anyone ever cooler than Van Williams & Bruce Lee? Probably, but not to a seven year-old. I was also a big fan of the "Invader" & "Time Tunnel" tv series...I don't remember very much about the plots of those shows, but I remember I loved them!

 

Didn't it seem that TV was better back in those days? At least for kids...Batman, Gilligan's Island, It's About Time...It's About Space, Green Hornet, that weird space show with puppets Rocket X ????, Flintstones, Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Mission Impossible, Laugh In, Get Smart, The Munsters, Addams Family, the Beatles Cartoon... (Feel free to add on to this list).

 

You also mentioned the Beatles...I don't know how this happened, but I can admit it now, for a short time there...I actually liked the Monkees better than the Beatles. Yes, now that I'm a 43 year-old secure man...I can actually admit it. When I was 8 or 9, I made my parents take me to a Monkees concert...opening act Jimi Hendrix (I'm not kidding! We hated him...lol). The tag line to this story is that I got to take my 10 & 8 year-olds to their first concert...Paul McCartney!

 

The 60's rocked...David S.

 

Thanks for the memories...

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I had a Man from UNCLE badge, made it a #2 so I could be Ilya Kuryakin! The Time Tunnel was another one of my favorites too, still have the comic. Ever notice the stage on one of the WWF's shows? The wrestlers come out of the "tunnel". TV Land had it on it's schedule on Friday mornings at 6:00am, over here they show stupid infomercial stuff. Used to be on the Sci-Fi channel a few years ago.

 

I eventually saw the Monkees in 1986, 20 years later! Took my wife and one of my daughters, she was 3 years old at the time. Seen them a couple of times after that, mostly at the Mohegan Casino. Davy Jones was supposed to be there last Friday, free show. We didn't attend due to another winter storm passing by. I met Davy Jones a couple of years back, he was doing a signing at a mall and asked him about Hendrix. He said he was a quiet guy who kept to himself but couldn't handle the celebrity thing.

 

Saw George Harrison at the Boston Garden in 1974, I even shot a roll of super-8mm film. Passed on McCartney last year, too much to see just one of the guys. It only cost around $5.00 to see the Beatles live! Paul played on a Friday at the Hartford Civic Center, the following week it was the Rolling Stones. Didn't go to see them either.

 

Last year I was watching the old Red Skelton show from the 50's, just while changing channels trying to find something to watch, there in the background was a magazine stand and among the publications were a number of Superman and Batman titles. Same thing on a Superman episode, I think it was titled The Unlucky Number. At the end of the show Clark and Jimmy are talking to the newstand guy and over on the rack there's a bunch of Superman and Superboy titles. All MINT! The show was probably from around 1956.

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I bought and read books avidly as a kid in the early to mid 70s.

 

DC at that time would print their ads back-to-back on the same sheet of paper, so that as you were reading the story, you would be sure to see the ads on the facing page. I decided I didn't like this, so I RIPPED THE ADS OUT OF THE BOOK!!! I got very efficient at it, too: just grab one ad page, find its mate on the other side of the staple, and RIP--commercial-free comics reading.

 

Years later I tried to sell my "Kamandis" to a friend and he held one up and observed "feels a little thin..."

 

Marvel was kind enough to its readers (at the time) to print its ad pages face-to-face, hence the "CONTINUED AFTER NEXT PAGE" message we're used to seeing in the lower-right corner of right-hand pages in Marvel books. I found paging through these ad pages tiresome, so I got my Mom's bottle of rubber cement and GLUED THE AD PAGES TOGETHER!!!

 

 

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Just a few weeks ago I picked up a Superboy & The Legion of Super-Heroes that felt quite thin. All the ads had been removed!

 

Back in the early 80's I picked up a 12 cent Jimmy Olsen for about $5.00 in absolutely spectacular condition. Then I realized a coupon had been cut. Took it back to the storte - turned out the entire ultra hi grade Jimmy Olsen they just boiught had the coupns cut and no one realized it! (got my few dollars back, too)

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