Popular Post Mucheee1 Posted September 19, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted September 19, 2018 Here’s a JIM for your viewing pleasure. Bomber-Bob, bc, TheWatcher and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirbyJack Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 JIM 50 is a killer, and I really love the ST71! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Get Marwood & I Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 34 minutes ago, mysterio said: Great books @Mucheee1! That's a cool new avatar mysterio 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bc Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 24 minutes ago, Mucheee1 said: Here’s a JIM for your viewing pleasure. that's the second JIM distributed after the Atlas Implosion of '57 (49 was the first after a hiatus of over a year). TheWatcher and Get Marwood & I 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mucheee1 Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 Since you mentioned JIM 49 ... with some of the weirdest drawn faces I’ve ever seen on a comic book cover. mysterio, Get Marwood & I, bc and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Get Marwood & I Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 Mucheee1 and bc 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mucheee1 Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 Looks like the guy in the bottom right corner has a goiter. KirbyJack and bc 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bc Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 8 minutes ago, Mucheee1 said: Looks like the guy in the bottom right corner has a goiter. Maybe its more like a bad case of lack-of-perspectivus. TheWatcher 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mysterio Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 Between my shipment from CGC and this purchase from eBay, it has been a good week. It isn't often that I get to do a @bc impersonation... Bomber-Bob, TheWatcher and *Bronze age fan* 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bc Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 3 minutes ago, mysterio said: Between my shipment from CGC and this purchase from eBay, it has been a good week. It isn't often that I get to do a @bc impersonation... Congrats! Gorgeous copy man! Yours has a little better cover wrap than mine: TheWatcher 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mysterio Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 1 minute ago, bc said: Congrats! Gorgeous copy man! Yours has a little better cover wrap than mine: Perhaps, but you got the white pages. bc and Mucheee1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mucheee1 Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 Another book from my PHM collection. mysterio, *Bronze age fan*, bc and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bc Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 (edited) 35 minutes ago, Mucheee1 said: Another book from my PHM collection. I love this series. To me it sort of started the whole PHM era, even though it pretty much stayed with a sci-fi focus as opposed to embracing the goofy monsters. Edited September 21, 2018 by bc yes, I know there are two #3's in the pic KirbyJack, *Bronze age fan*, TheWatcher and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mucheee1 Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 The #5 is the only SW I have, and I got that one back in the mid 90’s through the CBG. I’ve been too lax in getting the rest. Need to do something about that. Here is another book from the collection. bc and KirbyJack 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirbyJack Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 59 minutes ago, bc said: I love this series. To me it sort of started the whole PHM era, even though it pretty much stayed with a sci-fi focus as opposed to embracing the goofy monsters. I can’t help thinking of the 1965 film “Attack of the the Eye Creatures”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bc Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 10 minutes ago, KirbyJack said: I can’t help thinking of the 1965 film “Attack of the the Eye Creatures”. I see what ya did there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bc Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 1 hour ago, Mucheee1 said: The #5 is the only SW I have, and I got that one back in the mid 90’s through the CBG. I’ve been too lax in getting the rest. Need to do something about that. Here is another book from the collection. Very nice book and you get +100 Street Cred points with me for mentioning CBG I was buying high-grade back issues of the '70's Astonishing Tales issues that had Colossus and Fin Fang Foom from a dealer (Nelson Dodd) in the early '80s. He leaned over and said if I like those, I should check out these earlier books he had and pointed me to a different long box. My first PHM I bought was an AAF 11. Bought a few more here and there from Nelson, but was still heavily into SA heroes for many years after. Didn't really know much about PHM books until OSPG 22 came out in 1992 and it had a large segment on the Atlas Implosion with a fairly accurate timeline and tons of cover pics. I mean I knew they came out before Amazing Spider-Man, FF and the other super-hero titles but never really checked out the actual history about that time period in that detail. AAF was the first set completed, which I guess is kinda easy as there are only 8 books. A few years later, picked up almost a full short-box full of returned PHMs (the ones with the top 1/3 of the cover torn away) at a garage sale for a nickel a piece. Read them to they melted-still have a couple. So did anyone else migrate from the SA hero issues to the PHMs? As I mentioned before, all the little hints from the SA/BA books "Editor" like "* WAYYYY Back in Tales of Suspense 13!!!" were like challenges to me. That's partially why I was a Marvel zombie - the continuity was embraced & promoted (which is long gone from their books). porcupine48 and TheWatcher 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mucheee1 Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 I started collecting Strange Tales in the early 90’s. Being a poor college student with no money, I picked up issues for a couple bucks each at the Old Book Store in Jacksonville, FL. They always had plenty of older books in those days. I love the old Kirby and Ditko books, and so I started branching off into TOS, TTA, and JIM, as well as old Charltons with Ditko art. A friend of mine used to get the CBG every week, and we would look through it and order books when we had the money. We would also go to local comic book shows in Gainesville, FL where we lived. I took my girl friend (now wife) to her first show back then, and she loved it and started collecting as well. I also have OSPG 22, which is great reference for PHM era books. mysterio, bc and KirbyJack 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mysterio Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 (edited) On 9/21/2018 at 3:08 PM, bc said: I love this series. To me it sort of started the whole PHM era, even though it pretty much stayed with a sci-fi focus as opposed to embracing the goofy monsters. I’d agree. It’s pretty key for determining the tenor of that era, and kind of fits/bridges the similar focus in the first 5 issues of TOS/TTA. The monster in #3 is kind of a prototype for what comes later (and one of our first looks at the life on Planet X). (And if you ever part with that 8.0 #1 please keep me in mind.) Edited September 23, 2018 by mysterio bc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creaturefan95 Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 (edited) On 8/6/2018 at 3:22 PM, mysterio said: That is one tough BAF to complete. The owner of my favorite store has had two unfinished for seven and three years, respectively! Edited September 23, 2018 by creaturefan95 war is hell mysterio and 1950's war comics 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
