Popular Post Mucheee1 Posted August 2, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted August 2, 2019 Here are mine, but the slabs are switched ... KirbyJack, TheWatcher, *Bronze age fan* and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bc Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 9 minutes ago, porcupine48 said: Very glad you liked it! You know,before joining up here,I wasn't too net savvy,and locally,PHM or anything pre SA was pretty scarce.TTA and ST #1 were my long time grails,and it'd been about a decade since I'd really collected comics-girls,drink and other troubles came around fourteen,fifteen.I was determined to get those two books-they were mythical to me,I NEVER as a teen thought I'd get them.(I barely had ANY pre code Marvel monster books).I must say,I was delighted to get copies,but I'm STILL a little disappointed in the cover to Strange Tales #1,the TTA has grown on me.I'm also really grateful that I got them,and mostly finished the runs of the tales and JIM by 2010.So many of those books have went crazy price wise,especially the Journey,ST and Menace... I've told this story before, but I was extremely lucky to have Nelson Dodds mentor me as a teenager in early Marvel SA & PHMs back in the mid '80s. Nelson had just brought the Ohio pedigree to market back in 1984 or so - I probably owned several of them before my big sell-off for my wedding in '91. I was buying a lot of early Avengers & FF regularly from him and he asked if I wanted to check out something even earlier. He handed me my first PHM I ever owned, which was an Amazing Adult Fantasy 11 and I was hooked. I just talked with him & his son a month ago at a local convention to thank him for expanding my world of superheroes. Like a fool, I didn't get a picture. We've likely all been there with girls, drink and other troubles - am thankful that I grew up before social media and smartphones (or I probably would have had even MORE issues with the local law enforcement community). The ST1 cover has grown on me as I venture farther into the Atlas PCH titles and I am really liking the Menace books which are still fun to hunt even in reader grade. I'm jealous, don't have an ST1 (or a JIM1) yet in the Vault! porcupine48, KirbyJack and Bronty 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bc Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 27 minutes ago, Mucheee1 said: Here are mine, but the slabs are switched ... Very very nice! KirbyJack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcupine48 Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 1 hour ago, bc said: I've told this story before, but I was extremely lucky to have Nelson Dodds mentor me as a teenager in early Marvel SA & PHMs back in the mid '80s. Nelson had just brought the Ohio pedigree to market back in 1984 or so - I probably owned several of them before my big sell-off for my wedding in '91. I was buying a lot of early Avengers & FF regularly from him and he asked if I wanted to check out something even earlier. He handed me my first PHM I ever owned, which was an Amazing Adult Fantasy 11 and I was hooked. I just talked with him & his son a month ago at a local convention to thank him for expanding my world of superheroes. Like a fool, I didn't get a picture. We've likely all been there with girls, drink and other troubles - am thankful that I grew up before social media and smartphones (or I probably would have had even MORE issues with the local law enforcement community). The ST1 cover has grown on me as I venture farther into the Atlas PCH titles and I am really liking the Menace books which are still fun to hunt even in reader grade. I'm jealous, don't have an ST1 (or a JIM1) yet in the Vault! Great memories!My first PHM was TTA 26,will keep it forever!I was already hooked by the little shorts at the end of the early hero books I was so crazy over,they led me backwards. We didn't get our first PC in the house till 2008,right around thirty so social media's still pretty new to me,and I stayed away.Seeing the troubles my friends kids have-ugh.Stuck between not quite boomer,but sure not millenial here. If it's any consolation,my JIM 1 and 2 are remainders,came in a big pile of what a dealer friend called junk I paid maybe ten bucks for.This was about ten years back.Lots of ruined,cut up stuff,but some great covers and those gems.He was happy and it was worth the price just sorting. KirbyJack and bc 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bc Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 Going to a local con tomorrow where there is likely some PHMs to be found. Anybody else looking for anything? No guarantees, but I'll keep my eyes open for these. On 8/1/2019 at 10:06 AM, *Bronze age fan* said: I need World of Fantasy #7 for the set now. That’s a hard comic to find a nice VG or better copy. On 7/30/2019 at 1:12 PM, Getoutandstayout said: Would you happen to have a World Of Fantasy #16 4.0 or higher? Hard to find. KirbyJack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bc Posted August 3, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted August 3, 2019 Noticed this was gonna be my 2,500th post, so I thought it should be here. Since we have a TTA thing going: batman_fan, porcupine48, Mucheee1 and 4 others 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirbyJack Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 I’d yell, “Rommbu!”, but then it would be hard to type out an appropriate response. Because of the Trembling, you understand. Congrats on 2500! bc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcupine48 Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 4 hours ago, bc said: Going to a local con tomorrow where there is likely some PHMs to be found. Anybody else looking for anything? No guarantees, but I'll keep my eyes open for these. I was talking to Jack it and got me looking at my Strange Tales-seems I'm woefully short of #47.Also,still looking for a World of Suspense #6 Money IS a factor so if you happen across some good,good plus...I'm just a PM away. I just saw your post of that FLAMING SCORCHER red Uncanny Tales-good grief man,well done!My eyes still have spots! bc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcupine48 Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 On 4/18/2019 at 1:21 PM, bc said: Got another to add to my "Panama Red" subset (courtesy of our own MrBedrock): That joins the others in the Vault This is so fabulous I had to quote it and say whoa DUDE KirbyJack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mucheee1 Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 Did someone say ST 47 ... KirbyJack, bc and porcupine48 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcupine48 Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 2 minutes ago, Mucheee1 said: Did someone say ST 47 ... Not enough orange covers out there.Menace #4 is another favourite of mine.Shame about the size of that cca stamp,sheesh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mucheee1 Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 (edited) 2 minutes ago, porcupine48 said: Not enough orange covers out there.Menace #4 is another favourite of mine.Shame about the size of that cca stamp,sheesh! Good thing the CCA stamps got smaller and smaller, till one day they were gone. Edited August 3, 2019 by Mucheee1 Typo KirbyJack, bc and porcupine48 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Get Marwood & I Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 32 minutes ago, bc said: Noticed this was gonna be my 2,500th post, so I thought it should be here. Since we have a TTA thing going: bc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bc Posted August 4, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted August 4, 2019 Went out to the 5th Annual North East Ohio Comic Con today. Bad news, only World of Fantasy they had was #5, no early Strange Tales and no World of Suspense either. Sorry dudes, I'll keep my eyes open at the next show in a few weeks. There were more slabs there than I remember ever seeing at one of these local cons. Mainly SA, Bronze and a lot of moderny looking stuff. Then I noticed this poor soul, all alone, tucked way in the bottom corner of a wall display. I decided to "adopt" him and named him Tim: Also picked up some nice reader copies of Astonishing Tales 23 & 24 for the Fin Fang Foom vs Colossus story (since we had just been talking about Fin). Mucheee1, batman_fan, KirbyJack and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Get Marwood & I Posted August 4, 2019 Share Posted August 4, 2019 Ooo-ahh, Tim Boo Ba! bc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bc Posted August 4, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted August 4, 2019 (edited) The highlight of the show for me was seeing my PHM mentor, Nelson Dodds again and actually remembering to get a picture this time! I'm the grinning insufficiently_thoughtful_person on the right...(edit: can't believe they replace the word ideot !!!) Even though Nelson retired from dealing a few years ago, he's still going strong as a collector. He had a nice ASM 1 (probably a 5.0ish copy) and a decent stack of miscellaneous GA books in his bag when I left the show. Edited August 4, 2019 by bc TheWatcher, Mucheee1, Bronty and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirbyJack Posted August 4, 2019 Share Posted August 4, 2019 (edited) Great picture! A good friend is worth more than a whole long box of keys! Edited August 4, 2019 by KirbyJack bc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bc Posted August 4, 2019 Share Posted August 4, 2019 10 minutes ago, KirbyJack said: Great picture! A good friend is worth more than a whole long box of keys! +1 There is iron in your words of life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR.X Posted August 4, 2019 Share Posted August 4, 2019 18 minutes ago, bc said: 29 minutes ago, KirbyJack said: Great picture! A good friend is worth more than a whole long box of keys! +1 There is iron in your words of life. Okay Ten Bears KirbyJack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bc Posted August 4, 2019 Share Posted August 4, 2019 1 minute ago, DR.X said: Okay Ten Beers Fixed that for ya DR.X 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
