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My first golden age comics were Captain Marvel and Junior which were a gift from my cousin. Since then I have picked up a lot of Fawcett comics and a bunch of paper toys. It is a little annoying that Cap is now called Shazam to please the giant Disney/Marvel empire.

They look even better in the raw...without those lines.

I don't think Bobby Benson is a romance comic although it has a kinky look.

I found one of those Romantic Love issues but I think the Perfect Love issue with Frazetta art is more difficult to find or at least people are holding on to it. Baker art seems to be even more popular. Kinstler art is probably the next best example of romance art (I found a story in Perfect LOve).

His name is Angel, I think. He got a hair cut once but didn't seem to like it. I have grandchildren like that.

I have tried to get a lot of those early More Funs but seldom succeed. I think the cover of MF 68 should have a scientist in a white lab coat running away from Dr. Fates's magical powers.

Sometimes its the centerfold that gets all of the attention. Boys Ranch 3

I saw this Marvel Mystery splash and had to save it.

I liked Marvel Mystery 36 well enough to go back for seconds.

Flynn was a heroin user. It was a very physically damaging life style. Bogart was a heavy drinker but tobacco did him in as it did John Wayne. My grandmother was a smoker but she survived until she was 90.

You might have forgotten US 6

I mixed my new Detective 147 cover (surfing bad guys) with some more mid-range Detective comics.

I wonder if this cover on the right has been on the list. It is a special Sheldon flags cover as well.

BZ wanted Spudo the Spiderman art IIRC. Spudo

I was very happy when I found a few National covers in collections that I purchased. BZ used to advertise for original art and may still be interested if anyone has any.

I have these but the scans are from GCD.

I am also a fan of Dan Gormley's art. He did a lot of work for Dell and even Centaur.

I watched Hopalong Cassidy on a TV that looked like the one on the readers top right. It was a big box with a tiny screen.

This seems like a good spot to add a picture of the Howdy Doody display case that was at Geppi's pop culture museum.

I actually prefer Roy Rogers #1 to Sooby Doo but I like both. I have a lot of fond memories about westerns I saw on TV or at the movies. Bill Boyd, Wild Bill Eliot, Lash Larue, Lone Ranger were some of my favorites. I liked the TV shows with Roy and Dale but missed most of the movies until they reappeared on western channels. I like having different genre to look at and sometimes the art is terrific (esp. Frazetta).

I was trying to discuss collectors that are older than me who still have their original collection. My original collection starts with the silver age. Marty's collection starts with the Golden Age. Some long-time collectors are known such as Roy Thomas, Maggie Thompson, Raymond Miller, but I don't know if any of them have contributed to the boards. There are probably a few more that never posted anywhere but still have their original collections. Ed Lehmann was a collector that didn't contact people by email at one time. Old collections come to the market all of the time but may be from forgotten collections that are found during house cleaning or estate sales. I was trying to expand our discussion rather than limit it to collections that have been identified on line as original owner collections.

I usually prefer the full page covers but that Diary Secrets is very attractive.

It wouldn't be the oldest original owner collection. All of the pedigree collections seem to be older. Raymond Miller had an older collection but he purchased many editions long after they were published. The Mile HIgh collection and Larson's are much older. How many of those old collectors are still alive. Very few I would say. I am pretty old (almost the same age as Berk) but Marty is older. I have only a few golden age that weren't purchased in the eighties or nineties. You could be the oldest collector with a collection purchased at the local newsstand.

The black and white line drawing that I posted is a recreation of the Baker cover by Jerry Acerno who is a professional that has worked at Marvel and DC.