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I used to sell my copies to Showcase Comics out on the Philly mainline but seldom found duplicates. NO Hoarding. I guess I was lucky to find what I did. Dealers that used to dump their romance comics are putting them on ebay to stimulate astronomical bidding wars.

I didn't know this story. I had seen an earlier collection at MSU but never Ohio State. A private collector donated a huge number of Sunday and daily strips, I believe. Jerry Bails donated his microfilm to MSU. There were also a large number of comics that reprinted the popular strips. When I asked for Timely comics, I was given fiche and a reader. I heard that the Caniff collection went to OSU. Is that correct? Bowling Green University also has a collection as well as Missouri but don't remember where. Other sites? The comic art museum in San Francisco was kind of small but they had some nifty art by Crumb. I could give you a litany of institutions that have collections. In my former career I developed a product for archival storage and as such dealt with most of the large institutions in the US. Highlights: Yes, Caniff was an alumni and donated his collection to Ohio State. As a prominent member of the National Cartoonist Society, he encouraged others to do the same. The Woody Gelman collection with numerous works by Winsor McCay followed. In the early seventies, the value of comic art was appreciating so it became worthwhile to donate material. Syracuse was one of the most aggressive and landed, The Street and Smith Archives, Hal Foster's collection, including the first Prince Valiant as well as the Courvoiser animation collection. Early Orphan Annies are scarce because Harold Gray donated the majority of his collection to Boston University. The Library of Congress has a great collection with the Art Wood Collection. The NY Public Library has a great collection. Columbia has a nice collection Princeton University has the Philip Gordon Wylie collection. I could go on. I wish I had known about the comic collections in NYC. I used to visit the city often when I worked across the river and lived in Orange County. However, I did get a library card for the industrial library and read some early editions of the Electrical Experimenter. I found two covers by Schomburg there, one which I already owned and another which I didn't. The magazines were in really poor condition and I wondered about their archive efforts and storage conditions Please list other universities that have comic book or strip collections.

I didn't know this story. I had seen an earlier collection at MSU but never Ohio State. A private collector donated a huge number of Sunday and daily strips, I believe. Jerry Bails donated his microfilm to MSU. There were also a large number of comics that reprinted the popular strips. When I asked for Timely comics, I was given fiche and a reader. I heard that the Caniff collection went to OSU. Is that correct? Bowling Green University also has a collection as well as Missouri but don't remember where. Other sites? The comic art museum in San Francisco was kind of small but they had some nifty art by Crumb.

A lot of Superman pages on ebay lately. Pages signed by Siegel and Shuster were selling at higher prices.

Love that cover. I was thinking about bidding on it and I'm glad that I passed. Lucky for me Thanks Vern I bid on another copy of that one but didn't get close to winning. It would fit right in with my other Shadow Comics. The beginning and the end of the run were the best, I think.

An Action 76 cover is pretty cool. Cover variations by Todd at Deviantart

It was also reprinted in Tip Top comics. They probably ran out of L'il Abner reprints and Tarzan which dominated Tip Top comics for the first 15 years. Speaking of juvenile Sci-Fi, I always liked the Winston series with illustrations by Schomburg.

I like those little race cars. My grandson has a bunch that look like that but when I was a kid, zip.

A good 2.0 copy sold for $150 on ebay in January.

Quality control was a problem at Charlton. Didn't they have their own presses?

I like

I think you can see the fade on my Conan but another issue with some fade has a sharp red color on the back. Comics that I bought from the Curious Book Store when the shop was on Grand River in East Lansing are still bright colors. I don't remember whether it was the bright colors or the extra pages that attracted me to these issues but I stayed because of the Barry Windsor art.

I do like that Mystery Men cover but I still think it looks more like work by Briefer than Fine.

I have some faded Conan comics that have lost some of the bright colors. Store owners leave the comics out in the light too long which causes the ink to fade. Wall books should rotate. bb

Not golden age but it was 46 years ago this month.

and Cooper was pretty good, especially when drawing Mr. Justice. It reminds me of Dr. Strange by Ditko.

Montana did a lot of work for MLJ and his pre-Archie stuff was some of the best.

I like this story from Hangman 6. Corporal Collins wasn't very tall but the perspectives were very big in MLJ comics.

I think Star Comics used this splash for the cover of one of the Blue Bolt issues.

I like the Sandman story.

I've never seen one either but I actually know where one is in a guy's garage in Fremont, CA. I'll go see it sometime, most likely. I sold my Harley and bought one of these. Not fast but really cool. Quack! Quack! just kidding, I only have a Suzuki.

The cat sleeps on top of the boxes and there is room for only one chair. My grandson likes to watch Superman/Batman movies on my computer. I could use a better way to organize the books before anyone else could survive in the mess. You can visit my flickr site http://www.flickr.com/photos/15446859@N06/

I have one in there. I thought I posted this before.

I think barrel-chested is the term you were looking for. I like those Superman comics after 100 but your copy probably belongs in the golden age. My books are on the edge of the silver age, I guess.

I think barrel-chested is the term you were looking for. I like those Superman comics after 100 but your copy probably belongs in the golden age. My books are on the edge of the silver age, I guess.