Tony D

I can recall the Fuller Brush Man coming down the street I lived on and stopping at every house to try to make a sale. Also, I recall the Electrolux and Kirby Vacuum companies having a salesman making rounds. My mother actually bought a Kirby vacuum and I thought it was very strange that a vacuum had an attachment to sharpen knives.

I feel like an old friend has passed away. I still have a gift subscription I gave to my son.

The unused Ditko Amazing Spider-Man #35 cover was another butt cover.

I completed several goals over my collecting history. At one time I had the non Superman and Wonder Woman DC hero titles from the Silver Age to the Bronze Age, including complete runs of Aquaman, Atom, Batman [#100 up], Beware the Creeper, Brave And Bold [#1 up], Captain Action, Detective [#225 up], Flash [#101 up]. Forever People, Green Lantern, Hawkman, Justice League of America, Kamandi, Mister Miracle, Metal Men, Metamorpho, Mystery in Space [#53 up - the Adam Strange issues], New Gods, Phantom Stranger, Plastic Man, Ragman, Rip Hunter Time Master, Showcase [#1 up], Swamp Thing, Tarzan [#207 up], Teen Titans, Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen [Kirby issues] and many World's Finest [since Batman was co featured] but not all. I also had all the Marvel Silver Age to Bronze Age hero titles, including Amazing Fantasy #15, Amazing Spider-Man, Amazing Adventures [1970 title], Astonishing Tales [1970 title #1 to #20], Avengers, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Captain Savage, Champions, Conan, Combat Kelly, Daredevil, Defenders, Dr. Strange, Fantastic Four, Fantasy Masterpieces, Incredible Hulk [#1 to #6 and #102 up], Iron Man, Iron Man & SubMariner, Journey Into Mystery [#83 up],Kazar, Man-Thing, Marvel Feature, Marvel Preview [magazine], Marvel Spotlight, Marvel Super-Heroes [one-shot], Marvel Super-Heroes [series #12 up], Marvel Tales, Marvel Team-Up, Nick Fury Agent of Shield, Not Brand Ecch, Rampaging Hulk [magazine], Savage Tales [magazine], Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos, Silver Surfer, Strange Tales [#101 up], Tales of Suspense [#39 up], Tales to Astonish [#27 and #35 up], Thor, Warlock and X-Men [#1 to #66] and many issues of the pre-hero Marvel titles but not all. I do remember having  copies of Tales To Astonish #13 which introduced Groot and Strange Tales #89 with Fin Fang Foom. Most of these were sold in 1989, with only a few titles retained by me. 

I also succeeded in completing my set of all the non Marvel, Atom Age and Silver Age comics with Steve Ditko art. The majority being Charlton titles.These I still have.

5 hours ago, oakman29 said:

Man , you're a joke killer.

Sorry, I'm a retired plumber who likes to read about physics. You touched on the two topics I know about.

23 hours ago, oakman29 said:

Maybe it's like Australia where the toilet water goes backwards. 

The coriolis effect on the direction water drains from a sink or toilet is negligible.The direction water is introduced into the fixture or imperfections in the casting of the fixture account for much more influence, as well as whether the fixture is level or which direction it is out of level. Put simply, the coriolis effect on direction of water drainage, clockwise or counterclockwise, is a myth.

Haven't you ever seen Rene Magritte paintings?

I do not think winning should be a criteria for greatness, at least in a team sport. Last year Jacob deGrom won the Cy Young Award in the National League with a 10 wins and 9 losses record. He didn't win the Cy Young Award for his pitching record but for his ERA, which was 1.70 and his dominance of the hitters he faced. Similarly, Ted Williams was one of the greatest pure hitters to play baseball but the Red Sox never won a World Series while he played for them..

3 minutes ago, kav said:

I thought well they do make them white ink pens-   

Sort of like, polar bear in a snow storm, right.

20 hours ago, kav said:

Obviously NOT the Flash Gordon #1 which Al Williamson signed. That copy is buried in one of my boxes. I provided a scan from GCD to illustrate the large white area of the comic.

2 hours ago, James J Johnson said:

This! +1

Maybe if this was pre-2000 times, versus 20 years later. Most old school signatures for collectors were acquired on splash pages because even less than condition conscious comic collectors were adamant about having the covers defaced by ink, even if that ink was placed there by the artist/creator. That was the norm, and the exceptions were the cover signed comics. Since CGC's emergence and with the gradually increasing use and population/popularity of the witnessed signature series books, cover signatures have supplanted splash page signatures as the more desirable standard! Stands to reason. You can see the signature. Slabbed books with splash page signatures are not visible.

Years ago, probably back in the 1970s, I got a cover signed by Al Williamson. It was Flash Gordon #1 and there was a large area of the cover that was white, making it a candidate for a cover autograph.

15 minutes ago, jfree580 said:

The link you sent, showing those comics, appear to all be in stock. Are those the ones you are talking about?

My mistake. They ARE in stock.

In 1993 Pizza Hut had VHS video tapes of the X-Men cartoon series that came with mini comics. There were four issues. My Comics Shop has pictures of the covers but they are not in stock. https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=210451

On 6/28/2018 at 10:19 PM, RockMyAmadeus said:

Speaking of Picasso and knowing the rules before breaking them, consider this:

It is a masterpiece of light, color, form, and anatomy. There are some slight errors in it...for example, the chair is out of proportion with the girl kneeling on it and the man standing next to it...but Picasso obviously knew the rules before breaking them and becoming the surrealist master that he was. And he painted this when he was 15!

I realize it's a tad late to comment on this painting but I just read the posts because it was resurrected. That said, that is not a chair in the painting but a "kneeler." Notice how the right rear foot raises the cushion on which the girl is kneeling only inches above the floor?

Although I had read many comics before I actually bought one myself. I believe Superman #132 was the first comic I bought in a store.

IMO, the most important Stan Lee book would be the Golden Age Captain America #3. In that book, Stan wrote a text story which was his first comic tale and proved he could write for comics. If not for that story, Stan might never have been in a position to become Timely's editor when Simon and Kirby were unceremoniously let go by Martin Goodman.

Convention sketch of Thorn by Sal Amendola

8 hours ago, Mike's Rack said:

A couple years ago, I was in the men's room on set up day at a con when I witnessed Neal Adams flush the urinal and walk out the door without washing his hands.  Does that count?

Reminds me of an old joke.

A Marine is walking out of a restroom after relieving himself at a urinal, when a Sailor says, "In the Navy they teach us to wash our hands after urinating." The Marine says, "In the Marines they teach us not to pee on our hands."

My two cents on Neal Adams. I first encountered Neal at one of Phil Seuling's NY Comic Conventions in the early 70s. Neal was extraordinarily gracious, doing detailed sketches for fans, who surrounded him everywhere he went. Fast forward a few years, after many of those sketches were put up for sale and Neal's original art went missing from DC after he had argued for the return of all art for the artists who had drawn it, Neal wasn't quite as free with his time and talents. I can't blame him for his reaction.

I have this one in my collection of Ditko comics.

14 hours ago, creaturefan95 said:

A nice cover but if that tank had fired 5 or 6 times in rapid firing mode before the marine hopped on the cannon, the marine riding it had better be wearing asbestos pants or he's going to need a lot of burn cream.

4 hours ago, Mijael.Levy said:

I dont know the US title of this killer Scy Fy cover ... Mexican Edition 1958  VG- bottom spine is splited to the staple $100

 

 

The cover appeared on Space Adventures #24, July 1958 by Charlton Comics. The artist was Nicholas Alascia.

2 minutes ago, hmendryk said:

Maybe the art I collect (CAF) is not popular enough but I do not get swamped with purchasing requests about pieces from my collection. Those I do get have always been polite. Frankly I do not see why fear of even abundant buying requests would be a problem, you can just ignore them.

I am, unfortunately I suppose, a victim of my upbringing and was taught that it is impolite and disrespectful to ignore someone.

I posted the page because I saw that there are reasons to share it with others. The trepidation I experienced about posting it on  CAF was not because of interaction with other collectors but with those who would like to buy it for a quick resale profit. Some can be very persistent. I felt that I didn't need to subject myself to an onslaught of emails regarding the page.