ghoulaid

That's a gorgeous little run of Science! Sorry for the delay in getting back here. I've been wrestling with my scanner which has a mind of its own. Let's see if I can remember how to post pictures. No luck yet. Crossing my fingers the 14th time is the charm.

Thanks for the welcome Punyhuman! I remember you and Adamstrange well. Fox is probably my favorite GA company other than Timelys. I'll see what I can do about posting some soon.

JB, if you have the Larson double on this book, I'm flying across country and will personally ... (great cover, really wish I had a copy) STEVE nope have the Larson of Science 2, 3 and 5... Still wading through the highly interesting threads after being away from the boards a few years. I'm not sure but I think I know who has the Larson copy of Science #4. Me.

Wow! I've been off the boards for a few years and this is the first 'thread' I started upon my return here. After several weeks I've finally got through the whole thing and I'm seriously impressed with your collection! This is the stuff I used to dream of owning way back, when Overstreet first appeared and I started subscribing to RBCC and TBG. Those were the days. My own collection isn't too shabby but pales beside yours. That's OK. Thanks for sharing! (thumbs u

I think I would be happy paring my collection down to just the 2,240 books in the Gerbers. That's an amazing number of books to come out in March '52! Even at 10 cents each that's about $45.00 to buy one month's worth ... yow! "So Ghoul, another question for you: how did you determine which issue of each series to purchase?" As a completist, I wanted all the main titles (Superman, Batman etc). For the oddball companies, I wanted samples of their books but it was a crapshoot knowing what you were going to get in pre-internet days. I bought a sample copy of Silver Streak (sight unseen) to check it out and got the worst cover in the bunch (#22 I think). Gag. Mostly I depended on the swell cover repros in Overstreet to base my buying decisions on. For those still reading ... Bazooka Joe comics still come with the gum. They started in 1954 and there are somewhere around 1,500 different comics. If you count variations ... they seem endless at the moment. I'm close to having it all figured out. If I get a chance to start a thread I will (I should scan some first). Sounds like fun. I'll answer any questions in the meantime if you PM me.

I had (have) 22,000 books pre 1985 when I called it quits. The bubblegum comics are just those little wax paper inserts in bubblegum ... like Bazooka Joe. Have you not seen those? I should start a separate thread on those if there is any interest.

When I started my goal was to get one of every superhero comic ever made. Then it branched out to one of every comic ever made. Then I got interested in all forms of comic art: Sunday strips, Big Little Books, comic ADS, Fanzines, etc. It got crazy. It wasn't possible to complete my "goal" so I branched off into something I could more easily complete: non-sports cards. After 10 years of collecting/dealing in those, I had nearly all I wanted and lost interest there. My newest challenge is to get all the comics that came with bubblegum: Bazooka Joe, Fleer Funnies, etc. and I'm having a blast! I guess the point is: Your interests may shift and become redefined but once a collector, always a collector?

Those Miracle covers are GREAT! Makes me wish I had some.

I started buying Golden Age when I was 16 (1971). I had a paper route and I had money to burn. The first was Batman #18. Over the next 10 years I acquired just about all the GA comics I have today (several hundred). So ... I think MOST people who collect GA are not old fogeys looking to recapture books they read as kids.

Cool book, Bonds! Esquire ... uh ... you picked up some great books too (to say the least)

But ... but ... if I show my Gerber 7's and above, then everyone will know they exist and they might lose some of their mystique. None of my books have been CGC'd by the way. and they've all been off the market for 25 years or more.

Yep, that's a keeper!

Awesome article! I spent many hours going through old back issues of The Buyer's Guide last summer looking for those original ads by Joe Tricharichi. I was trying to determine if some of the "unmarked" comics I have may have been Larson's but now I think they aren't. For example, I thought I "might" have the Larson Speed #1 but obviously, I don't. My copy may have come from an un-named pedigree perhaps. I found his first ad but then I got sidetracked by other things and never found the rest of his list. It sure brought back memories though looking through those old TBG's!

I love the short run Golden Age titles myself. I've got the Hyper #1 which I probably posted a cover scan of sometime in the past. Maybe mine is the Larson copy. Anyway, I wanted to mention that the earliest full page panel in comics interests me. Prior to Whirlwind Comics, full page panels appeared in Speed #1 (which I also posted in the past). It's from Oct or Nov 1939! I'd like to track down the REAL first panel in comics. Great stuff!

I love the short run Golden Age titles myself. I've got the Hyper #1 which I probably posted a cover scan of sometime in the past. Maybe mine is the Larson copy. Anyway, I wanted to mention that the earliest full page panel in comics interests me. Prior to Whirlwind Comics, full page panels appeared in Speed #1 (which I also posted in the past). It's from Oct or Nov 1939! I'd like to track down the REAL first full page panel in comics. Great stuff!

My oh my ... those Marvel Mystery's are what it's all about for me. Grail's all! My earliest is #10. I always thought the conclusion of the Torch vs. Subby Battle was more desirable. #9 has a great cover though.

Cool book! I love that Atlas globe on it. Would that make it one of the first Atlas comics?

Master #27 is a tremendous book! Congrats! There is a whole string of great covers by Raboy around that time period. Unfortunately, I've never really collected Fawcett so I've never seen the insides.

While we're waiting for Doiby to correct his scanner problems ... not as "exciting" as the Schomburg covers but this one is still nice:

What the heck, here's a book I bought back in 1973. First time I ever broke the $100 barrier on a comic. I was 18 years old and more addicted to comics than girls!

Those are beyond "nice" (obviously)! Great books!

Congrats! It looks better than my copy.

Just rated you 5 stars (bumped it up to 3)! Can't believe I hadn't rated practically my favorite thread til now. Suggestion: I know those Marvel Mysterys are lurking. When you start on them, maybe you should start with the newsest issues first and work back in the numbering to the beginning. I know it would be much more dramatic (for me) that way!

YOW! It's late and I must have dozed off at the computer. I'm dreaming!

shiverbones: If I remember right, you like pre-code horror, correct? You would CRY at the prices those books were going for in 1975 - Basically, $2.00 each (not EC, of course. Those averaged $15-$20 for NM).