50YrsCollctngCmcs

A win from the last Clink auction arrived this week. I have been looking for this book since the 70's so it was nice to finely snag a decent copy. It is a CGC 7.0 but I rescued it from it's plastic cell and let it out to run free! Great backup story with Dumbo and the Seven Dwarfs. Funny how Thumper meets the Seven Dwarfs came out prior to this book's release. Makes you wonder who thought up that early team up!!

Can anyone point out what post had the last tally on this thread. I have some older four colors I could post but don't want to repeat anything.

Mike, Welcome! Is that a Terror on the River file copy duck peeking out of your icon?? Frank

Hey Jay, hope all is well. Mike and I still talk about that Encounter dinner, too much fun. Next dinner we should set a goal of getting a picture of 100 books together in one place!!

Yes, those early Nationals seem pretty pricey. I first got turned onto these stories when reading the DC 100 pagers of the early 70's which would reprint some of the Quality tales. I really dug Kid Eternity and just picked up my first issues earlier this year. There is a picture of that a few pages back in this thread on the table at the SoCal Forum dinner. Has anyone ever published the story behind that DC buyout of Quality, I would like to read that someday.

Wow, what I find so fascinating about this shot is how long Dollman was an ongoing feature. What was his run in years? I have picked up a few Quality books over the last year from the Crippen collection and they have a nice feel to them, almost but not quite a DC. It is also interesting to observe how Dollman was featured at a larger scale on some of those issues and then became more diminutive and finally dissapearing at the end of the run. Makes you wonder what editorial decisions drove that, although similar decisions were being made on the later issues of Green Lantern, Flash and other hero books. Great collection, I am looking to pick up a National or Uncle Sam one of these days, any suggestions there?

Those remaindered books is how I started collecting comics. We used to go to a flea market on Saturday mornings, Englishtown Auction Sales in New Jersey. They had regular indoor vendors and transient vendors at tables outside. One of the vendors inside sold back issue magazines and paperbacks. But I could care less about that as the biggest attraction to me were the stacks of remaindered comics which I think sold for a nickel. My brother and I managed to talk our Dad into spending a quarter each week and we got hooked on Harveys! That stand was there well into the early seventies as I vividly remember some guys buying Supermans in the 230's to 240's which is about when I started to get into him. That's also the time I became conscience of collecting and I no longer wanted comics missing their covers! Lots of great back issue buys outside but that isn't this thread.

I'm not sure if this has been posted yet or not, but a fun San Diego buy from a number of years ago.