50YrsCollctngCmcs

I love the juxtaposition of Mr. Scarlet on the logo of 3 and 4!

I've always wondered why Timely used green so often on the faces of villains (funny animals too!). It is a very unnatural color. Someone there must have loved using it. Might even make a great thread; I don't own enough Timelys to do it though.

That's some great reading! Lost in the Andes and Back to the Klondike being two of my absolute favorites. Only a Poor Old Man is also iconically classic.

It's funny but I don't recall ever seeing these at the flea markets of my youth back east. It seems like the kind of thing I would have noticed as I was well aware of the Yellow Kid after reading "The Comics" an early history of the comic strip medium when I was twelve of so. I do remember some Outcault Greeting Cards I wished I had bought and even some Ub Iwerks cells (non Disney) I also wished I had purchased. I had read about Ub Iwerks in the "The Disney Version" back then too. When Steranko's "History of Comics" came out I was in seventh heaven! Even so Golden Age comics were tough to find back then at the flea markets with only the occaisional score.

I've yet to score any of the Dwarf covers in this era though I am always bidding on them and trying to find a good one. Great book!

I was happy to pick this up in the latest Heritage Sunday auction for a decent price. Slabbed by some unnamed company it will be coming out of the tomb for reading. I love these big thick first series four colors. This is my third in that series. A plus is I've never read Captain Easy so this will be quite interesting.

I read these so raw books would be of great interest to me.

Please list the raw books too.

Interesting collection of paper and pins. I've never seen the original Life in person, looks like newsprint that was pretty fragile. Is it a comedy or farce magazine mostly? Many years ago I saw some of the Yellow Kid postcards at a flea market. Always regretted not picking them up. If you want to learn more about some of Outcault's contemporaries; I'd recommend reading the book KRAZY about Herriman.

That's a fun series. I've got a bunch I bought off the stands in the seventies. Probably not too rare except in high grade and maybe the later issues when distribution got spotty.

Wow that's quite the one two punch of Barks fun!! Plus I didn't realize Gary Dolgoff was still selling comics! He's a good old time dealer. He probably had that in stock a long time!!

I missed your post when it was first on line. NIce collection of some fun Disney books. I like the variety of items you have collected. Great stuff!

The paperback show at the same venue is also lots of fun. Always some interesting paper on offer there plus so many many paperbacks!! Sorry I will miss CalCon again this year I always manage to find a fun book or two there too. Happy selling and hunting!

Awesome photos Bob; I miss that show but should make August! I need one of those Toronado models; I've been eying up a full size one for years.

I had to go re-read the story of his death. Yes strange and sad indeed. One thing I just learned is that I used to live right next to where he is buried; I wish I had known at the time I would have gone to visit the grave site. I can still do so it's just a bit out of the way but will do so one day and perhaps leave a Superman memento!

This is actually a sad photo and one that many people today luckily don't understand. The crutches in the background of the first image and the leg brace would indicate this girl was likely stricken with polio. Early baby boomers would have still been susceptible to this virus and I actually had a co-worker only about five years older than myself who had been stricken with it as a child resulting in one of her legs being less developed than the other. I was lucky enough to have been born when the vaccine was available. It's no wonder that Superman came to pay a visit! While his stories may have been corny and he didn't have the "problems" of the Marvel heroes; Superman always embodied virtues that were above and beyond your normal hero!

Yes I picked this up during Covid lockdown. It really seemed to fly under the radar but was a nice edition. I also wish they would do more.

So classy; I love how Frizi wears heels at the beach!

These books bring back memories of reading newspaper strips in the Sunday color sections that still existed in the early seventies. Our local paper had an OK section but my grandmother took the Daily News which still had a tabloid book of comics that came with the Sunday paper. I saved a bunch of those for a long time but discarded them in a move many years ago. They were a throwback to glory days with the front featuring a full page of D**k Tracy and the back featuring Dondi in a full page. The interiors were pretty extensive as I recall but there were now new favorites amongst the more classic strips. Blondie, Prince Valiant, Gasoline Alley and Smokey Stover were still around but newer strips like BC, Hagar and Doonesbury were now on the scene. You can barely get a newspaper today let alone a comics section and the last Sunday papers I received had such a paltry excuse for a comics page it was depressing. Time marches on; I'm not wired enough to know where to go look for today's equivalent, but it must exist. And I'm sure the future of AI computing will deliver some interesting takes on story telling in a digital form. Good for today's generation but I still love the feel of newsprint between my fingers!!

The only place I have found old comics in Tokyo is a used bookstore in a small bookstore neighborhood. It is adjacent to a music supply neighborhood which my daughter wanted to visit; so we trekked down to the bookstore after the music store visit. I walked in and was disappointed to find all the comics had been removed and I couldn't figure out where they might have gone. As we left we noticed a sign on the door indicating they had opened a new store down the street a bit. We trekked down there and found a much bigger store stocked with old magazines and the comics from the other store. But there was a nice surprise in that there was a nice stack of vintage Dell Little Lulus. Most were pretty beat up but I picked up a decent copy of #20 for a good price. I wonder how this little stack of Lulus got to Japan??

Another book I need to add to my Amazon want list. I would never have thought of looking for this one; so thanks for posting. And by one of my favorite cartoonists Bill Griffith of Zippy fame! Love it!

I should have taken more shots of the stores but I did get one storefront and a shot of a high end tube amp. There’s a great variety of things there beyond manga and figures like model trains, bookstores and even military gear! Wish we had a mall like this in the states! Best wishes for a 2024 filled with amazing junk!

There is some American comic representation with figures but no books. But this Japanese Batman looked fun whatever it is!

This Godzilla seemed pretty old and quite unique.

Here’s some other fun stuff.