Ken Aldred

You're too funny for that. Won't happen with Jimmers, either.

That's why I described comic collecting as a historically pricey hobby, even when I started collecting in 1977 as a 13-year-old. Being used to buying 12p comics from a bus station news stand, and then going to my first comic marts and seeing books such as ASM 121 for £8, which would've been around $15 at the time.

I concur. A rare cover at Marvel by one of the best cover artists of the 70s, Nick Cardy ; usually, prolifically more associated with DC Comics during this Bronze Age period.

Very polarising work. Again, not for everyone.

Exactly why it's too broad a topic to generalise and make recommendations that would suit the majority. Great, very interesting books but inessential unless, maybe, you're a Golden Age collector. As a Bronze Age specialist I can do without them.

Just noticed the absence of a vital feature... space dolphins.

Sorry to hear this.

Limited appeal. Too arthouse and highbrow.

Yup. I paid £1-50 for my UK pence copy of IM 55 around then.

My favourites are the science-fiction adaptations...

Yup. Fond memories of picking up my DC 100 pagers for 15 pence each. Great value. A pound went a long way back then.

EC comics adapted quite a few Ray Bradbury stories.

I'm someone else who would've enjoyed collecting GA, under different conditions. In the UK, and as a kid in the 70s, I didn't know of any dealers who specialised in the Age, and the stories I read in DC 100 pagers seemed completely unattainable here; just a pipe dream. Later on, as a high grade collector, the books were way too expensive and still too elusive for me to put together an extensive collection, although at one point I did have a few low grade Police Comics issues, which I'd picked up for the Cole Plastic Man stories. Eventually, I settled for having the much cheaper DC Archive hardcovers.

It's always been a pricey hobby, especially at the high grade level, but I still feel a bit sorry for the new intake of young collectors, who've entered at this point and will have to pay quite exorbitant sums for key issues from the outset. I'm glad I'm at a stage where I've got enough already and don't really need to continue, or to worry about the upward trend persisting for years or decades, as they might have to.

Same path that I followed in the 70s. At least there's consistency. It didn't take more than a few years for me to get interested in ECs and GA Eisner Spirit.

If the TOS 57 was any brighter I would need to reuse a pair of solar eclipse glasses from Monday's event.

The Stalker, inked by Wally Wood, was quite nice. Just about at your end point.

I suspect so. He does go on a bit with the one-note philosophy. I suspect that some of the villains would find it less traumatising to let go of a flagpole or jump 50 stories off a building and let gravity do its worst, rather than continue suffering from the excruciatingly painful headache caused by one of his endless monologues.

It's interesting work from him. It does have a very detached, sanctimonious feel to it as you get bludgeoned into submission with non-stop Objectivism.

In more conventional terms I'm 53 years old, as based on a primate rather than insectoid scale of measurement.

Very, very interesting, alternative way to calculate age. What is the typical life expectancy of a moth? I suspect that many boardies are actually far, far older than eleven moths, myself included, as this flying insect is here for all too brief a time.

Shows quite a wide range of appreciation for comic book movies. I'm the same. I prefer variety.

Paul Dini / Bruce Timm Matt Fraction / David Aja Geoff Johns / Gary Frank Alejandro Jodorowsky / Jose Ladronn (Modern) or Moebius (Copper Age) Jeff Parker / Gabriel Hardman