Gopher John

Praise from an Adventure Comics collector!

I like watching the changes in Krypto over his first 5-10 covers.

This thread needs a

 

Karin is soooo cute; if I were one of the other 3 SS members, I wouldn't mind the fact that her shoe is always falling off either.

First off, I got this for 6.95 + $2.95 shipping on ebay. The scan doesn't do it justice; it has 100% of its cover gloss and looks like someone just pulled it off the spinner rack (hey, they resulted in a few creases).

But I really love this for its irony:

Superboy #92

Which contains the following in the Smallville Mailsack (letters to the editor) section:

The VERY NEXT ISSUE was 12¢

Although I could never compete with you high grade guys , I'm just as happy as a clam with this issue that I just picked up from ebay...

Here's my newest... (not the HG eye-candy that others can claim, but its my favorite early Ant-Man cover):

How is that a 2.5? Looks MUCH nicer to me. Hidden defects?

Not the highest grade, but I'm not sure if I've seen this one posted yet:

I'm going to enjoy cracking this one out, white pages and overall it probably has the feel of a higher grade book but the defects on the top edge must have brought it down.

To me, that is the closest thing to a Golden Age cover in Marvel's Silver Age. I think it is my very favorite SA Marvel Cover. (thumbs u

Wow, that's the first I've ever received.

I bought this comic 12 years ago for $32

"Battle of the TTA 2s! The gauntlet has been cast! :headbang:"

In any toss-up, my vote would always go to the raw copy (thumbs u

Here is my favorite silver-age Batman in my collection:

I love silver age Batman. When I first started collecting vintage comics (around 1981), silver age Batman was my fave! Alas, I sold all those books when I decided I needed to "grow up"

Awesome Silver Age Collection

I'm not sure which one is the jealousy icon, so I'll give this one a try:

These boards tend to be very image intensive, but short on discussion.

As the originator of this thread, I was hoping for some discussion too.

I have about 10 Adventure Comics topics I'd like to discuss, but I'll start it out with this one:

When did the Silver Age begin specific to Adventure Comics?

I personally am of the belief that each series had its own unique entry into the Silver Age. For me, Adventure seemed to be focused on Superboy as a a kid (like 11-13) up until the mid-to-late 50's, then it really changed its focus to Superboy as a teen-ager. It might be coincidence, but this change seemed to me to occur about the same time as Showcase #4. As an example, here is #227 where Superboy is quite clearly a BOY:

Compared to an issue like #246 where he seems to be a teen-ager:

The change wasn't a sharply defined one. In the late 40's and early 50's he was almost exclusively a boy, in the mid 50's he seemed to shift back-and-forth from boy to teenager, but by the late 50's/early 60's he was exclusively a teenager.

My guess is that this was a result of changing demographics. In 1953 the first of the baby-boomers was seven. By 1959, however, there were teenaged boomers. DC was likely just trying to appeal to this changing audience.

Another guess is that Adventure Comics focus on a teen-ager had more of an impact on Marvel Comics than most other DC titles.

Anyway, I just wanted to start off a discussion in addition to the eye-candy covers that I cannot compete with.

-John

Thanks. I am re-entering collecting from a long absence. The last Green Lantern I bought was #4 in 1982 or 1983 from a tiny comic shop in Golden Colorado. My mom drove me there. Ahh, memories.

I also bought a FC110 featuring Little Lulu that day (probably her 2nd or 3rd appearance) that the guy priced as Little Lulu #110. Wow.

Thanks to Blind Owl, I added this one this week:

I don't think anyone's posted this one yet...

I'm not in the same league as you high grade guys. For my collection, however, this is the ideal grade. No major flaws but not so perfect that it is neither unreadable nor commands a premium. A copy like this one just puts me on

Now if I could only find them all in the 5.0 to 7.0 range... anybody selling?

Little did I know when I started this thread that it would subject me to such envy and depression

Oh well, I guess I can take some consolation in the fact that I can regularly read them (thumbs u

I don't have most of my favorites yet (waiting around to find them in mid-grades with good eye appeal), but here is one of my favorite covers that i read yesterday. Good story.

So what makes 229 the first Silver Age issue?

I'm not sure if this is an honest question or if it's a bit of poking

I'm using Overstreet's definition (October 1956 - the month that DC released Showcase #4 and The Flash).

Personally, I don't get too hung up in the semantics. I prefer to talk about pre-code and post-code because it is something we can all agree on.

I note that there is no thread devoted to silver age Adventure Comics.

As someone pointed out a couple of weeks ago (I think it was "Silver"), Adventure introduced to the world: Krypto the Super-Dog, the Legion of Superheroes, Red Kryptonite, General Zod, The Phantom Zone and Bizarro World. Plus it had great backup features with Aquaman and Green Arrow leading the way.

So, I will start off the Silver Age Adventure Comics Collectors Thread with...

The last Atom Age issue:

and....

The first Silver Age issue:

#230 anyone?

Just won this on Heritage's Sunday Auction.

I'm working on a World's Finest set in mid/high grades from #66 - #106.

Yippee!

I love that book.

Me too! Probably my favorite of the late pre-hero Marvel era.

One of my favorite silver-age 10¢ Batman covers:

I just bought this on ebay (don't have it in hand yet):

Until I see it up close, I can't be sure - but it sure looks like it has a lot of eye appeal for a 4.0. Perhaps a wee bit undergraded.

Someone asked for World's Finest?

 

too small, can you scan them full size?

Sure:

Someone asked for World's Finest?