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Flex Mentallo

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    'The past is a foreign country...'

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    On 2/11/2022 at 8:48 PM, MrBedrock said:

    I bought this book from Tanner Miles at a Houston Con in the early 70's when I was 9 or 10 years old. Later I entrusted it to Straw-Man when #72 was one of the last issues he needed to complete the run. A few years ago he returned it...

    Printed 75 years ago. In the family for almost 50 years...

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    That's a beauty!

    'The past is a foreign country...'

    in Golden Age Comic Books

    Posted · Edited by Flex Mentallo

    '...they do things differently there.'

    LP Hartley, the first line of The Go-Between

     

    In a parallel thread, a fellow boardie @70s80sTimeMachine eloquently wrote:

    Sure when I was assembling my Bats run from the later GA and early SA periods, it was an incredible experience. But the most meaningful moments and fun I had in years was when I was running after and getting the actual books I read as a kid in near mint newsstand quality condition all over again. No matter how many times I look at these particular slabs, it's as if I have been teleported back in time; this is nostalgia in it's most potent form. 

     

    What more powerful reason to collect than this? So regardless of time period, Gold, Silver, Bronze or Modern, it would be fascinating to see other boardies share those comics they've [re]collected that rewind the clock, and carry us back to the lost world of childhood memories...

    Why the Collectibles Market will never stop growing - probably

    in Golden Age Comic Books

    Posted

    On 2/11/2022 at 7:34 PM, 70s80sTimeMachine said:

    DD has another brilliant line; something about taking us to a place where we ache to go again.

    Into my heart an air that kills
             From yon far country blows:
    What are those blue remembered hills,
             What spires, what farms are those?
            
    That is the land of lost content,
             I see it shining plain,
    The happy highways where I went
             And cannot come again.

    Men’s Adventure Mags

    in Comic Magazines

    Posted · Edited by Flex Mentallo

    On 2/11/2022 at 2:27 PM, Randall Dowling said:

    So, I blame you, mostly.

    Sure, why not? Everyone else does [and I have broad shoulders] lol

    Hopefully those three will turn up for you, and wont cost you a kidney. :foryou:If I see any of them on EbayUK I'll let you know.  I recall I was lucky with the All Man - I'd just lost out on a high grade copy, which had been randomly noticed by another Ebayer, who subsequently offered me his high grade copy at the same price - the one I showed above. Otherwise, who knows, I might still be looking!

    Insofar as none are common, and some are quite rare, there might always be a few outliers for any given collector. Luck plays a big part with these.  @lbcolefanhas some even I'd never seen before he posted them in this thread, and I was searching hard for many years.

     

    Dont know if its helpful, but the same painting was used as the cover to Man's Best Magazine: July 1962 [this copy is actually listed on EbayUK but at a ridiculous price given the actual grade.]

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    Why the Collectibles Market will never stop growing - probably

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    “I have now reigned above 50 years in victory or peace; beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call. I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to 14.” Abd al-Rahman III, Caliph of Cordoba, summing up a life of worldly success at about age 70.

     

    I'm sure we are all slack-jawed at what is happening to the comic market in recent times, and I would be surprised anyone saw it coming. [And consequently, the inevitable 'if only I hadn't let go of that one, it would be worth so much more today'.]

     

    Quite by chance I came across the following article the other day and it seems to me to sum up the whys and wherefores of acquisition better than anything I've read on the subject before.

     

    It seems that dopamine has an awful lot to answer for...

     

    Why we are never satisfied