Marty Mann

Not sure how he would rank today against the current Superheroes but the Golden Age CAPTAIN  MARVEL will always be

my favorite.  From the first copy I picked off the newsstand in 1944, CAPTAIN MARVEL was always my choice over anything

else.  I didn't buy my first SUPERMAN COMIC until late 1945.

Here are my original newsstand copies both in still pretty good shape.

On 5/6/2024 at 8:46 AM, Shazam500 said:

So the history is that Captain Marvel (Shazam) was #1 for a few years in the 1940's and exceeding Superman.  

How would you rank Shazam's significance as a character today in DC Comics?  If Superman and Batman are "A" level characters.. where is Shazam/Captain Marvel ranked? 

Feel free to throw in some other characters who are "A" "B" "C" and "D" level characters from the Golden Age and today

Thank you for starting this thread...much more to come.

Marty

Never pass on an opportunity to share this...AAA.

Always happy I held onto this...it was tucked away inside another comic for many years.

Gone was GREEN LANTERN, WONDER WOMAN, THE FLASH, THE ATOM, JOHNNY PERIL, COTTON-TOP KATIE and

MUTT & JEFF...

TERRIFIC!

 Newsstands only posted one or two at a  time due to limited space...but Newsrooms  would stack them up in piles.

On 4/25/2024 at 10:31 PM, sfcityduck said:

The late 40s to early 50s issues of Star Spangled are some of the most enjoyable comics around. Adventure of the same period is also highly underrated. Really, all the anthologies. Folks just don't seem to care about the back-ups. Me, I love them also. Especially Vigilante, Shining Knight, Robot Man, Wildcat, so many!

Agreed! There were so many great pack-up features...like STAR- SPANGLED KID and LIBERTY BELLE...

On 4/24/2024 at 11:01 AM, Marty Mann said:

 

 

 

 

A couple early EC's

On 4/23/2024 at 2:42 PM, Hepcat said:

What then were the last few comics you purchased?

And now after taking a seventy year breather, do you not feel sufficiently refreshed to start adding to your collection again? e.g. all those issues from the late 1940's and early 1950's you missed out on at the time?

Actually my last Golden Age Comic was not bought of a newsstand but purchased directly from EC

I was stationed in Key West Florida and read in the Sunday Miami Herald about a EC Comic featuring Flying Saucer

stories, I sent 25 cents to EC and in a few weeks had a copy of WEIRD-SCIENCE FANTASY #26.

On 4/20/2024 at 12:07 PM, Hepcat said:

Ahhhh, so the "Robin" issues were your favourite part of the Star Spangled run!

But where have you posted all the collecting stories from your boyhood?

My first STAR SPANGLED COMIC...and boyhood stories are scattered over the past 144 pages.

On 4/16/2024 at 3:14 PM, ThothAmon said:

 

On 4/18/2024 at 11:18 AM, Hepcat said:

What were your favourite titles as a kid? Are they still your favourite titles from back in the 1940's?

What prompted you to go to that show? Were your two sons avid comic fans? If so which titles? And are they still comic collectors?

The comics on the stands were thirty cents in 1976. Were you tempted to pick up any of the new ones?

My favorite titles were CAPTAIN MARVEL ADVENTURES, FLASH COMICS  STAR SPANGLED COMICS  FOUR COLOR COMICS...

still my favorites

Interested to see what was at a COMIC BOOK SHOW.

My sons became avid collectors of mostly MARVEL titles...we are no longer collectors.,