BitterOldMan

Picked up Wednesday. Death in Silver is my favorite Doc Savage story of all time!

With a $1,000 limit, the vast majority of my comics are cheap. Paid $990. Bought my first low grade FC 386 for $25 at the first Berkeley Comic Con in 1973. $25 in 1973 would be $158.30 today.

When I saw cheap, I thought of Mad magazine who always put cheap next to their price. Some very interesting stuff posted in this informative thread.

I apologize if this was already posted. Neither the eighty page giant Batman 5 nor Avengers 68 are rare. https://news.yahoo.com/head-security-fsus-strozier-library-151922675.html

Must be using one of the smaller parts of Moscone Center. The San Francisco International Auto Show will coincide with the SF Fan Expo.

EC all day, every day! I loved the artwork. The stories were kind of cheesy with the punchline at the end. Two pages from my small collection.

Stan Lee… "In the beginning, comics were the lowest rung on the cultural totem pole. I'd go to a party and people would say 'What do you do?' 'Um, uh, I'm a writer' and I'd try to walk away. And the guy would follow. 'What do you write?' 'Oh, er, stories for kids'. Well finally he'd pin me down and I'd say, 'Okay, I write comic books' - and boy, he couldn't get away fast enough," he said.

The US title was Jim Thorpe, All-American. The UK title was Man of Bronze. I need the erase the Doc Savage movie from my memory ….. “Have no fear, the Man of Bronze is here.” 🤢

Jim Thorpe movie is better than the George Pal Doc Savage movie.☹️ Doc Savage movie was painful to watch, since I had high, but unrealistic, expectations as a young Doc Savage fan.

Here is my Mars Attacks set that I completed in the seventies. I bought some cards in 1962, but lost them running around in the playground. Mars Attacks is my favorite card set, including sports cards. In 1971, I saw an ad in Baseball Digest advertising older nonsports cards for sale and bought 44 out of 55. I found nine through The Trader Speaks, a sports card monthly. I bought the last card from long time dealer, Dennis King, at his first store in Berkeley. Notice the Outer Limits card, which is part of a complete set. Here is my Mars Attacks wrapper. Never found an original box that was affordable.

The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. The Shadow Secret Society kit from seventies purchased directly from Jim Steranko. I used to keep the card in my wallet, just in case the Shadow needed to contact me.

Here are two busts of Doc Savage sculpted by Randy Bowen for Graphitti Designs owned by Bob Chapman. Bob runs the licensed tshirts for SDCC. Left bust is resin, the right bust is bronze. The Man of Bronze in bronze. The bronze bust came in a wooden crate . Wish the crate was labeled Hildalgo Trading Company.

Here is my membership kit to the Brotherhood of Bronze issued by the great Jim Steranko in the seventies through his informative magazine Mediascene. I really liked the Clark Savage Jr. signature on the membership card.

US 16 back cover.

From Jim Steranko’s club that he formed in the seventies. I carried my card in my wallet for years, until the bronze coloring came off.

Here is my OA from the modern Doc Savage comics with a cover painted by Alex Ross as a homage to the fantastic James Bama covers. The Bama covers drew my attention, though the stories were not as great as the covers. I read all 181 Doc Savage original stories.

Poor man’s Man of Bronze published in 1933. Generally found in poor condition. Reminds me of Big Little books.

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