Ian_Levine

I have most of the Whitmans but don't consider them essential. Got all the So Much Funs and the Superhombre. I only thought there were two Amethyst variants, I got one and won the other on e-Bay but it never arrived and they stiffed the guy who bought it for me. I don't consider them essential but wanted them anyway. Not interested in pence copies. I throw them in my spare boxes. Got virtually every second print and variant cover ever made. And that includes all the speight of new ones with 1 in 25 variants of Justice Society etc etc

Hit a BIN on eBay about 2 years ago. Was it a BIN ?? I thought he was privately playing you me and Al Stoltz all against each other. I'd love to trade as I vowed a long time ago I'd not pay more than $1000 for it, simply because it's not worth it. But I let all my Golden Age spares go to Harley. I still have a spare New Adventure 14 and a spare More Fun 58 (Spectre cover, the one with the pendulum), which I left with someone else, but I think the NA 14 has the wrong back cover and the More Fun has a centrefold missing but only ad pages, not story. I'd trade you the pair for the Supergear. They still gotta be worth $2000 together, purely because of the enormous rarity of the New Adventure.

That was at a time when financial pressures were getting to me and I was merely thinking aloud and considering it. I made a couple of very tentative and indefinite enquiries briefly. Mainly because I went heavily into debt to complete the collection a few years ago. But in the cold light of day, I realised the idea was ridiculous after forty years, and I fought off the temptation.

For $1, I'll buy 'em for spares. You can even send them to my Mom in Florida to save the postage to England.

Yes I have everything you list, plus ALL the G.I. Combats from 1 up. There's a lot of snobbery because all my keys are restored, and I intentionally sought out restored books, and took every comic I bought out of its slab (except for "What Do You Know About This Comic's Seal Of Approval", which I kept slabbed simply because it's the only copy known to man.

The three DC Sports Illustrated giveaways are fairly common and appear on e-Bay all the time. You can't compare them to the scarcity of stuff like The Aquateers Meet The Super Friends, the Looney Tunes Tyson mini-comics, A set of all five Flash Force 2000, Twisted Metal, The Dirt-Minator, Happy Tooth, The All American Freihofers giveaway, the Remco Warlord mini-comic, the two Silly Putty Man comics, and Narrative Illustration - The Story Of The Comics. And then there's the Superman/Bradman comic. Now those that I listed define what I term as rare.

That quickly It took forty years.

I pop back in here after three years and read stuff like this and I remember why I left. What gives you the right to judge people who you don't know. I love my comics, always have done, know everything there is to know about the JSA and virtually all the Silver Age, especially the early Justice Leagues. How can you pass comment on someone who you don't know ??

It's a mock-up that he had created. Correct. Matt Nelson did it for me with the scan I acquired years ago of the cover, and with the correct Doctor Occult pages reprinted inside. I had three done back in 2004.

I was posting the pics up on here but I see they're already up three pages back, which is great.

I started when I was ten. Started seriously in the early 1970s. Completed it in July 2005.

Awesome. Plus......... Number on on the TV charts, a forty-something share, seen by over fifteen million people and an Appreciation Index of 91, the highrest ever.

I finally found a copy of "The Aquateers Meet The Super Friends", which has to be the rarest DC promo ever, given away with kids snorkels and flippers in 1979 or thereabouts. A couple of rare promos still elude me - a pamphlet called "Advertise In DC and Join The Stars", and the brochure in 1990 to promte the Flash TV Series, plus I never did get a "Supergear" but as it's a bootleg and was illegal and got pulled because DC stopped it as it infringed their copyright, it doesn't count, although it would still be nice to have one. But no-one can ever claim to have every promo as the list is infinite. I can certainly claim to have every DC comic ever issued for sale, of course.

I have every Trade, every comic, the lot. No exceptions. Right up to date. I get my comics from Paul Sassienie of Comic Biz, and have done so for years. He has written many books about comics and he personally ensures I never miss any DC, including Trades, Hardbacks, and Absolute Editions. And there are well over 35000 DCs now.

I see I'm being discussed. I found it painful to visit these boards regularly, as I got trolled an awful lot on them, and made many enemies, and didn't think it worth the trouble when the whole experience was not a pleasant one. I possess every DC comic ever sold, right up to this week, and continue to do so. I possess almost every promo ever made as well. There are a couple of elusive ones, plus we can never be sure we know a complete list because they have made so many obscure premiums for various companies, and we discover new ones all the time that we had previously never heard of. But I can assure you there is no other collection like it.

I know I've not been on here for a while, but Metarog asked me to post up the ridiculously rare "Aquateers Meet The Superfriends" mini-comic, that I just finally got after nearly thirty years. http://boards.collectors-society.com/attachments//1671422-Aquateers%2Cjpg

Without wishing to stray too far away from the ever unsolvable problem of Double Action 1, you know those nine annuals were all UK only, don't you They were rebound comics in very thick hard solid glossy cardboard covers.

But my anti-Repub!ican sentiments are stronger than ever, I'm afraid to say. Which is why I stayed away for so long from these particular boards.

Yes I have the whole set Metal Men Green Lantern Hawkman Showcase Brave And The Bold Mystery In Space Atom Doom Patrol Wonder Woman Unless anyone knows of any others apart from those nine.

Bill Ponsetti. And I still treasure them.

Double Action 2 was certainly released in a limited fashion, as I know of 11 copies, and it has a colour cover, which none of the ashcans have. I was always told that Double Action 1 was created but never actually released. The cover in colour was supposedly taken from the actual artwork but never printed, which is why, many years ago, I gave the scan of the artwork to Matt Nelson and he created a mockup of the comic, having to re-ink over the cover to clarify it. Here's a scan of what was supposed to be the original cover, that I've had for years now.

I haven't been on the boards for a while, so I only just saw all this. I have no reason to doubt the authenticity of the artwork, I never have. It was apparently borrowed or given as a gift or stolen in the 1960s by some old Canadian guy who's long dead, so I was told. The chain of discovery has eroded over the years, but I still believe it to be true, and have no reason to lie about it.

That Adventure 65 looks really strange. I've seen loads of copies and the blue is always more turquoise than that. Either it's an oddment with different colour, or the camera has changed the tone of the blue.

I couldn't work out what was going on here, as issues 1 through 8 were Uncle Sam, but I just realised these are Australian copies.

I was very impressed with his pic. But pedigrees don't interest me like they do so many others. All I care about is having the comics in a condition that looks appealing to the eye, which results in my love of restored keys. My Action 1, Detective 27, and All American 16, look so fabulous that they just made me an even bigger fan of restoration. One day it will all change. But I did find his pic impressive. His Detective 12 looks breathtaking.