circumstances

Trying!

And there's some good'uns!

It barely fits in a spare bedroom!

no i did not!

If it's real, you in!

I think I still have four AMFs total. I had more, but no idea where they've gone off to. The Vol.1#3 I got from the Claire S. Moe was in excellent condition, but was missing a page! I sold it about 15 years ago (if I had to guess).

Love it! And happy to have two of those pictured.

He can really pull off a purple cape!

Thanks! Why not?

Those were great days. I remember trading 100 or 200 Spiderman 252s towards a Batman #1 at $5.00 or $6.00 a piece (while we paid like 30 cents for them).

I saw some of Music's when he had them with him at a con, and then the rest when he was visiting family in my area. The prices were prohibitive and I bought nada from him.

I was surprised by the condition as well. I wonder if there were other duplicates, since we each got AMF 2/5. Did Music buy them from the ad, or get them from someone who did? He told me when he tried to sell them to me, but I can't remember.

I never really sold any of my original Marvel runs, but I traded them all for Gooooooolllllllldddddd! in the 80's and early 90's. I weirdly still have like a box of Warlock appearances (I collected all his appearances, whether I collected the series he appeared in or not), some Neal Adams Marvels, Barry Smith Marvels, odds and ends. Nothing significant, just books that never got traded. I randomly have a bunch of silver age DC from those days, that were never in my collection, but also never got traded (Brave and Bold 28, JLA 1, Showcases, Mystery in Spaces, etc.). I also bought some collections in the last 8 or 9 years, so I have a lot of the Marvel runs I traded away again (but I don't consider any of those books in my current collection).

I was a Marvel reading kid from about January, 1975. I was 11. I started collecting all the series I was reading (Thor/JIM, Spiderman, Avengers, XMen, DD, FF, etc.). I eventually 100% completed my Marvel collection, but as I was working on it I traveled to the 1978 Phil Seuling 4th of July convention in NYC (with one of the owners of my LCS and Mike Zeck). I was 14. Besides tons of silver age Marvels I needed for my runs, I bought my first golden age comics: Human Torch #13 and World's Finest #9, from Jay Maybruck at Sparkle City (we ended up doing a lot of stuff over the next dozen or so years). So, even though I ended up completing my Marvel runs, I was buying gold and silver from then on, and ultimately transitioned to gold exclusively.

I first became aware of the publisher from the color photo section of the Overstreet Price Guide in 1976 or 1977. There was a full page pic of Amazing Mystery Funnies Vol. 2 #7, and I knew I needed to own that book one day. Shortly after that I saw Amazing Man #15 for sale in Sam Frazer's catalog for $12.50, and boom, I owned my first Centaur (probably early 1979). I wasn't able to acquire any more until J & S advertised the Claire S. Moe estate collection in the CBG, and I bought as many as I could (I got about 15). I'm guessing that was mid-1984. I continued to pick them up here and there until the early 90s, and then again in the last few years.

I got most of my Centaurs around 1984. Is that early on?

Thank you, sir.

Thanks. I just like this thread near the top.

The comic world's least well-kept secret!