PopKulture

I can't possibly pick a favorite from THAT onslaught. Kudos, kudos, kudos!

It was a promo poster at one point as you suggest. I might have one. If I run across it, I'll post a pic.

Totally agree.

I bet I'm not the only boardie that collects these:

Fantastic selection and display! That Elvis wrapper is a killer. I've never seen the Spook Theatre wrapper. Congrats on a great collection.

I never saw it if he did.

As it's been mentioned, Startling 49 is a tough call. As a category, GGA is already widely open to interpretation, even more so than something like the end date of the silver age. That would open the floodgates further... Jo-Jo 25 would probably make my list, and honorable mentions include Rusty 12, Sunny 11, Phantom Lady 16 and so on. And what about Claire Voyant 3?? Man, could Kamen draw a cover...

Totally killer stuff, RM! I like them all, but this is a stand-out! Is this the rarest of the bunch? I would totally collect these, IF I ever found any! Where do you draw the line? 1970's?

All we need are gateway hobbies, something to get the little buggers today to start collecting. Once they're bitten with the bug of collecting, of organizing their stuff, and learning about the history within, and sharing the experience with others, then we'll have new generations of collectors. I think going forward it's going to be smaller and smaller, but not non-existent. My reasoning is that there are fewer gateway hobbies - not coins, not stamps, fewer into sports cards, and yes fewer into comics. Of course the growth in kids reliving their Pokémon days or reconnecting with their youth through fidget spinners in twenty years might offset that, but I doubt it. And with each new generation, there will be some percentage of them, however small, that branch out. For instance, I didn't grow up with the Yellow Kid or Tom Mix, nor Captain Tim Healy or Clyde Beatty for that matter, and I definitely missed all those 50's PCH and Atlas books the first go-around, but that doesn't dampen by appreciation (and lust!) for them now. So, yes, there is still a little hope.

Thanks, Robot Man. Some of the linen postcards reached relatively high prices for a while, especially the diners, but they seem to have cooled. Better quality real photos of neat joints are still all over the place pricewise. Of course I never bought on the high - like you, I prefer to find them in the wild, like in a shoebox at a flea market, or at least from a dealer who likes to turn over their inventory now and then instead of impersonating a traveling museum.

Good title tease... Amen to Bang's fullest recovery and I do hope he returns to the forums here to spread more pop culture goodness (as he doesn't just share comics, but pulps, hardcovers, BLB's, records!). Remember the first time you saw his group shots?? My jaw hit the floor: Originally posted by BangZoom - removal upon request!

I also collect roadside postcards, or those showing motels, diners, restaurants, mom and pop joints, main streets, attractions, etc. There's a lot of bygone Americana on display on these keepsakes.

Man, not a clunker in sight, and a great Plastic Man tease at the back. Great report and pics, Robot Man - the next best thing to being there. I would've gone crazy digging thru all the boxes and ogling all the display cases. Were there any young people there, or was mostly us greyhairs? I'd like to think somebody will appreciate all this stuff twenty or thirty years from now.

Thanks for these glimpses. What a mind-numbing assortment of goodies!

I recently picked these up from a friend who, for whatever reason, likes to purge some of his stuff every now and then. I think it's a fun variety of stuff.

I was going to comment much the same! Even after pouring thru the Photo Journals for years, one can still miss books. Now I'm curious to what the Gerber Index rates this as... (looking) Gerber 8, which seems appropriate enough. Perhaps a couple of these sold have over the years in antique malls mixed in with coloring books and children's books as it could pass as an activities book at a glance?

Okay Perry Peterson Walter Baumhofer Fredric Varaday Dorothy Monet Walter Baumhofer Bernard D'Andrea Dorothy Monet Bernard D'Andrea

Earlier in this thread, I mentioned I collect women's magazines from the 40's to the 50's not for the covers, which were moreover duds, but for the interior spreads, which featured some really cool graphics: Jon Whitcomb Fredric Varaday Dorothy Monet Walter Baumhofer Arthur Sarnoff

Man, these are awesome RM! More goodness from the museum that is your collection. I have to believe there was a certain amount of box-diving involved in assembling this collection...

What, what, what??!

Clearly you've been at it a while...

Man, I don't have any of those, and they're all killer!!

Wow! Totally dastardly... and just a tad disturbing, like a good shudder pulp ought to be. I had never seen this one til now.

Tight crops hide many sins.

Rhinos attack!!