Sharkey

"wraps it up".... Ooh. Ah. Ouch.

Man, that is a super sweet Mummy cover!

You can also go to www.photobucket.com and set up a free account where you can host a ton of pix. You can upload big files and it'll automatically resize them for you.

Good luck!

needs a bit more red... but anyway. Hey Hook, why diont you take a shot at it?

 

That's not a bad attempt at all Aman...here's another shot at it.....different anyway.

 

Red

 

 

I think I figured out what his dreaded secret is: He shares a box with The Gimp!!!!

Cool, post away~! Although your mummy cover didn't come through.

Just picked these up from the Blazing one....

Kudos to FFB for picking up some nice slabbed ASMs from me (although I did give him a REAL nice price, so how could he refuse?)!

The $$ will go to a future original art or nice high-grade pre-hero purchase.

but everyone loves a good monster!

 

 

GOOM I love those books.

They're AWESOME. But I do have one question: why are there 12 suit & sportcoat clad men out in the mountainous foresty region, climbing rocks, trees, etc? Corporate team-building exercise gone horribly awry?

Hey DNAgent!

Nice Stuff!!!

 

yup - very nice, but the insect cover didn't make it through...........

It's coming through for me

Hey DNAgent!

Nice Stuff!!!

Adam, I love that cover. Reminds me of the classic Japanese giant monster movie "War of the Gargantuas"

I think you just made Steve W. (Rhino_Comics) pee on the floor with that JIM#81.

Aaaahhhhh........warm.........

[insert Ahhhnold voice here]

"FANTASTIC! DOZE are FANTASTIC!!!!!!"

I especially like the GIANT FROG cover!

Sweet TOS 2! And a Ditko cover to boot!!

Thanks Harry, it's always better having an actual eye witness than just relying on second hand accounts. Your point about FF and the Marvels jumping out at you for being different is really interesting, as it fits in with the accepted history of SA. I've just always wondered whether that was a case of revisionist history "created" by Marvel to fit the facts, or whether there really was an epiphany-like difference that jumped out to readers at the time. From your post, it would appear to be the latter.

 

Although you were never that much into Ironman and Antman, I take it from your post that you DID notice when the "monster" books (AF, JIM, ST, TOS, TTA) switched over to super-heroes. I'd also always wondered whether readers noticed that a change had taken place and went out of their way to buy the "demarcation" issues, or just purchased the first superhero issues as a continuation of their normal buying habits. From what I'm extrapolating from your response, and the fact that TTA 27 (which really was a monster book and not a superhero book) remains so hard to find in HG, my guess is that readers DID notice the difference and as you indicate, started looking for back issues even back in 1961-63 if they had missed a first issue.

 

no question that for me and my friends Marvel in late 1961/62 was a revelation!!

 

FF was first and started out looking kind of crude, but as i said by issue #3, it had already matured into something special and Lee emblazoned the cover with "World's Greatest Comic Magazine"..........

 

the other heroes started out similarly, in that they seemed to be ideas in progress.

The Hulk changed from grey to green and disappeared after only 6 issues. Ironman started out Grey, switched immediately to Gold and then 8 issues later switched to the modern red/gold combo. Thor was very confusing with the Dr Donald Blake thing as it seemed they weren't sure if they wanted to keep that concept or not. Spidey was pretty much solid from the beginning, although having grown up with DC super hero ART, it was a bit hard to take Ditko, at first.

 

DC had the dumbest story lines and villains. everything was a gimmick (ala Paste Pot Pete at Marvel). but Marvel villains were more evil and exciting and the battles were all Kick-. very little secret identity crapola stories at Marvel (Spidey/Hulk/Thor had them but they were played down). whereas at DC, they were a mainstay. DC had all the sidekicks, dopey pets and "Imaginary"stories. and so on and so on......

 

Once the Marvel characters quickly matured, the stories were simply more engaging. i was a converted DC fan!!!!

 

the artwork though was another issue. Marvels covers were more exciting and battle filled, and much of Batman and Superman was awkward or silly looking, but with a stable that included Infantino, Kubert, Kane, Anderson, Heath, etc., DC didn't play second fiddle to anyone.

 

i continued to buy DC's because they were pretty and i was a collector, but you can bet when i came home with 5-6 comics, the Marvels were the first ones that i read.............

Burntboy, reading your post is like reading my own mind. I wasn't reading these books when they hit the rack, but my older brother had a stash of comics, Marvels and DC: Marvel Tales and Marvel Collectors Item Classics, and the DC Giants (I guess he liked the big squarebound 25 centers). As a kid, I found the DC stories silly and/or stupid. I loved the Marvels for the exact same reasons you describe above.

Hootchie wah-wah!

er, nice book!

Sweet JIM 82, adam!

 

Just got this back from CGC. It pales next to those super-sharp adam-age copies, but it's the best copy I've owned

 

 

 

"adam-age copies" cracked me up. i'm gonna remember that!

 

and fin fang foom looks great! thanks for posting.

Thanks!

FFF is my absolute FAVE-O-RITE!

Very cool book. Nothing wrong with a FN/VF 7.0 PreHero Marvel book as they are tough to get in any grade above Fine.

Thanks Steve!

Hey Adam, do you have a JIM 62? Your 66 was KILLER!

Sweet JIM 82, adam!

Just got this back from CGC. It pales next to those super-sharp adam-age copies, but it's the best copy I've owned

I love that cover "It's GRUTO, the Creature from Nowhere!!"

But...if he's climbing out of a spaceship, he must be from SOMEwhere!!

This guy doesn't seem to be tentacly challenges.

 

Holy Guacamole, those are some nice DCs, bruthah.

 

Mine aren't so nice, but I seem to like Octopus covers.

 

 

That "fantastic creature" looks to be more of a quadrapus.

Maybe he's tentacly challenged....

They named a comic character after me!

 

 

Nice book!

Well, it ain't as purdy as y'all's stuff, but it's a DC 10-center just the same.

And 25 Trillion Miles is a long way to travel to wrassle some underground varmints.

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