David Bottoms

Hmmm...I got back into comics in '05, after my original years of collecting ('71-'82). I'm not a rabid Kirby fan, but I kept seeing these books EVERYWHERE, so i put together the whole run (with annual) in '06, sourced from three different area stores...is there some sort of movie buzz? Sheesh, glad my #1 is pristine...

Only mag I ever subscribed to was Weird War, ca. 1974...jeez, they were mailed folded in half....never seen the WW first-issue cover. Nice!

Hey, all! David from Shreveport here. In brief, I first began buying comics at the twilight of the 15-cent era, when I was six. Collected fervently until the age of 18, when I wanted a few bucks and stupidly sold my collection: between 500-600 SA and BA books, tons of great runs in both DC and Marvel. Wotta maroon! Did records for the next 25 years. Tell ya, all this "raw" and "slabbed" business is really hysterical...like unslabbed comics have the stench of uncleanliness about them...wow. Jeez, back then I kept my comics in several stacks of about 12" high...and every time I sat down for a meal or had a spare moment I had one or two spread out in front of me, reading and re-reading merrily away! Most kids lived on allowances/odd job money. Therefore, you needed to always keep out feelers for trades. Oh, that weird kid on the bus has comics, eh? Fine. I'll get off at his house and we'll have a look. Hmmmmm...a few Sgt. Fury, a Kid Colt with a tear on the cover, a few FF, two with a bit of spine-roll...etc. So it went. No internet, no comics shops, just spinner racks and flea markets and weird kids on the school bus (of which I was one!). About a year ago a con came to Shreveport--first of its kind, really. Fantasy/comics/cosplay, the whole schmeer. I told my wife I'd go...but if there were dealers....ah...cards on the table, if there were any silver or bronze nuggets, the monkey might be reawakened and start screeching. That's EXACTLY what happened. Since then I've amassed a nice DC and Marvel horde and am working on quite a few runs. I love DC SA ancillary titles like Doom Patrol, Challengers of the Unknown, Sea Devils, Blackhawk, Metal Men and so forth, and DC bronze war stuff. Talk about mother's milk, all that Kubert/Heath stuff. The stuff I pop for ranges from 4.0 - 6.5, and they make me thoroughly happy. All the old house ads, the whole deal. All I really seek is decent tightness in the spine and nice color on the cover. This deal of CGC and all is the same as someone buying a '71 hemi Cuda and trailering it around all the time! No fun!! Anyway, cool to be here! Dave