catman76

anything under a grand is cheap?! good lord. I never have paid over 50 bucks for any comic in my life. paid 50 bucks for this... and way under 50 bucks for these...

"pedigrees" for the most part are all mint or never or hardly read so I couldn't care less about the story or at all. I love the story I can see on a comic, names and stuff written on it, clipped or filled in coupons, creases and rips showing it was well loved, a water ring on it, folds showing it was rolled up and stuffed into a pocket. pedigrees are boring, who cares if a comic was bought and left stacked in a basement for 50 years. most pedigrees have no story to me

Never bought a slabbed comic, but if I did I would crack it open and take it out immediately. I own comics books to read and look at. I would never own something I cannot read, look at or touch.

Well that picture of it is pretty bad quality which doesn't help it any, it does look better in an actual scan of it. Plus it's redrawn from Sparkler #1 and they made him a little goofier looking. I still like it, but I like good old cheesy comics...

what does it matter? it's got the number on the label front thr grading gods. the number is all that means anything

I always have been more surprised how little swiping, recycling and reprinting there was in 40s and 50s comics than anything else. I always wondered why publishers even bothered to constantly draw new comic books when they were disposable trash to everyone and no one would know if something was a reprint or not. They could reprint stuff every year or two and almost no one would have noticed since almost no one saved comic books so there would be no way for anyone to know if something was reused. Even the lowest of the low criminal publishers like Victor Fox didn't even reprint or reuse stories ever. Of course there were a few publishers in the late 50s and early 60s like Star, Green, Norton, I.W. that just reprinted old comics they'd buy up old printing plates from, lots of the time illegally for comics they didn't have the rights to reprint. But even that wasn't too common and I am just always have been surprised reprinting didn't happen too often in the really early days.

https://www.youtube.com/c/CartoonistKayfabe Cartoonist Kayfabe is the only comics channel I watch. They actually make comics so it's more interesting hearing what they have to say about it all and they have big time connections with other comic creators and do tons of interviews with big names, underground artists and more and cover comics almost no one else does.

so play em

I collect whatever I like that's my primary collection and I will never tell anyone what my personal grails are because they are way too rare and even though not many other people want them I don't want any more competition for them.

I was collecting any old comics I could find in the 80s. I had no interest in anything new then. I was out searching flea markets and antique and thrift shops for any old pre 70s comic I could find. New stuff in the 80s and especially in the 90s did noting for me. Until I discovered there was more than dc/marvel crud out there being published then I was searching out independent, underground, self published stuff as well as old 40s and 50s comics. I remember when Mike Diana got busted and convicted for his comics in like 1990 or whenever it was. I was paranoid I would get in trouble since I owned some of his comics Antique store and flea market finds have pretty much dried up now. Not just for comic books, but anything. The days of going out scavenging and coming home with piles of 30s-50s pulps, big little books, magazines, old toys, is pretty much gone now or just really really few and far between and online is no fun at all. Theres no search, no discovery, now digging through dusty musty basements and attics and junk stores finding a treasure I never knew existed. I miss those days. but the internet is great for new comics. We are living in a golden age of comics making the last 20 years. More comics are being made now than every before and its much easier to get stuff thats outside the mainstream marvel/dc crud. That's great.

as a kid in the early and mid 80s comics weren't really on my radar really and I have no clue what was going on in comics then. I had some heathcliff and gi joe comics that were always around that came from somewhere but other than that comics just weren't a thing in my childhood. The only comics I remember even seeing around was one kid I went to school with seemed to always have issues of Mad which I read a few times but just didn't care really. I mainly liked the back cover fold in things. By the time I was into comics in the late 80s, it was old comics when I was searching flea markets and thrift shops and stuff all the time when I was 12. I had no interest in new comics of the time, they bored me, I just was after anything from before the 70s. I would bring old 40s and 50s comics to school and read them then. I'd get c-rap for reading old disney comics in study hall. Once I really got made fun of when this kid that hated me saw I was reading a 60s Lois lane comic.

More Alex Raymond swiping by Joe Simon. Silver streak #2 and a panel from Blue Bolt #1..

Joe Simon swiped this Alex Raymond pose at least twice. The panel is from Daring Mystery #2...

Bob Kane was the king of swiping. Literally everything he did was swiped from other comics, big little books or pulps...