catman76

Am I the only one that doesn't like most of Cole's Star Publications covers or anything he did past the late 40s? There are some amazing ones, but I just think most of his Star covers are dull and uninspired. I am sure the reason is that he was concentrating more on the business side of it since he started Star Publications and ran it himself so he didn't have time to spend like he used to. He was pretty famous for spending a long time drawing anything, which is why he almost never did anything but covers. You can just tell most of his Star covers were hacked out fast with little care.

One you don't see too often...

Found some stuff I forgot I even owned when digging through boxes today....

I have seen the Canadian Nelvana comic sell for 10 grand so that has to be up there with the most valuable I would think...

you just said "books" so I am putting these here. These two were on my want list for years and years even though I knew the odds of finding them were super low and the odds of being able to afford them even if I did find them were almost zero. But like 15 years ago I found both of them about a month apart in junk shops for next to nothing....

Sought after by who? By American collectors or collectors from the country the comic is from? First thing that popped into my mind was the Marvel Mystery and Captain America giant comics from Canada. I always heard about those since the 80s, they were like some mythic thing that were very sought after. They aren't a variant, they are reprints that were only distributed in Canada so I guess they count...

In my over 35 years of being into comics I never ever have referred to comics as silver age or golden age and especially not bronze age. I always thought those were so stupid sounding and I will never use those terms. they are just comics there are no eras. it makes no sense to split things up like that. a comic is just a comic from whatever year it was published.

Gaines was on a mission to make money If I remember right, after All American Comics merged with DC, Gaines kept the rights to the bible comics and he reprinted and repackaged them into these editions. Some have no publisher listed like this one and some later have EC logo on them after he made up that company. Gaines wanted to sell comics to churches and schools, a huge potential market to make money, which is why he named the company Educational Comics and sold these to churches and schools along with Picture Stories from science and history. These bible ones went through like 20 printings.

There's two for me....

Blah too bad they are ugly with the recoloring and everything. Also why pay them for it? I am not going to give my money to some corporation for something no one there had any hand in creating. I can get scans of the actual comics that look a thousand times better for free online.... https://viewcomics.me/ghost-rider-1973/issue-1/1

I have some comics with holes just bored right through the entire comic by some kind of bug but never saw anything like this. I guess when you are a tiny bug that extra thousandth of a inch thickness of the black ink is too much for you chew through. Meanwhile mice don't care....

I have been searching antique stores and flea markets for old comics since I was 10 or 11 years old in the mid 80s. I would bring 40s anf 50s comics to school and read them. Everyone else was into He-man and GIjoe and I was the weirdo searching for old 40s comics and old tin toys and stuff.

These are very hard to find. I have seen #6 for sale quite a few times but I don't think I have ever seen #7 or 8 show up for sale anywhere outside of the time I bought them 25 years ago.

Of course you are a lawyer, only a lawyer would defend Disney. None of these companies or anyone period should still have the rights to any of these characters. They are all 60 or more years old and the creators are all long dead so they should all be in the public domain. Stop buying stuff from Disney and all these evil corporations that just keep having laws changed so they can keep ownership of things they had no hand in creating. Also Disney has sold Steamboat Willie so what are you talking about? I own multiple copies of it on vhs and dvd and the ones online are cra-p quality

They are comic books. Read them. There's nothing else to say.

Since when does wanting to read and enjoy a comic and using it for it's intended purpose mean I an giving into some primitive instinct or whatever? Give me a break. I guess I am all lizard then because I couldn't care less how much a comic is worth and I never ever would entomb any comic in plastic no matter what. If I can't open it and read it, look at it, touch it, feel it or smell it then I don't want it.