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A neighbor of mine was moving a few weeks ago and piled all kinds of magazines and stuff by the dumpster and I saw this sticking out and had to take it, I love this cover. There were some 90s archies there too which I kind of regret not taking.

No one is going to be impressed with my picks and I guess I broke the rules since most aren't golden age, but these are the one's I'd pick if I had to only have 5 comics for the rest of my life, just ones I enjoy the most and have sentimental value to me.

Strange how they just used an entire page from a story inside for the cover, panels and everything. It was reprinted in Amazing Mystery Funnies vol2 no1.

Amazing Mystery Funnies vol2 no1. Only 2 in the census. Mine's missing the cover and at least one outer wrap, which sucks because I love the cover.

only 7 of this one in the census

I think 8 or 9 of this one in the census. Even though there are less of the other three issues in the census, I don't think I have ever seen another copy of this issue anywhere ever. I have seen all the other issues for sale multiple times.

Only one copy of the zoot in the census and none of the all top 7. Since I am probably one of the only people who cares about these, I doubt many are graded at all. Quite a few of the fox funny animal comics are really tough to find though, these ones especially.

I miss the comic conventions I went to in the late 80s and very early 90s. Just a bunch of old guys selling old comics in a VFW hall, it was quiet and all just comics with some pulps and other old stuff. I am sure those still exist somewhere, just nowhere near me. How any of those wizard world and comic con things are appealing to anyone I don't know.

Why the heck are these "adult" coloring books? Talk about a gimmick. What is the difference from any other coloring book? When I first heard "adult" I assumed porn or something, that's the only time "adult" is used to label something. It's just some gimmick to make adults feel fine coloring something when it is the same as anything else. Give it a name that tells people it is alright for them to do it and they will do it, even though it is the same as something else, just with a different name. Weird.

Outside of comics and pulps, there were lots of bondage covers in the nineteenth century on story papers and penny dreadfuls and things like that. This one is from the 1880s and I am sure bondage covers go back to when the first story papers appeared in europe in the early nineteenth century

Wouldn't it be cool if we didn't just have two corporations in control of everything and got some other superhero movies based on comics? This Marvel and DC stuff from now until the end of time is getting old. Almost everything in this world now is controlled by one or two companies or groups and that's all that gets made and people have to pick from and all that's shoved down everyone's face.

That's it. It was painted red back when it was BJ's. I drive by it ever once and awhile when I am in that area, such nostalgia.

I guess it was 1989, not 1990 that they closed. I still miss that place and miss that smell of old paper it had, some of the comics I bought there still have that great smell

Yes, it was the first place I ever bought old comics. I loved that place. It closed in 1990 if I am remembering right, I still have the flyer for their going out of business sale when they had everything 50 percent off or more. I got a bunch of comics there then for cheap. I think they moved to Arizona and opened a store there.

Very cool. I really like batman's cowl and the big bat ears. and yeah, DC will probably not like it. Though it is totally ridiculous that Batman is even under copyright anymore, the creators are all long dead, but now some corporation with people that had no hand in creating it have control over it. It's stupid. Anyone should be allowed to make anything batman they want. But it will never end, just like disney constantly having copyright laws changed so they can keep a hold of mickey mouse and everything else. Evil, greedy corporations.

I had to find a picture online because mine has long since disappeared. Was such an awesome playset.

Man, that is a tiny waist

Also back cover stamps seem pretty common too, I have quite a few with dates on the back, but front cover stamps seem pretty common, I have a bunch and see them all the time. The only time I have ever actually bought anything with a date stamp on it and actually saw anything new with one, was at a bookstore in a mall by me in the early and mid 90s. Sometimes I would buy an issue of non-sport update or collectable toys and values and they would have a tiny sticker on it with a number like "3/23" written on it. I don't think every issue had those date stickers on them either.

Not exactly kick , more like weird toy from my childhood. Found this awhile ago while going through my parents mess of a basement. I got this for a birthday or christmas back then and since I had no interest in the star wars human action figures, especially half naked, dirty, gross ones, I was going to have my mother exchange it, but somehow it never happened and ended up in a box in the basement. I can't imagine that this sold very well back then

I saw one of these for 40 bucks at a flea market in the early 90s and passed on it. God was I stupid, I love that thing and now I could never afford one.

Had to dig these out for you...early 60's....this is the entire run... Whoa cool, thanks. I never have heard of those, now I have to try and get those and check them out.

I always wondered who was responsible for the coloring of comics like these especially and Suspense covers and other L.B. Cole covers. I remember a Robert Crumb interview where he talked about how he really likes Cole's covers and how they were colored and I think he or someone else asked Cole about it and they said it was some old German guys at the printing place that did the colors.