boppy99

"How long did this particular moniker last for anyway? A couple of months?" I think around 5 or 6 months. I get it though. I'll always be especially fond of 25¢ Marvels, and the "STILL ONLY 20¢" books from DC. That was the time-period when I first started buying books off the spinner-racks...

I used to love looking at these when I was a kid. I would pick my "first choice, second choice," etc. Lately, I've been trying to get all the comics in the ads...

I have around nine issues, with the rest being on my want-list. This was one of my favourite titles when I was a kid, and I'll grab them whenever I see them if the price is right. Lakota Rainflower was super-hot! By the way, I think the writer (Don Glut) posts on this site now and again too...

Yep. Definitely one of my favourites of the run too. I got this off the spinners when I was a kid...

Heh. That little skeleton dog!

It's there. Page 606 of the 2020-2021 edition at any rate...

Well, I collect mostly horror stuff--particularly bronze-age horror, but I sure would like a copy of Phantom Lady 17. Hubba Hubba...

That's one of my "Firsties" and favourite covers too!

Yep. Chamber of Chills too.

The later issues probably had way smaller print-runs--seeing as how all of the horror-anthologies were getting lined up for the chopping-block. Too bad. I collect those too and the ones outstanding on my want-list are indeed the later issues...

Thanks. Always love seeing those Marvel horror anthologies. They're the ones that got me started in this hobby...

Prices are still climbing, I would think. I'm seeing more $5 bins than $1 bins lately. In my LCS I was shocked to see FEAR 24 as a wall-book. Awesome cover to be sure, but the price? $370 (!!!). Glad I already have a decent copy.

Kill it. With fire. Kill it with fire from orbit--it's the only way to be sure...

There's also the Chimera statue--another relic from Atlantis, in Tomb of Dracula #26. More info at http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix3/chimeradracula.htm

My favourite Swampers cover...

Heh. Kinda cool to see Vision getting clocked like that.

I don't have any slabs, nor do I want them. I like books you can read every now and then....

The earlier issues of MOF adapted the classic story. The scene depicted on the cover of MOF #3 is straight out of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

I can't remember that one, then again, I never went east of the Don River much. I do remember Dragon Lady, Grey Region, Silver Snail, Yesterday's Heroes and The Beguiling. Maybe a half dozen others that I went to infrequently like Hairy Tarantula and 1,000,000 Comics. I can't remember anything near Danforth & Pape though. Most of the shops listed above are gone now, unfortunately...

Tomb of Dracula is a great run to put together, although some of the earlier issues (#10 particularly) can be pricey. Don't forget the GIANT-SIZE issues, and the magazines--Tomb of Dracula and Dracula Lives! too. Man-Thing and Frankenstein are a couple of decent runs to look into. Frankenstein is an easy 18 issues. Man-Thing however is more of a challenge with several volumes, GIANT-SIZE issues, and early appearances in FEAR, Astonishing Tales, and Savage Tales #1 ($$$). Both creatures had antics in the magazine Monsters Unleashed as well. All of the above are great reads. The Silver Age Ghost Rider was reprinted in the 70s as Night Rider. The Johnny Blaze Ghost Rider is completely different, and also a good title to collect. Don't forget the early (and pricey) Marvel Spotlight run.

I have about 1500 or so. Some Gold/Silver, lots of Bronze horror stuff, dash of Modern, pinch of Dreck. I still collect here and there--knocking items off my want-list now and then, but the bulk of my collection was put together in the mid '90s.

@ Speedcake & Kilowatt. Wow. Great stuff! 70s horror is my longtime sweetspot for collecting too. I love that WWT 19 cover.

IMHO, the bronze-age started in November 1971. That's when Marvel raised the price on their books, they also started putting the MARVEL COMICS GROUP banner across the top of the book rather than off to the side--changing the look of their comics as well. That's how I've always sorted bronze Marvels from silver. Anyways, I don't think it was any one title or book that set off the bronze-age. I think it had more to do with The Comics Code Authority lightening up a bit to include modern social issues in story-lines, and also the depiction of "monsters in the classical sense." Amazing Spider-Man 101 (1st Morbius) was one of the earliest results of the relaxed code regulations. So, if you want an actual book that started the bronze-age, then that would be my pick--even though it still looks like a silver-age Marvel

Rare variant cover...

I completed runs of Frankenstein and Werewolf by Night recently. For some reason, Frank 10 and WBN 2 were real spoonforkers to find...