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Hepcat

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  1. I distinctly remember seeing this ad in the pages of a comic through which I was flipping on the spinner rack at Les' Variety in August 1962:

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    I was awestruck! It wasn't until early 1964 (I think) though that I got my hands on a copy. Here's the one from my present day collection:

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    :)

  2. A few more of my Fox and the Crow comics with "Stanley and His Monster" having taken over the covers:

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    Fortunately the "Fox and the Crow" continued to get more stories and pages inside than did "Stanley and His Monster". But with DC's twenty year comic publishing rights to the Columbia Screen Gem cartoon characters expiring in 1968, the Fox and the Crow title came to an end. Very sad.

    :frown:

  3. On 5/8/2023 at 11:23 AM, Robot Man said:

    Rich and I were very different. We were on different political sides, I liked PCH and GGA and he liked Funny animals. He liked Superman and Capt. Marvel, I liked the darker Batman & The Spectre. In high school I played in a rock band and ran around with “hoods” and he was a jock.

    We're all different people. I'm sort of a blend of you two. Not being an American, I don't fit into this current great divide of yours. (As a Libertarian, I don't fit anyway.)

    Like Rich I prefer funny animal comics to PCH but I also like GGA for obvious reasons. But I'm interested in neither Superman or Batman from the Golden Age. Among DC's, it's Green Lantern, Flash, Black Canary, Hawkman, Doctor Fate, Hourman, Starman and Kirby's Sandman and the Newsboy Legion I really like.

    I played all sports with my friends but being skinny and uncoordinated I was never any good and couldn't even make a school team. But now I have no joint pains or knee problems because I never participated in competitive sports. And after lifting some weights after university, I ended up looking like I must have been an athlete! (I'm still no good at anything though.)

    Meanwhile I was heavily into the Rolling Stones, Doors, Animals, Kinks, the Cream, the Who and rock music and hi-fi components in general. I grew my hair long to annoy my father, but with my red Dodge Charger I looked not so much like a hippie but like a greaseball hood which is the image I preferred to project. But I was actually a bookish scholarly academic at heart! And I still am. I don't even have a TV!

    So yeah, I'm a blend of you and Rich. But like I say, we're all individuals.

    :headbang: