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Here in alphabetical order are scans of my ten favourite non-DC covers from 1960 that I have in my collection:

Here in alphabetical order are scans of my twelve favourite DC covers from 1960 that I have in my collection:

A word to the wise: They're just as much fun in their second, third and fourth appearances!

Oh man, I so covet that #1113! I bought one way back in 1981-82 that's way below my present condition standards so replacing it is way high on my priority list.

Oh man! Those are too awesome!

Not just white pages, but nice and bright white cover areas!

Huh?! I see more than a few missing issues

My mother used to haunt the downtown Kresge's, Woolworth, Zellers and Metropolitan stores, collectively known as five-and-dimes, in London, Ontario looking for bargains. As a youngster I was very often in tow. I didn't mind of course as there was never a shortage of items to capture a young boy's interest, little turtles, goldfish, budgies, the bulk candy counter, the fancy birthday cakes in the front window and all those toys! Here's an old photo of the downtown Kresge's store and the side of the Metropolitan store in London circa 1952: This was the big Kresge's store in downtown Hamilton, Ontario: This was the big Woolworth just down the block in Hamilton: Then there was East London a mile or so down Dundas Street to the east. The East London business strip was anchored by the Hudson's department store plus its own Kresge's (or was it a Woolworth?) and Metropolitan. The once a year street carnival/sidewalk sale in East London would generally draw my mother. I of course had no objection to this more distant expedition because of the added attractions of rides, popcorn, candy apples and cotton candy! It was on one of those trips to the downtown Kresge's in 1961(?) though that I came face to face with a Great Garloo, which I immediately brought to my mother's attention. But with a sticker price in the fifteen dollar area, there was just no chance I'd get one. It was also at that Kresge's store in 1962 that I first encountered the Aurora monster model kits: Oh man! They were the coolest things I'd ever seen and I made their acquisition a top priority! Those kits turned out to be a lifetime love. A few months thereafter I managed to score one of these wild Hasbro Marble Mazes which were displayed in the front window of the Woolworth store: I guess I'd been particularly good so my mother bought me one right then and there. Those five-and-dime stores in downtown areas were also Halloween central for many a baby boomer kid. A young fellow could see a score of Ben Cooper or Collegeville costumes hanging from the ceiling of the local five-and-dime in the weeks before Halloween and if he was very lucky get his parents to spring for one. Note that there were a whopping 24 Kresge's stores alone in Toronto in the early sixties! Then of course these five-and-dimes typically featured a lunch counter. The one pictured here in 1988 was at the Kresge's store on Coxwell Avenue in Toronto close to my present day neighbourhood: The next one is a shot of the packed Kresge's lunch counter in Windsor, Ontario taken in August, 1975: Here's a picture of a Woolworth menu: And here are some shots of various Woolworth lunch counters: Hopefully hers wasn't the take-out service being offered! These lunch counters often came equipped with a very cool Campbell's or Heinz soup display: The one at the Met store in downtown London was so popular that they even had a satellite take-out counter at the front of the store from which businessmen could grab a quick cheeseburger, hot dog, french fries, donut or coffee. Not that I had the money for such things of course, but there was always the chance I could get my mother to buy me a dish of ice cream served in one of those metal dishes covered with a cardboard insert. Nor was I necessarily always accompanied by my mother on trips to downtown London. Helicopter parenting wasn't in vogue yet and a young fellow could range a mile or more of his own accord in those days. I very clearly remember passing by the Met with a buddy of mine in the summer of 1962 and seeing that they had the new CFL cards on display right by the snack counter at the front of the store before I'd seen them anywhere else and buying two or three packs: I also recall being very bitterly disappointed. Not only were the cards just in B&W but they were only half the standard size. Cheap bastiches! Moreover Woolworth had great Neapolitan ice cream sandwiches that they made up between two wafers fresh before your very eyes for only fifteen cents! These were something I could fund myself by high school after looking through the records at the Disc Shop right across from the new Woolworth store in the downtown Wellington Square Mall! Great memories, but sadly none of those places I've mentioned still exist. What I'd give now for a cheeseburger and fries at the Met store followed by an ice cream sandwich from Woolworth! You never know what you've got till it's gone. That's actually one of the reasons I still love A&W hamburgers! They have that old-fashioned five and dime lunch counter hamburger taste I seem to remember. Mmmmmm! Now that's exactly what I'm going to get for supper.

If were talking just Barry Allen, then I agree 100%. :thumbsup: Yes, that I was.

A brutally tough issue to find in that condition! It may be the toughest Flash of them all to find.

Alright then. Here's a cross sample of Cowboy's pictures over the last five years. Cowboy likes dice games: He's also a big Winnipeg Blue Bombers fan: And a big sports fan in general: He also likes to celebrate all holidays, particularly with cake: Nor is he strictly an indoor cat. He loves his garden and patrolling the neighbourhood in general:

Here's Deuce (2005? - 2015 R.I.P.) modelling a different Wolf and Girl tie:

What year did Don and Maggie get heavily into collecting? Only comics released before that date would likely have been bought second hand. Did the Don and Maggie collection have a lot of esoteric titles - e.g. Charlton, Archie, Harvey, Dell, funny animal, war, western, romance - or was it largely Marvel and DC superhero comics like all too many other pedigrees?

Tex Avery was the animator of many/most of the Droopy cartoons for MGM. The other tie features the Wolf and the Girl(Red), two other Tex Avery creations for MGM. Droopy would on occasion step in to rescue Red from the Wolf. I'd highly recommend this book to any student of cartoon history:

Here are scans of a half dozen Justice League of America comics from my collection that I may not yet have posted in this thread:

Mmmmmm! I like those Yellow Claws and that's a really good copy of a brutally tough to find comic.

Here's Cowboy picking out a tie for a big date with a hot pussycat:

Mmmmm, nice one!

I hope the gunmen of Sundown City fill that pantywaist full of holes.

Here are the half dozen comics cover dated April 1956 that I'd most like to add to my collection: Yes! Sock it to them Reds! Beautiful cover featuring the great Kid Colt Outlaw! Mmmmmm! Good girl art by Vince Colletta! Hey, just like Cassius Clay! And I'd never even heard of this Charlton title. I need at least one comic in my collection with Bambi's friend Flower on the cover. How can you go wrong with an Oswald the Rabbit dachshund cover?

Joe Maneely was the fellow best known for Atlas covers including this marvelous one that you posted above: The #5 also had the best cover of the short run.

Those are nice! And they're all around fifty years old already.

I didn't know Russ Heath did any Atlas covers! Yet another reason to add more of those fabulous Kid Colt Outlaw and other Atlas westerns to my collection if and when I can. And that's a really nice one too!

Both #14 and #27 have wild cool covers and are egregiously difficult to find in that nice a grade.

Here are scans of the five comics in my collection cover dated April 1956: