Hepcat

I just soak the thing in the sink overnight. I've found that lukewarm water works best.

Truth!

I read a few of those when I was a kid and liked them. I'll have to get them out and see if they've held up. I hated the Stanley and His Monster stories when they first appeared because they were displacing my beloved Fox and the Crow from their own magazine! DC was evidently in the process of frantically finding a replacement for the Fox and the Crow because the agreement whereby DC was licensing Columbia Picture's cartoon characters for comics was coming to an end in 1968 and wasn't going to be renewed.

What doesn't Hepcat have...? Sugar and Spikes I scrupulously adhere to our longstanding gentlemen's agreement. Sugar and Spikes (and Superboys from the fifties) are all yours, while Fox and the Crows and Bob Brown Challengers are all mine!

No, no, they're absolute junk! Just leave them to me ... please! fox and who????????? zero demand.. DREK !!! Truth! Oh, you wouldn't have a bunch you'd like me to take off your hands to clear out some valuable storage space now would you?

My views are basically in accordance with those of Mark. There's more to comics than just superheroes. Here are scans of the oldest Fox and the Crow comics in my collection: I think they're even tougher to find in high grade than are the Sugar and Spike comics quite simply because Sheldon Mayer has been drawing accolades in comic fandom for decades which has resulted in more Sugar and Spike comics being collected, i.e. saved, than Fox and the Crow comics. Whatever few collectors appreciate tends to be very hard to find.

You are a wise man. Veteran collectors such as yourself know that #2 issues are typically harder to find than #1 issues because the #2 issues have not been hoarded to the same extent, and that the best values taking both price and scarcity into consideration are the middle issues from later in the run. Those are all things of beauty! (thumbs u

Oh man, those gun sets were awesome! Maybe you just got it out of your system so you weren't frustrated as an adult? Nice looking kitty! (thumbs u

So fifty years ago the Man from U.N.C.L.E. was a massive hit on TV stations from coast-to-coast and stores had stocked their shelves with Man from U.N.C.L.E. merchandise for the Xmas season. Here's some of that merchandise from my own present day collection: Topps Bubble Gum Cards Cadet Sweets Man from U.N.C.L.E. Cards Aurora Model Kits Ideal Board Game RCA Victor LP Miscellaneous Toy Stuff

Hopefully you find one under the tree this Xmas! BTW, I talked to Santa Claus at the Hudson's Bay store downtown yesterday and I asked him what happened to all the little elves in the short red skirts that he used to have with him every year: He said Mrs. Claus' bitter recriminations put an end to the elves. Very sad. I wonder if Mrs. Claus would object to green-skirted elves though?

Here's a really good "how to" video:

Have you tried watching the show again these days on DVD? If so, has it held up, i.e. is it just as interesting now as it was for you then?

Not so much. I'd stick to the TV series and the Signet paperbacks.

Here are a few counter-arguments for Green Arrow's main squeeze:

I dunno. Those look like implants to me. They're too high and round/full.

Green Arrow. He's been bow slinging since 1941 while Hawkeye's been at it only since 1964. So then which of their girlfriends is the hotter, Black Canary or Black Widow?

Here are scans of six of my Man from U.N.C.L.E. comics: 1 2 3 4 5 6

He's as elusive as Greggy, but when they do pop up on e-bay in good condition they go for an arm and a leg. Yeah no kidding,and the real trick is finding one with the original box. Impossible! I still remember seeing a Great Garloo for the first time at the downtown Kresge store in London in 1961 or 1962. I quickly pointed it out to my mother but the price tag in the area of $15 made it a no go. I knew it was too expensive a toy for me to get at the time so I didn't agitate for it any further.

The coolest toy I ever scored as a kid was the Mad Mad Mad Scientist Laboratory. We were on a family trip to visit my uncle in Detroit in the summer of 1964. My eyes bugged out when I saw one displayed behind the counter at a hobby shop on the north side of Seven Mile Road just west of the Southfield Expressway: I guess my father thought that a chemistry set must be educational because he agreed to buy it for me. It was a fabulous set! My two best buddies were more than eager to be my demented half-brained lab assistants and enthusiastically fetched tap water for me while I mixed up the concoctions. I mean they would even squabble about whose turn it was to be my lead assistant! I think my dad gave it away to the snot-nosed kid down the street when I was packed off to boarding school for grade nine and I'm still trying to replace it.

Does anyone else miss the poster size group shots of smiling superheroes that DC and the other publishers used to run to promote their comics?

Here are scans of my Gold Key Phantom comics: 3 6 10 11 12 13 14 17

While not comics, here are some Terrytoon items of mine:

I like that cover! And what a great grade. (thumbs u Oh I agree! That's a comic I always wanted as a kid but never managed to score until I started recollecting as an adult.

I need to pick out a tie for the office Xmas party next week:

Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew or Bucky O'Hare? Which comic do you think was better?