Hepcat

Here are scans of my four oldest comics featuring the Legion of Superheroes on the cover:

Wow! A 9.4 DC from 1958! Do you still have that one?

Man, comics that bright and new looking from 1959 are flat out scarce!

No, I only have the one copy of each. I buy the DC Archive books as well so I can read/study the old stories whenever I want. Sorry about the poor quality of my most recent scans though. Up until a year ago last September I had a Dell Vostro 1720 laptop with a Vista Business operating system and a Dell V105 copier/printer with which I was getting scans that captured the full magnificence of my comics. Then when my Dell laptop died just over a year ago, I replaced it with a Hewlett Packard Envy laptop with a Windows 8.1 operating system. For three or four months thereafter I was getting scans with the same resolution and brightness but slightly smaller in size. Then my Dell V105 copier decided it no longer wanted to continue mating with my new Hewlett Packard laptop. I therefore replaced it with a new Hewlett Packard 1513 copier/printer. My scans are now back to full size but I've lost brightness!

So with a Wonder Woman movie in the planning stages, I thought the previous screen Wonder Woman merited another look: Those star spangled granny shorts look brutal on her though. They make her look as if she's wearing Depends....

Romita was boss! Why DC didn't see fit to move a talent like him over to the higher profile superhero comics is truly unfathomable.

So up until a year ago last September I had a Dell Vostro 1720 laptop with a Vista Business operating system and a Dell V105 copier/printer with which I was getting scans that captured the full magnificence of my comics. Here's an example: Then when my Dell laptop died just over a year ago, I replaced it with a Hewlett Packard Envy laptop with a Windows 8.1 operating system. For three or four months thereafter I was getting scans with the same resolution and brightness but slightly smaller in size. Then my Dell V105 copier decided it no longer wanted to continue mating with my new Hewlett Packard laptop. I therefore replaced it with a new Hewlett Packard 1513 copier/printer. My scans are now back to full size but I've lost brightness! Here's the same Fox and the Crow comic but scanned with my new Hewlett Packard equipment: What gives? Aren't computers supposed to get better/faster/more powerful all the time? Or is Hewlett-Packard equipment just junk?

Here are scans of six more Adventure Comics from my collection:

Great thread! Here's one from my own collection:

There ain't no such thing as a bad Barks story! But here I'm just back from two weeks in Europe!

Yes! And I'm always glad to hear from another collector of raw Silver Age DC comics! (thumbs u

Here are scans of five more of my Adventure Comics:

Oh yeah! I say Krypto should have been a charter member of the Justice League of America! (thumbs u

Oh yeah! Those are really nice regardless of the number on the label. (thumbs u

They went to the fair and came back with a new friend for me: His name is Bingo!

Agreed. I just don't understand the behaviour of these people. It makes no sense.

They went to the fair and came back with a new friend for me: His name is Bingo!

It must have been sometime in late 1962 or early 1963. My mother had taken me along on one of her shopping expeditions to the Kresge store in downtown London. While she was examining whatever, I of course gravitated to the toy department, and there on an island mixed in with other model kits and sundry stuff were a whole bunch of Aurora monster model kits! They were just too awesome! Wolfman was the one I wanted the most, but for whatever reason I cannot recall begging my mother for one. Perhaps I was making the shrewd calculation that if I asked for too much, I'd get nothing and I could kiss the bowl of ice cream she'd often buy me at the lunch counter goodbye. Or else I did ask and she said no. Then on a subsequent visit in 1963 I saw that the Creature had joined Aurora's kit line: Man oh man, that was the one that immediately became my favourite! Not that I got that one either. Curiously enough the first Aurora kit that I ended up buying and building a year or so later was the Mummy: I guess that was the kit staring me in the eye on a trip to the hobby shop that day and I was influenced by the Mummy's popularity among budding newspaper magnates. The marvelous Bride of Frankenstein was my next purchase: I have all the Aurora monster model kits still mint-in-box in my collection these dasy with the exception of Mummy's Chariot and the King Kong and Godzilla ones:

Sadly no.

Just put it in a Mylite/Arklite comic bag with an acid free backing board and two sheets of acid free paper inside the covers and keep it in a room that doesn't get too hot or humid. That's all you need to do to preserve your comics for posterity.

How about this trio? Irv Novick was the cover artist for #11 and #15 while Ross Andru and Mike Esposito did the honours for #13. Overall though the artists I like the best for DC's war comics are Joe Kubert and Russ Heath.

The first bubble gum cards to which I was exposed as a kid were from the 88 card 1957 Topps Hit Stars set. My older sister had brought a few home. She was looking for a Yul Brynner card, a search doomed to frustration since there was no Yul Brynner card in the set. Here are a few scans from my present day set:

Victory! Very cool! Those are all really nice ones on this page.

Sea Devils 32 and 33 have remarkably similar covers:

Not surprising. I wouldn't be able to resist it either. (thumbs u