Hepcat

It's so sad. I keep returning to look at this fabulous comic, so recently free - and now entombed in plastic like so many others. How could you?

How is it that you know you want these particular scans even though you don't seem to have access to the comics in which they're contained? How many scans are going to be in your book? How many of these scans will you be taking from your own collection? Or do you not collect comics? You've never posted about anything before on this board. Do you therefore actually have any interest in comics, or have you just been hired to write this book?

Here's a scan of my #109:

I want a nicer copy of the #106 though....

I don't think any scanner does on slabbed copies. You need to use a camera, a real one.

Yes. Detective Comics that nice from the 1950s can legitimately be termed "rare" under Overstreet's classic definition. (thumbs u

I like many or even most grey tone covers. Some of the ones I like the most are the Russ Heath Sea Devils covers and many of the war covers. But with respect to Green Lantern 8, there are three things I don't like: 1. It doesn't fit in with the other covers in the run. 2. The colours don't grab me. 3. Green Lantern himself just looks wrong. His face in particularly seems very poorly drawn.

I absolutely hate that cover! I dislike it so much that I only bought the issue to get closer to completing my GL run. The two that just missed the cut for me were these:

That's a great Lois Lane cover!

Alright then. Here in alphabetical order are scans of the top ten Gil Kane covers from my collection:

Would I be inciting a riot in this thread if I posted the top ten Gil Kane covers from my collection since they're all from the Silver Age?

That's what it's all about for me - the memories! That's really why I collect. Alright then. Here are my first two:

Hah! I was wondering whether it may have been from Harley! I had looked through a pile of high grade DCs he had purchased locally in 2005 and I couldn't afford all the ones that tempted me so the #121 (and a #123) were among the ones I passed upon. Really nice looking copies, but with an annoying touch of spine wear. I've not seen better copies since though.... The ones I've been posting in the Ten Cent thread are ones I've posted already in the appropriate threads in the past two years. If you look around, you'll find hundreds and hundreds more of my scans. I did take care of my comics when I was a kid. I used to yell at my friends not to fold the covers over when they read my comics because doing that wrecked them! Unfortunately, I ended up selling all my comics myself to a used book store in late 1965 because I'd moved onto other interests - Drag Cartoons, Creepy and Eerie magazines, monster models, slot cars and gas powered Cox airplanes to be precise. All the scans you see me posting are of comics I've rebought since 1979 or so. Here though are a few writeups I've posted on the comics I read and collected as a kid: http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Board=4&Number=6685442&Searchpage=1&Main=222877&Words=Dinky+Hepcat&topic=0&Search=true#Post6685442 http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6685442&fpart=34 http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Board=4&Number=6156445&Searchpage=1&Main=278021&Words=Davis+Hepcat&topic=0&Search=true#Post6156445

Here then are scans of five more of my ten cent Detective Comics:

Well I said it there but I'll say it again. I envy those copies of #111 and #121. They're fabulous! How long have you had them? Where did you buy them?

One of my top five covers. I still remember how electrifying I found that cover when I first saw it on the magazine stand at the News Depot on Dundas Street in downtown London one Saturday afternoon in early 1964. Memories like that are why I still love and collect comics today.

The Trickster is a fine fellow to be sure!

The magic bag of tricks was more of a feature in the TV cartoons than anywhere else.

Here are scans of five more of my Felix the Cat comics:

Thank you! Here then are scans of six of my Detective Comics: Dallas Stephens copy Cleveland copy

I agree. In particular, the part of the run from issues #133-152 contains a particularly heavy concentration of covers that are things of beauty. (thumbs u

Not surprising. That would be a favourite of mine too! What proportion of the comics you bought as a kid was from the funny animal genre?

Rad ad! And what a lineup! (thumbs u Pity most of these titles had disappeared by 1961.

Oh, I agree! Aquaman will attest that the green ones are particularly unsympathetic:

My first exposure to comics was in the comic section of the Saturday London Free Press in the late fifties. The Uncle Remus and his Tales of Brer Rabbit strip may have been the very first to capture my attention: I'm still a fan of the Uncle Remus characters after all these years and I have dozens of copies of the strip in my collection today. The first comic books I can remember reading in the spring and summer of 1959 featured Felix's Nephews Inky & Dinky. I recall my buddy and I from across the street thought that Dinky was a very cool name! They were of course rather beat up and I have no clue as to the actual issue(s) but here's one from my collection today: The first comics I can recall buying were the Cicero's Cat 1 and 2 in the summer of 1959. I bought them at Ken's Variety on Wharncliffe Road in London, Ontario and I very clearly remember my father initially telling me to take #2 back because he thought I already had a copy! Though I was already familiar with Superman and Batman comics from the barber shop or wherever, the first superhero comics I distinctly remember reading were the Adventures of the Fly in early 1961. I remember reading them at Lamont & Perkins drugstore a block away on Wortley Road before they chased me out, at which point I'd head for Tyler & Zettel's pharmacy a few blocks away. I believe they only stocked Archie, Dell and Classics Illustrated comics in these drug stores which is why the Fly was the first superhero to catch my attention. I'm not sure which issue of the Adventures of the Fly first captured my attention but it may have been #11 or #12: Bethlehem copy In any event, I very clearly remember seeing these ads in Adventures of the Fly 13 heralding the introduction of Fly Girl and the Jaguar: I also read through the Adventures of the Jaguar 1 when it first hit the newstand: It included this dandy ad for the mysterious Fly Girl: A copy of Space Adventures belonging to the older brother of a buddy of mine featuring the powerful Captain Atom further whetted my appetite for the pajama brigade. The memory of these pages featuring a Nikita Kruschev like character has never left me: The first DC superhero comic I can specifically remember reading was Green Lantern 11 in the spring of 1962 which a buddy on a farm outside of London had. I still remember how it filled me with a sense of awe and wonder at the time. A copy of Justice League of America 8 that I read at summer camp a couple of months later that same year clinched the deal: When I got home from summer camp, I marched right down to Les' Variety on the corner to check out the comics on the spinner rack. The first superhero comic I bought was Justice League 14. I eventually succeeding in trading for all but a couple of the issues of Justice League down to issue #4: The other superhero comics I bought off the spinner rack at Les' Variety as part of that first batch included Detective 307 and Batman 150: An Adventures of the Jaguar and a Superboy or a World's Finest were also part of that first batch which soon ended up in the trash when my older sister convinced my mother that comics would surely corrupt me. And of course she was right. They have! But my appetite for more comics had already been whetted by DC house ads such as these (although I haven't a clue as to where I first saw them): Within a few months I was back to buying comics again and here I am today!