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In the meantime, here's a scan of my oldest Action Comic:

Which Silver Age comics? Where did you come across them, or how long did you have them?

The professional agitating crowd be damned. I wish Disney would just rerelease the movie for fans on DVD and Blu-ray without any kissing up to that lot.

My neighbour from across the street is the star drummer of Tennessee Voodoo Coupe which was playing the Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Car Show last weekend. He brought this very cool T-shirt back for me: Cowboy of course wants to borrow it!

Here are two comics that just arrived at my door last week as a result of a swap I did with Bomber-Bob: 7 8 Bright colours, white pages, they looked unread and were every bit as good as Bomber-Bob promised and more! (thumbs u I'm now down to only needing issue #6 and #10 to complete my run of the first ten issues and seven issues overall to complete my run of Black Cat Comics/Black Cat Western!

Was Rex Maxon also the cover artist for most of the Dell Turok issues?

Here are scans of my ten cent Turok issues: 13 18 19

Wow! Incredible! You can justifiably sneer at Wolverine collectors now.

I've been a fan of the Uncle Remus characters since the Uncle Remus and His Tales of Brer Rabbit newspaper strip that ran Saturdays in the London Free Press until sometime in the late sixties served as my introduction to these characters when I was a kid: The strip actually began on 14 October 1945 and ran in various newspapers until 31 December 1972. Paul Murry was the initial penciller on the strip but handled the job only until 14 July 1946 at which point he went to work for Western Printing. He was the artist of record for the first Dell comic mag based on Song of the South and also worked on the General Mills Brer Rabbit premium booklets. Murry was succeeded by D ick Moores on the newspaper strip. By the time I encountered it the strip was being pencilled by Riley Thomson (1951-59), under whom Brer Rabbit acquired a less cutesy and more rascally look evident in the example above. Bill Wright (1959-62), Chuck Fuson (1962) and John Ushler (1962-1972) followed on the strip. I have dozens of copies of the strip in my collection. I also have several of the Golden Press picture books which my buddy Cowboy is looking over here in these pictures: In addition I have several records and cassettes featuring Brer Rabbit: And here are my Brer Rabbit comics: Best of all is this custom stained glass window featuring Brer Fox and Flower from Bambi in the door beside my model cabinet leading from my collectibles room to the upstairs balcony: This is the original image on which the stained glass window is based: And hanging on the opposite wall from the stained glass window is the original art for the 1972 rerelease of the "Song of the South" movie poster which I acquired through a Hake's auction about five years ago:

I bought this one from Harley at the Toronto show a week and a half ago:

I hadn't bought any comics for at least half a year until the Toronto show a week and a half ago. I ended my drought with these four: 32 File copy

The cake was so good that I asked The MAN to buy another one for us: Here I am with Deuce (red collar) and Ace (green collar): Cowboy liked this blue one even more than the previous one:

Mmmmmm! That DC house look! But for a complete change of pace. here are scans of a title providing a different take on Tom & Jerry: 14 15 17 19 21

Mmmmmmm, cake! (thumbs u

The Topps You'll Die Laughing cards are a very early collectibles related memory of mine. I recall marvelling at these in the schoolyard in the fall of 1959 when I was in second grade. The Jack Davis artwork gracing the cards was just so right! I didn't have any of these You'll Die Laughing myself though because I can't recall seeing any for sale at the half dozen or so variety stores in my general neighbourhood I frequented in those days. It could have been that the controversial subject matter for the time caused most store owners to pass up on them, but any store owner who agreed to take on a box quickly sold every pack so they weren't there on display for long. Nonetheless, it was these You'll Die Laughing cards that put me firmly on the path to becoming a monster kid. As a result, when the Leaf Spook Stories cards hit store shelves late in 1961 or early in 1962, I was primed and ready! I collected them energetically and within a matter of weeks put together a set:

I agree. Lee Elias doesn't get the recognition he deserves.

Here are scans of another Harvey war offering from the early fifties:

Those Battle covers are so cool! (thumbs u And so gritty they make DC's war offerings from the fifties and sixties seem sanitized in comparison.

Yes you did. We interfaced previously in the War comics thread, and I dropped in at your store in London some eighteen months ago when you'd taken the weekend off to attend a comicon in the States.

Here I am admiring my Don Post Fu Manchu mask: Here's Deuce posing with it: And here's a picture of The MAN wearing it:

Cool! the Dodo and Frog are funny stuff! Is that a collection you just bought or are those from your personal collection?

Not surprising! I wouldn't be able to resist that one either.

For whatever reason, these two comics from my collection remind me of each other:

Here are scans of a few more of my Harvey war comics:

Such as this one?