Hepcat

Five days and counting!

Six days to go!

Seven days before the big day!

I see the Joe Palooka title was published until March 1961 but it never caught my eye as a kid. When it came to Harveys, I guess my eyes were always drawn to Hot Stuff, Spooky and Casper. Interesting that it was about that time too that I first really discovered superhero comics, the Adventures of the Fly to be precise. Here though are scans of a couple of my Hot Stuff comics:

Here are scans of four more of my Daffy comics: 18 19 20 21

Those two may be tougher to find these days because I doubt that the above two comics did as well as most Four Colors. I don't think the Dell teen humour comics sold as briskly as the Dell funny animals comics in the fifties. While Dell had sewn up almost all of the major cartoon characters for its funny animal line, Archie provided Dell's teen humour comics with very stout competition.

A twenty coin set of Warships were also issued by Krun-Chee and Schuler's in Canada in late 1962 or early 1963. Here are my Krun-Chee ones: And here are scans of my Batman coin set:

Cool! Charlton titles from the fifties such as Space War are brutally difficult to find. (thumbs u

Here's a scan of another one of my Spike and Tyke Four Colors:

Welcome to the club. That's the way it's been here in North America as well for the last forty years.

I also posted these last month in the "Collecting things other then comics" thread.

Batman 121 is from early in 1959. Finding high grade copies of DC comics from 1959 is like pulling teeth. There are probably 25X as many copies of Batman 181 in 9.2 as there are copies of Batman 121 in 9.2, and 100X as many copies of Batman 232. Secondly, do you only buy slabbed comics or do you buy raw comics that are up to your quality standards as well?

I'm a big fan and collector of all the different coins that were issued as premiums during the early and mid sixties in potato chips and other products. For example, a set of sixty Space Orbit coins were issued as premiums in Dare, Krun-Chee and Hunter's Potato Chips in Canada in 1965(?). Here are scans of some of my Dare coins: And here are scans of some of my Krun-Chee coins: The Dare coins are more common than the Krun-Chee ones since Dare chips were distributed in and around Toronto while the Krun-Chee chip plant was in Windsor and the chips weren't sold much beyond southwestern Ontario. Krun-Chee chips were not that common even in London when I was a kid. Meanwhile, the Hunter's Space Orbit coins are the toughest of them all. I have only one. A U.S. variant of the Space Orbit coin set was also issued with Gordon's Potato Chips, Krun-Chee Corn Chips and Drenk's Corn Chips . To avoid offending delicate American sensibilities, the coins of Commie Soviets Yuri Gagarin, Gherman Titov and Nikita Kruschev were replaced with coins bearing less threatening images. Here is a scan of a sheet of my Gordon's ones: As you can see, John Kennedy was deemed a suitable image albeit Kruschev was not. Here's a scan of a sheet of my Krun-Chee Corn Chip coins: Here are scans of my Space Magic coins that were premiums within Krun-Chee, Schuler's and Nalley's Potato Chips in 1964 or so: Although all these brands were also sold somewhere in Canada at the time, my impression is that these coins were only distributed in the U.S. since that's where they all seem to originate these days.

Here's a scan of one that crosses genres:

Here's another relatively obscure title at which I've been pecking away: 18 20 22 24

Here`s another really good one I have:

Indeed! It wasn't just in the war genre either. Some tremendous comics were published in the early Bronze Age. Which one was that? Do you have a picture of the ad?

Very true!

Well then here are five more:

That's a fabulous title! I think it fits any thread myself. (thumbs u

I agree! I've always found the more obscure titles to be more interesting! And I can see why! Be great to find a whole stack of those. (thumbs u

What more do you need? Boy I love those Avon covers! Here's one of mine:

Here's one of mine:

The Green Lantern 11 was a key influence on my impressionable young mind. More so than any other comic, it set me on a path of no return. And here I sit today, still in thrall to the newstand offerings from the late fifties and early sixties!

Oh I agree! And you've already got a good start right there. (thumbs u