Hepcat

Here are scans of a couple of Brave & the Bolds from my collection:

You say you want to see Timelys? Well get an eyeful of the scans of these gems from my collection. And best of all they're not of the same old boring titles that keep getting posted again and again in this thread:

I think most semi-knowledgeable collectors have always had it as a SA DC Top 5 book. But that didn`t translate into a high value, since being top 5 SA DC in comic collecting circles is kind of like being in the top 5 at Cal Tech... in football. But weren't you just chastising somebody else about things not always being about the money? If the philistines don't appreciate Green Lantern, well screw them. And their mothers probably throw rocks at airplanes too.

We need a thread for collectors of Silver Age Action, Superman, Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen comics. I'll start by posting scans from my collection of three gems from early 1961:

I just wish I had copies of all of them with sufficient eye appeal to fit into the rest of my collection regardless of the "technical grade", whether that be 8.5, 9.4 or somewhere in between. It may be just an impossible dream though. And it's not as if I passed up on pristine copies thirty years ago. I never did see any of these Showcases in that type of condition at shows or anywhere. I should have collected enough pop bottles and hunted these Showcases down on the newstand in 1959 and then covered them in Saran wrap and put them up in the rafters of the basement where it was cooler but safe from storm sewer backups and such. As if....

I've also suspected for some years that Showcase 24 is even more difficult to find in high grade than either Showcase 22 or Showcase 23. It wasn't as commonly hoarded as 22 with Green Lantern's first appearance or 23 with the atomic bomb cover.

DC had agreed to distribute no more than eight Atlas titles per month (which amounted to sixteen bi-monthly titles at the time) in 1957 when Atlas could find no other distributor which was probably a fallout from the Kefauver Senate hearings on the threat to the nation's youth poised by comics. I doubt, however, that the Incredible Hulk's cancellation was linked precisely to the desire to launch the Amazing Spider-Man. The title that gave way to the Amazing Spider-Man was none other than Amazing Fantasy. The timeline fits since with the cancellation of Amazing Fantasy Marvel had room for one more title. Moreover the last issue of the Incredible Hulk ran in March 1963 which was the same month that saw the launch of Amazing Spider-Man which would have amounted to a doubling up in that month.

I love the pre-hero Marvels you fellows have been posting in this thread. It's a pity Marvel had to drop the publication of these stories in order to concentrate on superheroes because of the restrictive distribution deal Marvel had with DC at the time.

I'd say it's because any Adventure comic from early in 1960 would be extremely tough to find in high enough grade to take the trouble to slab. Nor is Adventure 269 a really high dollar book.

That is a very clean and bright copy. Do you think you would get a 9.2 or better if slabbed? No, I don't honestly think it's a 9.4. I'd be a bit disappointed if it came in as an 8.5 and very satisfied if it came in as a 9.2. So perhaps it may be a 9.0.

I bought it from Motor City Comics about twelve years ago. Motor City graded it as NM- on the certificate. While it has some weaknesses, overall the copy is really tough to beat.

Here are front and back scans of my Northland pedigree Showcase 24:

Were it but sharper and whiter I'd ante up the $300. (thumbs u

Sadly no. I've never come across either a Showcase 22 or a Showcase 23 up to my condition standards and certainly never when I've been flush with enough cash to buy it. I actually just listed my most major keys in this post: My Most Iconic Comics

Yes. I've found that DC #2s are almost always harder to find than the #1s.

Here's a Golden Age acquisition of mine so recent that it's still in my "To be filed" drawer:

Here's a scan of my Flash 110:

Here are scans of my Aquaman 1 and Aquaman 2: It took me over 25 years to find a really nice copy of #2 but I finally got one at a show here in Toronto from Superworld of Worcester, Massachusetts.

Here's a scan from my collection of the Batman comic with perhaps my very favourite cover:

Here's a scan of my Green Lantern #8: It's in fabulous condition but personally I think the painted cover is among the worst efforts on Gil Kane's part.

Mattel revolutionized the diecast car market and in so doing captured the lion's share of it with three novel ideas: 1. Make the axles skinnier. This enabled the cars to go faster. 2. Design radical, far out cars to appeal to kids even if the cars don't actually model any car in the real world. 3. Put power into the actual track itself to enable any Hot Wheels car to run. Ingenious! The Hot Wheel cars and the tracks on which they run are so cool that any young boy from 5 to 95 is tempted by them!

I'm guessing that it was probably the Mattel Creepy Crawlers Thingmaker set you remember:

Oh don't I wish! But sadly, no. I first saw the image reproduced in an early issue of Bill Bruegman's magazine "Model and Toy Collector" and I've often wondered how the lucky owner got his hands on the piece. Bill probably knows.

Here's James Bama's fabulous original art to a couple of the Aurora monster kits: Almost as good as the kits were the ads that Aurora ran for the kits on the back covers of DC comics: The Monster Scenes line of kits which included Vampirella that Aurora released in the early seventies did not get the back cover treatment but was nonetheless noteworthy for the dialogue of the characters: Notice that Vampirella came complete with camel toe in the sketch. Talk about cool! (thumbs u

Wow! It looks like the Silver Surfer himself wouldn't be able to get at those books!