Hepcat

Lori goes from just a cover blurb to being the cover feature in the next issue:

Hmmmm. That may actually be Black Cat's shade of red and since Black Cat was one of the redheads I offered up for consideration in my opening post, I see no grounds whatsoever for the rejection of your nominee.

When it comes to collecting back issues from the Golden Age to 1985 or so, I think it is.

Fred and Mike the cooler slightly older kids down the block had a good gig at a shoe shine joint in downtown London. But that's another money making gig that's disappeared for kids.

The heroic Jaguar! 1 2 3 4 Yes, the same nefarious scheming Cat-Girl from the Fly's title now targetting the dauntless Jaguar! 5

So was Richard Olson one of those few collectors who started buying comics circa 1950, kept them all and then when older began to hunt down issues he'd missed as a kid?

Another Superman 80 pg. Giant but with Brainiac among others:

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

The Flash 139 that I bought at Ken's Variety on Wharncliffe Road in July of 1963: Contained this very enticing house ad: Well, yes! It went without saying that I absolutely, positively had to know the origins of the heroic Kid Flash and Elongated Man plus the dastardly villainous Mr. Element and Super Gorilla Grodd. I couldn't find it though at either Ken's or Les' Variety stores since every store didn't necessarily get even one copy of every comic and of course the one copy could have been swiftly snapped up by another kid. I "scoured" a whopping total of three or four different variety stores in my neighbourhood plus another three or four outlets downtown trying to find this Annual without any luck. For whatever reason I didn't think to devote an afternoon to riding my bike around to the other eighteen or so variety stores and drug stores that stocked comics in the square mile or so of my school district. I didn't secure a copy until sometime in the 1990's: That opened the flood gates for me as far as Giants were concerned. Within a few years I acquired all the Flash, Justice League and Brave and the Bold 80-Page Giants and 100-Page Giants plus many more from both DC and other publishers.

$5! What year was this?

I had an incredibly easy route delivering 32 newspapers on one city block which earned me $2.76 per week in 1964. Comics, bubble gum cards and model kits soaked up most of that. I made $15.00 per day on a tobacco farm in August 1967. Much of it ended up going to LPs (Beatles, Rolling Stones, Doors, Animals, Kinks, Yardbirds, etc). What I really coveted though was a Seabreeze suitcase stereo which I didn't get until 1969.

Mmmmm, Harlequin! My favourite Earth Two Green Lantern co-star ahead of even Streak the Wonder Dog!

I like the one wearing the pearl necklace better.

It looks as if the 1962 DC Comicpacs contained comics extending exactly over the big box 12 cent cover date period from December 1961 to January 1963. Sadly I don't yet have any Fox and the Crow, Star Spangled War Stories, Our Army at War (with Sgt. Rock), G.I. Combat (with the Haunted Tank) or romance comics from this time period in my collection. Here though is an additional baker's dozen of my favourite covers from among the big box 12 cent DC comics I do possess:

Do you have any issue number for us?

Perhaps my favourite cover set on Krypton:

I've always confounded these two covers: I had to check to see which one I had in my collection. It turned out that I had both although I had a scan of only the first one.

A weird horse but a horse nonetheless!

Indeed. You're too old for videogaming.

The duplicitous Cat Girl! 9

Collecting from customers and then paying the bill at the newspaper's office was standard practice in those days. I had to do it weekly delivering the London Free Press which was published six days a week. Was the Valley Times a daily or a weekly?

+1!

Smart!

A fabulous cover! But there's conflicting data on whether Neal Adams or Joe Orlando was the cover artist.

Oh wow! Too cool.