Hepcat

I'm an old school collector. I won't buy a card unless I'm interested in acquiring the rest of the cards in the set. That's why I'm very hesitant to add a new different card to my collection because it would mean I've embarked on a new collection. That once again means I'm not on the same page with collectors of the cards being issued these days.

Deadman!

Hmmmm. Says PSA: "The exception, however, is that this Tiffany set features gloss-covered fronts with a white cardstock reverse. Cal Ripken, Jr. (#9), Roger Clemens (#26), Mark McGwire (#197), Nolan Ryan (#225), and Barry Bonds (#426) anchor the set. Rookie cards in the series include Robin Ventura (#65), Gary Sheffield (#142), Ken Griffey, Jr. (#220), John Smoltz (#266), and Sandy Alomar, Jr. (#454). This Bowman issue was available solely as a factory set with an estimated 6,000 sets created." So the difference is that there are "only" about 6000 Tiffany cards. Well on that point anyway we're on the same page. It doesn't make sense to me either. But then many things in this day and age don't.

So what? Does it all come down to the price it may fetch for you now? Doesn't aesthetics come into play? Ahead? Do you like the cards or not? I guess you don't since you haven't even looked through them let alone put them in sheets and binders. But then why do you have/keep them? Me I would never have accumulated any of my collectibles if I didn't derive delight and satisfaction from their possession.

Hopefully you have not just Ken Griffey but most of the other cards in those 1989 baseball sets.

Russ Heath's Silver Age DC War comic artwork ranks a very close second to that of Joe Kubert in my book. That being said, I think his artwork is simply too "clean" when it comes to the dark and gritty Atlas War comics of the 1950's. I think the work of less heralded artists such as Carl Burgos and Sol Brodsky were better suited to the tone of Atlas War comics. Moreover I think War comics should by nature be dark and gritty to fit the subject matter. That's one of the reasons I hate the Golden Age stories of superheroes, including their kid sidekicks(!), involved in war action as if war was just another grand adventure. For that reason I also prefer Sgt. Rock to Sgt. Fury in the 1960's because Sgt. Rock treated the war as not an opportunity for heroism but only something to be endured because he had no choice. But I also hated it when Superhero comics went to the opposite extreme beginning in the late 1980's when the protagonists all became dark, gritty and ever so tough with perpetual snarls on their faces. And that was the heroines. The male heroes were even worse.

Oh my! Love that girl art! Any idea who drew that cover?

Who drew those two covers? Norm Saunders perhaps?

Check the Silver Age Romance thread.

I posted my thirteen favourites on the previous page of this thread.

Great intro to comics! Mine was Dell Disney and Tom and Jerry titles plus Harvey Felix the Cat titles in the late 1950's. My post-War immigrant father was very old school and dismissed all comics, particularly the funny animals, as "monkeys". Somehow though he rated Mad and Drag Cartoons magazines a cut above. He of course never even flipped through them. It was I who introduced my father to elements of New World culture such as football and baseball instead of the other way around. He picked up on the detail that I favoured the Edmonton Eskimos but wondered why CFL teams didn't play against NFL teams. I would have explained to him that the game in Canada was very different than that in the States but he'd still say that they should all be thrown in together somehow. Exposure to hockey he couldn't avoid at work.

Pre-1964 Star Spangled War Stories in high grade are obscenely difficult to find. I have only this one:

I fully agree! DC very consistently turned out a high quality product across all genres until it started to get spotty in places late in 1965.

The #24 was the first issue of Green Lantern I ever bought and is neck-and-neck with #16 and #33 as my favourite cover from the Silver Age series.

Are there no women posting on this forum? I can't believe that Alfred E. Neuman hasn't received more mention in this thread.

First Animal Man! First Immortal Man plus Animal Man in costume:

Yay to Squirrel Girl! But that Erik Larson fellow can't draw worth a damn.

Picking just one is enough to drive me psycho.

Five more of my Playful Little Audrey comics:

Time for another DC:

By Steve Ditko!

All my early Northland Aquaman comics are graded NM- except one: NM- NM NM- NM-

Where you have genies you have magic carpets:

A Joe Maneely cover: Sadly Joe left us all too soon.

Ahhhhh, first tin can!