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So which is the first Teen Titans? This: Or this? I'm leaning to #60. That's where the "team" was actually created and named. Moreover let's face it. Without Wonder Girl, they're just not the Teen Titans!

You want the first Swamp Thing? Here! Take your pick.

Cool! From August 1946! That photo is from which comic though?

Kid Flash hadn't crossed my mind at all when I started this thread but he's featured on quite a few good Silver Age Flash covers:

Metamorpho!

Some Black Cat Giants: Northland copy

First Queen Mera: Sadly issue #11 would also mark the last appearance of Aquaman's friend Quisp: He'd be shunted aside by Mera who'd reappear in issues #13-17 before marrying the Sea King in issue #18:

Mmmmm!

Huh? Did you buy and slab all those copies? If so, why?

One of the house ads that ran in Brave and the Bold 50 was this subscription ad: Despite how excited I was about the new team-up concept, I resisted since I'd already learned from subscribing to Aquaman that my comics would arrive folded in half.

Not quite. It was previously at 367 Queen Street West. It's now a few blocks west at 809 Queen Street West.

Whenever I hear such reports I'm intrigued. But then it almost invariably turns out that the reporter was talking about Marvels and basically only Marvels. Was that the case at Now and Then as well? What really intrigues me though is that I've heard of a big time Silver Age DC collector in Kitchener but I've never met him. Would that be Andy himself?

The intro of the Metal Men:

She's clearly a cadet with the Space Rangers. Probably one of those diversity hires.

The debut of the sinister Cat Girl in Adventures of the Fly 9: After one further appearance in Adventures of the Fly 10, she x-over to bedevil the Jaguar in issue #4: She reappeared in Adventures of the Jaguar 5 and then gave herself a makeover with a new hairstyle and sexier outfit to lure the dashing Jaguar into her boudoir in issue #6: Like Queen Mera over in Aquaman, Cat-Girl then became a regular guest starlet as an ally and love interest of the Jaguar with further appearances in issues #7, 8, 9, 11, 13 & 14.

After seeing a house ad for that one in 1963, I coveted it for nearly a year before acquiring a copy through a trade.

I've actually been writing up my earliest adventures with comics here:

So do I! But that was among the last ones I secured in completing my Justice League run.

One good return deserves another:

The proud home of the Justice Society of America between 1940 and 1950 from issues #3 and #57, All Star Comics continued as All-Star Western to issue #119 in 1961. Here's an example from my collection: Granted that with its stable of skilled artists such as Gil Kane, DC put out quality Westerns with those fabulous house look covers and nicely rendered interior pages but I still wish that the Justice Society would have continued somewhere. Three good places would have been in Comics Cavalcade, in Adventure Comics as the cover feature instead of Superboy or as a backup in World's Finest Comics. Best of all would have been keeping the Justice Society in All Star Comics and turning Sensation Comics into Sensational Western Comics with Wonder Woman being replaced as the cover feature by cowboys.

Here's one anyway from my collection with a gorgeous Maurice Whitman cover:

One from Gold Key:

True indeed. But I've had it for 25-40 years so I no longer remember how/where I acquired it.

Mmmmmm, Nova Kane!

How can a "wonderfully talented" artist mess up human anatomy so badly?