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Do you want our own age or our guess as to the average age of comic collectors?

Yes, that's a large part of it. And I agree that DC shot the canon for Superman, Batman and their other heroes decades ago. So yes, the damage has already been done. But!!! Do you believe allowing other publishers would miraculous restore Superman and Batman's previous continuity? Don't you think that the free-for-all that would result would make things exponentially worse? Continuity? That concept would be just a joke to non-DC writers as opposed to the minor inconvenience it's been for DC writers. Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm an old curmudgeon, i.e. Silver Age DC fan.

The two I like the best from the ones you posted are Tales of Suspense 1 and Strange Tales 97.

Can someone explain to me why Captain America has more fans than does Blonde Phantom?

To another Batman-Flash team-up:

Here's another very cool Harvey:

Neal Adams' comic art was a real eye opener when it hit the pages of DC comics in the late 1960's. He raised the bar for comic art. Here are scans of my fifteen favourite Neal Adams' covers from among the comics I have in my collection:

So here's a scan of my present day copy of Superman 158 cover dated January 1963: And working from left to right and then downward I've identified all the comics showing on the rack of Comicpacs: Superman 150 Many Loves of Dobie Gillis 11 Sugar and Spike 38 Fox and the Crow 71 Superman 150 World's Finest Comics 122 Tomahawk 78 Action Comics 283 Adventures of Bob Hope 72 The above issues all initially hit newsstands in October and November 1961 and the only one I have in my present day collection is this one:

More of my Black Cats:

One of the comics I bought within a week or so after my return from summer camp in July of 1962 was this one: ' It contained this ad for Adventures of the Fly 21: Oh yeah, wow! I would have been all in for those adventures of the heroic Fly! Sadly though the issue had hit newsstands at least six weeks previously and I never saw a copy at Les' Variety, Lamont & Perkins Pharmacy, Ken's Variety or any of the other outlets I commonly frequented: So just another one of my many childhood unrequited desires.

A few Lois Lanes:

By a nose (the one Reed Richards stretched to make the cut).

Post any of your Tales here. All publishers welcome! (We're very open minded and inclusive when it comes to comics.) Here are scans of my five earliest Tales of the Unexpected comics: Bethlehem copy CGC 9.4 Bethlehem copy

Five more Felix the Cat comics:

Walter Lantz New Funnies is a much underrated title.

While their replacements were excellent in their own right, I wish DC had kept Green Lantern, Flash, Atom and the rest in Comic Cavalcade.

So was everybody. Particularly the "seller".

Show us your House of Mystery, House of Secrets, or any other "House" comics! I'll start: Bethlehem copy

I had nothing more to say in this thread since I'd already spoken my piece, but your inflammatory words beg for a response. "Insane"? Let me give you my solemn assurance that I'm very sane. But given your efforts to drag what to this point has been a polite intellectual discussion into the mud, it's your rationality or prudence that I'd now call into question. Consider: Those stories are outside existing continuity and are therefore not canon. What they are is simply theft and thus trash. They're precisely why I don't believe it would be a good thing for DC to lose copyright protection for Superman and Batman. More stories of that kind wouldn't please me. Since corporations are capable of owning any other property, there's no reason under law why they should be prohibited from owning copyrights. Once again since copyrights are property like any other, your argument when extended also challenges a person's right to bequeath his property to any other person or entity. Without this right, any rational person would do his best to deplete his assets as wastefully as possible prior to his demise. This would be a disaster for the economy. Why not defend corporations? One of the main reasons behind our prosperity here in the West is that we live under the Rule of Law, i.e. the same laws apply to all including the law makers themselves (as opposed to the Rule of Man). Corporations must therefore abide by the same laws as the rest of us and are therefore also entitled to the same protection under law. But why this wild-eyed anti-corporate diatribe on your part? Is this merely some ill considered personal prejudice on your part? Or are you just another amateur writer/artist who wants to try his hand at Superman and Batman? P.S.: You might try to avoid inflammatory remarks in future.

I'd bet on it.

One of mine:

Yes, that's a good one. While it didn't make my top thirteen, it would make my top twenty from the Silver Age. What's also interesting is the addition of all those messy Marvel style blurbs beginning with issue #36 forced a reduction in the style and size of the "Justice League of America" logo beginning with issue #43. More background canvas space was needed for Mike Sekowsky's cover art! The single worst Bat-craze cover abomination may have been this one:

It was at a Lithuanian kids' summer camp in July of 1962 that I read my first Justice League comic: It not only left me craving more DC superhero comics but had me wondering where Tootsie Roll Ice Cream Bars were sold and whether they were any good: So does anyone here remember Tootsie Roll Ice Cream Bars from your own neck of the woods? Were they as good as advertised?

Geeee, I dunno.