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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: CGC 9.2

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.

Astonishing! I only like Ant-Man with the Wasp. My stepping off point from Tales to Astonish is when Ant-Man evolves into Giant-Man.

Here though is the Mastronet case: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/pr/former-owner-mastro-auctions-sentenced-20-months-federal-prison-shill-bidding-scam

No, I'm a Canadian. Truthfully I think it was a case of Heritage employees not even knowing the rules of their own auction, i.e. that the first bid automatically shows up at the price of the minimum bid specified. Either that or poor communication resulting in dumb and clumsy computer programming on the part of whoever they hired to do the job. It was a moot point anyway since my initial bids were all blown out of the water.

I believe the #3 is a lot more common than the other issues from #2 - 9. It was an Aquaman comic sold in the Comicpacs.

I was also well aware of the Hawk Weird-Ohs model kits as a kid. I don't remember how and where I first learned of them, but it would not have been long after Hawk first started releasing them in 1963 because they were very widely sold. Here's a picture of the poster that went out to retailers in conjunction with the release of the first three Weird-Ohs: And here's a poster from 1964 displaying them all: I particularly remember gazing upon a Huey's Hut Rod kit in the downtown Coles bookstore. Here's the one from my present day collection: I also admired an Endsville Eddie kit at Coles: Moreover Steve's Variety & Gift Shop seemed to have one of the two smaller Weird-Oh kits that had a retail price of $0.50, Sling Rave Curvette or Wade A. Minut, on display in their front window for several years. These of course caught my eye every time I passed (as did the chocolate cream puffs priced at $0.15 in the window of the Bell Noll Bakery next door): I also still remember Mike M. just down the block from me proudly showing me the Francis the Foul kit he'd built but left unpainted: For Mike and his older brother Fred to beat me to the punch when it came to getting things though was par for the course. They were a lot more sophisticated and cooler than I was since even Mike was a year older than me. I never bought and built any of the Weird-Ohs though. Quite simply I didn't have the spending money to indulge my every whim and I could see that the Weird-Oh kits simply weren't as good as the Revell Roth finks or the Aurora Universal monsters when it came to quality. But I have them all in my present day collection because they're plenty cool enough for me these days! Here then are more shots from my present day collection: Plus I have a bunch of ancillary Weird-Ohs items including a Fleer Weird-Ohs card set and wrapper from 1965: A couple of Magic Slates: And five sets of the decals (I sold one set) in the display box plus the shipping box which I bought at a vintage model shop over 35 years ago!

There! That'll fix the fat old fart!

I suspect the item was "sold" to a shill bid. The seller was just trying to bid up the GPA for a comic in his possession that he hopes to sell in the next few months. But who was the big name dealer of CGC comics whose account was briefly (all too briefly!) suspended by Ebay for shill bids some twelve years ago? And was it Mastronet or Heritage who argued in court that they shoudn't all be jailed for shill bids because the practice wasn't illegal in Texas? Do they still do it all the time? I recall back in 2005-06 Heritage had listed minimum opening bid levels for the comics in their catalogue. I pecked in my maximum bids for about six comics. Well guess what? The bid prices posted the next day were all at my maximum instead of at the minimum in complete defiance of the laws of probability. When I phoned to "inquire" as to how this happened, they were confused. They had trouble even understanding my inquiry.

Those are nice. Soaky and Pez are a tough combination to beat for a kid of any age! The Holy Grail of most Creature collectors though is the Bally pinball machine: (Not mine.)

Five more of my World's Finest Comics:

Well since we're now curious to see what you think fits here, show us!