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The Canadian White variant of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies 109:
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Plus my earliest Bugs Bunny comic:
- adamstrange and sfcityduck
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Charlton also published some good Westerns through the 1960's:
- Darwination and Jayman
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On 7/9/2024 at 10:01 PM, GreatCaesarsGhost said:
No sense rushing into a thread, @Primetime. And now that you’ve decided to act, is this really the best you can do for “unpopular”? I hereby declare your opinion popular.
Well me I certainly don't like Marvel Comics 1 and I my only opinion on Captain America is that he's a sap.
I find this other Timely hero far preferable to Captain America:
It's not even close in my book.
- Primetime, jimbo_7071 and Darwination
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Fiction House war!
- buttock and adamstrange
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On 6/5/2024 at 6:44 PM, bc said:
Quick Monster Market Report - Summer 2024 Edition
Our little genre is still kickin' azz
Pre-Hero Marvels are still the best Marvels!
- Frisco Larson and KirbyJack
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My earliest Charlton:
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On 7/8/2024 at 8:47 AM, themagicrobot said:
@Hudson Started this thread last year and I think it is time people started posting here again. Slabbed comics and debates about what is 9.4 or 9.6 are all well and good but I'd far rather read about Tales good and bad, happy and sad.
Oh absolutely! I fully agree.
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Here are a couple shots of my "new old stock" Transogram Mighty Comics Super Heroes board game:
The game has a great theme but it's extremely ill executed. Pictured on the cover are the Fly, Captain Flag, the Shield, Black Hood and Fly Girl. They all look fine but why was Captain Flag, who had a grand total of only one additional appearance in comics since Blue Ribbon Comics ceased publication in 1942, chosen instead of the Jaguar who not only had his own comic in the early 1960's but had ongoing appearances in Pep and Laugh? And why was his name given an extra "g" on the character list at the bottom of the box? Worse yet, who were the Hood, Mr. Fox, Mr. Jag and Mr. Steel? Now Archie had characters named Black Hood, the Fox, the Jaguar and Steel Sterling but not the the Hood, Mr. Fox, Mr. Jag and Mr. Steel. The people at Archie Publications were very careless indeed when they approved Transogram releasing this game in 1966.
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Four more of my Blue Beetle comics:
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My first exposure to comics was in the comic section of the Saturday London Free Press in the late 1950's. The Uncle Remus and his Tales of Brer Rabbit strip was my early favourite:
I'm still a fan of the Uncle Remus characters after all these years and I have dozens of copies of the strip in my collection today. I even have a custom stained glass window with Brer Fox in my collectibles room:
The first comic books I can remember reading in the spring and summer of 1959 featured Felix's Nephews Inky & Dinky. I recall my buddy Phil and I from across the street thought that Dinky was a very cool name! They were of course rather beat up and I have no clue as to the actual issue(s) but here's one from my collection today:
The first comics I can recall buying were the Cicero's Cat 1 and 2 in the summer of 1959. I bought them at Ken's Variety on Wharncliffe Road in London, Ontario and I very clearly remember my father initially telling me to take #2 back because he thought I already had a copy!
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Though I was already familiar with Superman and Batman comics from the barber shop or wherever, the first superhero comics I distinctly remember reading were the Adventures of the Fly in early 1961. I remember reading them at Lamont & Perkins drugstore a block away on Wortley Road before they chased me out, at which point I'd head for Tyler & Zettel's pharmacy a few blocks away. I believe they only stocked Archie, Dell and Classics Illustrated comics in these drug stores which is why the Fly was the first superhero to catch my attention. I'm not absolutely sure which issue of the Adventures of the Fly first captured my attention but it may have been #12:
Bethlehem copy
In any event, I very clearly remember seeing these ads in Adventures of the Fly 13 heralding the introduction of Fly Girl and the Jaguar:
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I also read through the Adventures of the Jaguar 1 when it first hit the newsstand:
It included this dandy ad for the mysterious Fly Girl:
A copy of Space Adventures belonging to the older brother of my buddy Paul featuring the powerful Captain Atom further whetted my appetite for the pajama brigade.
The memory of these pages featuring a Nikita Khrushchev like character has never left me:
The first DC superhero comic I can specifically remember reading was Green Lantern 11 in the spring of 1962 which a buddy on a farm near Mount Brydges just outside of London had.
I still remember how it filled me with a sense of awe and wonder at the time. A copy of Justice League of America 8 that I read at a Lithuanian kids' summer camp a couple of months later that same year clinched the deal:
When I got home from camp, I marched right down to Les' Variety on the corner to check out the comics on the spinner rack. The first superhero comic I bought was Justice League 14:
The other superhero comics I bought off the spinner rack at Les' Variety as part of that first batch included Detective Comics 307 and Batman 150:
A Superboy or a World's Finest Comics plus Adventures of the Jaguar 8 were also part of that first batch:
But they swiftly ended up in the trash when my older sister convinced my mother that comics would surely corrupt me. And of course she was right. They have!
But my appetite for more comics had already been whetted by DC house ads such as these (although I'm no longer entirely sure where or when I first saw them):
Within a year I was back to seriously accumulating comics again and here I am today!
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On 7/6/2024 at 3:18 PM, skypinkblu said:
Hang on...Did I just wandered into the local middle school locker room?
We're comic collectors/fans. Comic art is one of the things we discuss here.
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Here's an early Four Color that hearkens back to a really early newpaper strip:
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On 7/7/2024 at 4:25 PM, jimbo_7071 said:
And did you notice that on the 23 it looks like her left one is about three times the size of her right one?
Worse yet her left "breast" is just a mound jutting out of her chest. Her right one looks somewhat more like a real breast.
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Charlton war!
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On 6/17/2024 at 11:45 AM, hchill25 said:
A Date with Judy 76...The cover & interior art looks to me like Owen Fitzgerald's handiwork.
Wow! A Date with Judy is a tough title in decent grade.
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On 6/4/2024 at 7:15 AM, comicjack said:
Great cover concept!
- Sandflea and ADAMANTIUM
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Another Disney title:
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Four more of my Gorgo comics:
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- sagii, Jayman and southern cross
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Breasts confined in structured (probably padded) bras do not constitute a counter example.
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Here then are more string puppets:
No sense rushing into a thread, 
I find this other Timely hero far preferable to Captain America:
VOTE NOW! DC Comics,US Mint coin & medal Series. The Ultimate Crossover
in Comics General
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I don't like a lot of the pictures selected for the heroes, e.g. Black Canary, Green Arrow and Batgirl. Worse yet I don't like John Stewart selected as Green Lantern.