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Well since we have a thread for ducks, to be fair we need one for cats as well! So show us your comics with cats on the cover or at least in the title. I'll start with this old Dell:

I just received this one from Four Color Comics a few weeks ago to upgrade my own copy: 18 (I don't know why that black line and grey shadow appear on the right since they're not from the comic.) My #18 had been the weakest Fly in my collection. Now it's among the best!

Hmmmm. Methinks $2595 is somewhat over Overstreet.

Oh wow! Those are nice.

I keep wondering whether Charlton Guy actually had a collection that lived up to his user name. That would be cool since I like collectors whose focus is outside the usual, e.g. horror, crime, Marvel superheroes. But he'd stopped posting actively by the time I joined Comics Corral so I never found out. Does anyone stay in touch with him? Is he still collecting?

Even your 8.0 looks nice in the picture. What's wrong with it? Wear around the staples? I love all eight of the Cave Carson comics!

Yes, please do! We'd like to see that shot. I've found that #2 issues are almost always tougher to find than #1 issues. The pre-hero Brave and the Bold issues that I covet the most on an aesthetic basis are #17 and #24.

Since I've posted the twelve Flash covers from my collection that I like the best, I'll now post the cover that I most dislike. After a long run of very good to fabulous Flash covers going back to issue #109 in 1959, Carmine Infantino delivered this dud: So uninspiring and forgettable a cover that I didn't even scan it until now!

Here then are scans of my earliest Brave and the Bold issues: Mohawk Valley copy = Tracking down those Cave Carson issues in reasonably high grade is beyond tough. Maybe one day....

Here then are pics of a few of my other car kits: Don Prudhomme absolutely dominated the Funny Car field in the 1970's. He won four straight NHRA Funny Car championships in a Chevy Monza/Plymouth Arrow bodied Funny Car from 1975 to 1978 finishing first in an incredible thirteen out of sixteen events in 1975 and 1976. Nonetheless I still shut him down one time in my red 1973 Dodge Charger. I was driving westward along Highway 401 through the northern part of Toronto in the summer of 1979(?) when I noticed that the trailer I was passing was emblazoned with the livery of Don "The Snake" Prudhomme's Funny Car team. "Hmmmmm. They must be heading to Detroit from Montréal where the Grandnational was just held" I thought. When I then looked up at the cab of the truck, Don Prudhomme himself was behind the wheel! "Rad!" I thought. "I just blew by the Snake's Funny Car in my Charger and Don himself was driving! I can brag about that for the rest of my life."

I never had any problems with Charlton Guy(Hoss) but I understand there was considerable acrimony between him and at least one other very active poster on this CGC board and that Charlton Guy was eventually banned here. Does anyone remember the whys or the wherefores?

What's particularly impressive is that Sheldon Mayer was both the writer and artist for almost his output between the spring of 1956 and the end of 1971. Here's a self portrait he did for the Amazing World of DC Comics fanzine:

No. It's not the hardcore collectors who are doing the belly aching. Collectors don't like high prices because it makes adding to their collections more expensive and thus more difficult.

$348,000?! Who was that again who was belly aching about comic prices having fallen?

Here's one of the wildest gorilla covers of them all!

Sadly I believe O-Pee-Chee decided not to distribute the Mars Attacks cards in Canada. They still hardly ever crop up in Canada. I keep wondering why titles such as Flash, Green Lantern, Justice League of America, Aquaman, Hawkman, Atom and Fantastic Four didn't grab my attention in 1961 or earlier in 1962. I would have been instantly captivated by those titles yet I have no memory of that happening. Quite simply I think I just never saw those titles on a magazine stand until later in 1962. The Lamont & Perkins Pharmacy down the block carried only Dell, Harvey, Archie and Classics Illustrated(yuck!) titles while Steve's Variety and Gift Shop (where my father sent me to buy his Players Medium cigarettes) didn't carry comics. Neither did my two main sources for cards, Hartry's Grocery and a small mom-and-pop candy store, both of which were two blocks away but in different directions. But I don't even remember even Les' Variety, which opened up beside Lamont & Perkins later in 1961, regularly stocking DC titles other than the Superman and Batman ones or Marvels until later in 1962. I would have been enthralled by those new "exotic" heroes right from the get-go! My own collecting and model building activities absolutely exploded in the spring of 1964 when I got a paper route delivering the London Free Press early each morning. That it was! But you never know what you've got till it's gone....

July 1962 was the month when I actually bought my first superhero comics. I'd been greatly impressed to put it mildly by the copy of Justice League 8 which I'd read at a Lithuanian kids' summer camp near Mount Brydges just a few miles west of London. For Sale---the Justice League! Editor: Julius Schwartz Writer: Gardner Fox Art: Mike Sekowsky (pencils); Bernard Sachs (inks) After getting back home, the Justice League issue that greeted me on the comic stand at Les' Variety on the corner was #14: What a great cover! I was feverish with anxious anticipation as I bought it. Over the next two weeks or so I bought these additional comics: (Not mine.) 8 I may have bought a Superboy as well. Since I limited myself to perusing only the offerings at Les' and Lamont & Perkins Pharmacy right beside Les', I failed to come across any of these other really neat comics which would have been on the stands at about the same time: 21 1 Fantastic Four 7 would also have been on the stands at the time but I have no recollection of seeing any Marvel comics that month. It was just as well that I didn't come across any more comics to buy since within three weeks my older sister convinced my mother to pitch my small collection out before I was hopelessly corrupted. Nonetheless I must have continued to peruse the superhero comics on the stands for another few weeks because I very clearly remember being captivated by this house ad for Superman 156: Temporarily though I'd learned my lesson and resisted the urge to buy that or any other comic for the time being. Besides, the fabulous Topps Civil War News cards would hit variety store counters at about the same time as that Superman comic and they'd act to squeeze most every nickel and dime from my grubby fingers for weeks: ' And of course my sister's efforts to save me from being corrupted by my comics failed. I was already addicted and my life has been one of comic mag degeneracy ever since.

I posted a lot there in the last eighteen or so months of its existence by which time the activity level had dwindled to but a fraction of its peak years.. I liked it because it was a vintage comics forum without the constant focus on prices and "values". Stu was just a harasser who was banned from this CGC forum some fifteen years ago (although he delights in constantly reregistering here under different aliases). He was the only posting member at Comics Corral who didn't welcome me when I introduced myself in a post summarizing my range of collecting activities. Then his first response to me was a snide remark about my necro posting. And he hated my frequent posting of pictures from my collection upon the premise that it was wasting bandwidth. (Either that or straightforward envy.) He would therefore periodically attack me like a mad dog and I'd then be forced to respond by dissecting his every remark. Marvelmasterworks is another. I like Osgood Peabody's DC Time Capsules where posters discuss DC comics from fifty years ago each month. I was a very active participant in the Time Capsule threads from 1959-1970..

Archie comics have been delivering the goods for decades:

Five more of my Strange Adventures: Northland copy The above five comics comprise the Animal Man subset of Strange Adventures.

I don't think there are many comic collectors in the movie crowd. Quite simply I don't think many of the kids whose introduction to Batman was through the 1966-68 TV show became lifetime comic collectors. I think the lifetime collectors came from the contingent of pre-existing comic buyers.

From one sightless hero to another:

Fellow's probably looking for a more pleasant panorama after flipping through a few pages of Kirby's Captain America stories. Me I prefer certain alternative vistas:

That Russ Heath ad for the 132 Roman Soldiers is one of the very best Silver Age comic ads!

Bloody hell! Jack Kirby just couldn't draw women. Here he succeeded in making the potentially super hot Scarlet Witch look like a fireplug. How/where/why did Kirby go wrong in that regard? Something in his childhood? Did his mother chastise him too harshly for looking at pictures of nudie women?