Hepcat

Did somebody say Battle?

Not only that but Comicpacs weren't actually a savings for kids. In most jurisdictions a fellow could buy a 12 cent comic without paying any sales tax but a bag of comics at 47 cents was probably a different matter.

It's in the black area at the lower right but when I got the comic back from Susan Cicconi it was no longer visible. I'm assuming she removed what she could and then made the remainder blend into the black of the cover.

A one-of-a-kind Archie Giant I've long coveted:

Well since I posted the Green Lantern covers I like the most on the previous page, I might as well post the covers I rather dislike as well: Quite simply Green Lantern doesn't look like himself on this cover. I don't think grey-tone was a good finish here. And here are another two early Green Lantern covers that strike me as simply blah:

By 1967 the cardboard header had been eliminated. What you got instead was a coloured part of the bag above a heat sealed lower bag. DC though wasn't really trying to lure comic buying kids with those Comicpacs. What DC was attempting to do was expand distribution of their comics into non-traditional outlets such as K-Mart stores and supermarkets thereby targetting adults to entice them to buy bags of comics for their kids and grandkids. And the effort must have been successful since the promotion was repeated for years and copied by other comic publishers including Marvel, Gold Key and Harvey. Here's an article I just found going into more detail on the points I mentioned: http://www.wymann.info/comics/027-Comicpac60s70s.html

But you realize that you're saying a 9.4 is a 9.4 is a 9.4 (at least for Silver Age Marvels). That flies in the face of the oft repeated "Buy the comic not the label" conventional wisdom on this board.

Mmmmm, oh yeah! Those are nice.

If we're doing Space Ranger covers, let's replace Cryll with the lovely Myra!

Yes of course. I'd mixed up Hulk 181 (Wolverine intro) with Hulk 102. These things happen to us older collectors.... Well on that point we're agreed.

Here are scans of a few more of my Strange Adventures comics: Northland copy Northland copy

Five more of my defective comics (hey, they're nice but they're not perfect): CGC 9.2

If it's Strange Tales you want, I got a few of them too!

What do you do for a living?

Great condition for one you yourself bought off the newsstand! How old were you then? Batman and Robin though should be cheering for their regular partner Superman though. And Hawkman should be with the Atom and Green Lantern cheering for the Flash.

Scans of five more of my Superman comics:

What do those P/D and Complete numbers in the CGC Registry mean?

Here then is a much later one:

You're certainly right about how tough it was (and still is) to track down high grade copies of pre-1963 DC comics. Incidentally, why did you pick Hulk 181 as your example? Is that the pre-1970 comic with the largest 9.0+ CGC census numbers?

Well I certainly like to see a history of dividend growth going back to at least the 1950's! Incidentally, whatever possessed you to sell in 2007(?) the high grade collection of Flash, Justice League of America and other DC titles you had painstakingly acquired in the 1980's and 1990's? (I bid on some of those Flash issues from 1961-62 and was absolutely annihilated.) Did you completely lose interest in those titles or what?

That cover reminds me of this Giant Superman Annual:

Please do! I take it diecasts of Richard Petty's 1971-72 Road Runner are available: Here's a pic of my MPC Petty-Charger anyway: And my Tyco Richard Petty Racing set:

Plexiglass doors to keep out the dust would also be well worthwhile.

Is that the only time Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos were portrayed fighting in Vietnam? Any stories from the Korean War?