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I thought of Two-Face immediately but I don't have a single scan of a cover featuring Two-Face.

How's this for a pair? Both with pleasantly stacked femme fatales tied to a stake on the left being menaced by a monstrous creature on the right with a would-be saviour emerging from the background.

To unmasked again:

That's precisely why I find the Human Torch run in this title strangely compelling. It's much less widely collected and therefore a collection of such is more unique.

One good Star Sapphire cover deserves another:

So which sports cards do you need to make your life complete? Now here I don't want remarks about chancing upon a super valuable T206 Honus Wagner card in a garage sale which you'd then quickly flip for the money. I'm talking about the sports cards that top your personal Want List. In other words the sports cards for which you'd most like to provide a forever home in your collection. Here are mine in chronological order (and of course none of the cards I've pictured are my own): 1954 Blue Ribbon Jackie Parker A classic tall-boy card set with Jackie Parker already a legend by the time I started first grade in 1958. 1954 Blue Ribbon Sam Etcheverry A great pose and another name spoken with reverence in the schoolyard in 1958-59. 1958 Topps Roger Maris Not just his rookie card but with the Cleveland Indians! I covet his 1959 card where he's with the Kansas City Athletics almost as much. 1958-59 Topps Bobby Hull This set is probably my favourite hockey card set of them all due to the classic design plus the fact that it was my introduction to sports cards. The Bobby Hull is not only his rookie card but is also the last card in the set which has made it even more difficult to find in grade. I bought a VG one back in 1980 in an antique junk shop but traded it off about 25 years ago because it wasn't up to my quality standards when it came to condition. I'm looking for one now that's sharp and white but that's way off center to keep the price down to semi-reasonable levels. 1961-62 York Tim Horton The only card I still need to complete this legendary food set. 1962 Canadian Post Cereal Baseball Panel with Hank Aaron I ate box after box of Sugar Crisp back in 1962 to get these panels. I currently have three other such panels in my collection. I had this panel up until a year ago but traded it off to another Post collector for a Sugar Crisp panel featuring Ernie Banks that was in better condition plus a wad of cash. As a result this Hank Aaron panel now tops my Want List. 1963 Humpty Dumpty CFL Bobby Walden (Bilingual) I bought Humpty Dumpty and Krun-Chee Potato Chips to get these coins as a kid. I need the bilingual back variant of this coin which in my experience has been the single toughest coin to find from this set. 1964-65 Topps Pit Martin The #1 card in this tough set. I had one that was marginally miscut top-to-bottom for a time but I traded it off in the expectation that I'd soon find a better one. Well that "soon" proved to be a much too optimistic expectation. 1964-65 Topps 2nd Series Checklist I'm big on checklists and this one's a short print. Plus any of the 1957-58 to 1962-63 plus 1964-65 Topps Hockey Wrappers! Here's a 1959-60 one tracked down by Bobby Burrell:

Are we not still in the junk wax era?

I don't usually go for either photo covers or movie adaptations, but I made an exception in this case: These cousins of mine have among the very highest bite forces in the animal kingdom and are hunters par excellence: Bon appetit!

Fisherman's net to fishnet stockings:

Ahhhhh, but you're now speaking as just some other old guy. Were you an eleven year old in 1963 reading Amazing Spider-Man?

As a kid in the early 1960's I always coveted the Swell Bubble Gum Cigars that were temptingly placed on the counter of Steve's Variety and Gift Shop in Wortley Road Village: But they were fifteen cents each so I never bought any until I was in high school later in the decade. They're available these days in three additional colours/flavours at dedicated high-end candy shops: That flea-bitten mutt Balticfox continues to claim that he blows the biggest bubbles which can clearly be seen to be an outrageous lie: Things can admittedly go wrong, very wrong:

All Charlton Konga comics have romantic elements, particularly this one: Hey, no wonder the Greeks demanded her return!

I was being abstruse to make a related point, i.e. market "correction" or not prices are still beyond belief.

From Captain America to a Simon & Kirby hero I much prefer:

That's curious though which is my underlying point. I mean, hey, I'd rather look at pictures of Millie than of Daredevil or the Hulk or etc, etc. But that's just me I guess....

I don't understand. I see one of those on Ebay that's "Still Only 25c" yet I see a price beside it of Cdn.$72.00: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/313946164707?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=706-89093-2056-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=313946164707&targetid=1659317145817&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9000934&poi=&campaignid=17288923165&mkgroupid=135230546845&rlsatarget=pla-1659317145817&abcId=9300873&merchantid=586269942&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIrO3KpLrqhAMV0ERHAR1EMw00EAQYASABEgK2-vD_BwE

Yet they're only a tiny fraction as costly! Strange indeed.

"Shocked"? It may surprise you to learn that we hardcore longtime collectors don't "price" the comics in our collection even once a year. We just scowl when we see the asking prices for the issues still on our Want List.

And likely a lot more scarce than almost any other Marvel title of the same age!

I remember Not Brand Echh comics from the spinner rack at Ken's Variety on Wharncliffe Road so I added a few to my collection some 25 years ago. Are they welcome in this thread? Admittedly I'd prefer some Millie the Model comics these days.

The penny briquettes of Bazooka and Dubble Bubble were the everyday staples of every red-blooded kid including myself during my primary school years from 1958 through 1965: Sadly I've not seen Bazooka Bubble Gum in the little briquettes for over thirty years in my neck of the woods. Tubs of Dubble Bubble can still be found in some variety stores in Toronto with hot pink wrappers: While they're now a dime each, to be fair the briquettes are about 50% bigger than the ones I used to buy as a kid. They taste the same as the original Dubble Bubbles I remember. Moreover I've seen these gumballs in vending machines on occasion: They have the original Dubble Bubble flavour and they're really good but unfortunately they're typically available only at rip-off prices of a quarter or even a dollar. More common though is this stuff which is very annoyingly wrongly labelled as "America's Original": While it has a very pleasant tutti-frutti taste, the flavour doesn't last. And like I say it's not the "original"! But Dubble Bubble isn't produced by Fleer any more anyway. The Dubble Bubble name brand was purchased from Fleer by Concord Confections just north of Toronto in 1998. Concord was then acquired by Tootsie Roll Industries in 2003. What I really miss is Black Cat Licorice Bubble Gum: It was somehow chewier than Bazooka or even Dubble Bubble and could be blown into the biggest bubbles. It wasn't widely sold but I remember happily chewing it for hours when I could find it. Nonetheless I remain a bubble gum chewing cat to this very day. Bubble gum is in fact one of the few things on which Balticfox (that mangy mutt living out back by the tracks) and I see eye-to-eye.

Oh wow! Some nice romance, including Konga's Revenge!

Where precisely is all this discussion? I don't see it in the Golden or Silver Age forums. What year was the "height of the boom"? When did prices "crash"? Was this a general crash bringing down prices of Golden and Silver Age comics considered "keys" by certain observers (generally those with a vested interest of touting those comics) or does your narrative apply mainly to moderns like the Heir to the Empire comic you mentioned? I'm asking because prices still look really high to me compared to even ten years ago.

As a kid back in 1961-65 I didn't want my heroes to be neurotic. I found the neuroticism of the Marvel characters silly because it was distracting from the plot. Yes, yes, I know such neuroticism was lionized in magazine articles but those articles were written by old fogeys not kids.

From Sub-Mariner in Strange Tales to the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver in Strange Tales: Pity Jack Kirby couldn't draw women. The Scarlet Witch could have been so hot!