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In addition to the pulps do you collect the men's sweat magazines such as these from my collection?

Since gumball machines were a big part of my life when I was a kid, I bought three vintage ones in 1981 a couple years after I started re-accumulating the treasures of my younger days. One I sold to a girlfriend, but the other two I repainted and still have. Here's one of them: These machines would typically have been filled with gumballs supplied by my hometown candy, confection and card company - O-Pee-Chee. They could of course be adapted to dispense the large gumballs or the smaller ones interspersed with little charms as in the machine pictured above. There was a penny gumball machine outside of Ken's Variety on Wharncliffe Road in London back in the sixties offering a pair of skeleton hands to whoever got a little chrome ball instead of a gumball out of the machine: I was never lucky enough to get the skeleton hands. There's been a void in my life ever since.

Incidentally, does anyone remember seeing a similar thread for house ads in Silver?

More Fun Comics! From the days when comics were, well, fun!

Gandy Goose appeared in 54 theatrical cartoons between 1938 and 1955. Sourpuss co-starred in the vast majority and had three solo shorts in 1940-42 himself.

Huh!? There's nothing in the indicia of that Gold Key Man from U.N.C.L.E. comic to indicate that it was part of any continuation of Dell's Four Color run. How about a replacement comic?

'Nuff said right there! And was Stan Lee actually paid any more at Marvel through the 1950's and 1960's than for being Editor-in-Chief? Was he paid as the writer for all those stories as well?

This was a key to Marvel's success in the Silver Age, plus the fact that each issue tended to leave unresolved issues dangling and also hinted at even greater menaces lurking in the last panel. Contrast that to DC's, Archie's and Charlton's super hero comics in 1961-64 where each issue was basically a standalone product and thus didn't do very much to induce readers to buy more comics. That and the way Stan Lee drew 8-12 year old boys into the Marvel Universe by making them feel part of it all by giving the characters real life settings just outside the Marvel offices in New York, by the mentions he gave to his secretary and other co-workers and the direct references to readers (Real Frantic Ones) on the pages of Marvel comics. And here I'm speaking as one who was drawn into comics in 1961-62 by the product of the competition. While Marvel comics just looked junky on the newsstands to me in 1962-63, by 1964 I was very much aware that they were a very good read indeed. But when I switched from DC comics in late 1964, it wasn't into Marvel. It was into model kits and "more sophisticated" magazines, specifically Mad, Drag Cartoons and Creepy in short order.

This one?

I take it back. You, MrBedrock and Marty Mann have been working together in that endeavour!

July 1964 to August 1965: Who doesn't like a good cat fight anyway?

I always mix these two comics up: [ I wonder why?

The first actual comic magazines I ever encountered may have been when I was accompanying my father to the barber shop on Wharncliffe Road just south of Emery Street in 1957 or so. I don't remember the titles or characters specifically though they were probably some mix of "Superman", "Batman", "Donald Duck" and "Tom and Jerry" titles. The first comic books I can remember reading in the spring of 1959 featured Felix's Nephews Inky & Dinky. They belonged to the older brother of my buddy Phil from across the street and were so beat up that they were without covers so I have no clue as to the actual issues. Phil and I both thought Dinky was a very cool name though! Here are scans of the ones from my present day collection:

The last of five Four Colors on a character from a newspaper strip that ran between 1913 and 1944:

That's because you've singlehandedly cornered the market!

The problem is of course the miserable Search feature on this board which limits searches to a one year time period. Yes, given the quantity of posts on this board I can understand a general search being limited to one year but if strictly titles or a certain poster is specified, there's no reason for the Search function to be constrained to one year. That though was a fabulous pair of covers with which you started this thread!

Now why are those nasty Radio Comics superheroes attacking those poor long-necked lizards? Have they no concern for the welfare of endangered species?

These two Four Color comics serve as bookends to a 21 issue run of Spike and Tyke in their own title:

No. With respect to the first baby, Mera popped one out way back in 1965:

The first wedding that actually took place in a superhero comic:

30 x $1000 But really high grade "minor keys" for me.

Other companies used green for villains as well. Check out Bowman's depiction of Chairman Mao in the Fight the Red Menace set from 1951:

Okay, I'll play: The last is incidentally one of my very favourite covers of all time!

Shocking!

As opposed to handguns and pepper spray in their purses?