Hepcat

Okay. Now I understand what's going on. For whatever reason the Universal Monster Army site from which I copied the addresses linking to my Photobucket account drops the s from https: and records the addresses as http:. The program here won't embed http: addresses though. So I need to manually add back the s when I'm copying addresses from UMA. Another step but at least I can get this program here to do my bidding.

Hmmmm. Right clicking and "Copying image address" of one of yesterday's pictures: Right clicking and selecting "Open image in a new tab" first: Works either way right now. Okay. But let's see what happens when I go to the original source on the Universal Monster Army site linking to my Photobucket account from which I got the pictures yesterday: http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/HepcatComicsLazyBoy.jpg "The link could not be embedded because only https URLs are allowed" is the message I get. So let's see if adding the s works: So it does now but I believe I tried that trick yesterday and it didn't work. What seems to be happening though is that for whatever reason the UMA site drops the s from https: in image addresses and the program here refuses to embed without the s. So adding the s manually is another hoop through which I need to jump to post images here since UMA has a very good Search program where I can find Images I've posted within seconds.

This is my understanding of the problem/situation. I've been posting here on and off for seventeen years and I believe I've posted over a thousand images in that time. This "Hepcat will still be Hepcat" thread is particularly loaded with pictures I've posted: Up until the change in 2016 I could upload pics from either my hard drive or hot link to other places including my Photobucket account. With the changes that occurred in 2016, getting hot linked pictures to embed became more difficult. The program would get "confused" if you copied and pasted several hot linked pictures at one time. And it didn't like/need the IMG] tags. It would show them. So I adapted. I took the trouble to post images one at a time so that the program would embed them individually. But there seems to have been a further change for the worse. Yesterday evening the program here wouldn't even consent to embed hot linked pictures individually unless the hot link was to a picture somewhere else on this very forum. Therefore quickly copying and pasting from an external source doesn't work here anymore for even one picture mixed into text. It seems I can only get pictures to embed now by going through the time consuming process of uploading these pictures onto my hard drive first and then using the Attach feature. And to aggravate me further the Photobucket Search program has stopped working for me. If for example I Search for Green Lantern 10 which is an exact title I've used for a cover scan, I get zero hits! Unbelievable. To get to Green Lantern 10 in my Photobucket Comics album now takes about ten minutes of scrolling time since that album has over 2000 images. Arrrggghhhh!

And I do appreciate you making the effort. This is my understanding of the situation though. I've been posting here on and off for seventeen years and I believe I've posted over a thousand images in that time. This "Hepcat will still be Hepcat" thread is particularly loaded with pictures I've posted: Up until the change in 2016 I could upload pics from either my hard drive or hot link to other places including my Photobucket account. With the changes that occurred in 2016, getting hot linked pictures to embed became more difficult. The program would get "confused" if you copied and pasted several hot linked pictures at one time. And it didn't like/need the IMG] tags. It would show them. So I adapted. I took the trouble to post images one at a time so that the program would embed them individually. But there seems to have been a further change for the worse. Yesterday evening the program here wouldn't even consent to embed hot linked pictures individually unless the hot link was to a picture somewhere else on this very forum. Therefore quickly copying and pasting from an external source doesn't work here anymore for even one picture mixed into text. It seems I can only get pictures to embed now by going through the time consuming process of uploading these pictures onto my hard drive first and then using the Attach feature. And to aggravate me further the Photobucket Search program has stopped working for me. If for example I Search for Green Lantern 10 which is an exact title I've used for a cover scan, I get zero hits! Unbelievable. To get to Green Lantern 10 in my Photobucket Comics album now takes about ten minutes of scrolling time since that album has over 2000 images. Arrrggghhhh!

Hmmmm.... http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/ComicRoom.jpg Well using the Link icon didn't work either. The picture did not embed.

The program here now demands that I upload from wherever to My Pictures on my computer's hard drive before attaching them to this thread. This is time intensive. It's much easier to copy and paste from wherever else (including on this very forum) I've previously posted the pictures.

So I got one posted. For whatever reason the other is refusing uploading to My Pictures on my hard drive which I evidently must now use on this board to upload pictures. Meanwhile all my pictures are in Photobucket (where the Search function has stopped working for me) and posted on UMA and multiple other forums. Uploading from these other forums to this forum is proving an adventure - but not a pleasant one. What's maddening is that I'm pretty skilled at working within the logic of various forums and getting what I want done but new road blocks keep cropping up. Things should get easier and not more difficult with practice over time. Bloody hell!

Can't see them at all? What happens when you click on the links? Here, let me post one by (time intensive) brute force:

Hmmmmmm.... http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/ComicsLeftSide.jpg http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/ComicLeftFileCab.jpg http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/HepcatComicsLazyBoy.jpg http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Hepcatcheckingcomics.jpg So even copying and pasting what I've posted previously on this board doesn't work.

Let's see how this works with IMG tags: http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/StxyComics2.jpg[/IMG] Nope, no better.

Good quality/heavy duty lateral filing cabinets are definitely the way to go. My "really good" comics are all in Bill Cole Arklites backed by Thin X-Tender boards or else Gerber Mylites backed by Half-Backs. I've not yet bagged and boarded my magazine collection in the same way though but that's my intention. Here from a few years ago are pictures of me in front of my comic cabinet and the magazine cabinet beside it: http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/HepcatComicsLazyBoy.jpg http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/HepcatCurioComics.jpg http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Hepcatcheckingcomics.jpg http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/ComicRoomCurioFilingCab.jpg http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/ComicRoom.jpg http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/ComicLeftFileCab.jpg http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/ComicsLeftSide.jpg http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/UpperLeftComics.jpg http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Lowerleftcomics-Copy.jpg http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/StyxComics.jpg http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/StxyComics2.jpg I've not yet Mylited my magazine collection though. I've run out of Mylites and Halfbacks and need to put in an order for several hundred comic ones and probably a thousand magazine ones. Hopefully that will be sufficient for at least another ten years. The two lateral filing cabinets within which I keep my comics and magazine collection are made by Global. They're five high 42" wide cabinets that will hold more than 2750 comics at full capacity. The cost of each was over $1000 and I had to pay about $100 extra to get a flip top instead of a regular drawer at the bottom.

This is now the single most difficult forum on which I post for posting pictures. The way it resists copying and pasting is maddening. Here anyway is the cabinet in which I display the model kits that won't fit in the cabinet above: http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Halloween 2013 Deuce Styx Cowboy Cake/DSCN3169_zps8efbfe83.jpg

So do I. Here are three pictures of my main model kit cabinet from about 2015. (If I can get this damn website to show the pictures that is. It hates to show pictures I'm copying and pasting which is my favourite technique since it's quick and easy.) https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Halloween 2013 Deuce Styx Cowboy Cake/DSCN3173_zpsea8058c8.jpg https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Halloween 2013 Deuce Styx Cowboy Cake/DSCN3174_zpsea461e53.jpg https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Hepcatlookingattshirt-2.jpg

"Was anyone here collecting Marvel in the 70's or 80's?" Huh? My impression is that the only comics anybody (but me) collected back in the 1970's and 1980's were Marvel. That was certainly the impression I received at comic shops and comic cons.

I'm uninterested in the "relevance" aspect since relevance intrinsically assumes society's endorsement. And I simply don't care what society thinks. With me it's all about the delight I derive from possessing my collectibles which is a function of both nostalgia and my personal aesthetic preferences.

You are very, very wrong. Her Fabergé eggs aren't worthless. If it's not being actively peddled, the concept of "worth" of a collection can only be assessed from the viewpoint of the collector. The Fabergé knockoffs were very clearly a source of delight to the woman. If they weren't she would have been trying to sell them. This means that to her they were worth far more than that $500 figure. Who knows what price would even induce her to consider selling them, but that's at least their worth to her. The market values are meaningless to her, as they are to any hardcore collector who does it out of some combination of nostalgia, aesthetic delight or compulsion.

Yes. Uncle Scrooge was the second funny animal title I took up collecting after The Fox and the Crow.

I have a fair number of cool funny animal comics. I wish I had loads more. Since I seem to be very close to the point where the superhero comics I most want are nearly impossible to find in higher grades or are completely unaffordable in those grades, I may very well devote more of my collecting efforts in future to other genres such as funny animal.

Speaking of Flash artists, I didn't much like Irv Novick's artwork on Capt. Storm: But I really liked his artwork in The Flash when he took over as the regular artist with issue #200 in 1970. Here for example are a few panels:

While I don't remember when and where I discovered the Li'l Abner or Terry and the Pirates strips, I clearly remember discovering the Scamp strip in the Weekend Toronto Star on a visit in 1961(?): The Scamp strip first appeared on 31 October 1955 with 15 January 1956 being the date of the first "Sunday" colour strip. It ran until 25 June 1988. Scamp was also the title feature of Dell Four Color Comics #703, 777, 806 and 833 in 1956 and 1957 before graduating to his own Dell title #5-16 which ran from May 1958 to February 1961 followed by Four Color 1204 later in 1961. Sadly I still don't have a single issue of Scamp in my collection. I do have these three wild Chip 'n' Dale comics though: 25 File copy 27 29

Not much change in 2021 so far. Here though is a comic that might cheer Jimmers up a bit:

This one: I hate the way Green Lantern looks on this cover. I don't think wash-tone covers work for Green Lantern.

I agree! That cover is yet another reminder of how many cool funny animal titles were published in the early 1950's.

So are you implying that the Atlas pre-pre-hero Marvel titles (such as Two-Gun Kid, Lorna, the Jungle Girl and Battle) aren't welcome in this thread?

Nicer than mine anyway: