Hepcat

I just like owning them. 'Nuff said.

Here are scans of five more of my Aquaman comics:

Another newspaper strip that influenced my taste in comics for life was the Li'l Abner strip which was not within my memory even carried in the London Free Press. Nonetheless I was aware of Li'l Abner somehow perhaps through either the Detroit Free Press or the Detroit News since we visited my uncle's family in Detroit once or twice per year when I was a kid. In any event I was certainly aware of his existence by the time the 1959 Li'l Abner movie came to London: I knew I was missing out on something really good not getting the strip in the London Free Press. Harvey published nine issues of Li'l Abner cover dated from December 1947 to February 1949. Here are scans of the two I currently have in my collection:

There's an article about me in this one: (Not mine.)

On the basis of the covers i like The Virgin and the Gypsy the best.

All true, but you're missing the point. Commander Battle's Atomic Sub was still boss cool. Here's a scan of one from my collection:

A vicious slur! The Big Bad Wolf was never a Nazi. Just because he dressed like a hillbilly doesn't mean he wasn't a decent animal.

Your question might be better but only from the standpoint of pointing out comics that are now more affordable for us collectors.

Great content in this thread anyway!

Me I'd take the Atomic Mouse over any of those others! The Atomic Mouse I'd keep and cherish. Those others I'd get rid of (sell). Atomic Mouse is a far more interesting hero than any of the X-Men. Atomic Mouse even gets the nod over Captain Atom in my book.

Charlton romance! So cool!

Another cover I really like! (Not mine.)

Blondie by Chic Young was another comic strip that from my earliest memories was there in the Saturday London Free Press' comic section: Harvey published a whopping 148 issues of Blondie between 1950 and 1965, another whopping 140 issues of Dagwood between the same years, plus four Blondie & Dagwood Family Giants between 1963 and 1965: Sadly I have exactly none of those issues in my collection currently even though they're not that pricey compared to superhero and many other kinds of comics. Someday, somehow I'd like to rectify that deficiency in my collection by getting a bunch in an auction lot.

Please! Show us the DC, Charlton, Archie, Harvey, Dell, etc. pages of the catalogue. Or am I largely right in thinking that Marc Emery's catalogue was like every other catalogue and store at the time, i.e. nothing but Marvel when it came to older comics? (Trying to collect anything but Marvel comics until close to the turn of the century was very frustrating, believe me.) Incidentally, that's the same Marc Emery who's now best known for being a rather successful libertarian oriented marijuana law crusader based in Vancouver. (Look up the name.) Back in 1972 I journeyed to a used bookstore on Dundas Street East in London that was reputed to stock old comics. It was there that I met a fourteen year old Marc Emery who was dealing from the shop. While Marc had nothing of interest for me in inventory, one of his friends had brought in a small stack of Aquaman and Atom comics from the 1967-1970 period for showing off purposes. I was very much impressed and I distinctly remember him telling me to "Now go slowly ape!" Which I did - sort of. At the age of seventeen in 1975 Marc acquired the City Lights Bookshop, the biggest and most prominent used book store in London which was located on Richmond Street very close to London's main downtown intersection. He soon became involved in the Freedom Party of Ontario (a Libertarian Party offshoot) and was one of the leaders in battling Ontario's Sunday closing laws until these were repealed on 3 June 1992: https://www.freedomparty.on.ca/sundayshopping/ Marc then sold City Lights just a very few months thereafter and resurfaced in Vancouver in 1994 selling pot paraphernalia and battling marijuana laws. While I'm in full agreement with Marc on principle, my hot button issues are less specific and more general philosophically, e.g. battling the ever increasing size of the State and the concomitant erosion of individual liberty.

Not yet. I'll look for it.

Pre-1963 issues of Mystery in Space in any kind of nice shape are super tough to find.

Atom Age is boss because it's collected by very few and it's damnably scarce. And date stamps are cool!

Well since you asked so nicely, here again is a scan of mine:

We've brought a new addition into the household this winter solstice: We've named him Snowy. As you can see, Scout, has already made her acquaintance with Snowy.

Here's one of my very favourite covers featuring Mighty Mouse: How/why the shield carrying red, white and blue sap has more fans on this board than does Mighty Mouse is beyond me.

Hey! I found the Aquaman collecting thread but only by doing an Image search for CGC, Hepcat and Aquaman on Google. The Search program here couldn't/wouldn't show it.

Here are scans of my first half dozen comics with Aquaman as the title feature:

Another comic strip that was in the Saturday London Free Press from my first memories of its comic section was Pogo by Walt Kelly: I loved the Pogo strip as a kid although many of the references went way over my head. For a time in the early 1960's there was a pig based on Nikita Khrushchev and a goat based on Fidel Castro guesting with the other critters from the swamp. Dell published a couple Four Color Pogo comics in 1946-47 and then sixteen issues of Pogo Possum from late 1949 to early 1954. Pogo was such a popular character at the time that Dell wanted to up the price of the Pogo comic mag to $0.15. Walt Kelly was to his everlasting credit so adamantly opposed to the idea of such price gouging that Dell desisted. Here's a scan of my copy of Pogo 14: I'd eventually like to acquire all sixteen issues of Pogo Possum of course.

Well you haven't been looking in the right place. I know I posted most of my Aquaman comics on this board previously but the thread defied my initial Search. Well if I still can't find the thread in which I posted my scans by later in the day, I'll start reposting them here. Aquaman is such a great hero that his catalogue deserves multiple repostings.

Yes, Aquaman rules!