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Do you know of anyone on this board who specifically collects kangaroo covers? And are there any kangaroo funny animal characters who had ongoing features?

That would be an absolute disaster! Even renaming Albums let alone moving pictures from Album to Album breaks the links to wherever I've previously posted the pictures.

My favourite record store when I was in high school from 1966-70 was Bluebird Records on the south side of Dundas Street just west of Wellington Street in downtown London, Ontario. It was two blocks away from my high school and was perhaps my most frequent after school haunt. One of my strongest memories of Bluebird Records is of the three Rolling Stones' EPs that were always up there on the wall near the counter: Bluebird Records is where in 1967 I bought my first record, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and perhaps all of the first half dozen(?) or so: I can recall only three different sales clerks. Two of these were always in the store and they seemed quite knowledgeable (and super cool and sophisticated!) to me at the time. Bluebird closed its doors sometime in the mid-seventies in the face of other, perhaps better capitalized, record stores opening their doors in downtown London. The other record shop I frequented in my early record buying days in 1967-68 was the Disc Shop in the Wellington Square Mall which was a block south of Bluebird Records and was anchored by an Eaton's department store. While prices were the same, the Disc Shop did much more volume than Bluebird Records because of the popularity of the Wellington Square Mall and could therefore be a bit of a zoo. As a result, the Disc Shop seemed more chaotic and less organized to me and I just didn't patronize it as much.

No. I think I left a Revell Angel Fink and an Aurora Bride of Frankenstein and Mummy at the boarding school in Kennebunkport, Maine I attended for ninth grade. All the others just disappeared somehow. I guess somebody threw them out at some point.

No, I didn't "lose" them. But if they're in the middle of a 109 page album in Photobucket, they can be easier to access wherever I've already posted them.

What year was this church bazaar? Oh well. At least someone didn't use them as a BB gun target, or take a magnifying glass to them.

Interesting. I couldn't find that Silver Age thread either. While it's not the one of which I was thinking, it will do since it contains almost all the scans I want. So thank you!

Yes, we had such a thread for sure. I posted many of my Black Cat and Harvey horror titles in it perhaps five years ago. It makes me wonder whether some older threads were lost in the changeover. But I wanted to find the old thread specifically so I could quickly access my scans of these comics. Therefore starting a new thread won't help.

That one is high up on my own list as well!

That one is well up there on my own list as well. A purple cover featuring an orange moon, Solomon Grundy, Doctor Fate and Hourman with the original Green Lantern getting a sidebar as well? That hits upon so many bases that it has to rank way up there somewhere.

So since other people have been finding it too difficult to pick just one, I thought I'd emulate Adamstrange and pick my top twelve. But then I found that picking twelve was even more difficult than picking just one. I mean what about #13-20? So here's just my one single favourite: And nostalgia played no role in my selection since I wasn't even aware of this comic as a kid. I chose it on the basis of aesthetics alone.

It's tough to overemphasize how crucial a role the Aurora monster model kits had in turning me into a monster enthusiast as a kid. You see unlike most of my fellow baby boomers on this board, I wasn't exposed to any of the Universal monster flicks as a kid. First of all, we didn't acquire a TV until sometime in 1961. Secondly our TV only picked up the one local London station, CFPL, until we got cable in 1966. I don't remember CFPL televising any monster movies while I was still in grade school meaning that any monster movies that CFPL might have aired would have been well past my bedtime. And there was certainly no horror host on CFPL. Moreover I just wasn't a big TV watcher as a kid anyway. I doubt that I even watched six hours of TV a week, and most of that was cartoons when I came home for lunch and right after school. Watching baseball games bored me and Hockey Night in Canada was telecast only on Saturday evenings and initially only the last part of the games was televised between 9:00 and 10:30. I'd typically fall asleep before the end of the game anyway. Regular CFL telecasts on CFPL didn't start until a couple of years later. I remember listening to radio broadcasts of CFL games on CKSL radio in 1961 and 1962 instead. The only horror movies I can remember seeing prior to mid-1962 were the following: The Day of the Triffids (at either the Twilight or Sunset drive-ins). The Monolith Monsters (at either the Twilight or Sunset drive-ins). The Curse of Frankenstein & Horror of Dracula (double feature at either the Capitol or Loews downtown theatres). Target Earth (at a Saturday kids' matinee at our neighbourhood Hyland Theatre). The Quatermass Xperiment (at a Saturday kids' matinee at our neighbourhood Hyland Theatre). Now I'd been exposed to the fabled Topps You'll Die Laughing cards in the schoolyard in 1959 but I didn't have any at the time: And the Leaf Spook Stories cards were the first non-sport cards I collected aggressively as a kid in early 1962: I had the complete set of the first series and a bit of the second series. But it was an expedition with my mother to the Kresge store on Dundas Street in downtown London one day in late 1962 that proved truly pivotal: That's when I first encountered the Aurora Wolf Man model kit: When the Creature then turned up with the others at the Kresge store in 1963 my already fevered longing for these kits shifted into overdrive: I couldn't imagine my mother buying me one of these kits so I just didn't ask. DC then stoked the fire of my desires with these two ads on the back covers of their comics hitting the newsstands in September 1963 and January 1964 respectively: As it turned out, before getting one of these kits I managed to score a super cool Creature-Wolf Man wallet by meeting my sales quota of Globe and Mail newspapers one Saturday morning in the spring of 1964: It was the Mummy that would actually be the first Aurora kit I'd then acquire and build: The Bride of Frankenstein was the second: All great memories of course, but not one of them has anything to do with watching the classic Universal monster movies on TV!

I don't think Adventures of the Fly 13 was the first copy of The Fly I leafed through on the newsstand as a kid: It was probably the second or maybe even the third. What made issue #13 so special to me though was that it contained house ads for the debut of the mysterious Fly Girl and clearly very heroic Jaguar: Wow! These ads left such an indelible impression on my young psyche that I still remember viewing them with awe at Lamont & Perkins Pharmacy that one fine day 56 years ago! But now I keep asking myself why that issue of The Adventures of the Fly didn't therefore prompt me to seek out other comics. Here are scans of a half dozen other comics from my present day collection that I might have found on newsstands at the time: The fact that I didn't actually buy that issue of The Fly though is a clue. I didn't have too many dimes to spend in May of 1961 even though I wasn't collecting that year's baseball cards which compared to those of the previous two years weren't very colourful and thus appealing: 1961 Topps But Victoria Day which was commonly known to kids as Firecracker Day was on May 24th. Yes, that was the time of year you could hit your dad up for a dime or even a quarter for the purchase of mini incendiary devices! Great stuff! Firecracker Day was certainly a highlight on every red-blooded kid's calendar in those days. The killjoys and philistines would put an end to that line of amusement a few years later but in 1961 variety stores did a brisk trade selling firecrackers to young boys. Moreover a dime was a serious piece of currency anyway in those days. A Canadian dime contained exactly 0.06 ounces of silver meaning that at the present moment's silver price of U.S.$16.635 per ounce it was worth U.S.$1.00 or Cdn.$1.30 in today's terms. Two packs of cards containing a total of eight cards and eight flat sections of bubble gum, a ten ounce bottle of pop including the two cent deposit, a full size chocolate bar, a good sized bag of chips or a two scoop ice cream cone could be had for a dime in those days. That's right, two scoops or double the amount shown on the sign below: Even a penny was a not insignificant bit of currency. A penny could get you a proper sized piece of Dubble Bubble or Bazooka gum: Or a very decent sized gumball from a penny vending machine like the ones in this Bozo machine I scored at a toy show some eight years ago: The only Bozo machine I ever saw as a kid was in Ken's Variety on Wharncliffe Road in London but it was so cool that it left quite the impression on me. I therefore had to buy the one above when I saw it at the show. Coincidentally the closest store to my house in early 1961 with a full-sized comic spinner rack also happened to be Ken's Variety. But what was the point of making the four block trek to Ken's to view comics I didn't have the money to buy?

Those are fabulous! I'd never even heard of Carnation Corn Flakes let alone Carnation Woody Woodpecker Drawing Lesson cards! They're not in my Price Guide to Non-Sports Cards by Christopher Benjamin: They are however listed in my Non-Sports Bible by Chris Watson. (To be fair though the Price Guide to Non-Sports Cards lists the Topps Woody Woodpecker Tattoo set from 1959 as well as all the other tattoo sets issued by Topps and Fleer while the Non-Sports Bible does not.) The cards were evidently a premium issued regionally by Carnation on the west coast of the United States in 1954. The cards measure 2 1/4" by 3 1/2".They were released in two series of eighteen cards per series so that a complete set is a very respectable 36 cards in total. And now I absolutely positively need to start adding Woody Woodpecker Drawing Lesson cards to my collection!

For which the *^&^*# deserve all the blame that's coming to them. I'll grant that a spillover effect can come from baseball game attendees and movie goers to related media. But it's generally the kind that's here one day and gone the next. Quite simply most people lack the hoarding instinct that hard core collectors possess.

So Robot Man should we understand that those are all boxes from your own collection?

Yes, Harley definitely puts in the effort. And I certainly hope he's rewarded for doing so.

Does that Dell have six sides/columns of comic pockets?

That's why Harley has gotten the lion's share of my comic dollars over the last twenty years. He always shows up, and he shows up with interesting product.

Vintage(pre-1980) baseball cards didn't crash in value. The only ones that crashed in "value" were the ones from the nineties being printed in millions that speculators were hoarding, but the question there is why anybody was insufficiently_thoughtful_person enough to pay inflated prices for something that would never be in short supply within their lifetimes. The same pffftt of course is applicable to any of the stuff coming off assembly lines today, whether they be cards, comics or anything else. If they're fetching inflated prices when there's no shortage of supply (just crazy demand), the day of reckoning will come sooner rather than later. Quite simply crazy demand evaporates. Precisely. Who cares?

Not a problem for me at all. I don't lose any sleep whatsoever when the speculators on variants get their fingers burned.

I also like the five or six(?) sided spinner racks more than I do the four sided ones. Which of the spinner racks have five or six sides?

The Dell spinners are boss! They have the best graphics. Accept no substitutes! I agree! I won't be happy though until they're back in every convenience, drug and candy store like they were when comics were a dime.

Hmmmmm. Sounds to me as if I'd need a run-of-the-mill cap gun for everyday use to keep marauding squirrels and raccoons off my upper porch plus a Nichols Stallion 45 Mark II for display purposes. Here anyway is a good video of the Nichols Stallion 45 Mark II in action:

Wow! Nice gun! Were these Stallion Mark II's sold as sets with holsters as well as in the boxes? I would have loved a realistic looking six-gun like that one as a kid, but now I lean toward the somewhat tackier ones taking rolls of caps that would then protrude from the top of the gun after being shot off. The latter look more like the top notch toy six-guns I saw and admired as a kid.