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Here are scans of the comics in my collection cover dated Match 1957: 105

Oh man, that Yellow Claw is too cool! It'll be really tough to find an upgrade though. Yellow Claws aren't exactly plentiful in high grade. I know. I've been keeping an eye out for them as well.

That's a nice copy of one I need to upgrade.

Yes, that's the idea!

Four more:

It's never been easy though, or at least not since the week they were first on the stands. Retailers didn't stock many (retailers had one or none in my experience), they were snapped up quickly, and then when they were gone they were gone. So don't think they were plentiful in back issue bins of comic shops in the seventies.

Here just for you then are scans of my earliest Petersen Publishing CARtoons magazines: 3 4 The first four issues of CAR'toons were digest sized. 6 7 8 9 10 The CARtoons, Hot Rod Cartoons, Cycletoons, Surftoons and Drag Cartoons magazines though are all harder to find in comic shops than hen's teeth. Most comic dealers just respond with a dumb look when asked about them. Pity because they're great.

Rick Polizzi's book also contains the following estimate of prices for boxed Revell "Big Daddy" Roth kits: Outlaw with Robbin' Hood Fink $450 Tweedy Pie with Boss Fink $450 Scuz-Fink with Dingbat $300 Super Fink $300 Fink Eliminator $215 Angel Fink $180 Drag Nut $150 Surfink $150 Mr. Gasser $140 Mr. Gasser in BRM (slot car) $120 Rat Fink in Lotus Ford (slot car) $110 Rat Fink $90Mother's Worry $75 Brother Rat Fink $65 My biggest disagreement with Polizzi's ranking is that the Rat Fink in Lotus Ford kit should be up there in the top five when it comes to relative scarcity. Here are pictures of some of the ones from my collection:

Those Atlas war comics from the fifties are fabulous! They're nice and gritty.

Mmmmmm! I like her flotation devices!

Here are scans of four more of my Metal Men comics: Northland copy

We're not the only ones. I've noticed that traffic is way down from January levels.

Thank you! Here then are scans of my Showcase Atom comics:

Here are scans of the non-DC comics in my collection cover dated February 1967: 3 The above is the Gold Key comic that adapted the movie which launched Raquel Welch to subsequent stardom! 7

I'm really getting angry with this stupid new program. Why does it auto format pictures some of the time, but only some of the time?

It's actually no wonder that the Aurora monster model kits were a smash hit with youngsters. Check out these ads that appeared on the back covers of DC comics that hit the newsstands on these respective dates: September 1963 January 1964 September 1964 December 1964 August 1965 Combined with the fabulous box art by James Bama, young fellows didn't stand a chance of resisting these kits on store shelves! And it wasn't just the monster kits. Back in 1964 I was really excited to see this ad for the new Superman kit on the back cover of the DC comics on the newsstand: July 1964 And then this one: January 1965 Then there were the ads for the Batman kit: May 1965 This means that the Batman model kit was already in stores by early 1965. But the first episode of the TV show didn't air until 12 January 1966. Aurora must therefore have reaped an incredible sales bonanza that month since the Batman kit would have been about the only Batman licensed product that could be found on store shelves until everybody else got up to speed in the next few months! Sales of the Batman kit in 1966 could well have rivaled those of Aurora's Frankenstein model when it hit store shelves in 1961. Retailers could not keep up with the demand for the Frankenstein kit when it was first released and Aurora added a second line to its manufacturing plant to increase production to 8000 Frankenstein kits per day! Aurora therefore quickly ran another ad for the Batman kit on the back cover of DC comic mags: June 1966 Aurora then rushed several more Batman related kits into production to take advantage of the Bat-mania spawned by the TV show. Here's another ad that ran on the back cover of DC comic mags: October 1966

Here then are scans of four more of my Metal Men comics:

Here are scans of my Showcase Aquaman issues:

That's anudder take on the subject entirely.

Here's a scan of the only comic in my collection cover dated February 1957:

No taste is my guess. The focus of the vast majority of Golden Age comic collectors these days is limited to the superhero and horror genres.

The Classic Plastic book by Rick Polizzi also contains the following estimate of prices for boxed Hawk Weird-Oh model kits: Weirdsville Customizing Set $500 Killer McBash $135 Leaky Boat Louie $100 Daddy $80 Davey $80 Digger $80 Drag Hag $75 Francis the Foul $65 Freddie Flameout $65 Endsville Eddy $60 Huey's Hut Rod $55 Sling Rave Curvette $30 Wade A. Minit $30 Here are pictures of some of the ones from my collection:

Truth!

I agree. And Stan Musial is way underrated.

And what ten year old boy wouldn't be enthralled by a giant flying manta ray with death ray eyes?