Hepcat

I caught this flick the other day, it was very controversial at the time:

My best Grodd covers:

And these cool Warner Bros. cards were free inside loaves of Wonder Bread in 1974:





Eleven cards from the thirty card set were DC Comics characters and nineteen were from Looney Tunes cartoons.
Moreover these double sided Warner Brothers Maze Puzzle cards issued with Wonder Bread in 1975 are over-the-top fabulous!


Six of the cards feature DC comic characters while fourteen feature Looney Tunes cartoon characters.

I love the ads though! Many are very well done. And for a tremendous rush of nostalgia, I start flipping through a pre-1980 (<#10) copy! 

All this attention redheads are getting!

All this attention redheads are getting!

I agree. I've always used Overstreet as an info source. That's what made me an Overstreet fan. Plus I like Overstreet's definitions of "rare", "scarce" and what constitutes restoration.

It's way too big for me these days though. I'd like it better if it did not include any title that got its start after 1990 or so.

Multiple firsts in this one:

My best Grodd covers:

Some of the discussions may have occurred before you ventured out of your Comics-General litter box into the GA forum, @Hepcat.
Some of Bob's threads may have poofed when he was kicked off of the CGC boards. I'll give you the short (and possibly inaccurate) version of one issue. There is a Victorian-era book called The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck that is somewhat like a comic book in that the story is told through illustrations with captions. (It's debatable how revolutionary that concept was; pictures have been used for storytelling for quite some time—and by quite some time I mean millenia.)
Because of the book's detailed illustrations supplemented by minimal text, Bob considered The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck to be the first true comic book and Obadiah himself the first comic book superstar rather than Superman of Action Comics fame.
Surely, Action Comics #1 would fade into obscurity once the world became aware of Obadiah Oldbuck, who would claim his rightful place front and center in the pantheon of comic book deities.
Never mind that The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck bore little resemblance to modern-format comic books with their panels and word balloons. Never mind that Superman's appearance in Action Comics #1 had essentially kicked off the superhero craze that became the Golden Age of Comics (sometimes referred to as the Golden Age of Superheroes specifically). Those collectors who had not yet attained enlightenment would eventually mature past their pedestrian tastes and become acolytes in Bob's cult of Obadiah Oldbuck; it was just a matter of time.
Get the picture?
Personally, I appreciated Bob's passion even if didn't agree with his assessment of Mr. Oldbuck's importance. Some board members, however, really got their hackles up and fought Bob tooth and nail, fiercely defending their beloved Man of Steel. It seems odd that the topic was so contentious, but perhaps old rivalries or personal dislike of Bob came into play. Perhaps Bob's tone struck the wrong chord. Whatever one's views on the Obadiah Oldbuck debate, Bob's knowledge of pre-Golden-Age comic books would be difficult to deny.

That would be Reed Crandall, imho, one of the most underrated of GA artists. He was a mainstay on Blackhawk, also underrated. There were rumors of a Spielberg Blackhawk flick ... I could see it. Lot of rumors, though. GOD BLESS ... 
-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

To one purple clad superhero:

Four purple clad villains to four purple clad heroes:

Five more of my Action Comics:

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Five more from my run:

Looks like Crandall to me.

Here's a few more drive by Raws. The reward for diligence is fulfillment, unless, maybe, if your finger is in the levee. GOD BLESS ...
-jimbo(a friend of jesus)
 

CGC would find each and every one of those comics well worth slabbing.

 

Five more of my Action Comics:

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Well then I don't sympathize with him any more than I do any buyer of stocks or bonds who ends up being the one buying at the high and holding the bag because he was simply extrapolating the trend. In other words playing the greater fool theory.

And of course comics aren't an investment instrument per se. Investment instruments have the potential to spin off an income stream (hopefully one that grows) and comics simply aren't capable of spinning off an income stream. They started out as kids' reading, became a prized collectible due to nostalgia as these kids grew older, and then became a vehicle for speculation as their prices rose. Note the word "speculation". The last thing I do is sympathize with comic buyers who were simply buying with a view to flipping at a higher price. Screw them.

My Captain Cold covers: