rodan57

These two would good in any collection (especially mine ). Well chosen. Nicely done. (thumbs u

It's always a treat to see Ditko inking Kirby, especially on a "single-digit" Tales to Astonish.

Now in my collection, courtesy of jerster. The Avengers #12, January 1965. On the newsstand in November 1964. Now freed from its tomb. An iconic cover. A couple of great house ads from the issue to put it in contemporary perspective.

This is one that I'd been hunting for. I thought I remembered, having read it years ago, that Captain America had been given great strength and intelligence.

Nice snag.

Interesting book. The right-hand side of the book looks far better than the spine side. Might of been hard to grade originally.

You had a good week. (thumbs u

Nicely done.

You might be interested in seeing the cover as originally inked back in 1965. ___________________________ from The Jack Kirby Collector #14

I got four hits at Heritage Archives and two out of the four have production creases in the same spot.

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I used to have this when I was a kid. The book was missing the bottom right 1/4 of the cover. Never really realised there was a caption.

Gorgeous book! Peeking is about the most I'd do! Bet you took your time cracking the case... You know it. To make it trickier, my first scissors attempt on top and side did not quite break the seals all the way down, so extremely careful re-cutting was necessary.

First Marvel Comic (along with Amazing Spider-Man #53) that I ever bought off of the newsstand. I bought it because of the skull. Nine-year-olds like skulls. Beautiful! (thumbs u

More Pages! More Glamor! Fresh from the slab, Millie the Model Queen-Sized Annual #4, November 1965 -- on the newsstand in August. (It still smells brand new!) ______________________________________________ Haven't read this yet. It was graded a 9.2 (old label) so I'm a bit timid given the side-staples/glued nature of an annual's cover. I might be reduced to very gently peeking inside.

Beautiful book. Do let me know when you get tired of staring at it.

I concur. Well done.

Recently in ... two from 1965. My thanks to rube11 for this Fury. I cracked it out an 8.5 slab. ___________________________________________________________________ My scanner really didn't like this Strange Tales. The purple is dark and rich and the whites, whiter. This book's courtesy of Blazing Bob.

I'm not sure if this is an honest question or if it's a bit of poking I'm using Overstreet's definition (October 1956 - the month that DC released Showcase #4 and The Flash). Personally, I don't get too hung up in the semantics. I prefer to talk about pre-code and post-code because it is something we can all agree on. Honest question. I wasn't sure if it was chronological or because of how a story or character was written. Some Marvel collectors equate Silver Age Marvel with the appearance of superheroes in a book. Tales to Astonish #25 came out the same month as Fantastic Four #1 but TTA doesn't necessarily register on the radar until the first Ant-Man in issue 27. DC seems to be a different kettle of fish as its major heroes never left publication in the late 40s the way Marvel's first did.

So what makes 229 the first Silver Age issue? (I collect Marvel but somewhere along the line I picked up a copy of 229. )

Grades?

John sold the book that Matt was making payments on to Alex. Well, that just sucks. I'm assume John just screwed up, and has promptly (1) refunded Matt's money (perhaps with something a little extra for the screw up) (2) apologized profusely to Matt and (3) cleared Alex of any wrongdoing? Correct, except for the little extra and he was aware that he was supposed to sell it to Matt. (thumbs u Let's add to it that John lied to Matt about what happened to the book, strung him along, then wouldn't answer his emails, took a long time to refund his money (a good chunk of change), and waited until board indignation called him to task. To colour the results of the renege darker, Matt hustled to sell a number of his lesser books to pay for the deal well ahead of schedule.

I'm sorta thinking the same thing. They're only funny books but I take the sense of community here with some seriousness.

Nice Two-Gun Kid and historically significant. As you probably know, Goodman cancelled the bi-monthly Kid at #59 and My Girl Pearl at #11 to replace them with Amazing Adventures -- a monthly book until Amazing Fantasy #15. Of course, Two-Gun returned to the newsstands in August of 1962 as Matt Hawk after the cancellation of Amazing Fantasy.

It was only superheroes and barbarians for me when collected as a kid in the early 70s. Since my return to comics in 2004, I have developed an interest in the history of Marvel and all its titles from its early period. These were the books that you'd find as a second-hand treasure in the local smoke shop or, as with Gunsmoke Western, never even knew existed. I have come to enjoy the Westerns (1958 through 1965). The characters were heroes whose quaint motivation was to do the right thing. In a modern era of anti-hero, violence and shock, it's nice to read books where the challenge was in being true to one's values. Of course, the stories are formulaic which means I will soon tire of them --perhaps after reading another two or three thousand.