Dick Pontoon

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With all due respect to Mr. Moore or anyone in the tundra! Many contend the Silver Age began in 1956 with Showcase #4. Whether I agree or not, '56 seems too late for a GA Forum thread so why not get the ball rolling here? Marvel/Atlas makes up the bulk of my collection so here's the multi-genre kickoff: Westerns!

Ain't no shame in low-grade copies, especially for post-implosion Atlas.

How did you wind up on the naughty list?

I’ve been collecting for as long as I’ve been at it, which would be the 70s. My first exposure was through reprint titles like Where Monsters Dwell and Monsters on the Prowl, which were more heavily slanted towards TOS/TTA/STJIM stories than some of the other reprint tiles like Chamber of Chills and Weird Wonder Tales. I was crazy about Kirby/Ayers and Ditko art.

As long as it's not 17 oz or above. Right on, Jeffbro!

Now that a package can be shipped First Class with a weight up to 16 oz instead of 13 oz with the new postal rates, shipping comics via Media Mail makes less sense than ever.

Johnstown? Birthplace of Steve Ditko.

I’m enjoying it as much as the first run. I find the complaints puzzling because it seems the same to me.

I wouldn’t necessarily disagree with the differences between the eras Dr.Love outlined, but within each I tend to think of them as interchangeable. I’m an Atlas/Marvel guy, but Simon and Kirby were the champs of the genre. Their stories were much more engrossing and complex. The Atlas books were very simplistic and geared towards teenyboppers; S&K romance could appeal to a more diverse audience with a greater age range. You might find a story about a young married couple who finds their relationship in danger as they struggle to make ends meet as opposed to endless yarns about the wealthy hunk or femme fatale and their beau from a poor family, or a young woman pining for Jimmy to take her to the sock hop. Even the pre-hero Jack Kirby/Stan Lee Atlas romance books were a bit weak and redundant, though those read as if they were just cranking them out to make sure the company had some romance books on the stand.

It's young, pre-Rat Pack Frank.

I'm looking forward to the third episode, especially curious since last week's trailer showed flashes of a Kolchak doppleganger.

I could be wrong, but as a long-time member who used to run sales threads (fun successful ones to boot) in the single selling forum we had before it was broken up into multiple sections, I think cd4ever means the Gold/Silver/Bronze section is the 'real deal'. And, as someone who doesn't post all the time and apparently was off the boards for a long time, he may not even realize the VCC is happening.

I’ve only seen the first so far but liked it just fine as did the missus. Not missing a beat is a good way to put it. Except for the characters aging, it feels like it never went off the air.

His feedback states that you were "less than cordial" about his complaint. Did he communicate a problem to you before leaving the feedback?

Couple dollars for a flat rate. You sure? I'm seeing an increase of $8 on a Prioirty Flat Rate envelope, up to $32.95 now. Ouch!

This situation must be like a kick in the pants, especially after that Iron Man body armor debacle.

Yeah, she’s fantastic! Last year I got a few Astonishings and a Journey Into Unknown Worlds. She works from my want list and picks covers she likes so it’s always a surprise.

Nice one! Heath boobies and Wolverton weirdness! Used a gift cert to get this for my b-day. Pretty nice despite the critter chew: Another recent pickup I don't think I posted: The missus got me this for Xmas. Nothing like PCH under the tree!

There's at least one other lengthier one, but here's a few older, related threads: Letters From Kids Who Grew Up To be Creators Board Members Who've Appeared in Letter Pages

I think of it as the Mystic Expensive and Hard to Find Issue I Won't Own for Some Time.

Here's a couple Marvel Tales and Astonishing I picked up fairly recently.

Thanks! Happy New Year Frankie, be safe!

As a big Jack Kirby fan, I've been working on collecting all of his '50s-'70s Marvel and DC work, including the Westerns. Three years ago today I posted a group shot of my Two-Gun Kids. A few weeks ago, I finally picked up Kid Colt #90, the last one I needed. Excepting reprints, with that book I now have all of his Atlas/Marvel Western output: Black Rider Rides Again, Gunsmoke Western, Rawhide Kid, Two-Gun Kid, Two-Gun Western and Kid Colt Outlaw. He only drew a total of 5 interior stories of KCO but did many covers. I figured since I was pulling them all out for photos, I might as well include the non-Kirby issues I have, too.