thecollectron

I haven't posted anything for a long time. Sorry about the lousy scan on this one. It's in a slab and doesn't fit well on my scanner. The rest of them are raw books. It's too bad there isn't an interior story that goes with this cover.

What a great cover on that Battle Action! Cute kitty too!

ah, my old copy (the 774 submission is still on my old invoice list) Beautiful book!

I don't have many, but here's one.

Umm......I did say "nice sets of books."

You both have really nice sets of books.

That's the one. I thought it was pretty good too.

Here's another: Hell In The Pacific. There is a scene near the end where Lee Marvin is reading a Captain Marvel comic. It might have been Whiz Comics, but I just remember seeing Captain Marvel on the cover. By the way, here's a disclaimer: All of my recent posts are based on memories of seeing these movies in the theater when they were first released, so some of my "facts" might be blurred by the passage of time.

The entire Mystery Tales #40 story was posted on someone's blog but I don't recall where. A Google search would probably bring it up.

Well, I've gone and made a few posts without reading all the preceding pages, so I'm sorry if I'm rehashing old news. That said......Here are a couple more. 1.) Either The Hot Rock or The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight has a scene where a guy is reading Superboy #175. I remember recognizing that cover because I had bought that issue off the stand. 2.) There was a movie about Elvis Presley, that I think I saw in the early 80's, that combined documentary footage with dramatizations of scenes from his early life. There is a scene where he is a kid in a drugstore and there is a spinner rack with comics on it. One of them is a Kirby monster-era Strange Tales, maybe even a real one (#100?) instead of a prop, but the logo is the 60's style, not the 50's Atlas style, hence it would have been on the stands when Elvis was already grown up. Elvis would have been a kid during the Timely era. Anyway, this is another example of a movie attempting an authentic period but not getting it right. I wonder if board members could get hired as "period comic book consultants" or something like that for the movie industry. Hmm...........

If this is the movie I think it is, it's about a comic shop owner like the Comic Book Guy on the Simpsons and a yuppie couple who own a shopping mall comic boutique (the old school shop owner calls them "dabblers") and their pursuit of a dead man's comic collection. The comics looked real, and the credits included a thanks to Motor City Comics so they must have loaned them out.

It's been a long time since I saw Lost Boys in the theater, but there was a scene where the new kid is showing off his knowledge to the skeptical local boys (soon to be his fellow vampire hunters) by pointing out that key issues have been misfiled, such as the 1st appearance of Red Kryptonite. It looked like the director or scriptwriter was trying to make things authentic, but unfortunately, all the information was incorrect.

I think that was Coyote Ugly. I thought it was an otherwise lame movie except for that scene.

Pretty copy!

Nice one! That's one from the November '59 washtone group. Imagine what it was like back then to see half a dozen or so washtone covers on the stands all at once.

Thanks for adding to the history! Where and when did you obtain the coverless copy? It just seems to have magically appeared one year in the guide? Can you also indicate, if you would, the cost? The coverless copy was auctioned by Sotheby's New York in 1991, in a lot that included a Marvel Comics #1 front cover. If you have the catalog from the 12/18/91 auction, it's lot #48. I saw this copy in person a few years later at WonderCon, maybe 1996 or 1997. I don't remember who had it, or even if it was truly for sale or just window bait, but at the time I didn't really have the cash to make an offer. It's had at least two owners since 1991 until I bought it around 2001. Being coverless makes it the least desirable copy, but I was delighted to finally own one.

I also find this book's history interesting. I remember what a big deal it was when they were discovered, and then I noticed over the years how the number of copies cited in the Guide slowly and mysteriously increased. Did more turn up, or did the original finder neglect to count how many there were? Whatever became of the one that's missing six pages? By the way, I have the coverless copy. Does that mean there are ten with an eleventh suspected?

Always a good thing! (thumbs u Yep, looks like my want list just got a little longer.

That's a nice set of books!

Time Tunnel #2. I liked the TV show. Funny how they always dropped into some crucial moment in history.

The Phantom #1.