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[Theagenes]

I'm mostly a GA guy but I do have a couple of Gold Keys in the collection

 

 

[Theagenes]

[Theagenes]

This was one of my favorite books as a kid. I had the 70's treasury reprint and read it until the cover fell off.

 

 

[Hepcat]

Fully understandable! That's a great title.

 

Here are scans of five more of my Man from U.N.C.L.E. photo covers:

 

6 Northland copy

 

 

7 File copy

 

 

8 File copy

 

 

9 File copy

 

 

10 File copy

 

 

[mica]

We take a small break for station identification...

[Flash105]

Are all these still raw? The look very nice. I love photo covers.

[Hepcat]

Oh, absolutely raw! My entire collection is raw.

 

Here's a scan of another one of my photo covers:

 

 

Edited June 27, 2012 by Hepcat

[frozentundraguy]

Beautiful run of Man From U.N.C.L.E Hepcat.

 

I dusted off the scanner, after locating a couple of GK's.

 

#147

 

Edited August 1, 2012 by frozentundraguy

[frozentundraguy]

An early issue in the Gold Key run of 28.

 

#2

 

[Hepcat]

I dusted off the scanner, after locating a couple of GK's.

 

#147

 

 

Do you think the artist on that cover was Russ Manning?

 

 

An early issue in the Gold Key run of 28.

 

#2

 

 

I didn't like the Clayton Moore photo covers in the last part of the Dell run. I was therefore glad to see Western Publishing return to doing painted covers for their Gold Key imprint.

 

Edited August 1, 2012 by Hepcat

[frozentundraguy]

I did not think Tarzan #147 was by Manning either. A check of the Grand Comics DB shows the cover artist was George Wilson.

 

 

I do have one of the later Dell Lone Ranger issues, #142. It was a throw in with some other books I bought.

 

 

[frozentundraguy]

Two more Donald Duck's.

 

#91

 

 

 

#100

 

 

 

[Hepcat]

Were those later Donald Ducks the work of Carl Barks as well?

 

These early Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea books you have are brilliant.

 

Here then are scans of five more of my Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea comics:

 

6 Northland copy

 

 

7

 

 

8 Northland copy

 

 

9

 

 

10

 

 

Edited August 7, 2012 by Hepcat

[frozentundraguy]

Were those later Donald Ducks the work of Carl Barks as well?

 

These early Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea books you have are brilliant.

 

Here then are scans of five more of my Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea comics:

 

6 Northland copy

 

 

 

8 Northland copy

 

 

 

 

 

The later DonaldDucks were done by Tony Strobl. Barks continued to do Uncle Scrooge until 1966, with cover dates into 1967.

 

Beautiful copies of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

[rodan57]

Oh, absolutely raw! My entire collection is raw.

 

Here's a scan of another one of my photo covers:

 

 

 

Just like to congratulate you on your collection. It has undoubtedly taken a lot of time, effort, money and dedication towards your collecting goals to assemble such a collection at this level of preservation.

 

If a Silver Age book isn't DC or Marvel, it has effectively disappeared from the collective sight of the hobby.

 

Many of the books you picture are books that would have been on the newsstand shelf when I was a kid. After 1970, I tended only to see Marvels but, when very young, Dell, Gold Key and Classics Illustrated very much caught my eye. Especially TV tie-ins -- once a show was broadcast, it was effectively gone unless syndication resurrected it --- the comic book gave the show a concrete existence and permanence beyond just memory. (Viewmaster Slides and collector cards had the same appeal.)

 

In particular, it's great that you are so willing to post your books. So a general thanks is very much in order. (thumbs u

 

Keep them coming.

[frozentundraguy]

Oh, absolutely raw! My entire collection is raw.

 

Here's a scan of another one of my photo covers:

 

 

 

Just like to congratulate you on your collection. It has undoubtedly taken a lot of time, effort, money and dedication towards your collecting goals to assemble such a collection at this level of preservation.

 

If a Silver Age book isn't DC or Marvel, it has effectively disappeared from the collective sight of the hobby.

 

Many of the books you picture are books that would have been on the newsstand shelf when I was a kid. After 1970, I tended only to see Marvels but, when very young, Dell, Gold Key and Classics Illustrated very much caught my eye. Especially TV tie-ins -- once a show was broadcast, it was effectively gone unless syndication resurrected it --- the comic book gave the show a concrete existence and permanence beyond just memory. (Viewmaster Slides and collector cards had the same appeal.)

 

In particular, it's great that you are so willing to post your books. So a general thanks is very much in order. (thumbs u

 

Keep them coming.

 

+1

[frozentundraguy]

My only GK Giant.

 

[Hepcat]

Just like to congratulate you on your collection. It has undoubtedly taken a lot of time, effort, money and dedication towards your collecting goals to assemble such a collection at this level of preservation.

 

Thank you! I've been pecking away at it for 33 years now. I've slowed right down in the last two years or so due to hopefully temporary financial pressures.

 

If a Silver Age book isn't DC or Marvel, it has effectively disappeared from the collective sight of the hobby.

 

Sad but true. It's a situation though I continue to rail against.

 

Many of the books you picture are books that would have been on the newsstand shelf when I was a kid.

 

Nostalgia is the primary reason I got into collecting, and the memory of seeing a comic on the newstand usually leads to my adding that comic to my collection.

 

In particular, it's great that you are so willing to post your books. So a general thanks is very much in order. (thumbs u

 

Keep them coming.

 

I will!

 

Here then are a few more of my Doctor Solar comics:

 

13

 

 

14

 

 

15 Northland copy

 

 

16

 

 

17

 

 

[Sqeggs]

Just like to congratulate you on your collection. It has undoubtedly taken a lot of time, effort, money and dedication towards your collecting goals to assemble such a collection at this level of preservation.

 

Thank you! I've been pecking away at it for 33 years now. I've slowed right down in the last two years or so due to hopefully temporary financial pressures.

 

If a Silver Age book isn't DC or Marvel, it has effectively disappeared from the collective sight of the hobby.

 

Sad but true. It's a situation though I continue to rail against.

 

Many of the books you picture are books that would have been on the newsstand shelf when I was a kid.

 

Nostalgia is the primary reason I got into collecting, and the memory of seeing a comic on the newstand usually leads to my adding that comic to my collection.

 

In particular, it's great that you are so willing to post your books. So a general thanks is very much in order. (thumbs u

 

Keep them coming.

 

I will!

 

Here then are a few more of my Doctor Solar comics:

 

13

 

 

14

 

 

15 Northland copy

 

 

16

 

 

17

 

 

 

Love the Solar covers. The stories, not so much. He seemed to veer from being essentially all powerful to having trouble dealing with a single robot.

[Hepcat]

I agree. Despite the spectacular covers, both the storylines and the interior artwork on Doctor Solar and a lot of the other adventure Gold Key titles were disappointing, particularly in comparison with DC and Marvel titles.

 

Here's a scan of a comic from another once popular Gold Key title: