What's new in your Silver Age collection this week 43 43

[Venomous72]

Ok I have to be done buying copies of this book

But I couldn’t pass this one up 

[Math Teacher]

3 hours ago, Venomous72 said:

Ok I have to be done buying copies of this book

So, are you going to quit cold-turkey, or will you just start buying different FF books?

[Venomous72]

Just now, Math Teacher said:

So, are you going to quit cold-turkey, or will you just start buying different FF books?

I am wanting other FF books and cosmic books in general haha.  Iron Man 55 may be next on the list

[hchill25]

[MattTheDuck]

27 minutes ago, hchill25 said:

Tough few months for Earth, there.

[dover]

[jimjum12]

10 Years I've spent trying to upgrade this comic. Pretty copies are not easy. GOD BLESS...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[Math Teacher]

I picked up this issue from Ebay this week. I now have the first appearances of The Trickster and The Top. I still need The Mirror Master, The Pied Piper, Grodd, The Weather Wizard, Captain Boomerang, Abrakadabra, Professor Zoom, and Heat Wave. I would also like to get Captain Cold and Mr. Element/Dr. Alchemy, but I'm afraid those Showcase issues may be out of my price range.

[Timeless icons]

On 5/26/2021 at 11:44 AM, Venomous72 said:

Ok I have to be done buying copies of this book

But I couldn’t pass this one up 

This is without question, one of the best FF covers of all time. 

[brumil190]

Just picked up these books this week.

[Tri-Color Brian]

Time for a trio of new Lois's...

 

[Silver]

Nice copies Brian!

[Get Marwood & I]

[JohnT]

16 hours ago, Tri-ColorBrian said:

Time for a trio of new Lois's...

 

Great copies.

[sagii]

16 hours ago, Tri-ColorBrian said:

Time for a trio of new Lois's...

 

Beautiful copies and classic DC Silver age fare, but when i look at these i can't for the life of me figure out how Marvel was able to pull ahead of DC like they did during that time 

[Math Teacher]

I enjoy both SA Marvel and SA DC. However, if you read a series of DC issues (like a DC Showcase), you'll notice that the stories have a certain sameness to them. Of course, the same could be said about Marvel and their pining females (Karen Page - Matt Murdock, Jane Foster - Don Blake, Betsy Ross - Bruce Banner, Pepper Potts - Tony Stark, Janet Van Dyne - Hank Pym, Alicia Masters - Ben Grimm, or vice versa, Peter Parker - Betty Brant, Scott Summers/Warren Worthington - Jean Grey, Glenn Talbott - Betsy Ross). I'm sure that there are other examples of this scenario that I have missed.

[Tri-Color Brian]

2 hours ago, sagii said:

Beautiful copies and classic DC Silver age fare, but when i look at these i can't for the life of me figure out how Marvel was able to pull ahead of DC like they did during that time 

Marvel did not outsell DC until the mid-70s...

In 1966 ASM was outsold by Archie...LOL

Edited May 30, 2021 by Tri-ColorBrian

[sagii]

26 minutes ago, Tri-ColorBrian said:

Marvel did not outsell DC until the mid-70s...

In 1966 ASM was outsold by Archie...LOL

That's very informative to know, but I am sure this period was when the comparisons were being made and conversions to publisher Loyalty: by the time I was buying comics in the late 70's,  I was a DC junkie due to the Saturday morning Super Friends cartoons and Shazam and Isis Hour, as well as reruns of Batman,  Adventures of Superman on local TV stations in the afternoons and Wonder Woman on prime time, and I still got the "you read DC?!?" question. 

Anyway, in retrospect,  I can appreciate these stories for the creative imaginative gems that they were, aimed at young readers. But I can see how the cohesive unit of all the Marvel hero lines and their teen/ young adult level story telling made many buying comics then see DC as stagnant by comparison. 

[Tri-Color Brian]

10 minutes ago, sagii said:

That's very informative to know, but I am sure this period was when the comparisons were being made and conversions to publisher Loyalty: by the time I was buying comics in the late 70's,  I was a DC junkie due to the Saturday morning Super Friends cartoons and Shazam and Isis Hour, as well as reruns of Batman,  Adventures of Superman on local TV stations in the afternoons and Wonder Woman on prime time, and I still got the "you read DC?!?" question. 

Anyway, in retrospect,  I can appreciate these stories for the creative imaginative gems that they were, aimed at young readers. But I can see how the cohesive unit of all the Marvel hero lines and their teen/ young adult level story telling made many buying comics then see DC as stagnant by comparison. 

We all know that Marvel fans were loyal, but I think the DC characters had been around so long that it took a while for Marvel to outsell them, even though the stories were much more interesting.  I didn't read a Marvel comic until 1972 or '73 when I started buying Spiderman...and I was buying most of the DC Superman/Batman titles as early as 1965.  I think Marvel would have taken off faster if there had been Marvel characters in TV shows earlier.

And as for your cartoons...well, anyone who didn't grow up on Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, and the Flintstones is probably a very misguided person today...

Edited May 30, 2021 by Tri-ColorBrian

[sagii]

7 hours ago, Tri-ColorBrian said:

We all know that Marvel fans were loyal, but I think the DC characters had been around so long that it took a while for Marvel to outsell them, even though the stories were much more interesting.  I didn't read a Marvel comic until 1972 or '73 when I started buying Spiderman...and I was buying most of the DC Superman/Batman titles as early as 1965.  I think Marvel would have taken off faster if there had been Marvel characters in TV shows earlier.

And as for your cartoons...well, anyone who didn't grow up on Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, and the Flintstones is probably a very misguided person today...

Couldn't agree more! Don't forget Magilla, Muttley and D Dastardly