SA Adventure Comics Collectors Thread 7 7

[steelcity]

Something majestic about this cover...

 

[steelcity]

Tree-cracking cover!

 

 

[steelcity]

Early Krypto cover - sort of!

 

 

[KirbyJack]

Ok, I'm stumped. How is that sort of a Krypto cover?

[Silver]

Ok, I'm stumped. How is that sort of a Krypto cover?

 

he's in the box

[peewee22]

Something majestic about this cover...

 

 

From an avid MCs fan, ya'll have sold me on Adventure Comics. I love the Krypto covers !!

 

[steelcity]

Something majestic about this cover...

 

 

From an avid MCs fan, ya'll have sold me on Adventure Comics. I love the Krypto covers !!

 

 

 

Here is his first appearance - a very different looking dog to the sleek hound he would become. On the above cover he is partly through the transformation!

 

 

[steelcity]

A rather unusual Krypto cover:

 

[steelcity]

A cover with a "small town" feel that gave Smallville a certain charm!

Both this book and the #239 came from the original collection of Ron Karpovic, a nice guy who sold most of his books in the early days of ebay. He produced a great set of laser scans of his books, all in color, which was unusual ten years ago. I was very eager to buy from him.

 

 

 

 

[steelcity]

Sheer Legion whimsy!

 

 

[steelcity]

One of Silver's favorites - and mine too.

That final scene with Invisible Kid in torn uniform and facing defeat made this story a gripping tale right to the end!

 

 

[steelcity]

This first Fatal Five book is the first CGC 9.6 book I owned:

 

 

[steelcity]

Great cover from the Legion's "Golden Age"

 

 

[tth2]

The problem with a lot of these threads devoted to a single title is that some folks will post a huge number of covers right away, meaning that a thread will have a massive amount of activity in the first week or so and then fade away. If I could make one recommendation, it would be that you don`t have to post everything you have right away. Just post a few scans at a time so that the thread stays "active" longer.

 

Here`s my contribution to restart this thread.

 

[Silver]

nice reprint issue:

 

[JohnT]

The problem with a lot of these threads devoted to a single title is that some folks will post a huge number of covers right away, meaning that a thread will have a massive amount of activity in the first week or so and then fade away. If I could make one recommendation, it would be that you don`t have to post everything you have right away. Just post a few scans at a time so that the thread stays "active" longer.

 

Here`s my contribution to restart this thread.

 

 

This one would certainly be a good candidate for most silly DC SA book.

[tth2]

nice reprint issue:

 

I keep wanting to buy this issue, but it always ends up selling for more than I'm willing to pay for it! I just have a hard time going hard after any book from the 1970s.

[Silver]

It really is a great issue. It reprints Adventure 304 with the death of Lightning Lad and 312 with his resurrection.

 

 

 

 

The 312 is a notoriously tough book to get in high grade. A 9.4 recently fetched about $1,400.

[steelcity]

The problem with a lot of these threads devoted to a single title is that some folks will post a huge number of covers right away, meaning that a thread will have a massive amount of activity in the first week or so and then fade away. If I could make one recommendation, it would be that you don`t have to post everything you have right away. Just post a few scans at a time so that the thread stays "active" longer.[/img]

 

I was posting a lot. I gave it a rest not because I don't have a lot more I could show but rather because the thread had paused, without further contributions from others.

Glad to see it active again!

[Gopher John]

These boards tend to be very image intensive, but short on discussion.

 

As the originator of this thread, I was hoping for some discussion too.

 

I have about 10 Adventure Comics topics I'd like to discuss, but I'll start it out with this one:

When did the Silver Age begin specific to Adventure Comics?

 

I personally am of the belief that each series had its own unique entry into the Silver Age. For me, Adventure seemed to be focused on Superboy as a a kid (like 11-13) up until the mid-to-late 50's, then it really changed its focus to Superboy as a teen-ager. It might be coincidence, but this change seemed to me to occur about the same time as Showcase #4. As an example, here is #227 where Superboy is quite clearly a BOY:

 

 

Compared to an issue like #246 where he seems to be a teen-ager:

 

 

The change wasn't a sharply defined one. In the late 40's and early 50's he was almost exclusively a boy, in the mid 50's he seemed to shift back-and-forth from boy to teenager, but by the late 50's/early 60's he was exclusively a teenager.

 

My guess is that this was a result of changing demographics. In 1953 the first of the baby-boomers was seven. By 1959, however, there were teenaged boomers. DC was likely just trying to appeal to this changing audience.

 

Another guess is that Adventure Comics focus on a teen-ager had more of an impact on Marvel Comics than most other DC titles.

 

Anyway, I just wanted to start off a discussion in addition to the eye-candy covers that I cannot compete with.

 

-John

Edited June 8, 2010 by Gopher John