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THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL THREAD EVER BY THE KING OF COMICS

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DarkKnightReturns

DarkKnightReturns

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:insane: made you look

 

Anyways, I actually enjoyed the Mmehdey threads that popped up this weekend and would like to encourage some more people to hopefully post their own personal collecting stories.

 

Bangzooms thread is :o(worship) and I'd love to see more stuff like this.

 

Anyone that wants to share I love hearing your guys stories. One of my favourite parts about the hobby which is why I love hearing pedigree stories as well and the discovery of collections whether pedigree or average.

 

 

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Hepcat

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Okay. Here's my story.

 

Comic books and other collecting activities have been a big part of my life since first grade.

 

The first comics I can remember reading were the Harvey Felix's Nephews Inky & Dinky.The first comics I can recall buying were the Dell Cicero's Cat 1 and 2 in the summer of 1959 - which I now have once again in pristine, near-mint condition!

 

The first superhero comic I distinctly remember reading was the Archie Adventures of the Fly 11, which featured a dandy two-headed dinosaur in 1961. I remember reading it at the local Lamont & Perkins drugstore, before they chased me out! I also remember thrilling to the Adventures of the Jaguar 1 when it hit the drugstore's rack a few months later.

 

The first DC superhero comic I can specifically remember reading was Green Lantern 11 in 1962 which a buddy on a farm outside of London, Ontario had. I still remember how it filled me with wonder at the time. A copy of JLA 8 that I read at summer camp a couple of months later that same year clinched the deal. The first superhero comic I bought shortly thereafter was Justice League of America 14.

 

I still need better copies of Fly 11 and Green Lantern 11 but I have a very satisfactory copies of Jaguar 1, JLA 8 and 14 now.

 

These comics had a lifelong influence on me. But so did the bubble gum cards I collected and model kits I built as a kid.

 

Despite the fact that my boyhood treasures all went by the wayside at some point in time, I never completely lost interest in these things. Throughout high school and university I always wished I still had my comics and cards.

 

My first job after university was in 1977 and by 1979 I was back to collecting. Big time.

 

I collect comics from 1945 to 1980. My concentration is Silver Age DC such as Justice League, Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman, Atom, Hawkman, Mystery in Space, Sea Devils, Challengers of the Unknown, Metal Men, Wonder Woman, Tales of the Unexpected, Teen Titans, Fox & the Crow etc. I'm just about solid in my main titles going back to 1962. For example, I have all the Justice Leagues going back to 1960 with the exception of issues 5, 6 and 47.

 

I also collect other titles such as Fly, Jaguar, Black Cat, Captain Atom, Blue Beetle, Space Adventures, Gorgo, Herbie, Turok, Dr. Solar, Lone Ranger, Gold Key Phantom and many Atom Age Jungle and Adventure titles including Sheena, Jumbo, Space Western and Commander Battle & the Atomic Sub. I have a few Harveys such as Casper, Wendy, Spooky, Little Dot, Little Audrey and Hot Stuff and quite a few Dell Funny Animal comics.

 

I also have a very good collection of the car humour mags such as Drag Cartoons, Hot Rod Cartoons and CARtoons. I also collect the Warren horror mags such as Creepy and Eerie and the Skywalds. I have a collection of several dozen Mad magazines from the late fifties and early sixties as well.

 

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My collection of CFL cards and such from the fifties to 1972 is among the best in the world. I also have a very nice collection of hockey cards from 1957 to 1973. I also have hundreds of baseball cards although these I've not pursued aggressively. I have thirty binders of sports cards, over three quarters of them from before 1973.

 

I also collect non-sport cards primarily from 1948 to 1972. These I find even more interesting than sport cards. Favourite sets in my collection include You'll Die Laughing, Funny Valentines, Mr. Foney's Foney Ads, Zorro, Robin Hood, Sports Cars, Civil War News, Casper, TV Westerns, Goofy Series Postcards, Wacky Plaks, Fight the Red Menace, Batman, Space/Target Moon, Crazy Cards, Round-Up, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Monkees and Spook Stories. I haven't yet found Mars Attacks and Battle sets in sufficiently high grade. These two sets would be excruciatingly expensive. All in all, I have 32 binders of non-sport cards of which over 85% are pre-1980.

 

I've also accumulated the original wrappers for dozens of these sets. As you can imagine, the wrappers can be particularly tough to find.

 

My collection of premium coins - Shirriff hockey, football, baseball, cars, warships, space etc. - from potato chips and jelly desserts is among the best in the world.

 

I collect unbuilt figure model kits - the Aurora monster and other figure models, Hawk Weird-Ohs, Revell "Big Daddy" Roth, AMT Star Trek vessels etc. I now have most of the ones I really want. For example, the only Roth kits I need are Surfite, Scuzzfink, Boss Fink and Robin' Hood Fink and and the only Aurora monsters I need are the King Kong, Godzilla and Mummy's Chariot. These are very tough to find.

 

I also collect unbuilt Aurora and Hawk plane and ship models from the sixties and some drag and stock car model kits from the seventies. I currently have 146 vintage boxed model kits in my display cabinets.

 

I also have 33 unbuilt slot car kits from the sixties, primarily Monogram and AMT. As you might imagine, these are particularly difficult to find.

 

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I currently have eighteen Mint in Box board games from the sixties including Casper, Terrytoons Hide n' Seek, Outer Limits, Shindig, Howdy Doody Adventure, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Deputy, Mighty Crusaders, Johnny Ringo, Dracula, Superman, Spider-Man and Lost in Space.

 

I also have a modest collection of other toys including a Three Keys to Treasure Bagatelle, eight Kenner Presto or Sparkle Paint Sets, three different Hasbro Marble Mazes and some Hamilton Invader items. I have a couple of dozen Mint on Card Duncan Spin Tops. The "toy" I most covet is a Mint in Box Mad, Mad, Mad Scientist Laboratory chemistry set which I had as a kid.

 

I've also taken up collecting NM unused kids' lunch boxes with their thermoses. I now have 22 thermoses and nineteen lunch boxes. The Steve Canyon lunchbox and thermos is the oldest of these but others include Shari Lewis, Casper, Atom Ant & Secret Squirrel, Woody Woodpecker, Famous Monsters of Filmland and Yogi Bear.

 

I haven't really gotten into Pez dispensers, Corgi or Matchbox cars, or Hot Wheels - yet. Maybe in another ten years.

 

Collecting is a terrible compulsion to be sure.

 

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Straw-Man

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great stuff, 'cat.

 

i loved me some aurora monster models when i was a kid. so sad i don't have at least one of them left in one of my big tupperware "ancient artifacts" crates. none to be found in them.

 

this reminds me; the most pain-staking work i did was on the aurora superman model. as i recall, there is a brick wall behind him. all my friends simply painted the wall red, but i went ahead and painted in the gray mortar between the many bricks. took me forever.

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Senormac

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I collect unbuilt figure model kits - the Aurora monster and other figure models, Hawk Weird-Ohs, Revell "Big Daddy" Roth, AMT Star Trek vessels etc. I now have most of the ones I really want. For example, the only Roth kits I need are Surfite, Scuzzfink, Boss Fink and Robin' Hood Fink and and the only Aurora monsters I need are the King Kong, Godzilla and Mummy's Chariot. These are very tough to find.

 

Have you got an unbuilt kit of "Big Frankie" ?? :o

Even a built one would be cool

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Comicdey

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Depends which one. This one may go for $200-$300:

 

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But this larger and much scarcer diorama may fetch over $1500:

 

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Unfortunately I have neither.

 

:(

 

It's the second one ....

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