It's been 50 YEARS show us your books from 1962

[Hepcat]

Here are scans of five more of my comics cover dated December 1962:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[frozentundraguy]

Here are scans of five more of my comics cover dated December 1962:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Excellent books. The JLA book might have been the peak of the DC covers with superheroes in bubbles.

 

 

[Hepcat]

I really like the cover of JLA 16 as well, but I'm still giving an edge to JLA 14 and JLA 17 in my personal popularity stakes. Here though are four more of my DC comics cover dated December 1962:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[frozentundraguy]

I really like the cover of JLA 16 as well, but I'm still giving an edge to JLA 14 and JLA 17 in my personal popularity stakes. Here though are four more of my DC comics cover dated December 1962:

 

 

 

 

 

I have to give the nod to the Worlds Finest cover here. (thumbs u

[frozentundraguy]

Speaking of World's Finest. This is about it for my 62 books.

 

The thread was a lot of fun, thanks to all who contributed.

 

 

[trmoore54]

JUNE 1962

 

 

 

[trmoore54]

AUGUST 1962

 

 

[comicjack]

Love the cover on that Strange Tales 97 prehero goodness!

[Hepcat]

 

Love the cover on that Strange Tales 97 prehero goodness!

 

Oh so do I! Pity that Marvel was shortly to stop putting them out like that.

 

[Hepcat]

This is about it for my 62 books.

 

Speak for yourself. I'm not done yet! Here are some Adventure Comics I didn't post previously because I hadn't scanned them yet:

 

 

 

 

The thread was a lot of fun, thanks to all who contributed.

 

Indeed it was! That's why I'm now working on putting together my top ten or twelve covers of the year from my collection. Wait until I post those before thanking me and closing up the thread.

 

 

 

 

 

[jimjum12]

......wow, Hep.......book after book after book in the grades you never see them in. And if that isn't a feat in itself.....you did it from Toronto where these must have been even tougher to get. GOD BLESS....

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u

[Hepcat]

Thank you! And DC, Archie and Charlton comics from 1962 are indeed excruciatingly difficult to find in nice condition, but I've been pecking away at them semi-seriously since 1979.

 

Toronto though isn't at all a backwater when it comes to comic collecting. Comics were just as widely sold in Canada as the States in 1962, and Toronto had one of the first dedicated comic shops in North America, that being George Henderson's Memory Lane which opened up on Queen Street sometime around 1966-67. Had there been a store like Memory Lane in London, Ontario or had I been aware of fanzines such as the Rocket's Blast Comic Collector I might never have moved away from collecting comics as a kid in late 1964. Who knows what my collection would now be like today?

 

[frozentundraguy]

This is about it for my 62 books.

 

Speak for yourself. I'm not done yet! Here are some Adventure Comics I didn't post previously because I hadn't scanned them yet:

 

 

 

The thread was a lot of fun, thanks to all who contributed.

 

Indeed it was! That's why I'm now working on putting together my top ten or twelve covers of the year from my collection. Wait until I post those before thanking me and closing up the thread.

 

 

 

I was speaking for myself, and hopefully being out of additional 62 books is just a temporary phenomena.

 

I just wanted to work in thanking all the folks who shared their books in this thread before the year actually ended.

 

 

[Hepcat]

Actually I think it's the rest of us who owe you a vote of thanks for starting this fun thread!

 

 

 

So I decided to go through my collection and pick my favourite twelve covers from 1962. It was pretty tough to choose just twelve let me tell you that! Nonetheless, here they are in alphabetical order:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[comicjack]

My favorite Strange Adventure cover is by far that 144 the only Atomic Knights cover in the series.A must read one of the best in the Silverage with great art by Mr.Anderson.Also love the colors on your Fly.Great stuff!

[frozentundraguy]

My favorite Strange Adventure cover is by far that 144 the only Atomic Knights cover in the series.A must read one of the best in the Silverage with great art by Mr.Anderson.Also love the colors on your Fly.Great stuff!

 

+1

 

Have not read the book but the cover of GL 16 is terrific.

 

Thanks for sharing your top 12.

[comicjack]

Another Brain Boy from 1962 my original collection

 

[Doc Joe]

 

 

[Doc Joe]

[Doc Joe]