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THE PARK AVENUE COLLECTION
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After much help from those on the Flickr Forum, I think I will be able to share some of my

scans again. I'll start with the first comic I posted on flickr photostream...hope it works!

Let me know.

 

<a href=https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8077/8398172655_af070094e6_z.jpg' alt='8398172655_af070094e6_z.jpg'>IMG TERRY-TOONS by Marty Mann, on Flickr[/img]

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After much help from those on the Flickr Forum, I think I will be able to share some of my

scans again. I'll start with the first comic I posted on flickr photostream...hope it works!

Let me know.

 

<a href=https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8077/8398172655_af070094e6_z.jpg' alt='8398172655_af070094e6_z.jpg'>IMG TERRY-TOONS by Marty Mann, on Flickr[/img]

 

Looking sharp Marty!

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What was the earliest Timely you remember buying?

 

Did you trade comics with your friends? Did they have any nice collections?

 

Thanks for sharing.

 

Thanks for asking...my first TIMELY was ALL WINNERS #4 which was the FIRST

comic book I ever bought.

As far as trading comics, we never did...we would sit on the stoop and read each others

comics, but at the end of the day you took your our books home.

As far as their collections, they were always nice...just not ones that I bought.

 

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I'm quite inquisitive, so I hope you don't get mad at all my questions.

 

How old were you when you got the AW4?

Did you guys buy comics after school or weekends?

Did you roll them up when carrying them?

Did you ever buy from a newstand that had the comics pinned way up high?

If so, could you look at the comic before purchasing?

Were the newstand/shop owners nice?

Did they appreciate comics?

Were kids allowed to look at or buy the more "adult" pulps?

Do you remember any major headline days? Hindenburg, Pearl harbor, D day, VE day, Hiroshima?

Did you buy candy/drinks with the comics?

What else competed with your cash?

How did you earn your comic $?

Did you have older friends/relative who went overseas for WW2?

 

I haven't read all your posts yet, but it looks like you kept all your comics? If so that's fascinating!

I assume most people didn't. What do you think the majority of you friends ended up doing with their comics?

Was there ever a time when you almost had to recycle/sell/dispose of your comics?

 

Thanks, I really appreciate the opportunity to talk to you. I recently lost my grandfather, he wasn't much of a comic guy, but he fought in WW2, and was my last link to that era.

I miss his stories of growing up in the Bronx.

 

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What was the earliest Timely you remember buying?

 

Did you trade comics with your friends? Did they have any nice collections?

 

Thanks for sharing.

 

Thanks for asking...my first TIMELY was ALL WINNERS #4 which was the FIRST

comic book I ever bought.

As far as trading comics, we never did...we would sit on the stoop and read each others

comics, but at the end of the day you took your our books home.

As far as their collections, they were always nice...just not ones that I bought.

 

mm

 

I'm quite inquisitive, so I hope you don't get mad at all my questions.

 

How old were you when you got the AW4?

Did you guys buy comics after school or weekends?

Did you roll them up when carrying them?

Did you ever buy from a newstand that had the comics pinned way up high?

If so, could you look at the comic before purchasing?

Were the newstand/shop owners nice?

Did they appreciate comics?

Were kids allowed to look at or buy the more "adult" pulps?

Do you remember any major headline days? Hindenburg, Pearl harbor, D day, VE day, Hiroshima?

Did you buy candy/drinks with the comics?

What else competed with your cash?

How did you earn your comic $?

Did you have older friends/relative who went overseas for WW2?

 

I haven't read all your posts yet, but it looks like you kept all your comics? If so that's fascinating!

I assume most people didn't. What do you think the majority of you friends ended up doing with their comics?

Was there ever a time when you almost had to recycle/sell/dispose of your comics?

 

Thanks, I really appreciate the opportunity to talk to you. I recently lost my grandfather, he wasn't much of a comic guy, but he fought in WW2, and was my last link to that era.

I miss his stories of growing up in the Bronx.

 

Thank you for your interest...I'll try to answer your questions as best I can.

 

1- I bought ALL WINNERS #4 when I was 8 years old.

2- During the Winter mostly on the weekends...in the Summer whenever I had a dime.

3- Never rolled a comic...did fold in half to put in back pocket.

4- Almost all newsrooms and newsstands had some books up on pins for display.

5- Most times you could look at them.

6- Again, most store or newsstand owners were pleasant...depended on the kid.

7- I think in those days they appreciated anything that made them money.

8- I'm not sure I was aware of "Adult Pulps".

9- I remember them all.

10- You bought candy at the movies and "drinks" in the Summer at special events.

11- Going to the movies.

12- I earned most of my spending money by shining shoes in Downtown Newark...

I also delivered groceries, picked up ice for people, sold month old magazines from

the supermarket to Beauty Parlors...almost anything to earn money.

13- I had an Uncle in the Normandy Invasion...he made it home in one piece.

 

I really have no idea what others did with their comics...but my parents always left me

cart them around no matter how often we moved.

 

I hope I've been able to answer your questions...thanks again for your interest.

 

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Great stuff Marty! Thanks!

 

1. Did you know when a book was due out?

 

2. Were some books sold out before uou got there?

 

3. It's been said that at the time, Captain Marvel was more popular than Superman. What's your opinion on this?

 

4. Did ayou see many adults buying and reading comics?

 

5. What was the first movie you went to?

 

6. I'm not sure what a newsroom is, but I'll do some research.

 

Thanks

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Great stuff Marty! Thanks!

 

1. Did you know when a book was due out?

 

2. Were some books sold out before uou got there?

 

3. It's been said that at the time, Captain Marvel was more popular than Superman. What's your opinion on this?

 

4. Did ayou see many adults buying and reading comics?

 

5. What was the first movie you went to?

 

6. I'm not sure what a newsroom is, but I'll do some research.

 

Thanks

 

1- I never really knew when they were due except that some came out every month,

others every other month or 4 times a year. You just had to keep an eye out for them.

 

2- I guess so, thats why I have so many missing books from many titles.

 

3- I have many, many more CAPTAIN MARVEL ADVENTURES than SUPERMAN COMICS

I would say that I enjoyed CAPTAIN MARVEL stories more than the SUPERMAN ones...

also my parents did give me a subscription to CAPTAIN MARVEL ADVENTURES for

Christmas one year.

 

4- I don't remember ever seeing an adult buy a comic book.

 

5- I really don't remember the first movie...but the first one I loved was Pinocchio.

 

6- The NEWSROOM was a "corner store" that sold newspapers, magazines, comics.

cigars, cigarettes, candy, bubble gum with baseball cards, cold bottles of soda...

they would almost always have a pinball machine and every September they would

sell YO-YO'S. It was really the neighborhood "hangout for young guys".

 

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Marty Did you ever hit up used book stores for cheap back issues? That is what got me really collecting back in my day.

 

No not really...the only one we ever went to was the PASSAIC BOOK CENTER in

Passaic, NJ...we used to also order books from their catalog.

 

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FEATURE BOOKS were not easy to find...I remember reading this and then seeing

the film for the first time in Re-Release.

<a href=https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7347/8817468496_b4c00f324e_z.jpg' alt='8817468496_b4c00f324e_z.jpg'>IMG FEATURE BOOK #48 by Marty Mann, on Flickr[/img]

 

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On the newsstand these kind of covers almost blended in with the "pulps".

 

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Norman Saunders did many of those early Tom MIx covers and many more covers for pulps. I have a book that his son published and found it quite interesting.

 

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FEATURE BOOKS were not easy to find...I remember reading this and then seeing

the film for the first time in Re-Release.

<a href=https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7347/8817468496_b4c00f324e_z.jpg' alt='8817468496_b4c00f324e_z.jpg'>IMG FEATURE BOOK #48 by Marty Mann, on Flickr[/img]

 

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Bogart: "I don't care who loves who, you shot Miles and you're going over for it." I remember seeing the movie on TV as a kid and that line has always stuck with me.

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FEATURE BOOKS were not easy to find...I remember reading this and then seeing

the film for the first time in Re-Release.

p><p> Bogart: "I don

 

One of my favorites too. Would like to read the comic since I have seen the movie a dozen times.

 

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FEATURE BOOKS were not easy to find...I remember reading this and then seeing

the film for the first time in Re-Release.

p><p> Bogart: "I don

 

One of my favorites too. Would like to read the comic since I have seen the movie a dozen times.

 

It's a terrific read.

 

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Here's one that I haven't looked at for a long time...noticed the "N" written on the

front cover...it appears to be a mark on some of the books I bought at the Bloomfield

Avenue newsroom...have to check for others.

 

 

<a href=https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7425/9037089914_897a5c6912_z.jpg' alt='9037089914_897a5c6912_z.jpg'>IMG BATMAN #34 by Marty Mann, on Flickr[/img]

 

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Hey Marty,

 

Love your thread and your books. That's a cool GA Batman. The colors and gloss on almost all your books just pop. Very vivid and bright. Do you know why some of your books contain a bottom rusty staple? How were these books stored over the years ( or should I say decades/centuries? I'm very curious to know.

 

Thanks,

 

SLR

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