It's been 50 YEARS...show us your books from 1966!

[Tri-Color Brian]

Nice war books BB...and I knew nobody liked Dennis's...

 

I do have a few Dennis specials and I enjoyed the Sunday pages.

I probably am more interested in collecting Little Archie than Dennis.

I like the Jelly Bean economy and early-development imagination of the characters.

Those are supposed to be dancing jelly beans.

 

 

Here's a Drugstore Little Archie...I evidently loved those more, and none of the 3 drugstore copies I still have are in high grade...someone should do a Little Archie thread...

 

Oh, and if you want to see my little Little Archie collection here's the link:

 

[valiantman]

Well, since you asked...here it is...another Drugstore book...

 

 

[MintyMint]

Ok so Tom beat all of us to ASM 39 and Barton already posted FF 47 (two of my all time fav's) but these are pretty sweet too! Hope you agree…

 

 

 

 

 

[Ghost Town]

Those are some very respectable books, Michael. The ASM #43 looks really fresh.

[Tri-Color Brian]

Very nice. I doubt many 1966 books survived in 9.6... A person had to be a hard core collector with vision to keep books in that condition, especially when all there was to protect them was polyethylene comic bags, but no backing boards...

[rodan57]

I do remember Robert Bell bags but that was 1970 for me. When did comic book bags appear?

[trmoore54]

Ok so Tom beat all of us to ASM 39 and Barton already posted FF 47 (two of my all time fav's) but these are pretty sweet too! Hope you agree…

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minty Fresh!

[rjpb]

 

Here's a Drugstore Little Archie...I evidently loved those more, and none of the 3 drugstore copies I still have are in high grade...someone should do a Little Archie thread...

 

Oh, and if you want to see my little Little Archie collection here's the link:

 

 

If you haven't read seanbaby's hilarious takedown of Little Archie , you should.

[Tri-Color Brian]

I do remember Robert Bell bags but that was 1970 for me. When did comic book bags appear?

 

I think the first time I went into Cherokee bookshop to buy comics they had bags. You got a bag for every book you bought. That was late 1965 or early 1966.

[Tri-Color Brian]

rjpb: Now I have to dig out all my Little Archies and find that Fatso Fuller story so I can see what happened with the camera...Jeez...

[rodan57]

I do remember Robert Bell bags but that was 1970 for me. When did comic book bags appear?

 

I think the first time I went into Cherokee bookshop to buy comics they had bags. You got a bag for every book you bought. That was late 1965 or early 1966.

 

I would think the bags themselves would be comic book memorabilia.

[Tri-Color Brian]

I do remember Robert Bell bags but that was 1970 for me. When did comic book bags appear?

 

I think the first time I went into Cherokee bookshop to buy comics they had bags. You got a bag for every book you bought. That was late 1965 or early 1966.

 

I would think the bags themselves would be comic book memorabilia.

 

You want to buy some of mine...?

[Hepcat]

Here are scans of seven of my favourite DC covers from my collection cover dated January 1966:

 

 

 

 

Despite Zatanna's incredibly thick thighs! Pickings are getting slim.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Hepcat]

Here are scans of three more of my comics cover dated January 1966:

 

 

 

 

[trmoore54]

Here are scans of three more of my comics cover dated January 1966:

 

 

 

 

 

Nice books Hepcat...just bought MFU 9/12/17 for a birthday present for my brother in the VCC this weekend

[Hepcat]

I don't think anybody has posted this bad boy yet. Here's my toasty copy. Apologies for the bag scan.

 

 

Are those not scarcer than the original issue?

 

[Hepcat]

Now, here's a few Drugstore books most of you have never seen before....

 

 

 

Is that the same Fawcett that published Captain Marvel comics up until the mid-fifties?

 

[Hepcat]

...in 66. It was a big year for Batman.

Unfortunately, popularity of the TV show seemed to damage DC sales.

 

Not true! The TV show did great things for DC comic sales, for a year or two. The damage inflicted was to DC's comic line as Julius Schwartz and the other editors tried to ape the execrable TV show thus alienating long-time comic fans. When the popularity of the TV show faded in late 1967, DC found that Batman had a much diminished fan base.

 

Batman didn't recover until Frank Miller saw the dark side of the character.

 

Not true. Neal Adams arrived on the scene in the late sixties in the nick of time to save Batman.

 

 

[Hepcat]

I didn't start collecting until around '75, so my spinner rack originals are only about 40 years old. But here's a few back issues I bought back then. I started going to the local monthly show not too long after I got into comics. Mail order seemed too sketchy, and I wanted to be able to see what I was buying.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seems to me you had an eye for condition. It took me years to see defects.

 

In 1975 those ASMs would have been called "Mint"...

 

Sad, but all too true.

 

[Hepcat]

Ok so Tom beat all of us to ASM 39 and Barton already posted FF 47 (two of my all time fav's) but these are pretty sweet too! Hope you agree…

 

 

 

 

 

 

All 9.6s! Wow!