Popular Post Tri-Color Brian Posted January 4, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 4, 2023 (edited) Thanks to the hard work of @Telegan I now have a photo of Karen Prizler. She actually passed away in 2016 in Gilbert, AZ, not 2019. Here's a few of her books I own, and her engagement pic, which I cleaned up the best I could in photoshop. These posts are kinda like memorials to the OOs... Edited January 4, 2023 by Tri-ColorBrian GreatCaesarsGhost, jayhawker, comichut and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Telegan Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 Stupid question, but was it a big thing for girls to collect comics back in the 40s, 50's, and 60's? Was it rare? I'm asking because when I grew up in the 80's (my teens) , it was mostly a bunch of us nerdy guys that seemed to collect them. Or maybe I just hung out with the wrong crowd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 On 1/4/2023 at 12:42 AM, Telegan said: Stupid question, but was it a big thing for girls to collect comics back in the 40s, 50's, and 60's? Was it rare? I'm asking because when I grew up in the 80's (my teens) , it was mostly a bunch of us nerdy guys that seemed to collect them. Or maybe I just hung out with the wrong crowd. I think it was more common in the 40s and 50s. Comics were the most common form of entertainment for kids in the days before widespread TV. Professor K 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbo_7071 Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 (edited) On 1/4/2023 at 2:42 AM, Telegan said: Stupid question, but was it a big thing for girls to collect comics back in the 40s, 50's, and 60's? Was it rare? I'm asking because when I grew up in the 80's (my teens) , it was mostly a bunch of us nerdy guys that seemed to collect them. Or maybe I just hung out with the wrong crowd. On 1/4/2023 at 3:41 AM, Tri-ColorBrian said: I think it was more common in the 40s and 50s. Comics were the most common form of entertainment for kids in the days before widespread TV. I would tend to agree, but I would guess that even in that era comic books were more popular with males. If we look at pedigree collections where the original owner was known, the vast majority of original owners were males. And you're right, @Telegan, by the mid 80s only the nerdiest of the nerdy males were collecting comics. I attend local cons in the Detroit area throughout the late 80s and I never saw a girl or woman at any of them buying comics with the exception of mothers buying comics for their sons. Edited January 4, 2023 by jimbo_7071 Tri-Color Brian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 (edited) On 1/4/2023 at 6:28 AM, jimbo_7071 said: I would tend to agree, but I would guess that even in that era comic books were more popular with males. If we look at pedigree collections where the original owner was known, the vast majority of original owners were males. And you're right, @Telegan, by the mid 80s only the nerdiest of the nerdy males were collecting comics. I attend local cons in the Detroit area throughout the late 80s and I never saw a girl or woman at any of them buying comics with the exception of mothers buying comics for their sons. Maybe not as collectors per se, but there were a lot of girls who read comics back in the 40s and 50s. And some saved them. Who do you think bought all the romance comics? And, we also tend to forget that most pedigree collections were not accumulated by "collectors", they were just bought to read and/or save. Edited January 4, 2023 by Tri-ColorBrian Telegan, comicjack and Robot Man 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 On 1/4/2023 at 5:28 AM, jimbo_7071 said: I would tend to agree, but I would guess that even in that era comic books were more popular with males. If we look at pedigree collections where the original owner was known, the vast majority of original owners were males. And you're right, @Telegan, by the mid 80s only the nerdiest of the nerdy males were collecting comics. I attend local cons in the Detroit area throughout the late 80s and I never saw a girl or woman at any of them buying comics with the exception of mothers buying comics for their sons. Speak for yourself. I’ve been collecting since I was a kid. Pretty seriously starting in the late ‘80’s. I have never been considered a “nerd” by anybody. A lot of people couldn’t understand my collecting as an adult but have just written it off to my right brain creative side. But yeah, there have always been those guys with their pants up under their arm pits and thick taped glasses. Funny how we all come together with our love of the medium. Tri-Color Brian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbo_7071 Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 On 1/4/2023 at 11:06 AM, Robot Man said: Speak for yourself. I didn't start wearing reading glasses until a few years ago, but I collect comic books, and I used to be a mechanical engineer, so I have to admit that I check two of the biggest "nerd" boxes. Tri-Color Brian and Miamiknight3434 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 On 1/4/2023 at 9:14 AM, jimbo_7071 said: I didn't start wearing reading glasses until a few years ago, but I collect comic books, and I used to be a mechanical engineer, so I have to admit that I check two of the biggest "nerd" boxes. In high school I was on the baseball and track teams. I was also in a very popular rock band. I was also an active comic reader and although I didn’t “advertise” it, lots of people knew it and I was never labeled a “geek” or “nerd”. Comics were very popular in the college crowd at the time. But, yeah, there were a lot of “social outcasts” that permeated the comic cons at the time. Tri-Color Brian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatCaesarsGhost Posted January 5, 2023 Author Share Posted January 5, 2023 Be on the lookout for Dan Professor K, Tri-Color Brian, Miamiknight3434 and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor K Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 AMASING FANSEY GreatCaesarsGhost, Chief1332 and Tri-Color Brian 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbo_7071 Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 On 1/4/2023 at 11:16 PM, Professor K said: AMASING FANSEY Thayre myte ownly bee wun Dan inn thu woorld whooz spelyng iz thayt baad, sow thayre's howp! GreatCaesarsGhost, Professor K and Tri-Color Brian 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief1332 Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 Proud youngster with this killer book GreatCaesarsGhost 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatCaesarsGhost Posted January 5, 2023 Author Share Posted January 5, 2023 On 1/5/2023 at 8:59 AM, Chief1332 said: Proud youngster with this killer book Yes. Dan was astute enough as a young child to know this was an important book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 On 1/4/2023 at 12:22 PM, Robot Man said: But, yeah, there were a lot of “social outcasts” that permeated the comic cons at the time. Hey, I might resemble that remark... jimbo_7071 and GreatCaesarsGhost 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor K Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 On 1/5/2023 at 8:14 AM, jimbo_7071 said: Thayre myte ownly bee wun Dan inn thu woorld whooz spelyng iz thayt baad, sow thayre's howp! On 1/5/2023 at 9:59 AM, Chief1332 said: Proud youngster with this killer book On 1/5/2023 at 10:11 AM, GreatCaesarsGhost said: Yes. Dan was astute enough as a young child to know this was an important book Well we are assuming Dan was a little boy based on his spelling but let's not rule out the possibility he was a semi literate adult. No, it is cool that he knew it was an important book. I bet there were many at the time who were so liking the monthly introduction of new monsters who thought this man spider character was totally lame. GreatCaesarsGhost 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captainwonder Posted January 6, 2023 Share Posted January 6, 2023 Very cool topic. I used to wonder about the names on some of my comics. I’ve search one or two but never found any but do wonder what happened with them. GreatCaesarsGhost 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miamiknight3434 Posted January 7, 2023 Share Posted January 7, 2023 Very interesting all. Thank you for sharing. I bought this book from @Robot Man a few years back and when I got and started to flip the pages I came across the first page it was simply so cool read the note. Tri-Color Brian and GreatCaesarsGhost 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatCaesarsGhost Posted January 7, 2023 Author Share Posted January 7, 2023 On 1/7/2023 at 10:43 AM, Miamiknight3434 said: Very interesting all. Thank you for sharing. I bought this book from @Robot Man a few years back and when I got and started to flip the pages I came across the first page it was simply so cool read the note. Divining the author’s exact message is akin to an archeologist reading the fossil record Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miamiknight3434 Posted January 7, 2023 Share Posted January 7, 2023 On 1/7/2023 at 11:45 AM, GreatCaesarsGhost said: Divining the author’s exact message is akin to an archeologist reading the fossil record 100% agree one of my favorite parts of this hobby is looking up the previous folks who left a message or name of the books we own today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pemart1966 Posted January 7, 2023 Share Posted January 7, 2023 On 1/5/2023 at 9:59 AM, Chief1332 said: Proud youngster with this killer book So proud that he read the cover off of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
