Show Your Mystery In Space

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pickycollector · June 2

At last!

Edited June 2 by pickycollector

Tri-Color Brian · June 2

On 6/1/2024 at 8:13 PM, pickycollector said:

At last!

Very nice. Back in 1974 I bought some ECs from an original owner. He also had a box of other comics. They were 25cents each. I only bought a few, because back then they didn't interest me. This was one of the few I bought...and I had no idea it was the first Adam Strange... Hepcat and I have a lot of good books, and it's primarily because we are old as dirt...

Edited June 2 by Tri-Color Brian

Hepcat · June 6

Wow! Showcase 17 for $0.25.

The major problem I had collecting up until around 2000 was the difficulty in finding Silver Age DC or Archie and Charlton superheroes. I'd see the prices in Overstreet for "mint" copies but that's all I'd ever see. No actual copies in comic shops or shows.

All I could quickly see at the first comic con I attended which was held at the University of Western Ontario was Marvels and "new stuff" from about 1969 onward. When I hesitantly approached a dealer (from Rochester?), before I even had a chance to ask him anything he started giving me the hard sell on his subscription service for new comics. By paying him a premium per comic I'd get them all without being at the mercy of local newsstands! Oh wow. I decided the con wasn't for me and left. I'd restarted acquiring comics at the time but that experience had me putting my comic collecting activities on the back burner for another half dozen years.

:frown:

namisgr · June 6

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Hepcat · June 7

Five more:

Northland copy

:smile:

Edited June 17 by Hepcat

Tri-Color Brian · June 7

On 6/5/2024 at 9:29 PM, Hepcat said:

Wow! Showcase 17 for $0.25.

The major problem I had collecting up until around 2000 was the difficulty in finding Silver Age DC or Archie and Charlton superheroes. I'd see the prices in Overstreet for "mint" copies but that's all I'd ever see. No actual copies in comic shops or shows.

All I could quickly see at the first comic con I attended which was held at the University of Western Ontario was Marvels and "new stuff" from about 1969 onward. When I hesitantly approached a dealer (from Rochester?), before I even had a chance to ask him anything he started giving me the hard sell on his subscription service for new comics. By paying him a premium per comic I'd get them all without being at the mercy of local newsstands! Oh wow. I decided the con wasn't for me and left. I'd restarted acquiring comics at the time but that experience had me putting my comic collecting activities on the back burner for another half dozen years.

See, you should have moved to L.A. in the 60s... There was no problem finding that stuff in southern CA. But, I wish I'd been on ebay when it was in its early years. I missed that boat until 2012...

Hepcat · June 8

On 6/7/2024 at 7:57 PM, Tri-Color Brian said:

See, you should have moved to L.A. in the 60s... There was no problem finding that stuff in southern CA.

Yeah, I kept wondering through the 1970's and 1980's whether my neck of the woods in southern Ontario was just a backwater for the Silver Age DC and Archie superhero comics I most wanted. Looking through Overstreet was really frustrating since I very rarely saw the comics I really wanted advertised in the Comics Buyer's Guide.

Edited June 8 by Hepcat

FoggyNelson · June 9

I want to read all the Mysery in space someday👍‼️

namisgr · June 10

On 6/9/2024 at 6:04 PM, FoggyNelson said:

I want to read all the Mysery in space someday👍‼️

Here's a way to do it for the Adam Strange issues, Foggy. DC published an anthology that reprints the three Adam Strange appearances in Showcase, plus Mystery In Space #s 53-84. It's available for $15 on Amazon, if it can't be found at a local comic shop. It's a fun read if you enjoy science fictiony comics from that late '50s - early '60s era, and the artwork is terrific.

https://www.amazon.com/Showcase-Presents-Strange-Gardner-Fox/dp/1401213138

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