Robot Man Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 On 4/19/2024 at 1:47 AM, makis said: My pch grail and my new addition to my collection is Mister Mystery 18. A Bernard Baily s cover and a super creepy one! Congrats and a great choice! One of the better PCH runs. So many great issues. makis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post makis Posted June 20 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 20 Finally i received my grail comic. A Timely Captain America 37. A clasic Schomburg World War cover. When i first saw this cover, i trully loved it. I will have it in my pc for the rest of my life. i was lucky to win it in an auction because the second highest bidder was the youtuber Swagglehaus... Cat-Man_America, Coverdeath , Badger and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coverdeath Posted June 20 Share Posted June 20 @makis Hi Continental Pal, any Wonder Woman for a Greek Collector? makis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hepcat Posted June 20 Share Posted June 20 On 2/8/2024 at 12:18 PM, Paul © ® ⚽️💙™ said: Keep away from PCH. Publishers Clearing House or pre-code horror? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hepcat Posted June 20 Share Posted June 20 On 2/8/2024 at 4:12 AM, makis said: Hello, im a new collector from Greece. I really like golden age era... my first ever pick up is a Detective comics 118. loved this cover! Fabulous cover! But we need a bigger picture: (Not mine.) makis, CitrusZ28 and Mmehdy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted June 20 Share Posted June 20 On 6/20/2024 at 3:06 AM, makis said: Finally i received my grail comic. A Timely Captain America 37. A clasic Schomburg World War cover. When i first saw this cover, i trully loved it. I will have it in my pc for the rest of my life. i was lucky to win it in an auction because the second highest bidder was the youtuber Swagglehaus... Wow! Great copy! I have a slightly lower grade. AJD and makis 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hepcat Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 So Captain America equips eleven year old Bucky with a flame thrower and leads him into battle? And people wonder why I'm no fan of Captain America or Golden Age Timely superhero comics in general. Cat-Man_America 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat-Man_America Posted June 23 Share Posted June 23 On 6/21/2024 at 5:12 PM, Hepcat said: So Captain America equips eleven year old Bucky with a flame thrower and leads him into battle? And people wonder why I'm no fan of Captain America or Golden Age Timely superhero comics in general. That's your problem, ...you were looking for GA Timely comics in General! Hepcat, Mmehdy and GreatCaesarsGhost 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatCaesarsGhost Posted June 23 Share Posted June 23 On 6/20/2024 at 3:06 AM, makis said: Finally i received my grail comic. A Timely Captain America 37. A clasic Schomburg World War cover. When i first saw this cover, i trully loved it. I will have it in my pc for the rest of my life. i was lucky to win it in an auction because the second highest bidder was the youtuber Swagglehaus... I totally agree. Best Schomburg cover in existence ThothAmon, comicjack and Cat-Man_America 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat-Man_America Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 On 6/23/2024 at 4:14 AM, GreatCaesarsGhost said: I totally agree. Best Schomburg cover in existence One of the awesome things about Schomburg covers is that it's entirely possible to have a different defendable favorite for each day of the month! Badger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatCaesarsGhost Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 On 6/24/2024 at 12:31 AM, Cat-Man_America said: One of the awesome things about Schomburg covers is that it's entirely possible to have a different defendable favorite for each day of the month! Peace, brother Cat! Cat-Man_America 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hepcat Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 On 6/24/2024 at 1:31 AM, Cat-Man_America said: One of the awesome things about Schomburg covers is that it's entirely possible to have a different defendable favorite for each day of the month! Me I think I'll keep my calendar clear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat-Man_America Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 (edited) On 6/24/2024 at 10:17 AM, Hepcat said: Me I think I'll keep my calendar clear. No worry, the colander's clearly open for you! Edited June 28 by Cat-Man_America Dragon's Milk ale added! ThothAmon and AJD 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehumantorch Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 On 6/21/2024 at 4:12 PM, Hepcat said: So Captain America equips eleven year old Bucky with a flame thrower and leads him into battle? And people wonder why I'm no fan of Captain America or Golden Age Timely superhero comics in general. It was a different time. Lots of eleven year old kids were running around with flame throwers plady69 and AJD 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 On 6/27/2024 at 2:55 PM, thehumantorch said: On 6/21/2024 at 6:12 PM, Hepcat said: So Captain America equips eleven year old Bucky with a flame thrower and leads him into battle? And people wonder why I'm no fan of Captain America or Golden Age Timely superhero comics in general. It was a different time. Lots of eleven year old kids were running around with flame throwers And jarts! ThothAmon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehumantorch Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 On 6/27/2024 at 7:21 PM, adamstrange said: And jarts! Klackers were also the rage and dangerous (allegedly). I don't know how I got to adulthood alive ThothAmon and adamstrange 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatCaesarsGhost Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 On 6/27/2024 at 8:21 PM, adamstrange said: And jarts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThothAmon Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 On 6/27/2024 at 9:21 PM, adamstrange said: And jarts! Those are in great shape. Mine are beat up bad. At this stage of life there mostly kept around for home defense. GreatCaesarsGhost 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Hepcat Posted June 28 Popular Post Share Posted June 28 (edited) On 6/27/2024 at 2:55 PM, thehumantorch said: It was a different time. I/we did so many things when I was a kid in elementary school from 1957-65 in London, Ontario that I never see kids doing today: * Walking just over half a kilometre to kindergarten unaccompanied by any parent/adult in the fall of 1957. Walking unaccompanied the nearly two kilometres to grade school in the fall of 1958. * Just leaving the house in the morning to go out and play with friends, whether it was baseball, football or whatever activity in the park, or hide-and-go-seek or any other game right out on the street. Sometimes we'd ride our bikes as much as a mile away to a particular park or street. The key though was that there was no need to report to parents, so long as we were home by the time it got dark. * Trick or treating on Halloween with my buddies without any balls and chains(a.k.a. adults) in tow. Using a pillowcase to maximize my haul. * Being given bus fare and taking the bus downtown by myself for French, Lithuanian or accordion classes at the Ontario Conservatory of Music. The latter of course required lugging a full-size accordion on the bus. * Hitting up my parents for a dime to go to the skating rink or swimming pool with friends. No parents to supervise of course. Pools had lifeguards. What more did you need? * Hitting up parents for the twenty cents to go to the Saturday afternoon kids' matinees with two movies and cartoons or Three Stooges shorts at the neighbourhood theatre. * Going out for little league football (Chester Pegg at the Normal School Grounds) without the parents knowing anything about it. I mean why would they care? * Reaching into ice water coolers in variety stores to select soda pop in dripping wet proper ten ounce refillable glass bottles. Such joy on a hot summer's day! * Roaming streets looking for empty pop bottles for the two cent deposit. I needed the money for cards, comics and potato chips because I was always collecting something. * Going to the local library several times a week to check out books and read the newspaper and magazines such as Boy's Life, Model Airplane News, Life and Look (or was it Post?). I didn't watch much TV at all since we didn't get a TV until the summer of 1961 in the first place and we picked up only one channel anyway. Nor was I allowed to watch TV on school nights either. * Looking through the spinner rack at corner variety and drug stores to select ten and then twelve cent (eeeeek!) comic books. Specialty comic shops weren't even imaginable, let alone comic books that cost over 25 cents. * Sneaking peaks at the titty magazines in corner variety stores. * Flinging baseball, hockey, etc. cards up against brick walls in winner take all games with nary a thought as to future "values". * Selling newspapers and chocolate bars door-to-door. * Having an early morning or after school paper route. * Being sent to the store to buy cigarettes for my dad, or six bottles of pop for the family. * Hitting up my parents for dimes and quarters to buy firecrackers before Firecracker(Victoria) Day. I mean what's wrong with young boys letting off firecrackers? Playing with caps all year round. * Playing with marbles, Yo-Yos and Duncan Spin Tops. Sidewalks would often be taken up by young girls skipping rope. When was the last time any of us saw any little girls engaged in this splendid aerobic activity? * My skateboard was a first generation wooden one with steel wheels very much like this Nash Shark model here: We didn't do any tricks with it. We just did our best to navigate down hilly pothole infested roads (such as Cove Road) without wiping out. * Doing wheelies on my bike. That's something rarely seen these days. Whether wheelies are no longer fashionable or whether kids don't get the chance to pop any wheelies under the ever present gaze of helicopter parents is a question I can't answer. * Playing nickel pinball machines at local variety stores or diners. Then the killjoys banned pinball machines as potential gambling devices for about a decade. * Building model kits and slot cars. Racing these slot cars at the hobby shop track downtown (Cowans Hardware). Kids don't build models anymore. Kids these days aren't interested in anything that doesn't provide instant gratification, i.e. anything not TV screen related. Just check out the clientele of the few remaining hobby shops. They're all aging boomers. * Firing up the .049 Thimbledrone engine of my Cox Spitfire gas powered plane in the house. What a racket! It was line control but I never mastered the trick of flying it without crashing immediately. I had to order a new body from Cox to replace the one I'd shattered beyond repair. * Playing with pea shooters. My parents giving me a BB gun and a bow and arrow with a steel point. * Carrying a jack knife around for games such as knife baseball. * Going for a dip in the creek behind the house on Phyllis Street which my father had dammed up to form a swimming hole. * Camping out in a tent overnight with friends in the backyard. * Climbing trees. Oh, I'm sure modern parents would all be aghast. They want the kids safe in front of the TV with video game consoles at all times. And that's why so many kids are obese and end up with deadly peanut and bee sting allergies. Keep kids squeaky clean and of course they don't develop their natural immunities. And of course when these overprotected kids eventually leave the nest to go to college or someplace, they're all snowflakes with such fragile egos that they need "safe places" where they can be insulated from dissenting opinions. Deny kids deadly pea shooters and (heaven forbid!) metal lunch boxes and they end up arming themselves with real knives and even guns to go to school. It's the principle of the dam. Keep denying kids whatever is "unsafe" and the pressure just keeps building up and building up till it explodes. The ultimate irony of course is the parents who demonize sugar which of course is a perfectly natural substance and not any kind of a toxin. (Yes of course their inactive kids don't need the extra calories.) These kids then take to experimenting with alcohol, pot, crystal meth and cocaine at first opportunity. It's the boy who cried wolf syndrome. "Hey, remember, you were the ones who told us sugar was so bad! You think we're going to listen to you now when you tell us to avoid booze and drugs? And what about all that Scotch and gin you drink and those sleeping pills and pain killers you pop all the time? Sure, sure, we kids are going to listen to you old farts. Yeah, right." Edited June 28 by Hepcat kent allard, GreatCaesarsGhost, goldust40 and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 On 6/28/2024 at 7:19 AM, ThothAmon said: On 6/27/2024 at 9:21 PM, adamstrange said: And jarts! Expand Those are in great shape. Mine are beat up bad. At this stage of life there mostly kept around for home defense. Two GI's with one set of Jarts held off a trio of Tiger tanks at the battle of Bastogne. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
