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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2015 20:41:52 GMT -5
Just to add to my opinion on date stamps and other signs of the times... I still collect today because of the joy I felt as a kid when I got new books, that is what I am trying to relive. When I was a kid they were "comic books", they did not become "collectibles" until way later on. Even though I am spending a lot more than the 10/12 cent cover price these days to complete my runs and the books are stored and handled properly to help preserve them, books with writing on the cover, date stamps, names written on the pages, subscription creases, etc are part of the history of the book and its travels through time, after all they are "Comic Books". I don't mind unobtrusive date stamps one bit, as long as they're placed with some tact...not over a character's face or word balloon. I've got well over 100 bronze-age books with neat date stamps. I draw the line with books that were folded in half though. I wonder how many kids were horrified when their new copies arrived folded in half in their mailboxes. Might have been the norm back then as far as subscription copies go, but did unforgivable damage to the book imo. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2015 22:10:51 GMT -5
Just to add to my opinion on date stamps and other signs of the times... I still collect today because of the joy I felt as a kid when I got new books, that is what I am trying to relive. When I was a kid they were "comic books", they did not become "collectibles" until way later on. Even though I am spending a lot more than the 10/12 cent cover price these days to complete my runs and the books are stored and handled properly to help preserve them, books with writing on the cover, date stamps, names written on the pages, subscription creases, etc are part of the history of the book and its travels through time, after all they are "Comic Books". I don't mind unobtrusive date stamps one bit, as long as they're placed with some tact...not over a character's face or word balloon. I've got well over 100 bronze-age books with neat date stamps. I draw the line with books that were folded in half though. I wonder how many kids were horrified when their new copies arrived folded in half in their mailboxes. Might have been the norm back then as far as subscription copies go, but did unforgivable damage to the book imo. At the time, most kids wouldn't have cared as long as it was readable. The idea of comic as collectible was a foreign concept to many if not most. We would buy 'em, fold them and stick them in our pockets, fold the cover back to read them, trade them, read them outside, leave them on the stoop when we went inside to use the bathroom, etc. etc. etc. The only way to unforgivably damage the book was to lose pages to the story so you couldn't read it anymore... -M |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2015 18:06:26 GMT -5
The only way to unforgivably damage the book was to lose pages to the story so you couldn't read it anymore... -M Or to cut out the Marvel Value Stamps  |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 5, 2015 19:44:14 GMT -5
I sheepishly admit to cutting out the coupons for free admission and free rides at Palisades Amusement Park during the 1960s. These ads were found in all the DC Comics during the summer months. Palisades was jut across the Hudson River from NYC. Can you blame me? Those coupons were worth more than the 12 cents I paid for the comic. In fact I would buy the comic just to get the coupons sometimes
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2015 22:57:39 GMT -5
I sheepishly admit to cutting out the coupons for free admission and free rides at Palisades Amusement Park during the 1960s. These ads were found in all the DC Comics during the summer months. Palisades was jut across the Hudson River from NYC. Can you blame me? Those coupons were worth more than the 12 cents I paid for the comic. In fact I would buy the comic just to get the coupons sometimes I confess to cutting out a coupon from an Archie comic when I was around...ummm...7? And my mom gave me a buck to order the 4 comics I wanted and posted it for me. Never mind the comic was from 1971 and those giant-sized 25c Archies were over 20 years old...I mean, I didn't know about that technicality while applying the scissors to that comic. Archie was still nice about it and send me 3 up-to-date comics in the mail, then 3 more staggered about a month apart. My first mail order comics ever. I got smarter when I placed my first order from East Coast Comics a couple years later. |
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Post by marvelmaniac on Jul 6, 2015 6:40:33 GMT -5
Just to add to my opinion on date stamps and other signs of the times... I still collect today because of the joy I felt as a kid when I got new books, that is what I am trying to relive. When I was a kid they were "comic books", they did not become "collectibles" until way later on. Even though I am spending a lot more than the 10/12 cent cover price these days to complete my runs and the books are stored and handled properly to help preserve them, books with writing on the cover, date stamps, names written on the pages, subscription creases, etc are part of the history of the book and its travels through time, after all they are "Comic Books". I draw the line with books that were folded in half though. I wonder how many kids were horrified when their new copies arrived folded in half in their mailboxes. Might have been the norm back then as far as subscription copies go, but did unforgivable damage to the book imo. When I was a kid and allowed to ride my bike to the Drug Store or 7-11(10 -13 years old, 1965 - 1969) I folded the books and put them in my back pocket to get them home folded the cover back to hold with one hand and read them. We also took books line MarvelCollector Items Classics and separated them into each different story as a separate book. Same reason we placed Baseball Cards in the Spokes of our Bicycles, we were Kids and did Kid stuff. When you were a kid in the 60's as I stated earlier Comic Books were just that, Comic Books, Fun to read, Fun to collect,Fun to trade with your friends...Collectibles...NO. That is one of the reasons that Gold/Silver will hold and increase in value, they were not meant to be collectibles and were not treated as such. It is a wonder any survived but I had Fun. Boy, have times changed. |
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Post by Farrar on Jul 6, 2015 9:01:24 GMT -5
When I was a kid and allowed to ride my bike to the Drug Store or 7-11(10 -13 years old, 1965 - 1969) I folded the books and put them in my back pocket to get them home folded the cover back to hold with one hand and read them. We also took books line MarvelCollector Items Classics and separated them into each different story as a separate book. LOL, I love that! So you separated the stories, then did you staple each one into its own "book"? Or did you amass, say, a few MCIC reprints of the FF and staple those together, same for Iron Man, etc.? As for subscriptions, I'm a Silver Ager who had a subscription as a kid (to Adventure Comics). I was not a collector but I liked to keep my comics as pristine as possible (stored them in 2 neat piles--DC and Marvel--in a big cardboard box). So when I saw the Adventure comic came folded, that quickly soured me on subs. Not to mention the issue usually came several days after I saw the comic was available in neighborhood candy stores, drugstores, etc. That was my first and last comic book subscription. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2015 11:41:57 GMT -5
When I was a kid and allowed to ride my bike to the Drug Store or 7-11(10 -13 years old, 1965 - 1969) I folded the books and put them in my back pocket to get them home folded the cover back to hold with one hand and read them. We also took books line MarvelCollector Items Classics and separated them into each different story as a separate book. LOL, I love that! So you separated the stories, then did you staple each one into its own "book"? Or did you amass, say, a few MCIC reprints of the FF and staple those together, same for Iron Man, etc.? As for subscriptions, I'm a Silver Ager who had a subscription as a kid (to Adventure Comics). I was not a collector but I liked to keep my comics as pristine as possible (stored them in 2 neat piles--DC and Marvel--in a big cardboard box). So when I saw the Adventure comic came folded, that quickly soured me on subs. Not to mention the issue usually came several days after I saw the comic was available in neighborhood candy stores, drugstores, etc. That was my first and last comic book subscription. I remember one time when I Was at my lcs someone brought in all the stories from the Son of Origins separated and stapled together that they had found in heir attic thinking they had a bunch of Silver Age comics. Each story had been pulled apart and stapled together to form a "comic book" of its own. -M |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 6, 2015 12:01:27 GMT -5
Mad Magazine had, for many many years, a back cover where you folded it together to reveal the punchline of a joke. Millions of copies got folded over the course of that features' existence
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Post by Phil Maurice on Jul 6, 2015 16:02:44 GMT -5
Mad Magazine had, for many many years, a back cover where you folded it together to reveal the punchline of a joke. Millions of copies got folded over the course of that features' existence Astonishingly, Al Jaffee, writer and artist of the MAD Fold-ins, produced the artwork on a flat board which could not be folded and never saw the "folded" art until it was published in the magazine! |
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Post by marvelmaniac on Jul 6, 2015 17:52:01 GMT -5
When I was a kid and allowed to ride my bike to the Drug Store or 7-11(10 -13 years old, 1965 - 1969) I folded the books and put them in my back pocket to get them home folded the cover back to hold with one hand and read them. We also took books line MarvelCollector Items Classics and separated them into each different story as a separate book. LOL, I love that! So you separated the stories, then did you staple each one into its own "book"? Or did you amass, say, a few MCIC reprints of the FF and staple those together, same for Iron Man, etc.? We would separate them and staple the pages of the story and then add the removed story to our ASM, F.F., Thor Collection as if it were the actual book without a cover. I NEVER thought of comic books as Collectibles until the early 80's when I discovered my first Comic Shop and was told about the Overstreet Price Guide and Mylites and Boards. I remember the guy in the Comic Shop telling me that Overstreet was "The Bible Of The Industry"and any serious collector should have a copy. Even then it was still just fun collecting and that is what is is to this day, It is not about the money, it is never about the money with me, IMO that is not what life is about. |
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Post by Confessor on Jul 7, 2015 6:58:37 GMT -5
Mad Magazine had, for many many years, a back cover where you folded it together to reveal the punchline of a joke. Millions of copies got folded over the course of that features' existence Astonishingly, Al Jaffee, writer and artist of the MAD Fold-ins, produced the artwork on a flat board which could not be folded and never saw the "folded" art until it was published in the magazine! I didn't know that. That's amazing. |
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Post by Farrar on Jul 9, 2015 11:00:03 GMT -5
Does the date stamp on this back cover look like a personalised date stamp or a store book stamp?? Jez, just curious--in your OP, what's the comic? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2015 18:33:28 GMT -5
Does the date stamp on this back cover look like a personalised date stamp or a store book stamp?? Jez, just curious--in your OP, what's the comic?  |
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