shaxper
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Post by shaxper on May 28, 2021 9:16:56 GMT -5
I took a standard short box, turned it sideways, and stored my FFEEs, Treasuries, and CGCed books standing up in it. Neat idea. Thanks for that. Alternatively, if you want to be able to stack them, you can have the front of the box face down on the floor, and put the treasuries and FFEs in like it's a bookshelf. That way, the back of the box forms a ceiling upon which you can stack more boxes.
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Post by MDG on May 28, 2021 9:18:40 GMT -5
What's the best way to store 70s treasury size comics (such as DC's Famous First Editions)? You can also use USPS priority boxes--I use them for EC portfolios and RAW and other tabloid size books. There's an extra benefit in that you don;t need many to get a snug fit.
Oh, and use creamy PB only... Crunchy will scratch the mylar. And definitely don;t use this...
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Post by tartanphantom on May 28, 2021 9:46:37 GMT -5
What's the best way to store 70s treasury size comics (such as DC's Famous First Editions)?
I will mention that this is not a cheap method, but you definitely don't have to worry about UV or acid damage. The boxes I use are 12.5 x 16.5 x 3 inches.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on May 28, 2021 11:54:07 GMT -5
I had asked last year about spinner racks and got some great info! Well I am back looking for more, although this is a display piece of some sort...I am trying to figure out if it goes on top of a spinner rack or some display of some kind. I cannot find any examples of it online...here is what I know about it though. It came out of a general store that close in the 60's, meaning it is from early 60's or maybe even the 50's. It is double sided, and measure 12.5 inches by 9 inches. To help maybe narrow down a date, there was a Little Golden Books display shelf also in this general store that advertised those books for sale at a price of 15 cents... If anyone here has any info on this piece it is much appreciated!
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Post by shaxper on May 28, 2021 12:10:58 GMT -5
I had asked last year about spinner racks and got some great info! Well I am back looking for more, although this is a display piece of some sort...I am trying to figure out if it goes on top of a spinner rack or some display of some kind. I cannot find any examples of it online...here is what I know about it though. It came out of a general store that close in the 60's, meaning it is from early 60's or maybe even the 50's. It is double sided, and measure 12.5 inches by 9 inches. To help maybe narrow down a date, there was a Little Golden Books display shelf also in this general store that advertised those books for sale at a price of 15 cents... If anyone here has any info on this piece it is much appreciated! Yes, it would go on top of a spinner rack by inserting the bottom into the metal column that is the spinning center of the rack. Can't tell you any specifics about which rack this particular sign belonged to, but my own spinner rack uses the same method for inserting signs at the top.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on May 28, 2021 12:32:08 GMT -5
I had asked last year about spinner racks and got some great info! Well I am back looking for more, although this is a display piece of some sort...I am trying to figure out if it goes on top of a spinner rack or some display of some kind. I cannot find any examples of it online...here is what I know about it though. It came out of a general store that close in the 60's, meaning it is from early 60's or maybe even the 50's. It is double sided, and measure 12.5 inches by 9 inches. To help maybe narrow down a date, there was a Little Golden Books display shelf also in this general store that advertised those books for sale at a price of 15 cents... If anyone here has any info on this piece it is much appreciated! Yes, it would go on top of a spinner rack by inserting the bottom into the metal column that is the spinning center of the rack. Can't tell you any specifics about which rack this particular sign belonged to, but my own spinner rack uses the same method for inserting signs at the top. Thanks for confirming that shax!
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Post by codystarbuck on May 28, 2021 21:38:09 GMT -5
Yeah, but some waterfall displays used a similar feature, with a wire socket for it to go into. Some would have signs with wire pegs at each end and slide into a metal socket, rather than a center one. I wouldn't be surprised if it was from a spinner rack that gave a choice of which company to display, unless Archie provided their own display unit. Usually, when you see something like that (single company point of sale) it's a static display, like what Whitman used to use (though I think they had several different types, for different types of clients).
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Post by codystarbuck on May 28, 2021 21:46:41 GMT -5
Pre-Crisis Superman and Action depended on at one point you mean. In the 70s, Action tended to have back-ups, the occasional continued story, as stated, and more guest appearances. Superman tended to have more with the supporting cast, as well as the big gun villains. Generally speaking, though, it was still a bit of an anthology, with Superman as the lead feature.
In the 70s, Action had several back up features. At one point, you saw some of the other JLAers, like Atom, Aquaman and Green Arrow, as Mike Grell's first work at DC was in the pages of Action, on those back-up features. Green Arrow got used the most, out of that bunch and Grell did most of them. The Human Target was another, for a time, which was a feature I always liked, with Dick Giordano doing the art. In the later 70s, Air Wave ran for a bit (the nephew of Hal Jordan, not the 40s version).
As far as creative people, Cary Bates and Elliot Maggin did a lot of work in the early to mid-70s and Marty Pasko did more in the later 70s. For a while, Bates was running in one book and Maggin in the other (I wanna say Bates had Superman and Maggin did more Action; he definitely did quite a few up the back-ups).
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Post by MWGallaher on Jun 1, 2021 5:48:28 GMT -5
I thought it was rather clever when Action Comics' backup features were the A-list rotating roster of Aquaman, Atom, and Air Wave. Was that alphabetically-unifying criterion ever directly noted in the letters page, or was it just left unstated, something for observant readers to pick up on?
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 1, 2021 10:54:17 GMT -5
I thought it was rather clever when Action Comics' backup features were the A-list rotating roster of Aquaman, Atom, and Air Wave. Was that alphabetically-unifying criterion ever directly noted in the letters page, or was it just left unstated, something for observant readers to pick up on? I don't recall; but, they also had Green Arrow and the Human Target, at different points, so the convention doesn't hold.
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Post by Rob Allen on Jun 1, 2021 11:58:24 GMT -5
Is there some option in the GCD advanced query that allows you to hide/remove reprints? I can't seem to find one, and man do all those reprint volumes flood every search and make it harder to find what I'm looking for. On the left-hand side, the last field in the Contents section says "Reprinted". That's a pull-down with three options: "is a linked reprint", "has linked reprints" and the one you want, "is not a linked reprint". And to remove adhesive, any oily substance will do. In the absence of peanut butter, I've used mayonnaise with success.
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Post by MWGallaher on Jun 1, 2021 12:30:01 GMT -5
I thought it was rather clever when Action Comics' backup features were the A-list rotating roster of Aquaman, Atom, and Air Wave. Was that alphabetically-unifying criterion ever directly noted in the letters page, or was it just left unstated, something for observant readers to pick up on? I don't recall; but, they also had Green Arrow and the Human Target, at different points, so the convention doesn't hold. Yes, but for a 30-issue stretch (511-540), under the umbrella feature label of "Action-Plus", it was just the three "A-list" characters. I doubt it was coincidence that they selected backup features that all started with 'A'. It was an interesting approach, with each hero getting a multi-issue run and (usually) team-ups between two of the three to transition from one lead character to the next. So this is where to go if you're in the mood for an Air Wave/Aquaman, Air Wave/Atom, or Atom/Aquaman team-up!
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 1, 2021 13:59:59 GMT -5
I don't recall; but, they also had Green Arrow and the Human Target, at different points, so the convention doesn't hold. Yes, but for a 30-issue stretch (511-540), under the umbrella feature label of "Action-Plus", it was just the three "A-list" characters. I doubt it was coincidence that they selected backup features that all started with 'A'. It was an interesting approach, with each hero getting a multi-issue run and (usually) team-ups between two of the three to transition from one lead character to the next. So this is where to go if you're in the mood for an Air Wave/Aquaman, Air Wave/Atom, or Atom/Aquaman team-up! DC really put on a push for Air Wave, for reasons I never quite understood. The original, Earth-Two version had a nice six year run as a back-up in Detective, but vanished without a trace after that. The Earth-One version was Larry's son Hal (How corn-venient!) who had been born on Earth-One after Larry had somehow, and, to my knowledge, unexplainedly migrated from Earth-Two at some point. I'm guessing that once Denny O'Neil realized (or had it pointed out to him) that Air Wave's secret identity was Larry Jordan, he must have channeled his inner Roy Thomas and saw a way to tie together Larry and Hal, because why? (I'm assuming it was O'Neil's idea, since he wrote the story in GL 100 where he first appeared and the character was essentially a regular there for close to a year.) Every other one of his appearances up until he had to be dragged into Crisis was scripted by Bob Rozakis, who, for reasons unapparent to me, must have been relentless in his desire to bring him back to "Action." And with Rozakis on scripts and the power-packed combo of Alex Saviuk and Vince Colletta (usually) on the art and you can see why DC was so invested in the character. He said sarcastically.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 1, 2021 21:08:02 GMT -5
Yes, but for a 30-issue stretch (511-540), under the umbrella feature label of "Action-Plus", it was just the three "A-list" characters. I doubt it was coincidence that they selected backup features that all started with 'A'. It was an interesting approach, with each hero getting a multi-issue run and (usually) team-ups between two of the three to transition from one lead character to the next. So this is where to go if you're in the mood for an Air Wave/Aquaman, Air Wave/Atom, or Atom/Aquaman team-up! DC really put on a push for Air Wave, for reasons I never quite understood. The original, Earth-Two version had a nice six year run as a back-up in Detective, but vanished without a trace after that. The Earth-One version was Larry's son Hal (How corn-venient!) who had been born on Earth-One after Larry had somehow, and, to my knowledge, unexplainedly migrated from Earth-Two at some point. I'm guessing that once Denny O'Neil realized (or had it pointed out to him) that Air Wave's secret identity was Larry Jordan, he must have channeled his inner Roy Thomas and saw a way to tie together Larry and Hal, because why? (I'm assuming it was O'Neil's idea, since he wrote the story in GL 100 where he first appeared and the character was essentially a regular there for close to a year.) Every other one of his appearances up until he had to be dragged into Crisis was scripted by Bob Rozakis, who, for reasons unapparent to me, must have been relentless in his desire to bring him back to "Action." And with Rozakis on scripts and the power-packed combo of Alex Saviuk and Vince Colletta (usually) on the art and you can see why DC was so invested in the character. He said sarcastically. I think it was a bid for a younger audience, perhaps to shuttle him into the Teen Titans, after developing him. I'd lay money on the youth angle, either way. Might have been as simple as trademark maintenance.
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Post by commond on Jun 3, 2021 5:01:11 GMT -5
Can somebody recommend a good jumping on point for Sgt. Rock?
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