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Post by tarkintino on Jun 20, 2021 4:37:29 GMT -5
(...) I was most excited over Marvel producing Warlord of Mars and Tarzan. Sadly the cost of licensing and lack of sales only kept them around for around 2 years. But those were really grand times for finding brand NEW comic adventures of them. The DC books were quite fun but having read fewer of the Shadow or the Avenger it was Marvel which had my interest. (...) I've made no secret of my fondness for Marvel's brief tenure with the ERB license elsewhere on this forum. Marvel's Tarzan, with art by John and then Sal Buscema, is still my all-time favorite comic book version of Tarzan. As much as I think John Buscema is one of the top 10 artists in comic history, I found his Tarzan lacking that necessary grit and sense of struggle that Kubert in the DC version had. Kubert's was a perfect, tough Tarzan.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jun 20, 2021 5:10:18 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure my first treasury book was Captain America's Bicentennial Battles, purchased from a drugstore's magazine aisle; I'm not entirely sure because also in 1976 I got the second Origins of Super-Viillains treasury and a Batman treasury, which had this cover: Those two books stick in my memory more, because they were purchased for me by mom (after much begging and pleading) based on a house ad in a comic book; I still remember when they came in a big brown cardboard mailer, which is where I kept them stored (and took to school to show off to my friends). The house ads for the Superman vs. Spider-man book so captivated me at the time, but it never appeared anywhere I bought comics at the time.
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Jun 20, 2021 8:35:04 GMT -5
Well that is 3 years. The Queens Gambit in 1960 had Avengers 341 from 1991. Exactly. It would like placing New Coke on the shelves in that scene. And the set designers I know live for those kinds of details and would be mortified by such a glaring anachronism.
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Post by majestic on Jun 20, 2021 8:40:13 GMT -5
I bought every treasury edition I could find. Loved the format even though they were hard to keep in good condition.
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Post by jason on Jun 20, 2021 9:43:18 GMT -5
Well that is 3 years. The Queens Gambit in 1960 had Avengers 341 from 1991. Exactly. It would like placing New Coke on the shelves in that scene. And the set designers I know live for those kinds of details and would be mortified by such a glaring anachronism. I think there was an episode of M*A*S*H* (set in the 50s) where Radar was reading a 60s issue of Avengers.
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Jun 20, 2021 9:50:16 GMT -5
My first treasury edition was the reprint of All-Star Comics #3 ( Famous First Edition Vol. 1 F-7). I would have been 8 or just turned 9 when I got it. I absolutely loved its size and was fascinated by these Golden Age tales. I'd already been getting a taste of the era in those wonderful 100-pagers DC was doing in the early Seventies but this felt like a full immersion into the earliest days of superhero comics. (I also had the All in Color for a Dime paperback and Origins of Marvel Comics at this time, so was really feeling like a nascent comics historian.) I enjoyed the device of having each hero recount an individual adventure and particularly liked the Dr. Fate tale and the Hawkman story (that Sheldon Moldoff art!). And I thought Johnny Thunder was a very identifiable character - what kid wouldn't dig the idea of getting to do whatever you want for an hour? (And this is why a certain CCF member not only has the best moniker here but gets extra points for incorporating "I summon ..." quips in each post.) With all of that, there's another reason this book was special to me then and remains so now. I loved it because it gave me access to the comic book world my mother grew up with. She was born in 1937 and was an avid superhero comic book reader during the war years (her favorite character being Captain Marvel). One of the cliches used by lazy journalists doing pieces on comic books goes something like this: "Those old comic books that mom threw out are now worth a fortune!" But for my mother, who often wished she still had her childhood comic books, the idea of throwing away a comic book was completely against her nature. She was a great supporter of my (and my brother's) interest in comic books and I felt when I first got this treasury edition that I was tapping into her childhood a bit. And having lost my mom in April, revisiting landmark comics from my childhood such as this one is even more meaningful.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2021 10:00:19 GMT -5
For me it was a tobacco shop that sold magazines and other stuff including comics. I still associate the smell of pipe tobacco with comic books. This! In my small home town it was a store called "The Huff & Puff" and as a parent today I can't believe how easily I went to and from that store as a minor to get my Batman comics. It was in the mall so I'd head there while my mom got unimportant stuff like milk. I'd forgotten about that store until you made this post. Thanks of helping me remember my comic book remembrance This brings back great memories for me as well, and I'll add one more ingredient that I experienced. When my family moved to the town we lived in Vermont when I was little, there was this shop on the main street called "Miller News & Sports". Walking into the "News" section where the comic book rack was located immediately hit you with the glorious blended smell of pipe tobacco, printed material, and chocolate. The three together will always be my "comic book" experience! My parents would let me roll up loose change (including anything I could find under the sofa cushions) and take to the bank (back before they had machines and required the little paper rolls) to try to get enough money for some comic books. And on days I got lucky and found a good amount, even some candy to go with it. On a side note, being so close to Canada, Canadian coins circulated freely for the most part with US ones there, but sometimes the bank itself would take them and others times would give you a hard time.
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Post by dbutler69 on Jun 20, 2021 10:10:01 GMT -5
I've made no secret of my fondness for Marvel's brief tenure with the ERB license elsewhere on this forum. Marvel's Tarzan, with art by John and then Sal Buscema, is still my all-time favorite comic book version of Tarzan. As much as I think John Buscema is one of the top 10 artists in comic history, I found his Tarzan lacking that necessary grit and sense of struggle that Kubert in the DC version had. Kubert's was a perfect, tough Tarzan. Personally, I vastly preferred the Buscema Tarzan over the Kubert Tarzan.
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Post by dbutler69 on Jun 20, 2021 10:17:18 GMT -5
This was my first treasury size edition, which I got from the recently discovered LCS. As if I didn't already love the Legion, this sure would have done the trick!
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Post by brutalis on Jun 20, 2021 10:23:53 GMT -5
As much as I think John Buscema is one of the top 10 artists in comic history, I found his Tarzan lacking that necessary grit and sense of struggle that Kubert in the DC version had. Kubert's was a perfect, tough Tarzan. Personally, I vastly preferred the Buscema Tarzan over the Kubert Tarzan. I love both renditions of the Lord of the jungle. I like to envision the lean and lithe Kubert is the teen/young adult while the Buscema brothers depict the formidable strength and powerful married adult. Best of both worlds!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2021 10:33:34 GMT -5
This was my first treasury size edition, which I got from the recently discovered LCS. As if I didn't already love the Legion, this sure would have done the trick! For us Bronze Age Legion fans, it doesn't get much better than that classic stunning Mike Grell cover!
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Post by kirby101 on Jun 20, 2021 10:39:26 GMT -5
My first Treasury Edition was the first Treasury Edition. I also got all the DC vs Marvel ones.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2021 10:43:34 GMT -5
The discovery of Treasury editions as a kid was magic for me too, it was like the "ultimate experience". This was my first one when I was small, and it actually introduced me to the Avengers.
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Post by brutalis on Jun 20, 2021 10:52:47 GMT -5
I don't have many Treasury Edition's but the few I have are great ones IMO. Managed to purchase new off the bookstore shelves (the only place I ever found them) was the edition's of Silver age Jay Garrick Flash including his and Hawkman's origins, the Superman/Muhammad Ali, Batman versus Hulk, the 2nd Superman/Spider-Man, the Superman the movie Treasury, both LOSH editions of the wedding of Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl and the reprint collection shown in other posts. The grand finale for me as these giant treasures were going away was having KING KIRBY in KING SIZED format: 2001 a Space Odyssey and Captain America Bicentennial Battles.
I am still amazed at these glorious buys of my youth and even more amazed that over 38 years later I managed to hold on to them. I have moved far too many times, sold off bunches of series and had a goodly portion of my collection stolen several years back. Yet these giant memory filled treasures all survived and deliver their larger than life pleasures to me today. If only these types of treats were able for being printed affordably today...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2021 11:11:52 GMT -5
I don't have many Treasury Edition's but the few I have are great ones IMO. Managed to purchase new off the bookstore shelves (the only place I ever found them) was the edition's of Silver age Jay Garrick Flash including his and Hawkman's origins, the Superman/Muhammad Ali, Batman versus Hulk, the 2nd Superman/Spider-Man, the Superman the movie Treasury, both LOSH editions of the wedding of Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl and the reprint collection shown in other posts. The grand finale for me as these giant treasures were going away was having KING KIRBY in KING SIZED format: 2001 a Space Odyssey and Captain America Bicentennial Battles. I am still amazed at these glorious buys of my youth and even more amazed that over 38 years later I managed to hold on to them. I have moved far too many times, sold off bunches of series and had a goodly portion of my collection stolen several years back. Yet these giant memory filled treasures all survived and deliver their larger than life pleasures to me today. If only these types of treats were able for being printed affordably today... Those are truly great ones you listed, and that's terrible about the stolen part of your collection, I hate hearing stories like that. When you mentioned being printed today, that reminded me of the replica editions they've started doing. Not sure if everyone already knows about them, but a quick PSA just in case on some of the ones that have come out or soon to be released: Amazing World of Superman Superman / Wonder Woman Treasury Captain America's Bicentennial BattlesSuperboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes
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