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Post by shaxper on May 4, 2021 3:44:40 GMT -5
Comics I acquired as an adult published in May 1961: Green Lantern #7  Life with Archie #9  Walt Disney's Comics & Stories #250:  |
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Post by shaxper on Jun 1, 2021 8:33:27 GMT -5
Comics I acquired as an adult published in June 1961: Batman Annual #1 Batman #141 Justice League of America #6 Secret Origins #1 Superman #147 (LOVE that homage cover!) Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #251 Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge #35 Wonder Woman #124 (A super-important issue I'm proud to own!) |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 1, 2021 12:41:22 GMT -5
June 1961 was before I was born. But my Detective Comics collection goes back to 1959, so I have Detective Comics #294, which was on sale on June 1961.
It’s ... not one of the better issues from this era. But at least it wasn’t aliens!
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Post by shaxper on Aug 2, 2021 22:02:23 GMT -5
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Post by shaxper on Nov 2, 2021 22:19:42 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 2, 2021 22:39:41 GMT -5
Detective Comics #299
IT WAS ALIENS!
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Post by shaxper on Jan 3, 2023 1:33:01 GMT -5
Another thread resurrection! Welcome to January 1963. I believe the only comic I've ever owned from this month was Fantastic Four #13 (1st appearance of The Watcher), which I sold just last year:  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 3, 2023 16:11:44 GMT -5
Now you're talking. My first couple of comics were from 1962, but I started to buy my own in '63, when I was in fourth grade. Only a couple a month, but I was definitely hooked by then.
I bought nothing off the racks until March of '63, but did pick up quite a few from January as back issues over the years: Mystery in Space; Superboy; Tomahawk; Sea Devils; and Our Army at War jump to mind.
I shall return!
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 7, 2023 9:16:33 GMT -5
Bought (for me and my younger brother) in March 1963... That Superman issue (my first) included one of the most affecting stories I would ever read, "The Deaths of Ma and Pa Kent." Quite an introduction to the Superman mythos. I tried to explain its significance to me on this page: classiccomics.org/thread/3785/comic-lovers-memories?page=4&scrollTo=175948  In April 1963, I tried to buy this one, as I once recounted here: classiccomics.org/thread/3785/comic-lovers-memories?page=4&scrollTo=178868 During the spring of ’63, I was a very young fourth-grader (I wouldn’t turn 9 until May) and had few occasions when I could get to the various candy stores where comics were sold because I took a bus to and from school; had I walked, which I’d’ve preferred – I would have been in range of almost all of them. Still, at this point, I had no money of my own to spend, even if I could go. Though my mother had unwittingly been one of my comics enablers, I must have somehow gotten the idea that I couldn’t just ask her to buy me comics or give me money for comics. Somehow I must have figured that her largesse in March of ’63 had been a case of serendipity: we were in the right place at the right time and she bought two comics. However, there was another nearly serendipitous event about to happen. In 1963, Easter fell on April 14, which meant that our school, a Catholic school, had the week following as our spring vacation. Sometime late that week, either Thursday or Friday, my mother decided that it was time for my six-year-old brother and I to get haircuts (boys’ #2 regulars, I’m sure), and she told me to walk down to Gus (Mr. Casta to us) the barber’s place. Yes, in 1963, mothers sent their single-digit-aged kids to the other side of town to get their haircuts. I never understood why my mother would allow me to walk down there with my little brother, but make me take the bus home from school, which was closer. Another unsolved mystery of childhood, I guess. My little mind went to work when my mother sent us off by giving me the usual dime; she told me that we could stop at the candy store next to Gus’s after our haircuts and we could each buy a candy bar. The wheels turned all the way on our 15-minute walk to Gus’s shop. I convinced my little brother that candy bars only last a short time, but a good comic takes a while to read and can be reread, too. Our dime would go a lot further, I told him, and like all good little brothers everywhere, my brother inherently understood the sagacity of his older brother’s counsel. Haircuts over, we sidled next door to the Paramount Soda Shoppe, run by two grumpy old Italian ladies named Pearl and Tessie, and ran to their magazine rack. The Paramount displayed its comics with all the other magazines, each title neatly overlapping the one next to it. Why, I don’t know (maybe I believed the title was a true fact), but I chose this little jewel from amongst the rest of the treasures and lifted it free. I took it up to the counter, where I stood on tiptoes to hand my dime to one of the grumpy old ladies, eager to hasten home and devour the contents of my new comic. She wouldn’t take it. All she did was point to the cover. I saw her gnarled finger pressing my comic hard and looked at what she was pointing to. It was the price. I was two cents short. She never spoke, just kept pointing, her mouth a grim slash on her face. I walked back to the magazine rack slowly and slid the World’s Finest Comics back between its old pals. I don’t remember if we bought candy bars, though I’m betting we did. I wasn’t so crushed that a Bonomo’s Turkish Taffy couldn’t help to ease the pain. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 13, 2023 11:12:43 GMT -5
Forgot to check back here the last couple of months, though 60 years ago, I wasn't buying something every month. I'll group my purchases from May and June 1963 here in this post... April 1963: Superboy #106 I wrote about this in excruciating nostalgic detail (that somehow ties a classic tale of super-dickery into a story akin to that of Achilles and Patroclus) here: classiccomics.org/thread/3785/comic-lovers-memories?q=Superboy+106Here's the intro: "For whatever reason, I was out and about walking around town one Saturday in May 1963, right around my ninth birthday. I can’t remember why, but I must have ventured into Cohen’s down on “the Avenue,” as we referred to the main drag in town, because I came home with a comic book, having made sure that I had 12, not 10 cents, to purchase it. It was the only comic I can remember buying that month. I don’t recall picking it put from the comic rack, but I definitely remember reading it more than once in the first couple of days after I bought it. (I think I first read it on my way home from the Avenue, something I tended to do because I just couldn’t wait with a new comic.)" PS: I distinctly recall asking my mother if you could stop your heart by using your willpower alone. WTF? She must have thought she'd given birth to a mollusk. She assured me that couldn't happen, and I'm sure I believed her; after all, she was a nurse! June 1963:Superman Annual #7 I was impressed by the cover alone. I mean, Superman had been around forever! 25 years! Who even lived that long? Remember, I was nine. |
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Post by shaxper on Jul 3, 2023 11:33:03 GMT -5
Forgot to check back here the last couple of months, though 60 years ago, I wasn't buying something every month. I'll group my purchases from May and June 1963 here in this post... April 1963: Superboy #106I wrote about this in excruciating nostalgic detail (that somehow ties a classic tale of super-dickery into a story akin to that of Achilles and Patroclus) here: classiccomics.org/thread/3785/comic-lovers-memories?q=Superboy+106Here's the intro: "For whatever reason, I was out and about walking around town one Saturday in May 1963, right around my ninth birthday. I can’t remember why, but I must have ventured into Cohen’s down on “the Avenue,” as we referred to the main drag in town, because I came home with a comic book, having made sure that I had 12, not 10 cents, to purchase it. It was the only comic I can remember buying that month. I don’t recall picking it put from the comic rack, but I definitely remember reading it more than once in the first couple of days after I bought it. (I think I first read it on my way home from the Avenue, something I tended to do because I just couldn’t wait with a new comic.)" PS: I distinctly recall asking my mother if you could stop your heart by using your willpower alone. WTF? She must have thought she'd given birth to a mollusk. She assured me that couldn't happen, and I'm sure I believed her; after all, she was a nurse! Last Summer I finally went down the Superboy rabbit hole, and I enjoyed it a lot more than I expected to. One thing I really liked about Pete Ross was how much Clark respected him. When he would perform acts of superd*ckery against Lana, it was borderline cruel, but he always had great reluctance messing with Pete. Your likening him to Patroclus is quite apt! |
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Post by shaxper on Jul 3, 2023 11:36:48 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 3, 2023 17:25:32 GMT -5
July 1963   I have both of these. They are awesome! You will never guess the secret of Dr. No-Face! (Well ... you might. If you’ve ever read a comic before.) |
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 21, 2024 11:07:37 GMT -5
In March of 1964, I bought just one book off the stands, and it was the first time a Silver-Age DC character debuted in his own magazine, rather than appearing in another title first. Captain Storm was clearly Robert Kanigher's idea of what you'd get if Ahab had had a baby with JFK, as Storm had lost his leg when a Japanese sub rammed his PT boats and split it in two and he was obsessed with finding that sub throughout the run of his title. JFK had only been dead about three months; I don't know how quickly DC green-lit this comic, or whether the idea had even been in the works before the assassination. It's possible, because the movie PT 109 had come out in the summer of '63 and was still making the rounds of theatres before it was quickly withdrawn for a bit after Dallas. (And, yes, of course all my friends and I went to seeit.) In either case, DC read the zeitgeist (that's for you, shaxper ) right and got this book on the stands quickly. The Capt. Storm covers never got better than this beauty by Irv Novick, many of which smacked more of the Sgt. Fury school. Would love to have seen a few Russ Heath covers during the 18-issue run.  PS: Have often wondered if Irv Novick had seen this 1958 cover by Jerry Grandenetti before he put pen to paper on Storm #1... And what Andy Warhol Roy Lichtenstein would have said to him if he had.   |
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 21, 2024 17:03:50 GMT -5
In March of 1964, I bought just one book off the stands, and it was the first time a Silver-Age DC character debuted in his own magazine, rather than appearing in another title first. Captain Storm was clearly Robert Kanigher's idea of what you'd get if Ahab had had a baby with JFK, as Storm had lost his leg when a Japanese sub rammed his PT boats and split it in two and he was obsessed with finding that sub throughout the run of his title. JFK had only been dead about three months; I don't know how quickly DC green-lit this comic, or whether the idea had even been in the works before the assassination. It's possible, because the movie PT 109 had come out in the summer of '63 and was still making the rounds of theatres before it was quickly withdrawn for a bit after Dallas. (And, yes, of course all my friends and I went to seeit.) In either case, DC read the zeitgeist (that's for you, shaxper ) right and got this book on the stands quickly. The Capt. Storm covers never got better than this beauty by Irv Novick, many of which smacked more of the Sgt. Fury school. Would love to have seen a few Russ Heath covers during the 18-issue run. PS: Have often wondered if Irv Novick had seen this 1958 cover by Jerry Grandenetti before he put pen to paper on Storm #1... And what Andy Warhol would have said to him if he had. Good luck shooting down an aircraft, with a Thompson. Hard enough with a .50 cal or 20 mm. I wish someone would have pointed out to the colorist that you don't wear the white cover on the combination cap, with khakis. I've never read Captain Storm (outside of The Losers) and, despite having digital (came with a bunch of other DC war books), I haven't had the desire. I think my head would explode about 3 pages in, based on how the Navy was handled, in general, in war comics. Apart from Sam Glanzman, obviously. |
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