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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2020 15:36:19 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2020 15:42:23 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 16, 2020 16:03:16 GMT -5
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Post by kirby101 on Jan 16, 2020 16:37:56 GMT -5
This one for me. I have others, but this is #1  |
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Post by kirby101 on Jan 16, 2020 16:43:42 GMT -5
These were also big for me when I got them back order in the 70s.   |
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Post by kirby101 on Jan 16, 2020 16:46:33 GMT -5
And these 3  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2020 16:52:29 GMT -5
I know for me the house ads were always this magical world of issues I'd never seen but they always held such wonder, if only I was able to find them. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2020 17:09:21 GMT -5
And these 3 These 3 are legendary ... |
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Post by MDG on Jan 16, 2020 18:28:53 GMT -5
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 17, 2020 4:00:54 GMT -5
Here's another one. I had a few of those Whitman Dynabrite comics - three Disneys and two Star Treks. Those were cool comics - high quality paprt and very bright colors, plus a thick cover that was almost cardboard. This one below is the one that I remember best. I think I might have gotten these in a department store. (...) Although the covers don't have the same nostalgic impact on me as the ones I posted above, I really love(d) the Dynabrite comics, and my two favorites were/are, yes, Donald & the Golden Helmet and Uncle Scrooge & the Golden Fleece; I also had a few of the other Disney ones (Mickey & the Beanstalk, Gyro Gearloose...). Originally, when I was a kid, I found all of those in the magazine aisle of a big drugstore (PayLess Drugs in Salem, OR), which is where I normally found the Marvel or DC treasury editions.
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Post by brutalis on Jan 17, 2020 8:50:45 GMT -5
Some more nostalgia of covers that take me back to childhood. Bought again during summer vacation (would be around 1972) by my grandparents from local Salvation Army when i visited them in retiree city of Payson up north in the mountains. Was a bunch of old DC comics placed together together into a plastic bag.
Hawkman 22. Dick Dillin cover of Hawk vs Falcon and Hawks wing being shredded.
Adventure Comics 373. Neall Adams LOSH with Flash children of the future: The Tornado Twins. From that same pile of comics bought for me by my grandparents during summer vacation.
Metamorpho 3. Another from that grab bag during summer vacation.
Doom Patrol 103 DP vs Meteor Man and Doom Patrol 109 DP vs Mandrid the Executioner. Both from that same summer package!
Another package they bought for me from the Payson church thrift store included a bag of Marvel Western comics.
Kid Colt Outlaw 121. The 2 Kids: Colt and Rawhide facing each other on cover. Inside they team up against Iron Mask.
Two Gun Kid 88. TGK getting hit by the Rattler with a money bag. And Two Gun Kid 101. Another green cover stuck in my head. Green background with cover boxed of TGK getting punched on a cliff-side about to fall off.
Rawhide Kid 84. Coverwith Rawhide astride his horse outrunning a posse.
I kept those comics at my Grandparents home up in Payson and would read and read again so many times, burning those covers and comics into my memory. Normally my grandparents would come to Phoenix and take us 3 grand kids up to Payson for long holiday weekends like Easter in the Spring, and then for 3-6 weeks during the summer (usually end of June through 1st week of August) and occasionally for Thanksgiving weekend. Nothing quite like a dark and cold winter night curled up on the floor in front of an open roaring fireplace with hot chocolate reading some comics!
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Post by MWGallaher on Jan 17, 2020 11:18:38 GMT -5
There are lots of covers that I love and remember fondly, but for triggering nostalgia, specifically, nothing does it stronger for me than especially outstanding and impactful covers of first issues from my early days of collecting. First issues were pretty special things back then, when long-running comics had an advantage on the newsstands These are my top four, comics I eagerly anticipated from thumbnail previews in house ads, covers with gorgeous, powerful art, all around beautiful coloring, extremely strong, unforgettable logos, and limited "blurbage", something that tended to make Marvel's first issues of the era less memorable to me. Swamp Thing #1, I think this was the first time I ever got in on the ground floor with a premiere issue. I remember snagging this one, after much anticipation, at the Memphis Airport. Let the logo and the art seal the deal:  The Demon #1: This one was bought for the road trip on a family vacation to D.C. Kirby didn't always get the best coloring at DC, but this one has a remarkable contrast between the main character and the background:  The Shadow #1: This kind of toned color wasn't being used at DC as much as it had been in earlier years, so it was especially striking when I finally got my subscription copy. Seeing the thumbnails made this an easy advance sell, and still puts a tingle in me that lights the fires of my early enthusiasm for comics.  Sandman #1: Yeah, putting these in the same pose reveals that Kirby's rehashing his Demon cover design a bit here, but it's still effective and fills me with nostalgia, bringing me back to the living room chair where I planted myself and devoured this delightful little fantasy from Simon and Kirby.  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 17, 2020 13:39:39 GMT -5
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Post by Batflunkie on Jan 17, 2020 14:50:58 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2020 15:18:17 GMT -5
Superman and Spiderman Crossover   I prefer the one on top because that story was more impressive, more original, and yet it's made an impact to me. It had the Hulk and Wonder Woman too and that's alone is the credit to both Companies to ensure that both TV Shows are being recognized and that made an impression on me. |
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