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Post by beccabear67 on May 22, 2020 0:12:34 GMT -5
You have to pick one month and one year to hit the biggest newsstand in NYC (defallt unless you choose some other location) with $1.00 U.S. in dimes of the same year... but there's a catch, you can't buy even one Action Comics #1, Marvel Comics #1, Detective Comics #27 or Amazing Fantasy #15 because they could distort the temporal time lines... which month and year and what titles? You can use www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/newsstand.phpI'm going to pick May 1948 and buy ten dime comics... All-Winners #1 (vol. 2) Black Cat Comics #12 Blackhawk #20 Flash Comics #97 Marvel Family #25 Modern Comics #75 Namora #1 (which I once had) Sub-Mariner Comics #27 Superman #53 Venus #1 change = .00 Marvel = 4 comics DC = 2 comics Fawcett = 1 comic Quality = 2 comics Harvey = 1 comic |
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2020 0:29:35 GMT -5
Fro me it's July 1963 (cover dated Sept 1963) to get the following...
Avengers #1
X-Men #1
Justice League of America #22
FF Annual #1 (25 cwnts)
Young Love #39 (1st DC issue thanks Crimebuster for the heads up in his box opening video)
Universal Presents Dracula-The Mummy and Other Stories #1 (25 cents)
so 2 @ 25 cents each...50 cents
4 @ 12 cents each...48 cents
change 2 cents for some penny candy.
Marvel 3
Dell 1
DC 2
candy...mmmmmmmmmm
Avengers being my title growing up, the September 1963 cover date was a magical portal for me once I read Avengers #1 in Son of Origins and once I realized the X-Men debuted the same month (also in Son of Origins) and the 2nd part of the reintro of the JSA was on the stands at the same time, this month was also the locaton of the grail for me, so as soon as I saw the topic it was a no-brainer for me, I just had to decide how to round out my pick ups to spend the rest of the dollar.
-M
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Post by electricmastro on May 22, 2020 1:00:27 GMT -5
On sale in October 1941:
Archie - Pep Comics #22
Centaur - Stars and Stripes Comics #6
DC - All-Star Comics #8
Dell - Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #14
Fiction House - Planet Comics #16
Fox - Weird Comics #20
Marvel - Daring Mystery Comics #8
Novelty Press - Target Comics #23
Quality - Police Comics #5
United Feature - Tip Top Comics #67
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Post by brutalis on May 22, 2020 8:08:04 GMT -5
Just for fun and choosing a random year with comics that would have made me crazy/silly happy to read as say a 8 year old in the hot summer on the back porch with my feet in a plastic swimming pool drinking ice cold lemonade:
July 1953
Rex the Wonder Dog #11: Rex, Dinosaur Hunter, Detective Chimp: Riddle of Riverside Raceway, Rex: Secret of the Stone Elephant. I was had with the cover, Rex protecting to kids (presumably) from a Red Devil Dinosaur and an atomic explosion in the background! All that for a measly 10cents? Oh yes!
Best of the West #10: with Straight Arrow, Ghost Rider, The Durango Kid and Tim Holt. Cowboys, an Indian Hero and a Haunted Horseman. 4 Western action stories for a dime? Count me in!
Blackhawk #69. 3 Blackhawk stories: Cyclone from Hell (another giant unstoppable war machine) a giant helicopter like fortress with guns all over it as depicted on the cover. King of the Iron Men and Coference of the Dictators along with a 4th story title that intrigues: Cowboy Chop Chop. Wild and way out fun worth every 10 pennies indeed!
Mighty Mouse #44. Says it all right there on the cover: GIANT Edition, 100 pages of fast and furious fun for only 25cents! Cove with MM in space for ASSIGNMENT URANUS smashing alligator/lizard looking aliens. WAHOOOOOOO!
Two Fisted Tales from EC: special Civil War Issue. 10 cents with 4 stories: Robert E. Lee, New Orleans, Mephis, Chancellorsville!
World's Finest. 15cents for 68 big pages it says on the cover. you get Superman Ex-Crimebuster, Green Arrow Joins the Foreign Legion, Tomahawk in Yankee Doodle Fleet and Batman Proving Ground for Crime.
Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge #495. Some good ol' Disney magic for 10cents.
Total of 90 cents spent for 7 comic books. Figure after tax that means likely 5 cents for a handful of penny candy as well!
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Post by kirby101 on May 22, 2020 8:28:07 GMT -5
delete post, violated the rules of the game.
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Post by shaxper on May 22, 2020 9:05:55 GMT -5
Assuming you don't mean that all key issues are off the table, I'd choose March 1940 really just to get the first appearance of Robin (my favorite superhero). But I'd grab some other cool things too!
March 1940
Action Comics #24
Adventure Comics #49
All-American Comics #14
Detective Comics #38
Flash Comics #5
Marvel Mystery Comics #7
Master Comics #2
Pep Comics #4
Planet Comics #5
Whiz Comics #4
Honestly, reading almost ANY of these would be fun, but I went with the titles I'm most familiar with.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2020 14:04:45 GMT -5
I'll show up by the stands in Winter 1942....
Me: Here you go sir.....I'll take all of these. Newsagent: Thank you Miss....oh wait, did you know you picked up 20 copies of the same book? Me: Yes! I think this will be worth far more than a dime someday. And some people might encase it, in plastic. Newsagent: This comic? Oh, you have such an adorable little imagination. But okay, that will be $2.00 Me: Here you go.
Newsagent: Little girl....where did you get a brand new crispy $100 bill from? I don't know if I.....
Me: Baldy, shut your mouth, it's the least important opening in your body. Are you dealing or what? Hurry up damnit, my tits are freezing
The things we go through to get.....Archie #1
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Post by beccabear67 on May 22, 2020 14:15:16 GMT -5
Assuming you don't mean that all key issues are off the table Just the four biggest money books (that I could think of) are out of the equation (to factor out just going for the big payoff), and if someone wanted a famous ashcan or Motion Picture Funnies Weekly they'd have some 'splaining to do.  You could buy multiples of some other issue to go for money, like ten All-American Comics #16s or Fantastic Four #1s I guess, but that wouldn't be too interesting. I thought of September 1963 myself but I'd rather have the added cool factor of being on a street in NYC in 1948 and mint '40s comics are a bit more of a wonder, I'm not sure if I'd want to be there in war time for some reason, I'd be too tempted to pass information to someone that'd shorten things and probably just get arrested and no comics. |
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Post by beccabear67 on May 22, 2020 14:26:07 GMT -5
August 1962. Both Amazing Fantasy #15 and Journey into Mystery #83. I will have to look further for the other comics I would buy, but those two alone make the month worth it. If you choose Amazing Fantasy #15 a timestream anomaly will be created when a major name in collecting and distributing no longer exists as we know of them today as that particular copy is what launched them on the trajectory. They now never got that comic, you did. The comic book industry ceased to function outside of a few small boutique publishers circa 2002, there were almost no movies, and in fact the last Overstreet Price Guide came out ten years ago now, values mostly plummeting.   |
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Post by Rob Allen on May 22, 2020 14:32:14 GMT -5
I actually did buy my first comic book in September 1963.
But it was 12 cents, so in the scenario presented here, I could only buy 8 comics that month. I'd have to go a few years earlier to get 10 comics for my dollar.
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Post by electricmastro on May 22, 2020 14:44:39 GMT -5
Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge #495. Some good ol' Disney magic for 10cents. And Scrooge almost getting blown up with a machine gun.  |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 22, 2020 15:12:04 GMT -5
February 1973
Iron Man #55. I'd keep it nice and pristine and await his popularity to soar thanks to the MCU and then sell it. All the while keeping the FN copy my wife bought for me and surprised me at a birthday that I don't remember what age I was upon receiving it. As it's far more cherished than even a NM copy of it.
For my remaining money ....
Vampirella #21
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Post by brutalis on May 22, 2020 15:25:45 GMT -5
I will be doing several other choices later on based upon a few idea's just for the fun of it all.
1. During the early 60's when Marvel 1st came around with Spidey, FF, Avengers, X-Men to challenge DC. Along with other companies.
2. Another will be based in the early 70's when Marvel/DC were in the strongest competition once Marvel had more distribution rights for adding titles. But there was so many other companies doing well to choose from as well.
3. During my teen age years in the late 70's when i was actually purchasing comics. Note: for the 70's I will base the buying on a $2 limit as 15-25 cents will only provide 4-5 comics which is truly impossible for a month, as any kid will tell you it was NEVER just about 1 trip to the comic stand, it was as often as you could scrounge up change!
Possibly a 4th delving into the 40's to see what might capture my imagination as a young comic reader!
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Post by electricmastro on May 22, 2020 15:55:06 GMT -5
I will be doing several other choices later on based upon a few idea's just for the fun of it all. 1. During the early 60's when Marvel 1st came around with Spidey, FF, Avengers, X-Men to challenge DC. Along with other companies. As well as Jack Kirby and Neal Adams working on Archie’s the Fly in the late 50’s! |
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Post by beccabear67 on May 22, 2020 16:05:24 GMT -5
All I know is that the rules of time travel are very dangerous things to fool with, taking back more than $1 could be fraught with unimaginable consequences that might throw of those white mice in their calculations... I go back to WW2 and say the wrong thing to a person from that era and I cease to exist because somehow my father missed the boat named Laetitia that crosses the Atlantic and eventually he makes it to the Pacific to meet my Mom.  |
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You could buy multiples of some other issue to go for money, like ten All-American Comics #16s or Fantastic Four #1s I guess, but that wouldn't be too interesting.
