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Post by Farrar on Oct 9, 2022 14:39:57 GMT -5
With my 2 bucks, here's what I'll buy off the stands in May 1964: Adventure #314 I don't particularly like this cover--the Super Pets are cute, but where are the Legionnaires (apart from the ubiquitous Superboy)?! DC, 12 cents Aquaman #16 Mera's on the cover, so I'll buy this. DC, 12 cents Betty and Veronica #103 Archie, 12 cents Giant Batman Annual #7 Cannot resist the 1960s DC Giants with the multi-panel covers. And what do you know? Right on the heels of the New Look and its more serious tone--we get an Annual spotlighting the jettisoned Batman Family characters and the less complex, more innocent stories. I love it!!! DC, 25 cents Falling in Love #68 DC, 12 cents Fantastic Four #29 Marvel, 12 cents Girls' Romances #102 DC, 12 cents Laugh #160 Archie, 12 cents Lois Lane #50 All's fair in love and war! Lois goes back in time and tries to break up teenage Lana and Superboy. DC, 12 cents Rip Hunter Time Master #21 DC, 12 cents Superman #170 DC, 12 cents TV Casper and Company #5 A nostalgic pick. 25 cents X-Men #6 Where are Wanda and Pietro? (Squinting) Oh... there they are. Marvel, 12 cents Young Love #44 This issue's cover (by Romita Sr. of course) was used for the Young Love Showcase v. 1, one of my very favorite Showcase collections. DC, 12 cents. 12 12-centers = 1.44 2 Giants = .50 Total = $1.94
 
 
And the Giant Batman Annual has a great back cover too!!!
 
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 9, 2022 16:15:03 GMT -5
That Batman Annual #7 has the story where Ace narrates!
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Post by Cei-U! on Oct 9, 2022 16:23:16 GMT -5
That Batman Annual #7 has the story where Ace narrates! This annual was the first Batman comic I ever read. That copy disintegrated azround 1967 and I only bought a replacement sometime in the last couple of years.
Cei-U! You never forget your first!
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 9, 2022 16:29:33 GMT -5
That Batman Annual #7 has the story where Ace narrates! This annual was the first Batman comic I ever read. That copy disintegrated azround 1967 and I only bought a replacement sometime in the last couple of years.
Cei-U! You never forget your first!
I got mine just a few years ago for a dollar! The spine is beat up pretty bad and the back cover is loose. If I want to, I can hang up that back cover without having to worry about tearing the comic up, because it’s already torn up! |
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Post by Farrar on Oct 9, 2022 17:17:18 GMT -5
I bought a couple of copies of that Annual a few years ago; it inspired me to seek out pre-New Look issues of Batman and Detective.
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Post by Cei-U! on Oct 10, 2022 5:19:01 GMT -5
I don't know if anyone else has been keeping rack of their acquisitions but I've built up quite the little collection in the couse of this game. Here is all my loot to date:
Action Comics #285
Amazing Fantasy #15
Amazing Spider-Man #1-16
Aquaman #1-2, 4, 16
Atom #1, 3-13
Avengers #1-6
Batman #164
Beany and Cecil #1, 3, 5
Brave and the Bold #41-42, 44, 50, 53-54
Bullwinkle (Dell) #1
Bullwinkle (Gold Key) #1-2
Bullwinkle Mother Moose Nursery Pomes #1
Capt. Storm #1
Cave Kids #1
Daredevil #1-2
Detective Comics #327-29
Doctor Solar #1, 3-5
Doom Patrol #86-87
Fantastic Four #1-29
Flash #124-129, 132-138, 141-145
Four Color #1275
Fractured Fairy Tales #1
Frankenstein #1
Green Lantern #9-22, 24-30
Hawkman #1-2
Herbie #1
Huckleberry Hound #14
Incredible Hulk #1-6
John Carter of Mars #1
Journey into Mystery #83-106
Justice League of America #7-28
Korak, Son of Tarzan #1-3
Lone Ranger #143, 145
Magilla Gorilla #1
Magnus, Robot Fighter #1-4, 6-7
Mighty Samson #1
Mystery in Space #75, 89-90
Phantom #1, 6
Popeye #61-62, 64-65, 67-69, 73
Quick Draw McGraw #8, 10-11
Rawhide Kid #40
Rocky and His Fiendish Friends #1-2, 4
Scarecrow of Romney Marsh #1
Sgt. Fury #1-8
Showcase #35-36, 38-39
Space Family Robinson #1
Strange Tales #101-123
Tales of Suspense #39-56
Tales to Astonish #27, 35-58
Tarzan #128, 141, 143
Two-Gun Kid #60-61, 69-70
World's Finest Comics #122-124, 126
X-Men #1-6
Assuming I kept them all in tippy-top condition (unlikely given that I'd have been 6 at the time of the latest round), I could put my child (assuming I had one) through college on the sale of the Marvels alone.
Cei-U! I summon the (imaginary) horde o' treasure!
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Post by dbutler69 on Oct 10, 2022 9:58:01 GMT -5
I don't know if anyone else has been keeping rack of their acquisitions but I've built up quite the little collection in the couse of this game. Here is all my loot to date:
Action Comics #285
Amazing Fantasy #15
Amazing Spider-Man #1-16
Aquaman #1-2, 4, 16
Atom #1, 3-13
Avengers #1-6
Batman #164
Beany and Cecil #1, 3, 5
Brave and the Bold #41-42, 44, 50, 53-54
Bullwinkle (Dell) #1
Bullwinkle (Gold Key) #1-2
Bullwinkle Mother Moose Nursery Pomes #1
Capt. Storm #1
Cave Kids #1
Daredevil #1-2
Detective Comics #327-29
Doctor Solar #1, 3-5
Doom Patrol #86-87
Fantastic Four #1-29
Flash #124-129, 132-138, 141-145
Four Color #1275
Fractured Fairy Tales #1
Frankenstein #1
Green Lantern #9-22, 24-30
Hawkman #1-2
Herbie #1
Huckleberry Hound #14
Incredible Hulk #1-6
John Carter of Mars #1
Journey into Mystery #83-106
Justice League of America #7-28
Korak, Son of Tarzan #1-3
Lone Ranger #143, 145
Magilla Gorilla #1
Magnus, Robot Fighter #1-4, 6-7
Mighty Samson #1
Mystery in Space #75, 89-90
Phantom #1, 6
Popeye #61-62, 64-65, 67-69, 73
Quick Draw McGraw #8, 10-11
Rawhide Kid #40
Rocky and His Fiendish Friends #1-2, 4
Scarecrow of Romney Marsh #1
Sgt. Fury #1-8
Showcase #35-36, 38-39
Space Family Robinson #1
Strange Tales #101-123
Tales of Suspense #39-56
Tales to Astonish #27, 35-58
Tarzan #128, 141, 143
Two-Gun Kid #60-61, 69-70
World's Finest Comics #122-124, 126
X-Men #1-6
Assuming I kept them all in tippy-top condition (unlikely given that I'd have been 6 at the time of the latest round), I could put my child (assuming I had one) through college on the sale of the Marvels alone.
Cei-U! I summon the (imaginary) horde o' treasure!
That's an awesome idea. If I get ambitious, I'll come up with the list of my "collection" also. It looks like you haven't missed an issue of Tales of Suspense. |
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Post by dbutler69 on Oct 10, 2022 9:59:19 GMT -5
And the Giant Batman Annual has a great back cover too!!!
Yeah, that's a sweet back cover! |
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Post by Farrar on Oct 10, 2022 12:09:22 GMT -5
Yeah, that's a sweet back cover! That Shelly Moldoff Batman Family pin-up was originally on the back cover of Giant Batman Annual #2, from 1961--but I wasn't playing this fun game at that time  *** classiccomics.org/post/432733/thread***I do have that Annual irl  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 10, 2022 14:04:44 GMT -5
In May 1964, it looks like I never made it to the candy store. Don't remember buying any of these. Picked up quite a few of them over the years, though. Had I made it to the Hi-Way Sweet Shoppe or Cohen's or Bergstrom's that month, I would definitely have bought: Batman Annual 7: Irresistible... and the back-cover pin-up cinches it. I'll be reading for hours! Adventure 322: The Super-Pets have their own Legion?! Go, Super-Monkey, go! Our Army at War 144: DC war comics were ten-year-old moi's first taste of existentialism. Superman 170: An Imaginary story, with the cast switching roles as usual. Next issue: "Superman's Two Mommies: Lois Lane and Lana Lang!" Tomahawk 93 You have to ask?  Blackhawk 198: D-Day and the Blackhawks... just what the comics doctor ordered! All American Men of War 104: What a cover! Plus, I was a sucker for the Navaho Ace.  Detective Comics #329 This comic keeps looking different! Capt. Storm #2 For that logo alone. Showcase #51 You don't see too many covers this exciting! This, for sure:  I'm up to $1.68, so I will also grab these: Jungle War Stories 8 and Combat 13.  Eight cents left for a pack of baseball cards and three Bazookas... What a birthday month for Kid Hal! |
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Post by dbutler69 on Oct 15, 2022 10:17:16 GMT -5
That Batman Annual #7 has the story where Ace narrates! Sounds trippy. |
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Post by dbutler69 on Oct 15, 2022 10:18:27 GMT -5
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Post by dbutler69 on Oct 15, 2022 10:45:28 GMT -5
Big Superman month! Unfortunately, getting 3 giant size comics really cut into my budget. I'm 7 cents over, so I'll have to borrow from my "bank". I still had to remove something like 11 comics from my list to fit in the budget! 80 Page Giant #1 80 Page Giant Magazine #2 Adventure Comics #323 (Legion of Super-Heroes!) Amazing Spider-Man #16 (Daredevil guest star! I love me some superhero guest stars!) Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (Introducing the Sinister Six!) Avengers #7 (Baron Zemo, Enchantress, and Executioner!) Strange Tales #124 (For Dr Strange, not the Human Torch!) Brave and the Bold #55 (Metal Men and the Atom! A cool team-up) Detective Comics #330 Doom Patrol #89 Flash #146 Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #51 World's Finest Comics #143 Justice League of America #29 (JLA/JSA team-up!! Best time of the year!) Sadly, no gorilla covers this month.       |
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Post by Cei-U! on Oct 16, 2022 5:52:03 GMT -5
Alrfeady? Huh. Okay, then:
Amazing Spider-Man #16 ($.12) Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 ($.25) Atom #14 ($.12)
Avengers #7 ($.12) Batman #165 ($.12) Daredevil #3 ($.12) Detective Comics #30 ($.12)
Fantastic Four #30 ($.12) Hawkman #3 ($.12)
Journey into Mystery #107 ($.12) Justice League of America #29 ($.12) Sgt. Fury #9 ($.12) Strange Tales #124 ($.12)
Tales of Suspense #57 ($.12)
Tales to Astonish #59 ($.12)
...and by combining the leftover 7 cents with last month's 8 cents, I can add
Brave and the Bold #55 ($.12)
Had to forego a couple of Julie Schwartz books in order to afford the Spidey Annual but it's totally worth it!
Cei-U! I summon the small sacrifice!
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 16, 2022 8:32:41 GMT -5
80-Page Giant #2
Amazing Spider-Man #16
Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1
Journey into Mystery #107
Justice League of America #29
Kid Colt Outlaw #118
Little Dot Dotland #14
Marvel Tales #1
Metal Men #9
Patsy Walker #116
Sgt. Fury #9
Wonder Woman #148
Young Romance #131
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