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Post by berkley on Aug 27, 2021 20:22:17 GMT -5
How stupid of me - and also a reminder of why I didn't buy that as many issues of MAD as I would have liked, even at the height of my enjoyment of the mag in the early 70s. But I have my heart set on it now, so I'm keeping it, which means I'll have to revise my picks:
FF#1 Amazing Adult Fantasy #7 MAD #65 (or #66, whichever one was on the stands)
so I have 5 cents left over - did someone say hockey cards were 5 cents back then? I'd go for that. Otherwise, I'll have to try to save it for next month!
I had damn near every issue of Mad from 1972-78. But they were all bought at garage/yard sales.
I've been picking up a few over the years as well, whenever I see some cheap copies. With me it's been mostly from the late 60s and early 70s, though the first issue I ever actually bought and read when it was new on the stands was from 1973, I believe - the one with with the Cannon parody featured on the cover.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 27, 2021 23:09:27 GMT -5
I had damn near every issue of Mad from 1972-78. But they were all bought at garage/yard sales.
I've been picking up a few over the years as well, whenever I see some cheap copies. With me it's been mostly from the late 60s and early 70s, though the first issue I ever actually bought and read when it was new on the stands was from 1973, I believe - the one with with the Cannon parody featured on the cover.
My paternal Grandmother was a nut for yard sales. She and another widow lady would start planning their route on Wednesday for the Friday and Saturday sales. She’d buy SF novels for my Uncle that he passed on to me. She’d buy any comics that were a nickel or a dime. I got all superhero, SF/fantasy comics and Mad/Cracked magazines. All the Archie, Harvey and Gold Key comics went in the toy closet for the younger cousins. The Mad’s were always the prize, though I did get the Neal Adams issue of Conan from a yard sale. |
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Post by dbutler69 on Aug 28, 2021 5:51:54 GMT -5
My thinking is that I'm choosing these based on what I'd want now. I wasn't alive in 1961, anyway. There's no wrong answer, though. With that thought, I would be coming up with ways of having MUCH MORE than 50 cents to spend on comics. Selling my school lunch rather than eating it. Tutoring the jocks for keeping their grades up to remain on school sports teams. Yard work for any and every neighbor I could convince. Donate plasma. Whatever it takes LOL There is so much to from mediocre to great that 50 cents just won't cut it. Like Pokemon, gotta have them all hehehe Sorry, kid. 50 cents is all you get. This wouldn't be fun if it was too easy.  |
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Post by dbutler69 on Sept 2, 2021 8:07:38 GMT -5
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Post by tonebone on Sept 2, 2021 8:10:50 GMT -5
Oh my gosh.. this thread is giving me math nightmares. I have always been really bad at math, and as a kid, nothing was more daunting than standing at the spinner rack in the drug store, trying to figure out how many $.35 comics I can buy for $11. I sweat just thinking about it.
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Post by dbutler69 on Sept 2, 2021 8:11:58 GMT -5
Here's what I'm buying:
Adventure Comics #290 (10 cents. Legion of Super-Heroes! I'm all over that!)
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan #12 (15 cents)
Lone Ranger #142 (15 cents)
Archie's Pal Jughead #78 (10 cents)
Dell has some interesting looking books, but 15 cents each! You guys are killin' me!
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Post by dbutler69 on Sept 2, 2021 8:12:53 GMT -5
Oh my gosh.. this thread is giving me math nightmares. I have always been really bad at math, and as a kid, nothing was more daunting than standing at the spinner rack in the drug store, trying to figure out how many $.35 comics I can buy for $11. I sweat just thinking about it. Just grab a bunch and let the shopkeeper tell you how many you have to put back. |
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Post by MDG on Sept 2, 2021 9:05:35 GMT -5
I only would've been 2 at the time, so I'm going by what I probably would've bought when I started looking at comics a few years later when I was 7 or so. Probably would've gone with:
Action Comics #282
Archie's Madhouse #16
Archie's Pal Jughead #78
Flash #124
Superman #149
I like to think I'd've picked up that Little Lulu Halloween Special, but I'd've probably dismissed it as "girl stuff."
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 2, 2021 9:32:54 GMT -5
Mad Magazine 67. Mad is an expensive mistress.
Uncle Scrooge #36. !5 cents is rough, but...Magica De Spell.
And probably Flash #124. But then I'd be second guessing myself when Fantastic Four #2 came out at the end of the month and I was out of money.
No money for sci-fi mags or paperbacks this month. Sigh. I need to get a job. I'm still trying to save up money for that Heinlein paperback, Stranger in a Strange Land.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 2, 2021 9:37:10 GMT -5
Dell has some interesting looking books, but 15 cents each! You guys are killin' me! That price point is rough when everything else is a dime. Archie's Madhouse #16 I like to think I'd've picked up that Little Lulu Halloween Special, but I'd've probably dismissed it as "girl stuff." Madhouse is one of those books that always looks tempting. I'd have thought it was "girl stuff" at the time. And in retrospect it's post Stanley so it's a ways down on the list. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2021 9:54:48 GMT -5
Going with what would have seemed cool to me when I was allowance age...
Flash #124
Green Lantern #9
Lone Ranger #142 (15 cents)
Mystery in Space #71
with 5 cents for candy or trading cards.
-M
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Post by tartanphantom on Sept 2, 2021 10:01:02 GMT -5
More tough choices this week... but my atomic-age monster-kid self chooses these--
Again, there were books that I really wanted but had to pass up... especially that swell Turok book and that Tales to Astonish #27... maybe I'll be able to swap with friends for those... or pick up enough pop bottles to return for the deposit... but since I can't afford them today, they'll just have to wait.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 2, 2021 10:08:17 GMT -5
More tough choices this week... but my atomic-age monster-kid self chooses these--
I have to assume that Sea Devils was standard Silver Age DC fare (I'm not a big fan). But wash covers by Heath and Adler are gorgeous. |
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Post by Rob Allen on Sept 2, 2021 12:50:20 GMT -5
I'm answering these based on which ones I wish I owned now. Guessing what I would have chosen at age six is too uncertain.
Amazing Adult Fantasy #8 (Ditko)
Fantastic Four #2 (Kirby)
Mystery in Space #71 (Adam Strange by Infantino)
Showcase #35 (second appearance of the Ray Palmer Atom by Kane & Anderson)
Tales to Astonish #27 (debut of Henry Pym by Kirby)
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Post by Graphic Autist on Sept 2, 2021 14:02:46 GMT -5
Going by what I liked when I was 6, and the covers which would have dictated my choice at that age:
Adventure Comics #290
Detective Comics #297
Flash #124
Green Lantern #9
Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #29
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