Comic Book Collecting

[horrorhunter]

Nice run of the Surfer,  Horrorhunter. Loved the Sinister House cover too!
RF

Thanks, Rex fury.

Hopefully more people will post pics of their books for us to enjoy. Discussion is great but a little eye-candy never hurts.

[marsattacks666]

The first six issues of my Silver Surfer run:





I bought Silver Surfer #s 9 and 12 off the spinner rack when I was a kid and have been a Surfer fan since. I finished the run in the late '70s and '80s. They were relatively expensive back then but now they're getting hard to afford, and issues 1, 3 (1st Mephisto), and 4 (classic Thor cover), are hitting crazy prices. My favorite issue is #12 with the Abomination which I upgraded recently from G/VG up to FN+. Hard to beat the John Buscema art on books from the late Silver and early Bronze Ages. I think Buscema equaled Kirby when it came to depicting superhero battles and action in general, and "Big" John's anatomy was better than the "King's" IMO. In the late '70s I used "Silver Surfer" as my CB handle when I went through that fad. I got tired of the CB thing pretty quick, but I'll always love the Surfer.

Awesomeness.

[horrorhunter]

My Gold Key Space Ghost #1 (1-shot):



This copy is in VG (4.0) but I'm just glad to have a decent copy as expensive as this book has gotten. I believe that's the arrival date in ink at the top. It's the numbers 61220. Since this issue hit the spinner racks in December 1966 it looks like the seller who dated the book's arrival used the "6" to abbreviate for the year, and the 12 20 for December 20th. It's a little vague but things were pretty slipshod back then regarding comic book selling- it was a 12 cent disposable entertainment item so most folks didn't care, except the kids of course. Man, how things have changed. Also, it looks like someone later tried to rub out the inked date and aborted the effort when they realized the color on the comic was being affected. I love stuff like this. Some collectors just treat it as a defect, I treat it as history which adds to the character of that copy. I grew up watching the Hanna-Barbera Super Heroes in the late '60s with Space Ghost, Herculoids, and Mightor being my favorites, but I also liked Frankenstein Jr, Shazzan, Galaxy Trio, and the rest. Sure they're cheezy but to their fans that just adds to their charm. It's a piece of Monsterkid history we can enjoy till we expire.

[Hepcat]

While I resisted actually buying any more comics late in 1963 and early in 1964, I continued to peruse them on newsstands.

I couldn't resist buying Green Lantern 28 (in early 1964). When I discovered the stack of comics my mother and sister had concealed from me inside the couch a few weeks later, I was back to collecting DC superhero comics big time!

The Rocky and His Friends cartoon show was at the time being telecast after school at least a couple of times per week on my local station CFPL-TV. I watched it regularly and Rocky and Bullwinkle remain among my very favourite cartoon characters. 

While I never bought any of their comics as a kid, I collect them now. Here are scans of my comics featuring Rocky and Bullwinkle. First the Dells headlining Rocky:















Here now are two Dell comics in which Bullwinkle gets top billing:







And here are three Gold Keys:


1



2



3

[marsattacks666]

Beware #1(1973) Marvel Comics Group

[horrorhunter]

The Rocky and His Friends cartoon show was at the time being telecast after school at least a couple of times per week on my local station CFPL-TV. I watched it regularly and Rocky and Bullwinkle remain among my very favourite cartoon characters. 

While I never bought any of their comics as a kid, I collect them now.

Great Rocky & Bullwinkle comics!

I bought this complete Adventures Of Rocky And Bullwinkle And Friends DVD box set from Amazon a few months ago. All 5 seasons are included w/many special features and it's a great value for the price, less than 50 bucks including the dreaded sales tax. You can see some of the episodes on You Tube but the ads drive you nuts. Better to just enjoy the shows on disc along with the special features.





I still watch my favorite cartoons on Saturday mornings, only I watch them on DVD these days. Bullwinkle, Underdog, Jonny Quest, Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Herculoids, Milton The Monster, Thundarr The Barbarian, Groovy Goolies, King Kong Show, Space Ghost, Wacky Races, etc. Saturday morning cartoons will never die at my house.

[Mike Scott]

I bought this complete Adventures Of Rocky And Bullwinkle . . . less than 50 bucks

I bought the seasons, individually, when the first came out and I know I paid more than 10 bucks each!

[horrorhunter]

I bought the seasons, individually, when the first came out and I know I paid more than 10 bucks each!

I bought the 1st season when it came out years ago and it seems like it was nearly as expensive as all 5 seasons in this set. For serious DVD collectors the older releases will probably have greater collectible value...so there's that. I'm more of a casual DVD collector. I just want to have the shows available to watch mainly, and a few special features are always welcome.

[Mike Scott]

I bought the 1st season when it came out years ago and it seems like it was nearly as expensive as all 5 seasons in this set.

I know I didn't pay 50 bucks for one season! 

[Hepcat]

I still watch my favorite cartoons on Saturday mornings, only I watch them on DVD these days. Bullwinkle, Underdog, Jonny Quest, Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Herculoids, Milton The Monster, Thundarr The Barbarian, Groovy Goolies, King Kong Show, Space Ghost, Wacky Races, etc. Saturday morning cartoons will never die at my house.

Here are my top ten cartoon characters in rough order:

1. Uncle Remus' Brer Rabbit





2. Fox and the Crow



3. Rocky and Bullwinkle



4. MGM's Droopy, the Wolf and the Girl(Red)







5. Deputy Dawg



6. Herman and Katnip



7. Goofy



8. Heckle and Jeckle



9. Felix the Cat



10. Beany and Cecil

[horrorhunter]

5. Deputy Dawg

I'm a big Deputy Dawg fan as well. Back in the '90s one Deputy Dawg cartoon ran daily as part of some kid's show hosted by a clown on a cable channel (might have been WGN). Anyway, I religiously taped that one DD cartoon every day and accumulated a tape full of them. Some years later I copied the tape to DVD and still enjoy watching those. Vincent van Gopher is my favorite DD character. 

[horrorhunter]

1-6 of my Tomb Of Dracula run:





TOD is prime Bronze Age Horror. When I started collecting comics in 1975 I started buying many titles off the spinner racks when they first came out. Tomb Of Dracula was a favorite and the one I usually read first. Over the next few years I gradually bought the back issues and finished the 70 issue run in the 1980s. I remember buying that 1st issue from a dealer's long box at a small con for $5. It's a really nice copy and I'm glad to have it. The Neal Adams cover is very striking. Strangely, the reflection in the Mylar bag it's in almost looks like it says "$5"...weird. A ghost from the past.

[John Pertwee]

Tomb of Dracula is my favorite comic series. Some guy named Neal Adams scribbled all over my extra copy of #1

[horrorhunter]

7-12 from my Surfer run:





Classic series. The writing is a little melodramatic, but that was just Stan making comic book history. When I read a couple of these as a kid it was pretty powerful stuff. And, even now, it's a fun read. The John Buscema art is literally awesome. Buscema's Abomination lives up to the term "monster" in spades, and his Mephisto is the coolest Devil you'll see in a comic book. Damn cool. 

[horrorhunter]

Want to read Charlton's Gorgo #s 1 and 2? Check out Monster Magazine World: https://monstermagazineworld.blogspot.com/?zx=d1a73d803e5b9e9b

Both issues are posted there with later issues coming soon.



It's a good time to be a comic book fan...er, except for the high back issue prices.