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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 7, 2016 13:14:43 GMT -5
My sympathies and congratulations, Farrar, for growing up in an un-comicy home, but managing to outwit your mom. Love that trick with the Archies and Harveys!
Wish I'd thought of something similar when my mother not only threw out my comics (1963- June, 1968), but tore each one in half as I watched.
The next day I began working on the collection I've assembled since.
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Post by Red Oak Kid on Mar 8, 2016 10:15:05 GMT -5
The only comics I actually own from March 1966 are Adventure #344 (first part of the Super-Stalag of Space tale--great story!) and a rather tattered copy of Avengers #28. I remember buying Adventure 345 and being disappointed that it was the second half of a continued story. I think it was the first time I had seen a two part story in a DC comic.  Want to trade?  |
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Post by Farrar on Mar 8, 2016 21:56:54 GMT -5
The only comics I actually own from March 1966 are Adventure #344 (first part of the Super-Stalag of Space tale--great story!) and a rather tattered copy of Avengers #28. I remember buying Adventure 345 and being disappointed that it was the second half of a continued story. I think it was the first time I had seen a two part story in a DC comic. Want to trade? Oh, sorry ROK, I already have #345 -- what a great cover!--as we'll see next month when we review April 1966...  And actually, fwiw I read #345 (which I bought a few years ago) well before #344 (just bought it about a year ago). So it's like I read the story backwards! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2016 22:08:51 GMT -5
All I read back when I was 7 years old was Action Comics, Fantastic Four, Avengers, and the Justice League of America.
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Post by Farrar on Mar 8, 2016 22:08:56 GMT -5
... Wish I'd thought of something similar when my mother not only threw out my comics (1963- June, 1968), but tore each one in half as I watched. The next day I began working on the collection I've assembled since. OMG, that's awful. I got off lucky. Glad you continued buying after that. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 8, 2016 22:14:34 GMT -5
... Wish I'd thought of something similar when my mother not only threw out my comics (1963- June, 1968), but tore each one in half as I watched. The next day I began working on the collection I've assembled since. OMG, that's awful. I got off lucky. Glad you continued buying after that. Never stopped. |
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Post by Farrar on Mar 8, 2016 22:46:26 GMT -5
OMG, that's awful. I got off lucky. Glad you continued buying after that. Never stopped. I think I would have been utterly traumatized by seeing them torn in half and maybe I would have stopped buying for a while--okay, maybe a day or two. Or found new places to hide my stash, I guess. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 8, 2016 23:16:44 GMT -5
I think I would have been utterly traumatized by seeing them torn in half and maybe I would have stopped buying for a while--okay, maybe a day or two. Or found new places to hide my stash, I guess. Anger will out, I guess. |
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Post by Red Oak Kid on Mar 9, 2016 7:56:02 GMT -5
I was lucky. When I got the collecting bug around age 15, my mom would pick up any comics she found at garage sales for me. I remember coming home from school one day and there were some old comics on the living room table. One of them was the Tales of Suspense with the first appearance of Black Widow. Another was an issue of My Greatest Adventure from the 50s. You can't beat that for service.
I don't have either comic now.
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Post by Action Ace on Apr 1, 2016 19:33:35 GMT -5
It's that time again... APRIL 1966I now own.... Action Comics #338 Adventure Comics #345 Justice League of America #45 Superboy #130 Superman #187 Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #93 World's Finest #158 Own as reprints... Amazing Spider-Man #38 Atom #25 Avengers #29 Batman #181 Brave & the Bold #66 Detective Comics #352 Fantastic Four #52 Flash #162 Green Lantern #45 Hawkman #14 Metal Men #20 Tales of Suspense #79 Tales to Astonish #81 (Hulk only) |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2016 0:39:41 GMT -5
The only comic released this month I own in original format is Judo Master #89.
-M
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Post by Red Oak Kid on Apr 2, 2016 10:04:15 GMT -5
I bought Superboy 130 and Detective 352 that month. I may have bought Superman 187, not sure.
And Adventure 345. My first Legion story. I probably bought this because Superboy was on the cover and Superboy was probably my favorite comic at this time.
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Post by Farrar on Apr 2, 2016 14:57:00 GMT -5
April 1966 was a momentous month for me. The Batman TV show had just premiered a couple of months earlier and I was a huge fan. In April I owned (i.e., my parents bought, since I didn't have an allowance yet) my very first DC! Namely Batman #181:  I was giddy with excitement at owning my first DC, but after reading the actual story, I remember being very disappointed. The interior art seemed primitive and there was very little action in the story, at least compared to the exciting TV show. The comic's plot seemed so insubstantial; the Woody Woodpecker and Harvey Casper and Wendy stories I'd read had more heft. I no longer have this particular comic, but I re-read the story a few years ago in the Showcase volume through adult eyes and I felt the same way. The only comics from April 1966 I currently own are Adventure #345 (second half of the Super-Stalag of Space story--great Swan cover!) and Avengers #29 (Black Widow re-enters Hawkeye's life). I bought both of these a couple of years ago when I got back into comics.   |
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Post by Farrar on Apr 4, 2016 9:51:30 GMT -5
It occurred to me as I wrote my April 1966 post that not only did the Black Widow reappear at Marvel that month (she'd last appeared in a couple of panels in Avengers #16, about a year earlier), but also that the Batman #181 comic featured 3 newly-created villainesses who were similarly insect-arachnid based:  In particular, the Silken Spider reminds me of Natasha as she first appeared back in Tales of Suspense #52:  The 3 "World Public Enemy" Batman villianesses seem to have been created just for this #181 story as foils for Poison Ivy (they wouldn't reappear, in some version or another, until decades later). I wonder though if they were also devised as prototype antagonists for possible use in the Batman TV series. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 4, 2016 10:27:28 GMT -5
April, 1966
I have many of the comics on sale that month, but most I acquired over the years since. For whatever reason, I must not have had much money that month, or else wasn’t getting out to the stores. No memory. Here’s what I did buy off the stands: Batman 181 I’m pretty sure I picked it up because of the cover (YA THINK?), with the shocking split between Batman and Robin, but mostly because of the ravishing new villainess (as they were called in those less enlightened days). Farar, you're spot-on about the precipitous drop between covers and interiors on the Btaman titles back then. Still, Ivy was pretty, pretty hot for 1966! JLA 45  I always had a soft spot for the JLA, but also for Green Arrow, and he was right up front -- though unconscious – and that would have been two good reasons for me to nab this one. I know I was also devouring this beautiful bit of Americana all that month, too. 
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