I've meant to bring this subject up for a while , and then , yesterday , I bought ten mostly 80s , mostly sealed , store stock level , comics for $6.99 at a Goodwill store here in SF's Mission District - one of them ( not bagged and maybe just mildly less NM ) a 40c-period Frank Miller DAREDEVIL , so...........:-)
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I always remember the first comics my parents (probably my mother) ever bought my brother and me were from a rack in the coffee shop aboard the Chesapeake Bay Ferry boat. (They don't still have that since the bridge was built,m do they?)
Later, my 1st-ever Superman comic (an issue of ACTION COMICS), she got me from a rack in the coffee shop at Philadelphia International Airport.
I also recall getting an issue of DENNIS THE MENACE from a rack in Woolworth's. I actually saw the 2nd appearance of Deadman that day, but somehow we went with the "funny" book instead. Probably the right choice, several complete stories vs. one chapter in the middle of a long-running serial that never quite concluded properly anyway.
...By " sealed " I meant " bagged " tho I presume most folks here guessed/realized that .
While the fact of one of the comics being a particularly desireable - I would assume ! - name title/creator from " long ( -er ) ago " seemed to provide a nice narrative hook for this , I don't want this to be seen as just an invitation to trade " fishing stories " .
( Oh dear , this is perhaps getting sort of OT , but:-(.........)
Many years ago , GOLDMINE record-collectors' magazine used to have a " Great Finds I Made At Church Bazarrs/Garage Sales/Whatever " ( No , that wasn't the column's literal name ! ) coumn , of " finding rare/obscure/desireable records in sweet shape " at , well , what was my capsulization of the column above ?
I thought that it was possible that one should apply at least a grain of NaCl to such stories , cynical me...
...Anyhow , Henry , you've gotten off onto another subject I've long meant to post about , that being " What was my first - hero-type , anyway - funnybook ????????? " !!
My first such , I'm glad to have confirmed , was SUPERMAN #186 , " The Two Ghosts Of Superman " , with 80-Page Giant #187 having come later !!
Whew - That's a relief . I had thought for a while that my conventional narrative was wrong , and the all-Fortress Giant was first !
It was a consolation prize , along with an ice cream sundae , from my father to me when a Mamaroneck , NY , shopping center theater showing of " The Ugly Daschund " with Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette proved filled out ! Thanks , Dad . :-)
I am a genuine Go-Go Checks baby , by the way ( which may , to others , explain a lot about my comics tastes ) - :-) .
I still remember how naked the first DCs I saw without them were:-(...
...In that first year , 1966 , of comics-buying , I worked with a 50c a week allowance , allowing me 4 units of funnybook per week , a 25c-er comprising two , of course .
In my memory , there's some standards I latched upon early , others I maybe tried once and dropped - or disappeared !
For many years , I was puzzled by issue listings showiing that Harvey's MUTT AND JEFF comic book ended in 1965 - How could that be ? I KNOW I didn't buy any comic books before " The Bat-Year " , and I , furthermore , ULTRA-distinctly remembered the circumstances under which I bought that M&J funnybook , sort of dragging us back to the title here's intended meaning - In a little deli/knick-knack/whatever store in Cape May , New Jersey , near the beach , when we were on a trip there ! How could that be ?
Well , I guess little knick-knack/whatever stores in Cape May , new Jersey , or at least this one , didn't update their stock too assiduously - Yup , the listed last ish of M&J is that one that I bought back when !!!!!
THe M&J syndicated comic strip was carried in the Westchester County , New York , daily paper we had home-delivered which wasn't published Sundays .
Sundays , my family bought the (famously comics-free , of course) New York Times and an additional , " lighter " newspaper - which changed , perhaps in the course of less than a year , from the Hearst-owned ( My father had worked at a Hearst newspaper in San Antonio , Texas before landing in broadcast journalism . ) " New York Journal-American " , followed by it merging into the " New York World Journal Tribune " followed by it going out of business entire...( The day of the last Sunday we bought a copy and he put it in a trunk but I never could find it ever again . )...........
...So , our Sunday-newspaper-with-comics custom changed to the " New York Sunday News " --- I think that it may have picked up non-Tribune-News Syndicate strips BLONDIE and LIL' ABNER among the way , which probably helped - and it was the only NYC Sunday newspaper that carried comics left !!!!!!!!!!!
( The - pre-Murdoch then - " New York Post " backed away from direct Sunday edition competition by publishing a " Weekend Edition " on Saturday - with their relativly few comics' Sundays in black and white , and no Saturdays of those titles . Probably a good idea competition/" counter-programming "-wise in general , but...)
...I remember buying one issue of the King Comics BLONDIE title .
Okay , I suppose , but , perhaps getting the " real " version for free - for me - in our newspapers purchases were (??) enough .
One other strip spin-off I DID buy was Fawcett's DENNIS THE MENACE , me too , Henry...The Westchester paper carried the panel ( I don't believe I saw its Sunday strip . ) , and I got some of the 50c Signet paperbacks too !
( Oh , BTW , #148 was the last Harvey/ish-in-general of MUTT AND JEFF...)
...Let me add that , if you really want full-out Internet egotism/" Look at me !!!!! "............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
......................................................................................................( I'm trying to keep these facts out of the front page's right side columm however )...I list ALL of the Goodwull comics - AND MORE ! - as Walter Lilly , from San Fran , at Facebook...The Big Man here has received it already , and a very happy natal day to ye , Captain...
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I always remember the first comics my parents (probably my mother) ever bought my brother and me were from a rack in the coffee shop aboard the Chesapeake Bay Ferry boat. (They don't still have that since the bridge was built,m do they?)
Later, my 1st-ever Superman comic (an issue of ACTION COMICS), she got me from a rack in the coffee shop at Philadelphia International Airport.
I also recall getting an issue of DENNIS THE MENACE from a rack in Woolworth's. I actually saw the 2nd appearance of Deadman that day, but somehow we went with the "funny" book instead. Probably the right choice, several complete stories vs. one chapter in the middle of a long-running serial that never quite concluded properly anyway.
...By " sealed " I meant " bagged " tho I presume most folks here guessed/realized that .
While the fact of one of the comics being a particularly desireable - I would assume ! - name title/creator from " long ( -er ) ago " seemed to provide a nice narrative hook for this , I don't want this to be seen as just an invitation to trade " fishing stories " .
( Oh dear , this is perhaps getting sort of OT , but:-(.........)
Many years ago , GOLDMINE record-collectors' magazine used to have a " Great Finds I Made At Church Bazarrs/Garage Sales/Whatever " ( No , that wasn't the column's literal name ! ) coumn , of " finding rare/obscure/desireable records in sweet shape " at , well , what was my capsulization of the column above ?
I thought that it was possible that one should apply at least a grain of NaCl to such stories , cynical me...
...Anyhow , Henry , you've gotten off onto another subject I've long meant to post about , that being " What was my first - hero-type , anyway - funnybook ????????? " !!
My first such , I'm glad to have confirmed , was SUPERMAN #186 , " The Two Ghosts Of Superman " , with 80-Page Giant #187 having come later !!
Whew - That's a relief . I had thought for a while that my conventional narrative was wrong , and the all-Fortress Giant was first !
It was a consolation prize , along with an ice cream sundae , from my father to me when a Mamaroneck , NY , shopping center theater showing of " The Ugly Daschund " with Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette proved filled out ! Thanks , Dad . :-)
I am a genuine Go-Go Checks baby , by the way ( which may , to others , explain a lot about my comics tastes ) - :-) .
I still remember how naked the first DCs I saw without them were:-(...
...In that first year , 1966 , of comics-buying , I worked with a 50c a week allowance , allowing me 4 units of funnybook per week , a 25c-er comprising two , of course .
In my memory , there's some standards I latched upon early , others I maybe tried once and dropped - or disappeared !
For many years , I was puzzled by issue listings showiing that Harvey's MUTT AND JEFF comic book ended in 1965 - How could that be ? I KNOW I didn't buy any comic books before " The Bat-Year " , and I , furthermore , ULTRA-distinctly remembered the circumstances under which I bought that M&J funnybook , sort of dragging us back to the title here's intended meaning - In a little deli/knick-knack/whatever store in Cape May , New Jersey , near the beach , when we were on a trip there ! How could that be ?
Well , I guess little knick-knack/whatever stores in Cape May , new Jersey , or at least this one , didn't update their stock too assiduously - Yup , the listed last ish of M&J is that one that I bought back when !!!!!
THe M&J syndicated comic strip was carried in the Westchester County , New York , daily paper we had home-delivered which wasn't published Sundays .
Sundays , my family bought the (famously comics-free , of course) New York Times and an additional , " lighter " newspaper - which changed , perhaps in the course of less than a year , from the Hearst-owned ( My father had worked at a Hearst newspaper in San Antonio , Texas before landing in broadcast journalism . ) " New York Journal-American " , followed by it merging into the " New York World Journal Tribune " followed by it going out of business entire...( The day of the last Sunday we bought a copy and he put it in a trunk but I never could find it ever again . )...........
...So , our Sunday-newspaper-with-comics custom changed to the " New York Sunday News " --- I think that it may have picked up non-Tribune-News Syndicate strips BLONDIE and LIL' ABNER among the way , which probably helped - and it was the only NYC Sunday newspaper that carried comics left !!!!!!!!!!!
( The - pre-Murdoch then - " New York Post " backed away from direct Sunday edition competition by publishing a " Weekend Edition " on Saturday - with their relativly few comics' Sundays in black and white , and no Saturdays of those titles . Probably a good idea competition/" counter-programming "-wise in general , but...)
...I remember buying one issue of the King Comics BLONDIE title .
Okay , I suppose , but , perhaps getting the " real " version for free - for me - in our newspapers purchases were (??) enough .
One other strip spin-off I DID buy was Fawcett's DENNIS THE MENACE , me too , Henry...The Westchester paper carried the panel ( I don't believe I saw its Sunday strip . ) , and I got some of the 50c Signet paperbacks too !
( Oh , BTW , #148 was the last Harvey/ish-in-general of MUTT AND JEFF...)
...Let me add that , if you really want full-out Internet egotism/" Look at me !!!!! "............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
......................................................................................................( I'm trying to keep these facts out of the front page's right side columm however )...I list ALL of the Goodwull comics - AND MORE ! - as Walter Lilly , from San Fran , at Facebook...The Big Man here has received it already , and a very happy natal day to ye , Captain...
...I bought UNCANNY X-MEN #541 to-day in a Walgreens' - and liked it , actually ??!!??!!!!! When is it ending ?????????
I'll fold a planned post on newsstand places and an earlier desription I made of buying Marvels on sale at that same Walgreens' into this line...