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BobS:
1) Back in the mid-1960s I found X-Men 1-6 in 3 for a quarter comic packs at 7/11.
2) Back in the mid-1960s I traded a DC war comic to a classmate of my brother for Showcase 4.
3) I bought the ME Ghost Rider issue with Frazetta cover and other very nice / very nice condition early 1950s high demand comics for $1 each in the early '70s.
4) I bought Brave & Bold 28, 29, Showcase 25, 26, Flash 105, Green Lantern 1 and the 1st Showcase Green Lantern issue, etc. off the newstand, 10 cent each.
5) Back in my home town of Hopewell VA, in the mid 1960s I used to frequently see a particular older kid at the newstand buying all the super hero comics. I had hopes that he'd quit collecting and somehow I'd get his collection. Circa 1970, I met and became friends with a younger hometown comic collector and he told me that the older collector gave his entire collection to another kid who was selling the comics for 10 each. From those 2 guys, I got all the early JLA issues in excellent condition, also one Flash Showcase, all Challengers Showcase issues, Adam Strange Showcase, Space Ranger Showcase, and 100s of other 1950s - mid-1960s DC and Marvel comics.
6) I bought the 1st Space Adventures Captain Atom and several others off the newstand, 10 cents each. (I became a Ditko fan way back then.)
7) A older comic collector friend, with who I had traded comics circa 1960, gave me his collection including early Magnus Robot Fighter issues I didn't have.
8) A schoolteacher neighbor gave me the Cocomalt Buck Rogers BLB and a couple other BLBs -- all were in fantastic condition.
9) I have found several copies of the 1940s Barnaby hardback, cheap (50 cents maybe) at used book stores.
10) One of my uncles gave me a stack of (mostly) Dell westerns circa 1960. (Unfortunately, I was into Superman, Batman, Blackhawks, and other DC superheroes back then and I don't know what happened to the westerns.)
11) Circa mid-1960s. I bought a bunch of Golden Age comics for 50 cents to a dollar from a RB/CC ad. Among the comics I got were a half dozen or so early 1950s Captain Marvel, a mid-run Jumbo Comics, etc.
12) At a local con, early 1970s, I bought Marvel original art pages for 10 dollars per page, including a Kirby JIM (non-Thor) page, a Joe Sinnott JIM Thor page, and a non-superhero 'Ditko' page. (I'm less than satisfied with the 'Ditko' page -- it looks like Roussos inked it or maybe ghosted it entirely.)
13) At a local con, early 1970s, I bought a page of Kirby-Coletta (with Superman face by Murphy Anderson) Jimmy Olsen original art for 25 dollars.

narfstar:
So do you still have the books Bob or like many of us let them go somewhere along the way?

BobS:

--- Quote from: narfstar on April 21, 2011, 04:35:05 AM ---So do you still have the books Bob or like many of us let them go somewhere along the way?

--- End quote ---

I have most of them as scans.

I sold most of the early Silver Age DC comics and bought my first PC.
I sold most of my Golden Age comics (many Police Comics and a few other Quality comics, early Batman including #6, 16, and 19, a few Flash Comics, Green Lantern, and All-American Comics, some WDC&S and Uncle Scrooge, etc.) to a friend after he took me to a topless bar and plied me with beer -- a couple beers is all it takes for me. <grin>
I sold my Showcase 4 (vg condition) at a local con circa 1980, for $125 and 5 or 10 Golden Age DC comics in partial trade.
I still have 2  copies of the 1940s Barnaby hardback. Are you a Barnaby fan too, Narf?
I still have all the 10 cent Space Adventures with Captain Atom, and most of the 12 cent Charlton 'action heroes' comics edited by Dick Giordano.
I still have my complete Gold Key Russ Manning Magnus Robot Fighter comics and about half the Dell and Gold Key Tarzans.
I still have a small collection of original art including the Kirby, Sinnott, and Ditko(?)/Roussos(?) pages -- and a Nick Cardy Aquaman page, a Sal Buscema Human Torch - Spiderman teamup page, a Boris magic marker sketch of a Conanesque barbarian, a Marie Severin Dr. Strange page,  a Sekowsky/Roussos Metal Men page, an Archie's Madhouse complete Capt. Sprocket story, a large page of C.C. Beck drawings that he did for FCA/SOB fanzine on the Mr. Mind serial, maybe 30 pieces of original comic strip art, and original drawings by Biljo White, Ronn Foss, Alan Hanley, Grass Green, and other fan artists, approx. 100 cels and corresponding pencil drawings from a Shamus Culhane Noah's Ark cartoon from the 1970s, a VIP panel cartoon (I became a VIP fan reading the panel cartoons in my dad's True magazines circa 1960), a Whitney Darrow New Yorker panel cartoon (not ABSOLUTELY POSITIVE that it is an original), a Jack Gauguin (Ace sf paperbacks artist) sketch, a Kelly Freas drawing of a woman with a big butt (he didn't like it and tried to persuade me into buying a different drawing instead -- but I liked it), a sketch by Andy Warhol's nephew in a children's book (Bubba the Cowboy Prince) he (James Warhola) illustrated. Etc.
I think I have the Buck Rogers Cocomalt BLB, and a Kayo (from Moon Mullins) Cocomalt BLB the school teacher also gave me. I also have a nice Tarzan BLB, and maybe a dozen or so other 1930s and 1940s BLBs, a few of 'em incomplete.
I still have a couple boxes of 1960s fanzines, a few more boxes of graphic novels, etc.
I still have a few Golden age comics, mostly coverless, or centerfold missing. I have a damaged GA Green Lantern 10. I have a very few $100 range Superman, Batman, World's Finest, etc.
I have a Buccaneers Sylvania TV giveaway comic (actually it supposedly cost 10 cents even tho it has a paper cover and is only 16 pages), which I'd scan and post, only I'd scan it as nom 'Free Palestine' and I'm not allowed to mention such here there and elsewhere, so I'm not motivated to scan it.  I also have a circa 1960 Buccaneers BLB, which I got back then when I was in the hospital with a swollen gland in my neck (caused by abscessed tooth, only the docs thought I had leukemia). I also got the larger Disney Zorro book while I was in the hospital then -- still have it and I really liked the story.
And blah blah blah... I tend to digress endlessly.

Thanks for replying to my post, Narf!

Best,
Bob the political Tourette Syndrome disorderly

PS. I also have a 1930s(?) Skippy giveaway semi-comic book (its mostly text with drawings rather than panels), a 1950s (?) Jewish Bible stories comic book (panels with text rather than word balloons) and probably a few other old comic book oddities I could scan for here but you folks have been so INCREDIBLY INIMICABLE to me due to my politics that I'm not motivated to scan and share 'em.

(I've scanned a couple old 'Tijuana bibles' but haven't posted 'em because of the ANIMOSITY displayed to me by someone here who BANNED me from another scanned comics site, where I would have posted links to them. I also have some 1960s-early 1970s unscanned 'underground' comix that I could scan.... Bud Plant/JVJ's Promethean Enterprises SHOULD be scanned. I have issue #5.)

Yoc:
Knock it off Bob.
Play nice or you will be banned.
Fair warning.

narfstar:
Promethean is copyright Bob so should not be scanned and distributed. The same for most of the other undergrounds. 1960's fanzines without copyright are fair game but it would be courtesy to ask the original publisher, if they can be located, for permission.

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