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| Picturesque Randy with two interesting samples of his impressive Silver and Golden Age comic inventory: Thun'da King of the Congo #5, 1953. Cover artist is unknown but all the stories are drawn by noted Golden and Silver Age artist Bob Powell. One of the stories is written by DC Comics top writer Gardner Fox. Also Space Squadron #2, 1951. This is an Atlas (Marvel) comic but without the Atlas Globe logo on the cover. Marvel Silver Age artist Werner Roth drew the cover and most of the stories. Atlas's top artist Joe Maneely drew one of the stories. |
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| I had just seen Sam Finley a few weeks ago at the Captains Comics Expo in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. At that show Sam outbid all the other dealers in the room for a a copy of Fantastic Four #1 that was being offered for a sale. I asked Sam at this South Carolina Con if the book had come back graded from CGC yet and he said he hadn't got it back yet but the CGC people told him the grade would be a 3.5. That means Sam will probably triple what he paid for the book. |
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| Sam with two Marvel Silver Age comics: Dardevil #8, 1965 with cover art by the legendary 1950s EC artist and briefly 1960s Marvel artist Wally Wood. Wood only drew a few early Daredevil issues but they are fondly remembered. The Tales Of Suspense #59, 1964 marks the debut of Captain America as the second feature in that title, replacing the five page fantasy stories that previously had followed the lead Iron Man story. Several years later in 1968 the title changed from Tales Of Suspense to Captain America and Cap took over the entire book. This new Captain America title was #100 since it kept the old Tales Of Suspense numbering. Iron Man got his own book at the same time starting with a fresh #1. |
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| Jimmy Shirah a.k.a. "Mr. Weekend" with his large selection of popular culture movie posters. Let's take a closer look at Jimmy's 2001: A Space Odyssey movie poster. |
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| I saw 2001 in the theater in Birmingham, AL when it was first released in 1968. I had read the novel by Arthur C. Clarke about a year before that. Audiences and movie critics found the movie to be perplexing but the novel explains everything clearly. For more photos and commentary on 2001 being shown at the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgic Con a few years ago click here. |
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| I've been seeing a lot of Richard Morgan lately. I saw him last February at the Captains Comic Expo in Mt. Pleasant, SC and I'll see him again soon at the Fayetteville Comic Con, NC in late April. Richard is promoting his first show, the Upstate POP Expo in Greenville, SC later this year and I'm thinking about going. |
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| Richard with one of his several pieces of original art from the Spider-Man newspaper strip that ran many years ago. The strip was written by Stan Lee and drawn by his brother Larry Lieber. |
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| Veteran dealer and collector David Burns with three issues of the 1950s Atlas title Marvel Tales. I have always been intrigued by the #134 with the flying saucer cover and may have to breakdown and buy it someday. I still live in the fading hope that Marvel will begin reprinting in hardcover volumes Marvel Tales and some of their other Atlas titles but it does not seem likely. |
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| Arex Crooke is a dealer I had never met before but his nice selection of Atlas comics caught my eye. Unlike most Atlas comics that featured mostly horror stories, Journey Into Unknown Worlds seemed to lean a little more toward science fiction. |
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| Greg and Chad of Buzzard Brothers Comics were two more dealers I had never met before. |
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| Chad with two samples of comic books with covers illustrated by the famous Alex Schomburg. The Timely (Marvel) Captain America Comics #37, 1944 is a typical example of the Timely covers drawn by Schomburg in the 1940s - very detailed and complex scenes full of kinetic violence. Startling Comics #49, 1948 with its famous robot cover shows a different style Schomburg used on his many science fiction pulp and digest magazine covers he drew in the late 1940s and through the 1950s - more sedate less detailed art done with an airbrush instead of a pencil. |
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| Chris Hibbs of They Call Me Mr. Hibbs is a dealer I always see at this show but nowhere else that I can remember. He always has a nice selection of Silver Age comics. |
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| Chris with a CBCS graded copy of The X-Men #13, 1965 with the second appearance of the popular villain the Juggernaut who was a stepbrother to the X-Men's leader, Professor X. Chris also had two copies of the Warren Publishing magazine Creepy #1, 1964. The ungraded copy is on his wall behind him. I have a pretty good collection of Creepy and Eeerie original magazines and the Dark Horse hardcover reprints of the early issues when most of the art was done by the EC artists with Neal Adams and Steve Ditko sometimes thrown in for good measure. I lost interest in these magazines when the magazines were taken over by the Spanish and Filipino artists whose styles all looked the same to me. |
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| Chris with two copies of the Atlas comic Mystery Tales. These issues are from the late 1950s and carry the Comics Code Authority seal. The Code drained away all the explicit horror and gore shown on the covers of the pre-Code Atlas and other horror comics. The "Sinnott" noted on the cover of Mystery Tales #36 is artist Joe Sinnott who drew many stories for Atlas in the 1950s. In the 1960s Sinnott worked at Marvel mostly as an inker. Many Marvel fans considered Sinnott to be the best of the many inkers who embellished Marvel's top artist Jack Kirby and the long run of the The Fantastic Four issues in the late 1960s drawn by Kirby and inked by Sinnott is fondly remembered today. |
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