[DennyWilson]

The first exposure was a copy of Wanted. The World's Most Dangerous Villains #4 that someone gave me, and so I've always had an affinity for Kid Eternity and Alan Scott. Also, some Marvel Family reprints I read in the Shazam! 100 pagers that a friend of the family had for their grandkids.

WANTED was a good idea for a reprint series - You have to give DC credit for trying different things in the early 1970's.

[Jedifish]

The first exposure was a copy of Wanted. The World's Most Dangerous Villains #4 that someone gave me, and so I've always had an affinity for Kid Eternity and Alan Scott. Also, some Marvel Family reprints I read in the Shazam! 100 pagers that a friend of the family had for their grandkids.

WANTED was a good idea for a reprint series - You have to give DC credit for trying different things in the early 1970's.

Yeah, there was some cool stuff in that series. DC really did try to put out a wide variety of genres during the 70's. Some good stuff in there.

[narfstar]

I really enjoyed those DC Wanted comics and still do

[DennyWilson]

WANTED was a great companion to SECRET ORIGINS and the 100-page books.

[darkmark]

Not funny, hombre.  Don't use the Sieg Heil thing in ref to America...we fought those guys.

[Astaldo711]

"Our Country
Right or Wrong
Our country!"

~The Wizard

[skybandit]

Don't use the Sieg Heil thing in ref to America...we fought those guys.

From our present leadership (or lack thereof), one COULD assume we lost...

[bakerman3]

DC had always been good about reprinting their Golden Age stuff in a variety of formats as, back then, DC generally had the best stuff overall.

I think I first encountered the Golden Age DC stories in their 100 page giants as well as the oversized "Tabloid Editions" that they published"

[Astaldo711]

I used to have several of those giant reprint books. I used to take the cover off so it looked like a giant copy of the original. I guess I was Dollman reading those giant books.

[bakerman3]

Yeah, I used to tear off some of the covers and hang them on my wall as posters and would also tear out the centerfold posters on those Tabloids.

[DennyWilson]

ALL-STAR #3 has that great centerfold with the big house ad for the DC/AA comics!

[Poztron]

I think my first exposure to the Golden Age was... paging through old issues of Parents' Magazine that my mother had sitting around in the mid-50s after I learned to read. The magazine ran an annual rating list of comic books (probably inspired by Wertham) that intrigued me no end. By the time I was reading those lists (probably 1957-8 -- 2 to 5 years after the issues were first published), all the "bad" comics were defunct. So they became a kind of Holy Grail of comic books to find.

My second encounter with the Golden Age was when our next door neighbor (an elderly widow) gave me 4 or 5 old comics that had belonged to her (now grown up and moved away) son. These included a Plastic Man and a Blackhawks comic among others. No sooner had I brought these home than my mother confiscated them and put them in the garbage. Jeez! (I searched through the garbage can, but was never able to find them.) This guaranteed that they'd become forever fascinating and sought after.

But my first concrete exposure to a Golden Age comic was my somehow coming upon a coverless copy of an EC Two-Fisted Tales #35 (the Civil War issue) with the heartbreaking "Memphis!" story drawn by Reed Crandall. That story totally inoculized me against the whole genre of romantic/heroic war comics (sorry, Sgt. Rock, et al). Needless to say, all the Mort Weisinger "DC Universe" stories of Superboy, Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane, etc. that were coming out at the time I read this seemed very lightweight by comparison.

[narfstar]

Keep looking Poz, keep looking there is still hope. We will never know what issues those were.

BTW: congrats of full membership Denny I gave you an early reset

[Astaldo711]

I remember the first time I saw Plastic Man. It was that cheesy 80's cartoon. I didn't know it was a comic book at the time. I'm glad I found the real thing.

[Jedifish]

Yeah, the early Plastic Man stuff is really good. Very creative.

[Poztron]

Plastic Man is my favorite superhero, bar none. As with the Spirit, there was a combination of (usually) good art and a wry sense of humor. I cut my teeth on Weisinger's DC superheroes and loved the first few years of Stan Lee's Marvel superhero revival in the '60s, but superheroes were never my favorite genre in comics. Perhaps that's why my favorite publishers were EC and Atlas - they had plenty of everything except super heroes. Hmmm, this gives me an idea for a new topic.

[Astaldo711]

That's why I like Plastic Man. It doesn't take itself too serious but it's not goofy.

[slingsla]

Is Plastic Man PD?  I thought I saw some issues on the site here but always assumed he was owned by DC

[narfstar]

DC owns the trademark of Plasticman as well as the other Quality characters and the Fawcett characters. The GA stories copyrights by these companies were not renewed so the stories are pd

[Poztron]

DC owns the trademark of Plasticman as well as the other Quality characters and the Fawcett characters. The GA stories copyrights by these companies were not renewed so the stories are pd

I guess it is lucky for us that so many comics publishers went under in the 50's and their copyrights were never renewed. I'll bet that loads of DC copyrights were never renewed either, but that company is still in business with a fleet of lawyers so even their stuff that is PD is effectively blocked from being PD in any practical sense.

[narfstar]

Other than some platinum age stuff it looks like DC did renew most everything else

[Astaldo711]

Best not to mess with them anyway. There's enough stuff here anyway. Don't need any stupid Superman or Batman!

[bchat]

Don't need any stupid Superman or Batman!

Well, most of Superman & Batman's early stories have been reprinted anyway, so those books aren't so far out of reach for most collections with money to burn.  Dr Occult on the other hand is something that I'ld like to see the complete run of.

[boox909]

Don't need any stupid Superman or Batman!

Well, most of Superman & Batman's early stories have been reprinted anyway, so those books aren't so far out of reach for most collections with money to burn.  Dr Occult on the other hand is something that I'ld like to see the complete run of.

Dr. Occult is something else! I've read some of his older appearance, but am hopeful that one day they will be collected for a total reading. He is one of DC's best under utilized characters, imho.

B.

[bchat]

I haven't read too many of his complete multi-issue adventures.  The single-issue stories are too short to really get into, being only four pages (if that).  "2023 Super-Police" is something else I'ld like to read through because it looks interesting, but again, there's parts of that I can't find anywhere.