I'll tag on to this thread with my own brief intro. I've been an early to mid silver age fan since I started buying them new. My interests were varied but a few of my faves were Turok, Adam Strange (MIS), Superman/Superboy/LSH and related and early Fantastic Four. Also liked the oddball war comics like Star Spangled WS from DC and from Charlton and such. I was pretty heavily a DC guy vs Marvel. I think early daredevil and FF were the only marvels i touched more than once. I think the "Stan Lee invented and presents everything that ever was" vibe turned me off and I also wasn't really into the angst bit. I liked simpler escapism. When the 60's rolled to a close I pretty much began to lose interest in "new" comics for a variety of reasons, the changing nature of comics, availability, my switch to reading science fiction and probably more than anything just life itself. But I never stopped loving my early stuff.
I have a few oldies but none are PD as far as I can tell except a few you already have posted. A few Charlton may get there soon as the 50 year wave rolls.
A few years ago I belatedly realized how much stuff had become available on newsgroups. The kids were off to college and I thought I had more time to play. I pretty much looked for early silver to fill in all I had missed back then. Then I started looking at stuff I had never looked at before, and often never heard of, some of the early westerns and for some odd reasons, those romances I would never touch in person. Anyway, that thrill I had as a kid at the comic rack in the drugstore or the 5 and dime was back in a small way when I began reading some of this stuff. This golden age stuff really is catching my interest. I've got a lot to learn and not nearly enough time to "play".
Ron
