hey, rez.
let's see. . .
various issues of black magic, weird worlds, crime does not pay, smash comics, military comics, impact, unknown worlds, blackhawk, confessions of the lovelorn, phantom lady, battlefield, out of this world, mysterious traveller, piracy, weird science fantasy, my romantic adventures, chilling tales, marvel tales, two-fisted tales. quite a few old batman ( batman # 2, for christ's sake! i had batman # 2! ),and detective comics, some wonder woman, mary marvel, and all star.
non golden age titles would include a pretty much unbroken run of silver age green lantern, complete runs of jack kirby's jimmy olsen, the new gods, forever people, and kamandi, a crap load of superman's girlfriend lois lane, complete runs of marvel's jungle action, amazing adventures, and howard the duck, a fair old few kirby fantastic four and ditko/romita spider-man comics. a lot of warren mags. boxes full of 1930's-1940's british comics ( the beano, mainly, but i'm pretty sure there were a few comic cuts and sundry others in there, as well ). an unbroken fifteen year run of 2000ad.
i had a damn impressive comic collection, my man.
yeah, you're right. it is pretty depressing. i had them all catalogued, but the catalogue went the same way as the comics.
in my younger years, i used to work for Dark They Were And Golden Eyed, which was one of the very few headshop-cum-comic shops operating in london in the mid to late 'seventies. my job there was to price up and buy the old comic collections that people just wanted to shift, so i'd get to be the first guy in the shop who had his hands on the cool stuff. back then, golden and silver age comics were cheap as chips, and in plentiful supply, so i was snapping them up left, right, and centre.
these days, there's absolutely no way i could afford any of that stuff. but, hey! there you go. not much that can be done about it now.
