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pmadreenter Posts: 33
2/25/2025
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Hi, all --
I was a member of the ould forum for quite awhile, fond memories; but then one day about 12 years ago I realized I wasn't really interested in comics the way I had been; I stopped buying, stopped thinking about them... and I shamelessly ghosted the forums. My apologies. Around the turn of the year, the bug bit me again and I've started thinking about purchasing the odd thing here and there, so I thought I'd look in here and see what was what.
Things have changed a lot; I see people asking and answering questions and that's about it, not much feeling of tthe warmth and pursuing friendships that used to be the order of the day. Thatjerk and Defiant1 (two names I remember from the old days) seem to be keeping that spirit alive, and I guess I'll throw my hat in the ring and try to contribute to rebuilding that sense of community.
So... here I am. What's my collecting profile like? Heavily into Golden age and Silver age, superheroes and esoterica (do people still use that word?) -- not really interested in anything after 1975 or '80. That'll change at some point, I want to catch up on Marvel Universe history, but I don't want to amass thousands and thousands of comics like I did last time around, and sooner or later I have to start thinking about pruning away some of the dead wood... dead wood-pulp... that no longer holds much interest for me.
Here's a copy of my collecting goals for 2025. Yeah, it's practically March already, but I'm just getting started, so it's meaningful to me at least.
1) Continue beefing up my Silver-age/Bronze age Marvel runs, do as much as possible.
2) Atlas horror! Pre-code, post-code and monster books. As many as I can get my hands on.
3) Atlas westerns, ditto. Hey, I *like* westerns. And, really, I just like anything Atlas..
4) Pre-code horror. If I can knock down four or five good examples during the year, I'll be happy. A long-standing interest, since I was a teenager, but they're kinda priced out of my league at this point. (Oh, the good old days, when you could buy a ratty G/VG issue of The Unseen for three bucks...)
4) Jingle Jangle Comics, working on that run is a big priority. George Carlson might be my favorite comic artist of all time.
5) At least one (each) GA superhero book from Timely, DC, Fawcett, and Quality. I might dabble in other publishers, but discovering an interest in something new seems like the last thing I should do. It gives me a sad when I realize I still don't have any Timely superhero books in my crypt, so I guess that's the number one priority.
6) Work on these (mostly) GA runs, in descending order of importance: Venus, Air Fighters/Airboy, Big Shot, Sparky Watts, Real Clue Crime Comics, Sugar And Spike, Supersnipe, Scribbly, Real Screen/Fox And Crow, Dell Four Color, Daredevil, Boy, 4Most, Blue Bolt.
7) Do what I can to start runs on some titles I don't yet have: Prize Comics, Frankenstein Comics and Pedro (a humor title from Fox that lasted about four issues. Just found out about it and I WANT!)
8) My grail book for the year: Mad 11. I've decided that cover is absolutely one of the great works of art of the 20th century. There are a couple of other books that hold grail status for me, but I'll be happy with one for now. Won't fuss none if either of the other two turn up, though.
9) Any and all miscellaneous books by favorite artists. It's a long list, but Wolverton and Kinstler are the two guys at the top.
10) Stay within budget and work scrupulously to follow the buying strategy that allows me to play without having lots of money. (Which mostly means flipping about 2/3 of the books I buy, so I can keep the ones I really want for free.)
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That's my introduction, now you know all about me. Heh. Once the welcomes and introductions are out of the way, maybe I'll post a list of the top 25 books in my collection, or maybe I'll just wait until the first purchases I've gone and pulled the trigger on start rolling in.
edited by pmadreenter on 2/25/2025
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