THE PARK AVENUE COLLECTION

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I love that one Marty! I always refer to it as an Action #1 homage. I know you paid a whole lot less for your copy than I did!

Here's one from the back of the box that got wet years ago.

 

 

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I love that one Marty! I always refer to it as an Action #1 homage. I know you paid a whole lot less for your copy than I did!

 

Here's one from the back of the box that got wet years ago.

 

 

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Ten cents...earned by doing one shoeshine!

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Always thought this cover had a lot going on...plus a lot to read.

 

 

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Any issue with Bing Bang Buster is worth keeping.

When it comes to WOLVERTON'S art, I always thought his "LENA THE HYENA"

was terrific!

(From LI'L ABNER #61)

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When it comes to WOLVERTON'S art, I always thought his "LENA THE HYENA"

was terrific!

 

(From LI'L ABNER #61)

 

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I think Wolverton won a contest for his ugly woman drawing. I find it painful to look at. I prefer his Powerhouse Pepper or Bing Bang Buster.

By the way, Noah Beery, Jr. played Buster in Howard Hawks' "Red River".

Howard also directed "The Thing", "The Big Sleep" and "Sgt. York"

...and Walter Brennan was the first "Groot".

I do like Li'l Abner. He was enormously popular back in the fifties and sixties. He even made the cover of Life Magazine. Al didn't back away from expressing his opinions about the U.S.A. But he was more conservative than the editors of Charlie.

Ran across this one while going through my EC's...believe it's the only

EERIE I ever bought.

PAC #32

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Here's one from the box that got wet...don't see this issue very often.

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While looking through copies of THE GREEN HORNET for house ads, this

one, an all-time favorite, popped up.

PAC #10

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While looking through copies of THE GREEN HORNET for house ads, this

one, an all-time favorite, popped up.

 

PAC #10

 

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Fantastic comic Marty

While looking through copies of THE GREEN HORNET for house ads, this

one, an all-time favorite, popped up.

 

PAC #10

 

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Fantastic comic Marty

Thank you...I think it's time to have it graded.

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While going through my collection of HARVEY Comics I ran across the

backup stories of TOMMY TWEEN in quite a few issues.

(LI'L ABNER #62)

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Here are the next two I'm sending in to be graded.

PAC #292

PAC #10

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With such a variety of titles on the newsstand to choose from, it was almost always

difficult to select the book you planned to spend your dime on. As most newsstand

operators did not allow you to flip through the book, your choice was title and what

was on the cover...along with the number of pages. Once in awhile I would stray

away from the known and select by cover alone...sometimes a good choice, other

times maybe not such a good choice. But most of the time I was pleased with my

selections. One of those that contained new characters and stories was TREASURE

COMICS #5 from 1946. It featured MARCO POLO, PAUL BUNYAN, The ARABIAN

KNIGHT and DR. STYX...my favorite, plus The TREASURE KEEPER.

PAC #214

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Wow, it must have been fun seeing all those great covers on the newstand (an hard to choose). In those days they really sold books with great covers. Now days, not so much. I have always wondered how cool it would be to EC's on the stands. Especially books like Crime Suspenstories #20 & #21. I know you said you had to "ask" for them under the counter but I imagine in some areas they were just sitting in piles on the stands awaiting kid's dimes.

With such a variety of titles on the newsstand to choose from, it was almost always

difficult to select the book you planned to spend your dime on. As most newsstand

operators did not allow you to flip through the book, your choice was title and what

was on the cover...along with the number of pages. Once in awhile I would stray

away from the known and select by cover alone...sometimes a good choice, other

times maybe not such a good choice. But most of the time I was pleased with my

selections. One of those that contained new characters and stories was TREASURE

COMICS #5 from 1946. It featured MARCO POLO, PAUL BUNYAN, The ARABIAN

KNIGHT and DR. STYX...my favorite, plus The TREASURE KEEPER.

 

PAC #214

 

 

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Haven't looked at this one for years...glad I ran across it.

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What also made it a little difficult finding your favorite titles on the newsstand

was changing the look of the cover between issues like KERRY DRAKE #5 and #6.

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I have quite a few LOONEY TUNES & MERRIE MELODIES as my parents

gave me a subscription for a Christmas gift. This cover was always one of

my favorites.

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Sometimes it was just the cover that made me buy the book.

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Another cover that really got my attention...and my dime.

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