THE PARK AVENUE COLLECTION

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After looking at the Top 100 Golden Age Comics listed in OVERSTREET 45,

I discover that I do not have one of them and realize I should have been born

earlier!

 

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Your collection is tops in my book Marty! (thumbs u

Thanks for your kind words..in going through OVERSTREET 45 I was pleased

to see my TOP TWO, SUPERBOY #1 and FLASH COMICS #104 have held up.

Thanks again!

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One of my favorite radio programs...I was really happy to find this on the newsstand.

 

 

Unfortunately with the cost of the "product", the 10 cents that went along with the label

and the postage, there wasn't always the money to afford them....I surely wanted them

all!

 

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From time to time I enjoy re-visiting this series...I was able to pick up

number one through number six off the newsstand...then none until number nine.

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3683/9182392507_76fbe8babc_z.jpg' alt='9182392507_76fbe8babc_z.jpg'>IMG FRANKENSTEIN #3

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Here's one that I haven't looked at for a very long time.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7406/9008300581_75abaebb8f_z.jpg' alt='9008300581_75abaebb8f_z.jpg'>IMG SUPERMAN #58

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Here's one that I haven't looked at for a very long time.

 

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7406/9008300581_75abaebb8f_z.jpg' alt='9008300581_75abaebb8f_z.jpg'>IMG SUPERMAN #58

 

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Atom prototype!

One of my favorite GREEN HORNET covers.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7451/12031005893_cc9ae0bf6c_z.jpg' alt='12031005893_cc9ae0bf6c_z.jpg'>IMG KID ADONIS FROM GREEN HORNET #37

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Just another one of those covers that made me buy the book.

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2853/9161810216_168f344dd3_z.jpg' alt='9161810216_168f344dd3_z.jpg'>IMG MR. DA #3

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Marty, forgive me if this has been asked/answered already but when you were buying GA off the stands were there certain titles you had a preference for or did you basically just cover shop?

Marty, forgive me if this has been asked/answered already but when you were buying GA off the stands were there certain titles you had a preference for or did you basically just cover shop?

A little of both...but a first issue of any title was always the winner.

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I was always under the impression that most publishers of the time felt it was a bad thing to have a first issue as opposed to a regular long going series. It wasn't 'till the 1970's when the sales of first issues really took off. Looks like you were ahead of your time Marty.

As I didn't start buying comics off the newsstands until 1942, I missed a lot of the

major "First Issues"...but I was able to find "First Issues" of new titles as they were

published. like this one which featured both a Superhero and Cartoon Characters on

the cover.

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8089/8465986646_2070e9b966_z.jpg' alt='8465986646_2070e9b966_z.jpg'>IMG PUPPETOONS #1

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Another favorite "First Issue" that I have treasured since the day I found

it hanging by a clothespin in the window of the corner newsstand.

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/495/18356807396_65e373b120_z.jpg' alt='18356807396_65e373b120_z.jpg'>FUNNYMAN #1

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One of my favorite GREEN HORNET covers.

 

(Snip)

 

This issue also contains this KID ADONIS story which OVERSTREET claims is

reprinted from STUNTMAN #3...which I'm beginning to doubt even exists.

 

 

Remember Stuntman 3 was published as a giveaway to subscription owners.

Many stories were also reprinted in Thrills of Tomorrow.

Another favorite "First Issue" that I have treasured since the day I found

it hanging by a clothespin in the window of the corner newsstand.

 

Some first issues weren't always easy to locate on the newsstand...

like this LAUGH #20.

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3668/14079298687_36fa8825f9_z.jpg' alt='14079298687_36fa8825f9_z.jpg'>IMG LAUGH COMICS #20

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One of my favorite GREEN HORNET covers.

 

(Snip)

 

This issue also contains this KID ADONIS story which OVERSTREET claims is

reprinted from STUNTMAN #3...which I'm beginning to doubt even exists.

 

 

Remember Stuntman 3 was published as a giveaway to subscription owners.

Many stories were also reprinted in Thrills of Tomorrow.

 

Stuntman 3 is certainly a very tough book. Boy Explorers 2, which was also a small-size b&w sent only to subscribers, is much easier to find. I suppose there must have been more subscribers to Boy Explorers than to Stuntman, hence the greater number of surviving copies.

 

I've never read a good discussion of what happened to S&K at Harvey. To pull the plug on these books so fast must have been due to a change in editorial direction, I think.

Other than the classic reproduction shown above...has anyone ever really

seen a complete copy of STUNTMAN #3 ?

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Other than the classic reproduction shown above...has anyone ever really

seen a complete copy of STUNTMAN #3 ?

 

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I've never seen one in person. Heritage has auctioned a couple of copies.

Other than the classic reproduction shown above...has anyone ever really

seen a complete copy of STUNTMAN #3 ?

 

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I've never seen one in person. Heritage has auctioned a couple of copies.

Anyone on these Boards have one?

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One of my real pleasures is going back through my collection and

rediscovering Superheroes that I had all but forgotten...Superheroes

that were the prime character of a title like CAPTAIN TRIUMPH was

in CRACK COMICS.

"When Lance Gallant touches the magic birthmark on his wrist, the spirit

of his dead twin brother Michael merges with him to become CAPTAIN TRIUMPH!"

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3803/8940460231_ed58078c88_z.jpg' alt='8940460231_ed58078c88_z.jpg'>IMG CRACK COMICS #47

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