January 31, 2007
My comics collection
I just finished inventorying last year's comics and adding them to my collection. If anyone cares, I now have 9,045 originals and 2,346 duplicates for a total of 11,391 comics. That doesn't include another 300 or so that I have to read again before I make them part of the official collection.
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Writerfella here --
In a very old story, writerfella's mother gave away his comics collection while he was gone to the US Air Force. Luckily, he came home on leave in time to save his paperback library. But the comics were gone -*sniff*-. The collection held comics from the late 1940s to the early 1960s that writerfella carefully had preserved and of which he was very proud. The tragedy is that all his DC and Marvel comics from that period never could be replaced. There were others, such as complete runs of EC science fiction, science fantasy, horror, supernatural, and crime comics. Then there were the Classics Illustrated run, and the Crime Buster series, and Uncle Scrooge from Disney, and so on. But the gem of the lot was a complete run of the early Mad comics, plus the magazine-size issues. Halfheartedly, writerfella took up collecting comics again, using the comics he acquired while in the USAF but eventually decided to concentrate on his paperback collection, which now numbers over 12,000. Somehow, complete runs of Kamandi and Howard The Duck and Captain Canuck and such simply did not replace what he had lost. He forgave his mother, who only thought that writerfella being a wounded veteran had outgrown the comics he had saved since he was a child. Not so...
All Best
Russ Bates
'writerfella'
Writerfella here --
POSTSCRIPTUM -- writerfella almost forgot the true gem from his collection, and that was a complete run of Will Eisner's 1940s THE SPIRIT comics that were regularly included as free books within the Sunday L.A. Times. That one was a killer!!
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Russ Bates
'writerfella'
When it comes to comics, it's always the mother's fault. ;-)
As I'll be reporting soon, I just purchased several hundred dollars' worth of Native-themed comics for the Montclair Art Museum (the originators of the Warhol/Lichtenstein exhibit). I'll make this deal available to other museums and libraries and even individuals. For $400-500 I'll supply you with 100-plus comics and graphic novels featuring Indians--everything from TOMAHAWK and RED WOLF to SCALPED and RED PROPHET.
Writerfella here --
What, no TUROK, SON OF STONE?
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Russ Bates
'writerfella'
The original TUROKs are too expensive to include in this offer. But the offer includes at least one of the revamped TUROK comics from the 1990s. I can get as many of the '90s TUROKs as the buyer wants, but I don't consider them historically significant.
Rob, my mother threw away all my comics at one point. My grandmother also threw away my dad's comics at one point.
I think all I lost were a bunch of Casper and Archie comics. What did my dad lose? He thinks he lost the very earliest Detective and Batman comics.
If it's not the mother, it's the grandmother. ;-)
My dad claimed he had one of the first SUPERMAN comics...but his mother threw it out. Of course, he also claimed that in high school, he ran the 100-yard dash in 10 seconds flat.
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