r/comicbookcollecting

Let me clarify, does anyone miss the old newsprint paper, the 4 color dot pattern process and Zipatone gradients that gave the art a unique texture?

The upper left corner box with the small iconic illustration of your favorite character, or the old classic comic book art style which heavily relied on creative hatching and ink work to get the right shading and values?
The texture and gloss of the old cover pages and the comic book smell.

Maybe Im just old but today’s comics seem more like small magazines with interiors page being hyper-glossy, and covers with heavyweight paper. Feels almost too clean, antiseptic or synthetic.

Theres probably other stuff I missed but you get the idea.

Just driving around and I found two boxes of vintage comics ranging from super heroes to transformers and GI Joe

That’s what I randomly grabbed from these boxes they had. Unfortunately I don’t know much about comics, anything interesting to check out first?

Dug through too many boxes today at my local antique store. Half the fun is hunting

Popped in to a Record Exchange here in Chicago and was surprised to see a Hulk #3 behind the glass of a store that primarily sells old games and music. Asked if they would take $200 and they were happy to. They said it had been sitting around for a while.

Had some drinks with my lcs owning buddy last night and he showed me some highlights from a recently purchased collection. Really cool to hold these beauties in my hands.

Cool book.

ASM #20. Last big addition of a very busy year. Presents a little better in person.

I just added one of the most important Golden Age comics to my collection: O Globo Juvenil Mensal #32 from 1943. The cover of this comic is insane, doing something completely unprecedented by showing the Human Torch walking side by side with Superman, establishing the first crossover between National (future DC) and Timely (Marvel), 30 years before anything like this appeared in an American publication. This is the first known DC/Marvel crossover, and the Grand Comics Database identifies it as “The Earliest Timely & National Cross Over known to exist Globally.”

What impresses me the most is its extreme rarity, easily surpassing Action Comics #1, Detective Comics #27 and even Marvel Comics #1. I’ve talked to major collectors in Brazil, and many of them have never even seen one in person. There are only 7 copies in the census and another 4 in private collections, one of them being mine.

The more I research this issue, the more impressed I become. I’d even go as far as saying that, with the right recognition, it could make the list of the Top 100 Golden Age grails worldwide. This isn’t just an American reprint, but something genuinely unique that was legally produced under the laws and contracts of 1940s Brazil.

It’s an absolute grail. The craziest Golden Age comic I’ve ever had the privilege of owning.

Cool book.

Cool book.

These are some of my favourite first appearances in my collection but definitely more to check off my list 😉so happy to have some of these books since I got back into collecting a few months ago, avengers 57 is a personal grail of mine and I hope to add it soon 🤞

As a kid, I bought these off the grocery store monthly as they came out. Loved them, but loaned them out and they were never returned. Fast forward 40 years and I’ve pieced it together through various shops. Finished today with #3, feels great!

I know it’s not super valuable, and I would never buy it on eBay, but was a fun purchase to find in the wild! And only $6

Iconic cover!

Was digging through some of my long boxes from the 90's looking for a specific issue that I never found but I did find this.

Cool book.

The main and the variant. I have ASM #100 so it makes sense for me.

What about you? Which cover(s) make sense for you and why?

Cool book.

Cool book.