That is awesome, Larry. I hope you still have some of those comics. If so, I'd like to know what issues you have.Larry A. wrote:Terrific Find!!!!!! Terrific Catwoman Story!!!!!!!!! Surprising that it survived any Korean War paper drives. I know they had them because my late uncle gave us some early Batmancomics He saved from pulping when He worked at the Alton Boxboard Company, now part of Georgia Pacific.
I didn't start collecting until the 1970s, and, as my collection went back, my oldest comic was always a Batman. I bought a Sensation Comics starring Wonder Woman from 1946, so I decided I wanted to get a Batman from that decade, although I guess my oldest comic from this point forth will be a Wonder Woman. I still only have two comics from the 1940s. Here is another recent pick-up of mine. It is my tenth comic from the 1950s. (Four Detectives, three Batmans, Two Wonder Womans and a Lois Lane). I'm not really planning on letting my collection go back that far, just picking up what I can get a good deal on.
Here is another of my recent pick-ups. This is now my third oldest comic and second oldest Batman. Detective Comics 208 June 1954. In the story, a robbery is committed using and experimental rocket. Batman surmises the rocket was probably stole from "Space College" and heads there to investigate. The college does have a lot of alien landscape, where several people are training to survive on different planets. I really didn't think the mystery was "fair" in that enough clues were provided to the reader to figure out the criminal. However, the Dick Sprang artwork was fun and I really liked seeing his version of the alien landscapes. Cover art by Curt Swan and Stan Kaye.
