The Latest Batman Item You've Acquired?

[BiffPow]

For anyone who loved the Christmas Catalogues.

https://christmas.musetechnical.com/

WOWWWWW!!!! What a fun resource! I will likely recognize many as I spent so much time looking at them! Thanks, YO!

[Yellow Oval]

For anyone who loved the Christmas Catalogues.

https://christmas.musetechnical.com/

WOWWWWW!!!! What a fun resource! I will likely recognize many as I spent so much time looking at them! Thanks, YO!

Happy to oblige, BiffPow. Hopefully you'll get some of those old vibes for a few moments. It's good for the soul.

[BiffPow]

My son is already looking over the catalogs and he is amazed. Thank you again.

[Lou Szabo]

Just made the 12” Hot Wheeks collectors pin.

[BiffPow]

What a novel and fun idea.

[BATWINGED HORNET]

Apparently there was never a Lakeside "Kato" bendy figure to go with "The Green Hornet", probably because "Bruce Lee" was already licensed out to a different company making "Bruce Lee" bendy figures.

I wonder why Lakeside simply did not make a Kato figure that was not necessarily based on a Lee likeness, similar to the illustrated Kato seen on coloring books, playing cards, etc., such as the examples posted below?






As popular as TV Kato had been during the run of the series, I would've believed Lakeside would not miss the chance to produce a Kato figure.

He's a bit thin, but it looks like I tracked one down last week. Waiting for him to arrive. I just need to make him a chauffeur's cap...

Yes, he's thin, almost too much like a figure handed out at McDonalds.

[AndyFish]

Been on a lucky streak with finding old comics.



I love Golden Age Comics and you can still find bargains in the wild. I have an affection for early Bronze Age stuff because that's the stuff I would run over from my elementary school clutching my two shiny quarters as an allowance and buy, but the Golden Age rules.

[BiffPow]

Years ago, when I was in college in Baltimore, I would occasionally stop at an antique mall in Fredericksburg, Virginia. In that mall, one of the vendors had a huge room absolutely filled with golden age comic books, priced at about 40-50% of Overstreet value at the time. Sometimes a little less. I bought what I could afford, but there was just so much good stuff that it made me sick having seen them and to leave them behind.

There were thousands, all in nice condition. I probably could’ve negotiated to buy the entire room full of them if I’d had about $10,000 to offer, then - maybe less. Just remembering what I saw, their value would be easily in the $millions now. Every kind of Golden Age superhero comic book you could think of, from DC, Fawcett, Timely - and the lesser known publishers.

I don’t know if anyone here has ever been in that position, where you almost wish you had never seen something when you know you can’t have it.

[AndyFish]

We had a shop like that outside Boston called The Million Year Picnic (Named after an EC Comic Story)-- the store remains today but it's a shell of its former self-- it used to take up the entire bottom floor of the building it was in and it had row after row of Golden Age Comics up on the rafters and displayed all over the walls. When I was a kid-- about 14 or so-- I would ride my bike to the shop and back, 60 miles round trip, to pick up some books I'd never see anywhere else. I bought a lot, I left a lot because at the time I was a kid. The guy had a Detective #27 he offered to me for $5k and I did everything I could to come up with it-- but it might as well have been a million to me then.

I never pine for what I didn't get, but that doesn't mean I don't look back and kick myself for not buying more. At the time I was very Batman focused, today I have a wide range of Golden Age-- big lean into the entire National (DC) Line.

[BiffPow]

Andy, I remember seeing the ads for “the million year picnic“ in the old Overstreet price guides and probably the comics buyers guide trade paper. That must’ve been a fun time for you.

One of the books I passed on at an indoor flea market in Losantiville (Cincinnati), Ohio: Captain America #1 (Timely) for $100.

[Yellow Oval]

Been on a lucky streak with finding old comics.



I love Golden Age Comics and you can still find bargains in the wild. I have an affection for early Bronze Age stuff because that's the stuff I would run over from my elementary school clutching my two shiny quarters as an allowance and buy, but the Golden Age rules.

Great find, Andy. I wonder who their dentist was?

[BiffPow]

Great find, Andy. I wonder who their dentist was?

[Therin of Andor]

I wonder why Lakeside simply did not make a Kato figure that was not necessarily based on a Lee likeness, similar to the illustrated Kato seen on coloring books, playing cards, etc., such as the examples posted below?

I am still betting that it was because Bruce Lee had already licensed out his image to a different company, thus there were "Bruce Lee" bendy figures, not using the name "Kato".

[AndyFish]

Forgive the watermark, but that's the guy I bought it from. I liked the graphics of this-- big fan of vintage advertising. Came super fast too.

[AndyFish]

Stumbled on this cheap-- as much as I didn't love the comic series I was thrilled they brought Lord Death Man in-- and this is a great page featuring my favorite villain from the period!