Ed's Comic Book Collection

   

Newly created: August 22, 2011 ...

• finally completed updating Silver-Age Marvel table (9-15-11)
• Astro City section complete
• Mainly 1990's stuff section complete

Currently under construction !

Many of you who know me well, knows that my main passion within the Marvel Comics Universe comes from the fact that I grew-up in the Silver-Age (SA) of Comics. Back then, and maybe still the case today, many parents considered reading comics a "waste of time". However, since I never spoke a word of English until I went to school at 5-yrs old, comics were very important to me. Reading them taught me to read and learn the English language. My Dad recognized this because as I got older, he would buy me some of my favorite comics, and bring them home after work . Later on, my brother and I would collect the 10 monthly Marvel comics ... yes there was only 10 titles back then !!
 

The Fantastic Four (FF) was my favorite comics as a kid. I was given an issue of FF #19 (Rama-Tut issue) and I was hooked !! I think I liked the sci-fi aspect of it, and Kirby's drawing style. I collected FF until Kirby left Marvel, which also coincided with me starting to lose interest in comics, as "more interesting things" like playing in a rock band, and girls, became a higher priority .

I wouldn't get into comics again until my nephews hit their early teen years in the early 1990's. I then learned about new X-Men like Wolverine, and new publishers like Image (with Spawn), etc. In fact, for a while I even subscribed to 'Wizard' magazine to learn and keep-up with the new developments in comics. It was at this time that I started to collect some comics again, such as Star Wars, but only stories having to do with the (to me) Original characters, Luke, Han, and Leia; Angela (from Spawn); Animal Mystic; etc.

But after a few years, once my nephews outgrew them, again I lost interest in comics. But based on the recommendation of the local comics shop owner, I started to read Astro City (AC). I had collected Busiek's 'Marvels' mini-series so I was familiar with his "view from the common man's" approach, so I liked AC. I have been collecting that comic ever since. However, Busiek and Anderson releases issues of AC very sporadically. That may be a bad thing ... hard to maintain the flow of the stories; or a good thing ... not as much spent on comics and not having to find storage space for them .

In the three sections below, I will attempt "to document" the three segments of my comic book collection.

Note: the cover pictures below are NOT actual scans of comics in my collection, but are reference pictures from the comics.org web site.

Silver-Age Collection

I am not sure what to put into the table below ... whether to try to show every comic in my extensive collection, or just highlight the key titles/issues that I have. I did want to note, that aside from Marvel and DC, I also had comics from then publishers such as Charlton, Dell, Gold Key, Tower, etc. 

Back when I was a kid, there was no emphasis on "bagging and boarding" each comic book. So basically they were read .. sometimes often ... and then thrown into a pile . So most of my collection is just "reading grade" (Poor to Very Fine, at best). It wasn't until 1985 that I started bagging and boarding each one of them and putting them into the "long boxes".

Table 1: Silver-Age Marvel

Table 2: Silver-Age DC

Table 3: Silver-Age Others

Astro City Collection

Table 4: Astro City

Mainly 1990's Stuff

Below I have listed various 1990's (and a few 2000's) comics I picked-up. With a few exceptions, most of this stuff is of little interest to me anymore, so is available for sale or trade .

Table 5: Mainly 1990's Stuff