What were your favorite comic books either now or back in your past?

Mine were the old "Classics Illustrated".

Also read Mad Magazine in high school.

 

Green Lantern, Superman, Spawn, Stormwatch, Batman, a couple of the Xmen titles, Thor, Spiderman, JLA, Green Lantern Corps Quarterly. Quit collecting about 10 yrs ago but I still pick up 1 every now and then. Just bought the Green Lantern Rebirth storyline off of ebay.

EDIT: Also loved the Elseworlds stuff from DC

 

Donald Duck, and all of the Duck clan, House of Mystery, House of Secrets and other sorta scary comics like that, Metal Men, (anyone remember them?) and a bunch of others. I have 4 large boxes full of comic books dating back to the early 60s, probably a thousand or more. I really oughta go through 'em. -TD

 

I out grew comic books when I was a kid - just kidding .

I didn't have any money when I was a kid but I did read my neighbor's Mad magazines. I got a kick out of those. He had comic books but I ignored them. My dad read the Super Man and Batman comics when he was a kid but I never really had much interest in them. I saw them on the counter but didn't have much desire for them.

I watched the '60's Batman series only because I liked the tilted camera and Frank Gorshen. Watched the Super Man '50's series re-runs shorthly after George Reeves death and only because of the kooky sound effects. Pin ball machines didn't interest me either.

I was into horror films. Staying up untill 2:00 AM watching all those flicks and eating licorice and drinking RC Colas. I honestly could not sleep well unless I saw a good bloody movie; Brain That Wouldn't Die, Planet Of Vampires, etc . Then I slept like a baby. Odd. Oh, the good old days. Didn't get into much of anything "fantasy" stuff untill I saw the Xena series few years back and that is only because it made me laugh. Lawless was a cut-up.

-1bigsteve (o:

 

Just send them to me and I'll go thru them for you

 

That reminds me, Ben. What was the name of that weird little guy with the black-framed coke-bottle glasses who hosted Creature Features on channel 2? -TD

 

Bob Wilkins. Hosted "Creature Features" on channel 2 from Sacramento Saturday nights and later on some Fridays. A nice story about him on the net.


-1bigsteve (o:

 

Superman. Fantastic Four. Green Lantern.


When my family moved from Tennessee to Maryland, in 1967, my Dad said that he wasn't moving all of 'That C_ _ _'. (Boxes of comics. 10 boxes.)

When I was at school, he pitched out all of my comics.
A friend had given me all of his comics when he went into the Army. He had a Superman #2 in one of the boxes!!

When I got home from school and found that Dad had thrown everything away, I almost died!
Granted, that #2 wasn't pristine, but, hey. . . it was a NUMBER 2 Superman!

I have NO idea what it was worth. I guess in the thousands.

(And there was NO 'backtalking' my Dad. I wouldn't have survived the night.)

 

Bob Wilkins, that was the guy! Although, Channel 2 (KTVU) is out of Oakland. It's just carried on cable all over the north state, and has been for years. I used to watch it up in Redding, and also when I lived at Tahoe. I have it here as well. Bob Wilkins.... -TD

 

His glasses were not "coke bottle" types but they were flat and reflected the light when he moved his head. I think he did it on purpose at times. Oh, and the cigar! Alway's looked like a t**d sticking out of his mouth. He had some cool bloody movies. He was an odd one. He was older than he appeared. Old man now.

Tahoe? You just missed him. He lives in Reno Nevada. Or did. Look him up on the net. Interesting story.

-1bigsteve (o:

 

I loved Creature Features.

I think Bob Wilkins also did the weather or some sort of news casting on that same channel 2 out of Oakland.

Back then there was only about 8 channels (2-4-5-7-9-20-36-44).

The only cable involved was the power cord and the cable between the t.v. set and the rabbit ears (antenna).

The remote was "you" being told to change the channel or raise/lower the volume; or the drastic command "turn it off, bedtime".

As for some of my comic books, I gave them to my uncle, who has no recollection of them; right!

As for the other comic books, they went the same way as my basesball cards.

I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT THEM CARDS.

Though, they did sound cool on the back wheel of my stingray bike.

 

I had a little buddy who lived in Hillsborough when I was about 10, I was staying at his house for a few days and he flipped on the TV in his room late at night and I first came face to face with Bob Wilkins and Creature Features. We stayed up late and watched, I don't recall the movie but I thought it was so cool that his folks let him stay up late to watch this creepy stuff! -TD

 

I lived for that show. I think back then it was on a friday night.

Me and my dad also used to watch the Godzilla movies and old time wrestling with the likes of Gorilla Monsoon, Andre the Giant, Hiro Matsuda......

 

Godzilla? Man those Japanesse Films bring back memories.

I got my first taste of Japaness sci-fi films when they showed "Mothra" on TV in 1963. It came on a saturday afternoon. I was a big "Rifleman" fan at that time. I remember that giant worm running over everything. A few years later I saw "Attack Of The Mushroom People." That was the best one! That scene of that Mushroom Man walking thru that old abandoned ship at night. I get the creeps !!! Then I saw "The H-Man." That blob going up that guy's pant leg as he's got his gun on that girl in the Tokyo sewer. He's screaming as his heel is disappearing. I never could remember why he had her undress. "War Of The Gargantuas" or something like that, was a cool film.

Mom was a big fan of old Horror films so we both stayed up late watching. She was my best pal.

I'll never forget watching "Curse Of The Living Dead" when it came on TV. I think that was the title. It had a young Roy Shieder (pre Jaws) in it. It was about this guy who gets buried alive and then kills off each of the people who buried him, one by one. There is a scene where he is watching some good looking woman un-dress for her bath. She turns and walk's toward the camera with the bottom of the screen cutting off just above her areolas. I remember praying that the camera man would drop the camera a bit and just at that moment he did and the top half of her areolas and nipples came bouncing up. For a thirteen year old that was heady stuff. It sure beat National Geographic magazines. I sent the camera man a bottle of wine. I saw the film again years later and they cropped it out. Bummer.

The sixties was the time for boyhood! I'll always remember that creepy "Planet Of Vampires." Many of the old flicks I saw I don't know the names of. I just bought "Attack Of The Saucer Men." They made a copy of it in 1965. Almost the same plot. "The Brain That Wouldn't Die." Virginia Leith wanted to make that one and auditioned in a turtleneck sweater. I'm dying to get photos of her getting into and out of the get-up on the table. I read how they rigged it up. Interesting story. They all had a big blast making it. It was made in the fall of '59 but was horrible they didn't realease it untill '62. My kind of film. That guy getting his arm ripped off. Oh, cool stuff. They don't make them like that any more. Too bad.

-1bigsteve (o: