BEAUOLOGY 101: COLLECTING golden MEMORIES

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“Beau Smith-Your golden Age Guru.”

by beau Smith

We’ve talked about it right here before, the topic of exactly how we now take in our comic book entertainment. It’s likewise been noted that modern comic book readers are no longer reader/collectors. The trends as well as tastes have changed. When I was growing up, being able to have gain access to to every comic book wasn’t there. It was a true hunt just to discover just a handful of comic books. There was no internet, no direct market comic shops, no true mail purchase like Westfield Comics. You were restricted in your access, as well as yet I have to admit, there was a specific fun as well as thrill to that; it added value to your comics.

Blackhawk #105. Comic favorites Inc/Quality Comics. 1956

Today, a great deal of comic book readers don’t discover the need to keep physical copies of comic books after they read them. They download them digitally as well as then relocation on. There’s no need for a room full of long boxes. That’s why in recent years I’ve suggested that comic book collections be much more of a theme thing. some of my ideas have been to only gather runs of your preferred books, not every comic book that comes out. focus on one character as well as their appearances. There are great deals of innovative ways that you can mold this new reading collection.

Startling Comics #43. much better Publications. 1946

One of my favorites is to start a golden Age collection of comics. Let’s face facts, it’s 2015 as well as comic books started being published in the 1930s. That implies there are fewer as well as fewer of them around. look at them as pieces of history that are not going to be around forever. My idea is to start searching out golden Age comics for your collection. Don’t worry, not every golden Age comic book is going to expense you an arm as well as a leg. through the years at conventions as well as the internet, I have acquired quite a few golden Age comic books for less than the price of a modern trade paperback. I have likewise traded or sold comic books that I no longer want or need as well as turned them into golden Age purchases. It adds value to comics when you work for them as well as provide them a personal story on exactly how you got them.

Annie Oakley #7. Atlas/Current Detective Stories, Inc. 1955

Your beginning choices for golden Age comic books don’t have to be mint copies of Superman, Batman or Captain America. They can be obscure copies of some strange funny animal comic, a western, a sci-fi comic, or even a coverless comic book of a character you’ve never heard of. The bottom line is that you are collecting as well as reading something that has been around for decades as well as has survived. think of the hands this comic book has been in as well as out of. Was it one that was purchased new off a spinner rack, read as well as traded to one more youngster for something else? Is it one that has been in a box for over 70 years, unseen by anyone? Is it one that has been rolled up in multiple back pockets, carried around, folded, traced from, as well as has sat on a table in an old school barber shop? There’s a significant amount of awesome history best there.

G.I. Joe #38. Ziff-Davis Publishing. 1955

Yes, you can likewise do this with Silver Age, Bronze Age as well as others as well, however I suggest trying your hand at golden Age. They are the ones that have the least possibility of being there as you grow older, as well as you will. put a golden Age comic book in your hands as well as let the history soak in. think of the nameless, creditless artist as well as writer of that book. think of exactly how that character never got any type of even more than that single issue. just think about that history as well as exactly how you saved it from never being read again.

Black Cobra #6. excellent Publications. 1954

One of my preferred things to do is to gather golden Age comics from the year that I was born, 1954. I have a special cupboard where I keep just those comic books. I get a real kick out of knowing these were what were in the spinner racks as well as on the shelves when I was born. Pure fun!

Thrilling Comics #24. much better publications 1941

Along with this week’s column, I have scanned some of my personal golden Age Collection to share with you. all of them imply a great deal to me as well as have special memories. I would love it if you were to be able to feel those kind of memories as well. think about adding to your collection of golden Age comics. You don’t have to break the bank, just invest time in discovering great deals as well as giving an old comic book a new life as well as a permanently home.

Captain Fleet #1 approved Comics, Inc. 1952.

Your amigo,

Beau Smith

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