What is the oldest comic you own?
MikeGallagher
Posts: 547
I'm curious and am hoping to get some golden age talk going.
Best Answers
-
dubbat138
Posts: 3,200
Hmm,I have a handfull of Classics Illustrated from the late 40s and early 50s. Haven't read most of them yet. -
John_Steed
Posts: 2,087
I got some very old stuff - but mainly European (Herge,Uderzo,Goschinny,Franquin,etc..)
The oldest American/superhero comic I own is this:
Yes - it's the very first German edition. Die Rächer - with Eisen-Mann, Ameisen-Mann, Hulk and Thor :D -
Caliban
Posts: 1,358
No Golden age. My earliest is Amazing Spider-Man #17, I'm working my way back to #1 -
phansford
Posts: 221
While the collection is gone.... I think my oldest comic was Superman #12. I still have an Flash Gordon Paint Book from 1936 that was my dad's. Never been colored.... the back cover needs some restoration
Not my copy... but its this book....%5D&sink=preservemd%5Btrue%5D)
Answers
And to be honest, the cover does look familiar so I'm not doubting it, but I really don't know if I could tell you much about the issue. I obviously bought it on the cheap.
The two that I would think of if you asked me off the top of my head would be one of these two.... and looking them up, they actually both have the same cover date, so my estimate of them being close to each other was pretty accurate!
The oldest issue of X-Men that I own is about a year more recent than those two. I also own the first appearance of Poison Ivy which is from about the same time as the X-Men issue.
Wait a minute.... according to my comicbookdb index, I have one more book that's older than any of these (and is actually from the 50s). This one is coverless though (but if it's the one I'm thinking of is actually in pretty good condition other than the cover missing)
I wish comicbookdb could do a chronological sorting of my collection like you can do if you look up characters or creators. I don't know if any of the ones that you have to pay for can do that, but you have to pay for those.
That issue is one of the CI comics I got last month.
[url=http://img263.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=th_505133225_20060307225915_thumb_122_68lo.jpg][img=http://img263.imagevenue.com/loc68/th_505133225_20060307225915_thumb_122_68lo.jpg][/url]
Mine is Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, the 100th issue featuring the weird wedding of Jimmy Olsen.
It's the Canadian printing...the ONLY EC I own, even thought I have all of the Box Sets as well as the "Annuals" they put out in the 90's that collected the runs of all of the New Trend books in color, comic book sized collections. Too bad they don't just start reprinting the damn things in trade paperbacks...
Herbie the Fat Fury 23 from 1967.
the oldest i have is G.I. Combat from 1977