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Thanks for showing! I collect Silver Age Marvel comics plus some Gold Key, Dell, DC, etc. I have about 4000 comics as far back as the Amazing Spiderman #1 that I posted a picture of a little while ago. I have that series of Where Creatures Roam which I consider to be near the end of the Silver Age. Nice to see someone else who's into comics!!
EDIT: I recognize Gray Stamps and Mystic Stamps - I think they both still exist!
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Yup!!! I got a bit carried away! The comic collection is HUGE but I started collecting when I was about 10!! You can accumulate a lot of comics, and spend a lot of 10, 12 and 15 cents!! I wonder what comics cost now and if kids can even afford to buy them.
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I cannot decide between stamps or large muscles.
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New issue comics are now $3.99 and $4.99 cover price. You get the same complaints like you do new issue stamps - too expensive for kids or beginners to get into. Comics do have cheaper digital options if you just want to read them though. Also, the story telling in the old comics was more dense and issues were generally self contained - new comics tend to spread the story out over more issues and are more cinematic - so they read a lot quicker than the older comics, which makes the higher price tag even less of a deal, a lot of people wait for the collected trade paperbacks instead of the single issues for the whole story.
I mainly collect Bronze Age and Copper Age Marvel - so 1970s to about 1993. I would collect more Silver Age (or Pre-Code Horror) but that gets kind of expensive. I'm looking through books and seeing all the stamp ads in the 1970s, but they are gone by the early 90s, replaced by full page adds for video games or baseball cards. I am going to try to figure out about what year the last stamp ads were still in the books.
Also, what is interesting. Marvel is still the #1 best selling comic company, but this year Image Comics overtook DC Comics as the #2 company, and Image does not publish too many traditional super hero books, instead a wider variety of genres. Of course, Japanese Manga outsells them all.
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This thread reminded me of a few images I have of ads. The first one was definitely from a comic, the others probably not, but I'll leave them here for show
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Newest ad I could find so far - 1988 West Coast Avengers #32 and #33 both have one ad for Wilton Stamp Co:
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I was looking at the prices for older Marvel comics especially for Fantastic 4 #1 and Avengers #1! I'd gladly pay those prices right now to get those two that I don't have!! Prices have really gone up since 1988!!
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"this year Image Comics overtook DC Comics as the #2 company"
Just to show how out of touch I am, I have never even heard of Image Comics.
EDIT: Just to add a note, my earliest comics, not including reprints, would be some of my early westerns. I have a very good collection of early Two Gun Kid (including #1) and Kid Colt going back to the late 1940's. I can't give you evidence of this here but, if memory serves, Two Gun Kid #1 was printed in Canada due to a paper shortage, from the war(?), in the US. Westerns and war comics (like Sgt. Fury) are not really popular now and can be picked up at reasonable prices today. These early westerns are technically Golden Age since they are before 1957!
This is not my copy of TWK #1, I stole it fro mycomicshop.com. They shouldn't mind too much since I've spent a lot of $$$ there!
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Thought I would snap a picture and share, Where Creatures Roam #4 has a whole column of ads dedicated to stamps. I recognize one dealer that is still around...
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01 Sep 2025
04:14:12pm
re: Stamp ads in 1971 comic book
Thanks for showing! I collect Silver Age Marvel comics plus some Gold Key, Dell, DC, etc. I have about 4000 comics as far back as the Amazing Spiderman #1 that I posted a picture of a little while ago. I have that series of Where Creatures Roam which I consider to be near the end of the Silver Age. Nice to see someone else who's into comics!!
EDIT: I recognize Gray Stamps and Mystic Stamps - I think they both still exist!
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01 Sep 2025
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re: Stamp ads in 1971 comic book
Yup!!! I got a bit carried away! The comic collection is HUGE but I started collecting when I was about 10!! You can accumulate a lot of comics, and spend a lot of 10, 12 and 15 cents!! I wonder what comics cost now and if kids can even afford to buy them.
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I cannot decide between stamps or large muscles.
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New issue comics are now $3.99 and $4.99 cover price. You get the same complaints like you do new issue stamps - too expensive for kids or beginners to get into. Comics do have cheaper digital options if you just want to read them though. Also, the story telling in the old comics was more dense and issues were generally self contained - new comics tend to spread the story out over more issues and are more cinematic - so they read a lot quicker than the older comics, which makes the higher price tag even less of a deal, a lot of people wait for the collected trade paperbacks instead of the single issues for the whole story.
I mainly collect Bronze Age and Copper Age Marvel - so 1970s to about 1993. I would collect more Silver Age (or Pre-Code Horror) but that gets kind of expensive. I'm looking through books and seeing all the stamp ads in the 1970s, but they are gone by the early 90s, replaced by full page adds for video games or baseball cards. I am going to try to figure out about what year the last stamp ads were still in the books.
Also, what is interesting. Marvel is still the #1 best selling comic company, but this year Image Comics overtook DC Comics as the #2 company, and Image does not publish too many traditional super hero books, instead a wider variety of genres. Of course, Japanese Manga outsells them all.
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re: Stamp ads in 1971 comic book
This thread reminded me of a few images I have of ads. The first one was definitely from a comic, the others probably not, but I'll leave them here for show
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Newest ad I could find so far - 1988 West Coast Avengers #32 and #33 both have one ad for Wilton Stamp Co:
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03 Sep 2025
04:07:18pm
re: Stamp ads in 1971 comic book
I was looking at the prices for older Marvel comics especially for Fantastic 4 #1 and Avengers #1! I'd gladly pay those prices right now to get those two that I don't have!! Prices have really gone up since 1988!!
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06 Sep 2025
03:40:47pm
re: Stamp ads in 1971 comic book
"this year Image Comics overtook DC Comics as the #2 company"
Just to show how out of touch I am, I have never even heard of Image Comics.
EDIT: Just to add a note, my earliest comics, not including reprints, would be some of my early westerns. I have a very good collection of early Two Gun Kid (including #1) and Kid Colt going back to the late 1940's. I can't give you evidence of this here but, if memory serves, Two Gun Kid #1 was printed in Canada due to a paper shortage, from the war(?), in the US. Westerns and war comics (like Sgt. Fury) are not really popular now and can be picked up at reasonable prices today. These early westerns are technically Golden Age since they are before 1957!
This is not my copy of TWK #1, I stole it fro mycomicshop.com. They shouldn't mind too much since I've spent a lot of $$$ there!
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