Strangely enough, I've only read the DCCP and LSH issues. How did I miss that issue of BRAVE & THE BOLD?

I remember getting a few of those in the old poly-bagged 3-packs!

I had all of those except for the World's Finest and still have about half of them.

'79 were good DC comics to me. The Flash is especially a sentimental favorite of mine. I think I mentioned in another thread that I e-mail chatted with Alex Saviuk a while back. He drew the interiors of that.

Man, I'm old. I have most of those.

That issue of World's Finest was my Holy Grail of comicbooks. I must have read that issue a couple of hundred times as a kid. I have been looking for it on and off for probably 15 years. Unfortunately, I couldn't remember the issue number, and I had the year wrong. Well, a couple of months ago I was on my lunch break, and on a whim decided to drive over to a Coin/Sports/Comic store to see if I could find it. The store was on the otherside side of town and there was a good chance that I would be late clocking in, but something told me to go. I went. I looked through the boxes found a few books I wanted, including the Justice League of America issue pictured above, but I did not see that issue of World's Finest. I checked my watch and realized I had about five minutes to make a twelve minute drive back to work. At that point I noticed one last box marked for recently aquired books. So I looked. Lo and behold there it was! At last I had found it!

True story.

Aside: Since reading that comicbook my purchasing habits have changed dramatically. About 75 percent of my weekly comicbook purchases are back issues and Essentials. I feel like a kid again! It's great!

Were you like me and you tried to bend the books thru the plastic to get some idea of what the middle issue was??

Edward

Always!!!

I tried DC comics for about a year around this timeframe (late 1970's), Superman, Flash, Batman, Legion, JLA, and a few others, and I just couldn't get into them. JLA was about the only book I thought was any good, and it was probably because of the George Perez artwork.

Man... I used to love to hear that my mom went to Pic 'n Save. She'd always throw a bag or two into her cart for me! I miss those days.

I had the issues of Detective, JLA, World's Finest, and Action.

If I remember correctly, the Vartox character made an appearance in that issue of Action and the next.



I always thought that character looked really weird.

I think this is my first post here.

Dang. I don't have that Superman issue. I have the rest. Prime of my collecting. I was a senior in HS at the time, and went to my favorite store to buy comics.

Great thread!!

I had several of those issues once upon a time.

Ah, well, some day I'll start collecting '70s DC issues again.

Pic-n-sav

s'where i bought Superman vs Ali when i was just a little kid

i remember my mother asking me if I could choose a comic without a black man on the cover

But how could you NOT choose Superman vs. Muhammad Ali?

I'm really old...I have all of those!!! And more!!!

*sigh* When did the members of the JLA last look that happy?

Who drew that Wonder Woman cover? It's quite simple, but I really like it

I think it's a Ross Andru / Dick Giordano cover for Wonder Woman. I liked how Giordano seemed to fill out Andru's pencils. I know Esposito was an awesome inker, but his line weights seemed to mess up Andru's Wonder Woman to me.

Gawd, I hate reading that as I started getting comics 14-15 years before these.

*CHOKE*

Yep, definitely my first post here.

WellI'llbedoggone. I missed my 10th Anniversary at imwan. Anyway, above this is my first post, and here's a picture of a half-eaten sandwich on a sidewalk: