Lespion1944

246 notifications in one day? Somehow I suspect this is not normal. And almost all of them due to one Watcher, who I will not identify, but you know who you are. On the other hand I suppose I am really quite pleased.

As many of you may know and many others have guessed, I am a big comic fan. This goes back to the time when I was a kid and my siblings and I would head down to the local drug store each week and use our allowances to buy two comics each. In those days a comic only cost 10 cents and since there were five of us that meant 10 comics. We'd then head home and spend the next few hours reading them. Sadly, once we were through with them they got tossed out. If we'd only realized then what a 1955 Wonder Woman or Batman would be worth today we'd all have been able to retire early. But comic books were not all there was to the comics world. The daily newspaper also featured comics, and not just the skimpy offering that modern newspapers offer, but a full page spread featuring dozens of daily strips (some newspapers even had two page spreads). We'd also read those, following the adventures of Tarzan, Mandrake the Magician, Flash Gordon, Li'l Abner, Pogo, and many more. I would even

https://www.deviantart.com/ce5156 asked where I got my covers so I started looking through my sources and came up with multiple links, some of which I had forgotten about. I've decided to post all of them here if anyone is interested. Let's start with the Internet Archive, a huge collection of public domain material. It is rather disorganized, but if you've got the time it has a lifetime of content. https://archive.org/details/pulpmagazinearchive Pulp Covers. The name says it all. Over 1600 pages of pulp magazine covers. https://pulpcovers.com/ Comic Book Bondage Cover of the Day. Once again an enormous collection of covers. https://bcotd.com/index.html Picaryl. Covers, covers, and more covers. https://picryl.com/search?q=%23covers%2Bof%2Bcomic%2Bbooks%20%23golden%2Bage%2Bof%2Bcomic%2Bbooks Grand Comics Database. A vast collection of comic book covers from all over the world. It is a bit hard to navigate, but has a huge amount of material. Just type in the name of a comic and see