My Long Story About Tracking Down a 40 Year-Old Comic.

[Iron Mego]

Not quite a year ago I posted this thread here:

http://megomuseum.com/community/showthread.php?114980-Anyone-Own-Marvel-s-Tomb-of-Darkness-12

Well, there's been a development, which, if you care to, you can read about on my blog.

https://wakeupheavy.blogspot.com/2018/09/something-different-pull-of-nostalgia.html

So don't give up hope on that one comic, movie, or toy you have a strong memory of but no real way to describe it clearly. You may just stumble upon it by total accident some day!

[comicmike]

Great post. Very appreciated. Truly.

I lost my Dad this year. It has been a tough year for me. With my cousin's suggestion, I even travelled with my RC Batman Mego for our family time together...to have one with me just like the one he first gifted to me, to remind me of him.
Also, he always bought me comic books. So many of them I have researched through the years to find again, especially because I was notorious to cut out my favourite drawings from them when I was a youngster. This year, I finally found Batman Family #4. It is a nostalgic treasure to best remind me of my Dad: He had saught it out for me after I first learned there was even a Batgirl(!).

I have learned it is important to never give up on these memories of feeling young again, safe, and cared about: Whatever may be the genre.

[Mary Canary]

Great story! And so true how important it is to hang on to those feelings of being young, safe, cared about, and dare I say, bright eyed with imagination and the magic of our heroes!

[EmergencyIan]

Great stuff! Thanks so much for sharing, both of you. It’s been a pleasure to read and see.


- Ian

[Iron Mego]

Great post. Very appreciated. Truly.

I lost my Dad this year. It has been a tough year for me. With my cousin's suggestion, I even travelled with my RC Batman Mego for our family time together...to have one with me just like the one he first gifted to me, to remind me of him.
Also, he always bought me comic books. So many of them I have researched through the years to find again, especially because I was notorious to cut out my favourite drawings from them when I was a youngster. This year, I finally found Batman Family #4. It is a nostalgic treasure to best remind me of my Dad: He had saught it out for me after I first learned there was even a Batgirl(!).

I have learned it is important to never give up on these memories of feeling young again, safe, and cared about: Whatever may be the genre.

That's a great story. Kinda makes you think about what memories our kids will treasure when they are our age.

[comicmike]

Hi Iron Mego, Mark,
Re: your blog

"...there is mention of grave robbing in the vampire tale. Maybe that was it, or maybe that's actually in the issue of The Tomb of Darkness I posted above??..."

I did some digging for you: "Tomb of Darkness #12" had 4 reprinted stories. I found 3 of the 4 stories online for you to see and read. The links are below. I hope they help add to some of your ongoing memory retrieval.


1975/01
Front cover Gil Kane, Klaus Janson 1
Ti: The Body Snatchers ?
Cr: W-[N.G.] P/L-Al Luster I/F-Al Luster L-[N.G.] C-[N.G.]
Rp: Reprint from Adventures into Terror #24

http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com/2007/08/body-snatchers_05.html?m=1

Ti: If The Shoe Fits ?
Cr: W-[N.G.] P/L-[N.G.] I/F-[N.G.] L-[N.G.] C-[N.G.]
Rp: Reprint from Strange Tales (I) #8 ; reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales - Volume 1

Synopsis: "A man who murders a shoe maker becomes trapped in wet cement."; Reference:

http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Strange_Tales_Vol_1_8

Ti: The Vampire's Coffin! ?
Cr: W-[N.G.] P/L-Tony DiPreta I/F-Tony DiPreta L-[N.G.] C-[N.G.]
Rp: Reprint from Mystery Tales #15
W#: C-801

http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com/2011/10/vampires-coffin-johnnys-last-jump.html?m=1

Ti: Love Story ?
Cr: W-Stan Lee P/L-Joe Maneely I/F-Joe Maneely L-[N.G.] C-[N.G.]
Rp: Reprint from Spellbound (I) #14

(Please find the story ~3/4 of the way down the page, to:
'C-017 Spellbound #14 Love Story Maneely 5 pages')

http://allthingsger.blogspot.com/2009/12/thru-looking-glass-thursday-story-day.html?m=1

"A hunter in Africa is murdered by his wife and accomplice doctor, but not before the man leaves instructions with the natives to kill the doctor and marry off the woman to a witch doctor."

Additional References:

http://absencito.blogspot.com/2009/06/tebeos-precode-aterrorizando-el_25.html?m=1

http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Spellbound_Vol_1_14

Format adapted from http://www.maelmill-insi.de/UHBMCC/horror6.htm#S863

-Mike

[Iron Mego]

Man, I don't know how you did that--I searched so many different ways it's not even funny--but thanks.

I definitely did NOT have that comic, so another portion of the story solved.

[glimpy]

I'm still trying to find comic book I used to have back in the 70s still cannot find it

[TrekStar]

I remember reading a comic book that had Batman fighting Aquaman, land and water (Batman wore an oxygen mask)
I think Batman bested him, but I can't remember the story line, it was about mid 70's, I really wish I could somehow track this comic down somehow if anything just for curiosity sake.

[PNGwynne]

^Brave and the Bold 114, 126, or 142?

[comicmike]

I remember reading a comic book that had Batman fighting Aquaman, land and water (Batman wore an oxygen mask)
I think Batman bested him, but I can't remember the story line, it was about mid 70's, I really wish I could somehow track this comic down somehow if anything just for curiosity sake.

Possibly Brave & Bold 126 or 142?

https://m.comixology.com/The-Brave-and-the-Bold-1955-1983-126/digital-comic/604394

http://babblingsaboutdccomics.blogspot.com/2016/09/brave-and-bold-126-batman-and-aquaman.html?m=1

https://eruditegorilla.com/2017/09/29/comics-reviews-batman-301-detective-478-brave-the-bold-142/

http://babblingsaboutdccomics.blogspot.com/2016/09/brave-and-bold-142-batman-takes-on.html?m=1

[Iron Mego]

Good luck to those looking for a long lost comic! It's a wholly satisfying feeling to finally reunite with one!

[MIB41]

What a fascinating read Iron Mego! Thanks for sharing that story and providing an enthralling journey through your search and discovery. It's a perfect illustration of how difficult it can be maintaining moments and images that captured our imaginations as kids and sorting ALL of that over time to our recollection accurately. It's another reason why I enjoy this particular hobby/forum, because its allowed me to continue a conversation that quite honestly I have tried to maintain since I was a kid. From the time I saw Batman '66 and Spider-man '67 during their first run, I was hooked. Comics became my next fix to continue that journey when those shows were not on. And finally Mego introduced the WGSH, which took my world of imagination and shot me into this incredible place where I mixed comic moments, movie moments, and cartoon moments.

The Mego Museum offers a space to keep those moments alive and remain as vivid as they were when I first experienced them. When we quit talking about them and quit celebrating them, their importance carries less weight and so our memory relegates them to a corner where we may never find them again. I intend to keep mine in the spotlight for as long as I can. So thanks again for sharing your story. I completely connected with it.

[Hedji]

That was really great! Now I want that issue! It looks awesome.

[Iron Mego]

What a fascinating read Iron Mego! Thanks for sharing that story and providing an enthralling journey through your search and discovery. It's a perfect illustration of how difficult it can be maintaining moments and images that captured our imaginations as kids and sorting ALL of that over time to our recollection accurately. It's another reason why I enjoy this particular hobby/forum, because its allowed me to continue a conversation that quite honestly I have tried to maintain since I was a kid. From the time I saw Batman '66 and Spider-man '67 during their first run, I was hooked. Comics became my next fix to continue that journey when those shows were not on. And finally Mego introduced the WGSH, which took my world of imagination and shot me into this incredible place where I mixed comic moments, movie moments, and cartoon moments.

The Mego Museum offers a space to keep those moments alive and remain as vivid as they were when I first experienced them. When we quit talking about them and quit celebrating them, their importance carries less weight and so our memory relegates them to a corner where we may never find them again. I intend to keep mine in the spotlight for as long as I can. So thanks again for sharing your story. I completely connected with it.

Thank you, and thanks for reading my little story. Glad it connected with you.

That was really great! Now I want that issue! It looks awesome.

It's pretty awesome actually. Probably why it stuck with me for so long.