You may be one of the smaller KZitem channels Allen, But you're TOP in the quality of what you present. You're not in it for the money; you're a true comic book collecting fan. And I, for one, truly appreciate the history behind your collecting (reminds me of my own childhood). As always, thank you for sharing your memories with us.
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
It's because of collectors like you I love doing this! I couldn't have had a nicer comment then yours!
@jeffg51
2 жыл бұрын
Wow those are some gorgeous books thanks for sharing them & your stories
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! It's those memories that we take with us right?
@surfblue7336
2 жыл бұрын
I like your Iron Man collection thanks for sharing
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching!!!
@elonmudd
2 жыл бұрын
It's like a trip down memory lanes 😀 I had so many silver age books as a kid and I miss them sooo much
@aftacomics5865
Жыл бұрын
Oh Gosh! John Tesh is a friend and he tells me the same thing.
@randomrickreviewsrrr4662
2 жыл бұрын
Great story with the nice books!
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching them! I appreciate it a lot!
@geronimo9097
2 жыл бұрын
Great story about the costume. I'm on a FB group and I had a hard time convincing some folks that Iron Man was not exactly a "Top Tier" Marvel character in the early/mid 70's.
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
His series was close to cancellation in 1973! went to bi-monthly status for a time too. So you're 100% right on that!
@geronimo9097
2 жыл бұрын
@@aftacomics5865 I had no clue about the cancellation. Thanks for the info.
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
@@geronimo9097 Iron Man & Daredevil were almost cancelled because of low sales (Only 300,000 issues a month!)
@cjdesign5700
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks again for sharing your epic collection Allen...makes me a little bit happier.
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
Your comment just did the same for me! Thank YOU.
@BearCubster
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I remember you! Your the one with the brilliant stories.
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I mean, My family has heard them too many times!
@Prime_Comics
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome run of Iron Man! Iron Man 300 was the first comic I ever bought and I've been hooked since. Great Halloween costume story as well! Thanks for sharing! Have a great day!
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
#300 was a great cover and story!!!
@metarog
2 жыл бұрын
I bet that costume rocked for the time. My Shang-Chi 1975 costume was so cool but no pics exist either. Fabulous run you showed here. That first issued you picked up us part of a rare title crossover with DD #73. Thanks for sharing the story and comic goodness.👏
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for that! I bet it looked cool! Cross overs were a rare thing back then weren't they?
@L.E.55472
2 жыл бұрын
Love the stories!!👏🏻🙌🏻!!! Happy holidays to you and your family 😁🎄Lis
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you & right back at you too! All The Best!
@21gkleonard
2 жыл бұрын
awesome story, great run of books !!
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
Hello! We all had our "Trick or Treat" stories from back in the day!
@ISEESPOOKS
2 жыл бұрын
Great Halloween story ! I had a similar Star Wars costume (what the...) experience too. Movie had been out since May of that year , you'd think! Come Halloween several months later, I decide to dress up as Luke Skywalker and everyone thought I was a Kung Fu Karate instructor. Oh Well !! Love your passion for comics , Cheers!
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
That is great!! I love that!!
@robertharrison2.055
2 жыл бұрын
nice story and a nice set [ batch ] of comics .
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
Hey there! How are you?
@robertharrison2.055
2 жыл бұрын
@@aftacomics5865 i'm fine . thanks for asking .
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
@@robertharrison2.055 Excellent!!!
@TheJacksonRoykirk
2 жыл бұрын
Hey, you put out the videos, I'll be happy to watch them! ••• Great run of Iron Man. You stopped just before I started picking my copies up (at #73 I believe). I hadn't been collecting comics for long and that "War of the Super-Villains" blew my mind!
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
Do you remember that cover and story at a comic convention? Yes, I should have kept going!
@coolal19
2 жыл бұрын
Allen, that's a beautiful run in beautiful condition. When I was 10, my grandmother who was a seamstress made me a great Fantastic Four costume. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures but like you have the very fond memories. Thanks for sharing!
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
That is great! Grandmothers and moms knew how to really create stuff like that when we were growing up!
@drsilverage
2 жыл бұрын
Hi Allen! Love Iro Man costume story! I did much the same thing as a kid, cutting up old pants and shredding an old white t-shirt, cover my face with green chalk dust and VIOLA? The Incredible Hulk! LOL, fun times indeed! As always, I'm amazed at the shape of your off-the-rack comics as my OTRs are in much more degraded condition, lol! Always great to see a video from you and to see more of your collection and great stories from back in the day. Hope you and your family had a very Happy Thanksgiving, my friend. Take care!
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
I think, I have got the biggest kick out of hearing stories like yours about Halloween! That's what makes it so much fun is the memories!!!!!!
@solid4stbend
2 жыл бұрын
Hey Allen..Great looking comics and great stories! To be 10 years old and not get acknowledged as your favorite hero..That hurts! Lol The one that really got me going was the Frankenstein costume story😂 Thanks again for sharing your amazing collection and your wonderful childhood memories my friend!
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I really wish I had a picture? But I never thought I'd be talking about it 50 years later!!!!
@GraphicManComics
2 жыл бұрын
I dressed as Cyclops one year. Like you I pieced it together, fortunately dish washing gloves were yellow. Very carefully make the rounded cyclops visor out of yellow paper with a red glass center, to look like the second costume not the original. Went out trick or treating, and no one knew who Cyclops was, one guy thought my visor was a PIG's SNOUT and he asked if I was supposed to be a pig man.
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
What a story!!! Yeah, that's how it went for me too. One guy asked me if I was the tin man from Wizard of Oz!!!
@drawingbyhand
2 жыл бұрын
Amazing ironman 60s comic collection alan.
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@NitroModelsAndComics
2 жыл бұрын
Stunner of a run there.
@aftacomics5865
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! The #1 is a VG, but it was $5 back in '84 and now, well I'm not going to upgrade!
@vincru12000
2 жыл бұрын
Another entertaining story my friend. Yeah I remember the days of no love for Iron Man. Happy Holidays to you and your family
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
Poor Iron Man got no respect in the 70's(Do you remember the "Nose?") Merry Christmas to you and yours!!
@erikk.5202
2 жыл бұрын
Great set of books there Allen. I still marvel at the fact you have many of your off the rack books from when you were a kid and the fact they are in pretty nice shape. Small channel or not, yours is really one of the best my friend.
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
Erik!!! Thank you sir, hope all is well?
@erikk.5202
2 жыл бұрын
@@aftacomics5865 All is well, thank you!
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
@@erikk.5202 Glad to hear it!!!
@spinnerrackstudios
2 жыл бұрын
I recall when Marvel announced the Iron Man movie, I thought to myself "Iron Man? He's a second-tier character, what is Marvel doing?" Well, evidently Marvel knew exactly what they were doing. I will say they could not have picked a better actor in Robert Downey Jr. for the part. I think he was the foundation to the Marvel movie empire.
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
Agreed. It's my wife's favorite of the Marvel Movies..the rest she watches for me. But the price is sitting through a chick flick.
@silver-ageddave2849
2 жыл бұрын
Iron Man #35, I identify most with Nick Fury, especially this weekend, “I don’t want to…but I can’t stop myself…” more food…another piece of pie…sniffing glue…stints in a Turkish Prison…I just love all of it too much to say no! Thanks for burning six minutes and fifty two seconds on us Allen, we’re all just hoping for more but happy with whatever we can get! Hopefully your weekend was terrific, wishing you the best as always. Now I’m heading to the roof to blow out the gutters, somebody alert Superman! Stay groovy my friend! Silver
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
Hahaha!!!! Me too! All that work gone to waist! Get it? Anyway I hope you're well and it was a great Thanksgiving for you too!!!
@harryzlotzlottos5715
2 жыл бұрын
Hi Allen…One of the highlight issues for me was ‘Why must there be an Iron Man’ #47…with the retelling of the origin. I loved reading that issue ! Good to hear from you again.
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
Yes! One of my favorite covers of all time! Great origin issue (First I read about Iron man when I was 11 years old!)
@harryzlotzlottos5715
2 жыл бұрын
@@aftacomics5865 When Kirby returned to Marvel..he whipped up a pretty good cover for Iron Man # 80 1975 !
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
@@harryzlotzlottos5715 I love that cover too! Kirby did a series of covers all dated "November 1975" when he came back to Marvel. This was before he did anything else!
@psychedeliccomics
Жыл бұрын
In the early 70s I had this black felt Iron-Man poster and remember my older sister playing that Black Sabbath song. I know you know which song I am talking about. My sister knew Iron-Man.....
@aftacomics5865
Жыл бұрын
I do!!!
@RafaustComics
2 жыл бұрын
Wow! What a great run! So, you made your Iron Man costume the year I was born 😉
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
Ouch! Haha! Yes, I've been at it for a long time. Funny, still feels like I just got started?
@spinnerrackstudios
2 жыл бұрын
So my wife was watching the video from the kitchen and about 60% of the way through she said "Is he going to show us a photo or not?" But sorry to hear you don't have one. Perhaps you can recreate the costume for us, LOL?!!! Always enjoy your videos and stories.
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
Hahaha!!! I know, I know! I wish I had a shot. I thought about recreating it, and on a 10 year old, it's cute...but on a 61 year old..it's disturbing.
@luthermanning6945
2 жыл бұрын
Pictures please!🤣
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
Just couldn't find any!
@WinglessNetwork
2 жыл бұрын
Hi Allen! Your issues of iron man #’s 2 & 3 looked as if they didn’t have backer boards.. what type of Mylar are you using that keeps the books stiff and protected?
@aftacomics5865
2 жыл бұрын
1988 "Ultra-Pro" Mylar. I had to hand cut the backerboard to fit, but it's there. Stiff Mylar...back then it was the only kind available to me at my local comic shop in NC!
@philmitchell8887
2 жыл бұрын
a man after my own heart,,straight.. it's all right with me I am the one who calls taylor swift solar eyes.. I signed my copy one of them iron man 2 to solar eyes,,a nobody a nothing,, like me..so I am throwing it out there how much,, she wants to pay for my copy..
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