Broom Hilda by Russell Myers for April 13, 2023

Wish i had keep all the comics book i had as a kid.

I had some gems in my collection, but somewhere along the way they all vanished. Some of them would be worth a fortune now!!!

When I was a kid, I used to buy “Tom & Jerry” comic books every month.

They cost only $0.10 then.

Since they ceased print publication in 1990, you couldn’t buy them for $10.00 today!!’

Sixty-five years ago, I had a whole bunch of the original MAD comic books. I gave them away when I was in high school. What was I thinking?

Love this strip! It’s funny on so many levels- thank you, made my day.

If she has all the initial issues, she is funded for another 1500 yr. Yip yip yip yip yip

What a frightening cartoon!

As a kid, I was really into comic books. Then Star Trek and then Babylon 5 came along.

I had a lot of comic books growing up but never thought to keep them…

I started buying comics almost 44 years ago. I got too busy in recent years to keep up on them, and holding off until I had filled in complete runs to read them. I recently realized I’d better force myself to start reading at least one every day, since I estimate at that rate it will take me over 25 years to get through the ones I haven’t read yet.

I never got into reading or collecting comic books. Regular books was another story. As a kid, I full sets of The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Tom Swift and quite a few Zane Grey novels and many others. My mother, to my never ending disgust, took all of them to the local library and gave them away because we were moving across country and had to make a weight limit.

Wat I told my wife when I was working in the field. She never believed me. The laughter was my first clue.

My wife has six large boxes of old comics. I don’t think she has looked at any of them in the 13 years we have been married.

The old comics I read back in the 60’s and 70’s were great, but I’ve bought a few new ones at Comic Cons and they just don’t stand up to the older products.

In 1978 I had a complete collection of Marvel comics from FF#1 through about 1973. I sold them to go to college.

It’s a good thing Broomie has a friend ready to remember her the important things in life.

Not so! For Broom Hilda there is life as long as there are comic strips.

I had a good collection of matchbox cars wish i had kept them.

Reading the comics here helps fill out my days.

Can anyone tell me what the cover says? It should be “Superman”, but magnified it didn’t seem to say that.

well…I am addicted to Mangas, old comic books, Japanimation and such so…for once I agree with her.

Good point G-lord

Sadly, Broomie and Gay​lord, there is life without comic books, when your mother trashes your collection as part of a home move (my experience many decades ago)….

When I was young, I never was allowed to buy comic books but somehow I managed to read few on the sly. I read just a couple of days ago that the artist who created those fold-in puzzles died. I do remember how clever the puzzles were too.

About eight years ago, I had to get rid of ALL my MAD magazines and NATIONAL LAMPOONS because the upstairs neighbors took in visitors, and started a bedbug infestation (twice!) which infested the entire apartment complex with bedbugs.