DC had the best sci-fi comics of that period. Excellent selection of covers Fred. Some of them have become iconic of the genre. And great choice for the soundtrack: Mars, The Bringer of War by Gustav Holst. Nice touch!
Man, I love this stuff. Makes me a bit homesick though. Especially that November 1954 issue of Mystery in Space 🛸 The Square Earth. Thanks for the memories xilFderF. 👍🏼
I know. Only a hop, skip, jump and one inter dimensional wormhole from my place in the 5th Dimension. xilFderF stores his functioning time machine there. He’s the bomb💥 and definitely on my Christmas card list.
Thanks for the use of your FredFlix TimeTunnel. 😏 Mystery in Space, Strange Adventures, House of Mystery and House of Secrets were the oddball story comics, loved reading them when I could find them, in the back issue bins.☺👍
One of those covers looked like it was drawn by Steve Ditko. Looks exactly like his unique style. The one where a man wakes up and says he dreamed about giants from Jupiter.
Also true: A low I.Q. guy who had 10,000 mint (never read) comics from 1955 to 1965, including almost all silver age keys, contacted a dealer in the '90s and said he'd sell them all for one buck apiece. The dealer asks for three days to come up with the money. When he does, the mom answers the door and says, "I threw them all away two days ago."
@@FredFlix Yikes!! With me it was coming back from college and mom telling me she'd decided to have a clean out of all that old stuff from my childhood that was taking up all that space and that I was far too old for now anyway. She also got rid of my Peanuts books, at least she gave them to our Church for a second-hand junk sale (apparently the comics weren't considered "church worthy" material). My parents had an ambivalent relationship with comics, they always encouraged me to read, which I would have done anyway, they just preferred I not read that stuff 'cause they thought it would rot my mind. Maybe they did!
My mom threw out my comics because she thought I should read something classier, like books. She bought a set of books from Encyclopedia Britannica that had kid's literature. I looked at a couple, got bored, then discovered that they had comics in the newspaper. A real life saver.
Back then in the "Atomic Age" of comic books, the stories could really expand on one's childhood imagination. Some stories were so good they could even make excellent movies or TV shows about them today!
vinkleman remembered that too. Topps stores had a comic book dispenser in its inner doors where you put in a dime and 2 pennies for a comic. It did not give change or credits toward another comic. Of course back then no self respecting kid didn't have dimes and pennies weighing down his pocket when going comic buying!
Those scifi, horror, and crime comics were ahead of their time. Think about how many were tossed out in the trash. Once the censorship and quack doctors wrote off comics as poison, it was a wrap. History just erased. Its the same with 45 singles. Im talking those rare cuts. Gone. Just like that. If only people knew the impact and the value back then...🤷Could you post some horror covers or some giallo? Thanks man 🍻
3:04 Is that "Giant Who Stole Mountains" future Justice League villain Kanjar Ro? Sure looks like him.
DC had the best sci-fi comics of that period. Excellent selection of covers Fred. Some of them have become iconic of the genre. And great choice for the soundtrack: Mars, The Bringer of War by Gustav Holst. Nice touch!
I appreciate that, Ranger Sly. You know your comics and your music.
@@FredFlix Another good choice would have been Neptune the Mystic by the same composer.
I sort of remember the covers at 00:13 and 1:37 thanks to my brother. Oh, dear, that's quite a while ago. Very nice vid, Fred. ⏳😊
Thanks, merce.
Man, I love this stuff. Makes me a bit homesick though. Especially that November 1954 issue of Mystery in Space 🛸 The Square Earth. Thanks for the memories xilFderF. 👍🏼
The cubical earth was later used as Bizarro World or Htrae, in Superman stories with Bizarro! ☺👍
I know. Only a hop, skip, jump and one inter dimensional wormhole from my place in the 5th Dimension. xilFderF stores his functioning time machine there. He’s the bomb💥 and definitely on my Christmas card list.
@@xyrzmxyzptlk1186 The postage from the 5th dimension must be pretty steep!
@@FredFlix my pal Billy Batson took me there once. It took no time at all! But it was 25 years getting back by Earth time.
Those were fantastic.
Wish I had them, HMW.
Yes! I remember many if those great DC covers, in fact, I still have many of them! Great memories, thank you Fred.
You're welcome, Dave. You're lucky to have those books!
Nice work Fred great finds.
Thanks, lucano57.
Thank you Fred! Love to see you on my favorites when I come home from work! "Hi honey I'm home..." lol!❤💋
I'm always waiting for you, Chantelle.
Cheers, Fred! Wonderful artwork.
Glad you enjoyed it, AG.
Kanjor Ro at 3:03? Also was not Space Cabbie in the train robbery issue?
Thanks for the use of your FredFlix TimeTunnel. 😏
Mystery in Space, Strange Adventures, House of Mystery and House of Secrets were the oddball story comics, loved reading them when I could find them, in the back issue bins.☺👍
All odd, all short, all priceless.
The stuff that nightmares are made of. Thanks, FredFlix! 👽
I'd love to have nightmares like those, Luis.
One of those covers looked like it was drawn by Steve Ditko. Looks exactly like his unique style. The one where a man wakes up and says he dreamed about giants from Jupiter.
Gil Kane.
MOM! what do you mean you threw them all out cause you thought I didn't want them any more!!
True story.
Also true: A low I.Q. guy who had 10,000 mint (never read) comics from 1955 to 1965, including almost all silver age keys, contacted a dealer in the '90s and said he'd sell them all for one buck apiece. The dealer asks for three days to come up with the money. When he does, the mom answers the door and says, "I threw them all away two days ago."
@@FredFlix Yikes!!
With me it was coming back from college and mom telling me she'd decided to have a clean out of all that old stuff from my childhood that was taking up all that space and that I was far too old for now anyway. She also got rid of my Peanuts books, at least she gave them to our Church for a second-hand junk sale (apparently the comics weren't considered "church worthy" material).
My parents had an ambivalent relationship with comics, they always encouraged me to read, which I would have done anyway, they just preferred I not read that stuff 'cause they thought it would rot my mind.
Maybe they did!
My mom threw out my comics because she thought I should read something classier, like books. She bought a set of books from Encyclopedia Britannica that had kid's literature. I looked at a couple, got bored, then discovered that they had comics in the newspaper. A real life saver.
That happened to me also.
I still have some of my old comics.
Fantastic so much better than the comic books of today back then the covers were amazing.
Fun stuff, Fred. From my perspective as an adult engineer, I do have to laugh at the comic book physics. :)
Yeah, they certainly played around with that.
Were as comical as cartoon physics!
Back then in the "Atomic Age" of comic books, the stories could really expand on one's childhood imagination.
Some stories were so good they could even make excellent movies or TV shows about them today!
Loved those comics back in the day. Love 'em even more now! Unfettered creativity at its best.
Wow what a trip!
Love those comic covers Fred ! True works of art ! Kane & Ditko were masters of their craft ! But Kirby was King !
You said it, Gary!
I remember being devastated when comics went from a dime to 12 cents.
vinkleman remembered that too. Topps stores had a comic book dispenser in its inner doors where you put in a dime and 2 pennies for a comic. It did not give change or credits toward another comic. Of course back then no self respecting kid didn't have dimes and pennies weighing down his pocket when going comic buying!
Me Too, Went .25 to .30 I Stop Buying in the Late 1970s.
Yeah! Do more like this video! 👍
My Uncles got me into comics when I was a kid! Not familiar with these, but I do love Golden Age Comic cover-art!
Very cool, Fred! But I do have to say, that the greatest covers of comic book history are those that graced the great EC Comics.
The 1960s When Comic Books were 0.12
The Skyscraper That Came to Life! Ripped from the pages of today’s news....every time I’m in Manhattan. LMAO
Wow happy valentine's to You too ♥♥♥♥it .bring back the memories. Awesome Fred .thank you my friend
Sweet valentines to you as well, friend Brenda.
These era is my favorite! Space Ranger!
Great artwork! The artists back then were probably paid $5 per cover. :)
From where I can get these comics❤️
Ebay.
Fred, you always do the best music---sigh, if I'd only been born 10 years earlier I would've OWNED most of these!
Golden
The last 30 years the film industry has been ripping off the 30's to mid 60's golden and silver age comics and scifi magazines.
I can't believe they didn't make a "Zombie Earth men invade Mars" story.
Maybe they did.
I'm sorry, but that cover at 2:46 reminds me of Whoopi Goldberg.🤣
Great music! What is it?
Mars, The Bringer of War by Gustav Holst.
Those scifi, horror, and crime comics were ahead of their time. Think about how many were tossed out in the trash. Once the censorship and quack doctors wrote off comics as poison, it was a wrap. History just erased. Its the same with 45 singles. Im talking those rare cuts. Gone. Just like that. If only people knew the impact and the value back then...🤷Could you post some horror covers or some giallo? Thanks man 🍻
Might do horror next.
Never seen these in the Netherlands.
I got an autographed SUPERMAN 75.ESTATE VALUE.....MAYBE
Who autographed it, Eli?
Fantastic artwork in my book but I don't have a cultured taste.
Thanks Fred.
Corny Sci-Fi titles! That's the kind of stuff kids read back in those days.