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| I'm such a geek for knowing historical perspective that I often Google names or date stamps that I find on comic books. It requires a full date month/day/year or a first and last name but sometimes you can find some neat stuff. If you have books with full date stamps or first and last names of previous owners, please post them here if you care to. You can do the Google search yourself and share the details or leave it to us. Here is one @JesseO shared in the weekly cover contest. A Google search shows that basketball legend Karl Malone was born on the day this book got stamped, July 24 1963. President Kennedy had only 120 days left to live. The stamper, Sav Mor Drug, seems to be organization of independently owned Pharmacies that operate under that name, kind of like a Franchise.  |
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| @EbaySeller ok, this one isn't a date stamp but I think you will enjoy it!! I copied the text from my Facebook post. "Ok - this may not be the Greatest comic book cover ever, but I think it is pretty awesome!! It is actually a World's Finest # 105 (Nov, 1959) with a drug store cover. Back then, if a comic did not sell, a retailer, like a drug store, could get credit back by returning the cover. This drug store took it a step further and designed their own cover. It is assumed that the drug store then gave these out to sick children when they got their prescriptions filled. There are games on three of the pages of the cover. This particular comic comes from a one owner collection that was discovered by Steve Sibra and is dubbed the Anaconda Collection because it comes from Anaconda, Montana. CBCS has recognized this collection and has slabbed comics with the designation "Anaconda Collection". To me, this comic symbolizes an era gone by, an era where things were simpler, time passed a bit slower and people had a sense of community. A time before the internet and instant gratification. It was not a perfect time, but it was a period where kids still rode their bikes around town, men still worked on their own cars and the sidewalks closed at dusk. But I wax nostalgic. I started my own comic collecting buying comics from the local drug store in Annandale, Minnesota, in the 1970's. I guess this comic just brings back those great memories of me riding to the drug store on my Evel Kenievel bicycle. I hope others enjoy this one!!"       |
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| Yeah, that's pretty cool. Thanks for sharing, I love that stuff. Quote: Originally Posted by Jesse_O I'm reading your words and realizing that the internet has done the impossible, it has made our world both larger and smaller at the same time. Larger because now we have access to places and things we never had access to before. Smaller because of the instant gratification that you mention...it has taken away much of the journey and mystery that those bike riding kids had to look forward to as they grew up. |
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Not a date stamp. Found this in the Sub-mariner comic I bought over a decade ago. Obviously the original owner used their sales receipt as a book mark and I left it in there.   |
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| @southerncross The receipt shows March 7 1970. According to the Google Machine the English actress Rachel Weisz was born that day. Most significantly on that day was what they called the "Solar Eclipse of the century" visible from North and Central America. I had 5 more months to go in the baby oven. That is one nicely preserved receipt. White PQ I would say. |
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This one is kind of sad. The free search shows that Donald Bartgis of Barrelville Maryland was born in 1947 so he was probably around 8 years old when he bought and stamped this book. He was married, divorced and passed away in 1979...presumably at 32 years old. Here's that part that I find fascinating: He passed away 40 years ago, long before internet technology existed. His name probably hasn't even been mentioned in 20 years. Here I am, finding him through a technology that was far from existence at his passing, memorializing his life on a forum for comic book collectors...all because he had an Ink Stamp that he liked to use on his comic books in 1955 when he was 8 years old. Makes me want to buy an ink stamp and start stamping my name everywhere.  |
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  Unfortunately no name. Looks like the 12 year old didn't want to put his name in. Then after cutting the ad out had second thoughts and stuck it back in |
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Quote:Originally Posted by southerncross LOL, I know it's silly to speculate after so many decades, but it almost looks like the kid made a mistake when writing the address, he included the city/town "Indio" instead of the street name...so realizing his mistake, maybe he just decided to use a coupon from a different comic. Cool thread. I love old comics where you can see the original owner's name, on the cover or first page or as here, in a coupon. I also collect old books and magazines and I love it when those have original receipts or the owner's name. |
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Unfortunately no name. Looks like the 12 year old didn't want to put his name in. Then after cutting the ad out had second thoughts and stuck it back in I love it...it's a captured moment in Comic Book history. This could go in any museum of Comic Book History. The cut-outs that were for the longest time a part of comic books. This symbolizes all the kids who were tempted but hesitated. Started and then stopped. Or just plain screwed it up. Quote: Originally Posted by ShallaBal I think your right. Makes me wonder how many young kids got excited enough to cut out these ads but then never saved the money necessary to place the order. |
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I LOVE date stamped books. A few of my favs...     |
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Quote:Originally Posted by daredevilart @daredevilart The Google search shows that this owner, Doris, most likely spent her life in Michigan. She taught Math and Art most of her career after getting a Masters Degree at Western Michigan University. Born in 1945 she was basically the extreme vanguard of the Baby Boomer generation and she passed away in 2017. Seeing as how she owned this particular book, we can assume that she had a wry sense of humor. https://www.sytsemafh.com/obituaries/Doris-Herlein/#!/Obituary |
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@EbaySeller Great idea for a thread! Here are a couple for you: Pretty sure the name written is Diane Johnson.  Hard to see in the pic but the date stamp is Jan 17 AM. That would have been 1950. |
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I also have quite a few Harvey’s that used to belong to this guy: |
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Quote:Originally Posted by michaelekrupp Leroy John Viebrock Birthdate: March 27, 1933 Birthplace: Stover, Morgan, Missouri, United States Death: July 12, 1993 (60) Memorial Community Hospital, Jefferson City, Missouri (cancer) |
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Quote:Originally Posted by michaelekrupp Too common of a name. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by michaelekrupp That date was also the day of the Great Brinks robbery. According to the internet 11 men robbed the headquarters of armored truck company Brinks and got $1.2 million cash and $1.5 million securities. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by CFP_Comics In looking for more about the life of Mr. Leroy Viebrock I noticed that he was a school teacher. So both comic books in this thread that had printed labels stuck on them belonged either to school teachers or kids who became school teachers. Twice is a coincidence. If it happens a 3rd time were going to have to call it a pattern. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by EbaySeller That was a helluva lot of money by 1950 standards! |
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