#Marvel Collectors&039; Item Classics

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BHOC: MARVEL COLLECTORS' ITEM CLASSICS #1

Every year, the Smith Haven Mall near to where I lived held a week-long crafts fair. For seven days, assorted artists and craftspeople would set up little booths throughout the Mall and hock their wares. And every year, there wound up being two or three guys selling back issue comic books out of cardboard boxes. In fact, it was at one of these yearly events that I got to see my very first genuine…

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BHOC: MARVEL COLLECTORS' ITEM CLASICS #13

BHOC: MARVEL COLLECTORS’ ITEM CLASICS #13

MARVEL COLLECTORS’ ITEM CLASSICS was an Annual sized regular title that reprinted earlier stories in the Marvel canon for the benefit of readers who came to the line later. Like me. It eventually changed its name to MARVEL’S GREATEST COMICS and ran for a good long time. And for somebody like me, who was interested in reading earlier Fantastic Four adventures, it was a huge blessing. As these…

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BHOC: MARVEL COLLECTORS' ITEM CLASSICS #17

BHOC: MARVEL COLLECTORS’ ITEM CLASSICS #17

This issue of MARVEL COLLECTORS’ ITEM CLASSICS was another book that I bought on that night after I’d worked all day at my father’s office. It was an issue that I picked up for the most important reason possible: it was priced more cheaply than other issues that were there, thus allowing my money to go further. I was definitely up for any classic Fantastic Four story, but there wasn’t anything…

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BHOC: MARVEL COLLECTOR'S ITEM CLASSICS #20

BHOC: MARVEL COLLECTOR’S ITEM CLASSICS #20

In addition to buying a handful of new comics that hadn’t yet reached my area during my trip to the Heroes World outlet in the Levittown Mall, I also stocked up on a few classic back issues. As I was working with a very limited budget, a real boon to me was reprint titles such as MARVEL COLLECTORS’ ITEM CLASSICS. This was the series that would be renamed MARVEL’S GREATEST COMICS a few issues…

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BHOC: MARVEL COLLECTORS' ITEM CLASSICS #22

BHOC: MARVEL COLLECTORS’ ITEM CLASSICS #22

This was the second of the pair of issues of MARVEL COLLECTORS’ ITEM CLASSICS that I bought on my trip to Heroes World with my grandparents. It was the last issue of the magazine–the following issue, its title changed to the moch zippier MARVEL’S GREATEST COMICS, though its contents remained the same: a Fantastic Four story, an Iron Man story, a Doctor Strange story, and something else short to…

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BHOC: MARVEL COLLECTORS' ITEM CLASSICS #6

BHOC: MARVEL COLLECTORS’ ITEM CLASSICS #6

I don’t remember at all what prompted it at this late date, but for some reason my family wound up going to the far-off mall that housed the Heroes World store once again. Possibly my father needed to get something he’d left at his office, which was in the same complex. Or maybe I just badgered everybody into making the trip. Either way, it gave me another crack at buying some vintage comic…