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My sister and I met Will Eisner at the San Diego Comic Con in an elevator in the El Cortez Hotel. sometime in the 70s. Lisa exclaimed, "You're Will Eisner!" and he admitted that it might be so. I chimed in with "We recognized you because you look like Commisioner Dolan!" He winced. "Dolan is supposed to look like my father! When I created the character in 1940, I drew myself as Denny Colt!"

What wonderful memories. I think I'm a little older than you, cause I remember all the crazy Western comics that occupied the racks before superheroes made their Silver Age return. Might we see The Rawhide Kid and Johnny Thunder ride again someday?

Wow! Looks like every planned episode is a must see for me! Love the channel!❤

So many great episodes to look forward to Gary! Here's to 2025!

Well, Gary, I'm certainly looking forward to 2025! And in regards to the 25 cent month, I'm sure you'll recall, being the avid Marvel reader you were, that the intention was to have the 25-centers continue for at least a second month. The evidence is in the first two 20-cent month's issues. If you look at FF #117-#118, or Spidey #103-104, as two examples, those stories were obviously 35 pages. They were split into the two books, with a 5-page filler (either new or reprint) filling out the remainder of one of the issues. So, as far as the writers and artists were concerned, it was full steam ahead on the 25-centers. In my opinion, this belies the notion that it was Goodman's premeditated ploy to trick DC into jumping into the 25 cent fray so that he could pull back a month later to take advantage. Anyway, enjoying your channel as always. We are of like minds when it comes to comics and life (couldn't have one without the other) in the 1960s. Add monsters, the Beatles and Jonny Quest to those life essentials!

It is good that this series will finally tell how comic books almost met their demise in the early 1970s. This topic has been ignored for far too long. Retail profits on comics were too low to give them shelf space, and their market outlet was to disappear. Adding pages helped raise the price of comics, yes. Still, there was more to be done. This is why so many titles were released in the early Bronze Age. The more there is to sell, the more the public will buy. I'm looking forward to all future episodes of this fine series. I lived through most of your tales. They were great days. Thank you.

look forward to this year's episodes. Thanks for the outline of what to expect.

What a line up! I cannot wait for the Kirby covers, I recall spending time collecting his double page - wide- layouts, amazing. July 2 should be made a national holiday. I also recall being utterly fascinated by the ads for plastic models and famous movieland monsters...Although my parents would not budge.

I grew up in the UK in the 1960s (Still there now!) Was impossible to get Marvel comics till very end of the 1960s - though you could get DC titles. The way us UK kids got to know about Marvel content was by those UK titles such as `Eagle` `Wham` `Pow` `Smash` and especially `Terrific` and `Fantastic` running older Marvel strips albeit only in Black & White. All UK comics were (And still are) produced on a Weekly basis, so they would soon catch up. Sometimes the UK magazines would actually edit & alter those strips- mostly dialogue changes. `Fantastic` comic in 1968 actually totally re-jigged the `Doctor Strange` storyline that had run through the last issues of `Strange Tales` issues 164 to 168. The staff at `Fantastic` condensed those issues storyline right down and altered a `Lot` of dialogue to make it legible. Amazingly, it worked!

😎 On that upcoming "Monster" episode you might want to mention Joe Dante's 1990s film "Matinee" starring John Goodman ; a William Castle like film maker befriends a Monster Magazine loving kid in Key West , Florida in 1962 at the height of the Cuban Missle Crisis! Monster cards , model kits , stickers , Halloween costumes , games , puzzles , etc 🤗 definitely worth waiting for!

Most of my reprint collection of graphic Novels covers Golden, Silver and Bronze age. I found by the Mid 80s Comics seem to become very soulless and Bland

Love the rebrand Gary, awesome work as always. Can't wait for the 2025 content, looks like an amazing line-up of shows! Nuff said!

Love watching TALES FROM MY SPINNER RACK - because I too grew up in the 1960s reading comics. The comics usually came out on the first and third Mondays of every month. All the kids would crowd around the spinner rack in the local news agency after the school day had ended, hurrying to grab up issues of Fantastic Four, The Avengers, Spider Man etc. Marvel Comics were always more popular than the DC Comics - I think because the Marvel covers were always far more eye-catching, particularly with the Jack Kirby action art. I also read comics, bought by my 'big' brother in the late 1950s and early 1960s. These were mainly Classics Illustrated and Dell Comics, particularly the Dell movie comics - Atlantis, the Lost Continent, Jason and the Argonauts, the Lost World are a few of my favourites. Will SPINNER RACK be doing a future episode on Dell Comics?

Okay i now know your 9 years older than me. 2 years younger than my older brother. I was weaned on his collection. We had a local drug store with 2 racks.

love this channel..info on comic history since i started reading comics back in 1986..

Thanks for this

Had to smile at your reference to an “Old Master painting “. Calamari comes from squid not octopus. Enjoyed the video immensely as I am a monster collector.

Ever consider the creation and evolution of Wonder Tot?

Thank you Tales From My Spinner Rack for great memories from the Silver Age of Comics. Your videos are awesome! I had many, many favourite covers (all of them Marvel) - mainly Jack Kirby Fantastic Four covers in the period from 1965 to 1967 and Steve Ditko Spiderman covers from 1965 to 1966. I also liked some of the John Romita Spiderman covers shortly after he took over from Ditko. Oddly though, my favourite cover was X-Men 24 (September, 1966) - The Plague of the Locust with its eye-catching red background and the X-Men doing battle with the Locust. I am looking at it now, admiring it as I type these words. The cover is simple but full of action. We were very poor at the time and Mum only allowed me to buy one comic a month. The cover immediately caught my attention on the spinner rack and I quickly purchased it with my 12 cents, taking it home and reading it more than a dozen times over the following weeks and admiring the cover for even longer...

This a beautiful series of episodes to watch and listen to, especially for anyone who was a kid in the 60's.

I had that book by Jules Feiffer as well as other books like his. It was a great way to learn about the Golden Age characters! I wish I still have those books!

got to agree. even though I don't usually go for the love and romance books, the ART COVERS ON THOSE books are great! There is no question that some of those covers are well done. I agree, Spinner Rack.

man I tell you this is a great channel. I am learning a lot about early Dc comic book history and the rare and forgotten or hardly known comic books. And those stories. I have to get some of these in my collections.

Congratulations!🎉❤

George Wilson covers are some of my all time favorites.

Phenomenal episode! Great selections and critiques.

Congratulations on 1K subs, and what a great episode to break through the barrier! Looking forward to the FF and Marvel Romance episodes in the new year.

interesting. so there WERE other stories of Superman dying, even if imaginary. Hunh.

thats one of the things I loved about reading Marvel comics when I was young. The Bullpen Bulletins, Stan's soapbox, the in house Ads, and the information page and even the letters sent to the editor. You had to enjoy your comic book. You first look at the front and back cover. Then you periodically sniff the ink , again and again. Then you read it. You must read all the ads and look at all the letters page and similar. then you meditate on the great art and story you read. Maybe you take quick sip of your drink and one more bit of your candy bar. Then, knowing your hands are clean, you "tackle" the next comic book title and repeat, until exhausted.

you have a great channel. Have seen 5 of your videos today, 3 yesterday. Fantastic nostalgia discussions, memories and great art covers and stories and explanations of the history and background info of the artist and the heroes within those stories. YOU ARE THE GREATEST. As an older collector, this is a fantastic inspiration for me to collect and buy even MORE comic books.

key thing here, that is important to me, that most modern fans don't realize. yes, the spidey movie made money and were popular. But we all know that for a very long time Spiderman comics were number one and were and are still popular and collectible. But my point is, that as early as comic issue 31, Spiderman was going to college. Peter parker didn't remain long in high school. But Disney/Marvel keeps making movies where he hasn't even graduated yet, because they think that what modern fans want to identify with. No, allow parker to grow older and get into college and get more mature.

I recently visited an auto repair shop and the owner had a spinner rack in the corner with vintage comics on it.

I have to say that I prefer the published version of the King Sized Hulk rather than the original. It's consistent with how the Hulk was rendered in the regular comic and this special. The Steranko 's face is a bit too human for my taste. In fact, I tend to think it was close to a self portrait by the artist.

I started watching but soon realized I'm too old to appreciate this. My period of growing up with comics was over about the time Sputnik was launched.

Great video! Glad I discovered your channel!

Nice video. I subscribed. I wanted a spinner rack to hold and limit the size of my collection, which includes three comics in this video-Kamandi, The Demon, and Madbomb. Unfortunately, they want an arm and a leg for an old spinner rack. I've seriously thought about making my own wall-mounted rack with a hand-painted Kids Read Comics sign to get my small collection out of the short box housing it. We'll see...

Enjoyable and insightful channel. And btw obviously Steranko’s Hulk face is way superior , the hair alone wins it .

I still remember the events of the day buying/reading Tales of Asgard. I usually waited until I got home to read my comics but I do recall reading it on my home in the Safeway parking lot. Even as a kid I was super careful with my books but for some reason I did some drawing on that cover and accidentally ripped it which ended up with me tapping it. That copy certainly stands out in my collection as being different. Ah, good memories…

Oh yeah! I am in a bind for time ; yet look forward to this 30 minute treat tonight.

The King Kong oversized edition was first published the same month as the comic-sized edition (Sept 68), bad then reprinted in June 1978, a year and a half after the Jeff Bridges/Jessica Lange remake. (That info is according to the Lone Star Comics site. However, searching eBay, I see dozens of copies of the ‘68 edition and none of the 1970s reprint for comparison. Does it even exist?) And I’m surprised you didn’t mention Alberto Giolitti’s most prolific work on Turok. That’s where I first became aware of the artist. And I loved hearing the mention of George Wilson. In the past 2-3 years, I’ve been buying many, many Dells and Wilson did so many great covers for Western. And coincidentally, I own a fairly decent copy of Dick Tracy #131.

Great Show Thanks. Look forward to next year's shows

I can look at many Silver age / Bronze age covers from 50 years plus I can Mostly recall what the Issue Story was about but from the 1980,s onwards as comics became more Bland and forgettable by the cover alone I would not have a clue

Don't know if anyone cares, but i have a digital copy of Millie the Model annual #3. The only credits I can find are that it was created by Stan Lee & Stan Goldberg. One interesting thing was that every time Millie showed up in a new outfit, it was credited to someone who sent in the design i.e. 'Evelyn Fields, of Springfield, PA' or something like that. It's interesting in that I think Marvel was the first to do something like that, at least that I can remember. They also had full page pin-ups of a variety of other designs & hair dos.

It's interesting that it feels like Sgt. Fury isn't taken as seriously by war comics readers from the 1960s as the various DC counterparts. I'm definitely going to have to spend some time with this series. Thanks for the insights!

I don't know if you know this, but Marvel also produced two annuals back in the forties. One for Marvel Mystery Comics, and one for Captain America Comics, both 128 pages.

I have always loved Sgt. Fury and consider the full run I have as one of the jewels of my comic book collection. Grossly underrated, even though it lasted 160 issues +Annuals, and much of that time with bi-monthly publication and/or reprints! Sure Marvel tried to add additional war titles such as Captain Savage or Combat Kelly, but they never lasted, so Sgt. Fury held the line vs DC who had FIVE dedicated war titles (also very good by the way)! As you mentioned, virtually any issue from 44 to 81 is a gem in my book. Because of that run, as well as Cracked Magazine, John Severin has been firmly positioned as one of my favorite comic book artists. Love the episode!!!

I never discovered the Spirit until the 80s. Great stuff.

Love Woods Thunder Agents. The revivals can't compare to the original. I got many of those Flash Gordon comics. There were many great artists on both the strips and the books.

How refreshing it is to watch your videos discussing your love of comics and not the value of comics. Thank you!

Oh man; you just made my day. This title was my first collection - and yes 16 had the best cover!