OT- Dell Comics

[Gun Smith]

Back in the late 50's and early 60's Dell Comics published comic books with the current TV shows as their theme. Yesterday the wife and I took a drive and in one small town where we stopped we went into the local "antique" store. In one stall I found a pile of these old comics. On the cover of two issues I found "The Rifleman". One shows McCain holding the M. 92 with worn bluing, and the other copy shows the rifle with the beautiful reblue we did when I worked for the bluer. It kind of gave me smile to see something I had done 50 years ago on the front cover of a magazine.
The issues were in 1964. I looked on ebay this AM and only found 1950's and early 60's copies for sale. If you go to ebay and type in "dell comics the rifleman" it will take you to that site. Dell also did "Wagontrain", "Have Gun Will Travel", and several others, also on ebay. Prices were $10.00 to $100.00 per copy. The ones I looked through were $3.00 in that store on poor condition. I almost bought them to get the front covers for framing. Maybe I'll go back through there sometime and buy them. I'm sure they'll still be there.

[Blaine]

When I was a young lad, a friend of a friend gave me a big cardboard box of old comics from the late forties and fifties. Maybe 3 or 400. When I was in HighSchool, Mom threw them away.

[AJMD429]

One of the primary functions of women, aside from having babies,

is to THROW AWAY guy's stuff...

In my experience, the 'cooler' the stuff, the more eagerly it is disposed of.

[John in MS]

"One of the primary functions of women, aside from having babies,

is to THROW AWAY guy's stuff...

In my experience, the 'cooler' the stuff, the more eagerly it is disposed of. "

Yeah, tell me about it. My mom threw away my Dad's WW2 field jacket when I was about 10. That still irks the heck out of me.

John