Unca Cheeks the Toy Wonder's Silver Age Comics Web Site!

(... or: "A plush toy, with hand outstretched...")

*** "TRUE LIES: The (Possibly) Accurate Adventures of Christopher Chance: The Human Target";

*** "MUD-WRASSLIN': Marvel's Man-Thing versus DC's Swamp Thing";

*** "... MAKE-UP EXAM": In and Out and In Continuity Again With The Joker's Daughter";

*** "How Star Wars Changed the Comics ."

*** "THE NOSE KNOWS: The Ductile Detections of R. Dibny and S. Dearborn";

*** "The Life and Very Hard Times of Skull the Slayer";

*** "SAVAGE TALES: The Complete Scalphunter";

*** "A Despot and a Gentleman: the Victor Von Doom Chronicles";

*** "THE NAKED APE(S): DC Comics and the Super-Gorilla Syndrome";

*** "... NOR IRON BARS A CAGE: Luke Cage -- Hero For Hire";

*** "TURN OF A FRIENDLY CARD: The WILD CARDS Novels";

*** "H.G. WELLS WAS RIGHT: Killraven's War of the Worlds";

*** "The Best Comics Series You Never Read: Charlton Comics' E-MAN";

*** "BIRDS OF A FEATHER: Steve Gerber and Howard the Duck";

*** "The Twelve Greatest SUPERMAN Stories of All Time";

*** "SCHISM: The Fractured Inner World of Henry Pym";

*** "The Twelve Silliest Marvel Comics Ever Published";

*** "The '70's SUB-MARINER Work of Bill Everett":

*** "The Ten Greatest Brawls In Comics History";

*** "The American Indian In the Comics of the Silver Age";

*** An examination of writer Mark Waid's marvelously Silver Age-y CAPTAIN AMERICA (with additional ruminations on things "Cap"-ish in general provided by... well... you'll see).

Okay.

That's (some of) the stuff planned for and upcoming in the weeks and months to come, here on the ol' CHEEKS THE TOY WONDER HOME PAGE, campers.

That's approximately twenty planned entries for this site, based upon multiple e-mail requests from you... and you... and, yeah: YOU.

Not too shabby by half, huh...?

Now, for the not-so-good news.

The following are all e-mailed request for site entries -- regarding this character, or that comics series -- which Unca Cheeks is (sadly) not gonna be able to do for y'all, as matters presently stand:

*** BLACKHAWK (the "red-and-green costume" era)

*** COMBAT KELLY AND HIS DEADLY DOZEN

*** FLY MAN (and FLY GIRL)

*** GULLIVER JONES: WARRIOR OF MARS

*** THE GUNHAWKS

*** HOT WHEELS

*** JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS

*** LOIS LANE

*** METAMORPHO

*** THE MIGHTY CRUSADERS

*** NIGHT NURSE

*** PLANET OF THE APES

*** THE SPECTRE

*** STALKER

*** STRANGE SPORTS STORIES

*** SUGAR AND SPIKE

*** The Western Heroes of Marvel Comics (RAWHIDE KID; KID COLT; OUTLAW KID; etc.)

Unfortunately, as I said: I am not (in all likelihood) going to be able to do any of these for you.

Not without a little help, at any rate.

Okay. Listen up, people.

Here's the lowdown:

As most of you are well aware, the CHEEKS THE TOY WONDER HOME PAGE has been a going concern for...

... well... geez... well over a year now, as of this writing. Inching its patient and inexorable way towards the year-and-a-half mark, in fact.

Truth to tell: for all of my non-stop kvetching and moaning concerning all of the drudgery and bother and whatnot inherent in cobbling up new pages for you scruffy, adorable lot, week in and week out...

... I've been enjoying the holy heck out of this little online exercise in mutual borderline obsession.

I've been swapping regular e-mails back'n'forth with so very many of you, over the past year-and-some-change; whole lotta good people, it pleases me to say. Folks I (most likely) never would have had the pleasure of waving "howdy" at, had I never embarked on this damnfool mission (i.e., Spreading the Silver [and Bronze] Age Gospel) in the first place, more'n likely.

Stacy Allston. Jeanne Burch. Nick Caputo. Wes Clark. Luis Olavo Dantas. Frank Esposito. Louise Freeman. Chris H. Neil Hansen. Richard Harrison. Alan Hinton. Michael Hutchison. Raphael Laufer. Rob Leeland. Eric Newsom. Michael Norwitz. David Phelps. Sean Ruprecht-Belt. Thomas Seltzer. Martin Shoemaker. Dan Thompson. And another eighty or ninety individuals who are gonna be good and sore that I decided to end the roll call at an even twenty names or so. :-))

Of course... there's also the good-sized standing army of site regulars, steadfast and true, with whom I was (happily) well acquainted before I first plopped myself down in front of this keyboard with a NETSCAPE COMPOSER FOR DUMMIES handbook, as well: Greg Agustin. Kerry Aldrich. William Brackeen. Michael Brown. J. Kevin Carrier. S.A. Compton. Ken Cox. John Davoll. T.S. Hughes. Ken Jobe. Joe Linehan. Quentin Long. Rich Morrisey. Patrick Nestor. K. Roth. Joanna Sandsmark. E.J. Saul. Al and Barb Schroeder. Allen Steele. Jason Todd (his real name; swear to God); and, oh, golly, here we go again

What I'm endeavoring to say, here -- in my own patently maladroit way -- is: you folks (and all the ones who've never written; this goes for you, too) are a joy to cook for.

However many requests any/all of you have sent in for entries devoted to this particular series; or that specific character; or this story arc right HERE... I have dutifully added each and every one of same to my ever-

burgeoning "to do" list, re: this site. The vast majority of these have been realized (conscientiously, if not always skillfully), as of this writing...

... which, of course, brings us at last -- somewhat circuitously, it must be admitted -- to the nature of mine own peculiar dilemma, as it is presently constituted.

There are an embarrassingly high number of perfectly straightforward and reasonable requests for new pages aand entries which I -- loathe though I am to admit it -- can not fulfill.

Not without smidgen of help from you good folk out there, at any rate.

Allow me to explain.

I have (as the over two hundred pages on this site, thus far, should more than amply demonstrate) one gargantuan amount of old comic books.

I have boxes and boxes and boxes and boxes of the things, spread out all throughout the house.

I don't even make a pretense at attempting to calculate their number, anymore. (I'm old; I tire easily.)

I know this much, at any rate: I passed the 20,000+ mark simply ages ago.

However: it does not follow logically, from this, that I have every single comic book ever MADE.

Some, I have simply lost over the years: moves from one household to another, in some instances; garden variety theft, in others -- at least twice over the past decade alone.

Some others, I long ago simply sold or gave away, outright; never thinking that the day might come when I would find them useful once more...

... and -- of course; as is often the way with these things -- blind and obdurate Time has claimed its fair share of four-color treasures, over the years.

Those titles on the second list provided above (the one just under the first ADVENTURE COMICS cover scan) represent but the most miniscule sampling of the literally dozens of requests made for site entries which I, simply and sadly -- scour the local comics shops though I might, for the better part of a year; pore unblinkingly and obsessively over the latest eBay listings as I might, weekly -- can not honor.

No dealer I have yet approached -- whether online, or in person -- even bothers to carry such "minor" and "inisgnificant" titles such as these, anymore. (If you doubt me on this: well... you go up to the next comics dealer you happen to meet, and ask him if he has copies of NIGHT NURSE #1 through #4, inclusive. I dare you. I double-DAWG dare you.)

Please read through the following list of comics carefully.

Your wiley old Unca Cheeks...

... he has hisself a plan.

It involves making you either wealthier; happier; or -- best case scenario -- both.

DC COMICS

1.) ACTION COMICS #340, #413, #414, #421, #424

2.) THE ADVENTURES OF JERRY LEWIS #97, #105

3.) BLACKHAWK #197-227

4.) THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #63, #72, #78, #105

5.) CAPTAIN ACTION #1, #2

6.) DC SUPER-STARS #10 ("Strange Sports Stories")

7.) 1ST ISSUE SPECIAL #2 ("The Green Team")

8.) FLASH #173, #176, #180, #181

9.) FOUR-STAR SPECTACULAR #4, #5

10.) HOT WHEELS #1-6

11.) IN THE DAYS OF THE MOB #1

12.) LOIS LANE #50, #68, #70, #71, #77, #86, #95, #105-#137

13.) PREZ #1-3

12.) THE SPECTRE #2-#4 ['60's series]

13.) STALKER #1-4

14.) SUGAR AND SPIKE (ANY issue[s] after #30]

15.) SUPERBOY #145, #182

16.) SUPERMAN #204, #212, #214, #217, #222, #239, #249, #276,
#279, #320,#331

17.) WONDER WOMAN #141, #169

18.) WORLD'S FINEST #204, #217, #239

MARVEL COMICS

1.) COMBAT KELLY AND HIS DEADLY DOZEN #1-9

2.) CREATURES ON THE LOOSE #15-21 ("Warrior of Mars")

3.) THE GUNHAWKS #1-7

4.) THE HUMAN FLY #1, #2, #9

5.) MARVEL SUPER-HEROES #20-31 [1st series]

6.) MARVEL SUPER-ACTION #14-37

7.) MIGHTY MARVEL WESTERN #1-23

8.) NIGHT NURSE #1-4

9.) RED WOLF #5

10.) WESTERN TEAM-UP #1

ARCHIE COMICS

1.) JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS #55-74

2.) THE MIGHTY CRUSADERS #4, #5 ['60's series]

3.) THAT WILKIN BOY #12-26

There. Now you can all see what Unca Cheeks is up against, here.

These are not, for the most part, "rare" books, or "valuable" ones.

Many of these do not (save for a tiny handful) "price" highly in the Overstreet guide. They are anything but "hot back issues."

Which is precisely why (or so your Unca Cheeks has repeatedly been informed, by one comics dealer after another) they can't bloody be found.

Because: no one (presumably) wants them.

"Nobody," that is, save for the eighty or ninety regulars hereabouts who've requested entries on 'em, that is...

... and -- thus -- the original online Hard Luck Poster Child himself: your dedicated (and increasingly frustrated) Unca Cheeks.

Okay. So.

Here's how I figure it, then:

We're all Silver (and Bronze) Age aficionados, here.

That means: there's a better-than-even chance that most of you out there, reading these words, have one (or more) of the above-referenced comics.

Okay. So: I'm buying.

For real; no foolin'. Scroll yourselves back up to the listed titles and issues above. See what's there that you're probably not (realistically speaking) ever gonna wanna read again, in this lifetime.

C'mon. You know and I know those old GUNHAWKS and FOUR-STAR SPECTACULAR comics haven't been so much as touched since you were in junior high, f'chrissakes.

Are the covers suitable for scanning purposes? Are all the pages intact?

The e-mail address is: [email protected].

Offer open to all comers; dealers and non-coms alike.

Now: it may just so happen (stranger things have happened; read the ENQUIRER, if you don't believe me) that some particularly generous and wonderful and noble-like-unto-a-god-type person out there, reading these words, might well be thinking to himself (or herself, as the case may be):

"Hmmmmm... y'know... I've received so many countless hours of Absolutely Free Enjoyment from Ol' Unca Cheeks' site, here...

"... ohhhhhhh... what the heck! I'll just give him some of the comics from that list... gratis!"

Unca Cheeks says unto you, in turn: "I could live with that. If need be."

... or (on a more serious note): if you genuinely wanna help out, but just can't bear even the thought of surendering one of your four-color treasures for good and for all -- and believe you me, kids; I can, like, relate -- simply allowing me to borrow the book(s) in question for quickie scanning purposes certainly wouldn't be at all an unwelcome gesture.

Anyone so generously inclined would, of course, receive -- and I realizer this is pretty small potatoes, repayment-wise -- a fulsome and sincere "This page made possible by the boundless generosity of..." credit on said page(s), of course.

(... and, by the way: I'd like to publicly lick the collective toes of site regulars Bill Brackeen; Chris H.; J. Kevin Carrier; David Phelps; and the mighty, mighty Bob ("Answer Man") Rozakis, for already helping out your beleaguerd Unca Cheeks in precisely such as fashion, over the past few weeks. Thank you, gentlemen; you are -- all five of you -- prime examples of why I do this site in the first place.) )

Either way, however: whether you wanna see the color of Unca Cheeks' folding money; make like a four-color savings and loan; or surrender utterly to those deep-rooted philanthropic urges I sense within your mighty, fannish breast...

... [email protected].

Because -- at this point; with the stupefyingly rotten luck I've had to date in tracking down the requisite comics -- none of the aforementioned entry requests have so much as a snowball's chance in Phoenix, Arizona of ever getting done 'round here, unless and until I have some @#$%ing COMICS to freaking work with. Goldang it.

Do not not NOT get me wrong, here: I can (and most asuredly will) continue to churn out plenty of other fun-type comics pages without recourse to these. if need be. The entries listed at the very beginning of this article (by way of actual f'rinstance) are a;; on the "okey-dokey" short list. So... one way or the other: life will go on.

Again, however: [email protected].

The books needed for all of those other requests you've all been inundating me with have just plain ol' gotta be out there somewheres.

I mean: they didn't all just evaporate, upon publication.

I'm just sayin', is all. .

E-mail me.

Please.

I genuinely want to honor each and every e-mailed request for a new entry, hereabouts.

I am -- as the saying goes -- "in the market."

Don't make Unca Cheeks beg any more shamelessly than he already has... 'kay?

In any event: thank you kindly, one and all, for your collective forebearance and indulgance(s) in this matter.

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