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Michael Todd
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What are the two oldest comic books in your collection right now?
Mine are Captain Marvel Adventures #80 (January 1948)
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Mary Marvel #19 (December 1947)
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John Byrne
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BATMAN 13 (Oct-Nov 1942), and BATMAN 91 (April 1955) 
The second is a special treasure, containing as it does the first Batman story I ever read (tho not in this comic), and coming as it does from Dick Sprang's personal collection.
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Joe Hollon
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I am the proud owner of a longbox full of the surviving comics from my mom, aunt and uncle's early 50s through the 60s comic collection. Included are quite a few Classics Illustrateds that are basically impossible to tell when they are from because there were so many printings and at this time no date included anywwhere. They would be from around the same time, but these are the two oldest that I can be absolutely sure of:
On the left is Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #123 from December of 1950. On the right is Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #134 from November of 1951. These are Barks era Duck comics and #134 is the first appearance of the Beagle Boys! Cool, huh?
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Steve Adelson
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I used to have an early 40s "Air Ace", very brown and brittle that I purchased (cheap) only because of its age, but it was primarily text, so it got ditched eventually. Oldest on still in the collection:
 
Captain America Comics 46 (Apr 1945), the only WWII-era "Holocaust" cover, and Flash Comics 101 (Nov 1948)... I dig Flash time-travel stories.
[Edit: I lied... Star Spangled 79 (Apr 1948) is older. In consideration of not hogging all the images in this thread, I'll simply link to it.]
Edited by Steve Adelson on 27 February 2010 at 10:02am
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Darrell Hempel
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Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 and Daredevil #3 are my two oldest.
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Joe Hollon
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Steve,
I had not seen that Captain America cover before! Wow! Cool piece of history there. I'm surprised to see that scene represented on a Cap cover from that time period. Just seems like it would've been rather controversial. Comics definitely had moxie in the pre-code era!
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Steve Adelson
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Joe, it's quite the gruesome scene.... Notice the pile of gold and bones below the oven. Something horrific enough to be on an EC comic of the 50s, and unfortunately true.
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Brian Miller
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I've got an old Jughead comic from the early 60's. I've yet to be able to identify it online as I don't know the exact title of the book.
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Joe Hollon
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Brian,
Why can't you identify the title? Cover missing?
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William Roberge
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This is my oldest, from Sept 1945....
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Taavi Suhonen
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This Finnish black and white Superman comic from 1967. The cover's from Superman 192, but the contents are not - the three stories included feature a guy selling insurance to Superman, a group of thieves stealing shirts with S written on them and Clark Kent becoming a secret agent (this one continues in the next issue which I don't own and is originally from Action Comics 348).
Edited by Taavi Suhonen on 27 February 2010 at 10:25am
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John Papandrea
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