I would not sell my collection, if I did, I would cry (Part 38)...

Today In The History Of Polt's Comic Book Collection

Today, we travel back 45 YEAR, to February of 1974.  I was but a six year old wee lil Polt then, but I was buying comic books off the rack with me allowance.  In fact I was doing so before this month and year.  Mostly, they were Scoody Doo and Lil Archie and Sabrina and that kinda stuff.  But I know I bought a few superhero ones too.

Even Thursday, Mom would get groceries at Martin's, a store in a strip mall in town.  I'd get my weekly allowance (all of ONE WHOLE DOLLAR) beforehand, and I'd hang out with her in the grocery store, riding on the front of the cart and such.  Until I got bored.  Then I'd go, on my own (it WAS 1974 after all.  Bad things didn't happen to little kids in my town back then), to another store in that strip mall; The Village Bookstore.  They had books, and magazine, and cards, and trinkets, and knick knacks and such.  But I'd go to the comic book rack and figure out which ones I wanted.  Because back then, they were 20 or 25 or 30 cents an issue (depending on what year exactly) and for my weekly allowance of ONE WHOLE DOLLAR, I could but 5, or 4 or 3 different issues (no tax on reading materials in my state).  And then I take them to the car (no locked doors on the cars...it was 1974) and sit there and read them until mom came out.

Such fond memories of doing that each week.  I wasn't collecting them at that point (I didn't decide to do that until the summer of 1978) at this point, I'd just pick whichever cover looked the coolest and go with that.

Anyway, today we have Superboy And The Legion of Super-Heroes #200, from February 1974.

I didn't buy this one off the rack (I mean, come on, I'm not interested in a wedding NOW, much less when I was 6), but I DID buy in later one, maybe ten years of so later, when I was filling in my Legion of Super-Heroes line of comics.

This is the issue where Bouncing Boy marries Duo Damsel.  They're the first two Legionnaires to wed.  And since being married was against the rules, they both resigned their membership.  (Bouncing loses his powers, for the second time, in this issue [and wouldn't get them back until like #230 or so] so he would have had to resign anyway.)

Starfinger a reoccurring Legion bad guy is the villain of the piece.  Not such a memorable villain, and I don't really remember what happens, but in the end, the important stuff is that Bouncing Boy and Duo Damsel get married and leave the Legion.

POLT