In (I think) 1960, back in
my home town in Germany, my mother purchased for me my first copy of
Micky Maus. It might have been #4 of that year's series. Subsequent issues were also bought for me, until I had a small stack, and these I brought with me to Canada when we emigrated in May of that year. Thus my hoarding craze began. For the few years that I managed to hold onto those comic books I was somewhat annoyed at
not having those missing (#1-3) issues.
In 1967 I started collecting Scientific American magazines. Soon aware that its then-current format started in
May 1948 I began seeking out back issues. Thirty-some years later I had garnered not only those but additional monthlies going back to 1920 and assorted weeklies going all the way back to 1845.
In November 2011
I scored 3246 pdf issues of Scientific American Weekly (out of the 3349 that were published prior to 1910, not including the Supplement). Over the past three days I have
added (cropped from Google-available bound volumes) 88 of the missing 103 issues to
my collection.
That leaves 15
still missing (date / volume / number):
1866-04-28 14 18 $
1867-06-22 16 25
1872-12-21 27 25 $
1895-11-23 73 21
1902-07-05 87 1 $
1902-07-12 2 $
1902-07-19 3 $
1902-07-26 4 $
1903-05-16 88 20 $
1904-02-13 90 7 $
1904-06-11 24 $
1904-06-18 25 $
1904-06-25 26 $
1904-09-24 91 13 $
1907-10-26 97 17
The $ signs mark the 12 issues that are available
from Scientific American for $8 US each.
