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I've reduced the prices on the Batman 11 and Tec 69 in my VCC booth. Take both classic Joker cover books for $850 shipped! I'm going after some high grade Tip Tops and need to raise a little cash. Theagenes Comics VCC Booth

Ryan you're on a roll! I love your collecting tastes - rare, esoteric and cool!

Wow! Great books, Ryan! And sweet WT, Dwight!

Wow! The circus posters are amazing! Very cool stuff!

Awesome!

That's awesome! Great bunch of cool pulps, Scrooge!

Awesome!

"This true story may happen" - That doesn't even make sense. I may have to read that one just see what it's about. Just flipping through it I have to say the artwork on the Dempsey story is not very good.

He's always been one of my favorites too. A great Dempsey cover that I'd really like to pick up sometime is Heroic Comics 40. Haven't seen it for sale very often. Here's another one I do have though - the cover is of course a swipe from the famous George Wesley Bellows painting of Dempsey being knocked out of the ring by Luis Firpo (he climbed back in and knocked Firpo out in the next round).

Here's a new one - cool Jack Dempsey cover.

That is really cool!

Thanks guys!

Congrats on the new additions to your collection (comics and pulp). I have the John Carter of Mars Better Little Book. I don't think I've ever heard of a John Carter Big Big Book. Do you have any photos of one? Oops, that's the one I meant.

They're going to make a great group shot when I'm done.

New John Carter pulp. This story is thought to have been ghost written by John Coleman Burroughs and is an expanded version of the story first published in the Whitman John Carter Big Big Book. BZ do you have one of those (or the JC Fast Action BLB)?

Three more Tip Tops courtesy of skypinkblu - Thanks Sharon! Have a #50 on the way from Jim Payette. The end is in sight!

What a great set of books, Sharon!

Nope, just the dailies. GCD also credits Raymond as the artist, but that's incorrect.

Thanks guys! The covers are either thin cardboard or really thick paper. Basically, it's exactly the same format as Large Feature - same size, same thick paper covers, B&W. This was the last oversized issue of course since the series went to the regular-size color format with the Prince Valiant issue. The interior is not Raymond, but the first Austin Briggs dailies. I have all the Raymond reprints, but I've never seen the Briggs dailies - I'm really looking forward to reading this.

Thanks everybody - I'm pretty pleased with it. Good question - I plan on reading it this weekend so I'll look to see if the cover is a blown-up panel. The interior is not Raymond of course, but B&W reprints of Austin Briggs' daily strip that had begun earlier in the year (1940).

All a have so far is a 5.0 copy of 209. This is a run I need to work on. I'm sure BZ or others here have some much higher grade copies to show off. I do have a pretty nice Weird SF 29, but I don't have a scan of it at the moment.

I had been looking for a halfway decent copy of this one for while. It doesn't turn up very often.

I can't believe that Wow! slipped through the cracks so cheaply! Those are such cool books and so rare! Got home from one of my work trips last night and found a priority mail box waiting for me. I think some of the regulars on this thread might appreciate this one:

Oops, That's BZ's copy. I thought you had totally scored.

Wow!!! Congratulations, man! That is outstanding - well done!