AJD

Scrooge, that is one great pile of comics. Good luck with the chase for the rest!

AJD

 

Thanks. Just looking at your sig line. Did you pick up any of the four colors you need in all the auctions this past week?

Nope - I'm cash limited and those ones would require $ needed elsewhere. I'm looking for midgrade copies with good eye appeal. Nice 6.5s would be perfect (and would go with my others).

I stand back and admire the 8+ copies from afar.

Wow - that's a great start to a duck collection David.

Great books Count - those sorts of covers are what the GA is all about.

The run is COMPLETE!

 

 

A No Prize to the Boardie that spots and identifies the lone double I forgot to remove

Great work Bill - that's a long run to go after. How long did it take?

Oh, and if I count correctly, it would be #80.

Thanks Billy and Gator.

 

For grins, what do you think the grade was on the MF 71 before I cracked it out of its plastic tomb?

3.5 ?

It's been a while, but thanks to Heritage this week:

 

I was tracking this one. Thought it might be a barometer of what effect the weak dollar is going to have on the Duck auction this week. I think this is a sign of some strong results coming.

$100 under guide.

It is nice to be able to spend my money as USD though.

It's been a while, but thanks to Heritage this week:

 

Nice! Any Rangers 15 is a good 15. Pretty tough book in my estimation.

And a really cool cover. How did these young ladies find themselves in such predicaments? (And how do their dresses defy gravity to keep them decent?) Enquiring minds want to know!

I've been slowly picking away at a slabbed run of Pep 22-65 (the Archie/Shield overlap issues) and just filled the holes to give me a 20 book run: 23-42 So, here they are...

 

That's some very fine collecting there...

Just in.... my first Nazi swastika cover

 

Strictly speaking that's your first 'mirror image Nazi swaztika' cover. Great book!

This is cool and bizarre in about equal measure.

A few weeks ago I missed a 4.5 copy of this book and was annoyed. But I must have accrued some good karma points or something. I got this beauty on ebay for not much more... great war bonds cover for my small but growing collection.

It's good to see a n00b has used the search function and done some reading before posting.

Do tell - I tried the search engine (which is usually useless in my experience). With the search engine I found... this thread.

So I tried a Google search of the site, and got this link.

Welcome to the boards Clay.

Nobody buying FH's these days?

 

Here's an eBay win from the long run of Wings boardmember (?) ComicKings had last week. I bid on all of them even though most were quite defaced with writing but was a couple of bucks too cheap I guess and ended underbidder on most.

 

Like the copy I got, few cover markings but I opened it and it's missing a coupon on the back. Sure enough, it's mentioned in the listing That'll teach me to read to the end. Still like it

 

Nice get Scrooge. That's a really cool cover.

My other hobby is aircraft modelling, and the P-61 is an all-time favourite. Some of the Wings covers have unrealistically posed and/or inaccurately rendered aircraft and I really can't get past that. (e.g. 59 - attacking aircraft is bound to crash into the water too, or 63 - mid air collision imminent). I know they do that to make it work as interesting cover art, but I find it too distracting.

#55 gets it right enough though. (thumbs u

OK, I'm a geek.

Nice book Andrew

 

It seems to have a single (manufactured) staple. Correct or not?

Correct, and not unusual for 1943-45 books. I imagine all of the steel saved in all of the comic books published made a square yard of a liberty ship's hull or something. It does make Dells of that period a bit harder to find with nice tight covers though.

Got this one in for my war bonds collection.

Even if it is the lowest graded (!)

I have heard of the UK Mickey Mouse Weekly before, but I got a chance last week to buy one cheaply to check it out. It's kind of cool - some Gottfredson Mouse, a couple of DD daily strips, a Lone ranger page (all the interior pages are B&W) and some strips that I think must be of British origin; 'Skit, Skat and the Captain' and 'Pinky green our cheery chappy'.

Excuse the scan, this tabloid size book is too big for my scanner, so this is two badly concatenated scans! The book presents really nicely and I'm pleased with my $9 outlay.

There are a couple of text stories. One is awful, a fishing story from the view of the trout, but the Ali baba story is actually nicely done, and has this interesting DD illustration to go with it:

Can't say I'll be getting into these bigtime - but if anyone sees the VE Day issue (early June 1945) drop me a PM - it would fit nicely with my war bond/patriotic covers.

Another war bonds cover. I was underbidder on this on Heritage last year at $250 when the Aussie dollar was trading at US70c. Then it popped up on ebay last week with a BIN of $150 - and the Aussie is US98c... :banana:

I won this via Heritage (I actually got a fantastic deal!!) a bit ago. I finally got a pic uploaded. One of my favorite movies.

 

Now that stirs my Welsh blood boyo - nice pickup. Michael Caine's finest moment.

Dear Gator,

I'd love to own a WDC&S #1. Should I buy soon, or is time on my side?

The coolest lot of books Ive ever picked up. I am in heaven going through these almost 100% NM beauties.

Wow - not everyone's first choice, but I have a soft spot for those Gold Key/Whitman books. In high grade the colours look fantastic. Nice pickup!

Many of these kids were peer pressured by adults to comply with their program. These kids didn't really want to burn their books. Which book was it, I think it was "The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America" by David Hajdu. Great read about the whole Crime/Horror comics scare.

I like the guy Hajdu tracked down who was involved in the burnings as a teenager. In true teen boy style, he recalled hiding a box full of GGA jungle comics to save them.

I've bought many books from Jon and look forward to buying many more.

 

First class communication, great prices & an all round nice bloke.

 

And he ships to the UK (thumbs u

 

What he said - except replace UK with Australia. Jon is a class act. (thumbs u

I put this in the have a cigar thread, but thought this thread could use a bump as well.