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AJD

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  1. In terms of the things we buy holding their value, it depends on what you think the long term trends are. Even at the current 75c exchange rate for me, I'll do just fine if the A$ falls lower. Between the increase in GA prices in US$ and the falling exchange rate, I'm sitting on a tidy paper profit on the stuff I bought when the A$ was higher. If it was to fall to 50c again (like it did in 1999) I'd have to seriously contemplate selling a few high ticket items... (so I hope it doesn't ).
  2. Lovely books Ed. I have the Aurora copy of #14, which is my only pedigree EC other than a Gaines Valor #5.
  3. Getting into romance comics is so derivative of you Corey. They do have a certain charm though, don't they?
  4. Thanks Rich. I haven't seriously been looking for 1-5 (yet?) but I have noted that #2 is tough in any reasonable shape. I'd have guessed that #3 is similarly difficult though? #4 up seem relatively easy, though some don't seem to come up in mid-grade or better very often. The others I need (in case anyone is interested) are 10, 11, 14, 18, 21, 34, 35, 36, 41, 45 and 48. Of those I'd say that 14, 21 and 48 seem the hardest in VG or better, though it might just be a statistical fluctuation in the sample I've looked at. Anyone with leads on any of those books is welcome to drop me a PM! Hmm... (takes off socks and shoes to count)... yes, that's right. 84 of 100 down. Thanks Corey. I don't know if I'm going to ever get those first five, but I feel good about the other 95 now.
  5. Another smutty Point Five sales thread. Second one in the past week.
  6. Here are a couple of books that turned up in a care package from Heritage yesterday. The 82nd and 83rd of the first 100. Both nice solid books with just enough issues to be easily affordable. Great PQ on both too - offwhite/white at worst, which is nice for books 73 years old. I've picked up two more since then, but they remain a large ocean away for now.
  7. +1 for leave them as is. This way you get to enjoy the cover and the splash with the Kirby sig. If you decide to part with them some day, sell them together, or marry them then, based on the advise of a trusted expert dealer.
  8. I think with a big chunk of the cover missing it could be a 0.5 1.0 is the absolute tops. It will be a fun read though.
  9. This will be a fun journal, and I think we'll all be hoping you get there. I'm inclined to think you've set the $$ a little low considering the early ASM prices, but half the fun is going to be looking for the bargains!
  10. Have a look here: Category 6 includes punched books, and it looks like 2.0 is the likely grade.
  11. I was basing my comment on the price guide for early Airfix kits in the back of Arthur Ward's Model World of Airfix book. I don't have a more general guide for aircraft kits - and i don't recal ever coming across one.
  12. I really like that Police Cases #15. I think 6.5/7.0 is the real sweet spot for eye appeal per dollar. And I don't hink I've commented on the FF #1 - just a great book. I don't why it isn't up there with AF15. In my mind it's a more significant book in some ways.
  13. The new boards remind me of the Simpsons take on Euro Itchy and Scratchy Land. C'est la vie, here's my newest acqusition - an Australian reprint of a Fox book. I'm pretty sure I overpaid for it, but with these books, you might never see a copy again. And it's really nice in hand, with great colours. I have to wonder what the hell those animals are. They look like buffaloes, but have the dentition of carnivores (note the canine teeth). Like the pentadactyl cats on Fiction House books, the artists evidently hadn't studied actual animals. The Fox and FH editors sure didn't have the attention to detail that Kurtzman drove on the EC books he edited. There's an important safety tip on the back. If you shrink yourself to escape capture, watch out for spider webs:
  14. And now? I think you have slipped past any objectivity where Voldy is concerned. CGC have always been lenient on Marvel chipping. I thought 3.0 before I saw the post with the grade, but 3.5 is close enough.
  15. Let me backfill one of the missing issues. Here's #10. I swear I have an image of this cracked out, but I can't find it.
  16. Dang. I was interstate for work and didn't think to check when this round was due. oh well, good luck to the remaining players.
  17. Another great book. I really like the collection you're pulling together here.
  18. Well, it's a metaphor rather than a euphemism, but you're on the money. While I'm here, I should note with sadness the passing of Murray Ball. Ball was a New Zealander cartoonist, who produced the funny, charming and sometimes very earthy Footrot Flats strip. I have a full set of the collections on my bookshelves, and I'm about to go read one of them.
  19. Time for another trip to the bookshelf. This is newly published, and is a great way to appreciate the swords and sandals artwork that fill a fair chunk of the New Direction EC title. Some great stuff in here - as you'd expect with Williamson, Wood, Orland, Kreigstein.... I went to the LCS looking for some comics to read. I never buy floppies any more because they are such poor value for money (and most of them are compost anyway). But this hardcover collection caught my eye. I like the Brubaker work I've read, and the artwork in this is great. I'm only a chapter in so far and, as expected, it's gritty crime noir stuff. Last, but certainly not least, I finally succumbed to the reviews and bought a copy of Persepolis. I've heard all sorts of good things, but I couldn't get past the fairly crude artwork. I'm very glad I finally decided to give it a shot. This is a beautiful piece of literature. Marjane Satrapi does a masterful job of showing the human cost of events like the Iranian revolution of 1979. From a distance it's easy to generalise and make sweeping observations, but she shows what it's like to live it. In the process she presents herself as sometimes proud, sometimes brave, often flawed and often weak individual - in short, a human being. If you haven't read the book, give it a try. And the artwork really works with the story. Sometimes simple is enough.