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And a few Mads. This one was hard to find in decent shape at a reasonable price. The inestimable Mr Owens came through again (for all of the books in this post). And the final Mad comic book. There's a great Gopo Gossum parody in this one. I think I'll scan some of it when I get a chance. Finally, here's a Piracy #3. This one has a very good WW2 U-boat story in it, which was kind of surprising given the 'yaar me maties' style of the title.

Picked up a Weird Fantasy from Mr Bedrock too. I still need #14(2) and #7 for this title. I really like the cover on this one. A trip to the moon as imagined in 1951.

Ok, haven't done an update here for a while, and I've had a bit of a spending spree. So let's do a mid-year catch up. For a start, here's some EC sci-fi books: I showed off my Weird Science #12(1) a whle back. Here's #13(2) courtesy of Edward Owens Esq. (Thanks Ed) and #14(3) from Mr Bedrock: Finally, here's #15(5) from a MCS auction: There's one more Weird Science in the mail. Once it turns up I'll be able to post a group shot that has been seven years in the making.

that was an unexpected twist! good luck! hahaha I'll keep you guys guessing and thanks and his 1st order of business is to sell my collection to get cashflow which isn't as easy as it sounds This is an excellent start because cash flow is vital to any business. You can't eat air while waiting for that big deal. If you ever want to do this full time you'll need a steady flow of money coming in.

This one has moving parts!

Another super cover to go in already super collection of classic cover issues! At one stage I contemplated compiling a list of 'mirror image swastika' covers and then going for it. This is a classic of the genre.

That is beyond cool. Probably worth quite a bit. Where did you find it? Whoa! That's a great piece. You can see the Library of Congress entry for a print of that photo here. I see a Heritage Civil War auction in your future.

Just before the Commonwealth copies disappear into the mists of time, here's another Australian Planet. I've never seen a nicer one than this:

I had a couple, they were either British or Australian. I sold them last year, but still have a ton of Australian Bats and Supes. I have some Australian ones. Maybe you were thinking of those?

And if I could have only one Don/Maggie book, it would be this Mad #9...sincerely. Nice to know who has it. It actually holds a special place in Maggie's story. An excerpt from a Maggie interview I was reading: Toucan: Is it because of the influence of your parents that you kept reading comics as you grew older? Maggie: No, it was because comics kept being good. My interest in comics diminished until the EC line was in full flower and I bought MAD #9 off the newsstand. - See more at: http://www.comic-con.org/toucan/maggie-thompson-four-color-life-part-one#sthash.KpKlVRKq.dpuf Hey - that's so cool! Thanks for pointing that out Ed. A tiny piece of comic history here in one of my boxes.

Done - your collection of ECs for my collection of ECs. You all heard him folks. The 30 day clock is ticking now Ed.

Thank you and welcome to my collection. Always looking for nicely presenting cheaper books.

Lovely book Ed. I bought a couple of Don and Maggie ECs as well, but I fish in the middle of the pool: I cracked this one out (should do the same with the WF too ):

Nope - there was an electro-mechanical release. Shockingly, Wings covers sometimes overdramatise things...

Happy 4th to our American friends.

Ah... Tarzan's grip. I can almost smell the acetone. Really bad for sticking together plastic model kits, but otherwise a good all-purpose glue.

Hi Corey - nice to see you with a journal. I'm sure you have lots of other cool stuff, so let's see it. (thumbs u

I haven't posted here in a while, so a short update seems worthwhile. I have a big swag of nice GA books on their way across the Pacific and will update as they arrive. Until then, I lapsed from GA to SA/early BA to pick up a couple of trippy Gold Key painted covers. I quite liked the TZ comics as a kid, and these read better than I expected: Not my usual stuff, but I like them.

This is too good an achievement to pass unnoticed. I admire run collectors, especially of runs that long.

The 5-yr CGC growth data on the chart is percentage based... it's a separate calculation from the black lines. Orange is supposed to be compared to other orange, so that you can get a sense of which books are still coming to CGC often... I've edited the graph to put in some orange percentage gridlines. Iron Man 55 grew from 600 submissions in 2010 to 1,836 submissions currently. ASM 121 grew from 1,535 in 2010 to 2,986 currently. Got it. Thanks for explaining to the thickies. (thumbs u And it's much clearer now.

I like the 5-yr CGC growth data. Almost all graded Iron Man 55s are in that window - wonder why? What is a little surprising (to me) is that seems to be true for ASM 121 as well. I'd have thought that book was significant enough pre movie hype. Evidently not.

Ah, got it. So the graph is simply the original one in units of 1.9832 million dollars instead. I thought it was some different calculation - that explains why they were so similar.

That makes sense - my data is all for GA comics (my focus). Just getting a copy counts more than grade in many cases, so the premium is less. I see from you graphs that the premium is much greater for SA, which makes perfect sense given the much larger population.

Not sure I understand the methodology here - why is the average sale of ASM300 twice that of Marvel Comics #1? I assume you're also multiplying by the number of copies at that grade? Let me see... 566 x ASM300 in 9.8 @ $800 each = $450k 2 x MC1 in 6.0 @ $100k = $200k Is that the idea?