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Great thread. I really like your approach. If you're interested, I did some curve fitting, and have some weights for price versus grade that could be applied for grade to deal with the price premium effect Gator observed. Here they are normalised to 4.0, close enough to your average grade of 3.66 for AF15. The results aren't perfect, but I use them to predict prices for seldom sold books based on sales in other grades and the results aren't bad - certainly better than a linear assumption. It's easy to normalise them other grades if you want. 1.8 -- 0.47 2.0 -- 0.53 3.0 -- 0.72 3.5 -- 0.83 4.0 -- 1.00 4.5 -- 1.11 5.0 -- 1.27 5.5 -- 1.43 6.0 -- 1.67 6.5 -- 1.95 7.0 -- 2.33 7.5 -- 2.73 8.0 -- 3.33 8.5 -- 4.13 9.0 -- 5.33 9.2 -- 6.67 9.4 -- 8.00 9.6 -- 16.00

Orchestra - or a The band? I have a Hollywood Bowl bootleg from 1965 that is half acoustic and half very much electric. BTW, my first concert (of any note) was Neil Young and Crazy Horse. Hey hey, my my.

It sure is, and a great one.

Thrilling wins 1- 0 in my collection. Must get more of both...

Picked up this one for a bargain basement price.

If you Google "B-17 waist gun positions" you'll find some similar shots. This one is close:

A few had Jungle and Jumbo covers with GGA, but as far as I know (records are spotty) none of the classic 'damsal in distress and guy with sword' type Fight covers. You can see some Australian Fights on the GCD here. The Oz reprints site has a few more, but wasn't working when I just tried. Neither has any of the four I got. The GCD's highest is #25, and Oz reprints has #26.

This one has a cover image I can't locate. The content is not FH. It's all from the ACG title Spy Hunter. This one has a cover partly from Spy Hunters #18 - the main image of the Marine. But not the two aircraft. One is from the Wings 121 cover and the other is from the comic above. Some creative cutting and pasting going on in the Australian production office... The stories in that one are from Spy Hunters and another ACG book; Operation Peril #16. The last one has stories from Operation Peril #15 and more Spy Hunters material. I can't place the cover on this one. All help welcome. Australian reprints are like the wild west.

Final update for now. Some Australian editions of the Fiction House Fight Comics title. Well, sort of. Let me start with the least odd one. The cover is from Wings 121, so still in the FH stable. It has stories from Wings 121 and Fight 85, another FH comic. Here's the Wings (from comicvine) for comparison: There's a curious story behind the Soviet fighters on this and other contemporary covers - I'll come back to that another time.

Dunno why, but I never seemed to be in the right place at the right time to get one of these in the right grade/price combo. And I still paid too much for this one here on the boards. Oh well.

I've had this one for a while. It was the second highest graded at 8.0, but I've since cracked it out. These internal pics are why I like to crack out my books - there's stuff inside too!

A couple more ducks - these get me up to 73 of the first 100 WDC&S. Progress is slow these days. The #23 looked nicer in the Heritage scan!

In recently. The tortoise marches on slowly. I'm pleased If I could find a #31 that nice at a reasonable price I'd be a happy camper.

I picked this one up at Heritage on Sunday night (actually Monday morning my time, but don't tell my boss ). It will go nicely with my WW2 cover theme collection, though it isn't a war bonds cover. Eh, close enough.

Thanks guys. I'm slowly updating this journal as I get a chance. Here's a recent pickup that I saw going for about 10% of FMV, and I bought it planning to flip it. But now I have it, it's a really cool earlyish GA book (cover date Jan 1940) and it's also pretty hard to find. Heritage has sold 6 in the past 14 years. So for now I'm hanging onto it. What's not to like - a haughty redhead with a seashell bra, a guy with a fishbowl on his head and the green guy that Kirk wrestled...

This will not be the way to riches. Heritage prices won't usually leave much meat on the bones for you, if any. The top end dealers can make money by on-selling to clients who don't deign to enter into auctions, but I suspect you have a while to go before you're in that league. Just my worth.

Haven't updated this journal in a while. But I'm very pleased to be back with this one... my biggest ticket purchase ever. I have 47 of the 55 EC sci-fi comics (there are 22 each Weird Science and Weird Fantasy, 4 Incredible Science Fiction and 7 Weird-Science Fantasy). I was lucky to score a very nice eye appeal 4.0 Weird Fantasy 13(1) last year, but didn't have a Weird Science 12(1) to go with it. Until now. I usually crack my slabbed books out, but the value of this one suggests that it might have to stay entombed.

Some sad news today. One of Australia's best GA and beyond comic artists, John Dixon, passed away recently, as I discovered when I saw the obituary in the Courier Mail yesterday. I couldn't find the obit online, but here's the Comicoz version. You can see some of Dixon's Crimson Comet covers a few posts back. His most enduring work in Australia is probably his 'Air Hawk and the Flying Doctors' strip that ran for many years. You can read a bit about it here. Here's one of the strips: As well as the Crimson Comet, Dixon invented the action here Tim Valour. Here's a couple of those. The #1 (first series): And one from the second series, with a really nicely done artist credit:

Great stuff guys. I recalled a previous octopus thread, so I went looking to bump it - and found two of them.

Cool! Not an issue you see very often. First time I've seen it. very cool. Does anyone else think the two critters on the left look a bit Dr Suessish?

FTFY

You have no idea how much I want that book! Let me add one:

Here's a fun interior page from Champ #25

The contents differ so you can't be a true completest without obtaining all of the variations! I've wondered why CGC doesn't put the contents on the label. Seems to be an important (or at least interesting) piece of information that's not available once the book is entombed.

Some very nice books in this thread lately - great stuff. Must. Resist. Lure. Of. Four. Colors.