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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.

Hi guys, I was going to post in the WTB forum and link to it here, but I thought I'd cut out the middle man. Looking for mid-grade copies of the following (4.0 - 7.0) with nice eye appeal. PLODs and GLODs will certainly be considered. Boy Commandos 13 Fawcett Funny Animals 6 Mad 5, 14, 15 WDC&S 21, 31, 40-43, 45, 48 Weird Science 13(1), 15(3), 16(4), 7, 18 Weird Fantasy 14(2), 15(3), 7 Drop me a PM if you have some of these and we'll talk. Thanks for looking.

He's banned from this site, he's in the Hall of Shame, and there are more tales of woe surrounding him than one can possibly imagine. Not worth reading in the slightest... You might want to get your lawyer to read it...

You mean they don't all look like these guys? I don't look at all like those guys. But I fear that I sound a bit like them...

ALL Australian guys look like that. Except for the ones who look like Chris Hemsworth.

EC New Direction titles don't get a lot of love, but this is a good one:

Here are a couple of great internal pages. This is the main splash: And who wouldn't want to be an air warden?

This one has slipped past me a few times, but I got this nice example on eBay. Liberated from its 8.0 slab.

Who was driving that duck bubble? Maybe Uncle Scrooge was shorting Disney books! Nah, he gave up after that incident with the 1916 quarter.

I thought of you when I saw this and figured you'd have noticed it. That bubble was a little before my time as a born again collector, but it must have been crazy. I have a midgrade WDC&S 37 I paid $330 for that previously sold for $2,700. That's an even bigger multiplier than this copy saw. That said, $15k for that book won't be seen again any time soon.

Oh my! This Heritage listing might be one of the prettiest duck books I've seen in a long while.

I'm not a toy expert, but I know aeroplanes. The blue and silver one is a Bell P-39 Airacobra. First flight 1938, but not into production until 1940 - probably means it's an early 1940s toy. The green one is Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra. You can see a similar toy without paint (and missing the props) here. The red white and blue one might be a Northrop Delta - does it have the right undercarriage legs? I'm curious about the silver one top right. Hard to tell, but might be Lindbergh's Spirit of st Louis? No idea on the orange and silver one. [/aviation geek]

Re taxes: two tips for you. 1) record keeping is key 2) don't take tax tips from the internet (except for this one ) - get professional advice if you need help