Ken Aldred

234's cover is very cool, far superior to the 232 IMO. I think it is the color scheme that I have a problem with on the 232.

 

 

Would people like the 232 more or less with a different color scheme?

 

 

 

I don't mind the 232 brilliant green, but I also do like the C-51 Batman Treasury artwork as well. What if the Bats 232 were similarly colored?

 

Thats pretty cool,better than the green. (thumbs u

Thanks for doing this.

The green of the original cover gives me eyestrain. I've always wanted to be able to focus easily on the shading in the background.

Nicely centered meaning no white on the spine at all? I've had 2 copies in 9.6 and seen a few others and this one is the closest I could come to "nicely centered".

 

234's cover is very cool, far superior to the 232 IMO. I think it is the color scheme that I have a problem with on the 232.

I'll definitely get 232, featuring the key first appearance of one of my all-time favourite characters.

Pity that the intense green makes it really difficult for me to look at and appreciate the cover.

It's undoubtedly a book to have. I just focused on my personal top 3 keys from Adams' work on Detective Comics and Batman.

Those first, 234 at a later date, maybe?

I only collect books with Adams interior art, so I don't really think of Batman 227 as much of a key, although I agree that it has a brilliant cover. It simply isn't something I'm that bothered about owning.

I'll be perfectly happy if I eventually manage to acquire the following books in high grade presentation...

Detective Comics 395, 400, 402

Batman 232, 244, 251

I think if you asked 10 people this question, you'd come up with 6 or 7 diferent answers....

 

Pay special attention at around 4:11... Made me laugh....

yep that's the same whiny girly voice that i heard on the other end asking about a return on a over graded book, and the same voice i heard when he said he never rec'd the book when i was a teen.

Guys like him stay in business cause guys like us won't drive him out.

 

(thumbs u

I think he was. I was selling comics locally the last decade, and his name was nothing more than a modern day Boogie-Man equivalent, and then *poof* he suddenly re-appeared about 3 years ago. I'm guessing a new generation is ready to be duped...

 

Lots of my younger friends and customers don't know who he is and do shop at his booth at his cons... Buyer beware folks.

Here's my new Iphone/Droid app - ComicDealercode.

 

Every dealer is assigned a barcode.

 

You scan the barcorde app for dealer reputation.

 

When the Avoid like the plague response comes up you move on to the next table.

 

An opinion that can be trusted.

I see him at every local show...have heard mysterious shadowy things from various dealers...

I don't like to deal with him.

next time he calls Bob ask him why he calls himself a doctor when he's a nurse.

I hope he treats his patients better than he does his comicbook customers.

I bought from Robert C. back in the early 80s. I planned out a purchasing scheme for each month of an entire year (I had a fixed monthly income while I was in college and planned to spend a small portion of it on comics each month). I made my first order and then pitched his catelog after seeing what I got. The really funny thing is I did the same thing with Mile High Comics.

If I remember correctly it was a caricature of a guy with a mustache and a bunch of hands around him holding various comic books.

next time he calls Bob ask him why he calls himself a doctor when he's a nurse.

Only honest explanation would be that he has a PhD qualification, maybe?

 

The best explanation I've heard is he overgraded his credentials.

next time he calls Bob ask him why he calls himself a doctor when he's a nurse.

It's too bad Gerry doesn't do a blog like Chuck R because he sure could give him a run for his money.

I'm more familiar with his former partner at One Million Comics, Robert Crestohl. He seemed to fit this profile quite well. In the catalogue I got from him, prior to making the naive 'one-trial learning' error of ordering from it, there was a Chuck-style self-aggrandising story about how his comics money was being invested elsewhere in producing a crime film. A fiction about gangsters, if I remember correctly from back in late 1984, rather than autobiographical recollections from a career as a 'comic book dealer'.

Cole's stories often contained both light and dark moments. Aside from his astonishing artistic skill, it was his ability to effortlessly shift the mood of a story which made me realise I was reading something very special.

Just got a call from Gerry asking me if I bought comics.

 

I told him "No".

 

His reply was "Isn't that a waste of a Overstreet ad".

 

My reply "No, I don't buy from 1 Million Comics".

 

Have a nice day Gerry.

 

Bob

What can I say, Bob? Well done!

and pages 3 and 4 of the Mr. Aqua story ......

 

 

Thanks, anyway. (thumbs u

I just thought... Splash Brannigan / Eel O'Brian... obvious homage.

Nice to see some work that might be the original reference material.

That reminds me a bit of Alan Moore's 'Splash Brannigan' from 'America's Best Comics'.

I noticed there's EC-style lettering on some of the pages. When did that start in the run, Mike?

Thanks for sharing! Cole is a genius!

 

 

I heartily agree (thumbs u

I can't and won't disagree. (thumbs u

Thanks for posting the splash pages, Mike.

His crime comics were also spectacular ...

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His horror and crime stories are fantastic though they sometimes suffer due to being inked by others.

I've never had the opportunity to see any of his horror work before, only Plastic Man, specifically the stories reprinted in the first five DC Archive editions.