MisterX

That's a hell of an issue, all right.

DC comics writer Michael Fleisher has passed away. https://www.cbr.com/michael-fleisher-jonah-hex-spectre-passed-away/ His run on Jonah Hex was brilliant, until the very end when he was deperately trying to save the book from cancellation. His work on the Spectre with Jim Aparo was also a highlight of the Bronze Age. RIP, Mike.

I've been collecting BA romance for a while now. Mainly I chase after the Marvel books, shooting for raw or slabbed FN/VF or higher, if possible. I believe that Our Love Story 1-21 and My Love 1-21 are essential. After that, the interiors are all reprints, and most of the covers are reprints as well, with some notable exceptions (like OLS 32). The reprint issues are even tougher to find in high grades, if that scratches your itch. The issues with white covers (My Love 8, 15, 17, 23, 31 & OLS 16) seem to be very difficult to find without tanning pages and covers. The first handful of issues for each series has some great artwork by Buscema, Colan and Romita. In fact, when reading these stories I sometimes feel like Peter Parker and Matt Murdock are somewhere in the background, just out of panel, doing whatever it was they were doing in 1970! Night Nurse 1-4 are also essential, and great reads, too! I see these books alot more often now that their popularity has increased. Slabbed copies Night Nurse 1, IMO, get alot of gift grades because of the unforgiving red, picture-frame cover. I agree with most of your Marvel top ten list, although I'm not sure if ML14 is really more in demand than Night Nurse 1, if only because I'm under the impression the super-hero collectors decided they need a copy of that book. I am curious about your choices for spots 8, 9 and 10. What is your reasoning for these particular issues? My guess is your pointing out the Women's Lib content? I don't really go after BA DC romance. There's just too much, and I have a hard time deciding on what to focus on. Adams covers? Toth artwork? 52-pagers? I do have the gothic books, though, which if you're into that kind of thing are all great books for Romance and Horror collectors. Dark Manison of Forbidden Love 1-4 and Forbidden Tales of Dark Manison 5, Sinister House of Secret Love 1-4 and Secrets of Sinister House 5 are all you need, because after that the titles switch over to all-horror books. (The horror issues are pretty good, too.) I don't really consider Lois Lane a romance book, although I don't know why not. Chartlon is another publisher I've dabbled with, but gave up mostly due to the frustration of finding high grade books. Haunted Love 1 is around, but subsequent issues, especially the Ditko ones, seem tough to find. (At least for me.) That's my two-cents. Now I'll wait for Greggy to take us to school...

Ten years ago, after the recession hit, I decided that my disposable income to buy comics had to come from selling comics. Not really flipping, more like unloading stuff from my collection. Most of it I don't regret getting rid of, but I did sell a few books before they popped. Oh, well. It's become difficult to keep this rule, and sometimes I slip, but then again I am an addict. Like another boardie posted earlier, I also regret putting together HG runs of books that are, frankly, BA fodder. Good, fun BA fodder, but not really necessary to own in high grade. My other big regret is not jumping into OA when I started collecting again seriously. Now it seems like 98% of the stuff I'm interested in has moved far, far out of reach, into the kind of absurd money that buys cars, luxury goods and houses. I'm not sure what my biggest score in the last ten years is. If I had to guess, dollar for dollar, maybe the first printing of Bone #1 in about 6.0-6.5 that I picked up for $45 from a dealer via mail order.

I watched this auction. That book sold for $90 more than a 9.2 in the same time frame. My guess is somebody's going to crack-press-resub it.

That's too bad. I'm a big fan of the original series, and I enjoyed the way Devil Dinosaur was used in Warren Ellis's Next Wave books.

I read there's going to be a Devil Dinosaur and Moon Girl cartoon coming out from Disney. I know Moon Girl is a Modern book, anybody seeing an uptick in prices on the BA Devil D?

Work on my HG run of Weird War Tales. Probably not going to finish this year. Finish selling off my BA runs of Our Army at War and Our Fighting Forces. Mmm, and probably Daredevil, too. Sell later issues of Creepy to buy early issues of Creepy with Frazetta covers. Upgrade a book or two. Make a substantial dent in my giant stack of unread comics and magazines. Possibly submit one PCH book to CGC so I can sell it for hopefully something close to what I paid for it. Go to the NYCC and not find anything on my list (again), end up with a neat pile of impulse buys (again).

I'm kind of baffled how a Luis Dominguez cover sat for months unsold on a dealer's website (and CAF) for 2K , gets pulled, stuck into the auction, and ends up selling for 4,660!

CC, I'm curious. Care to explain your enthusiasm for Star Wars 1? Are you talking about the 35-cent variant or the regular edition? It seems to me like there's tons of copies out there, and it's cooled down from the speculative frenzy surrounding Force Awakens.

Wow, memory lane right there. Apparently, I was suggesting 2001 #8 even back then!

When I heard Nathan Fillion had a cameo in GoTG2, I was hoping he'd be Machine Man. (I especially like Warren Ellis's version of MM from Nextwave.)

A spooktacular reader's lot of scary books! With some HG BA horror thrown in, too! First up, two well-read copies of EC Archvies Shock SuspenStories V1 & V2. These are the Gemstone additions. Solid copies, but the binding at the very end of each book is slightly coming loose. Next up is Creepy 139, a VF copy, all Alex Toth reprint issue, with a cover inexplicably by Rudy Nebres. Great Archie Goodwin/Alex Toth stories in here! Four Color Fear, published by Fantagraphics. I was so terrified by this book, I dropped it and bent the upper right-hand corner! A great reprint of PCH, featuring Crandall, Powell, Wolverton, Kremer, Katz. Kubert, Nostrand and more! A lot of Gemstone EC reprint books -- ShockSuspense 13 &14, Vault of Horror 13,14,15, and Tales from the Crypt 19 and 20. Finally, some Bronze Age Marvel horror -- Chamber of Darkness 6 (VF), 7 (Wrightson cover, VF) and 8 (Wrightson cover VF) Tower of Shadows 1 (Steranko story, FN+), 2 (Neal Adams story, VF/NM), 3 (Lovercraft + Barry Windsor-Smith, date stamp, VF+), 4 (Toms Sutton, VF/NM), 5 (BWS, Wally Wood, NM-), 6 (Ditko reprint, Wood, NM-), 7 (BWS, Wood, Kirby reprint, VF+) 8 (amazing Wrightson cover, NM-), 9 (Wrightson cover, Lovecraft story, Dikto & Kirby reprints, VF+) Free shipping to the lower 48! All proceeds go toward a good cause! I have no idea what to charge for this lot... Let's try....$55?

I'll have something posted in a little bit. A monster-mash lot of horror!

They'd proabaly be excellent at spotting resto. Or if you were even thinking about resto...

Huh...I saw the thread title and thought this was going to be about something a little more theatrical. So, are these guys going to be the new graders?

We all know Number Six is unmutual!

@ 20% off

A great book, bullet-proof packaging, fast shipping, excellent job all around. Yes, Wes is the man.

Runaway dynamite wagon? per PM

Groovy, thanks!

Thanks for the info. Maybe DC will do a 2nd print I can grab for cover price.

Is anybody reading the new Mister Miracle series? (Tom King & Mitch Gerads, Sheriff of Babylon.) It must be pretty good, copies of #1 are already selling in the $10-$20 range. (Apologies if this was covered earlier.)

Hey, gang, question for you guys -- I'm trying to figure out which printing I have of The Night Master by Robert Sampson. (This is a book about the Shadow, for those who don't know.) The indicia in my copy has no printing line. At the risk of being obvious, does the second printing clearly state "second printing," or am I missing a more obscure clue? Thanks!