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The current Conan series is great, but I am a bit leery about the change in creative team. IMHO, Savage Sword of Conan was the best bang for your buck in terms of entertainment value in comics. Conan is still a popular title from what I can see. When I take books to the local cons I can sell any early SSOC and Conan the Barbarian issue I take with me.

Well, the first few books have arrived and I am wondering disappointed with the grade on a couple. I have them posted in the "Spare a Grade Thread" if anyone is willing to view them and give me their input. The #111 and #119 will be on the way back to the seller for a refund unfortunately . Please Grade My Flash #128,135, 139, 143 Cheers, Ryan Here are the results for the three universal books (the #139 came back as an 8.5 apparent with color touch):

Three new arrivals back from CGC as of yesterday: Flash #143 CGC 9.0: Flash #135 CGC 9.0: Flash #128 CGC 9.0:

I have also had to get larger purchases shipped to me at work and sneak them home a bit at a time when the addiction got out of hand!

I promised the wife I am just selling slabs now and not buying, so as far as she knows I just made a good trade for these Adams Batmans (I was not really looking, but the prices really were too good to pass up on three of them):

Here is the only early SA GL that I have - it is the 2nd highest graded and will be up for sale in the September Clink focused auction:

The #119 is a nice copy but has bends/marks on all 4 edges from the old stacking twine they used to bundle comics. I don't know how easy it is to correct this with pressing so I would rather pass than take a chance on it. The #111 looks close enough, but there are some very light smudges at the bottom of the back cover and a longer bend along the left side of the FC that take it out of the VF range. Did you take a look at the scans I posted in the PGM thread? If yes, what would you give the books. They are all tight, flat and glossy but with one fatal flaw that drops them a bit. I paid a decent price for them but am thinking that if they are too far off my funds might be better deployed elsewhere.

Well, the first few books have arrived and I am wondering disappointed with the grade on a couple. I have them posted in the "Spare a Grade Thread" if anyone is willing to view them and give me their input. The #111 and #119 will be on the way back to the seller for a refund unfortunately . Please Grade My Flash #128,135, 139, 143 Cheers, Ryan

You really overpaid if you paid anything above 60% Guide for those particular books in those grades. Tell you what, as an act of great charity because I don`t want you to get discouraged by a bad experience, I`ll buy them from you at 2X Guide if they turn out to be in the grades advertised. Thanks for the kind offer, but I will wait until I see them before making a decision. I paid roughly 80% Guide for the group as whole (some higher, some lower) so looking at the Heritage results I guess I did not do as well as I thought.

I just picked up a nice group of earlier SA Flash for below guide in grade (currently in the mail to me now): #111 VF #119 VF/NM #128 NM- #135 NM-/NM #137 VF/NM #139 VF/NM (hopefully as nice as yours) #143 NM These will be the first SA Flash I have ever owned. I have my as the only one I saw a scan of prior to buying is the #137, but I have bought from the seller before and been happy with the results.

That's absolutely correct. :applause: On behalf of the Academy, I'd like to present this trophy to you as acknowledgment of your outstanding achievement. Congratulations. (thumbs u Thanks BZ! What issue is this story from?

Is it Power Nelson (aka Gene West) from Prize Comics?

Outstanding stuff BZ! While the GA books are amazing, I would love to see more of your pulp collection - how about nice group shots of the REH Solomon Kane and Conan issues? BTW, were all of the pulps and related material from the same original owner collection? I am curious to see how many OO pulp collections survived in high grade. I remember that there was a nice run of Weird Tales up on eBay in 1998 or 1999 that were from the personal collection of an editor (or someone affiliated with the pulp/Arkham House). Most of the pulps looked like they had never been handled and if I recall correctly there were multiples of many of them. Other than that, it has been slim pickings for true high grade material.

This was waiting at home for me after work today

I had this nice addition to my collection arrive fresh from CGC today:

At first I was going to say don't bother as it is not at least a 9.0, but I just checked the census and the top graded copy is only 8.5, followed by 2 copies at 7.0. It might be worth rolling to dice to see how high it grades - is there any damage on the back cover?

Just got off the phone with CGC and this book graded out at a 9.2 Universal with CR-OW pages. The page quality is not as nice as I had hoped for, but I will take it for a hard to find in high grade 10 center! A big thanks to Ted at Superworld for digging up such a nice copy its not for sale is it? It might be..............for the right price!

Just got off the phone with CGC and this book graded out at a 9.2 Universal with CR-OW pages. The page quality is not as nice as I had hoped for, but I will take it for a hard to find in high grade 10 center! A big thanks to Ted at Superworld for digging up such a nice copy

I used to be a completist, but after selling two collections and seeing how hard it is to move all non-key issues for a decent price I will never do it again. Now I am just focusing on key and high demand issues (e.g. Neal Adams Batmans) and buying multiples of them. At least this way if I need to sell them to raise cash quickly I can do it. If you want to complete a run, just buy the TPB/HC reprints to fill in the gaps.

Thanks. I was not looking for any Silver at the show (hunting for high grade Adams batbooks/HOMs), but when I saw this copy I decided to go for it. I will be sending it to CGC asap to see what the final result is.

Here is a nice 10 cent Green Lantern that I snagged last weekend at the Boston Show:

Here is a nice copy of HOM #174 that I picked up from Superworld at the Boston con last week:

My collection can be broken down into two distinct time periods: Before Marriage: ~5,000 books After 7 years of wedded bliss: now only ~2,000 books left and slowly decreasing as storage space demand in the house increases.

I would say anywhere from 2-5%. I had a fellow collector flip a coverless copy of ASM #5 last year for me that fetched over $50.