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Robot covers

I thought about this for too long and came up with this list. What I found is that there are "big" cool books that have high dollar value and "little" cool books that have low dollar value, but equally high "want" value. In that scenario, the low dollar stuff tends to win out because it's very unlikely that anyone would be willing to make a cash offer strong enough for me to part with the book. I need to come up with some fancy term for the "dollar-to-coolness ratio". Battle Front 23 -- River City copy. Great example of the era. I struggle with a number of killer Atlas war books, almost all with Heath covers. I settled on this one over a few others (e.g. War 11, 23, Battle Front 15, Men's Advs 20, etc.) due to the fact that I've seen or know of a few really nice copies of the others and I've never seen one to compare with this particular book. None of mine are going anywhere, but if you were ripping them out of my hands I might hold this one the hardest. Bill Battle 3 -- the epitome of anti-communist absurdity. Lurked for this copy for years going back to when Mick showed me a copy back in '96 (oh, my arthritis!) Journey into Unknown Worlds 49 -- Heath, Robots, and alien invasion... what's not to love? United States Marines 8 -- about my favorite 50s Korean war cover. So nonchalantly gruesome. Green Lama 2 -- Certainly one of Raboy's best, if not the best. Incomparable Church copy.

I asked Scott Eder about this a few years ago and he said none has been released.

Lighter, more aerodynamic.

Unbelievable copy Andy. Congrats!

I remember buying without pics at all. I feel old, but I feel better knowing that you're older than me Roy.

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I'll take the first 3.

I love this book, one of my favorite Heath covers.

How can I resist.

That's quite alright!

Dang! I remember seeing that Blackhawk 55 at Bechara's booth a few years back. I wish I had the cash at the time. That's great stuff you've got!

The same. To clarify, what I hear people saying is that an interior cover (or back cover) ad should be a better representation of what the colors of a particular book should look like. But that assumes that the interior colors are the books "true" colors, which, in the FH world, seems to be only a 10% chance at best.

One issue I have with using the interior ads as an ideal is that if color variations were due to printing-related issues then the interior ads should be every bit as subject to variation as the outer covers.

Probably my favorite piece of GA art, well at least atomic age.

I'll take it. LMK if you have more medical ones.

Start my pile with this one

The interior on this one is fantastic. Just killer Powell GGA.

I'll admit to being deficient on Police Comics. I haven't owned one since I had a #1 way back when.

Probably National. Hard to beat early Lou Fine Ray or Black Condor, but those titles didn't finish strong. National started with Fine/Eisner, then kept rolling with superior Kotzky, Crandall, Gustafson, etc. If you've ever had the chance to flip through National 26, you'll know what I mean.

IIRC, the covers to Hit 5, 11, and 17 all exist. Those would trump Planet 1 IMO and are all considered classics. I love Hit 6 and that was recently offered and finished in the mid-60s IIRC. I would expect the Planet to go higher just because it's a key issue, but Planet 1 is also Eisner and there are some Eisner fans with deep pockets. My guess is $80-110K.

If you hadn't sold all those, you wouldn't miss them.

That's a great run. When I put it together I had a remaindered/restored 1, low-mid grade 2, trimmed 3, very nice 6.5 or so 4, and a low-grade & restored 5. It's funny how your perception of the relative scarcity of books like this can be affected by seeing the same book 2 or 3 times, but I'd guess 2 & 3 are the scarcest, then 4 & 5, and 1 is the most common.

It's the Hit 17 of the run.