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Don't forget Alien Worlds also. Just as good, but with a Sci-Fi twist. And a 3-D ish to boot!

CBM is terrible now. It's gone from a great mag with in-depth research by people with passion (Jon Berk, Gary Carter, Pat Kochanek) to a rag that has 2 kinds of articles: 1) Russ stroking himself or someone he personally knows, or 2) "Here's why I like this book" - WHO CARES?!?! The latest Back Issue was great, and this month's Alter Ego is almost entirely Frankenstein - including a Wrightson interview and some unpublished Briefer strips. I bought all 3 on the same day, scanned through the CBM and tossed it aside. I doubt I'll get to it at all.

I love that cover, definitely my favorite Charlton, probably a top 5-10 overall for BA horror. The story inside has art to match too! Too bad the dialogue sucks.

Looks like HOM 179 IIRC. Haven't read it in a while.

You [!@#%^&^], you sniped me on that one. What did it end up grading at. Are you selling your other copy? I'm looking for a 9.0 or better.

I thought the Morbius stuff in Vampire Tales was pretty decent horror reading. Unsullied by superhero fluff, there was a lot of sheer vampire bloody terror.

LOVE THAT COVER! Any war cover with WWI biplanes rules.... Speaking of WWI biplanes... check this out... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=14010&item=2263519650 Cool Heath piece! That's funny, I bought about 6 pages from that issue from Heritage for $40 or so.

We should set up a trading network so that we can all fill our runs. I'm sending a bunch of HG doubles to Shiv, but I've got more coming in all the time.

Khudos to Khaos for some kick-booty HG DCs! He ships faster than he types.

Great for Sterling, I hope these are acceptable prices for him. As for ast1155... why?

Very nice. I'd have to give consideration to HOM 180, 210, 212, 233, 235, 237, HOS 119, Phantom Stranger 22, 26. The one thing that I would say about the top 40 page is that I think that Neal Adams was a great horror artist. One of my favorite books is HOM 191 with the puppet wielding a knife over the dead guy's body. Adams really had a talent for setting an "intense" tone to his covers. It may not be quite the same as atmosphere, but I think it's just as effective. Does anyone know if it was required that he draw 2 kids looking on to every scene for those early HOM/HOS books?

Great books! The HOS 96 seems a little tougher to find in NM than others around it. Of course the 179 is impossible. I can't believe there are 2 9.6s in the census. I just ordered an 8.0 and I'll be pretty dang happy if it's accurately graded.

Lucky [!@#%^&^]! I'll give you $1 each...if you throw in S&H.

No, I like seeing them all. If it's easier, you can just send them to me

You have any more scans of that weird war stash you scored?

I like the new avatar Dice!

The Startling 10 is from a friend who happened to have 2 copies. We tend to trade books to eachother that we normally wouldn't trade, knowing that it's going to good hands. It's a 4.0.

hkp, I just don't know what to say. Your books are about as impressive as any I've ever seen. I would never have thought they existed in the conditions you show, with the exception of file copies. What percentage of books in your run are file copies?

Here's a craptacular scan of a tough book. Startling Comics 10 - 1st Fighting Yank Only 4 graded, none higher than 5.5. This is the 2nd copy I've owned. I'd have to say that this one is definitely tougher to find than it's "sister" Exciting 9. Although that's a great book too.

What the heck is redf1shing thinking?!? idiocy 1 idiocy 2 idiocy 3 extreme idiocy I'm looking at the HOM 236 nickkat has, and I emailed him once about the corner creases on a "9.4" - and he subsequently drops the grade to "9.0". But there's still staining on the cover. I'd love to see some of these "9.8"s. There is no reason to pay this much for books. They are tough, but they do turn up raw, and relatively frequently. If you're patient, you can find most of them for fractions of the above prices. This really must be a BSD phenomenon where he wants to be the high bidder for his ego. It makes no sense otherwise.

I've been holding off on saying Centaur, but I think they could hold their own from an artist standpoint with anyone. Paul Gustavson, Carl Burgos, Bill Everett, Basil Wolverton, Clare Moe, Charles Biro, W. McKay Jr, Bob Kane, even Siegel & Schuster. They don't have any real lasting characters, but they laid the groundwork for the "Comic Book" as we know it. In terms of characters, I'd probably say Fawcett, then Quality, then MLJ.

Somebody post some damn books!

I don't think anyone has posted a HOM 197 yet.

A nice early Jim Aparo cover.