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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.

By coincidence, FC 62 and WDC&S 40 have my favorite full-length

and ten-page stories by Barks. "Snow Fun" is just brilliantly funny

and still makes me laugh whenever I read it. "Frozen Gold" was

Barks' first successful adventure and his real breakthrough as

a storyteller afaiac. FC 62 is one of my favorite comic books of

all time; GA Disney doesn't get any better than this. I used to own

one of the CGC VF+ copies and direly regret giving it away for $2,000

a couple of years ago. Another 8.5 recently sold for almost twice

that.

 

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Here's another of my own recent upgrades. Nice copies from the first

two years are much more in demand than most of the later issues (I

know after upgrading and reselling more than 200 MM Mags) and finding

any issue in this kind of shape is unheard of. I only got it because

one of the biggest comic collectors, who had owned it for decades,

wanted to help me finish my set - incredibly nice of him!

 

My VF run of the first 4 years is now almost complete, but I am

still missing 8 issues from the 5th/last year. These would have

about the same impact on me as the "Last Four" would have on Ian -

I would greatly appreciate any help locating them and will obviously

pay extremely well.

 

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.

I looked at that 221 for a while trying to find something wrong with it, and by the time I finally got around to getting stuff from Harley, it was gone . That was a great pickup.

Sterling, you would have had fun, but you would have spent money.

I just got in from Heroes. There was some GREAT HG BA stuff for good prices there. I spent about $750 total and probably got 60-70 books, most 9.0-9.6. I was very happy with it.

The GA selection was pitiful, though. That Mask 2 8.0 went for $1400. I'll post some stuff that I got later, but my fave is probably a Lois Lane 106 (the "black like me" cover) in 9.4-9.6

Rahigh - did you get that HOM 221 from Harley?

She looks cold...

That's a great pickup. Toward the end of the series, More Fun was absolutely unsellable. DC did NOT want to be publishing the series, but it was the Editor's pet (I forget who it was at the time), so it kept on getting published. However, in order to minimize losses, they only published the bare minimum - reportedly 10,000. This kept going until the editor was gone, and then the series was cancelled.

So the later issues are now especially hard to find.

They're going to tailor his uniform 3 sizes too small.

And one leg shorter than the other too!

Don't you love the early Centaur centerfolds?

Now that's a great cover.

So much for the other 2 I was going to post.

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