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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.

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?