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no worries, I don't find this impolite. I won't give exact number, but the purchase price for the entire lot (I bought at auction) was roughly the retail cost of a Turtlemania Gold. An interesting note, the auction listing made no mention of the Turtlemanias, only the other books I listed before. It was only when I requested a detailed condition report that I found out the Gold and Silver books were also included. I think this actually kept the price down.

oh, no, don't get discouraged! These things are still out there, you'll have your day, just keep looking! I got extremely lucky finding these while following a lead on something else (a GA book, actually), sometimes it just takes a bit of luck. bk

hi all, it's been a long month waiting for this to finally happen, but I'm extremely happy this morning because I've closed on something pretty cool, and I'm now a member of the TMNT club... I've was able to close on this group of comics, all from single owner collection, acquired by the current owner as a group at Sothebys Sept 1992 Comic auction. TMNT #1,2,3 (regular & nycc) & 4 (all 1st print) Gobbledygock #1 & #2 Turtlemania, both Silver & Gold plust Fugitoid #1 & Raphael #1 Here are a few photos of the best books, can't wait to have these in hand! I don't usually go after Copper books, so not sure the future for these, but at the price I couldn't pass 'em up, Thanks to Archon_Turtle and Peter Palmer for helping me with some info/assistance reviewing these books! TMNT 1 (really really hoping this grades as high as it looks) Turtlemania 1 Gold (#1 of 10!) Turtlemania 1 Silver (#37 of 100) Gobbledygock 1 & 2 TMNT #3 NYCC edition (and regular edition)

congrats! now, post the pics!!

had this one in my youth, LOVED it! Now I think I need to find me one...

wow, fantastic!! congrats!

is there a photo guide to old spinners? Any consensus on the oldest known examples? I never really put much thought into 'em, but pre-code spinners do seem like they could be cool to track down

as others have mention, patience and timing... I just ran across one a week or two back that was actually still loaded with books, it was like a snapshot into that one-two month period in comics. Literally the store moved the fully loaded rack into a storeroom, and there it sat for 30 years. So maybe you'll get lucky like that!

those a damn nice MC! As can be expected, I'm having the toughest time tracking down raw PF Westerns (I'm trying to find all PFs in the wild and then grade.. I like the challenge in this, )

Agreed, I like the splash, the rest of the pages in 227 are nice but not stunning. And the analogies to WW 199 and 200 is right on, simply AMAZING covers... bad interiors by Heck (personally I can't stand his work)

as I posted earlier in this thread, that artwork sold at a Doyle auction in Oct 2011 for 8k (i was only willing to go up to about half of that, the interiors are nice but I didn't think they are $8k nice). Trying to flip for $20k seems a bit aggressive. It's the cover that has the value.

and more.... These will all be off to Sarasota soon... anyone have an opinion on the sanity of submitting the rest of the reprints (besides these Picture Frames) to CGC??

this thread has quieted down lately, he's something to get it going again this group of books comes from an OO collection, I've bought a few runs from this same collection, including one longbox that was just 70s Marvel reprint books, which included these beauties...

just to get this thread moving again, I'll post this... while not a Bat book, it is Adam's first Green Lantern (cover only), 13 issues before 76... and to bring it back around to Bats, here is BMan with Deadman

Hang in there, you'll find a nice copy. Two weeks back I looked at a ungraded collection that included 2 copies of 227, they will continue to surface

here's my contribution to this thread... I just bought two small runs from an old collection, one was a full run of the X-Men reprints in stellar condition (for the most part), here are a few of the picture frames (unfortunately 73 & 76 each had a single corner bend on FC) All are White pages, they all look unread. The 79, at first glance, I really thought it was 9.8 candidate... but then i noticed the small thumb bend along the right edge, just right of Angel's wing. damn...

so probably more for the OA crowd, but thought this thread could use this... not quite as iconic as the cover, but still pretty damn cool. sold today at auction, 8k for all art to the story. I was bidding, but dropped out before the end

Ramos isn't in the same league as Warhol or Lichtenstein, but he's pretty well know in the fine art world for his pop art. Wiki entry And his intent, just like Lichtenstein, was to exhibit publicly, his works are quite valuable Ramos Green Lantern sells for $600k

so, where does everyone put Mel Ramos in this discussion, a contemporary to Lichtenstein, Ramos has built a very successful career, and this started with him painting pop art using the DC superheroes as his subjects, without any sign that he ever had permission.

the feedback is appreciated everyone. I did call CGC to get the grading notes, to see how risky it would be to resub, no notes, graders had this at 9.6/9.6/9.4. If this was stronger (9.8, 9.6, 9.6) I would take the plunge and do a full resub, but I'm going to just hang on to her as is...

all of the Bat books I mentioned came from same OO collection, so storage of the books should have been consistent. I personally had most of the books at OW-W, just a few at W. None, I thought, were at CR-OW. It is funny (not ha-ha funny) that of ALL of the books from this one collection (all together I have about 120 or so from same collection), this was the only one that came back CR-OW

very true, and I want to be ok with it, I do!... but damn that blue label and what it tells me to think!

hmm, it was either late 2008 or early 2009

ok, so let me jump into this conversation about 227, and pose this question that I've been trying to answer myself for quite a while regarding my copy... what would you do with this book if it was yours? I submitted it a few years back, along with a few other Bats in the 220s and 230s... Every other book came back with either W or OW-W, except this. At first I thought I'd leave it, its a great grade, and I can live with Cr-Ow right? But it started to gnaw at me, and I started thinking about a PQ resub. Then that lead to me thinking about a full resub, to see if I can get either grade or PQ bump (it really is a strong 9.6, and I thought maybe it could be 9.8 when first submitted). Then I think the risk is to high to do either (what it I mess it up removing from the slab, what if its damaged in mail, etc...), and I should just leave well enough alone, only to start getting the bug to resub sometime later.... so, what would you do?