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take it

I'm glad too!

Yeah I was surprised - and very happy of course - at the closing price. My max bid was about double that. But the spine is split almost halfway up the comic so that probably kept people away.

Just won this on eBay. It has flaws but I'm so happy to finally have a copy!

Just got off work and glad they're still here. I'll take Doll Man Quarterly 11- 1.5 to 2.0- $30 Doll Man Quarterly 12- 1.5- $30

okay then I confirm

Rick the cover photos didn't come through, but pending seeing those I'll take it

I have 2 TVs in my comic room. That may seem excessive since the room is small (about the size of a bedroom), but the room has 2 main areas and there's a TV in each area. Our house has a single floor (I'll call it the ground floor, although it's raised from the ground by about 4 feet). The 1st area is on this ground floor. I have a 1080 flat screen with Apple TV and Roku. I can also attached my iPad to it. The 2nd area is "upstairs." It's build on top of our ground-level shed, so it's about 4 feet higher than the 1st area. You get up to it via a wood ladder, with Tim Sale's Gwen Stacy looking at you. Upstairs I've got a smaller flat screen. It's only 720 but actually it's a better TV so the picture quality is better. A DVD player is connected to this TV, and I've got some of my favorite movies and TV shows there. Changing the subject completely, Manhattans are my drink. I typically prefer them served on the rocks, but up has its advantages. This is especially true if you know the bartender, as sometimes he'll give you the leftovers to top up your drink. It's like getting 2 drinks for the price of 1. Here's my drink from this weekend with dinner out with the wife. For food I got a Caesar salad with grilled salmon. It was a great dinner!

Nice! I'm still searching for my 26. I can't decide if I just want a decent copy or better grade, and that indecision has caused a big hole in my collection. Oh well, someday ....

Here are 3 new additions to my Lady in White collection. As I've mentioned, to qualify for this set, the cover has to have a gothic feel to it, with a damsel in distress wearing a flowing white dress or gown. The books have to be at least 9.0. One of the books came with this flyer. So some people consider the original collection by @miraclemet to be a pedigree, which I definitely think is fitting.

As a person who lives in the DC area, best golden age shopping will be in your hotel room surfing on your computer.

Just won this on ebay. Has flaws (tape) but I liked the vibrant colors. And it's so dastardly with the damsel's head on the chopping block!

aarg, too late again

take it

I have 858 CGC books. Actually, that's 858 in my registry sets. If you also count the ones not in my sets, I'm probably well over 900. One thing about slabs, they take up a lot of room. I have 12 CGC boxes so I store many of my slabs there. I store the rest on shelves in my comic room. In my old comic room, I displayed CGC books on wire shelves, somewhat like dealer walls at cons. Below are a couple pictures from my old comic room. These wire shelves did a good job at displaying books, but I could only store 1 or at most 2 deep. So they were good with display but not storage. When I was designing my new comic room about 3 summers ago, I knew I had to made the shelves deeper. My new room is much smaller than my old room, so I couldn't afford to have shelves that could only store slabs 1 or 2 deep. In my new comic room, there's a main wall that's all shelves. Below is a picture of version 1 of the shelves. You'll see at the top I have a tall shelf to store original art. Below that art shelf (and above too, although you can't see them in this picture) are shelves to store CGC books. The shelves were just under 6 inches deep. Within a year though, I was already running out of space. So last summer I re-did the shelves. Below is a picture of version 2. The shelves are much bigger, about twice as deep. I added 2x4 beams to support the weight of the greater number of books. The shelf with my drill is sized height-wise to hold original art. Most of the others are sized to hold slabs. I do have a couple shorter shelves that can hold comics in Mylar, but aren't tall enough to hold slabs. This variation in heights was done to make maximum use of the wall. You might ask, "what is that window doing at the back of the shelves?" Well, as I explained in an earlier post, my new comic room is in an addition to our beach house, and that's a bedroom window (the bedroom is obviously on the other side of the wall). The contractor was going to charge me to take out the window and replace it with drywall. I can't remember exactly how much, but it was over $1000. I told him not to bother with it. The art I display on the shelf blocks the window so no one in that bedroom can see into my room. Below are pictures of those shelves with stuff on them. Thanks for reading.

What a haul! Those Adventures have some of the best Supergirl covers.

Of the money you've budgeted, have you budgeted how much to pay per book? How are you doing as to that metric?

Along with Matt Baker, Dave Stevens is one of my favorite GGA artists. I started reading and collecting Stevens years ago, when Rocketeer appeared in the old Pacific comics. I have just about all his comics, and a few years ago I began collecting graded copies of his covers. This year, I made it to the top of the Dave Stevens Covers registry set. I'm not sure how many more books I'll be able to add to my set. Finding high grade raws to grade are near impossible, and many Stevens comics -- the ones I don't have -- have only 2-3 copies on the census (so rarely turn up for sale). So I'm turning to other Dave Stevens things to collect, like raw autographed comics and his non-comic work. Anyway, here are a few of the comics from my Dave Stevens Covers registry set. I am not a big fan of CBCS -- in fact I use CGC exclusively (with the exception of 1 comic) -- but the one thing they offer that CGC doesn't is their verified signature program. They use CSA Comics (an autograph authentication company) to verify unwitnessed signatures. You obviously need this for people who have passed away. Dave Stevens died in March 2008 and I believe CGC's SS program started that year. So I guess it is possible there are CGC SS Dave Stevens books out there, but I have never seen one. I do, however, buy raw comics autographed by Dave. Last year I got a nice looking Cheval Noir #7 and decided to try out the CBCS service. Here it is (hopefully posting this won't get me kicked off the boards).

Does this qualify me for --- Jungle 82-1.5- FREE TO THE NEXT PURCHASE. ?

It's on a base, but elevated on a pole. Here's the picture on the box (I threw the box away, but this is before I displayed it).

Yes, there is no doubt I would have to sell at a discount without the boxes. But I made the decision when I started collecting statues that it was unlikely I'd ever sell. Also, I do not have the room to store boxes -- I'd have to rent one of those storage units. So weighing the pros (getting a better price if I ever decide to sell, which was unlikely) versus the cons (the hassle and cost of storing the boxes), I decided not to keep the boxes.