damonwad

Love the group shots BB-Gun.

That's a great Air Fighters run. I just finished reading the Airboy stories from the first 6 issues through DCM. I enjoyed them a lot.

I still consider that sale an "anomoly".... now, there was a legitimate underbidder...but I had a long discussion with this indvidual and they admitted to getting "caught up"...I asked him/her why if they were willing to pay/bid 175K for a 6.0, they wouldn't jump on an almost identical 5.5 at 40K less that is available in the market place, and that was their response (was no longer worth it to them, got carried away and was thankful they didn't win at that price)... what most forget or never knew, is (I believe Metro or someone else can confirm) that just a few months before this book went to auction, it was available at Metro's booth in SDCC for 45K and went unsold (I think that was the price, I remember looking at it and considering making an offer...might have even been 60K, but it was no where near the price it auctioned for) I see this 9.0 copy being worth north of 250K just on principle alone, and if you try to use the 6.0 sale as a benchmark, folks would say 500K...will be fun to watch...incredibly rare book unrestored, and obviously in nosebleed stature at that grade... kudos to metro for uncovering That's interesting as it really makes me wonder if these auctions aren't creating a little bit of a bubble.If not that then it really means you should be looking for bargains in the Golden Age lists of major dealers. This copy is gorgeous though and so iconic it deserves a great price. But who will pony up a quarter million for a nearly forgotten hero? He is certainly not a known entity in modern day pop culture. I think that will drag the price down. Too bad this wasn't Earth S or it would be going for over a million while everyone wondered whatever happened to Superman. Baby Boomers fondly remember Cap. Marvel. I think the 9.0 could fetch one quarter to one half a mil after hearing GAtor (although I think 176k paid for a 6.0 is what it is and WILL impact the 9.0 sale). Baby boomers started to arrive in 1946 and only the earliest ones were alive and only 7-8 years old when Captain Marvel ceased publishing. A later wave of boomers (born 1962-1964 say) caught his return in the mid-seventies and also the TV show. I'm not sure if he is carrying much of a fan base in that generation. Too bad there is no way to look up an analysis of cultural awareness of these kinds of characters. As a test when is the last time you heard someone say, "Holy Moley!" or "Shazam!" for that matter. I don't think I've heard anyone say "Shazam" since watching a Gomer Pyle rerun many years ago.

A bunch of cool books as usual Scrooge. I've wanted to read the Tomahawk stories for a while. Hopefully they'll be reprinted someday.

A lot of the earlier issues also had the interior art redone. Two books I would recommend for anyone interested in CI's are The Complete Guide to Classics Illustrated by Malan and Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History by Jones. (Thanks Scrooge). The Malan book is great for the comic collecting aspect of CI's while the Jones book is great for its history of the artists and publisher.

Two awesome books.

Well put. I read #10 (#1) and #11 (#2) a couple of weeks ago through DCM. I previously never gave them a second thought because I couldn't stand the goofy look Joe has on almost every cover. I was surprised how much I liked them though. The mixture of comedy, girls and war is really well done.

I knew this looked familiar. I noticed it a few years ago when going through some Classics Illustrated cover art that Heritage sold. http://comics.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=829&lotNo=41383

He also did 4 other Classics Illustrated covers. #157 (Lives of the Hunted), #159 (The Octopus) and new covers for #68 (Julius Ceasar) and #90 (Green Mansions). Great list by the way.

I guess he's only mentally sick if the experiment fails. Now that's a story I'll have to read someday.

I would've guessed Roy, but a quick look at an edition of Hake's Price Guide to Character Toys lists only 11 pages of Rogers merchandise, compared to 21 pages for Lone Ranger. Following up on this, here's an ad on the back of one Timmy Lassie. Lots of cool stuff pictures but also listed at the bottom - That's a neat ad. I definitely would have wanted to order from it when I was a kid. Though I would have stayed away from the typically crazy Roy/Gene shirt.

Congrats on finishing the Lassie 1-36 Scrooge. #30 is one of my favorite covers of the run and I love the full date stamp. I'll eventually get the 1-36 run. Here's one (#31) of the two I own now. I also haven't posted a Lone Ranger in this thread in a while so here's one (#74) of those too.

You mean Ted Williams the baseball player, right? My lack of familiarity with this particular sport is showing. The guy is (as far as I know) a legend and even though I've heard of him, I had never even seen a single photo of his so as to know what he looks like. Yes, the baseball player. The Splendid Splinter. I just noticed you're from Greece. I'm surprised you've even heard of him.

I'm pretty sure the person on the left of the "I" photo is Ted Williams. Assuming Scrooge is correct (a pretty good assumption) and "I" matches #9, then you also have Ham Fisher (Joe Palooka).

What an awesome Action #1 wrap. My favorite panels would be #6 then #7.

I think "C" is George McManus with Buster Keaton and "E" is Milton Caniff with Joan Crawford. Also, I think "A" is Chic Young with some Blondie look alikes or models (?) I know a few of the other celebrities but not the matching cartoonist.

Did you read it in the Bill Everett archives? That's what piqued my interest in the book. It has always been on my radar, but after reading the story I moved it way up the list. That's where I read it also.

That's a great Amazing Man #5. I always liked the cover but like it even more now after reading the story and seeing that the scene on the cover occured in the story.

That's a great looking Lassie, Scrooge. I just read a few for the first time and enjoyed them. I'll definitely get more. I just noticed the Dale Evans ostrich cover you posted. Another classic DC "riding an ostrich" cover. Second only to Detective #67 (Penguin cover).

Just arrived today from the Comiclink auction. I put in a bid about 20 minutes before the auction ended then went out to dinner. I happily found out later that night that I won it for about 60% of my max bid. It's always a good feeling when your max bids aren't maxed out.

Congrats. This is a great looking copy.

My only teen humor comic. I like this cover but the girls "squash your toes" shoes are distracting.

What a great looking book. Definitely on the short list of my favorite Cole covers.

Great books posted in this thread. Some day I'll have a large Atlas collection (all genres), but for now it's pretty small. Here are a few I haven't read yet (one just bought and one just cracked).