Kevin.J

Excellent set of group shots.

 

I noticed you had Magnus Robot Fighter included among them. Which cover, of the first 10, would you rate as your favorite?

 

There is a MRF thread here, but it's been a while since it's been updated.

Wow, that's such a hard choice.

I love painted covers, robot covers and Russ manning anyway. Put all 3 together....phew..

If I was forced to make a decision I would chose #3 as I think that it was the first issue that I owned and the cover depicts an impossible task due to the size of the robot, that just makes you want to read it to find out whats going to happen.

I will have to look for the MRF.

What would you rate as your favorite ?

Love seeing old mags like this. That one looks quite speculator focused for the time (pre 90's).

 

My guesses for best comic strip ever would be; Raymond Flash Gordon, Hogarth Tarzan or Eisner Spirit. I know it's cheating to take 3 guesses, but hey, I was the first to respond.

Its hard to argue with Whizzers choices ( 2 of my faves) but I think "Chester Gould's Di ck Tracy" would have an outside chance also.

AWESOME!

 

Gotta get around to doing this someday...

Looking at your set awards, your collection would make mine look rubbish.

I would love to see a photo of those high grade early Spideys.

Very nice collection kevin j. Im hopin mine one day will look like that too. And youre the only other person ive seen that bags their trades. I guess were just weird. Thanks for posting all the pics. I really enjoyed looking through them.

I bag everything.

If I buy it, I bag it.

I dont mind being weird.

I have a question for you. As a U.K. person, do you prefer Pence or Cents copies. I have a buddy who owns an LCS whose Mom is British and he always gets excited when a pence copy turns up over here. GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u

I don't discriminate really between Pence or Cents and have lots of each.

I would normally buy whichever the higher grade.

Obviously the Pence copies have a much smaller print run and are desirable to a lot of people, but I think think that the Cents copies are more widely accepted, especially the keys.

If faced with the choice of buying Pence or Cents of equal grade, I would buy the Cents but the completist in me would get them both if I could afford them.

A few examples of both.

Killer collection of stuff! Nice representation across the main silver-age titles. (thumbs u

 

 

 

But where are the DC war books??

 

I just worked my way through A-Z and tried to cover DC, Marvel, Gold Key & Charlton.

Next time I am off work I will do some war books.

 

Very impressive

 

Moreover you are from UK and for non-US collectors is much more difficult to build this kind of collection.

I am from the UK and it has been and is difficult, much easier since the internet.

Back in the days of catalogs, changing currency & sending cash or American express money orders to some random seller in the US only to find the issue sold or never to hear from him again, used to be worrying.

Luckily 99% of people I dealt with turned out to be honest decent sellers. Thanks guys.

#9 One of my favorite covers.

Killer collection of stuff! Nice representation across the main silver-age titles. (thumbs u

 

 

 

But where are the DC war books??

 

I just worked my way through A-Z and tried to cover DC, Marvel, Gold Key & Charlton.

Next time I am off work I will do some war books.

I love your sig line Oakman and thats some line up.

I'm gonna have to get me one of those.

Killer collection of stuff! Nice representation across the main silver-age titles. (thumbs u

 

 

 

But where are the DC war books??

I just worked my way through A-Z and tried to cover DC, Marvel, Gold Key & Charlton.

Next time I am off work I will do some war books.

Maybe take some pics of your comic room/collection.

 

There's a nice thread for that in Comics General.

 

I'm looking forward to see it!

 

Finally got around to it. Sorry for the wait guys.

 

Here is my room.

 

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5599813#Post5599813

 

 

 

Here are some photos of some of my comics.

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5601216#Post5601213

I have seen some great rooms on here and finally got time to take a few photos of mine.

Years ago it used to be all prettied up, but now it is purely functional due to my collection getting seriously out of hand in size.

I have 21 filing cabinets in all. You can get approx 600 comics per drawer.

I think that they are best as I can get to most of my collection (SA & BA anyway) in minutes.

I still have lots of overspill into other rooms, loft and the garage in long boxes.

I need a bigger house.

I don't want to fill out this thread with photos of comics, but I will pull some out if someone posts a link where to show them....and anyone wants to see.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Very nice room. Really like the HC display. Awesome AF 15 and Hulk 1.

 

What's the picture above your slabbed books - the black and white one?

 

Edit - WOW, just did the math - that nearly 50,000 comics!

 

+ More than 100 long boxes.

I put from about 1980 onwards and whatever I was complete with into boxes as I didn't need the access.

There nothing worse than filling a gap and having to move 25 boxes to put it in place.

Best thing I ever did was get the cabinets, full access.

The picture is Batman / Vampirella.

The room used to have lots of OA on the walls but its all kept in a case now as not much wall space left.

 

Here are some photos of some of my comics.

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5601216#Post5601213

I finally got around to taking some photos of my main comic room.

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5599813#Post5599813

While I was in there I pulled a few books out to photograph also.

I hope you like my stuff.

KevinJ, that room is something else. I assume it's on the ground floor as the weight must be huge? Great collection though.

 

 

 

And Waylander, what you actually did was the mathS

This room is not on the ground floor, I do worry about the ceiling falling in as my computer room is directly below and I spend a lot of time in there. If it is windy outside it can be quite unnerving as you can hear creaking above you.

I have seen some great rooms on here and finally got time to take a few photos of mine.

Years ago it used to be all prettied up, but now it is purely functional due to my collection getting seriously out of hand in size.

I have 21 filing cabinets in all. You can get approx 600 comics per drawer.

I think that they are best as I can get to most of my collection (SA & BA anyway) in minutes.

I still have lots of overspill into other rooms, loft and the garage in long boxes.

I need a bigger house.

I don't want to fill out this thread with photos of comics, but I will pull some out if someone posts a link where to show them....and anyone wants to see.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Very nice room. Really like the HC display. Awesome AF 15 and Hulk 1.

 

What's the picture above your slabbed books - the black and white one?

 

Edit - WOW, just did the math - that nearly 50,000 comics!

+ More than 100 long boxes.

I put from about 1980 onwards and whatever I was complete with into boxes as I didn't need the access.

There nothing worse than filling a gap and having to move 25 boxes to put it in place.

Best thing I ever did was get the cabinets, full access.

The picture is Batman / Vampirella.

The room used to have lots of OA on the walls but its all kept in a case now as not much wall space left.