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I was a bit disappointed but okay with the 4.5 on the Hulk, but wow, that's a great looking AF 15. I'd resub that in a heartbeat. Looks like a 5.5 to me.

Everything you could possibly want to know about the Harlan Ellison Collection. Okay, so last year I went a "little" nuts and bought the heart of Harlan Ellison's comic collection, about 800 books (so far). This was by far my largest comic purchase, ever. And...since members have been asking for more info, I thought I'd do the journal thing and share the backstory of the collection, the present, and hopeful future acquisitions. To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.

Jumping in with Harlan's book.

Absolutely! Some boardies pointed out that the big auction houses would front the dough for grading and deduct from the auction sales...but I'm not really planning to sell anytime soon, so yeah, the grading fees were i-n-t-e-n-s-e. And the wait took about 8 months, so far. Still waiting on the rest. The whole collection is just shy of 800 books. Includes runs of all the major SA Marvel titles, Bronze keys, some DC books, underground books, a few GA books, and all of the comics that Harlan had a hand in (either directly or indirectly) as a creator. Plus certificates of authenticity signed by Harlan. Here are some craptastic photos and some decent scans. Enjoy!

Just one book. It's curious, because the underground stuff were the first books I saw and snapped them up immediately. It wasn't until I saw the motherlode that I bought en masse. So you'd think those books would have been graded first, but they graded all the high dollar books first, and now working their way down. Am I to believe CGC thinks the underground stuff is less important? Wouldn't think so after the new pedigree and all.

CGC did the same thing with the Don Rosa collection. In fact the Boards argued about this with many believing it was a pedigree. I even called CGC and they said Don Rosa is not a pedigree, the presence of the word 'collection' indicating thus. Hoiwever, I agree with you, it is not a Pedigree and should not be noted in the pedigree field. Nice collection ! I wondered about that as well, but figured the word "collection" would settle any confusion. I wasn't aware of the same thing on the Don Rosa books. With a few of the restored books, or books that Harlan wrote, the collection field is jam-packed with details and there simply isn't room, so the collection provenance had to go somewhere else.

Went to NYC and visited Metropolis' offices (still in AWE from all the original covers on the walls). Came home and found CGC boxes waiting for me. More of the Harlan Ellison Collection. *Nerdgasm* As you'd expect the grading is all over the map.

More books from the Harlan Ellison Collection are finally rolling in. More boxes to open...

Can I join?

Crazy, right? The thing weighs 200+ pounds. The original calculated shipping price was $175. Not sure how Amazon makes money on this kind of transaction.

I have one of these: Better SAFE than sorry. And an alarm system. There's a waiting list at my bank for the larger safe deposit boxes, otherwise I would have gone that route long ago. Some I display, but it's nice to have someplace secure to stash them when I'm traveling, on vacation, etc.

Just started A Dance With Dragons by George RR Martin. A Feast For Crows was okay, but a bit of a slog.

That's my favorite OSC book.

One could argue that he's still handling other people's money. And other people's comics.

It seems like the bias comes from jealousy. It's presumed that Doug had a healthy flow of ill-managed cash and said cash was used to buy some truly great books. Now Doug is sorry, those clients have been made whole and those books are worth millions. Legally, he's in he clear. Morally, he skated by. Perhaps it's the strange feeling that Doug indirectly benefited this year from past crimes?

Blood Meridian was crazy good. Now reading Storm of Swords.

Golden Age Collectibles has been in Seattle since 1971.

Dunces was bizarre and hilarious. And it's one of those books that's been bouncing around Hollywood forever. Now they've cast Zach Galifianakis as the lead.

I'm in a guys' book group called Books & Brews. This month we're reading Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. The last few months have been: Confederacy of Dunces, Less Than Zero, The Coldest Night, and The Crying Lot of 49. Books. Drinking. General mayhem...