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SilverAgeGuy

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  1. More details in your post than I had known. Thanks for the write up. Here are the 3 that made it into my collection. Unfortunately 2 were pressed before they came to me, but that's how it is these days.
  2. Picked up these 3 Bowling Green books on Heritage today for my (forever in progress) Strange Tales set.
  3. Yeah, I haven't seen a graded 51 higher than 8.0. I expect that unless I somehow find a really nice raw candidate, that's going to be a hole in my collection for a very long time. But hey, at least I have a 9.4 graded 52.
  4. These days any valuable original label book changing hands a few times will be cracked, cleaned, pressed and regraded if they have pressable defects, and often even if they don't. If you see one on the market that hasn't been, its because its been sitting in a collection for years, or isn't worth enough to press. I currently own 21 original label books, and all else being equal I will choose an original label book over others every time.
  5. I mainly focused on Warren Vampirella mags this year, but I also picked up the last Doctor Strange 1st run issue I was missing. So here are Vampi #1, the Vampi Special Edition, and Doctor Strange 179.
  6. A couple more of mine, one comic related, the other not, but still cool. The first I bought because I liked the subject and it matched the day-glow marvel third eye posters. The second is of course, Vampirella. The vampi I had to take at an odd angle to minimize glare.
  7. Great price on the Special too, if i didn't already have it I'd get that as well. Someone buy that!
  8. I think it comes down to what they are made out of. If comics, like coins, could withstand a fair bit of handling without losing a grade or 5, we would likely be a lot more particular about cleaning and pressing of comics as well.
  9. Tales to Astonish 27. But that said, I also see all comics after about 1984 as having no collectable value, which is not to say they all aren't worth reading. I just wont fork out more than cover price for any of them (and often not even that).
  10. Here are a pair of original Marvel third eye 1971 posters. I picked these up from Dark Adventure Comics in GA via ebay in 2003 for something like $30 each.
  11. A little off topic but i thought id post a few pics of the donning press hard cover set i mentioned in my post on page 1. Printed between 1981 (vol 1) and 1984 (vol 4), they each contained 5 issues of the original 20 issue run in a hard cover graphic novel format. They were signed by the Pini's and limited to 3000 copies per volume. Each also included an art print, and I've included a pic of the print included with volume 1 as well as a peek inside the first volume.
  12. Another great round of pickups including some key issues (whether you think Frazetta covers or first appearances are key, you're covered!)
  13. Another opportunity to pick up some great Vampi books came along that I just couldn't pass up.
  14. Here we go. This might be it for a while. Vampi is draining my bank account instead of my blood...
  15. I picked this one up on Comiclink last night, which completes my graded Doctor Strange run, finally!
  16. Finally an update to my Club entry. Here is my old and new copies together.
  17. Thanks, I think it's great for the grade as well. I actually had the chance to buy the other two and passed, due to issues I didn't like on both of them. I took a risk passing on fixed prices and then bidding on this one at auction. I was ready to pay a bit more for the right book, and luckily it worked out. I also think the 9.2 and 9.4's are a great deal in comparison at this point.
  18. Just won this on Comic Link. The 9.6 went for an astronomical $27,255. That convinced me to settle for the 9.2 that went up right after it. I actually passed on the last 2 9.2s I've seen up for sale. Happy with this one!
  19. Two more! No scanner anymore so you'll have to endure my photos. The scratch on #89 is on the case.
  20. I was lucky enough to get the 12, 13 and 18. I believe Darkga got the 14. I was too late for some of the other goodness that they sold that day.
  21. It's been a long time, but I finally have a few new books to add to the Vampi collection.