PUNYHUMAN

What a great book to inherit. Rare to boot.

I feel your pain. I've passed on books that later I've thought what was I thinking.  Oh Well! Like my wife always says . you can't have them all. It just makes me appreciate what I do have in my collection.

That was a great time to score a lot of these classic covers.The 1990's. I bought my Amazing Man #22 shown over in classic Covers in General off of Harley Yee. Paid about $ 175.00. Those were the days . Now you have to take a second mortgage!

Sorry the scan  is terrible.

This one is my son's favorite Lou Fine cover. Mine is Fantastic Comics # 3. This one is beautiful in its simplicity also. Hit Comics # 5 it is restored but a real beauty in hand.

You can tell I love Lou Fine. My Favorite Golden Age artist.

They do turn up quite a bit. Even in the early days of collecting you could find one. It's just having the money to get one.

15 hours ago, Sqeggs said:

Weren't Cosmic Airplane books actually discovered before the Church collection?  I think it's the earliest named pedigree ... but I'm often wrong about these things!

The Kansas City pedigree was 1st. Founded by the Thompsons in the 1960's. Cosmic Airplane 2nd. 1972, David Faggiola  was the owner. Tom Reilly/ San Francisco 1973. The 3 oldest pedigrees. Larson fits in there somewhere . It maybe the next Ped that was discovered. I'm not sure about the date.

It is  a incredible book. One of the best covers in the Golden Age. Congrats to everyone who has one. Wish I owned one myself. As far as scarcity it is a 1950's book and market scarce also. A combo of both. Anyone who has one doesn't want to sell if ever .  Just a awesome cover it has everything going for it.

2 minutes ago, shortboxed said:

My 2nd win of the week. Been trying to find a well-presenting, lower grade for a while now. 

 

Sweet copy. Love the colors.

Love the colors . Sweet.

There was definitely some and still are, charactors in this hobby. Love hearing stories like this. Keep posting Ron.

On ‎6‎/‎23‎/‎2018 at 8:33 AM, Straw-Man said:

yay!

The Tim Leary Pedigree!!

Sweet!!

I totally agree.  10 point resto rating system would be great .  To all  grading companies are you listening? 

If I remember correctly,the late Bruce Hamilton and Steve Fishler got the ball rolling with CGC grading. It was time they felt for a grading service.Esp. with the internet. It was the wild west before that.

Beautiful books.

16 hours ago, BB-Gun said:

My Mystery in Space books belonged here BUT I couldn't find the listing last week.

Great set. I collect Mystery in Space and Strange Adventures myself. Great art in those mags. Anderson, Kane, etc.

I was talking to Terry O Neil some years back about some comics he told me were found inside some guys wall in his house. One of them happened to be Suspense # 3 classic cover. I asked him what kind of condition it was in. He said it looked like it came out of a wall.  He still sold it though. It just goes to show , you never know what's out there.

RIP Russ. Truly one of the greats. Your work will live on.

\There had to be in  imho more then 1000 collectors in 1965.  I was collecting back in 1965. There was at least 5 collectors in my small town that I knew. Jerry Weist put out Squa Tront fanzine at 1500 copies by then. I don't think every collector in the country bought one. Biljo White put out also Batmania with over 1000 copies . These are examples , I would think. There was a lot more readers I think , but Fandom was bigger then 1000 collectors . What about EC fandom in the 1950's. When Creepy Magazine hit the newsstand around this time it sold and not to just readers . It was  EC comics again for fans. "Wally Wood, Frazetta, etc." Again I could be totally wrong but these are examples.