Bronty

great books everyone!

PS bangzoom since you're taking reqeusts (you might get inundated ) how about more of the things we don't see too often - pulps, art, historical items like the jerry siegel release, stuff like that

yep. I can tell just by the post count as to whether or not there's a new pic. 1-10 unseen posts: no pic! 30+ - pic guaranteed!!

What tb's trying to ask you is do you have any barks ducks in there!!

I thought Indiana Jones found that? He did, back in the 1940s. But then Bangzoom bought it from him in 1965 for ten bucks.

hello all... I did say once he got to "know" us....just over a month ago, a bunch of us met over at ciorac's house, and there were millions of dollars of comics in one room, all being shared for each others enjoyment...so, there is a precedent...admittedly, this group of folks have been "brothers" for a long time...but, it is possible ! rick I hear you.... but that's just it, let's warm the poor guy up. This thread is reading like an awkward teenager jumping all over his girl in the first five minutes of the first date Although he seems to like it

Okay guys... be reasonable. Who the hell is going to invite strangers over to view a multi million dollar collection? As the owner I'd be afraid of people casing the joint. I'd have to know them pretty well and even then I'd have to think about it.

Okay... but who's going to teach his wife to teach him how to use it? Just kidding BZ

I'll throw in $10 towards the new scanner

So if the most you ever paid for a comic was $55 as a 13 year old, you must have acquired this collection as quite a young man... at what age did you stop actively collecting? Did your parents help you out with the costs back then or how else did you come up with the money as a young man? Congrats!!

agreed, time to get this train wreck back on the tracks!

no way, you keep 'em!!!!

that would buy you a nice Omac #1 these days

And at a higher rate than his other work no less... on an unrelated (?) note, do we know who wrote MF52? (I personally have no clue).

Busted! Must be his supey 1 as the picture has the white steaks in the middle unique to his scanner! (where supes' shoulder meets his cape!)

Hmm... also weird how the "R" in radio squad is done two different ways yet appears to be by the same hand..

Very cool. Interesting how Jerry was paid $4/pg for certain features and only $2/pg for others..

Definitely. 1000 books only need to be worth $1000 on average to reach 1m. No question you will hit that kind of average when you have those big keys included! (assuming the collection is from a fairly focussed time period, which it seems to be so far). $1000 a book isn't that much when you're talking unrestored early GA. He mentioned early detectives... need I say more? The detectives alone could be worth 300-400k if all the early batman ones are represented in nice condition.

My own take on releasing pics or not is that it really doesn't matter. tb mentioned the "freshness to market" issue. It is true that some books that are repeatedly offered for sale on all the auction sites etc may seem stale and get somewhat depressed prices that way. But this is really not that issue at all. Your books have never been offered anywhere(!!) and releasing pics in my opinion is only going to whet appetites, like ciorac said, for when/if there is a sale. In my opinion, this is really a non-issue in your case and just applies when someone is trying to sell the same book over and over again, which is clearly NOT the case here! If the Mile Highs had never been found, and someone released the pics of the mile high collection tomorrow, does anyone really think that the Mile Highs wouldn't get amazing prices at their inaugural sales because the image release of all those mint books had somehow made them "stale"? Give me a ing break. People would instead be setting aside every dollar for the day those books went on sale. IMO, same thing albeit on a smaller scale here. I think tb was looking out for you, which is cool but I totally disagree in this case. To look at it another way, even if every single scan was released there would still be plenty of questions to keep people interested upon eventual sale. (Does cgc agree they are unrestored? What will the Action 13 grade out at?? Is that the nicest AA16 graded so far? etc. etc. etc. I guarantee you once the books were sent in to cgc, you'd have "round 2" of collector buzz. You'd have folks comparing the page quality and numerical grades to other known pedigrees to see how the collection compares to other pedigrees, etc etc. The fact is that a front and/or back cover scan really doesn't tell a purchaser everything they want to know, and moreover in my opinion the freshness to market issue is only an issue if the books are in the market(!) which they aren't and have never been!!). Do agree with all those recommending cataloging the collection. I don't think there's any question the collection is worth at least the 1m suggested with adventure 40, AA 16, tec 27, supes 1, and 996 other unrestored GA books!

Congrats Bill.. what a smokin' book!

VERY nice!

I haven't paid attention to whether or not they were recolored, I just find that the sloppy registration on the originals takes away from the art a bit. I.e. the color bleeds over barks' lines, etc. much more so than on the reprints.

didn't mean it like that but point well taken! Just meant to say that a some people pooh pooh the whitman/GK barks reprints but they have their own charms!

Nice. I almost prefer some of those gold keys/ whitmans to the originals for reading copies. The one thing I don't like about the original dells is that the color registration is often way off which is never a problem on these later books.. congrats!