The Black Hand ®

You should see the interior on that one! It's amazing what you can do with a rope, a stake and a bamboo shoot. Oh, and a girl. maybe I will get to sneak a peak at one now, did you mean you want to sneak a "peek" or, since we're talking about a girl, is it a peak peek you seek, geek? good point...I prefer to peek a peek at the peaks, though, as a geek, I do seek a peek any time of the week Who let Crumb's Ruff Tuff Creampuff in here? Jack takin' no guff while strutting his stuff....

cheese and rice!!!!!!!! man, what a book. way to go Ronaldo. That book has it all! First, it's a Hangman...second, it has a classic Harry Lucey cover...third...it's a SanFrancisco copy and fourth, it has great stories with off-white pages. Extraordinary!

Welcome back, ghoulaid. I'm happy you thought the thread was worth reading. Worth reading???? Why.....I'm living vicariously through this thread. I've paneled my comic vault in the same knotty pine that BZ has.....I've blown up all the images of comics and pulp displays and cabinets to make them look like the real thing. I have full size poster boards of several board members positioned as if they're trying to sneak in through the basement window. I even have one of Bob Beerbohm trying to swap an Obidiah Oldbuck for a Detective 27, while a cutout of Showcase-4 is standing behind him with a baseball bat getting ready to strike. I spend a lot of time in that room and the only interruptions are when my wife asks me who I'm talking to. "Who are you telling to put the lotion on, honey?" Anyway, it's all in the spirit of comic and pulp fun, in a demented sort of way.

Batman 1. That would be a huge purchase for someone like me, so I'd have to consider the safety factor if the comic market were to crash and Bats would be one of the characters least affected.

Bangzoom and Scrooge.......you guys are the treasures!

I wanna finish the story!

On some books like this CGC will give the submitter the option. 4.5 blue or 9 green (or whatever the case may be). In the comiclink auction now there is a Captain America 47. I submitted that book. The centerfold is loose. CGC gave me the option of an 8.0 green or a 4.0 blue. In my opinion 4.0 has nothing whatsoever to do with the grade of that book. It is a VF with a loose centerfold, so I took the green label option. It does make sense in some cases, but with this spine split scenario I agree with you. You... agree with....me..... Again? So, your a more experienced grader than I am, since with my eyesight everything looks like a vg+. what would you grade a book like that Wonder with the 4 inch spine split? I'd give it a 6.0.

Still, I wonder....why does a 4" spine split give a book a qualified label? Isn't that like saying 9.0 if not for the..........or 4"spine split/otherwise 9.0. I can see it being used for a missing cf or coupon, but......

Wouldn't thaty spine split make that a blue label 4.5? What gives?

Favorite Archie cover, next to 31 and it's even a Sahle cover...his best one.

Montana cover.

Love that cover and what a great reading book that is. I've had a few copies of that one and it's one of the cooler MLJ keys. (thumbs u

It happened one night with Gable and Colbert?

Two of the greatest MLJ covers! Classics both. I can't wait to see what 143ksk replaced his with.

With Hitler on the cover no less. First Reggie Mantle and a Montana cover. Is there a reason why Montana doesn't get the kind of respect he should be getting for his superhero covers? I can't figure it out, because he's my all time favorite.

All in the spirit of childish birthday humor. (thumbs u

Is that the ball where they're holding Bedrock's birthday bash?

On a positive note, because most collectors are now educated in terms of proper storing of comic books, they may well survive another 100 years if kept in stasis. Particularly those books which have survived well already. We can probably thank Edgar Church in a large way for his fortunate choice of where to stack his comics.

Thank's Scrooge, I love the Black Angel.

There are other areas of collecting where it's considered negative to restore. Some furniture collectors don't like it when a piece has been cleaned and the patina removed. Same for the bases of certain types of bronze lamps. I think it's extensive resto that gives a lot of collectors the willies especially when so much of the book has been altered. I would like to see spefic degrees of restoration noted especially since it's such a sensitive issue. There will and there should be a price consequence for restored books and it should be based on the level of restoration involved and the quality of the restoration. Mr. Bedrocks example of a kid in 1939 running a line of ink along the spine of a book is an example of a defect in my opinion and one that cgc should be able to differentiate between as far as defect and resto go. That's what they get paid for. I think that if a little time and effort were spent on this and cgc were to become more specific, the market would truly be able to decide the value of restored versus unrestored.

just for a different perspective (I love restored books, so I don't "get it" with the negativity to them), why is it any less cool that is has some restoration? I guess it's because it's amazing a book can survive untouched in such good condition for that long. I've seen too many restored books that look good from three feet away, but once you hold them close you can see all the work. I've also seen restored books with decent looking restored covers but with tanning pages on the inside, that's a turnoff for me. Restored books have their place, but they don't have the appeal to me that a pristine untouched book has.

I'll tell you one thing, if that was an unrestored copy of Detective #1 that looked that nice, it'd be a pretty cool book to have. I have to admit that the cover is close to being iconic, at least for hardcore GA collectors.

Correct. The "Extensive" restoration was a quarter sized piece replacement. (thumbs u So, the only restoration done on that book was a quarter size piece replacement....that all?

Adventure, those Starman issues are cool. The tec 1, which is heavily restored, turns me off. I'd rather have a high res scan of the cover, then pay that much for a book with such extensive resto.

I think you're looking for the "Proctologist" thread over in general........ I'll take the Cap also, but I'd like it in the mail and in my hand....my black hand..... the "which one would you choose" thread welcomes diversity, and does not tolerate any suggestions of ethnic bigotry Who suggested otherwise?