OtherEric

Two minor, cheap, in the wild digest finds today. Although, with Wollrich in one and PKD in the other, they're not completely nothing issues either:

Today's in the wild finds. Nothing earth-shattering, but all fun:

The #40 is by Del Connell and Al Hubbard, not Kelly. Still some wonderful stuff, Hubbard is a horribly underrated artist. Most of the Peter Wheat scans at the Digital Comic Museum and Comic Book Plus are from my collection, including this one. I've been working on collecting the Peter Wheat series for over a decade and am still missing lots of issues. Agreed that you might expect them to show up in bunches, but they don't particularly. The series is horribly hard to find, the Peter Wheat News issues are even harder, and I suspect the miniature issues for Bell Bakery would all be Gerber 10's if not 11's. But it's been worth the hunt, because Kelly did some of his best work in comic books for them. (Not as good as the Pogo comic strip, but better than the comic books, I think.)

This week's additions. I think of the Vampi #23 as something of a companion to the Eerie #23, given the numbering and theme:

Not that it took me long to do so, but glad to finally have the set:

Grabbed some unscanned books from MCS following this discussion; at least 3 of the 4 are good enough for my standards. And the Eerie #27 was cheap enough I'm not unhappy with it, I just want a better copy at some point to show off the cover. The Vampirella was a pick-up from a couple weeks ago, but might as well have them together here as well:

A couple semi-random books today:

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Showed this over in the bookshelf thread, but it belongs here as well:

Just to be clear, Foggy, both Worlds of If and Galaxy are Pulp digests, not comics. Bode's Sunpot was serialized in Galaxy from February to May 1970, but as far as I know that's the only comic story that ever appeared in Galaxy.

What a great bunch of pickups! If that Two-Fisted Tales isn't an upgrade for you it would be an upgrade for me, so let me know if you're looking to move it along, please!

I had the problem a couple days ago on my iPhone. Logged out at CGC home page, logged back on forums, worked fine since. Annoying, I agree; but I haven't had it as a persistent problem.

Mask #1 is unscanned at the Digital Comic Museum and Comic Book Plus, so somebody might want it for a scanning project. There also might be a demand for it for parts if somebody had an incomplete copy with a cover. But overall, I would guess it would probably be worth about 1% or less than a high grade copy with the cover, possibly much less. (I'm not positive what the book is currently trading for with the cover.) Very much one of those items you would need to look for the right buyer on. With that said, I would guess it at being a 3-figure book; but for the life of me I don't know if it would be closer to $100 or $999. With the promise collection copy hitting 6 figures as an 8.5, it might be closer to the higher end of that... but I wouldn't pay more than $100 just to get a copy of the book to scan & share online. As you say, the contents are not high demand beyond the cover.

Charlton may have been running the dummy UPC for a bit to get used to the placement and iron out other bugs before the real codes went live. Which seems like a very odd way to go about things, but this is Charlton we're talking about. Here's Emergency #1 and #2, the first seems to have the dummy UPC and the second seems to have a real one.

#215, I think. 207 and 205 follow in fairly close succession. I respect 211 for trying something different but think it flopped in execution.

Two pickups at my LCS today.

I know there's a quick test site at SeaTac Airport itself. The problem is they charge through the nose; I think it's $250 for the quickest results. I'm sure there are cheaper places but that's the one I'm aware of.

Two books in this week:

Witzend is an odd book; it never seems to quite reach the potential it seemed like it should have based on the quality of contributors. But I'm very happy I put together the run and the #7 is undeniably the stand-out cover of the run.

I would even say some titles are experiencing run-wide jumps with non-key issues. Weird Tales and Planet Stories, for instance. And even at the low end you're less likely to find underpriced books like you used to. But a generic western issue won't have moved much, for instance.

Congratulations on both the pickups. I've got a copy of the Unknown, but it's a fairly low grade one. Not that I regret the $20 or so I spent on it, a price that I doubt will ever be seen again on that book...

The rotating feature era is definitely a highlight, although I also like the various "when we feel like them" characters, like the Faceless Creature, Animal Man, Immortal Man, and Enchantress. And, of course, Deadman remains a classic. I tend to think the weakest part of the run is from about 50-100, where they don't really have much in the way of recurring features. Although even then Darwin Jones pops up occasionally.

Love it. My PKD books are a bit more scattered; I've got the Ace D-Series mixed in with the other Ace D-Series (shown way back in this thread) but I'm up to about 20 firsts. You've got more hardcovers than I do, though!

Variable, but with a decently high hit rate. I tend to prefer the recurring features, but there's a good number of fun one-off stories as well.