OtherEric

I had never noticed this on Epic, but you're right... all my copies have barcodes. What I HAD noticed is that Marvel Super Special only has one issue with a direct edition as well. Rampaging Hulk is all barcodes. I'm only seeing a couple very late issues of Crazy with direct editions. Bizarre adventures and Savage Sword of Conan seem to go all out on Direct & Newsstand, unlike the others.

I certainly though so. A power blip wiped out my initial thoughts, so recreating them in slightly less detail: Shadows seemed somewhat soft, other than the first Shiwan Khan, which was crazy. Spiders ranged from solid to insane. $756.70 for the January 1950 Startling Stories is impressive, but it's such a classic cover that I suspect that might look like a good price before too long... there are enough copies out there, unlike some pulps, that I suspect there will be semi regular sales and it will get a lot of attention. $523.25 for the May 1940 Super Science Stories is one of those prices I would not have believed 6 months ago. Some of the Weird Tales prices are unreal. $1897.50 for the July 1941 issue is 20x guide. $1,811.25 for the November 1941 is similar. Over 17K for the Batwoman issue. $7,820 for the first Conan. Over 6K for first "Call of Cthulhu". 10K for the bound volume and 25K for the first issue. Lots of other impressive numbers. The one thing I will note is it seems like Weird Tales prices were far more impacted by condition than the other titles. I can't seem to pull up all the results for last night; I only found the Weird Tales sorting by title. So any other reactions from people?

Agreed on both points, the volume was overwhelming and some results were odd. I am, however, prepared to make a definitive statement on why the one Planet went for 10x what the other three went for: It's the only one of the four I don't already have.

Wasn't it only a few months ago you put out the errata saying increase all prices 2-3x? Your timing on the guide was perfect, given the rush on pulps we're seeing... I'm just trying to decide if it was perfectly right or perfectly wrong!

Thank you, looking at some of the results now, to see what's jumping out at me. The Nov. 1940 Marvel Stories going for $1,063.75 seems nuts to me... until you compare it to every other 1940 Human Torch story, perhaps. Glad I've got my copy already. Same with $575 for the November 1938 Marvel Science Stories. And at $1450.15 for the April 1939 and $891.25 for the August 1938 Marvel Science Stories, I'm just going to have to be happy with the issues I already have, I think. The Operator #5 prices seem pretty healthy overall. Fantastic Story September 1953 at $143.75 for a 2.0 seems insane, even if it is a nice Schomburg cover. Particularly since a 4.0 of the same issue only got $29.90. Future Science Fiction March 1954 for $77.05 for a 4.0 is almost as crazy. Very healthy prices on Famous Fantastic Mysteries; we may not be able to call it a good entry level pulp for much longer. $178.25 for the June 1950 issue in 4.0 was the one that surprised me the most, but others were nearly as impressive. The Doc Savage prices actually seemed lower than I might have expected in a lot of cases. $1,335.15 for the first issue of The Avenger in 4.0 is pretty impressive. The Astounding SF prices are all over the place. I think some of the Hubbard collectors went a little crazy, but I'm not sure all the high prices were on his books. The Lovecrafts issues seem to be fairly sane, particularly compared to the Heritage auction a few months ago. Similar to the Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Argosy had a lot of strong sales. Amazing Stories looked like it was going relatively cheap, with a few exceptions. $496.80 for the March 1944 issue, with PKD's first published work (a letter), is impressive, though. $626.75 for the September 1927 issue (Lovecraft's Colour out of Space) in 4.0 is quite respectable. Anything else jump out at people? To be fair, most of the most interesting lots end tomorrow.

How do we see the results on the completed auctions? more generally, any results from the auction that particularly impressed people?

Buster Crabbe #5 was dated July 1952, well before the others. FF 209-216 were December 1953 to March 1955 and W S-F #29 was May-June 1955.

Agreed on the Buster Crabbe 5 as well as the W S-F 29. The Buster Crabbe has the bonus of an amazing story to go with the cover with art by Williamson & other members of the Fleagle gang: (Scan swiped from the Digital Comic Museum since I don't have a scan of my copy handy. It actually might be my book, heavily cleaned up, or Geo might have grabbed a scan from elsewhere when he edited it. I can't remember for sure.)

I think Once & Future was originally announced as a mini, although it may have been changed to ongoing before it was actually solicited. X-Man, from the original Age of Apocalypse. Also, I don't think the original poster wants books that got an ongoing book on the heels of a mini, they want books that were changed during the run of the mini.

It's definitely an oddity, but it (and all the ASE's, really) is definitely historically important. Would love to track down a copy some day, but I'm not holding my breath until I do!

One of these years I've got to make plans and make it to the show. Sadly, this will not be the year, and almost certainly not next year either. Maybe 2023?

It may just be me, but the illustration for free food looks like Weird Al... who would only have been 11 at the time this was printed.

I thank you. I've definitely developed a taste for UK books, at least:

I am not, although I do have some ancestry from over there.

Gratz, that's one of the two I need. So, is the last one you need a) one of the easy issues, or b) #6?

That's a beautiful looking copy!

First time I've seen either of the Bart House Lovecrafts in person. Very happy with the condition, the creases on the cover are the major flaw. It's a solid copy, tight spine with no roll, and great pages.

A well earned accolade for you!

Picked up at my LCS today, not high grade but I feel $20 total was a good deal. Some may argue including the 102 as too late for Silver Age, but as the last issue of the Kirby run I think it's arguably the LAST silver age comic.

And, since I created a composite for the GCD, here's the full cover:

Found at my local store today, I believe this is the first paperback edition or general market edition Lovecraft collection:

Found at the local store today. I haven't been looking very hard, but this has been on my want list for ages; it's got an incredible line-up of creators:

Found at the local store today. I'm slightly annoyed the store owner didn't text me that he had gotten this one in, but he thought I already had it:

A very good question. The first idea that comes to mind is to treat overhang beyond a certain amount as irrelevant to the grade, up to a certain grade. Similar to how double covers only count the grade of the innermost cover for the total grade of the book, only hitting a cap somewhere. Just to throw out a couple numbers to start the discussion, let's say overhang beyond 1/4 inch doesn't impact the grade until the book hits 7.0, after which the overhang has to be considered for a higher grade. Then say a trimmed book can never grade higher than 6.0. That would eliminate any incentive to trim, while not disproportionately dropping the grade on a huge overhang on an otherwise nice copy. At leasr, that's my first thought.

They were reprinted (in black & white) across several issues of volume 2 of Alter Ego, the run that was a flip book with Comic Book Artist, if I recall correctly.