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And got this one with an assist from @wombat, who grabbed and held it for me as I dealt with the chaos of the emergency move. It looks better in person... still not high grade, obviously; but the image pops nicely:

Two in today. I probably overpaid for this one for the grade, but I want it for my Super Special run and am not willing to pay what people want for a decent copy. So this will do:

Two from the local store today. The second one is my first Lion:

If you just want to read the issue, it's at the Internet archive: https://archive.org/details/Unknown_v02n03_1939-11_PDF_unz.org The copy they have was scanned from the "Weeks collection", has anybody else ever heard of that? I've got several issues from it, they turn up all over the Puget Sound region it seems. I'm actually just starting to read some more Chandler, gathering up some books so I'm ready to go soon:

And a few more. Valor is right in the middle of my rankings of the New Direction books... the scripting and plots are pretty dull, but the art is beautiful and the subjects are exciting even if the stories they go to aren't always.

I understand that impulse. I went for a somewhat easier target, though. This one has the first appearance of "The Bronze Door" by Chandler:

Had slacked for a few days, but I'm close enough to the end of my run that I might as well press on:

Thought maybe one or two people would like to see my fix on this; I got an eyeglass repair kit with a suitably small screw and washer. That actually went perfectly into the other half of the joint; although I'm not 100% sure even now if it was just soft metal from the original joint, or an actually threaded connection of some sort. But it will do, and if not perfect it looks and works far better than I hoped:

If that was a VF/NM copy then what does this one I found for $10 at Half Price Books last year before grade as? 9.6?

Nice! I have a copy but mine is pretty rough. I personally prefer this eye-popping cover to the Bergey, but am happy to have both. The PKD is uncredited but it's tentatively attributed to Valigursky.

Local store pickup today.

Today’s pickups at the local store;

Here’s an early Whitman comic... in fact, I think it’s the very first. 1922.

As far as I know, they won't slab this one yet. Although the 60's magazine size Analog's would be one of the obvious runs for them to start with if they do start slabbing pulps; as published it's squarebound and trimmed, so really not much different than most of the Warren mags, actually, in format:

We can tell it was produced first, at least. But I'm not sure anybody is 100% positive on printing/release order.

Second, I’ve been saying every time this one comes up I need to upgrade, because it’s a spectacular cover, and a copy in my wheelhouse finally turned up. A spine split to just below the lower staple and very slight discoloration along the spine dropped the price on this copy way down but it’s still a gorgeous book:

Two books in today. First up is a Weird Fantasy:

A customer at my local shop rejected this because of the color loss near the staples, so back on the shelf it went. I’ll take it at cover price even with that:

Pretty sure this book was discussed in the Treasuries thread in Bronze a while back; somebody had actually bought and returned it, not because of doubts on the authenticity but because of damage due to poor packing. The outer cover was not attached; but given how the binding on the treasuries worked you would expect it to be loose. You might get one of the DC or Whitman treasuries with a double cover, though, since those were saddle stitched not squarebound.

The next 5. The Two Fisted Tales #30, in particular, is rapidly ascending into "classic cover" territory, I'm glad I got my copy when I did:

I did too, but I finished reading the book the first time the day before the movie came out. So I could easily follow what was happening.

That article is from last year. She's was in poor health a long time.

@Jayman : The official list of the 60 pedigrees recognized by CGC, there's a couple others people will sometimes argue for: https://www.cgccomics.com/resources/pedigree/ The three pedigrees we've seen so far in the thread... Gaines File Copy, John G. Fantucchio, and White Mountain... are all on the list.

Agreed in general; I paid extra for my GFC MAD... but went for an issue of MAD because it was still only about 30 dollars and half of that was shipping. It was a way of getting my one and only GFC on the relatively cheap. The Fantucchio books at MyComicShop are not, for the most part, price bumped; so I'll grab them over similar copies when I come across it on a book I'm looking for anyway.