OtherEric

I collect too many genres and titles to make any kind of complete report (It would probably bore all of you to death), but here's a dozen from this year to give you an idea of what I like...

Trying to select the best of my pick-ups for the year.  As is the case the last few years, I've been leaning into the Pulps quite a bit.  They're just so much more affordable than comics right now it's hard to resist, although it seems like more and more people are figuring out what a deal they are and the competition is picking up for them.
Mystery in Space #1 is a book I was crazy happy to get.  The Frazetta story is amazing, and like all the DC Frazetta stories, they've never looked better than their original printings.  (As far as I know, that's in part because almost all the reprintings had to go back to the printed books to source the material.)
The Mad #24 is the first Magazine issue; an extremely historically important and very, very funny book.  I actually got Mad 24-31 this year; which gives me all the Kurtzman edited material (including some inventory stories) in the Magazine format.  Classic stuff that hasn't had multiple comprehensive reprintings like the comic book issues (although large chunks have been reprinted.)
September 1927 Amazing Stories, with first publication of Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space.  A classic story, and it's almost a half decade older than my next oldest Lovecraft pulp.  Not a grail like the 1st Buck Rogers I got last year, but still one of the three bedsheet Amazings I really wanted and I'm delighted to have all three now.  (3rd was the other Buck Rogers issue.)
Add in a Tales of Suspense #52 for the silver age side, and illustrations by Adam Hughes, Todd Nauck, and Ty Templeton for my Legion sketchbook, and this has been a great year for my collecting interests.  No absolute grail pickups, but an unusually high number of high profile items that fall just short of grail level.

Trying to select the best of my pick-ups for the year.  As is the case the last few years, I've been leaning into the Pulps quite a bit.  They're just so much more affordable than comics right now it's hard to resist, although it seems like more and more people are figuring out what a deal they are and the competition is picking up for them.
Mystery in Space #1 is a book I was crazy happy to get.  The Frazetta story is amazing, and like all the DC Frazetta stories, they've never looked better than their original printings.  (As far as I know, that's in part because almost all the reprintings had to go back to the printed books to source the material.)
The Mad #24 is the first Magazine issue; an extremely historically important and very, very funny book.  I actually got Mad 24-31 this year; which gives me all the Kurtzman edited material (including some inventory stories) in the Magazine format.  Classic stuff that hasn't had multiple comprehensive reprintings like the comic book issues (although large chunks have been reprinted.)
September 1927 Amazing Stories, with first publication of Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space.  A classic story, and it's almost a half decade older than my next oldest Lovecraft pulp.  Not a grail like the 1st Buck Rogers I got last year, but still one of the three bedsheet Amazings I really wanted and I'm delighted to have all three now.  (3rd was the other Buck Rogers issue.)
Add in a Tales of Suspense #52 for the silver age side, and illustrations by Adam Hughes, Todd Nauck, and Ty Templeton for my Legion sketchbook, and this has been a great year for my collecting interests.  No absolute grail pickups, but an unusually high number of high profile items that fall just short of grail level.

A little this, a little that

 

 

Wow, don't know where to begin.  This has been my best year collecting, period!  I went through 6 months of unemployment where I had to sell some of my most prized books; books I will probably never get back.  Still, found a great job late last year, recovered from the financial strain, and I'm back baby!

Trying to select the best of my pick-ups for the year.  As is the case the last few years, I've been leaning into the Pulps quite a bit.  They're just so much more affordable than comics right now it's hard to resist, although it seems like more and more people are figuring out what a deal they are and the competition is picking up for them.
Mystery in Space #1 is a book I was crazy happy to get.  The Frazetta story is amazing, and like all the DC Frazetta stories, they've never looked better than their original printings.  (As far as I know, that's in part because almost all the reprintings had to go back to the printed books to source the material.)
The Mad #24 is the first Magazine issue; an extremely historically important and very, very funny book.  I actually got Mad 24-31 this year; which gives me all the Kurtzman edited material (including some inventory stories) in the Magazine format.  Classic stuff that hasn't had multiple comprehensive reprintings like the comic book issues (although large chunks have been reprinted.)
September 1927 Amazing Stories, with first publication of Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space.  A classic story, and it's almost a half decade older than my next oldest Lovecraft pulp.  Not a grail like the 1st Buck Rogers I got last year, but still one of the three bedsheet Amazings I really wanted and I'm delighted to have all three now.  (3rd was the other Buck Rogers issue.)
Add in a Tales of Suspense #52 for the silver age side, and illustrations by Adam Hughes, Todd Nauck, and Ty Templeton for my Legion sketchbook, and this has been a great year for my collecting interests.  No absolute grail pickups, but an unusually high number of high profile items that fall just short of grail level.

I love the back cover of the Blue Beetle.

Out of all this years acquisitions, this may be my favorite.

with this being a very close 2nd...

Trying to select the best of my pick-ups for the year.  As is the case the last few years, I've been leaning into the Pulps quite a bit.  They're just so much more affordable than comics right now it's hard to resist, although it seems like more and more people are figuring out what a deal they are and the competition is picking up for them.
Mystery in Space #1 is a book I was crazy happy to get.  The Frazetta story is amazing, and like all the DC Frazetta stories, they've never looked better than their original printings.  (As far as I know, that's in part because almost all the reprintings had to go back to the printed books to source the material.)
The Mad #24 is the first Magazine issue; an extremely historically important and very, very funny book.  I actually got Mad 24-31 this year; which gives me all the Kurtzman edited material (including some inventory stories) in the Magazine format.  Classic stuff that hasn't had multiple comprehensive reprintings like the comic book issues (although large chunks have been reprinted.)
September 1927 Amazing Stories, with first publication of Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space.  A classic story, and it's almost a half decade older than my next oldest Lovecraft pulp.  Not a grail like the 1st Buck Rogers I got last year, but still one of the three bedsheet Amazings I really wanted and I'm delighted to have all three now.  (3rd was the other Buck Rogers issue.)
Add in a Tales of Suspense #52 for the silver age side, and illustrations by Adam Hughes, Todd Nauck, and Ty Templeton for my Legion sketchbook, and this has been a great year for my collecting interests.  No absolute grail pickups, but an unusually high number of high profile items that fall just short of grail level.

Trying to select the best of my pick-ups for the year.  As is the case the last few years, I've been leaning into the Pulps quite a bit.  They're just so much more affordable than comics right now it's hard to resist, although it seems like more and more people are figuring out what a deal they are and the competition is picking up for them.
Mystery in Space #1 is a book I was crazy happy to get.  The Frazetta story is amazing, and like all the DC Frazetta stories, they've never looked better than their original printings.  (As far as I know, that's in part because almost all the reprintings had to go back to the printed books to source the material.)
The Mad #24 is the first Magazine issue; an extremely historically important and very, very funny book.  I actually got Mad 24-31 this year; which gives me all the Kurtzman edited material (including some inventory stories) in the Magazine format.  Classic stuff that hasn't had multiple comprehensive reprintings like the comic book issues (although large chunks have been reprinted.)
September 1927 Amazing Stories, with first publication of Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space.  A classic story, and it's almost a half decade older than my next oldest Lovecraft pulp.  Not a grail like the 1st Buck Rogers I got last year, but still one of the three bedsheet Amazings I really wanted and I'm delighted to have all three now.  (3rd was the other Buck Rogers issue.)
Add in a Tales of Suspense #52 for the silver age side, and illustrations by Adam Hughes, Todd Nauck, and Ty Templeton for my Legion sketchbook, and this has been a great year for my collecting interests.  No absolute grail pickups, but an unusually high number of high profile items that fall just short of grail level.

Trying to select the best of my pick-ups for the year.  As is the case the last few years, I've been leaning into the Pulps quite a bit.  They're just so much more affordable than comics right now it's hard to resist, although it seems like more and more people are figuring out what a deal they are and the competition is picking up for them.
Mystery in Space #1 is a book I was crazy happy to get.  The Frazetta story is amazing, and like all the DC Frazetta stories, they've never looked better than their original printings.  (As far as I know, that's in part because almost all the reprintings had to go back to the printed books to source the material.)
The Mad #24 is the first Magazine issue; an extremely historically important and very, very funny book.  I actually got Mad 24-31 this year; which gives me all the Kurtzman edited material (including some inventory stories) in the Magazine format.  Classic stuff that hasn't had multiple comprehensive reprintings like the comic book issues (although large chunks have been reprinted.)
September 1927 Amazing Stories, with first publication of Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space.  A classic story, and it's almost a half decade older than my next oldest Lovecraft pulp.  Not a grail like the 1st Buck Rogers I got last year, but still one of the three bedsheet Amazings I really wanted and I'm delighted to have all three now.  (3rd was the other Buck Rogers issue.)
Add in a Tales of Suspense #52 for the silver age side, and illustrations by Adam Hughes, Todd Nauck, and Ty Templeton for my Legion sketchbook, and this has been a great year for my collecting interests.  No absolute grail pickups, but an unusually high number of high profile items that fall just short of grail level.

Trying to select the best of my pick-ups for the year.  As is the case the last few years, I've been leaning into the Pulps quite a bit.  They're just so much more affordable than comics right now it's hard to resist, although it seems like more and more people are figuring out what a deal they are and the competition is picking up for them.
Mystery in Space #1 is a book I was crazy happy to get.  The Frazetta story is amazing, and like all the DC Frazetta stories, they've never looked better than their original printings.  (As far as I know, that's in part because almost all the reprintings had to go back to the printed books to source the material.)
The Mad #24 is the first Magazine issue; an extremely historically important and very, very funny book.  I actually got Mad 24-31 this year; which gives me all the Kurtzman edited material (including some inventory stories) in the Magazine format.  Classic stuff that hasn't had multiple comprehensive reprintings like the comic book issues (although large chunks have been reprinted.)
September 1927 Amazing Stories, with first publication of Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space.  A classic story, and it's almost a half decade older than my next oldest Lovecraft pulp.  Not a grail like the 1st Buck Rogers I got last year, but still one of the three bedsheet Amazings I really wanted and I'm delighted to have all three now.  (3rd was the other Buck Rogers issue.)
Add in a Tales of Suspense #52 for the silver age side, and illustrations by Adam Hughes, Todd Nauck, and Ty Templeton for my Legion sketchbook, and this has been a great year for my collecting interests.  No absolute grail pickups, but an unusually high number of high profile items that fall just short of grail level.

Trying to select the best of my pick-ups for the year.  As is the case the last few years, I've been leaning into the Pulps quite a bit.  They're just so much more affordable than comics right now it's hard to resist, although it seems like more and more people are figuring out what a deal they are and the competition is picking up for them.
Mystery in Space #1 is a book I was crazy happy to get.  The Frazetta story is amazing, and like all the DC Frazetta stories, they've never looked better than their original printings.  (As far as I know, that's in part because almost all the reprintings had to go back to the printed books to source the material.)
The Mad #24 is the first Magazine issue; an extremely historically important and very, very funny book.  I actually got Mad 24-31 this year; which gives me all the Kurtzman edited material (including some inventory stories) in the Magazine format.  Classic stuff that hasn't had multiple comprehensive reprintings like the comic book issues (although large chunks have been reprinted.)
September 1927 Amazing Stories, with first publication of Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space.  A classic story, and it's almost a half decade older than my next oldest Lovecraft pulp.  Not a grail like the 1st Buck Rogers I got last year, but still one of the three bedsheet Amazings I really wanted and I'm delighted to have all three now.  (3rd was the other Buck Rogers issue.)
Add in a Tales of Suspense #52 for the silver age side, and illustrations by Adam Hughes, Todd Nauck, and Ty Templeton for my Legion sketchbook, and this has been a great year for my collecting interests.  No absolute grail pickups, but an unusually high number of high profile items that fall just short of grail level.

This year was pretty amazing for me.  I acquired a long time grail, Green Giant 1.

 
I have been wanting a piece of Peanuts artwork for some time and decided this was the year so I tried to pick up a piece from Heritage but was completely shut out.
Low and behold I was contacted by someone with a piece they were willing to part with and I had my first piece (which I absolutely love).  Once you have one, you realize it isn't enough and I ended up picking up two more!

After years of collecting silver age Spidey, I bought my first ever golden age book in June of 2018, a copy of Planet Comics #11.  I then became addicted. I sold off the Spidey books to pursue the Planets and I have acquired 64 of the 73 issues so far in 2018.  My 2019 goal is to complete the run.  
Here is the first golden age book I ever purchased:

Ok, this completes the year.  Onward to next year! Onward through the fog!

 
 
 
 

Trying to select the best of my pick-ups for the year.  As is the case the last few years, I've been leaning into the Pulps quite a bit.  They're just so much more affordable than comics right now it's hard to resist, although it seems like more and more people are figuring out what a deal they are and the competition is picking up for them.
Mystery in Space #1 is a book I was crazy happy to get.  The Frazetta story is amazing, and like all the DC Frazetta stories, they've never looked better than their original printings.  (As far as I know, that's in part because almost all the reprintings had to go back to the printed books to source the material.)
The Mad #24 is the first Magazine issue; an extremely historically important and very, very funny book.  I actually got Mad 24-31 this year; which gives me all the Kurtzman edited material (including some inventory stories) in the Magazine format.  Classic stuff that hasn't had multiple comprehensive reprintings like the comic book issues (although large chunks have been reprinted.)
September 1927 Amazing Stories, with first publication of Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space.  A classic story, and it's almost a half decade older than my next oldest Lovecraft pulp.  Not a grail like the 1st Buck Rogers I got last year, but still one of the three bedsheet Amazings I really wanted and I'm delighted to have all three now.  (3rd was the other Buck Rogers issue.)
Add in a Tales of Suspense #52 for the silver age side, and illustrations by Adam Hughes, Todd Nauck, and Ty Templeton for my Legion sketchbook, and this has been a great year for my collecting interests.  No absolute grail pickups, but an unusually high number of high profile items that fall just short of grail level.

Trying to select the best of my pick-ups for the year.  As is the case the last few years, I've been leaning into the Pulps quite a bit.  They're just so much more affordable than comics right now it's hard to resist, although it seems like more and more people are figuring out what a deal they are and the competition is picking up for them.
Mystery in Space #1 is a book I was crazy happy to get.  The Frazetta story is amazing, and like all the DC Frazetta stories, they've never looked better than their original printings.  (As far as I know, that's in part because almost all the reprintings had to go back to the printed books to source the material.)
The Mad #24 is the first Magazine issue; an extremely historically important and very, very funny book.  I actually got Mad 24-31 this year; which gives me all the Kurtzman edited material (including some inventory stories) in the Magazine format.  Classic stuff that hasn't had multiple comprehensive reprintings like the comic book issues (although large chunks have been reprinted.)
September 1927 Amazing Stories, with first publication of Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space.  A classic story, and it's almost a half decade older than my next oldest Lovecraft pulp.  Not a grail like the 1st Buck Rogers I got last year, but still one of the three bedsheet Amazings I really wanted and I'm delighted to have all three now.  (3rd was the other Buck Rogers issue.)
Add in a Tales of Suspense #52 for the silver age side, and illustrations by Adam Hughes, Todd Nauck, and Ty Templeton for my Legion sketchbook, and this has been a great year for my collecting interests.  No absolute grail pickups, but an unusually high number of high profile items that fall just short of grail level.

Trying to select the best of my pick-ups for the year.  As is the case the last few years, I've been leaning into the Pulps quite a bit.  They're just so much more affordable than comics right now it's hard to resist, although it seems like more and more people are figuring out what a deal they are and the competition is picking up for them.
Mystery in Space #1 is a book I was crazy happy to get.  The Frazetta story is amazing, and like all the DC Frazetta stories, they've never looked better than their original printings.  (As far as I know, that's in part because almost all the reprintings had to go back to the printed books to source the material.)
The Mad #24 is the first Magazine issue; an extremely historically important and very, very funny book.  I actually got Mad 24-31 this year; which gives me all the Kurtzman edited material (including some inventory stories) in the Magazine format.  Classic stuff that hasn't had multiple comprehensive reprintings like the comic book issues (although large chunks have been reprinted.)
September 1927 Amazing Stories, with first publication of Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space.  A classic story, and it's almost a half decade older than my next oldest Lovecraft pulp.  Not a grail like the 1st Buck Rogers I got last year, but still one of the three bedsheet Amazings I really wanted and I'm delighted to have all three now.  (3rd was the other Buck Rogers issue.)
Add in a Tales of Suspense #52 for the silver age side, and illustrations by Adam Hughes, Todd Nauck, and Ty Templeton for my Legion sketchbook, and this has been a great year for my collecting interests.  No absolute grail pickups, but an unusually high number of high profile items that fall just short of grail level.

Trying to select the best of my pick-ups for the year.  As is the case the last few years, I've been leaning into the Pulps quite a bit.  They're just so much more affordable than comics right now it's hard to resist, although it seems like more and more people are figuring out what a deal they are and the competition is picking up for them.
Mystery in Space #1 is a book I was crazy happy to get.  The Frazetta story is amazing, and like all the DC Frazetta stories, they've never looked better than their original printings.  (As far as I know, that's in part because almost all the reprintings had to go back to the printed books to source the material.)
The Mad #24 is the first Magazine issue; an extremely historically important and very, very funny book.  I actually got Mad 24-31 this year; which gives me all the Kurtzman edited material (including some inventory stories) in the Magazine format.  Classic stuff that hasn't had multiple comprehensive reprintings like the comic book issues (although large chunks have been reprinted.)
September 1927 Amazing Stories, with first publication of Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space.  A classic story, and it's almost a half decade older than my next oldest Lovecraft pulp.  Not a grail like the 1st Buck Rogers I got last year, but still one of the three bedsheet Amazings I really wanted and I'm delighted to have all three now.  (3rd was the other Buck Rogers issue.)
Add in a Tales of Suspense #52 for the silver age side, and illustrations by Adam Hughes, Todd Nauck, and Ty Templeton for my Legion sketchbook, and this has been a great year for my collecting interests.  No absolute grail pickups, but an unusually high number of high profile items that fall just short of grail level.

I'll start this off with two newly acquired grail pieces, the first in the Summer and the latter in the Fall of this year... 

The second grail item is my second George Rozen oil painting, this one destined for the June 1, 1942 cover of The Shadow...

More later, ...now it's your turn. 
 
 

Been a while since I was able to post anything but it's a beauty - only 1 of 2 on the census.
If I can only get @batmiesta to sell/trade me his # 1 in 9.8 (only 1 on the census)
 

… to 2 copies of almost the same book -

The "Doc Savage Science Detective" covers near the end of the run are all pretty oddball.