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Kudos to October for some very nice high grade Bronze books....the chap rocks!

Kudos to ASM-completist for some quickly shipped and very nice Spidey newspaper giveaways.

Kudos to nochips for some cool Silver and Bronze - cheers, Stuart!

In today from Grails Game. Thanks Charlie!

 

Superb cover....although they could've tried to make Vampi a bit sexier or somethin'....

this was done by some dude named berni. the art kinda sucks

 

 

Never seen this one before! Incredible cover and a sharp copy to boot

And the story inside isn't short of brilliant, either.....

Kudos to Andy (October) for two NM Tecs....always a great transaction with this gent....

Ship my books yet dork?

 

I can only assume this was directed at the Turgid Tranvestite of the Tumultuous Tundra?

More like the Cursed Comic-obsessed Cross - dresser of Canada.

Kudos to two champion geezers who not only know how to grade, but can package books so well that it takes about 25 minutes to get the comics out of the wrapping - namely greggy , who didn't exactly skimp on the duct-tape, and Nick (Flaming_Telepath) .

Great books, gentlemen!

Great book, and very scarce in that grade.

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The label chasers would take the slabbed copy, if they say otherwise they are lying.

I think they'd probably wait for a better registered CGC 9.6.

What to do for post 5000?

 

Unbelievable. Never seen a high grade copy of that book. Where's the envy graemlin?

Kudos to October for a couple of books....

Pre-code horror weirdness courtesy of Bernard Baily.

 

Congrats on picking up one of the best PCH covers. And the interior stories are generally pretty good in that title, too...

More kudos to Namisgr for a sharp HOH 1...thanks Bob!

Kudos to drbanner and brokeoncomics for some excellent books - both orders arrived super fast. If only ebay transactions were this easy....

I gotta get that HofM Showcase. Doesn't it cover issues #174 - #194 ??

Certainly does. Going to reread that story asap....

For my 4500th post I shall offer a story I think has great possibility as being true.

 

When I Was selling off tons of my dupes before leaving New Orleans in August of 2005, I Sold a raft of them to "Neworleanscomics" an ebay seller who used to list whole runs of HOM & HOS all the time. Chris came to my apartment to pick up the books & we started shooting the te. It came up that he has sold an entire HOM run to Guillermo del Toro. Chris kept in touch with him after the sale and found out that Guillermo really wanted to make a film based on House of Mystery.

 

I hadn't thought much about that, until I got out of seeing Pan's Labyrinth last week. It was a great movie, sad, horrible, violent & beautiful, so I recommend to all! It then dawnwed on me there are some vague similarities to the Adams story in HOM 186, dealing with a child's belief in the faerie world & pan. Of course there are huge differences, but I believe he was so influenced by that story (Widely considered one of Bronze horror's best) that he wrote the -script for PL after reading it.

 

Anyoen else see the flick? Whatcha think?

Pan's Labyrinth gets my vote as the best movie I've seen in several years (since City Of God, anyway) - I'm looking forward to getting it on DVD. For some reason Brits just can't do films like that...

As for the Pan tale in HOM 186, I remember reading that in the early 70s, and it has remained one of my favorite short stories in the medium. I'd say there's a definite influence - obviously Del Toro spliced this innocent fairy tale with gruesome violence, a historical backdrop and a great ensemble cast of adult characters, but it's there (well spotted!).

All of which is impressive when you consider that the HOM piece was only five or six pages long, but still managed to be very moving....

Kudos to 1coolengineer, Cyclonecomics and October (reply to my PM!) for some great books, quick shipping and hassle free transactions. Tis good to be a Forumite...

Kudos to ffcomics for a speedily shipped and expertly packed CGC'd Amazing Adventures 11. Great all round service!!

I was considering getting that copy - nice pickup!!

Kudos to nochips for a very nice TTA 57. Cheers!!

Kudos to dzminn for a very nice MS 5, well graded and packed. Cheers, Dan!

BigGuysComics.com and BigGuysComics on eBay [ Swan]

 

 

 

Also, on Yahoo.

 

Just got a very nice book from them on eBay, fast shipment and great packaging!

 

 

Swan is a top bloke - hopefully he'll be set up at WonderCon.....

 

Out of curiosity, how did you order? Both the website and EBay store are long gone from what I can see.

Really? I hadn't checked for a while. I bought stuff (mainly pre-code horror) from him via his ebay auctions, and also at a WonderCon two years ago. Great service all round.

I'm surprised that he's not online at present...

Rather big Kudos to FFB for a super-sweet Atlas pre-code book - it looked unread, and was every inch a 9.0, not to mention packed with exceptional care. Cheers, Scott!!