Artifiction

On 4/12/2022 at 9:54 AM, This is Who We Are said:

Greg,

I thought we had a deal!!! You’re supposed to inform me when there’s an auction that’s gonna fly under the radar Before the Auction ends 🤦🏻‍♂️.   

That auction strikes me as an anomaly- I’ve seen some awesome mags fly under the radar at HA - looks like this grouping was one of them. Hope it was a boardie 👍🏻, but dang, Greg!- look alive man- do your job 😂🤪  

Maybe Greg, himself, won the trifecta? 

I'm more than a little concerned that the humidification of books before pressing, might be the cause of some of the rusty staples we've been seeing? 

Please add this set: Weird (Eerie Publications)?

Thank you

Hello @Artifiction

There is a series called Weird Worlds 

If this is the series you would like a set made, please provide a list of issues you would like added with certificate numbers.

Thanks!

On 4/4/2022 at 12:42 AM, Axe Elf said:

Well, after further review, I think I can say that I am one lucky man... because these beaches are HAWT!!!  

I can't believe they sat there on eeBay for as long as they did, but I guess people who were interested in Vampirellas already had some and didn't want to buy a full run at once--or they were sketched out by not having individual pics of the books maybe.  From the group pics provided, the seller's description of "mostly FN to VF" appeared to be reasonable, so I took a chance and trusted that--and boy, I'm glad I rolled the dice!

I think he seriously undersold a lot of these.  Maybe he just didn't know what he had?  I mean, I thought the CREEPY collection was pretty nice--"mostly FN to VF" anyway--and it is--but man, there are whole runs of this Vampi collection that are literally too nice to read.  I mean, I feel like I could carefully read a 6.0, 7.0, maybe even an 8.0, and not reduce it's value--but there are RUNS of these books that look like they deserve to be slabbed in the low- to mid-9 grades and look pretty for posterity, that's how nice they are.

Now maybe I'm just looking with buyer's eyes--and I don't want to spoil the upcoming Gallery that I'm sure I will create for these masterpieces--but here are a few that I think compare favorably with some of the slabbed copies of the same issues posted in the "Show 'Em Off" thread.

Tell me if I'm delusional.

 

 

Those are beautiful looking copies, Axe. Congratulations! 

On 4/1/2022 at 9:16 PM, batmiesta said:

Those Psycho's are sweet, where did you get them? They rarely show up in that sort of shape in the UK. 

Thank you all for the likes.

Batmeista, all but the sweet Creepy 131 and 132 which I got from our very own Randall Dowling (thank you, Randall ), are from an Ebay seller that I had purchased a slabbed book from.  He sent an offer along with my original purchase, and I jumped on it. I've been paying on the books for awhile, and just recently paid them off. I posted some of them awhile back. These are the last of the batch.

On 3/30/2022 at 3:53 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

A recent addition to the price variant pile 

Very nice. 

On 3/30/2022 at 1:37 AM, pickycollector said:

Yours?

My guess is that they are, but what do I know? 

Wow, you went way back to find that post. I wish the book links were still good. 

On 3/24/2022 at 12:06 AM, tth2 said:

I have it on good authority that a lot of Turoks will be coming to Heritage in a few months.

 Oh, no. I'm not even going to look at them. I'm really not going to! 

It's been awhile since I last added a Turok to the collection.

Use a piece of tape to pull the old adhesive off. Naptha for stubborn adhesive removal.

On 3/20/2022 at 9:59 PM, darkstar said:

Latest Frazetta auction win

 

Nice #7!

On 3/18/2022 at 6:25 PM, mysterymachine said:

I have an old Charlton book that is possessed by the spirit of an evil comic book collector...Thinking of selling it....

On 3/4/2022 at 5:54 PM, Brian48 said:

I don't buy books much anymore these days, but I came across this beautiful copy at an incredibly cheap (almost reader level) price.  Had a copy of it back in high school and always loved the cover.  Man, Sci-Fi and Chariots of the Gods stuff back in the '70s was so exciting.  That upper left corner is actually just glare from the mylar.  There's no wear or tearing.  

Still exciting fifty years later. Especially that sweet copy! 

On 3/2/2022 at 9:29 PM, Randall Dowling said:

Creepy 131, NM+ 9.6, Just a fresh, clean, beautiful copy of the classic Frazetta cover. Tough to find a better copy. $120

Per PM.

If you ever get up around the Sarasota/Bradenton area, there used to be a few shops around there. Not sure about now. There was a guy in downtown Sarasota that had stacks upon stacks of books in his store. I once picked up a raw Werewolf by Night #1 there that ended up grading a 9.2. Would have graded higher, but the seller dinged the top edge while tapping it down into a bag with board. I sure wish that I had hung on to that one. 

On 2/25/2022 at 11:34 PM, jimjum12 said:

 

per pm.