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Weird

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  1. Russ Heath's linework is awesome. Great thread.
  2. Luis Dominguez is one of my favorite illustrators. His DC covers are the best.
  3. One of my favorites of the run for sure. Great LD cover.
  4. Got this from Heritage in December to round out a great year of collecting:
  5. Worldwide Comics has a CGC 9.6 copy on their site.
  6. You just have your finger on the pulse of the collecting community don't you? Thanks for the info. Good for Bob.
  7. bobcat.enterprises Awesome grading or sometimes under grading that was flying semi-under the radar years ago. Then the cat got out of the bag. Sometimes offers slabs. Extremely nice guy with impeccable service. I totally wish he would put up those last few SSWSs I need to complete my Registry set.
  8. I meant 6. I saw a slabbed copy recently, but it went for way more than I wanted to pay.
  9. Totally with you on this one. They have been crawling out of the woodwork lately and besides the 9.8 that just got put back on the market (I think it was the old one) were tough to find even raw in high grade. I have two VF+ copies of this one - one from Superworld and one from bobcat. I am content with those. Lucky to get a bobcat NM- of this one. Paid through the nose though. Not super high grade, but I bought a CGC 9.0 of 5 for $50 3 1/2 years ago. Bought a CGC 9.0 of 36 for $26 a few months before the 5. I think both were eBay. I have had a hard time getting a nice WWT 7. I have seen 158 slabbed a lot and was lucky to get some raw bobcats of the GIC issues you mention. OAAW 241 is another that has eluded me, seems like a decent number of them in the census. Anyway, it is interesting to see the issues each collector has problems getting. I'd love another Rosa type collection to hit the market. I don't really care about the name per se, but quality later Bronze is so hard to find raw and costly to grade on your own.
  10. I have the CGC 9.4 204 and it appears there is a CGC 9.6 out there as well. I personally think the lack of slabbed copies corresponds to the relative lack of interest in the title and low sales figures for the non-keys. Grading costs are up, listing sites get a cut, etc., - it just may not be worth it for most dealers to CGC most of this latter day bronze or copper war stuff. Now, I am not talking about raw stuff, just graded books. Although, I will say I also look for raw copies of SSWS issues I need to complete my registry set and have not come across NM or NM+ examples for about 6 books. And I have actively been collecting that specific set for years in both slabbed and raw forms. SSWS 192 and 193 do not even have a single issue graded and many later issues only have one or two issues slabbed. Valiantman's Census for SSWS 151-204
  11. It's going for the slab registry/OCD that keeps me collecting honestly. Otherwise, I'd quickly get beater reading copies to go with Showcase Presents reprints and be done with it all. I do have quite a few raws for all the war titles, just not everything. I did pay through the nose and picked up some Oakland and non-pedigree DC War on eBay about a year and a half ago from a single seller. The high grade raw stuff is almost as costly as the slabbed in some cases.
  12. Are you the dude outbidding me on those slabbed late Bronze SSWs with the Unknown Soldier? (thumbs u Don't worry, I totally lose more than I win overall. 5 more books and I am done with the SSWS registry run I was after and they're all yours. Unfortunately, 2 of the 5 don't even have a single issue graded and 2 of the remaining 3 only have one issue graded.
  13. It seemed all of the DC War I was watching went for very solid prices. Judging by his market place post, I believe many were board member tth2's (not saying the 100 pager was his), so good for him. (thumbs u I find myself moving into the later bronze or copper age for my slabbed books recently. I don't think many people get those issues graded and demand isn't what it is for silver or earlier bronze. What that means to me is that they aren't easy to get, but when they do pop up, they are usually way more affordable.
  14. Kudos to lizards2 for a nice CGC Bronze war trade. Thanks Mike!
  15. Thanks Larry. Just got it in the mail on Tuesday and have lined up a time to get it framed after Christmas. I think you definitely will have an opportunity in the future if the last auction was any indication.
  16. I had actually logged into Heritage Live as well. I was going to up my bid a bit, but was prepared to watch someone else take it for $3500 to $4k or thereabouts. I was ecstatic when I didn't hear a peep out of the crowd on the streaming video.
  17. Thanks guys. I cannot wait to get it in a frame and up on the wall. Also curious as to what other great Kubert war art will be turning up in these auctions. It's Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.
  18. My favorite cover of the Unknown Soldier run in SSWS is #156. It has great Kubert line work and he uses a ton of ink. The cover also contains a fantastic gallery of many of WWII's greatest (or most notorious) leaders - which the old history major in me loves. Thanks to last week's Heritage Signature auction, I had the opportunity to acquire the piece and am happy to now have a Kubert war cover in my original art collection. Was anyone else able to get anything from the first of what I believe will be multiple Kubert Signature auctions?
  19. Thanks to Sterling for a couple of great Bronze War slabs!
  20. Hey Shep! Just buying in drips and drabs until I can complete my CGC SSWS 151+ run. Trying to stay focused, so I only have been adding random slabbed BA DC War that does not cost and arm and a leg. Get blown out of the water on most Heritage and CL items. Fine with me, cheapest year since getting back into the hobby 7-8 years ago.
  21. Yeah, the CL copies are the higher grades so far as I have noticed. I have a couple of the same issues from his Heritage consignments in '07 and '08 and they are lower grades. I have to wonder if he left some money on the table by not selling the higher graded copies first when the economy was better. Either way, crazy nice stuff and should be fun to watch.