BassGMan

BassGMan, Nice Bats! The more I see this book on the forum is making it harder not to seek one out for myself. Re: the WH # 38, would you mind posting? I also am trying to get a handle on how CGC grades these 100 page issues and would like to see what they consider a 7.0. Or maybe just a close-up of the corners if you could? Would be appreciated. As mentioned before, my slab scans are not the clearest, but basically there is some light wear around both corners of the spine with two tiny 1/8" color breaking creases on the lower corner. Not much wear elsewhere. But as I'm now looking at it really carefully, I think I've noticed the culprit. Right in between the witch's yellow broom and the fat man's right arm (left as you are looking at it) looks like what might be a 3/4" tear . I'm not sure if it goes all the way through the paper, but if it does, it would now explain the lower grade. I didn't notice that before. Without it I can't imagine why this would not receive an 8.5 or 9.0 if I was lucky, which is what I was expecting.

My scanner scans raw books perfectly clear but the slabs come out a little blurry and dark for some reason.

Yes, I realize that this one may very well have received a 9.2 from CGC. But at the time I didn't want to be without it for four months. Same with some others in the Economy range. So I just setlted for PGA to get them back within a month. Yeah, if I was more patient I would have been better off with CGC. The rest of the downside is that a CGG book that I had bought from TDComics about a year ago, a DC 100 Page Super Spectacular #4 (Weird Mystery - 1st 100 pager), which I believe is the only 100 pager CGG had ever graded (they realized that their holder was not thick enough to hold it) was graded at 8.5 UNrestored. Surely also came back from CGC as 7.5 PLOD light CT on cover. In this case CGC was the stricter grader and caught the CT. Further driving in home that TD and CGG had some kind of inside deal at the time. Being as this was a year ago I am giving them the benefit of the doubt in cleaning up their act and still use them as a backup to CGC when I want Economy level books back faster than I would from CGC. Unfortunately I did not save a scan or the label to the CGG graded slab. I'm also not making a fuss about it since it was so long ago. Still a bummer.

Has a PGA graded book ever appeared on this thread? Well, I guess there's a first for everything. This book is not technically horror, but it did remind me of a Ghosts book. So here ya' go. I got it at a good price at the last Chicago con. Nice Adams cover. Oh, and I gotta give Greggy credit. I am almost embarassed to say that I also recently received a Witching Hour #38 100-pager back from CGC at 7.0. I thought they may go a little easier on the spines and corners on those books, as they are so easily banged up. But NO, they are as tough as anything else. I'll keep that lowly 7.0 as a reminder to never second guess the grading.

Since we are showing some recently slabbed Ghosts books, here's one I didn't show yet from a recent CGC submission.

Hmmm, let me think for a minute here..... OK..... you could say that you remember your grandfather reading these same comics, and now you find some of those exact issues out of place, or moved once in a while, as if somebody is still looking at them. Even if CGCed, maybe the CGC case has shifted in your storage box. Pushing it a little? Of course it is a fabrication, but we're just coming up with a story here. OK let's continue, and let's say your grandmother would tease him about reading YOUR comics, so she would hide them from him. So now in the present day sometimes you cannot find some of your issues at all. And whaddaya' know, you end up finding them in the oddest of places, as if they had been hidden! Ooohh, scary! I'm not saying put this story on Ebay, but if you have kids or neices or nephews, you could tell THEM the story.

Precode, that's a cool story, but how would you relate it to your comics? Just say that the comics have been IN this house during the "haunting"? I know you are not planning to use the story to sell the books, but I was curious, just in case you did want to, how would the comics play a part in the story?

Cute story, but I say total BS. Gotta give the guy credit for creativity though. Stories do sell. They help comics sell too. Just look at many pedigrees. The one time I had a little (and yes, true) story accompany one of my comic auctions, the book sold for WELL more than what it was worth (a beat up EC Modern Love). The people running the auction were on the Today show this morning... I don't think it's "BS", as they seem to be genuinely surprised that the stupid thing is selling for this much money. I feel bad for the family, really, because their kid just sounds like he's whacked in the head and would benefit more from psychiatric therapy than an exorcism. Yeah, it could be true, but people have used such a similar but fake campaign before in order to generate interest.

Cute story, but I say total BS. Gotta give the guy credit for creativity though. Stories do sell. They help comics sell too. Just look at many pedigrees. The one time I had a little (and yes, true) story accompany one of my comic auctions, the book sold for WELL more than what it was worth (a beat up EC Modern Love).

Well....if you post a scan of it, I think the others may not concur about it not being fugly! I saw it on ComicLink ages ago and said.. Hey, c'mon G. You are breaking the oath of comic enthusiests everywhere to rag on another's prized comic. That's like telling a guy his wife is fugly. Just a no-no. Geez, if you don't like this 9.4 then you'd REALLY not like my Ghosts #1 which is PGA APP 7.5. That book even looks nice to me. Sorry that it would be bird cage liner for you.

Sterling, show up in San Diego next July, you'll see plenty of that there. And I'll even let you take my place in the trenches in front of the best BA Horror boxes as I've dug them so deep over the past two years. Always fresh books though each year, so you won't be disappointed. Goes for you other guys too. If enough of us show up to San Diego next year we should also organize a BA Horror dinner in addition to the CGC Forum dinner. By the way Shiver, I think this year that you need to go. Don't try to get out of it again. ----Sid

Norinn, cool book, I love that issue along with Giant-Spidey #1 w/Dracula. Be prepared though. Whenever I put up a Marvel monster book, the book gets berated and called a "superhero" book and not true horror. I disagree, in a sense. But I love those covers and think mixing horror along with superheroes is a really cool thing. So you go Morbius, Man-Wolf and gang. These are the horror books I grew up on, it was the DCs of the same era that came decades later for me. ----Sid

Well, it's not Bronze but I did have a letter printed in a Russ Cochran EC reprint. It was in the March 1994 issue of Tales From The Crypt #7. I also had letters printed way back (around the same time) in CBG and the old Overstreet monthly mag. ----Sid

I just received a huge pile of BA DC horror in the mail including several covers that I had not noticed before. Here is a really cool one that may or may not have been posted here before. I like this cover due to the several different elements. The haunted house interior, the practical jokers, the scared kid leading the way for the little girl, the bat in the window, the ghostly arms, the scary guy in the painting, this one has it all. Cool .

Yeah, that's my favorite Batman cover, ever. Worthy of mounting on a wall.

A few days ago I received a full set of this Apes series. I haven't looked through it much yet but they look pretty cool so far. I wasn't sure if these would be considered horror, or sci-fi, or adventure or some weird hybrid. Anyway, at least THIS cover fits in with the theme of this thread. ----Sid

OK thanks Shiv, I will.

Hi. I received my Ghosts #1-100 set today. Nice lot. Dealer was very fair with his grading and many were well above his F/VF average grade with the earlier ones (mostly under #10) of course near the F/F+ range. Some beautiful issues in the mid-late range of the set. I have to admit though, considering all of DC's main horror titles of the 70s, the Ghosts series would have to be my least favorite set of covers, at least they are not as good (generally speaking) as WH,HoM and HoS. It appears as if by far the majority of these have skeletons on the cover. Anyway, here is a scan of the #63 which I remember hearing Shivy say was one of the more rare issues. This is a pretty nice copy coming in at about VF+. -----Sid

I just opened up one of my horror boxes looking for a cool cover to share with you guys and I came across this (don't laugh). Hey, at least it mentions my all-time two favorite horror movies on the cover so it's gotta mean something. Plus it's got KISS. I think it's worthy of this thread.

OK, I had never seen this one before. Gotta get it now. Probably my new favorite from the 35 cent era. Nothin' better than rats n' bats.

Good point, those cheesy side panels certainly do distract from the main image. Takes away from the classy look of what could have been a really nice cover. Such is the fate of most 100-pagers even though they are still so cool for other reasons.

Actually, doesn't sound anal to me. Maybe that's 'cuz I think similarly. I get what you are doing, and if I did it too, I'd be just as detailed, and careful and organized. Now I just gotta get motivated. Hard to do when NONE of my 10,000+ raw books are graded. Someday....... But good job, I'm sure your system is easier to access than my lack of one. -------Sid

I don't recall off the top of my head. I'll check when I get home. It took me all day yesterday to go through everything I bought, grade them, and rebag them. I bought just over 100 bronze DC horror comics at the show. I'll put up a few more scans tonight. You brought up a good point. How many here actually grade their books before filing them away? I guess that would be helpful when referring to them so that you don't have to go pull it out again just to check the grade for whatever reason. I never grade mine until it is either time to sell or time to submit to CGC/PGA. I can see how grading before filing can be very helpful, I may have to start doing that too. ----Sid

Very nice books Dice. Thanks for posting them.

I'm just gonna have some fun with this. Not looking at it as some big money maker. I do feel as if some will be undergraded as my TOD lot was mostly undergraded that I already received from them. You can see by my feedback that my grading is pretty decent and I wouldn't risk my standing by overgrading just to prove a point. I also just use Ebay's own picture services since I am so computer illiterate, so the scans will just be as good as Ebay can muster (some supersized). I know these are relatively low dollar books and I only stand to earn $100-$150 or so assuming that I am right, but heck, why not? I'll let the other three lots sit and stew for a while along with all the other bronze horror stuff that I've bought recently, but this HoM lot will be a fun little excersize as an isolated flipping experience. ----Sid