Foxtrot70

2nd transaction w Ed. Great guy to deal with!

Well, not be a wet blanket about your dream book cuz its also one of mine, but Gary Dolgoff just sold a Action 13 on ebay in blue 3.5 for $34k.... That seems high to me, but it is the "Tec 31" of Action covers.

 

Yikers. Wasn't there a copy that listed recently for $15k? Or was that it? Pretty sad when it's a years mortgage to get a book like Action #13.

Yeah, that was the copy, min bid was 15k.

Well, not be a wet blanket about your dream book cuz its also one of mine, but Gary Dolgoff just sold a Action 13 on ebay in blue 3.5 for $34k.... That seems high to me, but it is the "Tec 31" of Action covers.

So the mailman finally came with my birthday presents, to myself

 

I've long wanted to read this series, but didn't really want to chase the set. So, along comes an opportunity to buy the whole set at once. Lower grades, but they are for reading

 

 

That is probably my favorite Atlas set Bill.

Congrats!!!

 

Wonderful books for reading and just charming art to boot. (thumbs u

A great gift to yourself!Could you show a few interiors as you read,with sugar on top?

Yes please, I would love to see the art and such. Even low grade they are not cheap. I thought of getting the masterworks ed. I love medieval tales.

I just picked up this beauty! Larson Copy CGC 8.0 OW/W

 

plus 10

 

Super Hero MLJ thx for sharing the pic

Fast pymt and outstanding communication. Hope to do biz again..maybe even buy back the book in 5 -10 yrs when I have extra cash laying around

Scott

a g.a. collector, and especially a timely collector, who is dabbling in silver HAS to have one of these. seemed to be going for a good price on ebay, and looked SOOO good for the grade, so i snagged it.

 

Indeed excellent buy Sir. An ST 107 would pair up nice (for that Timely in you).

I'm 34 years old and this is my first comic purchase ever!

 

 

I think it looks even better in person.

 

 

 

 

So you never owned or read comics when younger? If so that is very interesting demographic and optimistic implication for the back issue market.

 

I've never read comics or even bought one before last weekend, but I did collect other things such as baseball cards and even rocks when I was much younger. I also have a few silver coins but nothing serious. My first passion is cars. If I had money like Jay Leno I have no doubt I would have a similar garage to his.

 

I have a son who is three now and he just loves all super heroes. It is amazing how these characters have been around for as long as they have and they still continue to sell off the shelves. Movies are bringing in record numbers and the anticipation for future movie releases is always a hot topic.

 

I figured I better get in now before these things are through the roof. Besides, its another hobby for me to learn about. I like researching things and I love variety...and there seems to be almost no end to that in this arena.

 

I have a feeling there are others like me who will also begin to buy some of these first issue comics while they still can for at least somewhat reasonable prices. After all, they aren't getting any younger.

Very cool. Your son will appreciate the rare back issues more when he is older, but its neat he can relate to super heroes now. Thx for sharing your back ground. I know many of us old timers always wonder if another generation will rise up with an appreciation for comics. Buying a mega silver key as first comics does make more sense w your background as a baseball card collector. I knew the movies would bring it some folks, but figured it would take several years before someone would grow accustom to spending a few thousand on old news print. Well Congrats again! and Hold on to it.

I'm 34 years old and this is my first comic purchase ever!

 

 

I think it looks even better in person.

 

 

 

So you never owned or read comics when younger? If so that is very interesting demographic and optimistic implication for the back issue market.

Had to put my 7.0 up for auction due to financial reasons, please remove me from the club

Sorry to hear. It happens to us all at some point. Look at the positive side, at least with our hobby you can cash out for emergency situations and always buy back in later. Imagine some hobbies like cars, boats, big vacations etc. will leave a person w nothing to show.

Guess I should post my AV#4 now that I have a picture. I have a #1 raw 3.0 I got from a boardie, just need a good photo of her.

IMG_2335 by foxtrot70, on Flickr

Not to be a taskmaster, but there was a reason why I asked for the least favorite of the regular EC artists. Obviously, people like Roussos and Harrison would slot in at #1 on just about everybody's list of least favorites if we included everybody who ever worked for EC.

 

I love Krigstein, but the problem is his unusual style wasn't really suited to EC's typical stuff, or comics in general! But it worked superbly on offbeat things like "Master Race" and "The Flying Machine."

Hard for me to play arm chair quarterback to Feldstein and Kurtzman as editors assigning stories to fit style as they put more energy into comics that 95% of the market. But you make a good point, that not every artist could hit the mark each time or was appropriate for each genre.. example: Kamen on Horror.

Seems to me that the horror/Crime books faded toward the end, while the Sci-fi were the cream of quality. I think for me, the early era was the "appeal", and as you move into 1954, the stable of artist begins to change so that the comic style I like in early Craig and Feldstein are replaced w the refined Crandell, Krigstein, Harrison, etc. who are good in their own right, but just not the distinctive "classic" material that got me "hooked".

George Roussos, now better known as an inker, did the art on a few stories at EC. Didn't like them much.

 

+1

 

Huh, Kurtzman is my least favorite, followed by Krigstein.

 

 

Blasphemy sir, blasphemy!

 

One of the EC "what ifs" I'd hope for would have been more Krigstein stories.

I never cared for Krigstein, Elder, or Kurtzman, although reading them 25 yrs later I think I enjoy all of them now at some level. My taste have changed some, but Craig, Feldstein, Wood, and Williamson are top Dog for me.

EC's are the bomb! No one else produced books like theirs in the 50's. simply the best there was.

Except Hillman. They may not have had Wood or Williamson, but w great stories and B+ art, they ran a good race.

I miss my 8.5 copy

 

Tony Stark just called, he wants You back in the TOS39 Club!

 

Someday..

 

Here was my former copy

 

Pretty. To be honest brother,I would have let this book go when I was dead and buried.They would have to take it from my cold dead hands.

 

It was tough to let go Oak but needed to do since I'm mainly a GA guy

 

Wow that was a beauty DK. Ya know... I have seen it time and time again.. people always come back to big Silver.... resistance is futile.

 

love it!!

 

and all good Brian, i'm sure the proceeds from your 8.5 sale went towards some other great books!

 

It did Joe and I'm proud of it!

All kidding aside, there are 3 GA books that could cause me to part w a high grade TOS39 - MF52, Adv40, or Tec29 Those are so hard to find, unlikely Id ever have to eat crow for teasing you.

I miss my 8.5 copy

 

Tony Stark just called, he wants You back in the TOS39 Club!

 

Someday..

 

Here was my former copy

 

Pretty. To be honest brother,I would have let this book go when I was dead and buried.They would have to take it from my cold dead hands.

 

It was tough to let go Oak but needed to do since I'm mainly a GA guy

Wow that was a beauty DK. Ya know... I have seen it time and time again.. people always come back to big Silver.... resistance is futile.

I miss my 8.5 copy

Tony Stark just called, he wants You back in the TOS39 Club!

well all of mine are low grade compared to every one else's but hey Im broke at the moment, but here they are

 

Batman 181

Worlds finest 158

The Flash 145

Aquaman 4

Fantastic Four 14

Tales of Suspense 42

Hulk 103

Daredevil 4

sub mariner 1

 

 

The covers @ FF14 and TOS 42 All time favs of mine. Congrats

Ok, I got one now.

 

This is me pretending it's no big deal.

 

The real me, however:

 

Dont go thinking your out of the woods w this comic addiction. Satisfaction is a mirage... but hey in the meantime

 

I spent a LOT of time staring at that endpaper when I was a kid. Schomberg, and it was in every St John first edition for years.

It would seem, so did some one at Pixar.... that space man embodies the looks of Bud Light Year

I was looking for my two fav Saucer covers... Marty got 1@ Weird Science 13(1950) and Bedrock has the other @WS #16. Also see some other cool books I didnt know existed.

Great Thread Marty!!

Overstreet states that the first five "FLYING SAUCER ISSUES" were:

 

1- The SPIRIT Section (9/28/47)

2- SHADOW COMICS V7 #10 (1/48)

3- CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT #60 (2/48)

4- BOY COMMANDOS #26 (3-4/48)

5- FOUR-COLOR #190 (6/48)

 

In going through my collection I see I have copies of #3 and #5.

 

 

Unless there is already one posted, "FLYING SAUCER COVERS" could be a thread of it's own.

 

mm

Now that you mention it, Flying Saucers were a very significant theme in entertainment for years. You should have the honors to start one... I would enjoy it.

I remember seeing the first EC's on the newsstand and realizing

that they were different...besides a lot of them had stories by RAY

BRADBURY and that was enough for me to buy them. Many of the

EC's I picked up were remainder copies for 5 cents each.

This was one of my first...

 

 

mm

You bought that off the newstand and still have it!

Here is my copy, but I paid more than 5 cents.

WF #13 (1) by foxtrot70, on Flickr

is this thread exclusively for recent acquisitions (2904 pages later), or is it appropriate to post assorted keys, cool covers, etc. that i've had for a while?

 

if there's a "post your assorted keys, cool covers, etc." thread, i haven't seen it yet, so please point me to it if it exists!

 

The spirit of this thread is recent acquisitions. Most others are split across publishers: the Centaur thread you know, Fiction House, EC, Atlas, MLJ, Timely, Ducks, Western, Atomic Age, Cap, Supes ... but in proper form, there are no DC dedicated thread

 

Post them here; nobody'll mind. :thumbsup:

 

Well, we do have the Batman/Detective thread, and the Flash journal thread

 

But you are right, we do need a "show me your GA DC thread"

We also have the adventure comics thread. It hasn't had any love recently.

For my 3000th post, I have to post my favorite book:

Pre-MTV Bevis... that his first app?