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Where's the Dragon!?!?

Good question...I had another real nice copy I sold several years ago but don't have a scan handy so I can't be sure. However, printer's creases are common for certain issues (Weird War 1, Dark Mansion 1, Defenders 1 come to mind) so it could be a printing issue where many copies within a run have a similar defect?

It's a squiggle, otherwise known as a printer's crease...

Anybody see that HoM lot on Heritage last month?

Bring it on home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What's the picture in the background?

Don't know about art, but it's certainly horrorific!?!?

Nice...I'm sad that I haven't acquired anything new to add to this thread, but I'll see if I have something in the boxes that hasn't been posted yet!

Isn't there a Redhook special photoshop about the bag of money?!?!?

Are you saying we're just a bunch of low-brow reprobates!?!? Here's one for you Mr. Memory - who was the user that came on board for a short period of time and told everyone he'd already forgotten more about the hobby than the rest of the board ever knew in the first place, and promptly went a few rounds with the regulars before leaving (banned?). I believe his user ID began with a P...

WOW. Wish I could read THAT one......got a link? Sounds like Ali v. Frazier! Find it yourself! Having to type real words and sentences making you cranky?

I agree. I have to plan my trip to the recycling plant around it. Every book is for sale for ten thousand dollars...if they don't sell by this weekend, I'll have to reconsider my pricing scheme!

The CGC Bronze market is dying...I'm afraid to buy any $50-$100 Bronze CGC comic...take a bath on it when I upgrade....down from 10X-20X not that long ago...falling fast....a very dangerous place to put your money...an enforced break might be in the cards for me. From October of '02...how wrong can one man (ok, there were several that were on this bandwagon back then) be!?!?

None (ok, maybe a few) of the Manitoba books were stored in bags at all for the last 25+ years...

No, but he'll never wash his hands again.

I'm continuely amazed at the things you can learn around here... Did/does he/she still work and, if so, what name does he/she draw under? Jim Rob gave us the scoop last time around. Page down that thread for a link to a first-hand account from Jones. Does anyone remember that thread...WAY back in the day...where Jeff Jones was appearing at a convention and someone here was all excited to see "him" and posted about their shock (and NOT awe) upon seeing "him" at the show all dressed up and funky? I believe all posts before around 9/02 have been deleted for some reason, but it did cause a bit of an uproar around here when Jeffy revealed him/herself at the show!

Jeff Jones' wife at the time, later Walt Simonson's wife? I believe Jeff Jones "switched teams" a little later in his careeer...

The availability of that book does make me wonder about the availability of the other late 60's/early 70's DC horror books - will the recent escalation in prices bring them out in similar numbers, or has too much time passed that the books have slowly degraded over time, neglected, under-appreciated, beat up after decades of abuse in the quarter bins? However, HoS 92 is pretty much the only notable DC Bronze "1st appearance". The only other significant character introduced by DC during that time was Jonah Hex, and he's nowhere near as popular as the Swamp Thing. The other major DC Bronze Keys (GL 76, Detective 400, Bats 232/234, a couple of the early 100-pagers) introduce villains, or have no 1st appearances of note.

Great story...did you wear gloves?

Who's nitpicking? It's a legitimate question... And I've contributed quite nicely to this thread over the last year so don't make any accusations I'm just here to cause trouble. Regardless, who designated you forum police today anyway? Jim It is a legitimate question, but c'mon Jim, you know the answer is "Because I'm hoping this book flies under the radar so I don't have to bid against fellow forumites who will drive the price up." I rarely venture into the 35-cent variant thread, but wasn't there a big bru-ha-ha last year over this exact same scenario? Do posters in that thread point out all the variants that show up on ebay where the seller doesn't know what they have and don't include "variant" in the title or description (only the pictures show the books to be variants)? I suspect the variant collectors keep their findings under wraps until the end of the auction...I know I would!

12, 15, and some of the earlier 20-cent DC BA horror books are simply not available in high grade...and the demand is only increasing (read this year's OS market reports to get an indication of what to expect over the next few years in this area). I don't expect much, if any, dropoff in prices for 9.4+ slabbed BA horror over the next several years (DC anyway). The books are fairly available in 9.0 and below and don't really command a premium, but high grades are tough, tough, tough! Increasing demand along with limited supply =

Is this thread supposed to be a place in Comics General to simply show off the latest acquistions we are especially pleased with? RIP "Have a Cigar", I barely knew ya...

Early bronze, DC horror has something else going for it above and beyond the horror genre - cover and interior artwork by some of the premiere artists of the day, at their peak. Specifically, there are lots of late silver/early bronze comic books collectors that collect anything by Adams, Steranko, Smith, Wrightson, Kaluta, the rest of "The Studio" artists, etc.,. That's personally what got me involved in horror (I collected Marvels based on character first, but as I "matured" I focused more on artists), and I pretty much only want the early bronze stuff. Kaluta did a lot of great horror covers after 1974 as well, but I'm not a big fan of the Dominguez, Aparo, or Kubert covers. So add the baseline number of "artist" collectors, to the upsurge in "horror" collectors, to the huge surge in BA collectors over the last 5 years and you have demand for these books coming from several different directions. I tend to believe BA Marvel horror (what there is of it) may be maxed out, but the relative scarcity of DC's to Marvels, combined with the factors delineated above, lead me to believe the popularity of DC horror is still waxing...

Indeed, the defect is ubiquitous on them...and the ones that are "taller" than other books of the era are inevitably beat up on the top edge.

I've submitted dozens of dollar books and gotten many 9.6's and even a few 9.8's. I've received 9.4's with noticable bindery tears, and the one pictured below with a tiny bindery tear. That said, your copy has a chip actually missing, right? I don't see that getting a 9.4 but then again, on any given day...