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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...

Not Barks, but not easy to find either!

Time for another round of Kudai for several forum members: DiceX Captainsofindustry mlovest silver - for some sweet Phantom Strangers! blazingbob - for several nice books, most notably a couple of tightly graded Tomahawks I've been looking for forever goldust shadroch rip jayman DNAgent

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer quote from Cornelious...how'd I do?

Bumbles Bounces! (Anyone get that? )

Nice Car!

The Headless Guy on a Horse with a Gun!

A few recent upgrades thanks to Silver and Blazingbob, sort of outside of the horror genre but close enough with cool Adams covers. And more importantly, they haven't been shown on this thread 3-7 times already...which is a bonus!

Didn't you ask me earlier this week if you sold me my copy of that!?!?

There seems to be a perception that the only people that collect golden age are old fogies that grew up reading the books, or that assimilated their silver age collections off the newstands. Is this accurate? Please take a look here and let's get some numbers together for the age of us golden age collectors!

You've created a great resource here Carson, thanks!

I was pretty surprised you didn't meet the reserve...perhaps an email to the seller is in order?

Kudos back to the 'fire for a seamless transaction, thanks! Also, thanks Redhook for a great deal on some nice TTA's! I've also recently had smooth deals with: ninanina captainsofindustry arexcrooke jayman fan4fan stronguy

Good luck! For those curious - please visit Rip's "Trading DC Horror books" post in the Marketplace for a list of bronze age horror books available for sale, trade, wanted, etc.,.

Sounds reasonable. 104 features a Neal Adams cover (which doesn't really have any bearing on the categorization of the book, but collecting his work is what pulled me into collecting the horror books originally) that could be considered horror-themed, so that's reasonable. 105 has the name change, so that would also seem to fit (note that OS says 105 is the 1st 12-cent issue, but that is incorrect as 104 has a 12-cent cover as well). 109 appears to be the 1st straight up horror cover theme with the witch (the 2nd interior story features a witch and matches the cover, with the Johnny Peril story being the lead). Both 104 and 105 pre-date HoM 174, so I guess either way the DC Bronze Horror genre started in this title? I'll peruse the interior contents of those issues later to see how the content measures up...

House of Secrets 81 is notated in OS as "Mystery format begins", and was published in 9/69. House of Mystery 174 is notated in OS as "Mystery format begins", and was published over a year earlier in 6/68. Is this the 1st DC Bronze Age Horror book?!?! Unexpected 109 was published in 11/68, and top me it looks like the 1st Mystery/Horror cover theme and I don't recall seeing this book pictured in this thread:

Glad everyone liked my House of Mystery 173 "variant"! I would have created an Official DC Bronze Hot Wheels thread to post this, but since there were only 6 issues in the series it would have been pretty short. Anyhow, this cover sure looks like it would fit in with any of the early HoM horror issues with the kids in danger theme, and I just got this book last week so it is a recent acquisition. I have been looking for a nice copy of #5 for years, and picked up a complete set of 1-6 on ebay that had a nice #5, as well as this one.

This one's definitely trade only!!