CentaurMan

Recent pick-up. I'm almost done with my All-American #2-#16 run....only two more to go.

As long as you aren't dressed like a school girl, I think we're cool. If you are though, we must see pictures! Jeremy Uh, no, NO pictures. Ewwww.

More to the point, Timely's are for girls S. Absolutely. And before anyone complains, please understand that I think there's nothing wrong with that. I'm certainly not going to begrudge girls who want to collect comics written especially for them.

Mine too. That cover prompted my brief flirtation with the idea of collecting squid covers a number of years ago, but I never picked up a copy Did you develop a squid cover index before giving up? 'Cause I have no idea what the over/under is for number of GA squid covers. 7? 81? No clue....

'Tec #27. Nothing against Timely's, but they suck.

I'd disagree with you there CMan. The cans are completely necessary to the shot to establish depth so that the picture has about 3 levels of depth. Namely, foreground: cans and wrench, middle-ground: bodies, furniture and killer and finally backgroun: cop, doors, body on chair and back wall. Notice how Everett was careful to overlap the killer's gun on the open door to establish depth again. All is nicely worked out and made the cans completely necessary, even the fact that the hose to the can on the far left is overlapping the body's shadow. Well, if it was ME drawing the picture I definitely wouldn't have considered putting in the cans. So by that standard they're unnecessary. Of course, I'd also have drawn stick figures and no one would be seen in profile, so it would be a pretty different picture.

Yeah, Metro didn't have any 'Tec #27's for the longest time and now suddenly they have a good number. But it's an illusion. 'Tec #27 is scarcer than Marvel Comics #1, while Batman #1 is more common than almost any DC key other than All-Flash #1.

Yeah, I love the wrench and cans in the foreground. Totally unnecessary to the shot, but really sets the mood of the room.

Wow, those are some cool books. Thanks for linking them in.

Based on the WTB Captain America #23 thread and resulting discussion, I'm bumping this. If all marketplace-type discussions are confined to this one thread it'll keep the board spam-free while allowing those of us who don't leave this forum to see/discuss buying/selling.

No strong preference on that choice. Both books seem pretty fairly priced. The Good copy is probably a bit better of a deal and would be easier to resell (more collectors looking in that price range), so I'd likely edge that direction.

Nice. I believe (without looking to see if I'm right) that issue has a Bob Kane story in it that's considered something of a Batman precursor, in that it's about a detective that lives in a big mansion. I'm not sure.

It's a 5.0 with cream pages. No brittleness; the book can be easily read and handled. In fact, I flipped through it again last night when it was scanned. However, the two restored copies I sold did have better page quality. Here's the group shot I took before sending them on to their new homes:

Yeah, apparently Obidiah sleeps with Polly AND her pals. Good for him.

You'd think I, a big-time GA guy, would pick the Batman. But no, this time I'm going with FF in 9.6. I think FF #1 and Showcase #4 are two under-appreciated SA keys (relative to the other big SA books like Amazing Fantasy and X-Men), while Batman #1 is relatively common for a GA key, even in high grade.

I'll let you know if I find one, but I've got to tell you, the one I've got (Church copy) is the only one (other than Jon Berk's) that I'm aware exists. If I remember correctly, Metro has never owned another copy either. The only reason I don't score it higher than a 27 on my scarcity index is that the market price of the book (based on the market price of surrounding copies) is potentially low enough that it's unattractive for existing owners to contemplate selling their copies. A 27 is plenty high, though. That's a very rare score. Just came across an unopen case of KDF #9. The ones in the middle of the case are very nice. The ones at the top and bottom - not so nice. S Well played. , but just in case it's not meant to be, put me down for 3 middles and a bottom.

I'll let you know if I find one, but I've got to tell you, the one I've got (Church copy) is the only one (other than Jon Berk's) that I'm aware exists. If I remember correctly, Metro has never owned another copy either. The only reason I don't score it higher than a 27 on my scarcity index is that the market price of the book (based on the market price of surrounding copies) is potentially low enough that it's unattractive for existing owners to contemplate selling their copies. A 27 is plenty high, though. That's a very rare score.

And here's v2#9, which is super common for some reason: and the last issue, #24, which is also much more common than most:

And here are the images for KDF's scoring above a 25 in my rankings, either from my collection or from GCD where I'm missing the copy: v1#9: v1#10 (from GCD): v1#11: v2#4: v2#7: #21: #22 (from GCD):

All right, I guess that's enough positive reinforcement. Here they are, scarcity ratings for Keen Detective Funnies. As usual, the score is from 0-30, with higher being scarcer. One day I'll put all my ratings together in one big thread, so you'll more easily be able to jump from title to title in order to better compare scarcity across different books, which will improve perspective quite a bit. I also think it would be cool and helpful if each book I list was a hyperlink to its cover image at the Grand Comics Database, so that you could click through and quickly see which book I'm specifically referring to, but that's too much grunt work for me. v1#8......23 v1#9......27 v1#10....27 v1#11....26 v2#1......21 v2#2......19 v2#3......19 v2#4......26 v2#5......18 v2#6......21 v2#7......26 v2#8......23 v2#9......9 v2#10....16 v2#11....15 v2#12....18 v3#1......17 18.........17 19.........22 20.........20 21.........26 22.........26 23.........21 24.........10 I'm still not satisfied with my precision on scarcity ratings above 20. Below 20 I'm pretty confident, as there's generally good transaction data on those books. But above 20 the sample sizes are incredibly small. I'm still refining my technique and hopefully will add another data source soon that will help me out. When and if I get more comfortable with those super-scarce books, I'll reprint the new numbers. I can say with confidence, however, that the toughest two issues in the run are the 2nd and 3rd issues. Those are absolute killers to find, just brutal.

Ok, I got this a few months ago, but didn't scan it until this week. You guys are probably already aware that I love this book. It's completely unrestored (a long-time goal of mine has been to get an unrestored 'Tec 1 in decent shape), which allowed me to move my other copies to ciorac and Detective27Kid. So anyway, here it is:

KDF is all done, but I wasn't sure if the numbers were relevant to anyone but myself and possibly Lou Fine. It's a pretty esoteric series. If people are interested I'll put a bunch of additional scarcity rankings together for posting later.

CM; With respect to the three issues of Comic Pages, are they all equally tough to find or is the first one much tougher to find relative to the other two issues? Thanks and keep on throwing the stats to us! I haven't run the numbers yet, but based on my own searching, I'd say the 1st and 3rd issues are clearly the toughest. The middle one is a little tougher than standard Centaur tough, but doable. I'll be curious to see if the numbers bear that out.

Fantastic!! Here's my recently-acquired Cowboy Comics, from Dave Anderson, DDS. I was thrilled to get it, given how brutal it is to find. I've never seen the 2nd issue before, at least not until you just posted it. My question: Why are these the only two Centaurs (to my knowledge) with the Centaur "crest" in the upper left corner?

It's basically GA comic size, maybe an eighth of an inch taller. If you didn't see the interior, you'd say it was a comic. In the Gerber guide it's certainly indistinguishable from its peers.