CentaurMan

Nice book, but holy smokes, what a price tag! It sold on Heritage for $750 less than 3 years ago, and went for almost $1800 on eBay yesterday. The other Adventure for sale yesterday (#34), which was also from Heritage pretty recently, had an even bigger % move, up from $500 something to $1500 something. That consignor to Silver Age Comics has to be thrilled. Given the new market prices, I have to decide if I want to sell any pre-Sandman Adventures.... (Just kidding, swapto, don't flood me with PM's) Congrats!

Check your Oversteet. It's the "Something About Mary" prototype issue.

Thanks, but I have less wisdom than you think. I just highlight it a lot and spread it around nice and thin. I'm trying to catch up on the boards, but I head off on business travel again throughout November, so participation will be spotty. Plus, my main man Andy (october) has gone off to business school, leaving me without a scanner, so my recent purchases will have to go unscanned for a while.

Here's mine. I'm guessing at least 10 others of us have copies. I like the late Centaurs with the sidebar along the side.

Nice! Detective Eye #1 is an easy book to find, for a Centaur, but #2 can be surprisingly tough. Great job! edit: That's funny, I posted right as Blind Owl was writing his message. B.O. is spot on.

Outstanding! Of the group shots you posted, I'd say the above picture has the toughest books in it. You never see that fishing cover, or the costume ball one. A very fun run, great job!

Hooray, more phenomenal books with inconsequential resto for the rest of us! Maybe it's just me, but I love comics too much to be close-minded about what qualifies for inclusion my collection. For the right book at the right price, I'll take resto, brittle pages, trimmed, water-damaged.....hell, I'll even take Timelys!

More Fun #52 Larson. Much tougher book, one of my favorite pedigrees. I'd hope and pray that someone would be bothered enough by the glue to actually pass up that comic.

Thanks! Man, I can't wait to see BZ's New Adventures.....

I really like that Star-Spangled, with the rainbow effect in the background. I imagine those Robin covers would be fun and fairly challenging to collect in any sort of grade.

Fantastic, Ryan! That's probably one of the best copies in existence of that tough issue.

I agree, that's one of the best covers around. Early Schomburg was fantastic . So was simple painted Schomburg . But those garish, busy, cartoonish Schomburgs so prevalent throughout the mid-40's Timelys? Ugh .

Wow!! I don't like many Timely's, but I sure like Daring Mystery! And that one's a beaut!! What did sacentaur possibly get in return for that?? It better not have just been cash....

Holy poop on a stick. That's incredible! Now excuse me, I have to go tear up some dry wall. Someone create a diversion so my wife won't notice....

Yup, Ze-man ate it on a dare for $850.

And of course, it's hard to post Everett AMF books without showing this one again, the Church copy of v2#5. I can't help myself!

Here are a couple more of the very early Everett covers:

Here's the Cosmic Aeroplane copy of that same book. It's also the copy pictured in the Gerber guides, and if you look, you see the pencil erasure in the middle of the yellow (maybe a misguided attempt to get rid of a check mark?) has been there for quite a while.

Here ya go! One of those great oddball Ryan covers, oversized:

Now THIS one, unlike Cocomalt, is a pretty darn tough book. Probably the most obscure Bill Everett comic cover. "Uncle Joe" was the name Centaur editor Joe Hardie used in his letters to the kid readers typically on the inside front cover of many Centaur issues. This book has the proportions of a typical comic book but is smaller.

Here's my copy: It's really a tremendous book. Lots of good, short features by all the classic Centaur artists, plus recurring guest appearances by Joe Penner. Scrooge would love it. Lots of google-worthy stuff. However, I'm pretty positive it's not as scarce as Gerber makes it out to be. I've seen 3 copies for sale since I got mine a few years back.

Holy poop on a stick, that's AWESOME! What do you do, sleep in a closet upstairs, with the rest of the house loaded with floor-to-ceiling stacks of comics, pulps, and memorabilia? Or do you live in the Biltmore mansion? It's got to be one or the other.

Very nice! That's from a pretty tough part of the AMF run, and great pages!

That Flame #8 is a real tough book. Nice job!!

My lord, that thing's too crazy to believe! You've got the dismembered hands, you've got the beheaded Joe DiMaggio, you've got Marilyn Monroe, and you've got a terrible Chinese stereotype, right down to hairstyle and accent. Truth in advertising: That comic is NUTS!