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I've always wanted a Destroyer Timely but the pricing has gotten so crazy on these. However in the last six months I've managed to score two! First off, I was fortunate to marry up a cover and interior on the 8 (hat tip to a couple boardies on that interior), and then I just scored the 9 at Windy City. Both have their problems but these covers are so cool I don't even care. And on those 9.6 Timelys just posted, whew!! That is just insane. What an epic collection.

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That NA 17 is a scarce book, congrats! I had posted my two Flessel wins in the PBA thread but they just arrived yesterday so figured why not share again. I've wanted both these for a long time and never seemed to be able to compete on copies if/when they came up. These lower graded versions are fine by me. The More Fun in particular is a rare book, with only ten graded.

I'm surprised School Day Romances 2 doesn't get more love. It has perhaps the best innuendo commentary of any cover he did. The football scene is distracting a bit, but the thought bubble commentary from the girls gets me every time.

Incredible book. I have to wonder if it might grade higher today? Obviously things could be worse on the back. But given the tighter standards of old, I wouldn't be surprised if that came back 6.0 or better. I don't have an image handy, but I recall a Promise book got an 8.0 with a 1/2 inch corner missing. This seems about the same. And if that is deemed a production flaw, it should be given some leeway as well. Just a thought... And the 26.... What a gem!

What an incredible achievement! Congrats on the run. Curious why you chose not to include the New Comics or Adventures before 40? I've always felt they were kind of contiguous, despite the title changes, as the first half of New Adventure seems quite stylistically similar to New and the latter half leads right into the Adventures. Perhaps the high grade requirement knocks out the New run... Been chasing these for years in very low grade myself, but I know that a few of these are basically unobtanium. Still, fun to search for these rarities.

Fair points, and I did like the auctioneer's pace, certainly better than the auto-timer on HA that has some items ending in like 3 seconds. I have requested a catalogue, always curious to see more info on these rare books. As for pricing, some outliers have certainly been highlighted. But with the unique opportunity of watching two runs of pre-Batman Detectives sell in consecutive weeks (really, how did that even line up?!?!), it seems to me like the CC run did better overall (although their run missing some big ones like 1 and 18). And when MFs that I look for come up on HA, it seems like the prices greatly outpace what was achieved on PBA, but again these are so rare and I know a couple buyers can push certain books up quite a bit auction to auction.

I think the venue hurt some things, especially the ashcans and some rarities. Savvy collectors were aware of it but had to be no where near the interest and bidders as an HA auction. I found the auction experience off-putting, as they didn't allow zoom on the book for sale and didn't have the grade details so I was constantly toggling tabs between the catalogue and auction screen to stay up on what was being offered. And then they didn't show the premium so was constantly trying to calculate actual sale price with the 25% premium, instead of just showing both totals like on HA. I thought the auctioneer was kinda blah, he really could've talked up some of those items and the rarity, etc a bit more. What's the point of a live auctioneer if he isn't going to generate more interest than automated? And then to have the big ashcans and that Siegel/Schuster sci-fi proto-pulp at the end, those should've near the beginning. Still, it was an enjoyable experience and fun to watch a once in a lifetime collection sell.

Nice wins! Picked up a few myself. The two Flessel covers I am very excited about and have been after for a long time. And then the New Comics 9 was just too cheap to pass up, with that roster of artists. Already wish I'd grabbed a few more.

Well with them being bound, they have all been glued together, likely punched and bound, and trimmed. Couldn't grade them together. So to pull them apart, you are looking at purple label 2.0 range, depending on the spine damage when disassembled. If this sort of thing doesn't bother you, you can actually get pretty nice color and PQ books, as they were typically kept inside on shelves and were protected from light. A number of dealers buy these to separate and sell individually. If it was me, I'd just keep them bound.

Anyone have any luck with any of Jon Berk's bound Planet volumes? They had every issue up to 60 across 5 volumes. I tried for a few but they didn't go cheap. Vol. 1, issues 1-12, did $16,000. Vol. 2, issues 13-24, did $13,800. Vol. 3, issues 25-36, did $3800. Vol. 4, issues 37-48, did $2,300. Vol. 5, issues 49-60, did $3,500. They looked pretty heavily trimmed so I think that held down the later volumes. Still, pretty cool items.

Wanted to share my most recent Timely pickup, from Planetcon in KC last weekend. One of my favorite MMC covers. Hole punching aside, has amazing colors and gloss. And don't sleep on those interiors! Here are some killer splash pages. Severed heads, gator fights, werewolves... Timelys are rad.

Beautiful NA 24! Can't remember if I posted this, but here is my one piece of Flessel art. One of my favorite things and really complements my Sandman Adventures.

I think you should look at things again. Other than a capital D, they look the same. E and L are identical to many block signatures. Hard to tell a large vs small "o" but looks small to me and he uses a variety of sizes, and that is a backwards "N", which occurs on some block Eldon signatures. And then the rest of the coupon has a mix of capital, lowercase, and cursive letters, underscoring he changed up writing styles. The last name even has two uppercase letters and then the rest lowercase. Multiple block letter Eldon books are in similar conditions and sequential order as cursive ones (see USA Comics and Superman). As for the last comment on handwriting, how would you have any idea this is true. Kids do lots of unusual things, and some learned cursive much later than others, some never develop great writing skills (like some people with dyslexia, as one example), and younger kids/teens mess around with different writing styles all the time. He used the block script as a young teen, along with the cursive. And he even signed with larger cursive, as on the Whiz just posted. Seems pretty clear to me they are all from the same collection. A bigger issue is why CGC has not corrected their info on the pedigree. It is pretty obvious it is not Eldon Hamman on anything labeled an Eldon pedigree.

And then here are the rest of them, 7, 10, v2#1, v2#5, and v2#10. A nice grouping, and I've never come across a run like this before.