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Great thread Rick!  Always a pleasure to see what you offer.

Here are a few of my favorite wacky oddball comics. 

Headline 14 - Who dreamed up a war cover featuring a sleigh drawn by giant penguins machine-gunning Japanese forces?  I love it. 

HiHo 2 - The story inside is even weirder and more racist, with a Japanese sub popping out of the river and asking Chief Hotshot how to get to NY so they can bomb it, and him liking their plan and agreeing to guide them.  But then they come upon his love interest Princess Brighteyes and start lusting after her, so then Chief Hotshot decides they are evil after all and kills them all.  What wholesome reading!

Super Dooper 7 - Obvious resemblance to someone we all know and love.  Nothing inside references the weirdos on the cover.  

Echoing Path4play, Otto kindly offered a book I'd long been searching for and delivered it quickly with superior packing.  Top notch seller and boardie!  

One of the more gruesome war covers I've ever seen.  Courtesy of a fellow boardie.  Had a nice meetup with several people on here, always great to connect in person and put a face to a name.  

14 minutes ago, waaaghboss said:

Did you win that one off ebay a few days ago?  I wish I went harder at it

That was a crazy auction on Sunday.  I think they had the whole FF run minus like 3 books.  I lucked out and snagged the #2.  I just had to have a book from 1934.

Appreciate the info!  Interesting to hear there were more out there than what was sold when the estate was broken up.  Also why no certificates.  I had certainly noticed you have had a few recently, great to hear the story behind them.  Weird about the whiteout, but who knows why things happened decades ago.  I hope you have a few more left to sell.

I wonder if anyone has a master list of every known issue going...

And the Action #71 CGC 2.0  from same seller went for $2052.  Strong prices. 

That Planet 27 worried me a bit, looks like Okajima was erased and rewritten.  Is there a master list of these things?  The one I have has a certificate that states they were sold in three lots to three different buyers (sadly mine is a post-camp copy).  Are these others coming with any certificates?  I'm wondering if we reach a point where someone just scribbles "Okajima" and some date code on the cover and sends it in.  At least when getting 8-10X guide.  I hate to voice this concern, but it has been in my mind and I'm really wanting to pull the trigger on a camp copy but getting a little worried at these prices.  

Recent pickup from the LCS.  One of the cooler lab images I've ever seen, Frank R Paul is a wonder.  Apparently VR was invented in the Twenties!

Hey Rick, can you maybe try and work on the auction operators to change the presentation for comic lots?  The staggered over-lapping 3 issues, especially for larger lots, and with no other pictures, is not great presentation.  Yet they will literally have pictures of the pulp lots with 4 issues non overlapping AND have multiple images.  I get they can't picture every book sometimes.  But these multi-books lots that don't show several books that are each not cheap... I have a hard time bidding on comics I can't see.  

Thanks!

4 hours ago, Frisco Larson said:

RHG, I've been wondering if this cover had been confirmed as a Flessel? No copy I've seen appears to be signed (the signatures DO get cut off sometimes). With the discovery of John Richard Flannagan as a previously unknown cover artist who didn't sign his work, do you think this might also be one of his? Anyone else with an opinion on this, please feel free to chime in.

This is identified as a Flanagan cover on comics.org.  There is a thread dedicated to him if you search, it addresses every known cover from him. I think there are about 6 or so, several Adventures and several More Funs, all pre-hero.   I think the face structure suggests it isn't Flessel.  The line work seems to be finer in general as well.  

I don't know on the 18, someone must've needed money bad for it to be selling close to the auction price.  And yeah the chip is too bad, but it looked so nice.  My first time holding a Church Planet and they live up to the hype!

As to my impressions of the show, I did one day Friday.  Not enough time, I didn't see half the dealers I wanted to and they were practically dragging me out at 730.  A great selection of stuff at most dealers, but I agree with others that prices were very high.  But many people were willing to deal.  I heard some people thought things were slow on Friday, not sure how it went Saturday.  I have been on and off in past years and think the selection was quite good.   Just wish it didn't involve the whole Wizard circus of gutter salesmen and others aggressively selling.  One guy practically chased me down as I walked past him talking for 20 seconds or so and I just kept walking and he just kept talking and I just went faster and faster til he gave up.  Shouldn't have to deal with that at a comic and entertainment show.  

I did pick up some nice stuff, including some early Fiction House books and a Centaur and Brick Bradford 6.  Had a blast seeing all the great books and art on display!

And very sad to hear the news of the thefts from Tomorrow's Treasures.  After the theft last year, I thought people would be more careful, but also wondering if Wizard isn't doing much for security there.  Smart dealers are boxing in their wall books, with only a small space and letting in only one or maybe two people to see the good stuff.  But I wonder about keeping the backside and sides of a display wall secure, if the person behind you isn't a serious dealer and watching out for you.  Heritage put out a list of the stolen merchandise that I thought I would list here as well:

 Our friend Richard Muchin from Tomorrow's Treasures tells us that a number of comics were stolen from his booth at last weekend's Wizard World Chicago. The books included:

• Tales of Suspense #2 CGC 7.0
• Tales of Suspense #3 CGC 7.0
• Daredevil #1 (1964) 4.5 CGC. 2036526015
• Spider-Man #1 5.0 CGC 2036528006
• Spider-Man #3 CGC 3.5 2036526006
• Tales to Astonish #9 8.5. CGC 2048163003
• Action Comics #19 7.5. CGC 1493862001
• Daredevil Comics #1 (1941) 4.5 CGC 2020020001
• Detective Comics #144 9.0. CGC 0700844001
• Mystery In Space #4 9.4. CGC 1970249019
• Startling Comics #22 6.5 CGC 1345362003

If you have relevant information, please email Tomorrow's Treasures at comics@tomorrowstreasures.com.