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On 2/26/2022 at 2:06 PM, Spyder! said:

The Flame #4, raw .5 incomplete missing centerfold. Tough book only 9 on census.

Asking $135

I'll take this.

Timely topic.  Just got frustrated with a seller yesterday, had over a dozen cool GA books ending that I was trying to bid on some of.  But had all of the auctions ending at exactly the same time.  I messaged them that they are leaving money on the table not staggering end times by a few minutes, and they wrote back that "95% of our buyers don't bid manually anymore" and to use a snipe program.  I think that statistic is completely made up, although curious what you all prefer to do. I like watching the end myself so I know right where things are ending at.  But if they want to make it harder to bid, whatever...  I just see most sellers stagger end times.  

I wonder if the subterfuge is to protect a consignor that purchased the collection outright from the original owners.  Would seem like they could face some blowback, given the amounts being realized here.  Possibly even a lawsuit for not paying enough for it.  All speculation of course.  But you know HA is making several million (at least) on this from fees, and then CGC probably half a million plus in grading fees.  I really hope the family is seeing most of this money.  Or they are working with a consignor to split the profits, as they would of course be due something for helping to make a connection to sell it in this way to maximize value.

Woah.  Those are some serious Planets!  Jupiter ain't got nothing on these!

On 12/23/2021 at 6:56 PM, Spyder! said:

Interesting and thanks for sharing Mike. I definitely think we default to blaming the printing process at Fiction House too often, where lackluster colors due to fading in sun light are probably responsible for a good portion of poorly colored books.

I need to spend some time searching through really old posts, but I recall several of these discussions regarding FH and it was pointed out that there are many examples where it is a single deficient color, and sun fading would have had a more universal impact, supporting the idea that it was a printing issue. No time to look up these old posts now, but I’ll do some searching later!

Yeah I think it is more than we think sun related but not a blanket statement.  Issues like Planet 13, 17, 18, 21 come to mind as ones with large variations in the color that I suspect are beyond just the sun causing the changes.

Found this one at C2E2. Partially bought it to share here, due to the interesting color changes where the corner was folded over.  Pretty clear that the faded cover is due to sun fading, since the folded corner still looks bright and vibrant.  Does this mean most fading/color changes of FH books was sun related?  This has me leaning that way.

dang it

On 12/5/2021 at 10:12 PM, Dale Roberts said:

Detective Comics #99  Fair/Good   $100   Penguin cover

 

take

On 12/4/2021 at 7:30 PM, RareHighGrade said:

The handwritten "Flanagan" on this one is fascinating.  It was only a few years ago that the hobby discovered that Richard Flanagan was the artist on these jungle covers.  It's highly unlikely that, since that recent discovery, a collector would have written the name on the cover, which means it was likely written long ago.  But by whom and why?  I'd love to know the story behind this.

I bought a lot on Heritage of 3 Flanagan Adventure covers, front cover only.  All three have Flanagan written on them, no idea why.  Literally like one week later a coverless 36 popped up on eBay and presto!  But if I had to guess I would say an older generation collector with more familiarity with his career as a pulp artist bought those issues and razored the covers off and stuck them in a file or something along those lines. If you were a reader of a lot of contemporary fiction in the 1930s, it is likely Flanagan was more recognizable, especially given his Fu Manchu work in Colliers, a magazine with several million regular readers.

I asked about this a few years back when I got a couple early Jumbos and never got much of a response.  Aside from a few people seeing one or two of the later issues, I have not seen or heard of anyone who has run across one of the issues that were supposedly reprinted in the early Jumbo Comics.

take Red Dragon

Congrats on the Fight 5 Ivan!  One of my favorite covers in the run as well.  Almost feels like Victor Fox got ahold of this one, you'd expect it on Science or Weird.  

Also forgot my other FH pedigree last night.  Indians Okajima.  I wish I had a war era camp copy, but this is still one of my favorite things that I own.  And I hope I can pick up a FH Church copy at some point.  

Oh and the Jumbo 10s!  Literally at the top of my FH want list.  Such a great cover!  Love those early Jumbos.

I'll take it per PM!  Thanks.

On 10/9/2021 at 1:30 PM, Spyder! said:

Jungle Comics #14, raw .5, incomplete, missing 2 center wraps. 8 inch cumulative spine split. Hard to find early Jungle.

From the Joe Celardo Fiction House collection. I know nothing about this collection but I’ve included a pic of the certificate that came with the book.

Asking $125 Now asking $99

I'll take it at $99!