circumstances

New Fun in 1935 (I don't consider pre-hero DC Platinum) to generally All Star #57 in early 1950. Silver Age starts some 5 or 6 years later.

What's the book in the middle!

Works for me!

These are all Marty's books that he purchased new and kept!

i've only been interested in golden age for a long time. i consider anything above 6.5 high grade. once you get into the 7.0's and above, that's the sweetness. even some 6.5's can put me on the fence.

9 universal, none higher than a 6.0. Make sure you cross post all these great books in my regular under 10 copies thread! If you haven't already!

As a rule I never sold anything. For whatever reason I brought in 4 or 5 VGs or less for grading, and ended up selling 3 or 4 shortly after I received them back. One might have come back a 5.0 and I still have it somewhere. The ones I sold seem to have popped up in the Centaur thread (or this thread) over the years. The FPS with the guy riding the horse. The KDF with the circle with the guy punching the other guy, and this one.

Think this was mine as well. When CGC first opened i dropped off several of my lower grade Centaurs to try out the service, and sold some of them shortly thereafter.

The supplements came up for sale a few years ago, and I asked Rick what they were. He told me, but I can't remember the details.

This might have been mine, but I can't remember what grade it was.

My favorite thread on here.

I like all these comic books

Still only 7 universal (8 total). Not sure how many years that is now, without any new submissions. Mine is signed by Will Eisner under the indicia.

i wouldn't let it concern you!

No problem! I'm certain your collection is welcome anywhere you care to post it!

Extremely rare (for me) mail call! Not really my normal wheelhouse for pickups (much older and/or WWII covers and/or super rare, generally), but I must have a soft spot for White Paged, 7.5, S&K GA going for less than my self imposed (extremely low) max spending limit.

Marty, did you just buy that? This thread is for new acquisitions!

there wasn't much interest in them (comparatively) when i started, in 2010, 2011!

The only thing I've actively collected in the past dozen years is these Conan Weird Tales pulps. I still need 6 or 7 (including this one). GLWTS!

Five copies on the census. None higher than a 6.5.

Here's mine

Gotta keep it ultra-exclusive! There's a thread in another forum on here with a higher number.

It's me. None on the census was more fun!

Welcome to the forum! I read my first comic off the rack in early 1975. Shortly after that I found a local shop and discovered back issues. I don't recall them having any golden age for sale or on display, but I did buy the Overstreet in 1976 (the Spirit) there, so i was definitely aware of GA books by then. I was reading and collecting all my runs (at a different shop) in 1978 when one of the owners said they were flying to NYC for the 4th of July Phil Seuling Comic Art Convention. We lived in South Florida but had moved from Brooklyn, so I had folks to stay with. Surprisingly my mom said yes. I was 14. It was a different world then. I didn't intend to buy golden age comics at my first Con, but I met Jay Maybruck of Sparkle City, and he cut me a deal on minty fresh World's Finest #9, and Human Torch #12. Both excellent WWII covers (my tastes must have formed early)! I was then collecting snd reading my runs and buying gold at the same time. A few years later after completing all the runs I wanted to complete, I turned exclusively to Golden Age comics for the remainder of time that I collected.

These have been pretty much indispensable as a GA collector since their date of realease. As far as the scarcity index, I'm often amazed how crazy difficult some of his 5s and 6s have proven to be over the years. I think he way overshot how available some of those books were.