RedFury

A couple of quality Qualitys just arrived from ComicLink today...

Thanks again everyone. It feels good to post something good in the GA forum.

Thanks for sharing. It's an awesome group shot. Makes me want to start collecting them!

In general?

 

1st tier: Any character that had his own title and was the lead feature in one or more other titles (the superstar characters).

2nd tier: Any character that headlined his own title.

3rd tier: Any character that was consistently the lead feature in a anthology title but never had the power to sustain his own title.

4th tier: The regularly featured back-up characters.

5th tier: The filler story back-up characters (one-shots or randomly moved from title to title, etc.)

 

I like the list, but I think the 1st tier needs to be broken up into two tiers. I would define the true superstar characters as ones that not only had their own title and were the lead in another title, but were also successful in other media: radio, movies, newspaper comic strips.

 

Off the top of my head I would put Superman, Capt. Marvel, Batman and Archie in that category.

 

Otherwise, you're going to have Superman cheek-by-jowl with (for example) Blackhawk...

...and Doll Man. He appeared in over 100 issues of Feature Comics and 47 issues of his own title.

I think the 3 tiers will be pyramid shaped. You will have a handful in the top tier, quite a few more in the middle tier, and everyone else in the lowest.

Well, this is a tough question and I'll probably forget some good ones, but my votes for the Top tier would be:

Superman

Batman

Wonder Woman

Green Lantern

Flash

Captain Marvel

Plastic Man

Captain America

Spirit

Donald Duck

Little Lulu

And then I think the 2nd tier would include characters like:

JSA members such as Specter, Sandman, Hawkman, Atom

Human Torch

Sub-mariner

Other Marvel Family members

Some of the other Quality heroes like Doll Man and Blackhawk

MLJ heroes like the Shield

Catman

Just my off the top of my head ideas...

Just got these back from CGC (thanks for Desertwind Comics & Chandler for getting Al's sigs!)

 

Wow, no love for my Signature Series Al Feldstein signed Gaines File NM plus graded copies of 2 classic EC comics?

 

I LOVE Gaines file copies. But I guess I was still cringing thinking about the signatures.

 

Ditto.

I have mixed feelings about the Sig Series books. I have had some Golden Age books signed, but I always use only low to mid-grade copies, and I ask to have them sign it on the interior. For high grade books, I begin to question whether it's adding or subtracting to the appeal.

I have RedFury to thank for this issue. When I saw it at Phila-Wizard, I just had to have it. I was a pole vaulter from 7th grade to sophomore year of college. I was jumping over 12 feet during high school, but unfortunately (after many breaks and injuries during HS) seriously injured myself and had my "career" cut short during college (including a fractured spine and crushed heels that put me on crutches for weeks). If I didn't think I would kill myself by taking even a single jump, I would still be vaulting today. The "high" that came with this sport was unbelievable.

 

You're welcome! (thumbs u

This is sweet!

 

I agree. I can't believe the bright colors on this book. Simply beautiful!

If that's your only one, you sure picked a nice one. Looks like a really sharp copy.

 

Ken

Wow, stunning copy of a great issue!

Thanks guys. It's one of my favorite covers from the 1950s.

I don't get out of the Golden Age group much, but I wandered over here today and found this great thread. I really love some of these covers! Here's my only Strange Adventures issue:

This just arrived today from Heritage. It's a book I've dreamed of owning since I was a kid, so I'm on .

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The Third Man is technically a British film. The production company was British, as was Carol Reed, the director, and Graham Greene, the writer.

 

It's one of my favorites.

 

and written as an original screenplay as i recall; i'm a first edition collector and have many of Greene's books but not this one. it's a 'treatment' of the movie and i think came out about a year after.

 

Yes, that's correct. From Wikipedia:

"Before writing the screenplay, Greene worked out the atmosphere, characterization, and mood of the story by writing a novella. This was written purely to be used as a source text for the screenplay and was never intended to be read by the general public, although it was later published."

I read a few of Greene's books two summers ago and really enjoyed some of his lighter fair such as Our Man in Havana and The Confidential Agent. I also tried one of his more serious works, Heart of the Matter, and found it extremely depressing. Incredibly well-written, but painful to read.

Congrats GE.

 

Wasn't this owned by a Board member already?

 

Possibly....is Brad Mandell from Dublin, OH on the boards?

 

If so, Brad would primarily post on the OA Forum as he focuses on high-end art (his eBay store lists a $26k GA Wonder Woman cover and a $18k Alex Schomburg & Siegel "Jon Juan" page).

 

Great seller and nice to deal with....

 

GE

I think you may be thinking of this one from my collection that I posted earlier this year. It seems Shelly liked this idea and did at least two of them (with slight differences)!

Nice books RedFury,

 

Question? I know of six different variations of the Red Iceberg. I see you have at

least two different variations. Might I ask what variants you have for the Red Iceberg?

 

Here's the backs of the Red Icebergs.

OK, I'm off to Wizard World now. Maybe I'll find some nice books there

I would love to see your anti-commie books. If you have three Bloods, I bet your collection rivals Esquire's books. So how many of the Bloods do you think actually exist?

One group shot, coming up (minus a second copy of How Stalin Hopes We Will Destroy America still on its way from the last ComicLink auction).

My feeling on the number of Blood Is the Harvest out there is 20 to 30. I'm thinking of send all these books in to be graded sometime this year, so that means another two copies will be added to the census.

The copy of If the Devil Would Talk on the left is the 1950 version, the other two are the 1958 version. The easiest way to tell the difference is the shadow on Earth is black on the 1950 version, gray on the 1958.

Welcome to the club. That is one of my favorite covers. Congratulations. Not an easy book to find. (thumbs u

 

I can't wait until the registry has an anti-commie set type. It would be interesting to see the cool books that can be entered.

Thanks, but I've been in the club nearly 15 years. This is my third copy.

I suggested an Anti-Communist registry set a while back. It was before the cut-off, but it never made it on the list. Maybe because I only gave rough list of the major books it should contain. Maybe if we put together a more comprehensive list they would actually create it?

the short story about this book: a friend of mine found this flash comics 100 on a flee market in vienna/austria. it cost him 1 euro and he gave it to me as a gift because he knows that i love golden age books. the real interesting historical aspect of this book is the "US-Zone" stamp in the right corner. as you know, after WWII vienna was split in 4 different areas/zones which where controlled by the US, UK, Russian and French army's. this book must have been shipped to the US-Zone where a GI bought it, and later left it when he went back home. it is really unbelievable that it survived that long and it makes me curious, if other books have survived here in austria.

 

 

That is a very cool item. (thumbs u I'm aware of the zones because of the classic American noir film, "The Third Man".

The Third Man is technically a British film. The production company was British, as was Carol Reed, the director, and Graham Greene, the writer.

It's one of my favorites.

It kinda glows!

That's from the kryptonite...

Just arrived moments ago...

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I had been looking for a halfway decent copy of this one for while. It doesn't turn up very often.

 

 

 

 

Very nice. I don't recall ever seeing that book before.

Recent arrivals.

 

Last but not least (thanks to a fellow boardie)

 

You're welcome (thumbs u

All-Story for me. 1st appearance of one of the most famous fictional characters in the world? Umm, yeah, I'll take it! It would go very nicely with my first appearances of Conan and Buck Rogers.

I love finding packages at my door. These two arrived today. I think they're pretty

 

 

I love these high grade Dell Giant painted covers! (thumbs u

 

(I'm pretty sure you outbid me on both - were these from Heritage or Ebay?)

FeeBay pickups

I love finding packages at my door. These two arrived today. I think they're pretty

Just arrived today. Published in 1958, it's right on the cusp of the Silver Age but I thought you guys would still like to see it.