Randall Dowling

At $60 each, this is an understatement. Or you can get a deal and buy 5 of them for $270.

That's the goal.

One of those kids is not like the others...

Always had a soft spot for Picto-Fiction. Great books, @Raze!!

Wow... another amazing October thread. I'm always impressed with your finds, sir!

Very impressive, my friend! That's a tough run to put together!!

To me, this is the pinnacle of Cole's covers. The absolute best.

It's bad enough this poor guy has to suffer the Nazi fräulein whipping his back, they have to pull his pants down as well just to set an example. Great mag, Jimbo!

A lot of great books here but I have a real soft spot for Eerie 66!

Arguably my favorite episode. "Remove the stone of shame! ...Attach the stone of triumph."

I would very much expect this if trimmed books end up in blue labels. I understand the arguments both ways and frankly have mixed feelings about it myself. I have pulps that aren't trimmed and it irritates me how much the overhang gets beaten up. And I have pulps that are trimmed and present very well... but I know they were trimmed and I tend to prefer the untampered over the tampered, all other things being equal. But I think it's worth noting that if CGC decides to blue label trimmed books, a lot of pulps are going to get trimmed in the future. I don't have any idea how to have an apples to apples comparison between a book with overhang that has a few creases but no chips and one that has 3 sides trimmed. Does anyone else? You can say that you hammer the grade on the trimmed book but if you have an overhang that looks like a nightmare, how does that get graded higher than a trimmed book? These are tough questions and, as with anything, letting the perfect be the mortal enemy of the good is counterproductive. Still, I don't see any easy answers to a lot of these questions.

What a great haul, @Kramerica!!

Agreed. In fact, in the early 90s, Spiderman 1 and AF 15 went for around the same price which was between $3k and $5k for a "NM" copy (grading varied widely then, just like today). I left the hobby in the mid-90s and came back around 5 years later and was shocked to see a CGC VG 4.0 of AF15 was selling for $3k, the same price that a NM copy would have gone for 10 years earlier. Little did I know that one of the best moves I could have made was to buy that VG AF 15...

I think you're right about this. I know the OP has had several other issues before, but if you're going to continue to have a business relationship with someone, best to do your part to keep it positive.

$5 sounds high for Rooks in that condition.

FWIW, I think the "average person" knowing about an artist or not has no real bearing on actual value. There are hundreds of fine artists that the average person has never heard of who have works that have sold for many millions. The average person has no idea who Vermeer, Newman, Girardet, Canalleto, Mucha, and many others are. But their work is still worth vast sums of money. It's those that are knowledgable about the art form that recognize and assess the importance and value of a given work of art. For original comic art, a few of those people are posting in this thread. The average person isn't the one spending vast sums of money on art.

Isn't Frazetta's Egyptian Queen for Eerie 23 the current big boy? Granted it's a painting but it was for a cover (albeit a comic magazine cover). https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/news/frazettas-egyptian-queen-sets-54-million-world-record-heritage-auctions

Eerie 60 is

This made my day. Thanks for sharing!

One can only hope.

Hey Makmorn! That looks like one of his famous studies for this cover from the Ace ERB series (I'm sure you already know this, sharing for others).

Excellent pickups, @OtherEric!!

Excellent grab, wombat! The prices people are asking for that catalog are shocking given how recent it is. Wish I had one!

Yep. It's beginning to damage my enjoyment of the boards.

I was just going to post that there are an enormous number of Easter eggs throughout the series.