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I got the first page for my world's fair 1940 book coming in! I am so excited! I did not expect to get one....

Here is my copy.

 

That presents very well for a 2.0!

I have a full cover for an action #44 if anyone needs it! PM me and pics will be sent!

I always found it funny that it was called "Complete Comics" and the only number published was #2. It sure doesn't feel complete to me

 

The middle right panel of this Anderson page is really bugging me. The image looks very familiar but I can't place it. Maybe I just saw someone post it before?

 

Reminds me of the Dynamic 8 cover a little, but I can also feel those eyes burying into me!

Agree with the good books posted today, I was drooling at the wonder comics a good 5 minutes! (thumbs u

Hello G.A.tor,

I hope you are selling bunch of stuff at Heroes. (thumbs u

 

Anyways, I know your opinion in regards to restored books, but I wanted to know your opinion in regards to trimming - particularly GA and SA keys? Thanks.

Not a fan a trimming at all. Restoring/adding back to a book I'm ok with. Removing from books on purpose I don't like.

 

+1 (thumbs u

 

+2

 

+3 Maybe the most heinous "restoration" technique there is. More like disfigurement technique.

 

+4 It's not restoration because it doesn't bring a book back to any original state and shouldn't improve the grade since it removes a portion of the book. In some cases it apparently improved the appearance of silver age books that had overhangs (and since not all silver age books had overhangs, it can be logically consistent to say the apparent grade improved in those limited situations). But when kids cut comics to fi them in their notebooks or cut around the edges of those pin-up covers of Superman 1 and Batman 1, so they could put them in a frame, they were not "restoring" anything. Nothing can be both damage that affects the grade and at the same time also be restoration. At least, not logically.

+5 It is sickening to see, and it is a dishonest practice especially when sold as "unrestored"

Spokane Copy

 

I saw yours and Flex's copy and wanted one of my own! Pics when it arrives, but it does have a split spine. That is alright to me, it is not easy to track down...

Every time I read this thread I always think of this quote:

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

This book got me into Wally Wood art (and was cover swiped for Famous Funnies 214):

Those are probably the most incredible books I've ever seen ! Just WOW !!!

+1 on the WOW!!!

+2 as well! WOW!! beautiful colors!

Sorry I made you sad. But I thought you as a collector would rather know the truth then live in ignorant bliss.

 

-M

Trust me I would always rather know, I truly appreciate it! (thumbs u

I would rather be miserably knowledgable than ignorantly bliss any day. I am not sad, I am a bit flustered but at least I didn't pay FMV for a first edition and get this!

I hope your aren't talking about the copy that just sold on ebay that was originally priced at 22.99 from glass house antiques?

 

That's a BCE. They cut the dj to hide it, but the copyright page is different from that of a first.

 

Compare your copyright page to this one:

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Complete-The-Foundation-Trilogy-Isaac-Asimov-3-HBDJs-1st-Eds-Gnome-Press-/351070520093?pt=Antiquarian_Collectible&hash=item51bd6f031d#ht_1307wt_1355

 

(Picture 5)

Now I Feel I hate being jipped or lied to. It doesn't happen much because I usually research my purchases before bidding on them, I should have looked a little harder and not have thought someone would really sell for that price. Thank you for telling me though so I don't continue to spread any misinformation. That being said it still wasn't a bad price for a pretty hardcover.

Congrats again on the I robot book, that is an awesome find!

First print gnome press with dj! I was very happy when I got it because I made an offer to go from 5% of the market value to 4% and they took it!

Speaking of Isaac, I just picked this book up yesterday. Strangely this book has been going for 1/3-1/2 of what is usually goes for over the last month. Only 8 books left now to complete the pain in the gnome press set.

Fantastic Copy!

I actually just got a gnome press of the Second Foundation (pics when it gets in) and I got it for 4% of the market value.

I just got in the last of these and I am very excited! these three books make up Isaac Asimov's first 3 published works, all three in 1939. If you don't know Isaac Asimov, check him out here

Yea, I saw it at a local antique shop and had to have it! I usually do not collect BLB to be honest, but this one caught my eye!

Not exactly a comic book, but seemed like something you guys would like to see! it is a Big Little book of Maximo, the Amazing Superman:

It reminded me of the amazing man comics from Centaur Publications

One of my favorite books when I was twelve was a used copy of "Flying Saucers, Serious Business!" which despite the title was actually a pretty good account of UFO sightings going back to the 1800's. I still have the book and pull it out on occasion.

 

While I have friends who swear they have encountered UFO's I've never seen anything close. I do think we will shortly discover that life abounds in the universe in one form or another starting with our closest planets.

 

I live next to Cal Tech and on occasion will go over for a lecture. One of the most fascinating was a graphic representation of the scale of our universe starting with our little home planet. As you posted earlier we are in a bit of a backwater in our own galaxy. Probably luckily so as many scientists surmise that any "contact" will be with a superior alien life form and won't go so well for us; I hope not to see that.

 

Each decade brings us closer to the day we realize and accept we are not alone in the universe. I will be rather intrigued with how our world's religions will adapt to this knowledge. The infinite number of planets preclude that we are the only planet on which life has developed.

 

Just as it was when I was twelve and watching the moon landings and dreaming of things yet to be; I read with great interest of the work of the world's physicists and astro-physicists. Their work is to me a great inspiration and fascination. We live in exciting days and I think we are on the verge of great discovery.

I too have wondered a lot of how religion will atempt to adapt to another sentient life form being discovered. Not only would there be "competing" religions of mankind, but of any religions of the other species as well! Or would it cause all but the most devout to doubt? Maybe it would cause the opposite effect and result in those claiming it was divine proof of a God (probably their own of course). It is such an interesting idea.

How would society adapt? Would it go into chaos or merely accept it into the mundanity of day to day life? These are the fun questions that keep me awake at night.

Wow Cheetah, that completely blew my mind seeing that many perfect copies of those amazing books! keep it up

Those are some fantastic books there sartre!

 

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I always loved that cover!

Thanks MM! I am very happy with it

Also, nice robot cover Sqeggs (thumbs u

I just scored this baby, it is rare enough that overstreet listed it as "may not exist", and Gerber never got a picture of it. I have counted 3 different versions of it so far and a grand total of 6 copies. Each version has a different interior (and slightly modified covers) but they all have a blank last page for some unknown reason. Very, very happy with this one.

The blank page: