1950's war comics

NICE Book !! NOOOOO don't deslab it !!!!

my quote to the negative person (silverdream) on this thread is: "you continue to rain on someone else's joyful parade and continue to justify it?? that is pathetic ! I am ashamed that you would downplay someone who is building. a registry set that they are passionate about. You are not impressed? well I am and I have not sold her any comics, I have checked the registry and it is very well done with pictures and info.

If you had scoured the earth for a decade building this high grade set, finding many copies raw, ebay copies in mixed lots and such, I would be much more excited for you. That's exactly what she did and has been doing for sometime now. I can attest to that and also sold her one of my highly priced Whitman's. (thumbs u I'm impressed with the collection and Bonnie's determination to bring it to fruition. Shes been a board member for a year. While she could have been collecting CGC or raw before that, I doubt it. Only she could tell us that, and after reading all 56 of her posts... yeah.. I wouldn't believe it if she said she was. I am not saying she isn't determined. Part of the equation of my opinion is patience. She paid 8x what that Black Hole 4 9.8 had just recently sold for just to pry it away from the buyer. Why? To leapfrog immediately into first place with flick of the wrist ( her checkbook for you youngsters ) She wanted it so bad ( 1st place ) she threw gobs of money at it, and got it. Again, that's the whole point of what I am saying. I am not impressed with that aspect of the set/1st place, and I get even more about it when she comes here shouting look at me I'm # 1! She would have gotten there with Doug's books, or others in time, but no... Part of my enjoyment of these variants is finding them. They are absurdly difficult. While she may love her books just as much as I, or anyone else loves theirs, I personally, am not impressed with it. She may have gotten just as much Joy in writing that check or swiping her credit card and unpacking her $6,000 package as I did when I found my cherished rare books in old dingy comic shops digging through millions of comics, fingers all black ( you divers into unbagged longboxes know what I'm talking about ) and stinky from flipping through musty 70's comics. Good for her if so. Everyone gets their kicks in different ways. Why doesn't anyone commenting here understand that me not being impressed is my opinion. Period. Mine. It's how I feel. Why try to argue about that? I find it interesting that the only people on here trying to argue with my opinion , which is pretty crazy in and of itself... are people that sold her books. Imagine that. I guess I wouldn't want to pizz off one of my customers either. touché eh? you continue to rain on someone else's joyful parade and continue to justify it?? that is VERY pathetic imo

the word balloons on the pictorial romance cover are classic !! and an awesome carrier cover to boot !!!

I polled about ten people at work today individually on whether they had ever heard of this "spoon" of an artist and not one of them had , we all range in age 40-60, I had never heard of him until this thread and I googled him on his web images and realized instantly that his artwork was "spoon", I can appreciate great art and have been to a few museums and marveled at a Monet which was beautiful beyond description. I have been to the High museum in Atlanta 15 years ago and was ashamed at some of the x-rated modern art that children were able to view, no need to go into detail but trust me it was disgusting and NOT art. a leading contributor to this thread evidently is enamored with 1960's American pop art , if he were to be living in North Korea today he would be espousing the brilliance of the paintings created by their great leader Kim ul Jong who blesses the art world and paints a masterpiece every time his brush touches the canvas

Yes its time for this thread to end, The copycat so called pop artist RL's name should never be mentioned on these boards again... except in disgrace, to refer to him by name is an insult to all who cherish comic collecting, to call him merely "spoon" is not severe enough.

The defense of Rob Lichtenfield or whatever is that "spoons" name is.. is indefensible in a comic book chat room Russ Heath is revered in the comic community and here on these CGC boards, a lamb among wolfs to defend the wolf on a comic chatboard is frankly as about as low down as possible

The Ebay seller is must have been fired from Mile High Comics for selling comics too cheap !!

What makes you think that John Seward Johnson's work is "revered in the modern art world"? This is the type of kitschy crepe that appeals more to "commoners" than art critics. I still think this "Roy Litchfield" character was pretty good. well if you think copycat RLspoon is pretty good then you must think Howard Finster is Rembrandt reincarnated

Wikopedia has an interesting article on another spoon "modern" artist named John Seward Johnson , who's statues are revered in the modern art world but the rest of us commoner realize they are just spoon ,same with Litchfield,... I never even heard of this spoon Roy Litchfield until this thread and I consider myself well read and appreciative of good art, after seeing Litchfield's work I realize a was not missing anything .

There is a fancy new modern art museum near me and I can honestly say that if I bought a painting at good will for 5 bucks, and snuck it in on the museum wall , it would not be out of place.

Why wouldn't you want it because someone has 500 copies? It's not an expensive book and the black cover makes it tough in high grade. because golden age stuff is just TOO cool to me and not only doesn't anyone have 500 copies of any issue in many cases you might wait years to find an available issue period of say..... oh for example an early "Strange Adventures" and it would cost way less than MTU#1

MTU #1 , I was thinking about getting one of those but not anymore, I will just stick to my golden age stuff

and MTU #1 is actually extremely rare when compared to NM#98

Sure superhero's and keys are more lucrative but comics like BB#23 are just so much cooler and seem so much harder to find...

Oh it looks like #53 is already slabbed.....I'm wild guess at a 8.5

SSWS #53 I love these type of air combat covers where the pilot is sweating , wow all three of these are fabulous and nice higher grade , are you going to grade them?

love seeing mid grade slabs !! they still are so cool!!!! FF #45 & #52 are awesome!!! I mean if you buy a twenty dollar comic and have it graded the most you can lose is 50 bucks , if you buy a high priced item sure you might make money but you can sure lose a lot too an awful lot, way to go.....!!

SSWS #90 CGC 7.0 only 5 graded higher !!! nice submittal .....

SSWS #90, A RARE WAR KEY !!!!

unbelievable......wow!.........horrifying!!!........

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NOTE TO THE OP: I love the feel of a raw coin held by the edges in my hand , I love the ring that a gold or silver coin makes when I drop it a few inches onto a wooden table, love everything about a vintage coin, the sheen, gloss and patina, I relish studying the subtle nuances and the chocolate brown coloring of the classical large cents, but I would never EVER consider breaking open a NGC holder to accomplish this feeling, not when there are already countless raw examples for that.

Curious bookstore in downtown East Lansing ,still there after 40 years three floors, although very few comics anymore but back in the day ......Daredevil #1 $20.00 Spiderman #1 $40.00.

It's not about how much people like the character or want the book, it's about how many of the books exist, and the ratio between those who want and the copies in existence ("in existence" and "in the market" are not the same thing. The book is not like the Detective 33 in your sig line, which has limited supply because there just aren't as many copies in the world as there are people who'd like to have it. Everybody out there with multiple copies of that book could divest of their dupes and it would still be rare. But if everybody with multiples of New Mutants 98 divested of their dupes, those dupes could line the floors a million bird cages. The "limited" supply of NM 98 has entirely to do with the fact that there are many many copies which are being held by people. These books were not thrown out. The vast majority were treated carefully and very many of them weren't even read before being tucked away. Not even unsold copies were destroyed. There are more people banging the drum touting the value of common books because there are more people who have them to sell. But all it would take to impact the value would be a few of those people to stop banging that drum, either because they're unloading (or have unloaded their copies) or because they want to push something else (like something they have even MORE copies of), thank you Bluechip for a brilliant analysis ! the simple logic and factuality of your post is by and large ignored and ridiculed by many on these boards sad but true.. I have said all along that golden age has most of the only true rarities (where demand outweighs supply) almost NO coppers or moderns will ever come close to the demand outstripping the supply and NM 98 is a joke , reminds me of the so called " rare " camel beanie baby I have been looking for common sense posts and for someone's who's opinion I can respect so thank you !